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Becks and Spice – A quiz on Sports and Entertainment - Finals
GIRISH| PRANSHUMAAN|SANDESH|SULAGNA
Rules• Unlimited pounces for each team• +15/-10 on the pounce• +10/0 on the bounce• You can pounce on your own direct• Structure of the quiz
– LVC– Dries –Clockwise– Written Connect – Sports Special Round– Dries –Anti-Clockwise– Sport-Ent Special Round
• Please give only one answer per team per question
• LVC
+68/-34
+64/-32
+60/-30
+56/-28
+52/-26
+48/-24
+44/-22
+40/-20
+36/-18
+32/-16
+28/-14
+24/-12
+20/-10
+16/-8
+12/-6
+8/-4
+4/0
• Answers to follow
• Batman Villains !!
+68/-34 – John Glover as Dr Jason Woodrue
+64/-32 – Tom Wilkinson as Carmine Falcone
+60/-30 – Robert Swenson as Bane
+56/-28 – Tommy Lee Jones as Two - Face
+52/-26 Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy
+48/-24 – Danny de Vito as The Penguin
+44/-22 - Eric Roberts as Sal Maroni
+40/-20 - Jim Carrey as The Riddler
+36/-18 - Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman
+32/-16 - Arnold Schwarzenegger as Mr Freeze
+28/-14 - Cillian Murphy as Scarecrow
+24/-12 - Jack Nicholson as The Joker
+20/-10 - Marion Cotillard as Talia al Ghul
+16/-8 - Liam Neeson Ra's Al Ghul
+12/-6 - Aaron Eckhart as Two Face
+8/-4 – Tom Hardy as Bane
+4/0 – Heath Ledger as The Joker
• Dries Clockwise – 15 questions
1• In March 1993, the artificial feeding and hydration of 22-
year-old Tony Bland was withdrawn after nearly four years, during which he had been in a persistent vegetative state and shown no sign of improvement. Andrew Devine, aged 26 at the time, suffered similarly and was later diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state, but in March 1997 – a month short of eight years – it was reported that he had emerged from the condition and was now able to communicate using a touch-sensitive pad. Thus, Tony Bland was the final victim.
• Jon-Paul Gilhooley was the youngest victim. He had died aged 10. It is said that it was his death that inspired his cousin, a famous footballer, to reach the heights that he did in his career.
• What caused the deaths of Bland and Gilhooley?
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• The Hillsborough Disaster
2 ( bigger pic on next slide)• Due to his desire for accuracy, X added the logo of a real-life airline, Y, to
the crash debris in one of his comics. This upset Y and a representative complained to X about the adverse publicity that they might suffer, arguing, "It's scandalous, none of our aircraft has ever crashed. You have done us a considerable wrong." Y had cooperated closely with X, facilitating his research by providing voluminous reading material, contemporary photographs, and film footage of India and Nepal, especially of Delhi and Kathmandu. The crashed aircraft's tail number remained "VT", the correct country code, but X agreed to change the airline logo in the published edition to the fictional Sari-Airways.
• X? Y? Part points available on the bounce
2
• X – Herge Y – Air India• The comic in question being Tintin in Tibet
3• Tatyana Kotova is a Russian long jumper who
won gold at the 2005 World Championships at Helsinki. Why was she in the news in early 2014, especially in Indian newspapers?
3• Tatyana Kotova was found this year to have been
caught for doping after her samples collected during the 2005 World Athletics Championships in Helsinki
• As a result, she was stripped of all her subsequent medals
• Hence, Anju Bobby George became the first Indian track and field athlete to win a gold medal in a major world event after international governing body IAAF upgraded her second place finish at the 2005 Monaco World Athletics Final to the top spot
4• In 2010, a poster using the handle Snowqueens Icedragon
posted a Twilight fanfic called “Master of the Universe” on a Twilight fansite. Brief description of the story reads:
• “When her friend is too ill to attend a vital job interview, Bella Swan takes her place and meets multi-millionaire CEO Edward Cullen for the first time. Cullen takes an interest in her and introduces her to realms of desire she had never thought possible.”
