KQA Open Sports Quiz. by Eashan Ghosh, Raghuram Cadambi & Varun Rajiv. 25th april 2010

12. Colorado Rockies to New Jersey Devils

13. Sonics to Oklahoma City Thunder

18. The Commonwealth Games Village, New Delhi

22. Apolo Ohno Eight Winter Olympics medals, America’s most decorated Winter Olympian ever

23. 4. July 2009. Pinehurst. Brought on waves (a decade worth of pent up) of nostalgia. ID both.

24. Payne Stewart; Aaron Stewart Stewart Jr. played at Pinehurst ten years after his father’s death

26. Shahar Pe’er at the 2010 Dubai Tennis Championships The year after she was denied a visa to play there in 2009

28. Tony Fernandes X: Richard Branson The Virgin Racing/Air Asia bet

30. Clean and Jerk

32. X: Weight classes in boxing Y: World Boxing Organisation (WBO) / World Boxing Council (WBC)

34. Under-soil heating The under-soil heating failure at Lambeau Field lead to the 1967 “Ice Bowl”

36. Manchester City

38. The Instant Replay “Ladies and gentlemen, Army did not score again!”

40. The Toronto Cricket, Skating and Curling Club, venue of the India v. Pakistan Sahara Cup, 1996-1998

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54. Answers

55. Gazi Ashraf Hossain

56. Annura Tennekoon

57. Bevan Congdon

58. Rohan Kanhai

59. Ray Illingworth

60. Clive Rice

61. Intikhab Alam

62. Duncan Fletcher

63. Ajit Wadekar

64. Bill Lawry

65. Maurice Odumbe

66. Theme: First-ever ODI Captains (of respective countries)

69. X: Lee Westwood Y: Phil Mickelson Z: The Augusta Masters, 2010

71. Darrell Hair

73. Players representing England from outside the Premier League / First Division

75. X: Meadowlands Stadium, the new home of the New York Giants (Y) and the New York Jets (Z).

77. Daniel Nestor

81. The 5x7 Badminton points scoring experiment Abandoned after the 2002 Commonwealth Games, where Muhammad Hafiz Hashim (top) beat Lee Tseung Seng (bottom) in the final

83. Stefan Edberg

85. Tony Hawk, after spinning that 900º

91. The America’s Cup 2010 “rightful challenger” controversy Alinghi eventually faced BMW Oracle

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97. First call for theme: +30/-5

98. 5

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100. 7

101. 8

102. Second call for theme: +20/-5

103. 9

104. 10

105. 11

106. Last call for theme: +15/-5

107. Announce theme

108. Sportspersons who’ve influenced/necessitated rule changes For maximizer, describe the rule change associated with each sportsperson for +5 a pop

109. Pat Bonner Prohibition on goalkeepers from handling backpasses

110. Jos Verstappen Standardisation of fuelling rigs in F1 following his pit lane fire in 1994

111. Bob Gibson Lowering of the pitching mound in MLB

112. Tom Brady Prohibiting fallen defenders from tackling quarterbacks (the “Brady Rule”)

113. Ray Mancini/Duk Koo Kim Shortening of title bouts from 15 to 12 rounds by WBC after Kim died after a bout with Mancini

114. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar The slam-dunk ban in college basketball

115. Martin Brodeur Restriction on goalkeepers playing the puck behind the goal to prevent time-wasting

116. Muttiah Muralitharan The 15° degree relaxation on bowling actions

117. M Schumacher, Rubens Barrichello Ban on team orders in F1

118. Douglas Jardine Prohibition of Bodyline

119. Dennis Lillee Ban on aluminium cricket bats / standardisation of cricket bat dimensions and materials