1. SPORTS-COM andpresentTHE UPPER CUTA Quiz on SPORTS and GAMES QM: Cest la vie Arif

2. THE UPPER CUTA Quiz on SPORTS and GAMES or the greatest sports trial since THE CHICAGO BLACK SOX TRIAL OF 1921 3. The Upper Cut A Sport and Games Quiz RULES: Anything played anywhere in the universeNever argue with the QM. Come on, be a sport!Or else u would be made the official drinks carrier of Kozhikode Football League!(I would personally ask KVT(pronounced: kaa-vee-tee) to take care of that!) This is a sports and GAMES quiz also! Write your team name and team members names legiblyQM: Cest la vie Arif 4. 1. Innovated by Robert Koch, this punch is usedin boxing that usually aims at the opponentschin. It is one of the power punches. Samuel Elias, also known as "Dutch Sam", iscredited with creating this punch .It wasreported that "Dutch Sam created havoc withthe new blow until a new way was found toblock it In India this punch is popularly known as ArjunMurthy What is the name of this punch? 5. Ans The Upper Cut 6. 2.The cup that counts! Simba Toys India had entered into an exclusivealliance with the ICC to manufacture andmerchandise X for the first time in India. X isavailable in various sizes26inch, 17inch, 10inch and 7inch, pricedbetween ` 299 to ` 2499. What is X? 7. Ans Stumpy, the official mascot of the ICC WorldCup 2011 8. 3 X ,an author, was an enthusiastic cricketer andassembled the most extraordinary amateur cricketteam ever to have taken the field. Some of theEdwardian Englands most famous authors includingArthur Conan Doyle, A. A. Milne, P. G. Wodehouse, andJerome K. Jerome, regularly turned out for Xs teamfrom 1890 until 1913, when the team was brought toan end by the First World War. The team was named Y in the mistaken belief that ___meant Heaven help us in Arabic (rather than ____). 9. Ans Y-Allahakbarries CC X-JM Barrie 10. 4. What has been removed from the blue spot? 11. Ans A golf club Thats Alan Shepherd playing golf! 12. 5. The greatest quote of all! It will be a Killer, And a chiller , And a __X_.When I get the gorilla in _Y__ Whose words and who was the gorilla? X in Y is the name of the famous matchbetween these two guys! 13. Ans Mohammed Ali on Joe Frazier Thrilla in Manila 14. Am in love with this place!6. Where would you find these quotes? 15. Ans Wimbledon entrance to Centre Court Kiplings If 16. 7.Trump Card! X is the highest rank that a wrestler can achieve insumo wrestling. The name literally means "horizontalrope" .The rope, which can weigh up to 40 pounds, is aShinto symbol and is worn during the ring entrance(dohyo-iri) ceremony of the X, not during the boutsthemselves.The origins of the X rank are clouded in the mists ofancient Japanese history.There are no specific rules for making the rank of X .But the general standard is two consecutivetournament championships as ozeki or one win andtwo runner-up spots in consecutive tournaments withat least 36 wins 17. Ans YOKOZUNA 18. 8.Is the connection going too far? 19. Ans All were experts in Bridge Winston Churchill Deng Xiaoping Dwight Eisenhower Buster Keaton Omar Sharif Margaret Thatcher 20. "A Reminiscence of Cricket9.Poet? Whose wicket did he take?Once in my heyday of cricket,One day I shall ever recall!I captured that glorious wicket,The greatest, the grandest of all A statue from Thebes or from Knossos,A Hercules shrouded in white,Assyrian bull-like colossus,He stands in his might. Wicket keep Storer, the knowing,Wary and steady of nerve,Watching it falling and growingMarking the pace and curve.I stood with my two eyes fixed on it,Paralysed, helpless, inert;There was plunk as the gloves shut upon it,And he cuddled it up to his shirt. Walking he rumbled and grumbled,Scolding himself and not me;One glove was off, and he fumbled,Twisting the other hand free 21. Ans Arthur Conan Doyle on WG Grace 22. 10. Whats the satire on? 23. Ans In an important World cup quarter final game, Ghana was robbed ofvictory when Luis Surez of Uruguay deliberately used both hishands on the games final play changing a 100-percent certainGhana goal into a roughly 75- percent certain Ghana penalty kick.Surez was red-carded. But FIFA did NOT deem his offense seriousenough to suspend him an extra game, In 1986, Maradona used his right hand to hit the ball into the goalthus robbing England in going to the semi-final, In 2009, Ireland were robbed of going to WC South Africs2010, when Thierry Henry steadied the ball with his left handbefore kicking the ball into the net and this France went instead ofIreland. Luis Surez feels that he has evoked Diego Maradonas infamousgoal against England in 1986, declaring "the Hand Of God nowbelongs to me" after he broke Ghanas hearts and helped his sidereach the World Cup semi-finals. 