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Q1. A ranks 3rd on the list with 6 Aus Open Women’s Singles titles. She also achieved success in doubles, and teamed up with the legendary Jean Borotra to win the Australian mixed doubles in 1928. It was said of her that “ She ran like a gazelle and could retrieve balls effortlessly like a “stonewaller”. She practiced with men like Jack Crawford and local players from her hometown.
B was the first non-Briton to win Wimbledon in 1907 (He also won the doubles that year). He also played 39 Davis Cup matches and served as the commissioner of then Australian branch of the British Red Cross, he also played for St.Kilda Football in his youth. Who are A and B and what honor do they share?

Q2. Otl Aicher who had designed the Lufthansa logo used Cherie von Birkenhof as the model. Otl added different colors but the black & red were omitted since they belonged to the Nazi Party. What innovation resulted and what was it called?

Q3. What famous landmark answers to both the blanks?

,Charlottenburg, Tiergarten, Moabit, Mitte, Friedrichshain, Kreuzberg, Neukolin, Schoneburg, Steglitz, Zehlendorf,

Q4. There is not much that one can say about the quality of the camerawork & editing of Doordarshan. But this person lost his career because of it : After the game, when I saw the footage, I saw the camera going from one direction to the other and maybe there was some editing problem but it showed me in very bad light..as if I had left the goalpost and run away. […] No, they didn’t show me at the goalpost at all. People thought maybe I got scared and left my post.
Explain!

Q5. In 1942, as he prepared to go to war for Germany, he wrote a letter to his American friend.“My heart is telling me that this is perhaps the last letter of my life. If that is so, I beg one thing from you. When the war is over, please go to Germany, find my son and tell him about his father. Tell him about the times when war did not separate us and tell him that things can be different between men in this world. “Your brother,

The German died during the Allied invasion of Sicily in 1943. The American fulfilled his promise and found “his brother’s son” in Germany. Who are these two friends?

AUGUST QUIZ ANSWERS

Q.1 Sent in as a night watchman, he dug deep and went on to score a double century….a first for a night watchman. Incidentally this was also his last test innings. Just identify this cricketer.
Ans. Jason Gillispe

Q.2 The defender had this good luck custom of his kissing the bald head of his goalkeeper before the start of the match. The two did this ritual for all their international matches that they played together. Later when they were together in the same club, they continued to do it, but only in the Champions League matches.

Name both the players?
Ans. Fabien Barthez;Laurent Blanc

Q.3 Warrd is a locally brewed drink in this Middle Eastern country. A mixture of locally grown pomegranate and trinj (which is a kind of bitter orange) is combined with carbonated rosewater to produce an aromatic juice. Every year in April, it receives a bit of media attention. Which country and why?
Ans. Non alcoholic Champagne used on the podium in the Bahrain Grand Prix

Q.4 Whose words?
“There were no fears; I was practically a robot, I focused on my positioning and reaching the target. My feelings were taken from the people who described to me how they saw it, what they felt, their emotions and their cries. This is what made me realize, what that moment actually meant”
Ans. Antonio Rebollo, the Paralympic Archer who lit the torch at the opening ceremony of the Barcelona Olympics

Q.5 In 1977, Dusty Baker of the Los Angeles Dodgers was rounding third base, and heading for home, having just hit his 30th home run of the season. The Dodgers were heading for a National League championship. The next hitter was Glenn Burke, enjoying his second season in the major leagues.

What happened next?
Ans. First ever “high five”