GAME THEORY

PRELIM ANSWERS
#1 Simple…ID.
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• NODAR KUMARITASHVILI
2.  CONNECT Maria Teresa de Filippis , Lella
Lombardi , Divina Galica , Desiré Wilson and
Giovanna Amati
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• Only female formula 1 drivers
3. Pictures depicting earliest version of which game???
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• Lacrosse
#4. X is known as "checkers" in the United States. There
are many variations on the board size, the most
commonly used being 7×6, followed by 8×7, 9×7, and
10×7. The game was solved mathematically by James D.
Allen (1 October 1988), and independently by Victor
Allis (16 October 1988). With perfect play, the first
player can force a win by starting in the middle column.
By starting in the two adjacent columns, the first player
allows the second player to reach a draw; by starting
with the four outer columns, the first player allows the
second player to force a win. Broadcaster and
writer Stuart Maconie – while working at the NME –
started a rumour that X was invented by David Bowie,
which became an urban myth.ID the game X.
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Connect 4
5. Wide-Angle is a book by X released by his
rival Y . Quoting X, “I would always tell my
fellow mates in the team that there won’t be
any privacy till as time I am in the team, for I
was everywhere, capturing those hidden
moments in the team”. Recently in news . Just
give X and Y .
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• X—Anil Kumble
• Y—Shane Warne
6. X was born on 16 June 1994 (age 15) His first
part of the name the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code
for its country, and second part is a word that
means ten in various African languages
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#7. First use of which sporting word???
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 8. The term originates from Stephen Potter‘s humorous 1947 book, The Theory
and Practice of X. Stephen Potter cites the origin of X to be a tennis match in
which he and the philosopher C. E. M. Joad competed against two younger and
fitter men who were outplaying them fairly comfortably. On returning a serve,
Joad hit the ball straight into the back-netting twelve feet behind the back-line.
While the opponents were preparing for the next serve Joad queried whether
the ball had landed in, or out. Being young, polite university students, their
opponents offered to replay the point, but Joad declined. Because they were
young and polite, the slight suggestion by Joad that their etiquette was in
question was extremely off-putting. Potter and Joad went on to win the match.

The most common techniques of X are the following.

• Breaking the flow of an opponent's play.
• Causing an opponent to take the game less seriously or to overthink his or her
position.
• Intentionally making a "mistake" which gains an advantage over an opponent.
What is X ?
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• X—Gamesmanship
9. When leaving McLaren at the end of 1993, X
had said: "If you think I'm fast, just wait until
you see my nephew Y"
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• X—Aryton Senna
• Y—Bruno Senna
10. Id these former rivals
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• Joe Louis and Max Schmeling
11. Connect and who is next ?
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12. The origins of X are uncertain, although sources suggest that
the game is of Bangladesh, Indian, Portuguese colonial,
or Burmese origin. Variations of the game played with a cue
stick similar to those used in billiards-type games may have
independently developed in several cases
There is X-like game also played with cues in China. Games
similar to X appear all over Asia, for example vindi
vindi in Fiji and szhe szhe in Israel. Some variants make use of
discarded objects instead of fashioned playing pieces; bottle
caps are used for games similar to X in both Mexico and Java .
Various North American and European games bear a
resemblance to (and may be related to) X
including crokinole, pitchnut, pichenotte and novuss
According to the International X Federation , the world X
champion recognized in 2003 is Indian Wasif Osmani. Gimme X
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#13. Heading of the The Morning Post written by Y(1925)
 "The Scapegoat of Cricket". He wrote, Poor old X! It has been
subjected to ridicule, abuse, contempt, incredulity, and survived
them all. Deficiencies existing at the present day are attributed to
the influence of the X. If the standard of bowling falls off it is
because too many cricketers devote their time to trying to master
it... it is said that the X has made it impossible for them to attempt
the old aggressive attitude and make the scoring strokes…
As to the birth of the X,Y wrote: Somewhere about the year 1897
I was playing a game with a tennis ball, known as `Twisti-Twosti.'
The object was to bounce the ball on a table so that your opponent
sitting opposite could not catch it... After a little experimenting I
managed to pitch the ball which broke in a certain direction; then
with more or less the same delivery make the next ball go in the
opposite direction! I practised the same thing with a soft ball at
`Stump-cricket.' From this I progressed to the cricket ball…
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• X—Googly
• Y—Bernard Bosanquet
14. As a teenager making his Grand Slam debut at the 2002
Wimbledon Championships, he defeated 7th-seeded Roger
Federer. This win also made him the last player to defeat Federer
at Wimbledon (until Rafael Nadal) and on grass courts; and
during the years, he was known as the last man to beat Federer,
until Nadal's victory over Federer in the 2008 Wimbledon
Championships finals. His best performance at Grand Slams came
at the 2004 Wimbledon Championships, when he reached the
semifinals. Due to his success at Wimbledon and grass courts,
many saw in X a successor of Goran Ivanišević, the 2001
Wimbledon Champion and a former No. 2 in singles, earning a
nickname New Goran and Baby Goran

