How many Laws of the Game are there in soccer?
NI1. The International Football Association Board (IFAB) is the body that determines the Laws of the Game of association football. IFAB was founded in 1886 and has since acted as the “guardian” of the internationally used Laws. How many ‘Laws of the Game’ are there, as per IFAB?
NI2. In 2006, Ivory Coast veteran star Didier Drogba intervened in the country’s civil war, imploring both sides to lay down their arms and negotiate. The apparent success of his speech led to a certain expression, named after him, and it means a combination of good timing, speed and grace under pressure. Which word is it?
NI3. Which former football player is co-owner of soccer club Inter Miami?
NI4. Which country, despite not getting qualified for the European Championship initially, got a lucky wild card entry as Yugoslavia had to pull out, and ended up becoming the champion?
NI5. It can be claimed that the 2018 World Cup was held in both Europe and Asia. A Russian city, considered to be part of Asia, hosted some matches. Name this city.
NI6. Savrola: A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania is the only major fictional work of a Nobel Laureate in Literature, otherwise known in a completely different field. He is also one of the only eight people to receive honorary citizenship of the US. Identify him.
NI7. The ‘Lights Off’ movement involves practitioners of which sports turning off store signs to save energy?
NI8. Idlewild was the name of which US airport before it was renamed in 1963?
NI9. What is the significance of the Ima Market, also known as the Nupi Keithel (English: Women’s Market) or the Khwairamband Keithel (English: Khwairamband Market), a market in the middle of Imphal in the Indian state of Manipur?
NI10. Identify the match from the image below? It was later commemorated with a plaque outside the stadium with the words ‘Partido del Siglo’.
Answers
NI1. Seventeen.
NI2. Drogbacité.
NI3. David Beckham.
NI4. Denmark at the 1992 UEFA European Football Championship hosted by Sweden. NI5. Ekaterinburg.
NI6. Winston Churchill.
NI7. Parkour, a sport that consists of running, climbing and jumping over urban obstacles. Groups of young athletes practising Parkour have been swinging around big French cities switching off wasteful shop signs at night, in a bid to fight light pollution and save energy. NI8. John F. Kennedy International Airport, colloquially referred to as JFK Airport, Kennedy Airport, New
York-JFK, or simply JFK. The facility opened in 1948 as New
York International Airport and was commonly known as Idlewild
Airport after the Idlewild
Beach Golf
Course that it displaced.
NI9. It is believed to be the largest, and only, all-women’s market in Asia. Inside the market, male shopkeepers and vendors are not allowed to sell anything.
NI10. Italy vs West Germany at the 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico. Also known as the ‘Game of the Century’. In the image, Beckenbauer was left with a broken collarbone and dislocated shoulder after a nasty foul. But, with the Germans having used all their substitutes, he carried on with his arm in a sling the entire 120 minutes like a champ refusing to leave the field.