sports & games MCQ section 3 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (c)

Dipa Karmakar is an artistic gymnast who represented India at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

She is the first Indian female gymnast ever to compete in the Olympics, and the first Indian gymnast to do so in 52 years. She attained 4th position in the Women’s Vault Gymnastics event of Rio Olympics 2016.;

Answer: (a)

Answer: (d)

Pankaj Advani won the National Billiards Championship by scoring a stunning 5-4 victory over Geet Sethi in a nerve-wracking final. Trailing 2-3 at one stage, a resilient Advani came back well to claim his third consecutive national title.

Advani defeated Sethi 42-150, 154-27, 0-152, 152-0, 11-150, 91-150, 150- 15, 150-63, 151-12 in the best of 9 games final in a two-hour-long encounter.

He also won the World Professional Billiards title (WPBSA) held at Leeds in 2009, registering a comprehensive win against the defending and nine-time champion Mike Russell.;

Answer: (d)

Leander Paes has won 50 Doubles Titles.;

Answer: (a)

Indian Blind cricket team defeated Pakistan to win the fourth edition of Blind Cricket World Cup 2014 in Cap Town, South Africa.

Answer: (b)

Jesse Owens, the son of a sharecropper and grandson of a slave, achieved what no Olympian before him had accomplished. His stunning achievement of four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin has made him the best-remembered athlete in Olympic history.

Jesse gave the world a preview of things to come in Berlin, while at the Big Ten Championships in Ann Arbor on May 25, 1935, he set three world records and tied a fourth, all in a span of about 45 minutes.

He became the first American in Olympic Track and Field history to win four gold medals in a single Olympiad by winning four gold medals:

• 100-meter dash in 10.3 seconds (tying the world record),
• long jump with a jump of 26' 5 $1/4$" (Olympic record),
• 200-meter dash in 20.7 seconds (Olympic record), and
• 400-meter relay (first leg) in 39.8 seconds (Olympic and world record).