More Questions on Sports
- Q. In which sport, term “Butterfly Stroke” is used?
A)Volleyball
B)Wrestling
C)Tennis
D)Swimming
Answer: Swimming
- Q. Football (Soccer) is said to have originated in :
A)England
B)China
C)Former USSR
D)Australia
Answer: England
- Q. The player who was awarded with Arjuna Award, Dronacharya Award, Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna and Padma Shri is –
A)Sachine Tendulkar
B)Prakash Padukone
C)Abhinav Bindra
D)Pullela Gopichand
Answer: Pullela Gopichand
- Q. Which of the following team had not won any world cup in 2002, 2006 and 2010?
A)Italy
B)Spain
C)Brazil
D)South Africa
Answer: South Africa
- Q. Chris Evert’s name is associated with which sports?
A)Swimming
B)Skating
C)Tennis
D)Shooting
Answer: Tennis
- Q. First Indian to win the ICC ODI player of the year {2008} was
A)Virendra Sehwag
B)C.Kapugedera
C)Saurav Ganguly
D)M.S.Dhoni
Answer: M.S.Dhoni
- Q. Who made history by becoming the first Indian Women to win an individual table tennis Gold at Commonwealth Games held in Gold Coast in 2018 ?
A)Naina Jaiswal
B)Manika Batra
C)Neha Aggarwal
D)Ankita Das
Answer: Manika Batra
- Q. Who will host the woman ICC World Cup in 2017?
A)England
B)Australia
C)NewZealand
D)India
Answer: England
- Q. Which of the following Women Tennis players have won the grand slam titles most number of times?
A)Steffi Graf
B)Margaret Court
C)Venus Williams
D)Serena Williams
Answer: Margaret Court
- Q. Find the mismatch –
A)Gagan Narang - Shooting
B)Arjun Atwal - Golf
C)Somdev Devvarman - Badminton
D)Anita Sood - Swimming
Answer: Somdev Devvarman - Badminton
- Q. Who has scored maximum number of centuries in one day cricket?
A)Sachin Tendulkar
B)Saeed Anwar
C)Viv Richards
D)Brian Lara
Answer: Sachin Tendulkar
- Q. India first won the Olympic Hockey gold at
A)Rome
B)Berlin
C)London
D)Amsterdam
Answer: Amsterdam
- Q. Who among the following sports personalities was the first to received Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Awards ?
A)Viswanathan Anand
B)Geet Sethi
C)Sachin Tendulkar
D)Sunil Gavaskar
Answer: Viswanathan Anand
- Q. In November 2017, India’s MC Mary Kom won the gold medal at the Asian Boxing Championship, 2017 held at Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. In which one of the following categories was she declared winner ?
A)51 kg
B)54 kg
C)45 kg
D)57 kg
Answer: 45 kg
- Q. Among the following teams, which team has won the Indian Premier League (IPL) final for two Successive years till 2012 ?
A)Chennai Supper Kings
B)Rajasthan Royals
C)Kolkata Knight Riders
D)Deccan Charges
Answer: Deccan Charges
- Q. Consider the following statements about Viswanathan Anand : 1. He has won the World Chess Championship five times. 2. He is the first sportsperson to receive the Padma Vibhushan award. 3. He is currently the No.1 rating player on the FIDE ratings. Which of the statements given above is/are correct ?
A)1 and 2 only
B)2 only
C)1, 2 and 3
D)1 and 3 only
Answer: 1, 2 and 3
- Q. Which player was named as Best Indian Bowler of the 20th century by the Wisden Magazine?
A)B.S.Chandrashekhar
B)B.S.Bedi
C)Kapil Dev
D)Subhas Gupte
Answer: B.S.Chandrashekhar
- Q. Which of the following is not correctly paired ?
A)Saina Nehwal - Badminton
B)Jhoolan Goswami - Cricket
C)Sania Mirza - Tennis
D)Jeev Milkha Singh - Chess
Answer: Jeev Milkha Singh - Chess
- Q. Who won the Grand Slam title four times successively?
A)Steffi Graf
B)Jennifer Capriati
C)Mortina Navratilova
D)Monica Seles
Answer: Steffi Graf
- Q. Who won the santosh trophy in 2016 ?
A)Maharashtra
B)Kerala
C)Services
D)West Bengal
Answer: Services
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