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IPL quiz

How well do you really know IPL? These 8 questions start easy and end with a Boss round. There are no multiple choice options: you type what you know, and every answer is checked against the key facts.

60 seconds a question, one 2x boost, and a leaderboard. Playing with friends writes a fresh set of IPL questions for your group.

The questions

1. Warm-up

   At an IPL match, what does IPL stand for, and which country is its league based in?

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   • IPL stands for Indian Premier League.
   • The league is based in India.
2. Warm-up

   In a standard IPL innings, how many overs does each team get, and how many legal balls are in each over?

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   • Each team gets 20 overs in a standard innings.
   • A standard over contains six legal balls.
   • That gives a team 120 legal balls in a full innings.
3. Easy

   For each IPL team, how many players make up the fielding side, and how many batters are at the crease?

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   • The fielding side has 11 players.
   • Two batters are at the crease.
4. Easy

   The “Yellow Army” fills the stands: name the IPL team and the city it represents.

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   • Chennai Super Kings
   • The team represents Chennai
   • Its nickname is the Yellow Army
5. Easy

   At the end of an IPL season, which cap goes to the top batter, and what batting achievement earns it?

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   • The Orange Cap is awarded to the leading run-scorer for the season.
   • It recognizes the player who scores the most runs in that IPL season.
6. Medium

   A team wants a mid-match substitution in the IPL: what is the rule called, and what can the incoming player do for the team?

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   • The rule is called the Impact Player rule.
   • A team can substitute one player during a match.
   • The incoming player can bat and bowl, subject to the match rules.
7. Medium

   Travel back to the first IPL final in 2008: name the winning team and the team it beat.

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   • Rajasthan Royals won
   • Rajasthan Royals beat Chennai Super Kings
   • The final was played in 2008
8. Boss

   In the 2016 IPL final, which team won, by how many runs, and what was its final score?

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   • Sunrisers Hyderabad won.
   • They beat Royal Challengers Bangalore by 8 runs.
   • Sunrisers Hyderabad scored 208 for 7.

How scoring works

• Each question has 2 or 3 key facts. Each one earns full, half or no credit, so a wrong answer scores zero.
• Later questions are worth more, fast answers earn a bonus, and great answers in a row build a streak.
• A famous myth or a clear factual error halves the points.

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