Sports Gk Questions

Correct Answer:-D ( 38” )
Description:-  Law 6 of the Laws of Cricket, as the rules of the game are known, state that the length of the bat may be no more than 38 inches (965 mm) and the width no more than 4.25 inches (108 mm). Bats typically weigh from 2 lb 7 oz to 3 lb (1.1 to 1.4 kg) though there is no standard. Appendix E of the Laws of Cricket set out more precise specifications.

Correct Answer:-D ( Swimming )
Description:-  The butterfly (colloquially among swimmers known as fly) is a swimming stroke swum on the breast, with both arms moving simultaneously, accompanied by the butterfly kick (also known as the “dolphin kick”). While other styles like the breaststroke, front crawl, or backstroke can be swum adequately by beginners, the butterfly is a more difficult stroke that requires good technique as well as strong muscles. It is the newest swimming style swum in competition, first swum in 1933 and originating out of breaststroke.

Correct Answer:-C ( 1982 at New Delhi )
Description:-  India was the host nation for the 1982 Asian Games held at Delhi, India from November 19 to December 4, 1982. India was ranked 5th with 13 gold medals, 19 silver medals and 25 bronze medals with a total of 57 over-all medals. In 2010, India created history by recording their best-ever performance in Guangzhou Asian Games with 64 medals, including 14 gold, with star boxer Vijender Singh providing the icing on the cake by bringing the last yellow metal on the penultimate day of the games. Before this performance, India’s best medal haul till date was recorded in the 1982 Games in Delhi when they had won 13 gold, 19 Silver and 25 Bronze for an overall tally of 57. India had finished 10 in the Asiad Games in Doha with a tally of 10-17-26. Note : The 2010 Asian Games, also known as the XVI Asiad, was celebrated in Guangzhou, China in November 2010.Here India won maximum 65 medals. India competed at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea, in September -October 2014. After 16 years India won the Gold medal in Asian Games men’s hockey tournament, and consequently earned a direct berth to the 2016 Summer Olympics hockey tournament. Here India won total of 57 medals. The 2018 Asian Games officially known as the XVIII Asiad, It is to be hosted by Indonesia and is scheduled to take place from August 18 – September 2, 2018. This will be the second time that Jakarta has hosted the Asian Games.

Correct Answer:-B ( Squash )
Description:-  Jahangir Khan is a former World No. 1 professional squash player from Pakistan, who is considered by many to be the greatest player in the history of the game. During his career he won the World Open six times and the British Open a record ten times. From 1981 to 1986, he was unbeaten in competitive play. During that time he won 555 games consecutively, the longest winning streak by any athlete in top-level professional sports as recorded by Guinness World Records. He retired as a player in 1993, and has served as President of the World Squash Federation since 2002.

Correct Answer:-C ( Carl Lewis )
Description:-  At the funeral for his father in 1987, Lewis took his 1984 Olympic gold medal for the 100 meters and put it in his father’s hands, saying, “I want you to have this because it was your favorite event.” When his mother appeared surprised, Lewis told her, “Don’t worry. I’ll get another one.”

Correct Answer:-D ( Greece )
Description:-  The 2004 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly referred to as UEFA Euro 2004 or Euro 2004, was the 12th UEFA European Football Championship, a quadrennial football tournament for men’s national teams in Europe. It was held in Portugal for the first time, after their bid was selected by UEFA on 12 October 1999, over bids from Spain and Austria/ Hungary. For the first time in a major football tournament, the final featured the same teams as the opening match, and like in their previous encounter, Portugal were beaten by Greece, with the winning goal scored by Angelos Charisteas. Greece’s triumph was unexpected, considering that they had only qualified for two other major tournaments – Euro 1980 and the 1994 World Cup – and their victory in the opening match was their first in a major tournament. Note : The UEFA Euro 2016 Final that took place on 10 July 2016 in France, Portugal defeated the hosts and two-time winners France 1–0 after extra time.

