sports & games MCQ section 10 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (a)

Indira Gandhi cup is associated with Boxing while Indira Gandhi gold cup is associated with hockey.;

Answer: (c)

Kerala Tourism has won 2015 Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) award.

Answer: (d)

Arunima Sinha is the first female Indian amputee to scale Mount Everest, a feat which she achieved on May 21, 2013. She has climbed four of the seven summits, including Mount Everest (2013), Mount Kilimanjaro (2014), Mount Elbrus and Mount Kosciuszko (2015).

Tom Whittaker, a British mountaineer, was the first person with a disability to summit Mount Everest in 1998.

Answer: (d)

Michael Johnson currently holds the world and Olympic records in the 400 m. He formerly held the world and Olympic record in the 200 m, and the world record in the indoor 400 m. He also currently holds the world’s best time at 300 m.

He is the only male athlete in history to win both the 200-meter dash and 400-meter dash events at the same Olympics, a feat he accomplished at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

Johnson is also the only man to successfully defend his Olympic title in the 400 m in the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

Answer: (d)

Germany won the men’s Hockey Champions Trophy for the year 2014 after defeating Pakistan by 2-0 margin at the Kalinga stadium in Bhuvaneswar Odisha. This was 10th Champions Trophy crown for Germany. It had last won the tournament in 2007. For the third position world Champion Australia defeated India 2-1.

Answer: (c)

Female wrestler Sakshi Malik, on 18 August 2016, secured India’s first medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics when she clinched bronze medal in women’s wrestling 58kg category. She defeated Kyrgyzstan’s Aisuluu Tynybekova for the feat. She is the first Indian female wrestler to win an Olympic medal.;