A Good Sports Quiz - 20 great questions"

Hi guys,
    Thanks for all the answers. Sorry I cannot put up the scores as I was a bit busy.
Fantastic number of replies, around 25 replies. Many seem to have got in the range 0f 15-
18. Many missed Q18 - The clue lay in the question itself! Thanks and see you in a week
for a new set of 10 questions!
 
1) Who said this: “Until a few years ago, I thought I would be a go-kart mechanic”.
Hint: F1
 
Ans: The F1 champion, Fernando Alonso
 
2) In which Olympics was the official Olympic flag was first flown?
 
Ans: The Antwerp Olympics
 
3) Juan Pablo Montoya injured his shoulder playing a particular game in 2005 and had to
miss 2 races. Name the game?
 
Ans: Tennis  
 
4) Which is now the biggest-valued sports brand in terms of sponsorship revenue? It is
now valued at $27.12 million, displacing Juventus (Italian Club) to second place at $22.2
million.  
 
Ans: Team India
 
5) Only 2 players have won the French Open in the very first attempt. Rafael Nadal was
one of them. Who is the other?
 
Ans: Mats Wilander
 
6) Who was the first tennis player, man or woman, to rise from outside the top 100 to
rank 2nd in the same year.  
 
Ans: Kim Clistjers
 
7) Ronaldo de Assis Moreira is the birth name of which famous footballer?
 
Ans: Too easy - Ronaldinho
 
8) What was common to F1 winner Renault, WRC winner Citron and MotoGp winner
Yamaha? A simple connect.
 
Ans: All used Michelin tyres
 
9) How is Shiva Keshavan unique to Indian sport? Hint: Next winter Olympics are going
on in Turin, from 10th February.
 
Ans: Shiva Keshavan is India's only Winter Olympian. He became the first Indian to win
medals in winter sports of any kind in the international arena. He won a bronze in the
Asian Luge championship held at Nagano, Japan.  
 
10) “China was poor back then, so we loved Tennis because it gave us a chance to wear
cool clothes” – whose quote is this?  
 
Ans: Zheng Jie
 
11) Who became the sixth person to score a century in his 100th test match and became
the first person to score a century in both the innings of his 100th test match. (A real
sitter?)
 
Ans: Ricky Pointing
 
12) Who became the first cricketer in 24 years to win the BBC sports personality award?
(As Prateek pointed out, this was a bit vague, but as all questions were of current affairs, I
thought it wouldn't be so - Sorry!)
 
Ans: Andrew Flintoff
 
13) Who was voted among the 50 most beautiful people in the world in 1999, the same
year he was the world No 1 in Tennis? A few months later, he launched his owner
cologne and in 2001, he acted in the Spanish film Torrente II. He loves water and has a
tattoo of a dolphin on his bicep. He is a good friend of the golfer Sergio Garcia.  
 
Ans: Carlos Moya “Llompart”
 
14) Which tennis player has got a new name “Mahaviro” after completing a week of
service at a Buddhist temple? “I might lose a match, but I love to win the crowd” is one
of his famous quotes. His nicknames are “Ball” and “Superball”.
 
Ans: Paradorn Srichapan
 
15) Allan Border (27), Steve Waugh (23) ….. Give me the next person in the list. (The
least cracked Question!)
 
Ans: Rahul Dravid (21) – players involved in run-outs in tests a maximum number of
times.
 
16) Camille Nevieve is the girlfriend of which now famous Tennis player? He became
famous in the Australian Open.
 
Ans: Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus
 
17) Who holds the world record of the maximum test match sixes and how many?
 
Ans: Chris Cairns, 87
 
18) 212-ranked Australian Mark Edmondson, in 1976, was the last person to do what?
Hint: The guy from Q16 almost did it! (A very big clue!!!!)
 
Ans: Last unseeded player to win at the Australian Open
 
19) Which team is being named as Midland, having been taken over by Russian
Businessman Alex Shnaider?
 
Ans: Jordan
 
20) In the year 2000, which famous world personality, not related to sports, was named
an “Honorary Globetrotter”? (He is no more, having passed away last year!)
 
Ans: The late Pope John Paul II