This document discusses the sport of quidditch. It was created in 2005 and is governed by an organization called the International Quidditch Association (IQA) which organizes tournaments and publishes official rules. Teams consist of a minimum of 7 players, with 6 on the pitch at a time on a field that is rectangular and measures 60 by 36 yards. Countries involved include Canada, USA, Mexico and France.
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Quizzitch Cup 2021 Sports Quiz Prelims
3. 1.Which game am I talking
about?
Created in 2005, this game is pretty new. The X is the responsible authority for this
sport Y. Consisting of over 1,500 players coming from countries such as Canada, USA,
Mexico, and France (strangely, no British teams are registered), the X works all year
round, organizing regional tournaments, social events, and ultimately the annual Y
World Cup. They’ve also published a 172-page official rulebook. The X is composed of
unpaid staff who volunteer with a fan’s loyalty.
A team consists of minimum seven players, of which six are always on the pitch, which
is rectangular 60 by 36 yards in dimension.
The Countries
highlighted in the
heat map are the
nations participating
in the tournament
globally.
Identify the
game/sport ‘Y’.
6. 2. Which Country has these rules for a
Basketball Game?
• Slam dunks are worth three points.
• Three-point shots are awarded four points if the ball doesn’t touch
the rim.
• One point is deducted for every missed free throw shot.
• Any field goal made in the last three seconds of a game is given
eight points.
• Games can end in a tie.
12. 4.Give X and Y
• X, pala palala,
X, pala palala,
il est petit,
il est gentil,
il a bouffé Y,
Bientôt sur les Champs Élysées,
X
• This song went popular around french team during 2018 World Cup
15. 5. Complete the sequence wit the name of the 6th venue for
the ongoing series of preliminary matches of a famous
cricketing tournament
• Indore
• Surat
• Bengaluru
• Kolkata
• Chennai
• ________
21. 7. Identify the sportsperson in the anagram.
A LANKA STARVES
HINT: you may have heard his name recently, his
from has witnessed a stratospheric rise this year,
capturing him to the top 30 in the rankings.
24. 8
• The two women featured in the photograph became the first ever
persons to achieve something in the history of their sport earlier this
year. They were the first women to win the ____ ____ as _____ . You
have to identify their names.
27. 9. This man in the photo has been called the
father of a X in India. He was in the recently
because of his sad condition in his old age
• Id ‘X’ and the name of the man?
33. 11. Which world cup final was the first world cup
final since 1978 not to have a Bayern Munich
player (who played for them at the time) in the
started line-up for either team
39. 13. ‘X’ is perhaps best know for scoring the first
goal of the FIFA World Cup, which resulted in the
1-0 defeat of the then reigning world champions
and ultimately, their early elimination from the
tournament, in which his team reached the
quarterfinals. He ended as his team’s best scorer
of the tournament with 3 goals. He died last year
following a long illness.
Id ‘X’.
42. 14. Only three Indian Tennnis players broke into
the top 100 barrier in the ATP singles ranking in
the past decade. The first two were Somdev
Devvarman and Yuki Bhambri.
Who was the Third?
48. 16. Which international cricket tournament was
founded in 1973 by a wealthy English benefactor
living in the Bahamas well known owner of
Wolverhampton Wanderes Football Club and paid
Rs 40,000?
51. 17. Id these two sports personalities (X and
Y) in a war words.
• ‘Y’ said referring to ‘X’ :
“I like ‘X’ a lot. He’s phenomenal, what he’s doing, but I don’t like when
people with a status speak about politics. Do what you’re good at
doing. I play football because I’m the best playing at football, I don’t do
politics. If I’d been a politician, I would be doing politics”
• To which ‘X’ replied :
“I will never shut up about things that are wrong. I preach about my
people and I preach about equality, social justice, racism, voter
suppression – things that go on in our community, I speak from a very
educated mind. I’m kind of the wrong guy to go at, because I do my
homework,”
60. 20. FITB.
• Gary Neville was famously bitter about giving Chelsea a guard of ____
__ _____ in 2005, likening it to having your wife leave you then "being
asked to hang the new bloke's clothes up in your old wardrobe!!“
• In Spain, the _____ __ _______ is known as a pasillo, which translates
literally into English as 'hallway' or 'corridor'.
• However, _____ __ _______ is not always done in such a
magnanimous fashion and is very often carried out through gritted
teeth, particularly in the case of bitter rivals.