Sports GK MCQs

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Sharath Achanta and Sathiyan Gnanasekaran won the silver medal in table tennis men’s doubles at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Table tennis at the 2018 Commonwealth Games was held at the Oxenford Studios on the Gold Coast, Australia from April 5 to 15.

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Manika Batra and Mouma Das won the silver medal in table tennis women’s doubles at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Table tennis at the 2018 Commonwealth Games was held at the Oxenford Studios on the Gold Coast, Australia from April 5 to 15.

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The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews is the oldest golf club in the world. It is based in Scotland, United Kingdom and is regarded as the worldwide “Home of Golf”. Formerly, it was also one of the governing authorities of the game, but this role was handed over to The R&A.

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The U.S. Senior Open is one of the five major championships in senior golf, introduced in 1980. It is administered by the United States Golf Association (USGA) and is recognized as a major championship by both the PGA Tour Champions and the European Senior Tour. The lower age limit was 55 in 1980, but it was lowered to 50 for the second edition in 1981, which is the standard limit for men’s senior professional golf tournaments.

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The Big Easy Tour is a golf tour based in Southern Africa, founded in 2011. It is a developmental tour for the Sunshine Tour. The top five players earn Sunshine Tour cards, with those 6th–30th earning entry into the final stage of Sunshine Tour qualifying school. The tour is named after the nickname of South African golfer Ernie Els.

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Muirfield is a privately owned links which is the home of The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers. Located in Scotland, overlooking the Firth of Forth, Muirfield is one of the golf courses used in rotation for The Open Championship.

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Augusta National Golf Club sometimes referred to as Augusta or the National, is a golf club in Augusta, Georgia, United States. Augusta National is a for-profit corporation. Founded by Bobby Jones and Clifford Roberts, the course was designed by Jones and Alister MacKenzie and opened for play in 1932. Since 1934, the club has played host to the annual Masters’ Tournament, one of the four major championships in professional golf, and the only major played each year at the same course. It was the top-ranked course in Golf Digest’s 2009 list of America’s 100 greatest courses and was the number ten ranked course based on course architecture on Golfweek Magazine’s 2011 list of best classic courses in the United States.

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Inbee Park won the gold medal in golf women’s individual at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Golf at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, was held in August at the new Olympic Golf Course. The 2016 Summer Olympics was the first time golf had been played at the Olympics since the 1904 Summer Olympics and featured two events: the men’s and women’s individual events.

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Pankration was a sporting event introduced into the Greek Olympic Games in 648 BC and was an empty-hand submission sport with scarcely any rules. The athletes used boxing and wrestling techniques, but also others, such as kicking and holds, locks and chokes on the ground.

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Ghulam Mohammad Baksh, commonly known as Rustam-e-Hind and by the ring name The Great Gama, was an Indian wrestler who remained the undefeated champion of the world. He was awarded the Indian version of the World Heavyweight Championship on 15 October 1910 and went on to defeat freestyle wrestling champions across the world. Undefeated in a career spanning more than 52 years, he is considered one of the greatest wrestlers of all time.