Sports GK MCQs

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The FIBA 3×3 World Cup is a basketball competition. The FIBA 3×3 World Cup is a 3×3 basketball tournament for national teams organized by the International Basketball Federation (FIBA). The debut of the tournament then named as the FIBA 3×3 World Championship was held in August 2012 in Athens, Greece. The current champions are the United States in the men’s division and China in the women’s division.

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Greece’s basketball governing body is the “Hellenic Basketball Federation”. The Hellenic Basketball Federation is the main basketball governing body for the sport in Greece. It directs and oversees all of the national basketball teams of Greece, including both the junior and senior national teams, of both men and women.

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Breanna Stewart became the most-valued player of the 2018 FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup. The 2018 FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup, the 18th edition of FIBA’s premier international tournament for women’s national basketball teams, was held in Canary Islands, Spain from 22 to 30 September 2018. This was the first edition to use the name of FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup.

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Table Tennis sport is also known as “ping-pong”. Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net.

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Jean-Philippe Gatien is a French table tennis player. He competed at four Olympics from 1988 to 2000, winning silver in the singles at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and bronze in doubles (with Patrick Chila) at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. He won the World Table Tennis Championships in 1993, the Table Tennis World Cup in 1994, and was 13-time “champion de France”. His long list of victories makes him the greatest French table tennis player of all time.

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In the 2002 Commonwealth Games, table tennis was introduced for the first time. Table tennis competition has been in the Commonwealth Games as an optional sport since 2002, with singles and doubles events for both men and women.

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Paul Drinkhall and Liam Pitchford won the gold 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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Gary Player is a South African retired professional golfer who is widely considered to be one of the greatest golfers ever. During his career, Player won nine major championships on the regular tour and nine major championships on the Champions Tour. Player won the 1965 U.S. Open and became the only non-American to win all four majors in a career, known as the career Grand Slam.

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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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The Rumble in the Jungle was a historic boxing event in Kinshasa, Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), on October 30, 1974. It pitted the undefeated world heavyweight champion George Foreman against challenger Muhammad Ali, the former heavyweight champion. Ali won by knockout, putting Foreman down just before the end of the eighth round. It has been called “arguably the greatest sporting event of the 20th century”. It was a major upset victory, with Ali coming in as a 4–1 underdog against the unbeaten, heavy-hitting Foreman. The fight is famous for Ali’s introduction of the rope-a-dope tactic.