24. 11. What famous feat is depicted by the arrow? 25. Ans: Bob Beamons phenomenal jump 26. Beamons world record was finally broken in 1991when Mike Powell jumped 8.95 m (29 ft. 4-3/8 in.) at the World Championships in Tokyo 27. 12. What a horror name! Bvs Kocka is the "the worlds most asked-forplaything. Douglas R. Hofstadter, an assistant professorof computer science at Indiana University andPulitzer-prize winning author(Gdel, Escher, Bach), lists __itis magikia as "asevere mental disorder accompanied byitching of the fingertips that can be relievedonly by prolonged contact" with Bvs Kocka. What am I talking about? 28. Ans Rubiks Cube (aka The Hungarian Horror) 29. 13.Queen song . Folklore has it that thissong was inspired after a majorsporting event .What is it? 30. Ans Tour de France 31. 14.VideoBen X is a 2007 Belgian drama film about a boywith autism who retreats into the fantasy worldof ArchLord to escape bullying.The films title is a reference to the leet versionof the Dutch phrase "(ik) ben niks", meaning "(I)am nothing".ArchLord is a game belonging to a famous videogame family term. What? 32. Ans Massively multiplayer online role-playinggame (MMORPG) is a genre of role-playingvideo games in which a very large number ofplayers interact with one another within avirtual game world. 33. 15.Can you read it properly? X , the inventor of Y (a famous cricket term) hadhoned his sleight of hand while playing TwistiTwosti, a parlour game whose object was tobounce a tennis ball across a table so that iteluded the player opposite. One Australian newspaper commented on X: Heis the worst length bowler in England and yet heis the only bowler the Australians fear. In Australia, the Y was known as the wrong un,a term which as the cricket historian David Frithhas pointed out was often applied to felons,divorces and homosexuals. 34. Ans X- Bernard Bosanquet Y- Googly 35. 16.Royal Treatment! The first recorded X tournament was in 600 BCwhen the Turkomans beat the Persians in a publicmatch In the mid 19th century an Irishman, CaptainJohn Watson, created the first set of written rulesfor playing X. The modern game of X, though formalized andpopularized by the British, is derived from thestate of Y in India where the game was known asSagol Kangjei 36. Ans X-Polo Y- Manipur 37. 17.Poetry in slow motion 38. Lazy elegance was never so elegant. Thosewho didnt see the poetry in this have noaesthetic sense. X looks to furiously pull aPanesar half-tracker. Then, realising hes toocool for such effortful shots, he falls over inslow motion - all grace, mind you - onto thestumps. A less graceful man would haveshattered the stumps; X merely dislodged thebails.--- cricinfo.com 39. Ans Inzamam ul Haq (who else!) 40. 18. Which famous sporting place? Its elliptical latticework shell, , has an intoxicatingbeauty that lingers in the imagination. In a site formass gatherings, Herzog and de Meuron have carvedout psychological space for the individual, andrethought the relationship between the solitaryhuman and the crowd, the everyday and the heroic.Their aim is to break down what the writer EliasCanetti, in his renowned study of crowds, describedas the closed ring from which nothing can escape. It is also inspired by traditional ____ crazedpottery. 41. Ans The Birds Nest (Beijings Olympic stadium) 42. 19. A Chess Game: X with Y- Vienna 1909 43. Ans Lenin and Hitler 44. 20. You bet your life! Stempels posture and gestures were awkward, his clotheswere too tighthe seemed almost to be choking in hisshirtand his speech was wooden. I remembered Alsremark that I might have a good chance against him, andthen he came right out and said it: Ive thought aboutit, Charlie, and Ive decided you should be the person tobeat Stempel. And Ill help you do it. He held up his hand.I swear to you, no one will ever know. It will be justbetween you and me. Jack Barrywont know and DanEnright wont, either. Stempel wont knowIve got a wayto handle that. The sponsors wont knowanyway, theyllbe so happy they wont give a damn. And the audience willnever know, because I wont tell them, and youwont, either. He suggested that I could make at least eight thousanddollars, maybe a good deal more. I was guaranteed athousand dollars for the first( initiative). 45. Van Doren (at left) faces Herb Stempel on Twenty-One, in 1956, under theeye of the shows host, Jack Barry. Some fifty million people watched theclimax of their rivalry. 46. Ans The Quiz show scandal of the 1950s Subject of the movie: Quiz show 47. 