Quizotic 2012 Sports Open Prelims with Answers

Useful Information
• 30 questions
• 21-30 warrant simple identification and would
serve as the tie-break questions
• The quizmaster is dog

To err is human,
to grr is dog.

The honour of this lady
caused some
irreparable damage to a
certain sporting
ambition of a country
somewhere in the
middle of the first
decade of the 21st
century.
Who be she?

"For when the One Great Scorer comes
To mark against your name,
He writes - not that you won or lost –
But ___ ___ ______ ___ ____.“

(from the poem "Alumnus Football")

how you played the game

GRANTLAND RICE

X (c. 1703 or 1704 – January 8, 1789) was an English bare-knuckle fighter. He
was the first person to ever codify a set of rules to be used in such contests;
prior to this the "rules" that existed were very loosely defined and tended to
vary from contest to contest.
In 1741, he beat George Stevenson so badly in a 35 minute contest that a
few days later Stevenson died; The tragedy upset him and in an effort to
ensure that it would not happen again, he called together some of the
patrons of his academy and drew up a set of rules that governed boxing
from August 16, 1743 until 1838, when a new code, "The London Prize Ring
Rules," was adopted.
X also invented, or rediscovered, the boxing glove; It has been suggested
that seeing a statue of a Greek boxer wearing the cestus gave him the idea
of the padded glove; X's padded gloves were lightweight "mufflers" and
used only in sparring - since matches were still bare-knuckle; The gloves
were really to prevent damage to his aristocratic patrons.
He was inducted into the Ring Boxing Hall of Fame in 1954 and the
International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990.

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Jack Broughton

The Father of Boxing

Is there really a Y?
"Apart from sounding like a shadowy gang bent on world domination, is
there really a Y?" asks Derrick Cameron. "What does it do, who is
involved, and is there a secret handshake to become a member?"
There is indeed a Y, Derrick. It’s job is to decide Z. Video evidence is
examined and debated by a three-person committee - consisting of former
players and officials who have worked within football - and a judgment
announced.
The panel sits on an ad hoc basis whenever there have been a number of
_____ - generally around three or four times a season, but the exact make-
up of the committee is shrouded in secrecy. "Their identities are not
revealed so as to protect the game's integrity and avoid a panel member
being put under pressure to make any particular decision," added the
spokesman.
As per Wikipedia, it should be noted that the Committee does not enquire
into:

# whether a goal has been scored. This is a matter for the officials attending
the match in question.

#assists. These are attributed to players by their clubs.

Dubious Goal Panel

Identity of the goal scorer

A British government-backed
meat promotion initiative.
The X and Y TV adverts feature
voices of these two athletes,
whose characters share a
home, cooking recipes in their
kitchen using lamb and beef.
In them, South African-born Y
frequently utters the word
"quality" - pronounced "quall-
ity" - to remind viewers to look
for the English quality mark on
meat.

• A 6'6" center at UCLA, he became the first African
American to be named consensus All-American in 1947.
• In 1948, he was the first African American to play with the
U.S. Olympic team. He joined the team in Basketball at the
1948 Summer Olympics. He became the first African-
American basketball player to win a gold medal in the
Summer Olympics.
• In 1951, he signed a lucrative contract with the Baltimore
Bullets and entered the NBA as a 28-year-old rookie. He
would be the third African-American to sign an NBA
contract after Chuck Cooper joined Boston and Earl
Lloyd signed with Washington. While with the Bullets, he
became the first African American to appear in an NBA All-
Star Game in the 1953 NBA All-Star Game.
• [picture on the next slide]

Dick X (29 April 1922 - 10 June 1986)
was a
former Indonesian badminton player.
He was also the founder of
Badminton Association of Indonesia
(PBSI) as well as its chairman for 22
years (1952–1963 and 1967–1981).
He was also the vice president
of IBF in 1975.
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NBA Ballparks
• Celtics – TD Garden
• Nets – Prudential Center
• 76ers – Wells Fargo Center
• Cavaliers – Quicken Loan Arena
• Hawks – Phillips Arena
• Raptors – Air Canada
• Magic – Amway Center
• Wizards – Verizon Center
• Nuggets – Pepsi Center
• Warriors – Oracle Arena
• Grizzlies – FedEx Forum
• Rockets – Toyota Center
• Spurs – AT&T Center

Martina Navratilova and Jimmy Connors

Some 35 odd years ago, Thierry Sabine (pic) while en route to
Nice on his bike, ended up taking a detour in the wilderness
whose raw beauty left him awestricken.
His loss of navigational sense proved to be a blessing in disguise
and was turned into a worldwide gain, so to speak, the following
year with the inception of __________.