• As the story became popular, its writer pulled it off the internet. Who is Snowqueens Icedragon? OR What did this piece of fan-fiction later develop into?
4• EL James wrote Fifty Shades of Grey initially
as Twilight fan-fiction. As it became popular, she wrote a separate book series
5• These two legendary quarterbacks' teams have faced off against
each other three times and the matches have been colloquially dubbed the X bowl.
• The first X bowl was held in September 2006 when the Colts defeated the Giants 26-21.
• The second X bowl was held in September 2010 and the Colts again bested the Giants 38-14.
• The third X bowl was held in September 2013 when the Broncos beat the Giants 41-23.
• ID X
5
• X – Manning (Peyton and Eli Manning)
6• Pay particular attention in the beginning of the film: At least two clues are
revealed before the credits.• Notice appearances of the red lampshade.• Can you hear the title of the film that Adam Kesher is auditioning actresses
for? Is it mentioned again?• An accident is a terrible event — notice the location of the accident.• Who gives a key, and why?• Notice the robe, the ashtray, the coffee cup.• What is felt, realized and gathered at the Club Silencio?• Did talent alone help Camilla?• Note the occurrences surrounding the man behind Winkie's.• Where is Aunt Ruth?
• Put funda
6• Clues given by David Lynch for better
understanding Mulholland Drive
7Connect the following matches:• Bolton Wanderers vs Arsenal - Premier League,
February 1994 - Burnden Park, Bolton• Denver Broncos vs Los Angeles Raiders - NFL Playoffs,
January 1994 - Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
(this being the most famous)
7
• Crash-landings of James Miller • James Miller (also known as Fan Man) is
a parachutist and paraglider known for gate-crashing and disrupting various sporting events
8
• These are the opening credits of "Community" done in the style of which other TV show?
• (Video)
8
• Law and Order
9• This is Virginia Wade, a British tennis great, criticising a certain
appointment.
• "I thought it was initially a joke. There’s not quite the same intensity about him as maybe a year ago. Having Lendl there really made him think, ‘I’ve got him watching me so I better be absolutely full tilt all the time’.It’s hard to read him. Appointing X was a total shock, I thought they were all fooling around. I think again he’s maybe trying to mess with everybody. She was a great player, she’s a great person. I think she was a little fragile mentally because she had the capabilities of beating everybody. She’s laidback, she’s a very nice, mature person. But I can’t work it out at all. You like to try to get behind people’s thinking but I can’t really with this one. You try to see what somebody’s going to offer that player. Unless he just needs somebody there to say ‘Well done’, which is possible, too. As a player you need somebody to endorse you sometimes and not try to change anything.”
• Id X.
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• Amelie Mauresmo (who was appointed as Andy Murray’s coach just before Wimbledon)
10• The X theory about Y states that ____(1)__ is just a figment of Cameron's
imagination, similar to the plot of X, and Sloane is a girl Cameron secretly loves but hasn't ever interacted with before. Sloane's boyfriend is ___(1)____, again similar to the plot of X where the narrator is able to interact with the girl of his dreams only by becoming ____(2)_____.
• Part of the reason the three characters can see so much of Chicago in less than one day is that Cameron is alone, just imagining it all. This theory would also explain the more fantastic aspects of the film, like how the entire city ralles around the 'sick' _____(1)_____.
• Some critics also argue that X is an unoffcial sequel to Y and that Cameron and _______(1)____ of Y are actually the narrator and ______(2)______ in X. They say that Cameron still has unresolved issues with his life and they manifest themselves in more violent ways in X.
• ID the movies X and Y. No part points.
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• X – Fight Club• Y – Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
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• X was the last man to come in. He was fielding at fine-leg. And as he walked in he said something along the lines of “Well guys the bowlers have done their job. They’re 10 runs short of what they should have got. Let's go and get it.” And everyone burst out laughing because everyone knew that ___ wasn't really 10 runs short. But it turned out to be that way.• Who is X?
