The Beautiful Game
Here are the answers to "The Beautiful Game".Most of the questions are based on interesting football trivia. Some may even be urban legends. Will be happy if any of you can provide more info on any of the topics below. Please point out mistakes if any.Will try to send you the sources wherever possible.
Please mail in your comments to kmanjith@yahoo.com . Eminently guessable set of questions.So have fun!!
1.His mother called him “Dico”. For a while he had the nickname “Gasolina” after a singer. His dad’s friend, Jose Lino was a good goalkeeper who had a nickname X. Lino apparently didn’t start speaking even at the age of two. His parents consulted a witch doctor, who kept chanting "Bili-bilu-tetéia!" - something like "Abracadabra!" to make the baby speak. The boy finally blurted out “Bile” and was cured. Lino earned his nickname from this story. Our man in question greatly wished to be a player like Lino and often expressed his ambition to friends and family. Finally one of his friends started teasing him with a corruption of Lino’s nickname (X). Identify the legend.
A:Pele
source:
http://football.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1774055,00.html#article_continue
http://www-d0.fnal.gov/cgi-bin/d0news?read__B_PHYSICS__179
2. “They say I slept with seven Miss Worlds,” he once said. “I didn’t. It was only four. I didn’t turn up for the other three.” Immortal words of?
A:George Best(Every man's dream,those words:))
3. Bela Guttman, manager of Benfica accidentally ran into his old friend Jorge Bauer, boss of São Paulo F.C. in a hair-cutting saloon. Bauer talked to Guttman about an African player he had wanted to sign for $20,000 but couldn’t do so because the club couldn’t pay that much. Guttman immediately went on to find the player and after watching him in action, signed him. On arriving in Lisbon, the player set off a huge row between Benefica and Sporting Lisbon who claimed that he played for a club that had a contract to supply players to it. The player was spirited away at the airport and kept in hiding for seven months till the row settled. Which Legend?
A:Eusebio, the Black Panther. He was from Mozambique and played for Portugal.
4. "In 1989, a plane bound for Surinam crashed on the edge of the jungle, killing many members of a black Dutch national side. Then in 1994, when he had to fly to USA, a journalist announced in a plane that he had a bomb in his bag which led the US authorities to ground the plane and delay the flight."
All these probably led to a guy earning his funny nickname. Who?
A:Dennis Bergkamp,"The Non Flying Dutchman".Bergkamp read about the first incident as a boy and later stopped flying altogether after the '98 incident.
5. A fan named Matthew Simmons, shouted racial insults and threw a missile at a player as he walked off the pitch after being given a red card for kicking another player during a tackle.The match was between Man U and Crystal Palace(1995).How did the player in question respond??!!
A:Eric Cantona with his infamous Kungfoo kick!
6. Green Fire shop in the Tequendama Hotel, (Bogota, Columbia) owned by Danilo Rojas raised a huge controversy due to an incident that supposedly occurred on 18 May 1970.The incident sent shockwaves through the sporting world and even Prime Minister Harold Wilson intervened to diffuse the crisis. What incident?
A:Booby Moore got arrested on charges of stealing a diamond bracelet.This was seen as an attempt to hamper England's show at the 1970 WC.
7. What is the claim to fame of Captain James Thain, pilot of the BEA Elizabethan airliner, Lord Burghley?
A:Captained the plane that crashed in Munich in 1958,killing eight players of Man U.
8. He graduated from the University of Bologna with a degree in economics in 1984. he played as a central defender ,but later chose a different career. A particularly severe form of alopecia caused him to lose all facial hair. This gave him his distinct appearance and the name Kojak (Kojak was a detective in a popular American serial). He retired from his job (whose crowning movement came in 2002) at the age of 45. He also worked as a financial consultant. Who?
A:Pier Luigi Colina.The crowning moment was officiating in the final of 2002 WC.
"retired at the age of 45" should have pointed to a referee(FIFA retirement age for International referees).There werent too many bald referees worth asking a question in WC2002!
9. It is known as Chilena or Chalaca in most of Latin America. Leonidas, the “Black Diamond” credits another Brazilian called Petronilho de Brito for this. Ramon Unzaga, a Spaniard player, who played for Chile has also been credited with this innovation. What innovation are we talking about?
A:Bicycle Kick.
10. .The boy was born on July 7,1994 as the third son of the family. He was later christened 'Mateus', supposedly after Lothar Mathaeus, one of his father’s favorite footballers. Why would we be still, remembering the birth??!!
A:The father was Bebeto.The famous cradle celebration involving Bebeto,Romario and Mazinho during Brazil vs Holland in the '94 WC was dedicated to the birth of this boy.(Ya, beats me why Bebeto wud have chosen a german!!)
Scores:
Rajendran Dheeraj 8
Prateek Vijayavargia 7
Husain Poonawala 5
Oranje Oranje 10!!
Shafeek M K 6
Vineesh Kumar 9
Arun warrier 6
Manish Achutha 9
Devadas Krishnan 9
Rajesh Mohan 6
Bharathan Gopalakrishnan 9
Ajith Prasad 6.5
Harikrishnan B 8
Please mail in your comments to kmanjith@yahoo.com .Hope you enjoyed the quiz.