X helped Croatia to win the 2005 Davis Cup and at theAthens

Olympic Games in 2004, he and Ivan Ljubičić won a bronze medal
in doubles for Croatia.
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• X—Mario Ancic
15. Identify both trophy and dude…
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• Trophy—Stanley cup
• Dude—Wayne Gretsky
16. X is a very famous sportsman . He won the
gold medal at rome in 1960. He was so happy
he wore the medal for 2 days
straight.  However when he was refused
entrance into an all whites restaurant,he got
angry and threw his medal in the ohio river.
However later the US basketball team gave
him one of their gold medals from 1996-
Atlanta  as a replacement
 Id X
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#17. X, who felt the newspapers of the day reported ‘unfairly’, tried to
get Siegfried Mischner and his journalist colleagues to change the
accepted version of history in the 1960s. Mischner claimed X
showed him a photograph that he carried around in his wallet.

Of the photo, Mischner says, “It was taken behind the honour stand
and so not captured by the world's press. But I saw it, .....” However
Mischner and the other journalists didn't report the photograph,
and of this Mischner said, "X was disappointed. He shook his head
disapprovingly."

"The press then was very obedient. I can make no excuses, but no
one wanted to be the one to make Y the monster look good. All my
colleagues are dead, X is dead. I thought this was the last chance to
set the record straight," Mischner added.

What’s being spoken about?

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• Adolf Hitler shaking jesse owens’ hand after
winning
18. Connect
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• West Ham youth academy
19. Abdul Khaliq is a Pakistani sprinter who was dubbed “the
fastest man in Asia” when he ran the 100 m race in a new
Asian record of 10.6 seconds at the 1954 Asian Games in
Manila. In the first Indo-Pakistan Athletics Meet held in New
Delhi (1956), Khaliq completed a sprint double in the 100
and 200 m events, creating new Asian records. He
proceeded to reach the semifinals of the 100 m event in
Melbourne the same year. 2 years later, he won the gold
medal in Tokyo at the Asian Games in 100 m.

However, we remember him for a race in Pakistan in 1962

watched over by the then Pakistani President General Ayub
Khan. Abdul Khaliq finished 2nd in this race.

What resulted from this race?

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• Milkha Singh was called “the flying sikh” by
Ayub khan
20.In his short career, Duncan Edwards
amassed 177 club appearances and 18
caps for country. The origin of X lies in
the song intended to insult Duncan
Edwards.

West Brom fans started this: "Duncan

Edwards is ______, rotting in his grave,
man you are ______- rotting in your
grave".

There was a brawl up on the old

Scoreboard End in 1964-65 season when
the West Bromwich Albion fans sang. A
big battle took place with the home fans
that outnumbered the visiting ones and
hammered them. Liverpool and Leeds
fans copied this with their own versions.
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• Origin of MANU as an insult to Manchester United
21. Incident???
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• Shreeshanth dancing after scoring a six on
Andre Nel’s bowling
22. Video..Identify singer
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• Jacques Villeneuve
#23. Connect
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Scoring
1. Par in golf
2. Condor(Four strokes under par )
3. Ostrich(five strokes under par)
4. Albatross(three strokes under par)
5. Birdie(one strokes under par)
6. Eagle(two strokes under par)
7. Bogie(one stroke over par)
8. Double Bogie(two stroke over par)