FUNDAMENTALS
The manager of a football team can sometimes be a bigger star than the footballers themselves. Today's quiz is for the football fan in you as we try to identify some of the best known club managers of all times.
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FOOTBALL MANAGERS
1. The Dutchman who invented 'Total Football' was the coach of Fc Barcelona, Ajax as well as the Netherlands national team. In 1999, he was named as the coach of the century by FIFA. Identify this legendary manager?
2. Dutch midfielder Ruud Gullit, Englishman Glen Hoddle and Italian striker Gianluca Vialli have all led a particular club as player cum manager with some degree of success. Which club are we talking about?.
3. The French manager who has been nicknamed "Le Professeur" is the first non British manager to lead his club to a historic double - Premier League and FA Cup. Name this long serving manager?
4. Pep Guardiola, regarded as one of the best contemporary managers, led FC Barcelona to 14 titles in four years, before taking a sabbatical in 2012. Whom did Guardiola replace as the manager in FC Barcelona?
5. He has managed only four clubs in his 29 years old career as a manager. His first three clubs were East Stirlingshire, St. Mirren and Aberdeen. Name him and his fourth club?
6. Whose career as a manager began in 1992 as an interpreter for Sir Bobby Robson who became the manager of the Lisbon club Sporting CP?
7. Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti donated all the proceeds from the sales of his autobiography,
Preferisco la Coppa (I Prefer the Cup) to the cause of funding of research of which disease?
8. Only one person has won the European Cup (UEFA Champions league) three times. Name this Liverpool FC Manager whose record as a manager is still unrivalled?
9. "Soccer at the Top: My Life in Football" is the autobiography of a manager who survived an air crash that killed key players of his club. Name him?
10. Only one manager has won the Champions League, European Championships, the World Cup and the InterContinental Championship. Ironically, he was sacked by Real Madrid just a day after he led the club to its 29th La Liga title. Name him?
ANYTHING GOES
1. The first person to describe the brood parasitism of the cuckoo has another more immortal contribution to humanity. What? (Philip Joshua, Secunderabad)
2. Jyoti Basu (23 years and
137 days) is the second longest serving Chief Minister of India. Who is the longest serving? (S Miracle, Secunderabad)
3. Which batsman has the unfortunate record of missing two double centuries by a few runs in the same test match. In both the innings, he was left stranded in 190s (BK Harinath, Mysuru)
4. The Organisation formed in April 1951, and were later formalised by the Treaty of Rome, 1957 and the Treaty of Maastricht in 1993. Identify? (Arnab Ghosal, Secunderabad)
5. Paresthesia is a sensation of tingling, tickling or burning of a person's skin with no apparent long-term physical effect. What is the more popular name of this sensation? (Dee Surendranath, Hyderabad)
6. In 1962, Lata Mangeshkar was bedridden for nearly 3 months. It was later revealed that her cook had slowly poisoned her. After the incident, this famous Bollywood person used to regularly visit Lataji at her home daily at 6 pm. He used to first taste the food and then allow Lata to eat. He used to recite poems and stories to keep Lata in good humour till she completely recovered. Who is this great Bollywood personality?(U.N.Murthy, Secunderabad)
7. Name the monarch of the Kakatiya dynasty who is one of the very few women to rule as a monarch in India? (PNS Lekha, Secunderabad)
8. If NITI Ayog is located in Delhi, where is the Niti valley?(Bikram Keshari Jena, Nayagarh)