James Forman "Tod" Sloan (August 10, 1874 - December 21, 1933)
was an American thoroughbred horse racing jockey. He was
elected to the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in
1955.
It was Sloan who popularized the forward seat style of riding, or
the “Z" as the British called it, when he began riding there in 1897.
Initially laughed at, his style revolutionized the sport worldwide.
(Although he did not invent it. The "American Seat" of short
stirrups and crouching over the horse's neck and withers was used
in the colonies as far back as the Quarter Horsedashes along tracks
cut in the wilderness as well as being the preferred riding style of
the Native Americans. Not only that, but two years before Sloan
rode in England, the African American jockey, Willie Simms had
ridden exactly that way taking England's Crawfurd Plate {sic) at
Newmarket against England's finest bolt-upright riders.)
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Mound commemorating what?

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The Martyrs of the Battle of Marathon

Widely regarded as a creative genius, and the best attacking
player of all time, he played a daring, combinatorial style. His
play was known above all for improvisation and unpredictability.
Every game, he once said, was as inimitable and invaluable as a
poem. He was also known as "The magician from Riga". Both The
Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games (Burgess,
Nunn & Emms 2004) andModern Chess Brilliancies (Evans 1970)
include more games by him than any other player. He was also a
highly-regarded chess writer.
He holds the records for both the first and second longest
unbeaten streaks in competitive chess history. Many authorities
consider him to have been the greatest attacking Grandmaster in
the history of chess. On May 28, 1992, dying from kidney failure,
he left hospital to play at the Moscow blitz tournament, where
he defeated Garry Kasparov. He died one month later.
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• "There are two kinds of sacrifices: sound ones, and mine.“
• "To play for a draw, at any rate with White, is to some degree a
crime against chess.“
• "I drink, I smoke, I gamble, I chase girls – but postal chess is one
vice I don't have.“
• "If Black is going for victory, he is practically forced to allow his
opponent to get some kind of well-known positional advantage.“
• "It is also important to remember that Bobby Fischer was a real
chess gentleman during games. He was always very fair and very
correct.“
• "You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5,
and the path leading out is only wide enough for one.“
• "They compare me to Lasker, which is an exaggerated honour. He
made mistakes in every game and I only in every second one!“
• Nevertheless, when asked about his opinion on who was the
greatest player of all time, he answered: "Lasker, for he made
miracles on the chessboard.”

Mikhail Tal

"Later, ... I began to succeed in decisive games. Perhaps because I realised a very simple truth:
not only was I worried, but also my opponent."

The earliest known use of a Z to represent
the then-town of X was on its corporate
seal, dating from the 1350s. The seal is
now held by the British Museum. In 1668
the Earl of Derby gave the town council a
mace "engraved with ...a leaver", the first
known reference to a YZ by what it is
known today. In 1797 the College of
Arms granted official arms to X, which
depicts the Z in pride of place.
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Farokh Engineer & Diana Eduljee

Last man and woman of Parsi origin
to play test cricket for India

A _________ is a toy, invented in 1964 by chemist Norman
Stingley by compressing a synthetic rubber material under high
pressure. It is extremely elastic and made of Zectron, which
contains the synthetic rubber polymerpolybutadiene, as well as
hydrated silica, zinc oxide, stearic acid, and other ingredients
vulcanized with sulphur at a temperature of 165 degrees Celsius
and at a pressure of 80 atmospheres (1,175 psi). It has an
amazingly high coefficient of restitution. Dropped from shoulder
level, they snapped nearly all the way back; thrown down by an
average adult, it can leap over a three-story building.
After watching his children play with a ___________, Lamar
Hunt coined the term Z. In a July 25, 1966, letter to Pete Rozelle,
Hunt wrote, "I have kiddingly called it the ‘Z,' which obviously
can be improved upon." Although the leagues' owners decided
on some other name, the media immediately picked up on
Hunt's “Z" name.
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Pieter van den Hoogenband & Inge
de Bruijn

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