Sports Trivia

1. Identify this sport?
Ans : Bobsleigh Skeleton.

2. 'An Umpire remembers' is the autobiography of which umpire?
Ans : Pillo Reporter.

3. In ice hockey, what is the name of the hard rubber disk which the players hit so as to score goals?
Ans : Puck.

4. In which sports do you find a Loppy pop man?
Ans : In Formula-1. Near every pit stop, a person with round hoarding (which looks like a lolly pop) will be waiting for the respectiver driver. He is known lollypop man.

5. Click on the following link and tell who is the batsman and the bowler. Obviously the fielder is Sachin and why that catch is so special
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAoecpEF7bw
Ans : Batman is Inzamam. Bowler is Murali Karthik. It is the 100th catch of Sachin.

6. In cricket, who is referred as PO(H)MS. What is the actual meaning?
Ans : PO(H)MS means Prisoners Of Her Majesty's Services.

This in cricket refers to England player.
If you go by history, Aussies are PO(H)MS. They were the prisoners who were moved or deported to Australian Continent from England. During 15th century, all the English people who were commited mistakes or who spoke against Queen were framed as prisoners and were put in the jail. At one point, number of prisoners started to exceed beyond a limit and there was no space to accomodate them in the jail. So they were moved to Australia as prisoners and they were asked to work for Queen in Australia. At one point these prisoners started to fight for their freedom and demanded a separate land for them and infact drove English people out of Australia. Then they started to dominate the local aborigins of Australia. That is how the current Australia society was formed.

But English got this name because of overusing this term to abuse Aussies.
Even in our country, if a person repeatedly uses a particular word, we associate that word with that person. Eg. 'Ennathey' Kanniah, 'Adadae' Manohar.

7. Tees, Putter club, Wooden club, Iron club. all refers to what sports?
Ans : Golf.

8. Who is the first acknowledged Aboriginal Test cricketer in Australia. Currently he is playing?
Ans : Jason Gillespie.