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Quiz | Easy like Sunday morning: All about extreme sports
Zorbing is a sport in which a rider is inside a large transparent ball and rolled down a hill. The word ‘Zorb’ refers to the orb and supposedly the country where this sport started.
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On January 18, 1981, Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield jumped off the top of a Houston skyscraper. They deployed their parachutes, landed safely and started a new extreme sport called BASE jumping. It is an acronym of things the athletes jump off from. What does the ‘B’, which they achieved, stand for?
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Lt. Colonel Satyendra Verma carried out India’s first-ever BASE jump from the 450ft-tall Pitampura TV tower building in 2010. His job was to intercept and disrupt enemy communications, so fittingly, what does the letter ‘A’ stand for in BASE jumping?
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The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge at a height of 625m (2,051ft) is currently the highest bridge in the world. It attracts a lot of BASE jumpers from around the world. What word, which refers to the section between supports, does the ‘S’ in BASE stand for?
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Russian extreme athlete Valery Rozov achieved the world’s highest BASE jump in 2013 by leaping from the north face of Mount Everest at 7,220 m/23,688 ft. He wore a wingsuit, which allowed him to fly at 201kmph before landing safely. What does ‘E’ in BASE stand for?
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One of the most popular extreme sports gets its name from an old English word which means ‘anything thick and squat’. In the 1920s, it was used to refer to a rubber eraser, and in the 1930s, to an elastic cord that launched gliders. What word is this?
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Zorbing is a sport in which a rider is inside a large transparent ball and rolled down a hill. The word ‘zorb’ refers to the orb and supposedly the country where this sport started. Which country is this, that is a hotbed for extreme sports?
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In 1995, TV media company ESPN founded an action sports competition in the US. It featured skateboarding, skiing, snowboarding, BMX and Moto X. By what fitting name is this event known?
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This is wind-propelled water sports that brings together sailing, paragliding and surfing. For a long time, the sport had the speed sailing record of 194kmph. Athletes reach this speed thanks to equipment which resembles a children’s toy. What sport is this?
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This is probably one of the oldest extreme sports, as humans have been doing this for thousands of years. With types like Alpine, Himalayan and Ice, it focuses on the athlete’s strength, endurance, flexibility and balance. What sport which is now even found in malls?
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EI is an extreme sport invented in 1997, where athletes take a household item to remote locations. Then they perform a chore while doing an extreme sport like skiing, parachuting or mountaineering, with the result being something formal to wear. What does ‘EI’ stand for?
