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QUESTION
If the cricketers Anthony Allom, Paul Dunkels and Will Jefferson were amongst the
contenders to this ‘lofty’ record, who currently holds it?

ANSWER
Mohammad Irfan – Tallest ever cricketer

QUESTION
Play video of Marchant de Lange Bowling
Video of Rory Delap throw in

ANSWER
Javelin throwers at the school level – helped them develop their distinctive styles

QUESTION
This basketballer was nicknamed X by his friends, because he had to bend his head
whenever he had to walk through doorways.
When he bought a sprawling estate in the ultra-elite Bel-air neighbourhood in California,
he named it Y , as a nod to his nickname X.
X and Y?

ANSWER
X = Big Dipper (Nickname of Wilt Chamberlain)
Y= Ursa Major

QUESTION
Identify the cricketer in the picture.
He was one of the earliest proponents of a shot that we see so often in T20 cricket
nowadays.

QUESTION
Douglas Marillier of Zimbabwe
Scoop shot

QUESTION
These two are the only exceptions to a rule with respect to awarding the ‘Wisden cricketer
of the year” award. ID and what rule.

ANSWER
Pelham Warner and Jack Hobbs – Only two cricketers to have received the honour twice

QUESTION
List it – Need to use an updated screenshot

ANSWER
List it – Top batting averages ever in test cricket

QUESTION
Lignum vitae (literally “Tree of life” in Latin) is a trade wood, also called guayacan or
guaiacum.
This wood was once very important for applications requiring a material with its
extraordinary combination of strength, toughness and density.
It is also the national tree of the Bahamas and the Jamaican national flower.
For what specific purpose is this wood put to use in cricket?

ANSWER
Making heavy bails which are put to use in windy conditions

QUESTION
This condition, which is most common among boxers, wrestlers, mixed martial artists and
forwards in rugby union, occurs when the external portion of the ear suffers repeated
blows, resulting in blood clots.
As a result, the outer ear becomes permanently swollen and deformed, resembling a
_____________.
What is the common name of this condition? (________________ ear)

QUESTION
This Scottish sport involves the hurling of X as far as possible for distance and accuracy
from atop a platform (usually a whisky barrel). X must be edible after landing
A split or burst X is immediately disqualified, as X must be fit to eat after landing. The
sport requires subtle technique rather than brute force, as the hurl must result in a gentle
landing.
The present World Record was set at 217 feet by Lorne Coltart at the Milngavie Highland
Games on 11 June 2011,beating Allan Pettigrew's 180 feet record which had stood for over
twenty years. However, the Australian cricket player Tom Moody was purported to have
thrown over 230 feet in 1989.
ID the sport.

QUESTION
Who was the 1986 Australian Open Men’s Tennis Champion?

ANSWER
Nobody – Championships were not held in that year, as dates were changed

QUESTION
To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the first tied test, the then Australian Cricket
Board named individual trophies for the 2000-01 test series between Australia and West
Indies, after people who played a significant role in the tied game.
The trophies were :-
1. Batsman of the series
2. Bowler of the series
3. Fielder of the series
4. The outstanding performance of the series
Who were these named after?

ANSWER
1. Batsman of the series – Sir Garfield Sobers
2. Bowler of the series – Alan Davidson
3. Fielder of the series – Joe Solomon
4. The outstanding performance of the series – Norman O’Neill

QUESTION
Why does the Cricket Association of Bengal organize a blood donation drive on February
3rd every year?

ANSWER
To commemorate Frank Worrell donating blood to Nari Contractor, after Contractor was
hit in the head by a Charlie Griffith bouncer

QUESTION
Funda – Tsonga vs Raonic 2012 – Longest Olympic set
Federer vs Del Potro 2012 Olympics – longest three setter match ever in history

QUESTION
Funda – Wladimir Klitschko, one of Ukraine’s first ever summer Olympics gold medallist.
Sold his gold medal for a million dollars
Oksana Baiul – independent Ukraine’s first ever gold medallist in 1994 – Lillehammer
winter games

QUESTION
Funda – Javed Burki, Majid Khan – Two first cousins of Imran Khan also to captain
Pakistan in international cricket

QUESTION
Funda – Harry Hopman’s wife Nell Hall Hopman. Helped institute Fed cup.
Nell Hall was previously Harry’s mixed doubles partner – they won a few grand slams
together
Wightman Cup can also be linked to this question

