sports & games MCQ section 2 Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions & More Shortcuts

Answer: (d)

Serena Williams won the women’s single title of Australian Open 2015. Serena defeated Maria Sharapova of Russia in Melbourne, Australia. This was the 19th Grand Slam title and the sixth Australian Open title for Serena Williams.

Answer: (a)

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Deodhar Trophy — Cricket.

The Deodhar Trophy is a List A cricket competition in Indian domestic cricket. It is named after Prof. D. B. Deodhar (known as the Grand Old Man of Indian cricket) and is a 50-over knockout competition played on an annual basis among the 5 zonal teams - North Zone, South Zone, East Zone, West Zone and Central Zone. The competition was introduced in the 1973-74 season with South Zone winning the trophy.

Durand Cup — Football.

The Durand Football Tournament is a football competition in India that has a history dating back to 1888. The Tournament is named after its founder, Sir Mortimer Durand, British India’s Foreign Member of the time, the counterpart of the Foreign Secretary in London.

Grandmaster — Chess.

Answer: (c)

Rory McIlory is a 25 year old from Northern Ireland, rallied from a three stroke deficit to beat Spain’s Sergio Garcia by two strokes at the WGC Bridgestone Invitational.

Answer: (b)

Dutee Chand won two gold in the 16th Asian Junior Athletics Championship, one in 200 m and another in 4*400m relay race.

Answer: (a)

The 2006 FIFA World Cup was the 18th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football world championship tournament. It was held from 9 June to 9 July 2006 in Germany, which won the right to host the event in July 2000. Italy won the tournament, claiming their fourth World Cup title.

They defeated France 5–3 in a penalty shootout in the final, after extra time had finished in a 1–1 draw. Germany defeated Portugal 3–1 to finish third.

Note: Argentina was the runner-up in the football world cup 2014.