Patel's sports quiz

Question 1:

What is common between the following teams:

Juventus FC in its founding year 1897
The West Indies cricket team for Kerry Packers's World Series in 1977
Scotland National Football team for a friendly vs Germany in 1999
The Arkansas Razorbacks College Football team in the 2005 season
Middlesex County Cricket Club in 2007 Twenty20 championship

Hint: Do not think straight



Question 2:

X a police officer for 30 years,was head of City of London Police's special branch from 1987 to 1990. His later roles included a spell in Germany liaising on organised crime for British police and as a member of City of London's fraud squad. After spending time with Essex Police, he became a detective superintendent in the Yard's serious and organised crime unit in 2001. There he managed investigation teams combating gun crime, drug trafficking and gang-related
"contracts to kill" in London. He was involved in the investigation into the alleged Victoria Beckham kidnap plot. But it was in 'Yardie' violence involving Jamaican or black British drug gangs where he gained most expertise.

Name X



Question 3

X was an Indian cricketer and one of the liveliest characters in Indian cricket in the late 1920s and 1930s. He led the Indian team to England in 1936, a post that he secured after lobbying and manipulation. The tour was very acrimonious, with team splits, and X even felt the need to send home one of his strongest players, Lala Amarnath. He is the only cricketer to have had a knighthood bestowed on him while an active test cricketer, shortly after his test debut in June of that year, and prior to his last test in August of that year. He renounced his knighthood in
1947 after India became independent.

Name X



Question 4

X is often called "the greatest driver never to win the World Championship". For many years during and after his career, the rhetorical phrase "Who do you think you are? X?" was supposedly the standard question all British policemen asked speeding motorists. In 1990, X was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame.

Name X



Question 5

Link the 2 pictures





Question 6

What is common bwtween the following

Cotar Ramaswami, Andy Ducat, Asif Karim, Jeff Wilson and Jonty Rhodes.



Question 7

X, then nicknamed The Pensioners, was founded on March 14, 1905 at The Rising Sun pub opposite today's main entrance to the ground on the Fulham Road. Since there was already a team named Fulham in the borough, the name of the adjacent borough, was settled.

Name X.



Question 8

X is a European Court of Justice ruling handed down on May 8, 2003 in favour of a Slovak handball player. The court decision was based upon the idea that no resident of the EU should be prevented from working in another part of the EU. For example, a German basketball team could not be prevented from hiring a Greek player since both nations are members of the EU. Moreover, since Slovakia was not part of the EU at the time the case was decided, but had an associate trading relationship with the EU, the decision meant that any player from any nation which had such a relationship with the EU could also freely play as a professional.

Name X



Question 9

X is a borough in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, USA. The boroughs of Mauch Chunk and East
Mauch Chunk merged and took on the name of X following the 1953 death of Olympic athlete X.
When X's third wife, Patricia Askew, heard that the small Pennsylvania town of Mauch Chunk
was desperately seeking to attract business, she struck a deal with the town. Mauch Chunk
bought X's remains, erected a monument (see pictures 9_1 and 9_2), and renamed the town in his honor, despite the fact that X had never set foot in the city.

Name X




Question 10

Name the team the following represent.

Iron Head -- "Iron Head" spent much effort learning the kung-fu style that makes his head as tough as iron. Renowned for his powerful headers.
Hooking Leg -- "Hooking Leg" has special skills in ground tumbling boxing. He was poor and could not go to school. He was initially reluctant to join the team.
Empty Hands -- "Empty Hands" has bullet hands that make him the first choice keeper of the team.
Iron Shirt -- "Iron Shirt" can absorb all kinds of blunt force attacks with little damage. He volunteers to be the replacement goal keeper when Empty hands gets injured.
Mighty Steel Leg -- "Mighty Steel Leg" is a master of a kicking technique because of which he gets his name.
Weight Vest -- "Weight Vest" is obese and gluttonous. He too initially refuses to join the team, but joins later.
Golden Leg -- "Golden Leg" was a respected soccer player. However, accepting a bribe to throw a penalty shot resulted in a tragic end to his career. He is the coach of the team.



Question 11

In the 2004-05 season, X became the first club since the creation of the modern Premier
League in 1992 to be bottom of the league at Christmas and avoid relegation.

Hint: Picture

Identify X.



Question 12

On July 2, 1994, X was shot outside a bar. According to his girlfriend, the killer shouted "Gooooooooooooool!" (mimicking sporting commentators for their calls after a goal is scored) for each of the 12 bullets fired.

Hint: The murder was widely believed to be a punishment for his own goal agianst USA in the 1994 world cup.

Name X



Question 13

The origins of this custom is believed to be as below.

In 1910, president William Taft at a Washington Senators game felt sore in his backside and decided to stand up and stretch. Upon seeing the chief executive stand, the rest of the spectators in attendance felt obligated to join the president in his gestures.

What is the custom in question.

Hint: Pre September 11, 2001 - "Take Me Out to the Ballgame"
Post September 11, 2001 - "God Bless America"



Question 14

Hint 1 ------> Start: March 31, 2008
Hint 2 ------> End: August 8, 2008
Hint 3 ------> Distance: 85,000 miles
Hint 4 ------> Visiting: 135 cities over 5 continents.

Name the event.



Question 15

X, a 7'1", 235 lb center, was the last player with no college or professional basketball experience to make the US Olympic squad in 1980. However is he is more famously known as the biggest NBA draft bust for being drated (by the Portland Trailblazers) ahead of Michael Jordan in the 1984 NBA draft.

Name X



Question 16

Here are a few quotes. Name the person to said these.

"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea."
"After his first training session in heaven, George Best, from his favourite right wing, turned the head of God who was filling in at left-back. He nutmegged him and scored a wonderful goal from 30 yards out. I would love him to save me a place in his team - George Best that is, not God."
"When you are a rich man you are proud to own a Rolls Royce and when you are a poor man you are proud to own a Renault."



Question 17

Link the 5 pictures




Question 18

X originated in 1962 from an idea of Bill Winkenbach, then a limited partner in the Oakland Raiders, with assistance from Bill Tunnell, the Raiders' public relations man, Scotty Stirling, the beat writer from the Oakland Tribune, George Ross, the Tribune's sports editor, and Philip Carmona, Winkenbach's friend. The idea emerged during a three-week road trip the Raiders took to the East Coast. Winkenbach and the others fleshed out the idea during the trip, and upon their return, formed the first instance of X the GOPPPL (Greater Oakland Professional Pigskin Prognosticators League). Today we have many instances of X, for example CBS, ESPN and Yahoo.

Name X



Question 19

What happened next (see picture)




Question 20

X, a right-handed opening batsman and occasional off spin bowler, was first selected for Zimbabwe to play in the second Test against Pakistan in November 2002. He has had a number of disciplinary problems. Two incidents in particular stick out. He was sent home from Zimbabwe's tour of England in 2003 after ignoring management instructions to travel with the rest of the squad. Then in 2006 he was banned from all cricket played under the auspices of the England and Wales Cricket Board after a violent altercation with spectators at a match between Ashton and his club, Werneth in the Central Lancashire League. On 1 November 2006, X was held by police after apparently fleeing the scene of a suspicious fire at the Zimbabwean Cricket Academy in Harare. He was formally charged with arson in the incident on 2 November.In January 2008, he was cleared on grounds of mental illness.

Name X