Answer
• Jacques Kallis
• Shaun Pollock, talking about Kallis on the day of his retirement from international test cricket.• Context – Biggest chase in ODIs
13. These are the characters of a show called The Honeymooners. What famous TV show did they inspire?
Ralph Kramden: He is frustrated by his lack of success, and often develops get-rich-quick-schemes. Ralph is very short tempered, frequently resorting to bellowing, insults and hollow threats. Well hidden beneath the many layers of bluster however, is a soft-hearted man who loves his wife and is devoted to his best pal. He enjoys bowling, playing pool and being a member in the Loyal Order of Raccoon Lodge.
Alice Kramden : Ralph's patient, level-headed but sharp-tongued wife of 15 years. She often finds herself bearing the brunt of Ralph's insults, which she returns with biting sarcasm.
Edward Norton: Ralph's best friend (and upstairs neighbour). He is considerably more good-natured than Ralph, but nonetheless trades insults with him on a regular basis. Ed often gets mixed up in Ralph's schemes, and his carefree and rather dimwitted nature usually results in raising Ralph's ire, while Ralph often showers him with verbal abuse and throws him out of the apartment when Ed irritates him.
Trixie Norton: Ed's wife and Alice's best friend. She did not appear on every episode and had a less developed character, though she is shown to be bossy towards her husband.
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Answer
• Despite playing just five first-class matches for Services in the 1963-64 season, Joginder Rao carved a permanent niche in the game's history with a hat-trick on debut and and two hat-tricks in the same innings in the next match. He was the only bowler apart from Albert Trott to manage two hat-tricks in the same game and remains the only cricketer in first-class history to have taken three hat-tricks in his first two games.
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Answer
• The Average Bruce Wayne(Combination of Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer, George Clooney, Christian bale and Adam West)
• Special Round – Written Connect
Written Connect
Clue Points
First +40 / -20
Second +35/ -17
Third +30/-15
Fourth +25/-12
Fifth +20/-10
Sixth +15/-7
Seventh +10/-5
Eighth +5/0
+40/-20
• A was Ricky Martin’s first international hit single • It was recorded for his third album, A Medio Vivir. • The song became the main theme of the Brazilian
telenovela Salsa e Merengue in 1996 and was very well received from the Brazilian airplay/
+35/-17
• A B was a type of medieval sea craft used primarily as a river or canal boat, with limited potential for coastal cruising • The name B may come from the Greek word holkas,
meaning a towed boat • The word B also has a medieval meaning of
"hollowed-out" or "husk-like" which is also apposite for the shape of the basic B
+30/-15
• The C spiders are perhaps the best-known members of the genus Latrodectus . • The female Latrodectus most of the time eat their
male Latrodectus partners after mating. The clue to this fact is due to the potency of venom in female species, which is at least three times more potent than that of the males.
+25/-12
• D is a former England cricketer • A left-handed opening batsman and a fine fielder,
he played in 17 Test Matches and 100 One Day Internationals before announcing his retirement from international cricket after the 2003 World Cup. • Debuting in 1996, he scored centuries in his second
and third innings in ODI cricket, on consecutive days against a Pakistan bowling attack that included Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis.
+20/-10
• E Georgina Ferrera (born April 18, 1984) is an American actress and producer. • •She is best known for her leading role as Betty
Suarez on the ABC television series Ugly Betty • •In addition, she was the voice of Astrid the Viking
in the Dreamworks animated picture How to Train Your Dragon.
+15/-7
• F is a chemical element with atomic number 26 • It is a metal in the first transition series. • It is the most common element (by mass) forming
the planet Earth as a whole, forming much of Earth's outer and inner core. • It is the fourth most common element in the Earth's
crust
+10/-5
• G is a complex computer system used in cricket, tennis and other sports to visually track the trajectory of the ball and display a record of its most statistically likely path as a moving image • It was developed by engineers at Roke Manor
Research Limited of Romsey, Hampshire in the UK, in 2001
+5/-0
• In Norse mythology, H is a hammer-wielding god associated with thunder, lightning, storms etc • The day of the week Thursday (“Z's day") bears his
name
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Long Connect Answers
+40/-20
• A was Ricky Martin’s first international hit single • It was recorded for his third album, A Medio Vivir. • The song became the main theme of the Brazilian
telenovela Salsa e Merengue in 1996 and was very well received from the Brazilian airplay/
• A
+35/-17
• A B was a type of medieval sea craft used primarily as a river or canal boat, with limited potential for coastal cruising • The name B may come from the Greek word holkas,
meaning a towed boat • The word B also has a medieval meaning of
"hollowed-out" or "husk-like" which is also apposite for the shape of the basic B
• B - Hulk
+30/-15
• The C spiders are perhaps the best-known members of the genus Latrodectus . • The female Latrodectus most of the time eat their
male Latrodectus partners after mating. The clue to this fact is due to the potency of venom in female species, which is at least three times more potent than that of the males.
