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

Answer: (c)

Christopher Martin-Jenkins was a British cricket journalist and a past President of the MCC. He was also a commentator for Test Match Special (TMS) on BBC Radio from 1973 until diagnosed with terminal cancer in January 2012.;

Answer: (a)

A jump ball is a method used to begin or resume play in basketball. Two opposing players attempt to gain control of the ball after it is tossed up into the air in between them by an official.;

Answer: (d)

Novak Djokovic of Serbia has won the US Open Men’s Singles defeating Roger Federer of Switzerland.

Answer: (a)

The 2016 Summer Olympics will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in August 2016. Rio will become the first South American city to host the Summer Olympics, the second city in Latin America to host the event after Mexico City in 1968, and the first since 2000 to be held in the Southern Hemisphere.;

Answer: (a)

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 maybe 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.

Answer: (c)