2. During the second day of the second test of
the India-England series in Nov 2012 at
Wankhede, something happened for
probably only the second time since world
war 2. The first instance had occurred during
the match between Pakistan and England in
1967. What incident?
3. R Ashwin and Pragyan Ojha for India
Mushtaq Mohammad and Saeed Ahmed for
Pakistan
4. Connect(non-exhaustive): Sophus
Nielsen, Gottfried Fuchs, Domingo
Tarasconi, Leandro Damião, Neville
D'Souza, Harald Nielsen, Carlos Tévez, Ferenc
Bene, Kunishige Kamamoto, Sergei
Andreev, Romario, Bebeto, Hernán
Crespo, Iván Zamorano, Giuseppe Rossi
6. In February 1948 X qualified for the Olympics by winning the
National triple jump title astounding everyone with a national
record of 50 feet 2 inches (15.29 metres) at the All-India meet in
Lucknow.
Then at the olympics, X made what he called his "two big
mistakes."
"I was just 19-and-a-half and inexperienced. I should have insisted
on some time for warming up. That was my first mistake — not to
warm-up. My second was to go flat out on my first jump. We had a
total of six and I should have taken things easy at the start."
The result was both sad and predictable. "I approached the take
off board at considerable speed. I got my take off foot on the
board and started to take off for the first phase of the triple jump
— the hop. Then, suddenly, I felt a sharp pain in my right
hamstring muscle and heard a sort of `thwack' like the snapping of
a bowstring. My right hamstring muscle had ruptured. I was
thrown off balance completely and landed with a tumble in the
pit." Identify X?
8. Connect: Enterprising (1984), Revelation
(1985), Exhilaration (1989), Star Fire Girl
(1990), Desert Warrior (1991), Littleover
(1994), Storm Again (2001) and Psychic Flame
(2004)
9. These are the horses with which he won the
Indian Derby
10. X displayed anger towards Pele's list. He was
adamant with the ruling and thought that he
and a few of his teammates deserved a spot
on the list. He symbolically ripped up a piece
of paper, a clear representation of Pele's list,
on a local broadcasting station saying that, "I
respect his opinion, but I don't agree. Taking
off Zidane, Platini and Fontaine, I'm behind 11
Frenchmen? This is a joke to have to hear
this."
12. He qualified in second position for the semi-final and final of the
10 m platform event. After experiencing mixed success in his first
five dives in the final, X entered the final round of dives in second
place, 34 points behind Chinese diver Zhou Lüxin. After Zhou
performed his worst dive of the final and scored 74.80, X still
needed to score 107.30, a very high score on the platform, to win
the gold. However, his near-perfect final dive drew four perfect 10
scores from judges and achieved a score of 112.10, the highest
single-dive score in Olympic history.
He finished with an overall score of 537.95 to defeat Zhou, who
finished with an overall score of 533.15, to win Australia's second
diving medal of the Games. His win prevented China from claiming
a clean-sweep of all diving gold medals at the Beijing Olympic
Games.
14. Identify the players or describe the incident
shown in the image below.
15. Robbie Fowler bent over and pointed to his
backside, taunting Le Saux for his alleged
homosexuality
16. In his first international meet, X won the gold medal and
set a world record of 47.63 seconds.
After breaking his own world record the following year, X
lost to West Germany's Harald Schmid on 26 August 1977
in Berlin, his fourth defeat in the 400 m hurdles. Beginning
the next week, when he beat Schmid by 15 meters in
Düsseldorf. X did not lose another race for nine years, nine
months and nine days.
By the time American Danny Harris beat X in Madrid on
June 4, 1987, X had won 122 consecutive races, set the
world record two more times, won three World Cup
titles, a World Championship gold, and earned his second
Olympic gold medal in Los Angeles.
18. Connect
Arthur Ashe, Goran Ivanišević, Michael Stich,
Richard Krajicek, Pat Cash, and Jan Kodeš
20. X started playing hockey at the age of nine, with his
brothers in the backyard of their house. He joined HC
Alkmaar at the age of eleven, and was selected for the
Dutch under-16 team 2 years later. At fifteen, X made
his debut in the senior men's league with HC
Alkmaar, and two years later, he first played in
Holland's elite league with HC Bloemendaal. After two
seasons wearing the number 11 shirt, X switched to
the number 14, made famous by Johan Cruijff, and has
worn it for club and country ever since. The number
was later bestowed on the signature stick he helped
to create, the Dita: "Giga #14"
22. X’s life story was the subject of the 2008 movie Y, considered a
commercial failure.
X was the first African American player to win the Heisman Trophy,
awarded annually to the most outstanding player in collegiate football.
X was instrumental in leading Syracuse University to its first national
championship by scoring a crucial touchdown.
X was chosen #1 in the 1962 draft, and signed a contract with the
Cleveland Browns. Later however, following medical testing, he was
diagnosed with leukemia. The Cleveland Browns honoured X by allowing
him to suit up in uniform and join the team while running out before a
televised game, and also retiring his number 45 jersey, even though he
never played a single game for the Browns.