• C – Black widow
+25/-12
• D is a former England cricketer • A left-handed opening batsman and a fine fielder,
he played in 17 Test Matches and 100 One Day Internationals before announcing his retirement from international cricket after the 2003 World Cup. • Debuting in 1996, he scored centuries in his second
and third innings in ODI cricket, on consecutive days against a Pakistan bowling attack that included Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis.
• D - Nick Knight
+20/-10
• E Georgina Ferrera (born April 18, 1984) is an American actress and producer. • •She is best known for her leading role as Betty
Suarez on the ABC television series Ugly Betty • •In addition, she was the voice of Astrid the Viking
in the Dreamworks animated picture How to Train Your Dragon.
• E - America Ferrera
+15/-7
• F is a chemical element with atomic number 26 • It is a metal in the first transition series. • It is the most common element (by mass) forming
the planet Earth as a whole, forming much of Earth's outer and inner core. • It is the fourth most common element in the Earth's
crust
• F - Iron
+10/-5
• G is a complex computer system used in cricket, tennis and other sports to visually track the trajectory of the ball and display a record of its most statistically likely path as a moving image • It was developed by engineers at Roke Manor
Research Limited of Romsey, Hampshire in the UK, in 2001
• G - Hawkeye
+5/-0
• In Norse mythology, H is a hammer-wielding god associated with thunder, lightning, storms etc • The day of the week Thursday (“Z's day") bears his
name
• H- Thor
Theme Round - What happens Next ( Written Round)• 6 videos from the world of sport• Write down “what happens next” for each video• +5 for each correct• +10 for getting all correct• The videos all lead up to some fairly famous events
in the world of sports – Write down the famous events that happen next
• (Videos)
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• Answers to follow
Answers
1. Marat Safin drops his pants to celebrate the point2. On team orders, Rubens Barrichello lets Michael
Schumacher pass him on the last lap so that the latter can collect max points for the driver’s championship
3. Luis Suarez’ s first bite (Otman Bakkal)4. Sehwag kicks the ball to the boundary to get Morne
Morkel back on strike5. Tyson bites Holyfield’s ear6. Earthquake interrupts broadcast – 1989 World Series
Earthquake
• Dries Anti-Clockwise – 15 questions
16
• The Germans sometimes refer to the red card as "Arschkarte" which literally translates to 'ass card'. This came from a practice of football referees to keep the yellow card in their shirt breast pocket and the red card in the rear pocket of their pants. Why did the referees do this?
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• Back in the days of black-and-white TV, the only way viewers could differentiate between the yellow and red cards was the fact that the referees drew the cards from different pockets
• That practice has simply carried on till today (even though we have colour TV)
17 Connect ( larger pics on next slide)
• What the two album covers and the portion from the Oasis song referencing?
Album cover of 'Nice' by Japanese pop group Puffy Amiyumi
Cover of Jhene Aiko's single "Bed Peace"
• Audio - Oasis song " Don't Look Back in Anger"
17
• John Lennon and Yoko Ono bed-in for peace
18• Akash Lal was an opening batsman who scored
consistently in Indian domestic cricket throughout the 1960s. He was Delhi's Ranji captain from 1965-1966 to 1968-99. By 1966 he was being talked about as a possible India opener but never played for India after performing poorly for a Prime Minister's XI against the touring West Indies in November 1966.
• What was his one seminal contribution to Indian cricket - a contribution inspired by what he saw in an Irani Cup game on November 4, 1989 at the Wankhede?