Please mail in your comments to kmanjith@yahoo.com . Eminently guessable set of questions.So have fun!!
1.His mother called him “Dico”. For a while he had the nickname “Gasolina” after a singer. His dad’s friend, Jose Lino was a good goalkeeper who had a nickname X. Lino apparently didn’t start speaking even at the age of two. His parents consulted a witch doctor, who kept chanting "Bili-bilu-tetéia!" - something like "Abracadabra!" to make the baby speak. The boy finally blurted out “Bile” and was cured. Lino earned his nickname from this story. Our man in question greatly wished to be a player like Lino and often expressed his ambition to friends and family. Finally one of his friends started teasing him with a corruption of Lino’s nickname (X). Identify the legend.
A:Pele
source:
http://football.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1774055,00.html#article_continue
http://www-d0.fnal.gov/cgi-bin/d0news?read__B_PHYSICS__179
2. “They say I slept with seven Miss Worlds,” he once said. “I didn’t. It was only four. I didn’t turn up for the other three.” Immortal words of?
A:George Best(Every man's dream,those words:))
3. Bela Guttman, manager of Benfica accidentally ran into his old friend Jorge Bauer, boss of São Paulo F.C. in a hair-cutting saloon. Bauer talked to Guttman about an African player he had wanted to sign for $20,000 but couldn’t do so because the club couldn’t pay that much. Guttman immediately went on to find the player and after watching him in action, signed him. On arriving in Lisbon, the player set off a huge row between Benefica and Sporting Lisbon who claimed that he played for a club that had a contract to supply players to it. The player was spirited away at the airport and kept in hiding for seven months till the row settled. Which Legend?
A:Eusebio, the Black Panther. He was from Mozambique and played for Portugal.
4. "In 1989, a plane bound for Surinam crashed on the edge of the jungle, killing many members of a black Dutch national side. Then in 1994, when he had to fly to USA, a journalist announced in a plane that he had a bomb in his bag which led the US authorities to ground the plane and delay the flight."
All these probably led to a guy earning his funny nickname. Who?
A:Dennis Bergkamp,"The Non Flying Dutchman".Bergkamp read about the first incident as a boy and later stopped flying altogether after the '98 incident.
5. A fan named Matthew Simmons, shouted racial insults and threw a missile at a player as he walked off the pitch after being given a red card for kicking another player during a tackle.The match was between Man U and Crystal Palace(1995).How did the player in question respond??!!
A:Eric Cantona with his infamous Kungfoo kick!
6. Green Fire shop in the Tequendama Hotel, (Bogota, Columbia) owned by Danilo Rojas raised a huge controversy due to an incident that supposedly occurred on 18 May 1970.The incident sent shockwaves through the sporting world and even Prime Minister Harold Wilson intervened to diffuse the crisis. What incident?
A:Booby Moore got arrested on charges of stealing a diamond bracelet.This was seen as an attempt to hamper England's show at the 1970 WC.
7. What is the claim to fame of Captain James Thain, pilot of the BEA Elizabethan airliner, Lord Burghley?
A:Captained the plane that crashed in Munich in 1958,killing eight players of Man U.
8. He graduated from the University of Bologna with a degree in economics in 1984. he played as a central defender ,but later chose a different career. A particularly severe form of alopecia caused him to lose all facial hair. This gave him his distinct appearance and the name Kojak (Kojak was a detective in a popular American serial). He retired from his job (whose crowning movement came in 2002) at the age of 45. He also worked as a financial consultant. Who?
A:Pier Luigi Colina.The crowning moment was officiating in the final of 2002 WC.
"retired at the age of 45" should have pointed to a referee(FIFA retirement age for International referees).There werent too many bald referees worth asking a question in WC2002!
9. It is known as Chilena or Chalaca in most of Latin America. Leonidas, the “Black Diamond” credits another Brazilian called Petronilho de Brito for this. Ramon Unzaga, a Spaniard player, who played for Chile has also been credited with this innovation. What innovation are we talking about?
A:Bicycle Kick.
10. .The boy was born on July 7,1994 as the third son of the family. He was later christened 'Mateus', supposedly after Lothar Mathaeus, one of his father’s favorite footballers. Why would we be still, remembering the birth??!!
A:The father was Bebeto.The famous cradle celebration involving Bebeto,Romario and Mazinho during Brazil vs Holland in the '94 WC was dedicated to the birth of this boy.(Ya, beats me why Bebeto wud have chosen a german!!)
Scores:
Rajendran Dheeraj 8
Prateek Vijayavargia 7
Husain Poonawala 5
Oranje Oranje 10!!
Shafeek M K 6
Vineesh Kumar 9
Arun warrier 6
Manish Achutha 9
Devadas Krishnan 9
Rajesh Mohan 6
Bharathan Gopalakrishnan 9
Ajith Prasad 6.5
Harikrishnan B 8
Please mail in your comments to kmanjith@yahoo.com .Hope you enjoyed the quiz.
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