Correct Answer:-B ( Rs. 5 lakh )
Description:-  Dronacharya Award is an award presented by the government of India for excellence in sports coaching. The award comprises a bronze statuette of Dronacharya, a scroll of honour and a cash component of Rs.500,000. The award was instituted in 1985. As the best sportsperson award is named Arjuna Award, it is appropriate that the coaching award is named after Dronacharya, as he was the Guru of Arjuna.

Correct Answer:-C ( Major R.S. Rathore )
Description:-  Colonel Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore is an Indian shooter who won the silver medal in Men’s Double Trap at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He is the first Indian (post independence) to win an individual silver, after Norman Pritchard, a British origin born in India, who won two silver medals at the 1900 Paris Olympics. Rathore’s silver was India’s best individual Olympic performance post Indian Independence.

Correct Answer:-B ( Jacques Rogge )
Description:-  The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is an international non-governmental organization based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre, Baron de Coubertin, on 23 June 1894 with Demetrios Vikelas as its first president. Jacques Rogge is a Belgian sports administrator. He is the eighth and current President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Rogge was elected as President of the IOC on 16 July 2001 at the 112th IOC Session in Moscow as the successor to Marqués de Samaranch, who had previously led the IOC since 1980. Note : Thomas Bach, a German lawyer, former Olympic fencer is ninth and current President of the International Olympic Committee. However Jacques Rogge is enjoying the post of Honorary President. Mr. Narayana Ramachandran is the current president of Indian Olympic Association.

Correct Answer:-D ( 1930)
Description:-  The Commonwealth Games is an international, multi-sport event involving athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. The event was first held in 1930 and takes place every four years, apart from the 1950 British Empire Games, which took place after a 12-year gap from the 3rd edition of the games. The first Games were held in 1930 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The name changed to British Empire and Commonwealth Games in 1954, to British Commonwealth Games in 1970 and assumed the current name of the Commonwealth Games in 1978.

Correct Answer:-A ( Finals )
Description:-  The 2005 Women’s Cricket World Cup Final was a women’s One Day International cricket match between Australia and India played on 10 April 2005 at the SuperSport Park in South Africa. It was the culmination of the 2005 Women’s Cricket World Cup, the eighth tournament of the series. Australia won by 98 runs, clinching their fifth World Cup title, and their fourth on foreign soil. It was the first time that the Indian team had reached this stage of a women’s World Cup.

Correct Answer:-A ( Glenn McGrath )
Description:-  During the 1st Test at Lords in the 2005 Ashes series Glenn McGrath became the fourth bowler in history to take 500 Test wickets with the dismissal of Marcus Trescothick. This wicket was also the start of a very productive spell of 5-2 which led to England being bowled out for 155. McGrath took 4-29 in the 2nd innings and was named man of the match in a comprehensive Australian victory.

Correct Answer:-B ( South Africa )
Description:-  The 2010 FIFA World Cup was the 19th FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men’s national association football teams. It took place in South Africa from 11 June to 11 July 2010. The bidding process for hosting the tournament finals was open only to African nations; in 2004, the international football federation, FIFA, selected South Africa over Egypt and Morocco to become the first African nation to host the finals. The matches were played in ten stadiums in nine host cities around the country, with the final played at the Soccer City stadium in South Africa’s largest city, Johannesburg. Note : The 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup will be the 17th edition of the FIFA U-17 World Cup the tournament will be hosted by India between 6 and 28 October 2017. This will be the first FIFA tournament hosted by the country. The final will be held the Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata on 28 October 2017. The 2022 FIFA World Cup is scheduled to be the 22nd edition of the FIFA World Cup It is scheduled to take place in Qatar in 2022 The 2018 FIFA World Cup will be the 21st FIFA World Cup It is scheduled to take place in Russia. The 2014 FIFA World Cup was the 20th FIFA World Cup It took place in Brazil from 12 June to 13 July 2014. Germany national football team won the final.