18 - A• He was the selector who backed Sachin for the 1989
Pakistan tour after seeing him score his first first-class hundred at the Irani Cup
• The 5-member selection panel meeting was tied 2-2 on Sachin’s inclusion and Akash Lal, the deciding vote, voted in favor of Sachin
• “"Raj bhai proposed Sachin's name to us in that meeting. Two of my mates felt he was too young to take on Imran Khan, Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis. But I countered them saying if Ian Craig can play at 17, Hanif Mohammad can play at 18, why not Tendulkar at 16? After all he was much better than all of them? I am proud we made that call," recalls Lal.
19 Connect ( 2 more pics on next slide)
Person on left connects
Person on right connects
Person on left extreme connects
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• Cameos by people in movies based on their lives• Jim Lovell in Apollo 13• Frank Abagnale Jr in Catch Me if You Can• Erin Brockovich in Erin Brockovich• Chris Gardner in The Pursuit of Happyness• Jordan Belfort in The Wolf of Wall Street
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• X is a current F1 driver, who has been frequently compared to 1976 world champion Y because both had "playboy" lifestyles. • In fact, in March 2007, X even competed in a snowmobile
race in Finland under the pseudonym "Y". Later that year, X also entered a powerboat race in Finland where he, again, raced under the name of Y. • Finally, for the 2012 Monaco Grand Prix, X wore a replica
of Y's 1976 helmet, complete with the Y's name on it.
• X? Y? Part points available on the bounce
20
• X – Kimi Raikkonen• Y – James Hunt
21(pic on next slide)• This is Anna Wintour, the editor-in-chief of Vogue. Her ex-
personal assistant wrote a 2003 part-fiction book which was made into an eponymous 2006 movie, in which one of the main characters was said to be inspired by Wintour. Most designers and fashion notables avoided appearing as themselves in the movie for fear of displeasing Wintour. • But later, Wintour attended the film's New York premiere,
wearing ______. • Wintour overcame her initial skepticism, saying she liked
the film and X's portaryal of her in particular.
• Id the movie and X. Part points available on the bounce
• Movie – The Devil Wears Prada• X – Meryl Streep
22
• This is the trailer for FOXCATCHER - a true story about two brothers (played by Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo) who were Olympic champions in wrestling in the 1980s. Give me their last name
• (Video)
22
• David and Mark Schultz
23• X directed the animation movie Return of Hanuman in 2007 to please his 7-
year old daughter. According to X, his daughter is his biggest critic and she does not like any of his films since they have only "policemen, people getting beaten up, etc". X even dedicated the film to his daughter, who wanted him to make "song-and-dance" films.
• Curiously, X's inspiration in real life, Y, also made a 3-D fantasy movie in 2011 after his wife told him "Why don't you make a film our daughter can see for once?". The movie is based on a children's book, written by Brian Selznick, that Y was reading to his daughter one night.
• "I thought, wouldn't it be nice to make a movie she could see, or that we could see together. Just watching her turn the pages of the book (which has 284 pictures), I knew that people would respond...I don't consider it a children's movie. I think it's a movie children should see with their parents. Then talk about it," says Y.
• Id X and the movie Y made for his daughter in 2011. (Part points available on the bounce
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• X – Anurag Kashyap• Movie – Hugo ( made by Scorsese for his daughter)
24
• In ice hockey parlance, what is a Gordie Howe hat-trick?
24
• Scoring a goal, giving an assist and getting into a fight in the same game
25• One of the biggest Oscar shocks ocurred when X won Best Supporting Actress at
the 1993 Academey Awards for her role in a lightweight comedy, prevailing over Miranda Richardson, Joan Plowright, Vanessa Redgrave and Judy Davis.
• One critic explained it by saying "Every voter thought Vanessa Redgarve was a shoo-in and gave X a 'pity-vote' and, well...she ended up winning".
• Others went even furthur and argued that the presenter, Jack Palance, had had erroneously called out the wrong name because he was unable to read the printing on the card inside the envelope, became confused, or was too "drunk" or "stoned" to announce the winner properly.
