Sports GK MCQs

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In 1996 Olympic Games, women’s association football was introduced for the first time.

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Thibaut Courtois was awarded the “best goalkeeper” in the 2018 FIFA Football World Cup. The 2018 FIFA World Cup was an international football tournament contested by men’s national teams and took place between 14 June and 15 July 2018 in Russia. It was the 21st FIFA World Cup.

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In the year 1872, the world’s first international football match was held. The world’s first international football match was a challenge match played in Glasgow in 1872 between Scotland and England, which ended in a 0–0 draw.

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Sunil Chhetri is known as “Captain Fantastic”. Sunil Chhetri is an Indian professional footballer who plays as a striker or winger and captains the Indian national team. Popularly known as Captain Fantastic, having scored the second-highest number of goals in international matches among active male players after Cristiano Ronaldo, he is both the most-capped player and all-time top goalscorer for the Indian national team, with 72 goals in 115 appearances. He is the current captain of the national team. Sunil Chhetri was named an ‘Asian Icon’ by AFC.

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Billie Jean King is an American former World No. 1 professional tennis player. King won 39 Grand Slam titles: 12 in singles, 16 in women’s doubles, and 11 in mixed doubles. She often represented the United States in the Federation Cup and the Wightman Cup. She was a member of the victorious United States team in seven Federation Cups and nine Wightman Cups.

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Monica Puig won the gold medal in women’s singles at the 2016 Summer Olympics. The tennis tournament at the 2016 Summer Olympics was held at the Olympic Tennis Centre, in Brazil, from 6 to 14 August. The competition was played on a fast hard court surface used in numerous North American tournaments that aims to minimize disruption for players.

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Venus Williams is the female tennis player who won the most number of gold medals in tennis in the Summer Olympics, as of 2016.

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Rafael Nadal is a professional tennis player from Spain who is widely regarded as one of the greatest tennis players of all time. Nadal has won a record 13 French Open titles, among many other accomplishments in his career. He is known for his dominant play on clay courts, but has also had success on other surfaces, including winning two Wimbledon titles and one US Open title. Nadal has been ranked as the world No. 1 in the ATP rankings for over 200 weeks, and has won a total of 20 Grand Slam singles titles.

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Prakash Padukone is an Indian badminton player. Prakash Padukone is a former Indian badminton player. He was ranked World No. 1 in 1980; the same year he became the first Indian to win the All England Open Badminton Championships.

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P.V.Sindhu is the first Indian badminton woman player to earn an Olympic silver medal. Pusarla Venkata Sindhu is an Indian professional badminton player. Having made her international debut in 2009, she rose to a career-high ranking of no. 2 in April 2017. Over the course of her career, P. V. Sindhu has won medals at multiple tournaments including Olympics and on the BWF circuit including a gold at the 2019 World Championships. She is the first Indian to become the Badminton World Champion and the first Indian woman to earn an Olympic Silver medal.