Correct Answer:-A ( due to the slow over rate of India in one-day matches when he was captain of the Indian team )
Description:-  In July 2005, India skipper Saurav Ganguly had his international ban for slow over rates cut from six matches to four. Independent arbitrator, Justice Albie Sachs, upheld the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) Code of Conduct and the process used to charge him but decided that the original six-match ban was too severe. Ganguly was penalised by match referee Chris Broad during a one-day series against Pakistan at home in April, a decision upheld by the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) appeals Commissioner Michael Beloff.

Correct Answer:-D ( Dubai )
Description:-  The International Cricket Council (ICC) is the international governing body of cricket. From its formation the ICC had Lord’s Cricket Ground as its home, and from 1993 had its offices in the “Clock Tower” building at the nursery end of the ground. The option of staying at Lord’s was investigated by the ICC in the 2000s and a request was made, through Sport England, to the British Government to allow the ICC to have all its personnel (including those working on commercial matters) in London – but be given special exemption from paying UK corporation tax on its commercial income. The British Government was unwilling to create a precedent and would not agree to this request. As a consequence the ICC examined other locations and eventually settled on the emirate of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. In August 2005 the ICC moved its offices to Dubai, and subsequently closed its offices at Lord’s and Monaco. The move to Dubai was made after an 11-1 vote by the ICC’s Executive Board in favour.

Correct Answer:-C ( Golf )
Description:-  Some of the key terms associated with Golf are: putting, chipping, pitching, sand play, and bunker strategies. The putt is used for putting the ball in the hole or closer to the hole (as in lagging) from the green or the fringe of the green. The putter is used for the putt. The golfer adjusts his/her putt to fit the circumstances of the play such as distance to the hole and slope of the green. The face of the club starts square to the target line. The club goes straight back and straight through along the same path like a pendulum. One strategy is to aim the ball 10% past the hole. Another is to look at the hole for long putts instead of the ball.

Correct Answer:-C ( Penalty Stroke )
Description:-  In the sport of golf, a penalty or penalty stroke is an additional stroke or strokes added to a player’s score for an infraction of the rules. In match play, rather than adding strokes, the usual penalty is loss of the hole except for penalties assessed for relief from a hazard or a lost ball. The term is also used in field hockey where fully protected goalkeepers are prohibited from passing their side’s defensive 23 m line during play, unless they are taking a penalty stroke. A goalkeeper who is wearing only a helmet and different coloured shirt may remove the helmet and play anywhere on the field and retains goalkeeping privileges even if they do not have chance to replace the helmet when play returns to their defensive circle. They must however wear a helmet to defend penalty corners and penalty strokes.

Correct Answer:-A ( Serena Williams )
Description:-  In the 2005 Australian Open – Women’s Singles championship, Justine Henin was the defending champion, but she could not compete this year due to a knee injury. Serena Williams won her second Australian Open title, defeating World No. 1 and compatriot Lindsay Davenport in the final. Note : In 2017 Australian open in women single Serena Williams won the title by defeating her sister Venus Williams in the final. This marks the first time the Williams sisters met in a Grand Slam final since the 2009 Wimbledon Championships and the first time they met in the Australian Open final since 2003. In men single Roger Federer picked up his 18th grand slam title. He beat Rafa Nadal in the final.

Correct Answer:-C ( South-Eastern Red-tailed Black Cockatoo named Karak )
Description:-  Karak was the mascot for the 2006 Commonwealth Games. He was modelled on a Red-tailed Black Cockatoo, a threatened species within the host country, Australia. Despite his initial acceptance by Australians, particularly children, and despite appearing on a lot of the foreign made merchandise, Karak was noticeably absent from the Games, particularly the Opening and Closing Ceremonies, where he was inexplicably replaced by a white duck. Note : Borobi the blue koala has been announced as the official mascot for the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.

