sports & games MCQ section 1 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (c)

Indian environment activist Ramesh Agarwal has won the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize that honours heroic grassroot environmentalists around the world for their achievements. He has been honoured for his contribution to control the unchecked industrial development throughout India.

Answer: (b)

India won Gold Medal in football in 1951 and 1962. In 1951 the inaugural Asian Games were held in New Delhi and the football team under the legendary captain Sailendra Nath Manna won the gold medal with Sahu Mewalal scoring the winner against Iran.

11 years later in Jakarta, India won their second and until now last gold medal in Asian Games football. It was a 2-1 final victory against South Korea with P.K. Banerjee and the late Jarnail Singh scoring.;

Answer: (a)

Leander Paes and Martina Hingis beat Daniel Nestor and Kristina Mladenovic to win 2015 Australian Open mixed doubles title.

Answer: (d)

At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Abhinav Bindra won the gold medal in the men's 10 m air rifle shooting event; Sushil Kumar won the wrestling Bronze medal for India in the Men’s freestyle 66 kg and Vijender Kumar won a bronze medal in the Middleweight 75 kg boxing category.

Note: In the 2016 Paralympics Games Mariyappan Thangavelu (Gold) and Varun Singh Bhati (bronze) secured India two medals in the high jump category (T-42 event).

A historic silver medal ensured Deepa Malik scripted history; she won second place in the women’s shotputs (F53 event). Devendra Jhajhariya, India’s sole gold medalist at the Paralympics prior to 2016 Jhajhariya went on to break his own world record and made the javelin gold medal his own.

Answer: (c)

Sanjita Khumukcham, a Weight lifter, won the first gold medal for India in the Commonwealth games-2014.

Answer: (a)