21.Famous F1 event Once he had said he would do as they wanted, the threemen worked out the details. "They wanted the safety caron lap 14. It actually felt good to agree to do something forthe team after all the criticism I had taken. I did not evenconsider the morality of it." Symonds showed him a map ofthe circuit and indicated the best place to _____ "becausethere are no cranes or anything". "Looking back, it seems like a lifetime ago, but I know I willnever fully escape from its shadow," he told the newspaper."I apologise unreservedly for what I did. I just hope peoplewill understand the pressures I was under. It is noexcuse, but I was a deeply unhappy person. I am a strongerman today. If the question was asked again, I am sure Iwould have the strength to say no." 48. AnsThe Renault Crashgate (Nelson Piquet Jr. inSingapore 2008) 49. 22 X was offered a position in the German army whichwas politely declined. Or so the story goes! Apparently, the Dutch were convinced that he simplycouldnt be that good. So they broke open his ___ insearch of a magnet. They didnt find one. The Japanese thought his __ might contain glue. Thatwasnt it either. Don Bradman and X once came face to face at Adelaidein 1935. After watching X in action, Don Bradmanremarked "He scores _ like runs in cricket" 50. 22 Dhyan Chand 51. Livin la Vida Loca23.Whose words? I say a final because for us, because of everything itrepresented, we were playing a final against __. Morethan defeating a football team it was defeating acountry. Of course, before the match, we said thatfootball had nothing to do with the Malvinas War butwe knew a lot of _____ kids had died there, shot downlike little birds. This was revenge. It was like recoveringa little bit of the Malvinas. In the pre-match interviewswe had all said that football and politics shouldnt beconfused, but that was a lie. We did nothing but thinkabout that. Bollocks was it just another match! 52. mp3 53. Ans Diego Maradona Malvinas War is the spanish name forFalklands war He was singing abt Hand of God in the song! 54. 24.Again time for some more sporting connections! 55. Movie vid 56. Ans All movies feature a game of Buzkashi 57. 25.Connect 58. Movie Vid 59. Ans The Al Fayed family Dodi executive producer of The Chariots ofFire Mohammed owner of Fulham and Punchmag 60. 26. Connect 61. Mp3 mr 62. Ans Joe di Maggio Marilyn Monroes husband Character in Babe Ruth comics I would like to take the great Joe di Maggiofishing, the old man said. They say his fatherwas a fisherman. Maybe he was as poor as weare and would understand.- Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea 63. Madonnas vogue lyrics:Vogue, [Vogue]Beautys where you find it [go with the flow]Greta Garbo, and MonroeDietrich and DiMaggio S n Gs Mrs Robinsonlyrics:Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggioA nation turns its lonely eyes to you(Woo, woo, woo) 64. 27. Identify the guy 65. mp3 66. Ans Henry Olonga 67. 28. Parody of a song X by the band Y.Sporting connection of the song X? Weird al Yankovic Vid 68. Ans "Eye of the Tiger" is a song performed by the American bandSurvivor from the album Eye of the Tiger, released in 1982. It waswritten at the request of Sylvester Stallone for the film Rocky III, asa replacement for Queens "Another One Bites the Dust" for whichStallone was unable to obtain permission. Lot of references in the movie.eg: 00:59:26,560 --> 00:59:28,516 Gotta get that look back, Rock. 00:59:28,880 --> 00:59:32,031 Eye of the tiger, man. Eye of the tiger. Come on. 00:59:32,160 --> 00:59:34,071 Come on, lets go. 69. 29. The Chinese read backwards, and it doesnt seem tohurt their eyes. The Czechs make moviesbackwards, and do all right at the box office. So whyshouldnt an American named Dick X win gold andglory at the Olympics by jumping backwards With his engineers precision, X tried to name it the"back layout". But one journalist said those earlyattempts looked more like an "airborne seizure". It wasanother, kinder, writer, who suggested X resembled a"fish _Y_ping in a boat" andthus, perhaps, immortalised him X Y is a famous long jump term. 70. Ans The Fosbury Flop 71. 30. Video The rural sport of Kambala is a traditionalbuffalo race held predominantly in thesouthern coastal Karnataka region. The Maramadi is an annual festival (known asMaramadi Mahotsavam), held during the postharvest season in the villages of Kerala. It is abull racing competition Common English term ___ ___ by which it isknown ? 72. Ans Bull surfing! 73. 31. Claim to fame of this SI Swimsuit mag cover? 74. Ans31 First non-model/non-athlete featured on thecover 75. STUMPS Day 1 76. The Bowlers EpitaphTo Crickets shrine I offerd , day by day.Pace, length and spin, swervers that ran away;By Wides, No-balls, by Extra-Covers stout,By l.b.ws miscalled NOT OUT,One last APPEAL. Let fall a kindred tearOer Bowlers dust. A broken heart lies here. R. C. ROBERTSON-GLASGOWLa Fin