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- 3. Written Quiz 15 Qs 240 Points 2 Rounds I. Single Pointers: 1o Qs II. Double Pointers: 5 Qs
- 4. Single Pointers 10 Qs Each Question carry 10 points. Stake possible for a max. of 6 questions. Stake: +2/+5 with negs -2/-5 respectively. Maximum possible score = 130
- 5. Starting with a question from the first world cup. ID this Uruguayan player, who scored the winning goal in the 1930 World Cup final. His name is a combination of the Greek prince played by Eric Bana in the 2004 movieTroy, and the name of a revolutionary leader?
- 8. This country hosted theWC at a time they were not recovered from the devastating earthquakes. During this country’s WC bid, Carlos Dittborn, the president of their football federation coined the magnificent non sequitur, ‘We must have theWorld Cup because we have nothing’. Which country?
- 10. One of the interesting things about a certainWorld Cup was the emergence of an interesting formation 4-2-4, employed by the winning team, which had its heyday for another 3 editions.This formation helped them to score heavily in all games, including 5 in both Semi-finals and the Final. This formation had 4 forwards.Three of had nicknames “little bird”, “the professor”, “Peito de Aco (steel chest)”, and the 4th forward was someone who did not feature in the team until the last of his team’s group games. Which team?
- 12. One of the inevitable effect of this particular edition ofWorld Cup was a huge increase in the cost of preparation due to the medication required to cope up with the high altitude. It required at least 2-3 weeks for the players from sea levels to get acclimatized and adapted. However, the medical team could prove that once they settle in, they could play there best.This was also evident in the Olympics that happened in the same country 2 years prior, where the home country were easily beaten by France and Japan, and after all, the finals were played Hungary and Bulgaria. Which country?
- 14. Which dream shattering incident? OR who tweeted this sometime last month?
- 16. This “superstar”, a practicing Muslim, has both his brothers playing football, with one playing in the national team for Guinea, and the other currently playing for theTurkish clubGenclerbirligi. He captained his team to victory at the 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup and took home the award for the Best Player, after which he got the call to the national team on March 2013 against Georgia in the World cup qualifiers. Identify this player, who had a goal discredited afterVAR referral in this WC?
- 18. This deep-lying playmaker player lead his country to win the gold medal at the 1992 BarcelonaOlympics. Between 1992 and 2001, this jersey #9 gained 47 caps and scored 5 goals for the national team, and 7 caps in friendly games for another “national” team. He was a benchwarmer during his team’s QF exit in the 1994WC, where they lost 2-1 to Italy, thanks to the goals by both the Baggios, where JL Caminero scored his team’s only goal. He suffered a career-threatening injury in 1998, which kept him out of the 1998World Cup, although he returned later to lead his country later, till his swansong game. ID this player, who took a very famous Sabbatical in 2012-13 season in his new role?
- 20. Which National FootballTeam, featured in this edition ofWorld cup, is nicknamed Coffee Growers? Although their star striker missed out the world cup due to an injury, another player from the team rose to the occasion, and won the Golden Boot in one of the previous world cups, with one of those goals also going on to win the best goal award in that edition.
- 22. How are these 3 gentleman and the subject of the statue picture in the next slide connected to the 1994 FIFAWorld Cup?
- 25. One of the matchups in the semi-finals of this world cup was compared by 9GAG and other social media forums as a contest between two of their most famous series of works that represent both the countries. One of them first appeared on 10 January 1929 in a youth supplement ‘Le PetitVingtieme’ (The Little twentieth), the success of which saw it being serialized for a leading newspaper ‘Le Soir’ (The evening).The other first appeared in a magazine Pilote on 20 October 1959, and was written by Albert Uderzo until 2009, before the rights were sold to the publishing company Hachette. Name both series of works?
- 27. Double Pointers 5 Qs Each Question carry 20 points. Stake for a maximum of 2 Qs. Stakes: +5 for 2 questions. No negs Maximum possible score = 110
- 28. Among the players that played the recently concluded Russia World cup, CR7, Leo Messi and Neymar Jr. leads in terms of the international goals scored. The players that come 4th (X)and 5th (Y) in the list have very similar statistics. X has 55 goals from 98 appearances, whileY has 53 from 103. While X was the third runner up for Ballon D’Or in 2015,Y came right behind him as the 4th runner up, and when X was named the 5th best footballer in the Planet by Guardian,Y was ranked ahead of him in 4th, only behind Messi, CR7 and Neymar in both these lists as well. Name both?
- 30. Four reigning continental champions failed to qualify for FIFA World Cup 2018. ID All? The champion of one of the continents has their main striker (also their all time top scorer) and their first goal keeper playing for two rival clubs from the same city in a top European league. Another champion in question still is in record books for having the oldest player ever to score in the World cup history, at the age of 42. The third continental champions in the question has two of its biggest goal scorers occupying the 6th and 7th position in the list of the most goal scorers who are still active, with 57 goals.The latter gave up his captaincy for David Beckham when he was signed by his club. The fourth continental champions in question is nicknamed “AllWhites”, contrary to their nicknames in all other sports.
- 32. Tuts is a cafeteria in the posh Palo Alto area of California, selling Turkish delicacies Which world cup hero owns this? What record, set by him in 2002, is still unbeaten?
- 34. • ID both the players with the same the tattoo which depicts a boy overlooking a Favela with a football in his hand • They both play for the same country in the same position.
- 36. There is the only FootballWC edition that ended without a single hat-trick being scored. The closest one came to scoring it was in the Losers final, by the “midfield general” X of the bronze winning team, who was benched for the Semi-final game.The 21- year old scored a brace and assisted for an own goal through a Free Kick taken from 30-yard out. The consolation goal for the 4th place team was scored by a substitute player Y, who was playing his 127th and final game for his country. Which edition? ID X and Y?
- 38. 1st: Anand Rajagopal (BhavansVidya Mandir, Elamakkara) 2nd: Nikhil Sreeraj (SaraswathiVidya Nikethan, Elamakkara) 3rd: Krishnakanth G (ChinmayaVidyalaya,Vaduthala) Junior Category: 1st: Krishnakanth G (Class 9, ChinmayaVidyalaya,Vaduthala) 2nd: Nikhil Sundar M (Class 9, SN HSS, Ayyappankavu)