• However, this theory was disproved when the Academy explained that two officials from PWC have been stationed in the wings at every Academy Awards ceremony since 1953 just in case such a situation should arise. If a wrong name were ever read, one of the officials would immediately step up to the podium and announce the correct winner.
• Id X.
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• Marisa Tomei (who won an Oscar for My Cousin Vinny)
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Answer
Lacrosse
Rude Removal is an episode segment of the a popular TV series X. The episode was produced during the original run of X, but the channel refused to let it air due to the characters swearing, even though the swear words were censored.
The title card for "Rude Removal" shows B gesturing with her middle finger as well as A mooning towards the audience.
A invents The Rude Removal System, a machine to remove the rudeness from his sister B. However, B thinks A is the one who is rude, so they start fighting and wander into the machine. Inadvertently, the Rude Removal System is activated, splitting the pair into well-behaved and rude halves. This creates two evil, rude duplicates, who use profanity and harbor destructive tendencies. The evil clones proceed to insult their mother and destroy the house. A and B now have to stop their rude halves from causing trouble and consequently being punished by their Mom, who believes the actions of the evil clones were that of her children.
27. A, B, X?
28. What’s happening?
Answer
G8 leaders watching Champions League Final between Chelsea and Bayern Munich (2012)
At first, the producers were looking for a "quintessentially American person" to play the role of X. At the time of the casting session, actor A was in Namibia. He assembled an audition tape in a hotel bathroom, the only place with enough light,
and apologized for its appearance. A improvised, using an umbrella as a substitute prop. Singer was very impressed by his performance and commented on how well the "American actor" was able to grasp the character.
A credits the accent to "a misspent youth watching too much TV and too many movies".
29. ID A & X
Hugh Laurie, House M.D.
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• Asif Kapadia• A British filmmaker of
Indian descent. He directed several award-winning films, including, The Warrior (2001), which won the BAFTA Award for Best British Film 2003 and Senna (2010), winner of the BAFTA Award for Best Documentary.
Special Round - Written
• Couples – one half from Sports and one half from entertainment• Id the couples (both names)• 6 questions• +5 for each• +10 for getting all correct• Part points available on all questions
1• X is a former India cricketer and politician. He won the Arjuna
Award in 1986. To date, X is the only cricketer to score a century in each of his first three tests. John Woodcock, a noted cricket writer, said of him, "It's no use asking an Englishman to bat like X. It would be like expecting a greyhound to win the Epsom Derby"
• Y was the winner of Miss India in 1976. Y is X's second wife, whom he met in the early 1990s at a commercial shoot and married in 1996. There were rumours of an affair between them in 1994. Y has also anchored Doordarshan's popular Sunday morning show Rangoli and played the title role in Zee TV's Chandni.
• X and Y separated recently after, ironically, X was linked with badminton star Jwala Gutta.
2• According to her autobiography, X originally did not want to meet Y,
fearing that he was a stereotypical arrogant athlete. He won her over and they eloped at San Francisco City Hall in January 1954.
• An incident between the couple is supposed to have occurred immediately after the ________ scene in The Seven Year Itch which was filmed on September 1954, in front of Manhattan's Trans-Lux 52nd Street Theater. It was director Billy Wilder's idea to turn the shoot into a media circus. The couple then had a yelling battle in the theater lobby. A month later, X filed for divorce on grounds of mental cruelty 274 days after the wedding.
• Y re-entered X's life as her marriage to Arthur Miller was ending. Their "just friends" claim did not stop remarriage rumors from flying. Reporters staked out her New York City apartment building. Bob Hope "dedicated" Best Song nominee "The Second Time Around" to them at the 33rd Academy Awards.
• Id this celebrity couple.
3• X was originally interested in football in his youth but after he kept getting injured,
his brother suggested cricket (and for that, all Indians are thankful). A Padma Shri winner in 2004, X is famous for having made Steve Waugh wait at the toss and has a debut Test century at Lords to his name. He is also currently part of the Justice Mudgal Committee probe panel looking into the IPL spot fixing investigations.
