Finals of the sports quiz of Quizzitch Cup 2020, QuizInc, NIT Durgapur

1. Sports Quiz
Round 1

2. Q1.
• The Serie A Table for 2005-06 is shown below. Messina placed in the
bottom 3 but miraculously didn’t get relegated that year. Which team
got relegated and why?

4. • Juventus, Relegated to Serie B due to match fixing scandal.

5. 2.
• 2) Slovenian tennis player Dalila Jakupovic was en route to beating the No.11 seed Stefanie
Vogele recently at a Grand Slam.
•
• However, she had to abandon her match when she could no longer participate and handed
over the first round of the qualifying to her rival.
•
• An outrage followed soon as the players felt the organisers should do more to prevent such
occurrences.
•
• What forced her to drop out?

7. • Heavy smoke due to wildfires at Australian Open.

8. 3.
• 3)City rivals Union and Hertha face off for the first time since _______ almost 30
years ago.
• Union recently got promoted to the top tier of Bundesliga and Hertha suggested
that they schedule the match on November 9th, as homage to the event above.
•
• However, Union were reluctant to hold it on such a date of cultural significance,
as they were already wary of raised tensions due to the Derby nature.
•
• Identify the event.

10. • Fall of Berlin Wall.

11. • 4)
Hilderaldo Bellini, captain of Brazil’s first World Cup-winning side
in 1958, was the first footballer to ________.
• Amid the throng of fans on the Rasunda Stadium pitch in Solna,
Bellini did this so that the attending press could capture the image,
one that is immortalised in a statue outside the Maracanã in Rio.
• What did he do upon winning the trophy, that is seen regularly in
football today?

13. • First footballer to do a trophy lift

14. • 5) With Ernesto Valverde's sacking, he joined a very special group of
managers.
• Scot Symon, Rangers 1967
Branko Zebec, Hamburg 1980
Radomir Antic, Real Madrid 1992
Luka Peruzovic, Anderlecht 1993
Bobby Robson, Sporting 1993
Ola By Rise, Rosenborg 2004
George Burley, Hearts 2005
Antoine Komboua, PSG 2011
Roland Nilsson, FC Copenhagen 2012
• Give the connect

16. • Managers sacked even though their team were top of their
respective league tables.

17. • 6) A tale of 3 keepers
• Chelsea played Reading on 14th October 2006, where they eventually
won 1-0.
• Amazingly enough, Chelsea had 3 players play in goal that day.
• Petr Cech
Carlo Cudicini
John Terry
• What is the significance of this match?

20. • 7)The figure of Greek hero _____ the Great in full battle armour is
drawn with 11 lines each symbolising the number of players that
make up a football team.
• What drew them to him was the manner of his death: by committing
suicide, ________ died unconquered
• However, the team does not play in the Greek league.

24. • 8) Salford’s dominant rugby league team earned the nickname ____
______ (3,6) during a tour of France in 1934, when they were so
dazzling and ruthless that a French journalist labelled them ‘Les
Diables Rouges‘.
• The manager of the club at that time was a huge fan of this rugby
team and decided to adopt this name since it was a lot scarier than
the term "Babes" normally associated with the club.
• After its rampant usage, the symbol was incorporated into the official
club emblem and even made into the mascot.

26. • Red Devils (Manchester United)

27. • 9) Swiss footballer Hans Gamper went on to create the club
_________ in 1899 and served as its club president five times
between 1908 and 1925.
• Before emigrating there, he was also a long-time player for FC Basel.
• Gamper is thought to have brought the colours from the Basel logo
to the new team's logo.
• In the time since then, the new team has gone on to be much more
successful than FC Basel, even beating them 5-0 when they met in
the recent past.

31. • 10) The emblem of __________ has the distinct image of a bear
trying to climb a strawberry tree, as the region of ______ was
infested with bears at one point.
• The owners of the club decided to save on T-shirts and bought the
cheapest material in red and white, from which the mattresses were
made at that time. Therefore, the team was nicknamed “The
Mattress”.
• Besides the bear, the club emblem had seven stars as either the
symbol of the seven border provinces, or based on the Ursula Major
constellation.

