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42 questions as its the answer to life, the universe and everything

1.

What has been blanked out?

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*2.

Id X and Y. This is the photo from the 2004 Athens Olympics. In which sports the two Indians were representing India.

ANS

Weightlifting

3.

X was a legendary American baseball player who was voted the greatest first baseman of all time by the Baseball Writers' Association. He was the only surviving child of his parents and shared a very special bond with his mother. He was popularly nicknamed ‘The Iron Horse’ as he played for 15 years continuously with the New York Yankees with a total of 2130 consecutive matches, without missing a single one in between. Something special happened on his 36th

birthday which made him very popular outside the world of sports?

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Lou Gherig

4.

Id him.

ANS

Dick Fosbury

5.

Id this national level shooter.

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6.

If the husband represented India in Olympics in hockey and the son represented India in Olympics in Tennis, then in which sport the wife represented India in Olympics?

ANS

Basketball

Vece Paes

Leander Paes

Jennifer Paes

*7.

The latest recipient of this trophy are the UBC Kainakary group captained by Chambakulam Chundan. Which Indian sporting event?

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The Nehru Boat Race.

8.

He was the younger brother of Dhyan Chand, the most celebrated player in Indian hockey and widely regarded as the greatest hockey player ever. While Dhyan chand has a hockey stadium named after him, he has a Cricket stadium named after him. Who?

ANS

Roop Singh

Roop Singh Stadium, Gwalior.

9.

Id the grand prix track.

ANS

Suzuka Circuit

Japan GP

*10.

Whose latest tweets?

The #WorldCup was pretty good, right? Here are some of my favourite bits. Thanks for all the love. #ballin

I guess this now makes me a #WorldCup legend so here I am with more #WorldCup legends: Kaka, Beckham & Zico. #ballin

Thanks to all of you for following and supporting me. I've had a ball. Best. Ever. #WorldCup. #ballin

Extra-time. I don't want this to stop. I'm going to see if FIFA will let us play the 2018 #WorldCup now. #ballin

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11.

Identify her.

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Mirka Federer

12.

Id the logo.

ANS

Dakar Rally

13.

Which sporting event?

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Wimbledon

14.

Id the logo.

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*15.

On whose life the movie is based.

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Jackie Robinson

16.

Whose name has been blanked out.

ANS

Floyd Mayweather.

17.

In 1984, this former NFL coach and TV analyst XY had to be coaxed by EA Sports execs into lending his name to the game. He's glad he did. In 2013, the 25th edition of the Y NFL franchise (XY Football before 1993) was released. To date, it has sold 85 million copies and brought in more than $3 billion in revenue. XY‘s licensing deal has helped push his net worth north of $100 million. The franchise is updated each year and is the best-selling sports video game of all time in the US. Identify the person XY or the game franchise.

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John Madden

18

The race was first organized in 1903 to increase paper sales for the magazine L'Auto it is currently run by the Amaury Sport Organisation.The race has been held annually since its first edition in 1903 except for when it was stopped for the two World Wars.

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Tour De France

*19.

Winners of which sporting event get these as mementos?

Roughly $5000 a piece, the winning team can typically present rings to whomever they choose, including usually, but not limited to: players (active roster or injured), coaches, trainers, executives, personnel, and general staff.

ANS

The Super Bowl ring is an award in the National Football League given to the winners of the league's annual championship game

20.

“Just enough education to perform” is an album by the band Stereophonics. It is the favourite album of a sports personality which led him to make this tattoo. Id him.

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21.

Until 2013 the winners of X was decided solely based on the outcomes of the format that is used to decide the winners on the more famous variant of X, Y. Starting 2013 the winners are decided on a points system while also including two more formats. The name X has been used since 1998 even though this was not first time this event took place.

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22.

Which sports equipment?

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23.

Versions of which game.

20 to 1

Around the world

Cricket

Fives

Halve it

Killer

Shangai

Ranger

ANS

Darts

25.

This sporting event is held in 3 cities in India. The first edition took place in 2012 in Mumbai, Srinagar & Delhi, while in 2013 it took place in Mumbai, Jaipur and Delhi. The year 2013 marks the debut of John Abraham as the brand ambassador. It is in affiliation with the world governing body of the sport and is sponsored by Godrej Eon. The categories of the event are Full, Half, Green, Champions and International.

This event is a spin off of a more famous event. Which event?

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26.

The Russian Olympic Team Arrived 12 Days Late to The 1908 London Olympics because of the poor communication between the countries. Why?

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As it turns out, England had been using the Gregorian calendar, the one that we use today, for over a century and a half.

Unfortunately, Russia was still using the Julian calendar—a pretty dated way to keep track of the days!

27.

X was a star of Indian athletics in the 1960s and the 1970s. Being 6'7", he dominated the Indian hammer and discus throws for several years. He became a Double gold medalist in discus throwing in the 1966 and 1970 Asian Games holding the Asian Games record of 56.76 metres. He was a silver medalist in the 1966 Commonwealth Games in Kingston and in the 1974 Asian Games in Tehran. He competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics and in the 1972 Summer Olympics. He contested the 2013 Delhi Legislative elections on an Aam Aadmi Party ticket, but lost. Either tell me his name or tell me the claim to fame.

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Praveen Kumar Sobti

Played Bheem in Mahabharat

28.

ID him or his claim to fame.