• Y is a predominantly South Indian actress. However, her debut was in Baaghi: A Rebel for Love, opposite Salman Khan in 1990. With Karisma Kapoor, she was also one of the female leads in 1994's Suhaag with Ajay Devgan and Akshay Kumar. She then moved South, where she proceeded to become one of the top actresses. X, apparently, met Y in late 1999, when he was the top-rated ODI batsmen in the World.
• Their rumoured affair broke in February 2001, when newspapers in Chennai published photos of X and Y visiting Kalahasti temple, near Tirupati. Y finally went public about the alleged affair in 2010, stating she was forced to end the affair in the interest of the nation - ""There was a career at stake, besides other things, so one had to part. A smaller interest had to be sacrificed for bigger interests... When a game is being played, people should understand it is a sport. It's very weird that people started getting carried away. Whenever India played, people said that a person was not doing well because he was emotionally attached. This is so juvenile
4• X and Y have been in a relationship since spring 2010. They share the same
birthday but Y is 10 years X's senior. After months of media speculation, Y officially confirmed the relationship in March 2011 via Twitter and Facebook by posting a picture of the two with a caption reading, "I present to you my sunshine" in Spanish.
• X is one of the four players in the world to have won the Champions League two years in a row with different teams, the others being Marcel Desailly, Paulo Sousa and Samuel Eto'o. In a famous incident in May 2008, Sir Alex was unable to meet with the X personally and convince him against leaving Manchester United due to airline difficulties.
• Y has two Grammys and a Golden-Globe nomination to her name. When Y was four, her father took her to a local Middle Eastern restaurant, where Y first heard the doumbek, a traditional drum used in Arabic music and which typically accompanied belly dancing. She started dancing on the table, and the experience made her realize that she wanted to be a performer. Y has also served as a coach on the American version of The Voice, having appeared in seasons 4 and 6.
5• X is an Indian professional golfer who was ranked in the top 100
in the world several times between 2004 and 2009. He turned professional in 1994. In 2002, he finished top on the Asian Tour money list.
• Y made her debut in the critically acclaimed Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi. She is also brand ambassador for Airtel, Parachute,Puma, Garnier, Taj Mahal Tea and Joyalukkas Jewellers.
• Y met X through her brother Digvijay Singh , who is also a professional golfer.
• X and Y married in 2001 and divorced in April 2014.
6• X's world changed in August 1996, when a goal against Wimbledon from the half-
way line made him household name. X even has a piece of legislation named after him in Spain, through which individuals are liable only for Spanish taxes on their Spanish source income and assets. The law gained its nickname after X became one of the first foreigners to take advantage of it, when he moved to Spain in June 2003.
• X started dating Y in 1997, after she attended one of his matches. They were married in July 1999. Y shot to fame with the all-female pop-group Spice Girls in the late 1990s.
• One of X's managers had this to say about his marriage
• "He was never a problem until he got married. He used to go into work with the academy coaches at night time, he was a fantastic young lad. Getting married into that entertainment scene was a difficult thing – from that moment, his life was never going to be the same. He is such a big celebrity, football is only a small part."
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1• X is a former India cricketer and politician. He won the Arjuna
Award in 1986. To date, X is the only cricketer to score a century in each of his first three tests. John Woodcock, a noted cricket writer, said of him, "It's no use asking an Englishman to bat like X. It would be like expecting a greyhound to win the Epsom Derby"
• Y was the winner of Miss India in 1976. Y is X's second wife, whom he met in the early 1990s at a commercial shoot and married in 1996. There were rumours of an affair between them in 1994. Y has also anchored Doordarshan's popular Sunday morning show Rangoli and played the title role in Zee TV's Chandni.
• X and Y separated recently after, ironically, X was linked with badminton star Jwala Gutta.
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• Mohammed Azharuddin and Sangeeta Biljani
2• According to her autobiography, X originally did not want to meet Y,
fearing that he was a stereotypical arrogant athlete. He won her over and they eloped at San Francisco City Hall in January 1954.
• An incident between the couple is supposed to have occurred immediately after the ________ scene in The Seven Year Itch which was filmed on September 1954, in front of Manhattan's Trans-Lux 52nd Street Theater. It was director Billy Wilder's idea to turn the shoot into a media circus. The couple then had a yelling battle in the theater lobby. A month later, X filed for divorce on grounds of mental cruelty 274 days after the wedding.