QUESTION
Funda – Jaroslav Drobny – Ice Hockey player (like Ion Tiriac) for Czechoslovakia and also a
former World No. 1. Left Czech to become Egyptian citizen. Till date only player to win
Wimbledon with African citizenship

QUESTION
Funda – Manuka Oval (name funda) in Canberra – hosts the annual PM XI game where
team is selected by Aussie PM
In 1962–63 Sir Donald Bradman came out of retirement to play for the Prime Minister's XI
against the MCC, it was the last time he ever played cricket and he was freakishly bowled
by Brian Statham for 4, when he returned to the pavilion he told Robert Menzies "It
wouldn't happen in a thousand years. Anyway that's my final appearance at the wicket."

QUESTION
Funda – Day night test match cricket – 1997 Ranji Trophy final between Delhi and Mumbai
held in Gwalior’s Roop Singh stadium was a day night game. Experiment by BCCI

QUESTION
Funda – Spanish paralympics Basketball team – 2000cheats. Huge controversy

QUESTION
Funda – Luke Pomersbach – international debut – was in a car park

QUESTION
Funda – Sarah Taylor playing mixed cricket (with Men)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/9803115/Why-male-cricketers-will-thwart-
Sarah-Taylors-sporting-dream.html

QUESTION
Funda – British Open golf used to hand out a belt before the Claret jug came into being

QUESTION
Funda – Battle of the saints – school cricket rivalry in Sri Lanka
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Saints_(cricket)

QUESTION
Funda – Video – Tim Cahill goal celebration a tribute to Brett Lee (similar fist pumping)

QUESTION
Funda – Spartathlon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartathlon
Related Yianni Kouros
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiannis_Kouros

QUESTION
Funda – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinderella_story
American sports term

QUESTION
Funda – http://mentalfloss.com/article/31279/13-medal-worthy-olympic-stories
Like the last one – Japanese friendship

QUESTION
Funda – Bradman’s only test wickets

QUESTION
Funda – Athletes who won the medals because Jim Thorpe was disqualified

QUESTION
Funda – Bobsled - The name of the sport appeared when competitors adopted the technique of
bobbing back and forth inside the sled to increase its speed
Related – Primary difference between skeleton and luge (one is head first and the other is leg
first)
Related –Women banned from Cresta sled track – because of a belief that excessive sledding
caused breast cancer

QUESTION
Funda – List of people – most test runs scored without hitting a 6. Jonathan Trott holds the
record now I think

QUESTION
Funda – Jim Laker took a 10 for Surrey against Aussies before repeating in test cricket
Laker was the first individual to take all 10 wickets in a Test match innings, ten for 53 in
the Australians' second innings of the fourth Ashes Test at Old Trafford in 1956 (the only
other bowler to take all 10 wickets is Anil Kumble of India in 1999). Having also taken
nine for 37 in the first innings, Laker's match bowling figures were nineteen for 90: no
other bowler has taken more than seventeen wickets in a first-class match.[2] Laker was
married to an Austrian national who did not know much about cricket. On the day of his
achievement when he arrived home, his wife asked him, "Jim, did you do something good
today?" after she had taken hundreds of congratulatory telephone calls.[3] Remarkably,
Laker had also taken all ten wickets in an innings for Surrey against the same Australians
earlier in the season, the first time a bowler had taken all ten against the Australians since
Ted Barratt did so in 1878.[4]

QUESTION
Funda – Malcom Nash
Nash is best known for being the unfortunate victim of Garry Sobers' six sixes in as many balls on
31 August 1968 while bowling slow left-arm.[1]The ball was sold by Christie's the auctioneers for
£26,400 in November 2006[2] (even though there is some doubt as to whether it was
actuallythe ball concerned). He was also hit for five sixes and a four by Lancashire batsman Frank
Hayes.[3]
Malcolm Nash was pre-eminently a highly skilful manipulator of medium-pace seam
bowling. A thoughtful and sensitive cricketer, he, too, helped out as captain for a couple of
difficult seasons, though from a sense of duty rather than real enthusiasm for the post. It
appealed to his astute cricket brain but not to his essentially amiable personality. He was
never a bowler to settle for the slavishly defensive; but sought to attack and to outwit
opposing batsmen. He is, as he ruefully accepts, best known for being hit for six sixes in a
six-ball over by Garfield Sobers in 1968; and secondly for five sixes and a four, by Frank
Hayes of Lancashire. It is less often remembered that he himself once hit four consecutive
balls from Dennis Breakwell of Somerset for six. That memory is some balm for him. In 17
seasons he scored 7129 runs and held 148 catches but, most important, he took 993
wickets without, however, taking a hundred in any season.