Correct Answer:-C ( Lala Amarnath )
Description:-  Nanik Amarnath Bharadwaj (commonly known as Lala Amarnath) was an Indian Test cricketer. He was the first cricketer to score a Test century for the Indian cricket team, which he achieved on debut. He played his debut match against England in 1933 on the Bombay Gymkhana grounds in South Bombay. He was also independent India’s first Test captain, leading the team on a tour of Australia in 1947-1948. His century on debut, the first one for the country in official Tests, against England at the Bombay Gymkhana in 1933 is identified as one of the best innings played in the annals of Indian cricket. There was a lyrical excellence to his batting, which evoked a comparison, by a commentator, to the immortal poet, Lord Byron: “pure romantic, the Byron of Indian cricket.”

Correct Answer:-C ( Cricket )
Description:-  In the terminology of the game of cricket, a beamer (less commonly beam ball) is a type of delivery in which the ball (bowled at a fast pace), without bouncing, passes above the batsman’s waist height. Such a ball is often dangerously close to the batsman’s head, due to the lack of control a bowler has over high full tosses. Worse, the batsman is expecting the ball to pitch on the wicket and therefore may not pick up the flight of the ball and may be struck by it. This type of delivery can result in injuries to the batsman, and the penalty for this type of delivery is an immediate no-ball signal given by the umpire. The use of beamers is governed under Law 42.6.

Correct Answer:-A ( Beijing )
Description:-  The 2008 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, was a major international multi-sport event that took place in Beijing, China, from August 8 to 24, 2008. A total of 11,028 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) competed in 28 sports and 302 events (a total of one event more than the schedule of the 2004 Games). China became the 22nd nation to host the Olympic Games and the 18th to hold a Summer Olympic Games. It was the third time that the Summer Olympic Games were held in Asia, after Tokyo, Japan, in 1964 and Seoul, South Korea, in 1988. Note : The 2016 Summer Olympics commonly known as Rio 2016, was a major international multi-sport event held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 August to 21 August 2016. Motto: A new world The 2016 Summer Paralympics the fifteenth Summer Paralympics Games, were a major event for athletes with disabilities governed by the International Paralympics Committee, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 September to 18 September 2016. Three cities have been chosen by the IOC to host upcoming Olympic Games: Pyeongchang for the 2018 Winter Olympics, Tokyo for the 2020 Summer Olympics, and Beijing for the 2022 Winter Olympics. In 2022, Beijing will become the only city that has held both the summer and winter Olympic Games.

Correct Answer:-A ( Formula one car racing )
Description:-  Narain Karthikeyan is the first Formula One motor racing driver from India. He has previously competed in A1GP, and the Le Mans Series. He made his Formula One debut in 2005 with the Jordan team, and was a Williams F1 test driver in 2006 and 2007. Like several other former F1 drivers, Karthikeyan moved to stock car racing.

Correct Answer:-D ( Norman Borlaug Award )
Description:-  Norman Borlaug, “The Man Who Saved A Billion Lives”, was an American agronomist, humanitarian, and Nobel laureate who has been called “the father of the Green Revolution”. Borlaug was one of six people to have won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India’s second highest civilian honor. During the mid-20th century, Borlaug led the introduction of these highyielding varieties combined with modern agricultural production techniques to Mexico, Pakistan, and India. Between 1965 and 1970, wheat yields nearly doubled in Pakistan and India, greatly improving the food security in those nations. These collective increases in yield have been labeled the Green Revolution, and Borlaug is often credited with saving over a billion people worldwide from starvation.

Correct Answer:-B ( 776 BC )
Description:-  In ancient history, the first recorded Olympic Games took place in a glade called Olympia, surrounded by a pine forest on the northwestern coast of the Peloponnesus, in the year 776 BCE. That was the date when the names of the winners were first recorded, but the games themselves go back another 1500 years at least. They continued to be celebrated when Greece came under Roman rule, until the emperor Theodosius I suppressed them in 394 AD as part of the campaign to impose Christianity as the state religion of Rome. The games were usually held every four years, or Olympiad, which became a unit of time in historical chronologies.