• Y re-entered X's life as her marriage to Arthur Miller was ending. Their "just friends" claim did not stop remarriage rumors from flying. Reporters staked out her New York City apartment building. Bob Hope "dedicated" Best Song nominee "The Second Time Around" to them at the 33rd Academy Awards.
• Id this celebrity couple.
• Joe Di Maggio and Marilyn Monroe
3• X was originally interested in football in his youth but after he kept getting injured,
his brother suggested cricket (and for that, all Indians are thankful). A Padma Shri winner in 2004, X is famous for having made Steve Waugh wait at the toss and has a debut Test century at Lords to his name. He is also currently part of the Justice Mudgal Committee probe panel looking into the IPL spot fixing investigations.
• Y is a predominantly South Indian actress. However, her debut was in Baaghi: A Rebel for Love, opposite Salman Khan in 1990. With Karisma Kapoor, she was also one of the female leads in 1994's Suhaag with Ajay Devgan and Akshay Kumar. She then moved South, where she proceeded to become one of the top actresses. X, apparently, met Y in late 1999, when he was the top-rated ODI batsmen in the World.
• Their rumoured affair broke in February 2001, when newspapers in Chennai published photos of X and Y visiting Kalahasti temple, near Tirupati. Y finally went public about the alleged affair in 2010, stating she was forced to end the affair in the interest of the nation - ""There was a career at stake, besides other things, so one had to part. A smaller interest had to be sacrificed for bigger interests... When a game is being played, people should understand it is a sport. It's very weird that people started getting carried away. Whenever India played, people said that a person was not doing well because he was emotionally attached. This is so juvenile
• Saurav Ganguly and Nagma
4• X and Y have been in a relationship since spring 2010. They share the same
birthday but Y is 10 years X's senior. After months of media speculation, Y officially confirmed the relationship in March 2011 via Twitter and Facebook by posting a picture of the two with a caption reading, "I present to you my sunshine" in Spanish.
• X is one of the four players in the world to have won the Champions League two years in a row with different teams, the others being Marcel Desailly, Paulo Sousa and Samuel Eto'o. In a famous incident in May 2008, Sir Alex was unable to meet with the X personally and convince him against leaving Manchester United due to airline difficulties.
• Y has two Grammys and a Golden-Globe nomination to her name. When Y was four, her father took her to a local Middle Eastern restaurant, where Y first heard the doumbek, a traditional drum used in Arabic music and which typically accompanied belly dancing. She started dancing on the table, and the experience made her realize that she wanted to be a performer. Y has also served as a coach on the American version of The Voice, having appeared in seasons 4 and 6.
• Gerard Pique and Shakira
5• X is an Indian professional golfer who was ranked in the top 100
in the world several times between 2004 and 2009. He turned professional in 1994. In 2002, he finished top on the Asian Tour money list.
• Y made her debut in the critically acclaimed Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi. She is also brand ambassador for Airtel, Parachute,Puma, Garnier, Taj Mahal Tea and Joyalukkas Jewellers.
• Y met X through her brother Digvijay Singh , who is also a professional golfer.
• X and Y married in 2001 and divorced in April 2014.
• Jyoti Randhawa and Chitragandha Singh
6• X's world changed in August 1996, when a goal against Wimbledon from the half-
way line made him household name. X even has a piece of legislation named after him in Spain, through which individuals are liable only for Spanish taxes on their Spanish source income and assets. The law gained its nickname after X became one of the first foreigners to take advantage of it, when he moved to Spain in June 2003.
• X started dating Y in 1997, after she attended one of his matches. They were married in July 1999. Y shot to fame with the all-female pop-group Spice Girls in the late 1990s.
• One of X's managers had this to say about his marriage
• "He was never a problem until he got married. He used to go into work with the academy coaches at night time, he was a fantastic young lad. Getting married into that entertainment scene was a difficult thing – from that moment, his life was never going to be the same. He is such a big celebrity, football is only a small part."
• Becks and Spice !!
THANK YOU FOR STAYING UP!
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