SPORTS QUIZING AT HIS BEST................................

DD PODIHIGAI BSNL SPORTS QUIZ (09/08/2008)

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DD PODIHIGAI BSNL SPORTS QUIZ (10/05/2008)

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ANS-Jaswant Singh

QUIZ

2008-05-09T05:58:00.000-07:00

1. identify the sports person in pictures who is recently named NBA rookie of the year.

Ans- Kevin Durant

2.This trophy is awarded annually to the National Hockey League (NHL) champion, is the most coveted ice hockey club championship trophy in the world. It is commonly referred to as The Cup, The Holy Grail.identify it????

Ans-Stanley Cup

3.who won the National Basketball Association Most Valuable Player Award for the year 2008.

Ans Kobe Bryant

4.Born in February 17, 1963 is a retired American professional basketball player and active businessman. His biography on the National Basketball Association (NBA) website states, "By acclamation”. his individual accolades and accomplishments include five MVP awards, ten All-NBA First Team designations, nine All-Defensive First Team honors, fourteen NBA All-Star Game appearances and three All-Star MVP, ten scoring titles, three steals titles, six NBA Finals MVP awards, and the 1988 NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award. He holds the NBA record for highest career regular season scoring average with 30.1 points per game, as well as averaging a record 33.4 points per game in the playoffs. In 1999, he was named the greatest North American athlete of the 20th century by ESPN, and was second to Babe Ruth on the Associated Press's list of athletes of the century. He will be eligible for induction into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2009.who is this great sportsperson.
Ans-Micheal Jordan

5.identify this jamaican sprinter who won the 100 meter race recently in 9.76 seconds.

Ans-Usain Bolt

6.who won the world polo championship held at mexico.

Ans-Chile

7.what is most commonly known as venus rosewater dish???

Ans-Winbledon ladies single trophy.

8.identify the footballer in the picture?
Ans-Hankan Sukur

9. the leading money-winner in the history of the LPGA, announced her retirement from game after the 2008 season.

Ans-Annika Sörenstam

10.Identify the football stadium that has been chosen by UEFA to host the 2008 UEFA Champions League Final between Manchester United and Chelsea on Wednesday May 21^st

Ans- The Luzhniki Stadium,Moscow

11.What is the connection point between this EPL football club Reading, Birmingham City & Derby County .

Ans-they are the relegated team for next EPL.

DD PODHIGAI BSNL SPORTS QUIZ (19.04.2008)

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DD PODHIGAI BSNL SPORTS QUIZ (12.04.2008)

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DD PODHIGAI BSNL SPORTS QUIZ (05/04/2008)

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DD PODHIGAI BSNL SPORTS QUIZ(29/03/2008)

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countdown to beijing olympics

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1.The five Olympic rings were designed in 1913, adopted in 1914 and debuted at the which olympic games.

Games at Antwerp, 1920.

2.Born in Paris into an aristocratic family, the third child of Charles Louis de Frédy and Agathe-Gabrielle de Mirville, he was inspired by his visits to British and American colleges and universities, and set out to improve education in France. He believed that part of this improvement should be sports education, which he considered to be an important part of the personal development of young people. He was particularly fond of rugby and was the referee of the first ever French championship rugby union final on 20 March 1892 between Racing Club de France and Stade Français.he also established the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for the revival of the olympic games.identify him????

Ans-Pierre de Coubertin

3.who was the first Olympic athlete to test positive for doping use at 1968 Summer Olympics, who lost his bronze medal for alcohol use.

Ans-Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall, a Swedish pentathlete .

4.Eleven members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage by Palestinian terrorist in which olympic games.

Ans-In 1972, when the Summer Games were held in Munich, West Germany

5.identify this athlete who is the only competitor with ten modern Olympic titles, but two of them are from the 1906 Intercalated Games, which are presently not included in the official records??? Ans-Ray Ewry

6.this is the result related to ?????
Round 1 Round2

Beijing 44 56
Toronto 20 22

Paris 15 18
Istanbul 17 09
osaka 6 -
Ans-2008 Summer Olympics bidding results

DD PODHIGAI BSNL SPORTS QUIZ (15/03/2008)

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DD PODHIGAI BSNL SPORTS QUIZ (09/03/2008) THIS QUIZ SERIES WAS A SPECIAL EDITION ON WORLD WOMEN'S DAY

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DD PODHIGAI BSNL SPORTS QUIZ (16/02/2008)

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Ans to this carry over question is Odafe Onyeka Okolie

Questions from recent sports happenings

2008-02-13T21:25:00.000-08:00

1. identify this world famous jockey?

