sports & games MCQ section 8 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (a)

Atul Keshap has been appointed as the United States (US) Ambassador to Maldives and Sri Lanka. Raghavendra Gadagkar has been conferred with highest civilian award of Germany, Cross of Order of the Merit.

Answer: (d)

Indian oil won the 119th Beighton Cup Hockey tournament to defeated Panjab National Bank in Kolkata. The awards of the tournament were presented by the West Bengal Governor Keshari Nath Tripathy.

Answer: (d)

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 the upcoming Olympic Games:

1. Pyeongchang for the 2018 Winter Olympics,
2. Tokyo for the 2020 Summer Olympics, and
3. Beijing for the 2022 Winter Olympics.

In 2022, Beijing will become the only city that has held both the summer and winter Olympic Games.

Answer: (c)

The Indian Women’s Kabaddi team won Kabaddi World Cup title by defeating Newzealand. Indian men’s kabaddi team also won Kabaddi World Cup by defeating Pakistan.

Answer: (d)

The four Grand Slam tournaments, also called Majors, are the most important annual tennis events. The Grand Slam itinerary consists of the Australian Open in mid January, the French Open in May/June, Wimbledon in June/July, and the US Open inAugust/ September.

Answer: (b)

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.