Wednesday, February 8, 2012

SPORTS QNS


1)Karsten ________ was born in Austrheim north of Bergen, Norway. His father was a shoemaker, and the family emigrated to Seattle in the United States. He became an engineer and founded Karsten manufacturing. He applied  scientific principles to the design of a type of sports instrument, which  had previously been based largely on trial and error and was also instrumental in starting something in 1990. What?
2)The British Chess Player John Cochrane played almost 450 games with Moheshchunder Bannerjee from 1848 to 1860 in Kolkata. Bannerjee was a very strong player, although he couldn’t excel at modern European chess. What is his most significant legacy to the Chess World?
3)Hormasji Dorabji __________ played cricket for the Parsees from 1900 – 1922. He later became the President of the Mumbai Cricket Association from 1930 – 1934 and again from 1943 till his death in 1946. After his death, the association decided to commemorate him a special way. What did they do?
4)The stadium in Kaiserslautern is named after a guy who played all his life for the club and also captained his country to it’s first World Cup win. Who is it named after?
5)X is depicted, but not named, by Vladimir Nabokov in his novel Lolita. He appears as a has-been tennis champion with “a harem of ball boys”, whom Humbert Humbert hires to coach Lolita, knowing that he will not try to seduce her due to his homosexuality.
6)Chap represented Karachi as well as Pak Crescent Club (famous for producing Zaheer Abbas.)He is eldest of three brothers. His younger brother , Raheel , is a Professional First Class Cricketer .He decided to go into the sport he is now famous for because of his uncle. Who is this guy?
7)On 1st May , 1971 , the day after the Milwaukee Bucks won the NBA championship , the Arabic term for ” generous, servant of the all-powerful” became an household name. What is this Arabic term?
8)What is common to Brad Klegg (Golf , 2008) , Michael Simmons(Football 1995) and Shiv Kumar Thind (cricket , 1997)?
9)If Paavo Nurmi was the ‘Flying Finn’ , who was the ‘Flying housewife” ?
10)This chap started racing quite late . He initially started with snowmobiles and finally ventured into Formula one.
Described as ‘the craziest devil I ever came across’ by Niki Lauda , this chap was one of the most talented drivers to ever drive an F1 car.
Who?
1) Solheim,Putter,PING Golf
2)The Indian Defence
3)Kanga League
4)Fritz Walter
5)Bill Tilden
6)Sohail Abbas
7)Kareem- Abdul Jabbar
8)All of them have been assaulted by sportspersons
9)Fanny Blankers-Koen
10)Gilles Villeueve

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