Ans-Frankie Dettori

2.Who Am I?

Ans-Peter moores (england cricket team coach)

3. Identify this cyclist who will not participate in this year tour de France?

Ans-Astana

4. Identify this young and talented spin bowler who is in india to play in Duleep trophy for england lions.

Ans-Adil Rashid

5. He is going to retire after England Series in his home soil ?

Ans-Stephen Fleming

6. identify this black English rugby player in the picture ?

Ans-Paul Sackey

7. who F-1 rookie recently racially abused in Spain?

Ans-Lewis Hamilton.

8. Who will be testing with British Formula Three team T-Sport .

Ans- Shaikh Salman bin Rashid Al khalifa.

9. ICC U-19 2008 world cup is under progress in which country.

Ans-Malaysia.

DD PODHIGAI BSNL SPORTS QUIZ (02/02/2008)

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BOURNVITA QUIZ CONTEST 27/01/2008

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1. Rugby school
2. The Simpsons
3. India and Srilanka
4. Sir Winston Churchill
5. 100 dollar note
6. The banyan tree
7. Jahangir
8. Param veer chakra
9. Lion
10. kaalia
11. pullela gopichand
12. Arizona
13. Susmita sen
14. Lake
15. Mahi
16. Hippopotamus

DD PODHIGAI BSNL SPORTS QUIZ (26/01/2008)

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BOURNVITA QUIZ CONTEST 20/01/2008

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ANSWERS

1. Leander paes
2. Kidney
3. Kiren bedi
4. Lake Baikal
5. Kolkata
6. Andes
7. One Rupee
8. Two
9. Golden snitch
10. Qutab ud din Aibak

BOURNVITA QUIZ CONTEST 6/1/2008

2008-01-22T23:17:00.000-08:00

ANSWERS-

1. Lodge.
2. Chicken Tikka Masala.
3. Tsangpo.
4. Master of Business Administration.
5. A tale of two cities.
6. Dennis the Menace.
7. Appetizers/starter.
8. Australia.
9. Dinars
10. Temperature.
11. Peace

DD PODHIGAI BSNL SPORTS QUIZ (19/01/2008)

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DD PODHIGAI BSNL SPORTS QUIZ (12/01/2008)

2008-01-13T09:18:00.000-08:00

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Ans- Bangladesh opening batsmen Shahriar Hafees

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DD PODHIGAI BSNL SPORTS QUIZ

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Ans-Ian chappell

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COUNT DOWN TO BEIJING OLYMPICS 2008

2008-01-10T04:34:00.000-08:00

1.how many number of countries participated in 2004 Athens Olympics???
2.who won the first gold medal for the United Arab Emirates????
3.first woman from Thailand to earn a gold medal,when she won the 75kg category weightlifting event.
4. who won the Greece's first-ever gold medal in judo ???
5.which single country swept away the medals in the 3,000m steeplechase event ??
6.Beijing Olympics will host how many Games programme ???
7. Identify this Olympics games emblems ????

8. identify this athlete who is hero of Beijing Olympics games music video ??? 9.Identify the logo of the organization???? 10.identify the mascot for Beijing 2008 Olympics. 11. identify this stadium bulid for Beijing Olympic Games 2008 ????

12.identify this venue????

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1.204
2.double trap shooter Ahmed Almaktoum
3.Weightlifter Pawina Thongsuk
4.lias Iliadis
5. Kenya Ezekiel Kemboi taking the gold, Brimin Kipruto the silver and Paul K. Koech the bronze.
6.35 sports and nearly 400 events.
7.Barcelona 1992, Atlanta 1996, Athens 2004
8.John Stephen Akhwari,"a hero from the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City"
9. International Paralympic committee.
10.Fuwa "Each of Fuwa has a rhyming two-syllable name -- a traditional way of expressing affection for children in China. Beibei is the Fish, Jingjing is the Panda, Huanhuan is the Olympic Flame, Yingying is the Tibetan Antelope and Nini is the Swallow"
11.National Stadium.Olympic Green,china
12.Beijing Basket Ball Gymnasium.

Aussies Mixed Quiz

2008-01-10T02:41:00.000-08:00

1.Australia first sent competitors to the Winter Olympics way back in 1936, but it was not until 2002 that they won their first gold medal. Who won that medal?

