FUNDAMENTALS
Many sports followers fanatically identify themselves with the colours of their teams. Today’s quiz is on colours of club as well as national football teams.
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COLOURS OF FOOTBALL TEAMS
1. Juventus originally had pink jerseys. It was around 1903 that they shifted to black and white. What was funny story behind that switch to the new colours in
1903?
2. Which club is nicknamed los colchoneros or the mattresses as their team stripes (red and white) are the same colours as old-fashioned mattresses?
3. The Japanese football team turns out in blue and white owing a superstition dating back to the
1936 Olympics. What is that superstition?
4. The Italian national teams are known as Gli Azzurri from the azure blue shirts that that they traditionally wear. What is the inspiration of the blue colour?
5. What is the story behind that iconic home kit of white shirt and black shorts of the German football team?
6. The Brazil football team sported a white shirt till 1950. The Selecao then made a switch to the national colours of green and yellow. What was the reason for the switch to white?
7. The story goes that founders of this club could not reach an agreement on the colours of their team’s jersey. They decided to head to the port and chose the colours of the first boat that they sighted. The boat was Swedish. Hence the club colours borrows from the Sweden flag Blue shirt with yellow horizontal band. Which club?
8. The German club Eintracht Braunschweig as the first soccer team in the world to put a sponsor logo on its jersey. The year was 1972 when liquor companies were
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2. If you are planning to visit Asia’s first Butterfly Safari Park, you have to travel to which Indian state? (Dr Megha Krishnan, Vellore)
3. The seaside town of Dubrovnik in Croatia was the main shooting location for the capital of Seven Kingdoms in the TV series Game of Thrones. What is the name of the capital in that series? (Daniel Murad, Kochi)
4. Most cricketers retire in their thirties. However way back in 1929, one person scored a century when he was 46 years and
82 days old. Name this English batsman? (B.K. Harinath, Mysuru)
5. In 1913, Hitler, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Broz Tito, Sigmund Freud and Stalin all lived in the same city (Obviously not together). Which city played host to these diverse set of characters? (Vasudev Prakash, Mysuru)
6. Russia has 13 nations on its border and Brazil has 10, but which country has the maximum at 14? (Vaishnnavi Purram, Secunderabad)
7. This term was first coined by Ralph Vaerst. Its first published use is credited to Don Hoefler. What is it? (Chintalapudi Naveen, Pathapatnam, Srikakulam)
8. On which Indian bank note would you find the motif of ‘Rani Ki Vav’ (Queen’s step well)? (Partha Sarkar, Kolkata)