X died on May 18, 1963 at the age of 23; while in condolence, President
Kennedy expressed sympathy for X’s' fine character as a citizen and an
athlete.
28. X was selected by manager Vicente del
Bosque to the squad for the 2010 FIFA World
Cup, where he played all the games and
minutes for the eventual champions, being
the only member of the starting line-up for
the final who was not a Real Madrid or FC
Barcelona player, considering Villa had been
signed by the latter days before the
tournament.
30. Soweto derby is a soccer rivalry between X and Y.
The rivalry stems from the fact that X was
formed by a former Y star Kaizer Motaung.
Kaizer Motaung had left Y to go play
professional soccer in the now defunct North
American Soccer League for a team called
Atlanta Chiefs. Upon returning home, he found a
lot of infighting among the hierarchy at Y. He
decided to form a X XI, which initially played
friendly matches with various clubs and then it
evolved to X. Id X&Y.
33. Known as the Magician from Riga, X first qualified for
the USSR Chess Championship final in 1956, finishing
joint fifth, and became the youngest player to win it
the following year, at the age of 20. He had not played
in enough international tournaments to qualify for the
title of Grandmaster, but FIDE decided at its 1957
Congress to waive the normal restrictions and award
him the title because of his achievement in winning
the Soviet Championship.
Known as the best attacking player of all time, he
holds the record for the longest unbeaten streak in
competitive chess.
35. X(born August 23, 1982) is an American
international swimmer and twelve-time Olympic
medalist. Ten days before her 20th birthday in
2002, she became the first woman ever to swim
the 100-meter backstroke (long course) in under
a minute.
At the 2008 Summer Olympics, she became the
first U.S. female athlete in modern Olympic
history to win six medals in one Olympiad.
The first woman ever to win a 100-meter
backstroke gold in two consecutive Olympics.
37. The 2005 Japanese Grand Prix marks the 6th and
the final pole position of Ralph Schumacher. X
started on 17th position on the grid, Y started
16th position(Narayan Karthikeyan started
11th!! :P ). The qualifying round was held in rainy
weather, however, on the race sunday weather
eased out and the track became faster.
In an unlikely turn of events X managed to win
the race performing the final overtake in the
second last lap and Y managed third position. Id
X & Y?
P.S. Narayan Karthikeyan finished 15th.
39. The X was an American company led by founder and
owner Victor Conte. In 2003, journalists Lance
Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada investigated the
company's role in a drug sports scandal later referred
to as the X affair. X marketed tetrahydrogestrinone
("the Clear"), a then-undetected, performance-
enhancing steroid developed by chemist Patrick
Arnold.
Among the athletes listed in the record of X
customers were: Barry Bonds, Benito Santiago,
Jeremy Giambi, Bobby Estalella, Armando Rios, Bill
Romanowski, Kevin Toth C.J. Hunter, Dwain
Chambers, Marion Jones, Tim Montgomery, Raymond
J. Smith, Zhanna Block Kelli White, Regina Jacobs.
41. During the sprint finish of
Stage 11 in the 2010 Tour de
France, while leading out Team
HTC-Columbia's sprinter X, Y
was disqualified and removed
from the race for head-butting
Garmin-Transitions' leadout
man, Julian Dean.
X went on to win the stage in
the subsequent sprint finish,
but Y was thrown out of that
season’s Tour.
Identify X and Y.
43. Below are three paintings by an Olympian.
Identify the painter.
45. X was a highly successful professional tennis player. During the 1980s, X teamed
up with fellow American John McEnroe to dominate the men's doubles game.
The duo won 50 doubles titles together, including four
at Wimbledon (1979, 1981, 1983 and 1984), and three at the US Open (1979, 1981
and 1983). This success triggered X's famous, and modest, quote that "The best
doubles pair in the world is John McEnroe and anyone", though arguably X
provided a perfect physical, technical and mental counterpart to McEnroe.
X also played on three American Davis Cup winning teams
(1979, 1981 and 1982), and helped the US win the World Team Cup twice (1984
and 1985). X reached the World No. 1 doubles ranking in 1984. His career-high
singles ranking was World No. 8 in 1980, the year in which he reached the
quarter-finals at the Wimbledon championships. Over the course of his career X
won three top-level singles titles and sixty doubles titles. Prior to turning
professional, X played tennis for the UCLA (after transferring from the University
of Michigan), and won the National Collegiate Athletic Association doubles title in
1976.
Since retiring as a player, X has become a tennis commentator for Sky
Sports, Eurosport and the BBC. During his commentary, he is known for his
saying "Scores with the ..(winning shot)" and "Oh no!" following a bad mistake
from a player.
47. X has won a number of tournaments in the U.S., Europe and parts of
Asia.. At the start of his career, he used an alias Cesar Morales to hide his
identity so he would be allowed to compete. By the mid-1990s, he had
become one of the elite players of the Philippines, alongside Jose
Parica and Francisco Bustamante.
X' fame began when he won the US Open Nine Ball Championship in
1994 by defeating Nick Varner in the finals. He was the first non-
American to win the event.
