sports & games MCQ section 9 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (c)

Answer: (b)

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Wally Grout — Cricket. Arthur Theodore Wallace Grout was a Test cricketer who kept wickets for Australia and Queensland. Grout played in 51 Test matches between 1957 and 1966.

Eusebio — Football. Eusébio da Silva Ferreira, GCIH, GCM.( 25 January 1942 – 5 January 2014) was a Mozambican-born Portuguese football forward. He is considered one of the greatest footballers of all time. During his professional career, he scored 733 goals in 745 matches.

Rod Laver — Lawn Tennis. Rodney George “Rod” Laver MBE is an Australian former professional tennis player who holds the record for most singles titles won in the history of tennis, with 200 career titles.

Mark spitz — Swimming. Mark Andrew Spitz is an American former swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder. He won seven gold medals at the 1972 Summer Olympics, an achievement only surpassed by Michael Phelps.

Answer: (c)

Vikas Gowda is an Indian discus thrower and Shot putter. He won his first gold medal at the 20th Asian Athletics Championship in Pune in July 2013, with a discus throw of 64.90 meters.;

Answer: (d)

Varsha Gautam and Aishwarya Nedunchezhiyan won a first ever bronze medal in sailing in Asian Games.

Answer: (b)

C.K. Naidu Cup is associated with cricket. It is named after C.K. Naidu who was the first captain of the Indian cricket team in Test matches. He played first-class cricket regularly till 1958, and returned for one last time in 1963 at the age of 68.;

Answer: (d)

Graham Smith was a Canadian swimmer, who won the silver medal in the 4x100m Medley Relay at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada.

At the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, he became the first competitor to win six gold medals at a single Commonwealth Games; he won the 100m and 200m breaststroke, 200m and 400m individual medleys, and was part of the winning 4x100 freestyle and medley relay teams.

Smith twice broke the world record in the men’s 200m individual medley (long course).