QUESTION
Funda – Chariots of fire centenary 2024 – Paris wants to bid for Olympics

QUESTION
Funda – Navy SEALs want to recruit water polo players given their prowess in water

QUESTION
Funda – Johnny Weismuller also won a medal in water polo
Related – Edwin Flack – Australia’s first olympian, medallist won medals in running and
tennis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Flack

QUESTION
Funda – Unique double of winning medals in long jump and triple jump (Men’s)
First in 1936 – Naoto Tajima – Bronze (Owens Gold and Long Silver in long jump – see
photo). Tajima won gold in Triple Jump.
Will Claye became first man since Tajima to achieve the double in 2012

QUESTION
Funda – Eggbeater kick – standard kick in water polo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggbeater_kick

QUESTION
Funda – Boosting – doping in paralympics, where blood pressure is artificially raised
Boosting is a method of inducing autonomic dysreflexia with the intention of enhancing
performance in sport. It can be used by an athlete with a spinal cord injury to increase
their blood pressure and is performed by causing a painful stimulus in the lower part of
the body. The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) banned the practice in 1994, but
many competitors with spinal injuries are still thought to be using it as a performance
enhancer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boosting_(doping)

QUESTION
Funda – Deaflympics
The Deaflympics are held every 4 years, and are the longest running multi-sport event excluding the Olympics
themselves.[2] The first games, held in Paris in 1924, were also the first ever international sporting event for athletes
with a disability.[3] The event has been held every four years since, apart from a break for World War II, and an
additional event, the Deaflympic Winter Games, was added in 1949.[4] The games began as a small gathering of 148
athletes from nine European nations competing in the International Silent Games in Paris, France, in 1924; now, they
have grown into a global movement.[1]
Officially, the games were originally called the "International Games for the Deaf" from 1924 to 1965, but were
sometimes referred to as the "International Silent Games". From 1966 to 1999 they were called the "World Games for the
Deaf", and occasionally referred to as the "World Silent Games". From 2000, the games have been known by their current
name "Deaflympics" (often mistakenly called the "Deaf Olympics").[4]
To qualify for the games, athletes must have a hearing loss of at least 55 db in their "better ear". Hearing aids, cochlear
implants and the like are not allowed to be used in competition, to place all athletes on the same level.[4] Other
examples of ways the games vary from hearing competitions are the manner in which they are officiated. To address the
issue of Deaflympians not being able to be guided by sounds, certain sports use alternative methods of commencing the
game. For example, the football referees wave a flag instead of blowing a whistle; on the track, races are started by using
a light, instead of a starter pistol. It is also customary for spectators not to cheer or clap, but rather to wave – usually with
both hands.

QUESTION
Funda – Second guessing – term origin from baseball
The same back route was taken by the phrase 'second-guess'. The umpire in a baseball
game used to be called, rather unkindly, 'the guesser'. People who were continually telling
the guesser, the manager or the players what they were doing wrong were known as
'secondguessers' and were so defined in the Sporting News Record Book, 1937:
Secondguesser, one who is continually criticizing moves of players and manager.

QUESTION
Funda – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarahumara_people
This American tribe is known for their long distance running

QUESTION
Funda –Omar Sharif, the actor, was ranked amongst the best bridge players in the world
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Sharif#Contract_bridge_career
Related note – Sachin Tendulkar’s father-in-law is a national bridge champion

QUESTION
Funda – Bugboy – term origin
An apprentice jockey is known as a "bug boy" because the asterisk that follows the name
in the program looks like a bug

QUESTION
Funda – John Sparling 11 ball over
Trivia
At Auckland in the New Zealand v England Test match in February 1963, Sparling bowled
an 11-ball over when the umpire, Dick Shortt, lost count of the number of balls he had
bowled

QUESTION
Funda – Thomas N’Kono
Italian legend Gianluigi Buffon, also a goalkeeper, declared he decided to play in that
position after seeing N'Kono's performances at the 1990 World Cup. In addition, he named
his son Thomas in the Cameroonian's honour.[9]

QUESTION
Funda – Triple Tiara for fillies on the lines of Triple crown

QUESTION
Funda – Galatasaray
The name Galatasaray comes from that of Galatasaray High School, which in turn takes its
name from Galata Sarayı Enderûn-u Hümâyûn (Galata Palace Imperial School), the name
of the original school founded on the site in 1481, and which in turn took its name from
the nearby medieval Genoese citadel of Galata. Galatasaray translates directly as 'Galata
Palace'.

