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Mood Indigo 2012

This guy’s major accomplishments as a junior
player came at Wimbledon where, in 1998, he
won both the singles tournament over Irakli
Labadze, 6–4, 6–4, and the doubles with
Olivier Rochus, over the team of Michaël
Llodra and Andy Ram, 6–4, 6–4

Who?

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Roger Federer

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Prior to Bradley Wiggins’ victory in 2012, who
held the record for highest position for a
British cyclist in the Tour De France?

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Bradley Wiggins
3rd place in 2009

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With a bronze medal in Long Jump at the 2003
World Championships in Athletics in Paris, who
became the first Indian athlete ever to win a
medal in a World Championships in Athletics?

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Anju Bobby George

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Identify the person who won this race in one
of the most tragic images in the history of
sport.

Larger image on next slide

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Jesse Owens
Had to resort to racing against horses for money
after the Olympics

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‘Olympic Gold Quest’ is a program of the
Foundation of Sports And Games (founded in
2001), started by Indian sporting icons Geet Sethi
and Prakash Padukone to identify and support
Indian athletes with a proven track record and
who have the potential to win Olympic gold
medals.
Who is the is the current Chief Operating Officer of
Olympic Gold Quest ?
You could say he is qualified for the post.

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Viren Rasquinha

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This team comprised representatives from 4
countries. Their first game was against a South
African Non-European team in 1958.

The team later went on to play in the first
world cup of the sport.

Which team?

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The East Africa cricket team

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One of the not-so-famous nicknames for this
football club is “i gobbi” which means “the
hunchbacks”

This nickname makes a reference to another
much more famous nickname of the club

Which football club?

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Juventus
Called the “Old Lady of Turin”
Hunchback because Old Ladies have hunched backs

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Who is this
guy 'serving'
to Maria
Sharapova ?

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Rory McIlroy
You see Caroline Wozniacki in the background

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This guy was accused of professionalism and
suspended from competition.

He travelled to California instead as a
spectator and claimed he would have won the
marathon by five minutes.

Who?

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Paavo Nurmi

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Name the person blanked out. This was his only silver
medal. The rest all were gold.
Rank Name Time
Gold Joe DeLoach 19.75 (OR)
Silver ____________ 19.79
Bronze Robson da Silva 20.04
4. Linford Christie 20.09
5. Atlee Anthony Mahorn 20.39
6. Gilles Quénéhervé 20.40
7. Michael Rosswess 20.51
8. Bruno Marie-Rose 20.58
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Carl Lewis
His other Olympic medals are all gold

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Gary Higginbotham, the manager of a certain
Richard Dawson from Oklahoma speaking around
the end of November in Manchester:
“We understand that Mr ______ is well-known here”

The 34-year-old Mr __________ also looked
thoroughly unimpressed as Jim Rosenthal,
compering the press conference, asked Dawson if
he had ever heard of silly mid-off or fine leg.

Fill in the blank.

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(Freddie) Flintoff

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Frank Nicklin was a journalist who worked at big
publications such as the Manchester Evening News, Daily
Telegraph and The Sun

He was responsible for awarding players marks out of 10,
introducing goal times into results and signing up big-name
columnists.

His most enduring legacy however is that he became the
first journalist to coin a particular nickname early in his
career.

What nickname?

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Busby Babes

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The first recorded use of the term is from 1905,
from the Swiss dialect of the French term
meaning “small coasting sled”

What term?

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Luge

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William Wilson is believed to have been the First
Baths Master of the Arlington Baths Club in
Glasgow.

He is credited with developing the original rules
of which sport in the late 1800s?

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Water Polo

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This Gujarati from Bombay captured her first
senior national title, defeating Manjusha
Pawangadkar at Pune in 1998.

She then went on to win the senior national title
for the eight years on the trot, her last one
coming at Jamshedpur in February 2005.

Who is this lady?
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Aparna Popat

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What are these guys doing? (please be specific)

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Kissing Brickyard
A tradition since 1996, the winning team kisses the Yard
of Bricks to pay tribute to the fabled history of the
Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

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On 25 October 1973, about 13 years after his epic
race, this guy died at the age of 41 from a
cerebral hemorrhage.

He left behind his wife and four children. His
funeral was attended by 75,000 and the Emperor
of his country proclaimed a national day of
mourning for their national hero.

Who?

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Abebe Bikila

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Which 17 year old (literally) made waves at the
London Olympics with 5 medals - setting 2 World
Records and 3 American records in the process?

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Missy Franklin

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The start and end of what?
- British Open final, March 1981 (Bromley) - Geoff
Hunt (Aus) 9-2, 9-7, 5-9, 9-7
- World Open Final, 11 Nov 1986 (Toulouse) - Ross
Norman (NZ) 9-5, 9-7, 7-9, 9-1

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Jehangir Khan’s 555 match winning streak

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The US national team has not won the Basketball
gold at the Olympics on only the following four
occasions:
1972 - USSR
1980 - Yugoslavia
1988 - USSR
2004 - ?

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Argentina

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Whose name has
been blanked out ?

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Ronaldinho

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A legend of the sport, perhaps the greatest of all
time, talking about someone. Name both (half
points)

"She has fantastic talent but she is, after all, a
woman. It all comes down to the imperfections of
the feminine psyche. No woman can sustain a
prolonged battle."

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Gary Kasparov (0.5) and Judith Polgar (0.5)

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In October 1996, this 40-year-old came out of
retirement to fight Héctor Camacho for the
IBC Middleweight Championship.
He lost and never made another comeback.

Who?

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Sugar Ray Leonard

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‘The Green
Monster’ is a
popular
nickname for
the 11.33 m
tall left field
wall at the
home ground
to which
baseball
team?

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Boston Red Sox

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This has been a sport since at least 1793 when it
used real birds, usually the Passenger Pigeon,
which was extremely abundant at the time.
Birds were placed under hats or in ____ which
were then released.

Which sport?

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Trapshooting

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Kunwar Digvijay Singh Babu was a member of
the Gold Medal winning Indian hockey teams of
the 1948 and 1952 Olympics.

Name
a)the city in which he was born and
b) the city in which he died

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Barabanki (0.5) and Lucknow (0.5)
which is why there are “KD Singh Babu Stadiums” in
those two cities

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In the early 1930s, George Nissen observed
trapeze artistes performing tricks at the end of
their act. Inspired by this, he made something,
formed a company to build and sell these and
used a variant of the Spanish word for ‘diving
board’ as a trademark.
This has now been recognised as a sport has
even been contested at the Olympics in recent
editions.
What did George Nissen invent?
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Trampoline

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The name of this Olympic sport is a misnomer as
a spherical object has now replaced an
implement that, in older competitions, would
actually be used for this sport.

Which sport?

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Hammer Throw

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What was the name of the winner of the "One
Hundred Sovereign Cup”, a 53-mile (85 km)
regatta around the Isle of Wight held in the
middle of the 19th century?

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America

This was the first America’s Cup in 1851
The trophy was later renamed after the original winning
yacht.

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To demonstrate what was the Hanuman
Vyayam Prasarak Mandal from Amaravati
present at the 1936 Berlin Olympics?

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Kabaddi

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