34. ROUND-2
• Differential scoring
• Scores given as 10*(9 - No. of Teams giving correct answer)
• No negatives
• Lastly, you do not mess with you-know-who

35. 1) Drederick Tatum is a former boxer who resides in Springfield. Tatum is
known for his extremely large size, his success at boxing (Former Olympian
and World Heavyweight Champion), his ever present lisp and his history of
violent outbursts.
He seems to have retired from boxing in recent years. He later served time in
prison after pushing his mother down the stairs.
Who is Tatum a thinly veiled parody of?

38. ANSWER
Mike Tyson

39. 2) ID the individual whose parliamentary performance graph and profile is as
follows

42. ANSWER
Mary Kom

43. 3)According to Merriam Webster,
Definition of smackdown
1: the act of knocking down or bringing down an opponent
2: a contest in entertainment wrestling
3: a decisive defeat
4: a confrontation between rivals or competitors
While the word was added to the dictionary in the year 2007, its first usage can be traced back to 1997 by X.
It was a word born of necessity. Smacking an opponent into the dirt wouldn’t cover the severity of X’s punishments,
both verbal and physical. Neither would “taking them down” seem to be a sufficient enough phrase to convey the
awesomeness of his particular brand of butt kicking with moves such as-People’s Elbow, Sharpshooter, Spine buster,
DDT and his iconic finishing move Y.

45. ANSWER
The Rock (Dwayne Johnson), Rock Bottom

46. 4) While bouncers are very common now, in 1893 it would have been
unthinkable for a bowler to use those tactics as it was used in this historic
match. The umpire would surely have objected. Also matches with only
innings a side are also a relatively recent occurrence. In the 1890s even
friendly matches lasting 1-2 days had 2 innings each so it is unlikely that this
match would have lasted only 1 innings. Also even if the match lasted one
inning each as long as the chasing team didn’t lose all their wickets, if they
hadn’t scored as much as the team batting first, they wouldn’t lose the match,
simply draw it. Which iconic match?

48. ANSWER
The Lagaan Match

49. 5) DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story is a 2004 American sports comedy film
written and directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber and starring Vince Vaughn
and Ben Stiller.
The plot follows a group of misfits entering a Las Vegas dodgeball
tournament to save their cherished local gym from the onslaught of a
corporate health fitness chain.
The following clip features a cameo by X who cheers up Vince Vaughn’s
character in a moment of self doubt.
In light of the doping charges that emerged against X in 2012 it is safe to say
that his little inspirational message hasn’t aged well.
ID X

52. ANSWER
Lance Armstrong

53. 6) The following pictures are of the Mercedes W10 in Monaco Grand Prix
carrying various tributes in memory of a three time F1 world champion, who
died on May 20, 2019.
The red star serves as a tribute to this Austrian racer who always wore a red
cap to cover the burns sustained in a fiery 1976 crash at the Nuerburgring
which almost cost him his life.
As such, Lewis Hamilton used a red helmet dedicated to the champion.
ID the racer.
A 2013 Ron Howard movie saw Daniel Bruhl as this racer and Chris
Hemsworth as his long time rival James Hunt. Name the movie.

58. ANSWER

59. 7) It was 1973, and Bobby Riggs, a former number 1-ranked tennis player
claimed that the women’s game was so inferior to the men’s game that even
someone as old as he was could beat the current top female players.
Billie Jean King, who had previously rejected challenges from Riggs, realized
she now had to play him, and accepted his challenge to disprove his baseless
assertions.
Dubbed as the ________(6, 2, 2, 5) by promoters, Billie Jean beat Bobby
Riggs in straight sets, 6–4, 6–3, 6–3.
Perhaps no other sporting event has played a more significant role in
developing greater respect and recognition for women athletes than the
_______.
FITB.
In the biopic of the same name, ID the actors who played Riggs and King.

61. ANSWER

62. 8) ID the player and the movie.

64. ANSWER