This was the sports quiz conducted by MinD PalacE at L.D.College of engineering Ahmedabad. The cut off was about 8.

1. The Sports Quiz
L.D.COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
AHMEDABAD

2.  This quiz is made by Srikant Nair, Abhishek
Parmar and PreethaVijayan from team MinD
PalacE.
 From 3 QMs; One is die-hard fan of FC
Barcelona ( Abhishek), one is huge fan of
Liverpool FC ( Srikant)& another one is a
GIRL( Preetha). LOL!!!!

3.  This round contains 20 questions
 +1 for every correct answer
 No part points & no negative markings
 Question no. 5, 10, 15 & 20 are star marked
(*) questions
 In case of tie; * questions will be considered
as tie breakers
 Final decision will be of QM

7. This Indian athlete is
making the Headlines
once again. She is
currently
World no.2 in her sport
and going towards
achieving the numero
Uno Status in her
sport.
She recently won
Silver at the 10-metre
air pistol event at the
ISSF world cup.

9.  _________________
 Sergey Karjakin
 Vladimir Kramnik
 Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
 Dmitry Andreikin
 LevonAronian
 Peter Svidler
 VeselinTopalov

11.  He was banned in
December 2005, he was
once again banned, this
time after it was revealed
that he had tested
positive for the use of
the cardiac stimulant:
etilefrine.The suspension
was for 8 years, the
longest in tennis history
at that time.

15.  X was sued by 4500 of it’s former players,
stating that X should compensate for huge
amount of concussions and brain diseases
that the players suffered from. Finally, the
players won the settlement and X has to pay
765 million over a period of 20 years.

17.  This teen sensation has appeared in an
episode of pretty little liars in march 2013. she
has 4 Olympic gold , 6 world championship
gold in her bag already. She also won a very
prestigious award recently.

19.  UAE won only one gold medal in the 2004
summer Olympic games in Athens. AhmedAl
Maktoum won that gold.

29.  This term, used particularly in association of
football, is named after a type of horse-race
which still run at Epsom Downs Racecourse in
England. From 1840s, this term has been
used as a noun in English to denote any kind
of sporting contest.The type of horse-race
was in turn named after Edward Smith-
Stanley, 12th Earl of _____, who inaugurated
the race in 1780.
 Id the term.

33.  X was asked by Rahul Gandhi if he was
interested to contest elections. "A couple of
weeks ago I had met Rahul Gandhi in a Mall in
Delhi and he asked me if I was interested in
fighting the upcoming elections. He told me that
more and more youngsters need to join politics
from all walks of life. He inspired me to take up
the challenge. I have just met him an hour ago
and he confirmed my candidature”. So now X is a
candidate of Phulpur which interestingly, is the
same constituency from which India’s first prime
minister, Jawaharlal Nehru got elected.

41.  X is the first person from the LGBT
community to win a gold medal in boxing in
Olympics. X also dashed Indian hopes for a
gold medal in boxing. X has also been
awarded the Member of the Most Excellent
Order of British Empire (MBE).

43.  Recently India was among four countries that tabled
an official bid for to host the tournament (for 2017)
along with South Africa, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan.
India edged past the rest, to win the right to host the
first major tournament on the nation's soil. As per the
bid, eight cities - New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata,
Bangalore, Margao, Kochi, Pune and Guwahati - are in
line to be the venues of the tournament. Being the
hosts, India will automatically qualify as one of the
participating nation in the tournament, and after their
unfortunate absence in 1950 tournament held in Brazil
even after been invited, this will be their first
appearance.

45.  In 1983, Pakistan had tour of India.The 2nd
ODI was going at Jaipur and India won over
Pakistan by 4 wickets with 32 balls remaining.
Although this is not having any impact on
historical moment of the sport but there was
something added first time in this match that
had changed the analyzing system of
bowlers.
 What was introduced to the sport and still in
it?

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