Sports GK Questions - MCQs on Sports General Knowledge

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In the year 1971, the first Limited over International (One Day International (ODI)) cricket match was held. Cricket entered a new era in 1963 when English counties introduced the limited overs variant. As it was sure to produce a result, limited overs cricket was lucrative and the number of matches increased. The first Limited Overs International was played in 1971.

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In the 3rd Cricket World Cup edition, India won its first “Cricket World Cup Champion” title. The 1983 Cricket World Cup (officially the Prudential Cup ’83) was the 3rd edition of the Cricket World Cup tournament. It was held from 9 to 25 June 1983 in England and Wales and was won by India.

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The 1987 Cricket World Cup was known as the “Reliance Cup”. The 1987 Cricket World Cup (known as the Reliance Cup 1987) was the fourth Cricket World Cup. It was held from 8 October to 8 November 1987 in India and Pakistan – the first such tournament to be held outside England. The competition was won, for the first time, by Australia who defeated their arch-rivals England by seven runs in the second-most closely fought World Cup final to date in Kolkata’s Eden Gardens stadium.

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Ricky Ponting holds the current record for most catches (fielder) in all the Cricket World Cup tournaments. He got a total of 28 catches between the cricket world cups of 1996 and 2011.

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Pakistan won the most number of Men’s Hockey World Cup champion titles.

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Power Hockey is the name of the competitive hockey game which is based on the use of an electric wheelchair.

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Hockey’s sub-type variant is “Ringette”. Ringette is a team sport with two variations, an indoor and an outdoor version. The winter sport is played on an ice rink. One indoor court version is called gym ringette.

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French Open is the name of the Grand Slam tennis tournament played on clay courts. The Grand Slam tournaments, also called majors, are the four most important annual tennis events. The Grand Slam itinerary consists of the Australian Open in mid-January, the French Open (also known as Roland Garros) from around late May to early June, Wimbledon in June–July, and the US Open in August–September. Each tournament is played over a two-week period. The Australian and the United States tournaments are played on hard courts, the French on clay, and Wimbledon on the grass. Wimbledon is the oldest, founded in 1877, followed by the US in 1881, the French in 1891, and the Australian in 1905.

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Suzanne Lenglen was a French tennis player. She was one of tennis’s biggest stars in the 1920s, building her popularity on her status as the youngest major champion in tennis history as well as her elegant style of play and exuberant personality. Often playing in front of sell-out crowds and appearing on the front pages of newspapers for her biggest matches, she is often regarded as the first female athlete to become a global sports celebrity. Lenglen was ranked No. 1 in the world from 1921 through 1926, winning 8 Grand Slam singles titles and 21 in total. She also won 10 World Championship titles across all disciplines. Dissatisfied with her lack of income, she forfeited her amateur status and became the first women’s tennis player to turn professional. Lenglen has been ranked by the Tennis Channel as the greatest women’s tennis player from the amateur era.

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Steffi Graf is the only tennis player who has completed a “Golden Slam”. A player who wins an Olympic gold medal and all four Grand Slam events in the same year is said to have won a Golden Slam.