FUNDAMENTALS

The sports field has seen several instances of aggression involving sports people. This week's quiz is on player violence.

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ON FIELD FRACAS

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1. In which notorious incident in the history of test cricket in Perth in November 1981 did umpire Tony Crafter intervene to prevent it from getting uglier?

2. What happened to Matthew Simmons when he was watching Manchester United play Crystal Palace in a Premiership clash in January, 1995?

3. On June 28, 1997, the Mike Tyson-Evander Holyfield $100-million rematch ended in a controversy when Mike Tyson bit Evander Holyfield's ear. This fight went down in history as 'Bite Fight'. What was the original title of this fight?

4. At the English premier League in 2004, Portsmouth won 1-0 over at the Reebok Stadium. Portsmouth captain Arjan de Zeeuw was at the receiving end of which player and what exactly happened?

5. Nancy Kerrigan, champion American figure skater was clubbed in the knee in January 1994, just a month before the start of the winter Olympics. The attack was led by the husband of one of her American competitors. Name the competitor who became notorious after this incident?

6. Violence on the field as a deliberate strategy was used by British Lions Rugby team during their

1974 tour of South Africa.

It was named 99-call. What was the 99 call strategy of British Lions?

7. Name the Australian cricket captain who ended his test career with a brawl with selector Peter McAlister, where he ended up giving a black eye to McAlister?

8. Name the Italian centre back who was infamously head butted by Zinadine Zidane at the 2006 World Cup final?

9. What is the claim to infamy of a footballer named Chris Kamara who is now a presenter in Sky Sports?

10. International rugby players Reggie Corrigan, Isaac Ross, Adam Thomson, Lee Bryne, Brendan Cannon, have all been victims of a particular kind of violence, which is most prevalent in rugby union?

ANYTHING GOES

1. He wrote about a (now debunked) theory of history of Chess that states that a four-handed dicechess game (Chaturaji) was a precursor to present day Chess and originated in India in about 3000 BC. A town in the erstwhile Bengal was named after him. Name the person or the town that is a major tourist attraction for a certain natural terrestrial f e a tu r e ? (D e e Surendrana th , Secunderabad)

2. How do you better know a gentleman named Issur Danielovitch, whose father was a horse trader in Russia?(BK Harinath, Mysuru)

3. Calm, Light, Gentle, Moderate, Strong, High are all a standard measure in a particular scale. Identify the scale which is named after its inventor?(Soulath Mohammed, Secunderabad)

4. Who is the only cricketer in ODI to have been dismissed by both 'handling the ball' and 'obstructing the field'?(Partha Sarkar, Kolkata)

5. Unconsciously and sometimes consciously, we give in to the Hawthorne effect. What is this phenomenon? (R Shankar, Chennai)

6. Usha Mehta taught at Wilson College in Bombay University for 30 years. She died in August 2000 at the age of eighty. What is her biggest claim to fame? (Tanmayee, Secunderabad)

7. Which railway station in South Africa is sometimes called The 'Birthplace of Satyagraha' as Gandhi was pushed out of a first-class compartment, thus prompting him to think about race and colour prejudices?(P. Chaitanya, Secunderabad)

8. In 1880, the Queen of Thailand drowned while her subjects watched. What really happened? (K Jairaj, Chennai)