Sports GK MCQs

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Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina are the tennis players that won the gold medal in women’s doubles 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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Parupalli Kashyap is an Indian badminton player. Parupalli Kashyap is a badminton player from India. He created history by reaching the quarter-finals of men’s singles at the 2012 London Olympics, is the first male player from India to do so.

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The “Turkish Airlines EuroLeague” is a basketball competition. The EuroLeague, known as the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague, is the top-tier European professional basketball club competition, organized by Euroleague Basketball since 2000.

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The “FIBA Hall of Fame” honours players, coaches, teams, referees, and administrators of basketball sport. The FIBA Hall of Fame, or FIBA Basketball Hall of Fame, honours players, coaches, teams, referees, and administrators who have greatly contributed to international competitive basketball. It was established by FIBA, in 1991. The FIBA Hall of Fame building is a basketball museum built-in Community of Madrid, Spain, by the Pedro Ferrandiz Foundation.

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Ma Long won the gold medal in men’s singles in the 2019 World Table Tennis Championships. The 2019 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Budapest, Hungary from 21 to 28 April 2019. It was the 55th edition of the championships and the fourth time that they were held in Budapest.

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Royal Birkdale Golf Club is a golf course in the United Kingdom in North West England, located in Southport, Merseyside. It is one of the clubs in the rotation for both the Open Championship and Women’s British Open and has hosted the Open Championship ten times from 1954 through 2017.

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The Evian Championship is a women’s professional golf tournament in France, played at the Evian Resort Golf Club in Evian-Les-Bains. Founded 26 years ago in 1994 on the Ladies European Tour (LET) as the Evian Masters, it is one of two major championships on the LET.

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The London Prize Ring Rules were a list of boxing rules promulgated in 1838 and revised in 1853. These rules were based on those drafted by England’s Jack Broughton in 1743 and governed the conduct of prizefighting/bare-knuckle boxing for over 100 years. They “introduced measures that remain in effect for professional boxing to this day, such as outlawing butting, gouging, scratching, kicking, hitting a man while down, holding the ropes, and using resin, stones or hard objects in the hands, and biting.”They were later superseded by the Marquess of Queensberry Rules, the origins of the modern sport of boxing.

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A brawler is a fighter who generally lacks finesse and footwork in the ring but makes up for it through sheer punching power. Many brawlers tend to lack mobility, preferring a less mobile, more stable platform and have difficulty pursuing fighters who are fast on their feet.

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Parrying or blocking uses the boxer’s shoulder, hands or arms as defensive tools to protect against incoming attacks. A block generally receives a punch while a parry tends to deflect it. A “palm”, “catch”, or “cuff” is a defence which intentionally takes the incoming punch on the palm portion of the defender’s glove.