Quizz 3- Simply Sportss

1. Who is the only player to have played as well as scored in every season of the Premier League since its inception?

2. The first bowler known to have used this style of delivery was the Australian Jack Iverson from Victoria who used it throughout his Test career in the period after the Second World War. Fellow countryman John Gleeson used a similar grip a decade later. But by the 1970s the method was almost forgotten. However, it has since re-entered cricketing consciousness because of its use during 2007-2008.

Depending on the degree the ball is gripped towards the leg side, X could also travel straight. X can therefore spin to either the off or leg sides or travel straight (as opposed to the popular misconception that it only spins towards the off side).
Identify the sensational ‘X’.

3. Graham Gooch, on the reaction of X: "He looked as though someone had just nicked his lunch." Gooch added "If it had been a cheese roll, it would never have got past him." In 2009 the Irish chamber pop group The Duckworth Lewis Method wrote a song called "Jiggery Pokery" about this incident.

Identify the incident and X.

4. Bobby Charlton (49 goals), Gary Lineker (48) and Jimmy Greaves (44).
Identify the next footballer whose tally is 40 goals and get the link between them.

5. In 1882, X was formed by grammar-school boys from the Bible class at All Hallows Church. They were also members of a Cricket Club, and it is thought  that its present name was associated with Sir Henry Percy, who lived locally during the 14th century and whose descendants owned land in the neighbourhood. The club's Latin motto is Audere est Facere.

6. The company was founded in 1974 by Merrill J. Fernando. It is available in over 92 countries including United Kingdom, Poland, Hungary, Canada, South Africa, Australia, Japan and New Zealand. By 2002 it was the third largest global brand in its field.It has also had cricketing ties (sponsorship) .Which company are we talking about?

7. The tournament was conceived in 1899 by four members of the Harvard University tennis team who wished to challenge the British to a tennis competition. Once their respective lawn tennis associations agreed, one of the four Harvard players, X, designed a tournament format and ordered an appropriate sterling silver trophy from Shreve, Crump & Low, purchasing it from his own funds.

The first match, between the United States and Great Britain was held in Boston, Massachusetts in 1900. The American team surprised the British by winning the first three matches. The following year the two countries did not compete but the US won the next match in 1902. By 1905 the tournament expanded to include Belgium, Austria, France, and Australasia, a combined team from Australia and New Zealand that competed together until 1914.

The tournament was initially titled the International Lawn Tennis Challenge.

Identify X and/or the tournament.

8. What is The Incurza Range of a sporting good? Who uses it?

9. We know your game- whose tagline is it?

10. Although his most famous nickname remains ‘Junior’, this cricketer has had quite a few other nicknames like ‘Audi’ as he scored four consecutive ducks and he just averted the name ‘Olympics’ as he manged to score in the subsequent innings. Identify this famous cricketer.

Answers:

1.Ryan Giggs

2.Carrom Ball

3.X is Mike Gatting.

It was the famous Ball of the Century.The delivery was bowled by Australia's Shane Warne to England's Mike Gatting. The event occurred on day two of the first Test of the 1993 Ashes series, which took place at Old Trafford, Manchester.With his first ball against England, Warne produced a spectacular delivery that bowled Gatting around his legs.

4.Michael Owen.
They are the top four goalscorers of England.

5.Tottenham Hotspurs

6.Dilmah Tea

7.X is Dwight Davis and the tournament is the Davis Cup.

8.It is the new Adidas bat range used by Sachin Tendulkar.

9.STAR Sports

10.Mark Waugh