2017 aists quiz night

2017 AISTS SPORTS QUIZ NIGHT
Rajan Thambehalli
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26 October, 2017

QUIZ RULES
• Each question carries 1 point – unless otherwise mentioned
• No negative marking! Feel free to make guesses
• No use of ‘smart-phones’ or tablets (Please turn them to silent mode) – No
technical doping ☺
• 25 questions – contains text, photographs and videos
• The number of uninterrupted corrects from Q15 will be taken as the criterion
– if not, it will be resolved by the tiebreaker

PREVIOUS WINNERS
2014 – TSE Consulting
2015 – European Athletics
2016 – European Athletics
2017 - ???????????

1
John Charles Miller, worked at Sao Paulo Railway Company as a Royal
Mail's agent. In 1884, he was sent to England to complete his studies. It
was here he acquired a taste for a sport.
When he returned to Brazil in 1894, he brought his luggage and
what?
AISTS Sports Quiz Night 2017

ANSWER
Football

2
Lisbeth Salander and Zoe Barnes are two well-known characters
portrayed by two sisters respectively. Their sporting connect is that, their
two great grandfathers were the founders of the NFL teams New York
Giants and Pittsburgh Steelers.
Name the sisters. (2 points)

ANSWER
Kate Mara and Rooney Mara

3
This team event in cycling is named after an arena in New
York City. It was a Summer Olympic event for men from
2000 to 2008.
Either name the event or the arena.

ANSWER
Madison/Madison Square Garden

4
To celebrate the 200 years of revolutions
in these countries (1988 and 1989
respectively), which two countries
started contesting in a rugby union
match to win this perpetual trophy?
(2 points)

ANSWER
Australia and France

5
It is usually played with seven players a side, what self-refereed non-
contact team sport that developed in U.S. high schools and colleges
received full IOC recognition, on 2 August 2015?

ANSWER
Ultimate Frisbee

6
In 2010, YouTube signed its first live sporting deal to be streamed across
the globe. It was for a domestic league that began in 2008.
Which sport's domestic league happens to be this?

ANSWER
Cricket/Indian Premier League

7
In 1971, she won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award.
At the 1976 Olympics, she was the sole female competitor to not
undergo a sex test. In 2012, she presented a silver medal to her
daughter. Who is this?

ANSWER
Princess Anne, daughter of Queen Elizabeth II

8
This 2004 documentary film chronicles the first year of his
basketball play in the United States. Narrated by Colin Pine, who
happens to be his friend and a former interpreter for the first
three years. Which player?

ANSWER
Yao Ming

9
In the history of volleyball, she became the youngest Olympic gold-
medal winner at the age of 17. Over the years, she earned a lot of
honours around the world including two more Olympic gold medals.
FIVB named her the greatest volleyball female player of the 20th
century. Who?

ANSWER
Regla Torres

10
His glory days were short-numbered. He won
against Muhammad Ali and agreed to a rematch.
The WBC took away his title as he refused to play
Ken Norton.
And, in the rematch, Muhammed Ali beat him.
Who is this boxer?

ANSWER
Leon Spinks

11
Nicole Larini, an Italian racing driver, took part in 75 races and
was an occasional driver for Ferrari in the mid-90s. He scored a
podium once, when he finished second at a race in 1994.
However, the race is remembered for other reasons.
What other reason?

ANSWER
Ayrton Senna’s death

12
2016 - Parade Area built for Rio Carnival
2012 - Home of Cricket
2004 - Site of First Olympic Games
1996 - Stone Mountain, Georgia
These were the some of the venues chosen for which Olympic sport?

ANSWER
Archery

13
"A tsunami just hit my bank account, so thank you very much", these
words were written by JP Fitzgerald after he picked up $1.05 million.
The person who paid the amount said, "He deserved it. He's a big part
of what we do. He was with me when I was No.210 in the world and
when I was No.1."
Who paid him $1.05 million dollars?

ANSWER
Rory McIlroy. They parted ways recently!

14
This sporting term takes its origins from 1880's baseball slang. The
baseball diamonds were arranged in a fashion that batters would face
east, to avoid looking into the afternoon sun. The term refers to the
pitcher's left hand and its position. What term?

ANSWER
Southpaw

15
At the 1980 Olympics, women's hockey
made its debut for the first time. Which
country's women's hockey team won
the gold medal, the first Olympic medal
of any colour for the country?

ANSWER
Zimbabwe

16
This sporting race gets its name from the 17th century Venetian term
which literally means "contention for mastery". Which word?

ANSWER
Regatta

17
Horacio Zeballos is an Argentine tennis player. In 2013, he won his
maiden professional title at the VTR Open in Chile and thereby joined a
list of four players (including Horacio) to have achieved a feat.
Which feat is this?

ANSWER
Defeating Nadal in a clay-court final
(Federer, Djokovic and Murray are the other three)

18
Sir Ludwig Guttmann was a Jewish doctor who specialised in
neuroscience and was one of the top neurosurgeons in Germany in the
1930s. He fled Nazi Germany when an opportunity presented to treat
the Portuguese dictator. The family settled in England and he continued
his work on spinal injuries and established National Spinal Injuries
Centre at a hospital in Buckinghamshire. Name the hospital.

ANSWER
Stoke Mandeville Hospital, he organised the first Stoke
Mandeville Games that went on to become Paralympics

19
Cameron van der Burgh won the 100m breaststroke gold medal at the
2012 London Olympics. Later, he admitted that he committed an
offence thrice and it was confirmed by video replays later.
What was the offence?

ANSWER
The Dolphin kick used in the butterfly stroke is not allowed
more than once in the breaststroke!

20
Named after one of the terms in ice hockey, what is the movie's
name?

ANSWER
Slapshot

21
Sidney ________, nicknamed Solly was the former Chief Justice of
Ceylon and a British Olympic athlete. His only representation at the
Olympics was in 1912 when he finished in 11th place in the long jump
event. Twelve years later in 1924, his younger brother became a star
and his heroics was one of the main features of the movie, 'Chariots
of Fire’. Name his younger brother.

ANSWER
Harold Abrahams, he won the 100 metres sprint and a silver in
the 4x100 m relay

22
Gillian Gilks had a remarkable year in 1976
when she won all the three events of a
prestigious sporting tournament. She remains
the last Britain singles player (male and female)
to have won the home tournament in this sport.
Which sport and the tournament? (2 points)

ANSWER
Badminton and All-England Championships

23
In 1935, Harrer was designated to participate in the Alpine skiing
competition at the 1936 Winter Olympics. The Austrian Alpine skiing
team, however, boycotted the event due to a conflict regarding the skiing
instructors' status as professionals. As a result, Harrer did not
participate. Heinrich Harrer was portrayed by Brad Pitt in one of his
movies. In which movie did Pitt play Harrer?

ANSWER
Seven Years in Tibet

24
What sporting feat did the real-life couple El Tayeb and Raneem El
Welily achieve recently? It happens to be a first in the world of sports.

ANSWER
First married couple to win the same major title on the same day

25
He won a silver medal at the 1948 Olympics for weightlifting. In a
few years’ time, he saw gold as he was the primary henchman in
the movie 'Goldfinger’.
Watch the scene and name him/character name.

ANSWER
Harold Sakata/Oddjob

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