Monday, November 16, 2009

bon quizzing!

Well guys..as most of u who have read/been reading my blogs know by now..I am a HUGE sports freak and with it inevitably comes a love for stats and trivia..for all those cricket, tennis and football enthusiasts..here is a real fun game..fill in the blanks kinds basically..!..some questions are easy while some might really make people curse me..but there's no doubt you'll have loads of fun playing this..

the clues are framed more like how they are in a crossword..not too transparent but at the same time..they do give you the required info..will leave no room for ambiguity..so gud luck..

you guys can just send me the answers as comments..

and yeah..don google guys..its fairly easy 2 find out who has!

ok..here goes!

lemme start with a sample

Comaneci's perfect 10 (8)-----> question means where did Nadia Comaneci get her perfect 10 score in gymnastics?.. The answer (8 letters) is MONTREAL where the 1976 summer Olympic games took place and the great gymnast achieved her record breaking feat...


the real stuff begins now..


1. Boom Boom Boris busted in the lawns in 87 (5, 6)----->tennis

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2. Just got 1 of 20. (4 ,4)------->cricket

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3. Galloping Major (6, 6)--------> Football

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4. Elland Road (5, 6)--------->football

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5. A wrong' un that prevented the unimaginable (4, 7)--------> cricket

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6. Stunned Graf in 94 wimbledon (4, 6)----------->tennis

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7. Blistering 187 against Larwood and co --------> cricket

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8. Could not save the 'Hand of God'(5, 7)-------->football

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9. Blanked twice in french final (7, 7)------->tennis

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10. Wrong end of a slap (5, 6)-------->tennis

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11. 2 Legends of Brazilian football never to win the world cup (4 and 8)------>football

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12. Dean Jones's 'favourite' umpire (5, 11)------>cricket

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13. "There are two teams out there..only one is playing cricket" (4, 8)--->cricket

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14. Little Bird (9)--->football

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15. Fracture...who cares?.. 7/53.. (7, 8)---->cricket

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16. April 30th 1993, Hamburg (7, 6) ----->tennis

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17. Bishop Cottons Blore, 3 most important letters of cricket for initials..(5, 7)--cricket

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18. The greatest save ever...off a header from possibly the greatest striker ever (6, 5)----->football


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19. Innings and 579 runs and all that.... (3, 6)--->cricket


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20. Bangalore 1974, Oval 1976, Old Trafford 1984 (6, 8) ---->cricket


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hope u guys enjoy yhis set of qeustions...look fwd 2 c ur comments and answers..

will b back with more...


cheers!

2 comments:

Jayanth said...

thats some quiz man !!! awesome .. and i got 15/20 right .. very happy abt that ..

manasa said...

ass!! I GOT SEVEN! you owe me a hot choco fudge and puma chapli :P