2. In the 2002 Soccer World Cup qualifying matches, who did Australia beat by a mammoth 31 to zero?

3. Which father and son jockeys both rode the Melbourne Cup winners twice each?

4. Which long-serving basketball coach retired in 2005, after coaching the Melbourne Tigers for 35 years?

5. Which Australian golfer won the Arnold Palmer Trophy for the leading money-winner on the US Tour three times, in 1986, 1990 and 1995?

6. Which of the cricketing Chappell brothers is the oldest?

7. In 1979, the fifth Netball World Championship was held in Trinidad and Tobago. Because of the way the tournament was set up, there were no provisions to split a dead-heat, and three teams finished with eight of nine wins. One of these teams was Australia, but who were the other two?

8. The Gold Coast were a short-lived Rugby League team that only existed from 1988 to 1998, but during that time they were known by three nicknames. What were these names?

9. Because the majority of the Australian population lives within about 300 kms of an ocean, surf sports are a part of life here. Who won a record six Australian Open Ironman titles between 1987 and 1994?

10. Roger Bannister was the first person to run a sub-four-minute mile, in 1954, but an Australian was the second person to break the barrier. Who was he?

ANSWER

1.Steven Bradbury.
2.American Samoa.
3. Billy and Peter Cook.
4.Lindsay Gaze.
5.Greg Norman.
6.Ian.
7. New Zealand and Trinidad and Tobago.
8.Giants, Seagulls, Chargers.
9.Trevor Hendy..
10.John Landy.

2008-01-07T23:44:00.000-08:00

1.identify this para olympic sprinter who has applied for Beijing Olympics 2008.

Ans-Oscar Pistorius

2.Martina Hingis has been handed over 2 years ban for what reasons recently.

Ans- Due to failing doping test.

3.who won the Chennai open tennis tournament this year.

Ans-Mikhail Youzhny

4.Who am I.

Ans-Lleyton Hewitt

5.identify this new england foreign coach.

Ans- Fabio Capello.

6.2012 Olympics will be held at????

Ans-England.

2008-01-04T20:31:00.000-08:00

1. Who Olympic 100 meters champion recently has been banned for four years.

Ans- Justin Gatlin

2. Which team won the men’s and women’s national volleyball tournament held at Jaipur.

Ans- in men’s Haryana and in women’s Kerala team.

3. Which kiwi bowler is all set to join the rebellion cricket league ICL?

Ans- Shane Bond.

4. Pakistan batsmen Imran Farhat and Taufiq Umar were in news for?

Ans- both moved court against Pakistan Cricket Board’s decision to stop them from playing domestic cricket.

5. Fernando Alonso is all set to drive this year F1 with which team.

Ans- Renault

6. JP Associates has been signed on to build something for the first time in India in Greater Noida. What's it?

Ans-F1 racing track.

7. what is the connection point between this two pictures?

Ans- laxmi nivas mittal purchased 20% stack in this club.

8. Identify this trophy in picture.

Ans- Champions trophy recently won by AC Milan.

9.what is connection point to this pictures.

Ans- Brazilian kaka Argentine Messi and Portuguese Ronaldo picked up the first second and third postion award for the FIFA player of the year.

2007-12-31T21:58:00.000-08:00

1.In which city of India National volleyball championship is held

Ans-Jaipur

2.51st National shooting championship recently held at.

Ans-AHMEDABAD

3.Vettori claimed career-best figures of five for seven in a ODI match against which team recently.

Ans-Bangladesh

4.identify this tennis player who is a defending champion of Chennai Open tennis tournament.

Ans- Xavier Malisse

5.which indian batsmen was in news for his attitude problem.

Ans-Yuvraj Singh

6. which South African batsmen has been called up the test series Against West Indies after a three-and-a-half year exile from Test cricket.
Ans- Neil McKenzie, 32,

7.what is the connection point between Jack Kallis and Sri Lankan Mahela Jayawardene

Ans-both Scored five century in test cricket in year 2007.

8. what is the connection point between Sri Lankan Kumara Sangakkara and England's Kevin Pietersen.
Ans-both scored four century in test cricket in year 2007

9. Who has been roped in for brand promotion of force India formula one team.

Ans-Shah Rukh Khan

10. what does F1 means in formula one racing.

Ans- F means one formula for all car and 1 means number one racing tournament

11.What is connection point between this two logos.

Ans-Cricinfo is part of ESPN company which was recently acquired.

12.who scored 50 runs of 19 balls ,the second fastest half century recently against bangladesh.

Ans-Brendon McCullum

13.Maximum balls spare on wining a cricket match.

Ans-277 balls when England beat canada.