In 2006, X and Bustamante represented their country as Team Philippines
in the inaugural World Cup of Pool. They defeated Team USA, Earl
Strickland and Rodney Morris, to capture the title. X also has to his credit
the World 8 Ball championships and International Billiard Tournament X
is often called by his nickname "Bata“(the kid). X‘s ability to "kick safe"
and to kick balls into intended pockets is legendary. This ability, coupled
with his superb skill at other aspects of the game, led U.S. professionals
to give him the appellation "The Magician."
49. X represents the college Stephen Decatur’s annual
wrestling competition, the annual Men's Lacrosse
game between rivals Washington
College and Salisbury University but its most famous
reference is to the 29th Ryder Cup Matches
which were held on The Ocean Course at Kiawah
Island Golf Resort. The United States team won the
competition by 14½ to 13½ points, winning back the
Cup on the 18th hole of the final match. Bernhard
Langer missed a six-foot (1.8 m) par putt which would
have won his match and clinched a 14-all tie and
retained the Ryder Cup for Europe.
51. The earliest reference to X occurred in London in 1978 when two brothers
Stewart and James Robinson began X at the Samuel Montagu Boys Club.
X is a hybrid sport that combines M with N in alternating rounds. The
sport was invented by French artist and filmmaker Enki Bilal in one of his
comic book Froid Équateur in 1992. The first real event of X was
organized by Dutch artist Iepe Rubingh in 2003. X is a fast growing sport,
with large followings in Berlin and London, where most events take
place. Several other X events have taken place around the world,
including in Los Angeles, Tokyo, Nantes ,Reykjavík , Amsterdam ,
Calcutta and Krasnoyarsk. Participants must be skilled as both M and N
players, as a match may be won either way.
A full match consists of eleven rounds: six rounds of M, each four minutes
long, and five rounds of N, each three minutes long (four minutes under
amateur rules). Nicolai Sazhin from Russia is the current champion.
53. X is an American athletic shoe company specializing in basketball
shoes and apparel. Founded in 1993, the company's headquarters
were located in Paoli, Pennsylvania before being relocated to Aliso
Viejo, California. In 1993, X began as a graduate school
project partnership of Seth Berger, Jay Coen Gilbert and Tom
Austin while they were graduate students at the University of
Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business. The company name is
derived from a phrase used by basketball broadcasters: when a
player is fouled while shooting, makes the shot and makes the
awarded foul shot as well, they score the points for the made
basket “X" for the made free throw. Early advertising
strategies, used to distinguish their products from others, included
other basketball slogans and trash talk, such as "Pass. Save
Yourself The Embarrassment“. Rafer Alston is credited with the
creation of the first Y, a staple X product. Skip to the Lou, 50, Hot
Sauce, Main Event are some names you associate with X.
55. X is a computer system conceived by British inventor Bill Carlton
of Malta, which was used on
the ATP and WTA professional tennis tours as an electronic line
judge to help determine whether a serve is in or out. The X
computer system was introduced to the Wimbledon
Championships in 1980 and the U.S. Open in 1981, and was also
used at the Australian Open. In 2007 it was removed from
Wimbledon's Centre Court and Court No. 1 to allow the use of
the Hawk-Eye system first introduced at the U.S. Open in 2006. At
the present time X is not used in any capacity at any of the Grand
Slam events.
A famous moment involving X occurred at Wimbledon in 1980
when Ilie Năstase got down on his hands and knees to talk to the
equipment to argue an "out" signal.
ID X
57. After the first two years (1897 and 1898), during which X played in
the Parco del Valentino and Parco Cittadella, their matches were
held in the Piazza d'Armi Stadium until 1908, except in 1905, the
first year of the scudetto, and in 1906, years in which it played at
the Corso Re Umberto.From 1909 to 1922, X played their internal
competitions at Corso Sebastopoli Camp, and before moving the
following year to Corso Marsiglia Camp where they remained until
1933, winning four league titles. At the end of 1933 they began to
play at the new Stadio Mussolini stadium inaugurated for the 1934
World Championships. After the Second World War, the stadium
was renamed as Y. X played home matches at the ground for
57 years, a total of 890 league matches. The team continued to
host training sessions at the stadium until July 2003.
From 1990 until the 2005–06 season, the side contested their
home matches at Stadio delle
59. When the England cricket team played against Australia at Headingley in
2001, X walked out to bat with the team. Moments after entering the
field, he removed his helmet and was immediately recognised.
In 2002, he beat Michael Schumacher to the winners' podium at the
British Grand Prix.
X danced the Haka for the England national rugby union team as they
walked onto the pitch in Rome although his performance at the side of
the pitch went unnoticed by the crowd and the whole incident only came
to light when it was later reported in the media.
X managed to get onto Centre Court at Wimbledon and play a short
game before a Tim Henman match.
On 5 April 2003, X and several accomplices invaded the Old Trafford pitch
prior to Manchester United's game with Liverpool. Dressed in full United
kit, X and company re-enacted a goal scored by Diego Forlán against
Liverpool at Anfield earlier that season. This stunt saw X banned for life
by Manchester United.
What famous other incident is X remembered for?
79. Serena Williams has done it in both singles
and doubles
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