1.He won the U.S.Singles Tennis Championships in 1889 and was a Wimbledon Doubles finalist in 1901. He was ranked in the U.S. Top Ten four times between 1898 and 1901 and was No. 2 in 1899 and 1900. Identify the tennis player.
Surname would do.
2. 1991 Bhagyashree Thipsay, 1992 Anupama Gokhale, 1993 Anupama Gokhale, 1994 Bhagyashree Thipsay, 1995 _____ , 1996 Mrunalini Kunte, 1997 Anupama Gokhale, 1998 _____, 1999 _______ ,2000 _____ ,2001 ______, 2002 ______. Name the player
3.VVS Laxman surpassed Sunil Gavaskar's record to become the highest run scorer for India in a single Test innings. Whose record did Sunil Gavaskar surpass to achieve that distinction when he scored 236 not out against the West Indies ?
4.Who is the only player to have played, captained and umpired at Lord's, England ?
5.The Victory Bat is a 30ft tall concrete bat in Indore built in memory of a famous Indian victory. Among the various signatures carved on it, whose is at the top?
6.Originally based in Minneapolis,Minnesota, the name of this NBA team was based on the state motto - The Land of 10,000 ______. The team relocated in 1960 to the west coast but retained its name. Which team?
7.Matthew Webb was the first man to achieve this feat in 21hours,45minutes, Gertrude Ederle the first woman, in 14 hours, 39 minutes. Who was the first Asian in 1966 to do so?
8.Four tourneys constitute the golfing Grand Slam. Three are British Open,US Open and the US PGA Championships. Which is the fourth?
9.In Formula One racing, what is unique about the race-route in Moanaco Grand Prix?
10. These two US swimmers have won 22 Olympic medals between them including 17 gold. Name them.
11.In a match played in the late 1990s between Zimbabwe and New Zealand, six cricketers entered the record books for the same basic reason. Two of them had the surname Rennie. I just want the surnames of the other four.
12.This country had a great run at the Soccer World Cup this year. But in 1954, the year it made its debut in the tournament, it achieved the dubious distinction of losing a match by the greatest margin which is still a Cup record, at the hands of a team that was on a rampage that year and still managed to not win the Cup. You have to give the names of the nations involved and also the final score. Any two get you half points.
13.Who is the only European to have run 100m in under 10 seconds? He retired in 1997, after an international career spanning 17 years.
14.Studying at Yale he won the U.S. national amateur heavyweight title in 1919, and also became the first American to win the British amateur boxing championship while he was at Oxford on a schlarship. He also excelled in a number of other sports like wrestling, bobsledding, and tennis. In the context of Olympic games, what as yet unparalleled feat did this man achieve?
15. Vicente Ítalo Feola, Vicente Ítalo Feola, Mario Jorge Lobo Zagalo, Carlos Alberto Perreira, ________. Complete this exhaustive list