QUESTION
Funda – Bradman 299* and Hanif 499 runout
Both resulted from runouts. Can put fundae about non strikers

QUESTION
Funda – CB Fry
Fry's achievements on the sporting field included representing England at both cricket
and football, an F.A. Cup Final appearance for Southampton F.C. and equaling the then-world
record for the long jump. He also reputedly turned down the throne of Albania

QUESTION
Funda – 3Ws played together for the first time in the same test that Andy Ganteaume made
his debut and scored a century

QUESTION
Funda – Broomstick putter golf controversy

QUESTION
Funda – Tom Maynard memorial match – between Surrey and Glamorgan (the two
counties he played for)

QUESTION
Funda – Hot air ballooning
Champagne
A common tradition among balloonists is to have a champagne toast upon landing. Legend
has it that early French aeronauts carried champagne to appease angry or frightened
spectators at the landing site.[12] A champagne toast is now often included in commercial
sight-seeing flights.[5]

QUESTION
Funda – Interesting facts about Wisden. 20 facts on cricinfo. Check out!
http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/243912.html

QUESTION
Funda – Buck Divecha of Divecha stand fame in Wankhede
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Divecha

QUESTION
Funda – Christmas tree – Drag Racing
The starting lights are called a christmas tree

QUESTION
Funda – Bjorn Borg Premjit Lall longest tie breaker in history equalled later (20-18)

QUESTION
Funda – Nalbandian beat Fed Nad and Djok in the same tournament in 2007

QUESTION
Funda – Babe Didrickson – unique half gold half silver medal

QUESTION
Funda – SA vs England – match had to stop because the English would miss their return
boat otherwise

QUESTION
Funda – Plumb lbw – term origin – Plumb line
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumb_line

QUESTION
Funda – Ross Norman – squash player ended Jahangir Khan’s record

QUESTION
Funda – Gunder Hagg – held the mile record till Roger Bannister broke it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunder_Hagg

QUESTION
Funda – Jarmila Kratochvilova – longest standing world record – women’s 800 m
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarmila_Kratochv%C3%ADlov%C3%A1

QUESTION
Funda – Bjorn Daehlie – most successful winter olympic champion of all time

QUESTION
Funda – Gridiron football term origin
From Gridiron
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gridiron_(cooking)
Related – Pigskin term origin

QUESTION
Funda – Wimbledon Court no. 2 graveyard of champions

QUESTION
Funda – Lance Allread – first legally deaf player in NBA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance_Allred

QUESTION
Funda – Barbados cricket buckle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbados_Cricket_Buckle

QUESTION
Funda – John Hastings – nicknamed the duke because his full name is John Wayne Hastings
(after John Wayne’s role)

QUESTION
Funda – St. Lawrence cricket ground Kent
Only four cricketers have cleared the tree to score a six: Arthur 'Jacko' Watson of Sussex in
1925, the West Indies' Learie Constantine (1928), Middlesex's Jim Smith (1939), and Carl
Hooper (1992).

QUESTION
Funda – Eden Gardens – the park from which the ground gets its name

QUESTION
Funda – Andy Murray survived the Dunblane massacre

QUESTION
Funda – Manipuri Pony – used for Polo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manipuri_pony

QUESTION
Funda – Bill Fergusson – creator of the cricket wagon wheel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ferguson_(cricket_scorer)

QUESTION
Funda – TCQ – Bhausaheb Nimbalkar highest ranji score – 443*
Match was ended because opposition did not want to be party to highestever first class
score (held by DG Bradman – 452)

QUESTION
Funda – Bill Ponsford - Top scorer in highest first class scores – two quadruple centuries
To his credit
Related – List of quadruple centurions

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