ANS

Jigoro Kano the inventor of Judo

29.

In Japan, avid golfers buy insurance to protect themselves on the course, however, it’s not for what you might think. They purchase it because of something else. The policy covers them for a party worth up to $3,000, for the low price of $65 a year. What is the insurance for?

ANS

It is called Hole in One insurance.

They purchase it because if they get a hole-in-one, they have to buy gifts and drinks for their friends.

30.

This is the logo of a minor league basketball team that plays in Augusta, Georgia, as a Class A affiliate of the San Francisco Giants. The reason behind the name of this team is related to the thing that is given as a reward to the winners of The Masters Tournament, also known as The Masters or The US Masters, one of the four major championships in professional golf. Scheduled for the first full week of April, it is the first of the majors to be played each year. Unlike the other major championships, the Masters is held each year at the same location, Augusta National Golf Club, a private golf club in the city of Augusta, Georgia, USA.

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Augusta Green Jackets

31.

During lunch with commissioner Pete Rozelle in 1966,Tiffany & Co. vice president Oscar Riedner made a sketch on a cocktail napkin of what would become the Vince Lombardi Trophy. The original trophy was produced by Tiffany & Co. in Newark, New Jersey Others have since been handcrafted by the company in Parsippany, New Jersey. How do we better know this as?

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32

This is an American biographical sports drama film directed by Craig Gillespie from a screenplay written by Tom McCarthy. The film is based on the true story of baseball pitchers Rinku Singh and DineshPatel who were discovered by sports agent J.B. Bernstein after winning a reality show competition.

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Million Dollar Arm

33

Similarly to the Gumball Rally, a transcontinental road race run on public roads. Crossing checkpoints as fast as possible scores you points. Committing vehicular manslaughter by running over innocent pedestrians also scores you points. Depending on your definition of "winning," you must score the most points, murder the most pedestrians and then also plow your car into the President of the Fascist United Provinces, and usurp his power. What race am I talking about?

DEATH RACE

34.

At a time when Grand Prix racing was the dominant form of motorsport throughout Europe, this was designed to present a different test. Instead of focusing on the ability of a car company to build the fastest machines, this would instead concentrate on the ability of manufacturers to build sporty yet reliable cars. This encouraged innovation in producing reliable and fuel-efficient vehicles, because the nature of endurance racing requires cars that last the distance and spend as little time in the pits as possible.

ANS

The 24 Hour Le Mans

35.

Guidelines regarding clothing rules of X:

No solid mass of colouring

Little or no dark or bold colours

No fluorescent colours

Preference towards pastel colours

Preference for the back of the shirt to be totally white

Preference for shorts and skirts to be totally white

All other items of clothing, including hats, socks and shoe uppers to be predominantly white

ANS

Wimbledon

36.

Human crush resulted in the deaths of 96 people and injuries to 766 others. The incident has since been blamed primarily on the police for letting too many people enter the stadium. It remains the worst stadium-related disaster in British history, and one of the world's worst football disasters. Name the disaster or the two teams involved.

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Hillsborough Disaster

Liverpool and Nottingham Forest

37.

ANS

Common Scores in Golf

Eagle

Albatross

Birdie

Humphrey Bogart nicknamed as Bogey

38.

In soccer or European football, a player is ______ when an opponent kicks the ball between his or her legs. According to Peter Seddon'sFootball Talk: The Language & Folklore of the World's Greatest Game, the verb is listed in the Oxford English Dictionary as "arising in the 1870s which in Victorian slang came to mean 'to be tricked or deceived, especially in a manner which makes the victim look foolish.'“

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Nutmeg

39. ID THE MAN ON THE RIGHT.

MARK SPITZ

40.

Other kids' games are all such a bore!They've gotta have rules and they gotta keep score!_______ is better by far!It's never the same! It's always bizarre!You don't need a team or a referee!You know that it's great, 'cause it's named after me!

______ is a nomic or self-modifying game, a contest of wits and creativity rather than stamina or athletic skill.

FITB.

ANS

Calvinball

41.

__X__ fans attempted various methods over the years to exorcise their famous curse. These included placing a __X__ cap atop Mt. Everest and burning a Yankees cap at its base camp; hiring professional exorcists and Father Guido Sarducci to "purify" Fenway Park; spray painting a "Reverse Curve" street sign on Storrow Drive to change it to say "Reverse the Curse"; and finding a piano owned by ___Y___ that he had supposedly pushed into a pond near his Sudbury, Massachusetts farm, Home Plate Farm. What is this curse about/called? X? Y?

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Curse of the Bambino

X- Red Sox

Y- Babe Ruth

42.

Purists of the sport claim that it was started in 1997 in Leicester, England, by resident Phil Shaw in his back garden. Shaw came home from what he recalls as a hard day in a Leicester knitwear factory. Preferring the idea of an evening out rock climbing, he decided to combine the two activities into a new extreme sport. In June 1999, Shaw, who uses the nickname "Steam", embarked on an international tour to promote the activity.

In this sport people take ____ to remote locations and do ______.

Some locations where such performances have taken place include a mountainside of a difficult climb; a forest; in a canoe; while skiing or snowboarding; on top of large bronze statues; in the middle of a street; underwater; in the middle of the M1 motorway; whilst parachuting; and under the ice cover of a lake. The performances have been conducted solo or by groups. Which extreme sports?

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Extreme ironing

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