Correct Answer:-C ( Mahela Jayawardane and Sangakara )
Description:-  Mahela Jayawardene smashed the fourth highest score of 374 and shared a world record stand of 624 with Kumar Sangakkara as Sri Lanka battered South Africa in the first Test in Colombo in July 2006. The batting feast at the Sinhalese sports club saw Sri Lanka pile up a mammoth 756-5 declared in reply to South Africa’s modest 169 to gain a match-winning lead of 587 runs. The third-wicket pair surpassed the previous best of 576 for the second wicket by fellow-Sri Lankans Sanath Jayasuriya and Roshan Mahanama against India at the Premadasa stadium here in 1997. Left-handed Sangakkara fell for 287, caught behind chasing a wide ball from Andrew Hall, but Jayawardene batted on to surpass Jayasuriya’s Sri Lankan record of 340. Jayawardene crossed West Indian Garfield Sobers’ 365 not out and was one run away from equalling Brian Lara’s 375 against England in 1994 when he was bowled by an express Andre Nel delivery.

Correct Answer:-C ( Beijing )
Description:-  The 2008 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, was a major international multi-sport event that took place in Beijing, China, from August 8 to 24, 2008. A total of 11,028 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) competed in 28 sports and 302 events (a total of one event more than the schedule of the 2004 Games). China became the 22nd nation to host the Olympic Games and the 18th to hold a Summer Olympic Games. It was the third time that the Summer Olympic Games were held in Asia, after Tokyo, Japan, in 1964 and Seoul, South Korea, in 1988.

Correct Answer:-A ( Badminton)
Description:-  The Thomas Cup, sometimes called the World Men’s Team Championships, is an international badminton competition among teams representing member nations of the Badminton World Federation (BWF), the sport’s global governing body. The championships have been conducted every two years since the 1982 tournament, amended from being conducted every three years since the first tournament held in 1948- 1949. The final phase of the tournament involves twelve teams competing at venues within a host nation and is played concurrently with the final phase of the world women’s team championships, the Uber Cup (first held in 1956-1957). Since 1984 the two competitions have been held jointly at the various stages of play.

Correct Answer:-A ( West Indies )
Description:-  The 2007 ICC Cricket World Cup was the ninth edition of the ICC Cricket World Cup tournament that took place in the West Indies from 13 March to 28 April 2007, using the sport’s One Day International format. There were a total of 51 matches played, three fewer than at the 2003 World Cup (despite a field larger by two teams). Australia won the tournament undefeated, concluding a streak of 29 World Cup games without a loss. Note : The 2019 Cricket World Cup is scheduled to be hosted by England and Wales, from 30 May to 15 July 2019.This will be the 12th Cricket World Cup competition, and the fifth time it will be held in England and Wales, following the 1975, 1979, 1983 and 1999 World Cups.

Correct Answer:-A ( Amelia Mauresimo )
Description:-  In the 2006 Wimbledon Championships – Women’s Singles tournament, Venus Williams was the defending champion, but she lost in the third round against Jelena Jankovic. Amélie Mauresmo of France won her first (and only) Wimbledon title, defeating Justine Henin-Hardenne in the final, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4. It was her second and last Grand Slam title, having won the Australian Open earlier in the year; on that occasion, Henin-Hardenne retired due to a stomach bug. It was the first Wimbledon final since 1999 not to feature either of the Williams sisters. Note : In 2016 Wimbledon Championships Serena Williams successfully defended her title, defeating Angelique Kerber in the final. By winning her seventh Wimbledon title, Williams equaled Steffi Graf’s Open Era record of 22 major singles titles. Andy Murray won his third major and second Wimbledon title defeating Milos Raonic in the final. Raonic became the first Canadian male tennis player to reach a Grand Slam final.