2017 aists quiz night

2017 AISTS SPORTS QUIZ NIGHT

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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

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2015 – European Athletics

2016 – European Athletics

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Q&A’S

26 October, 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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