Sports GK MCQs
Sports GK (General Knowledge) Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) on different sports and games for competitive examinations. These questions are part of GKToday’s 35000+ MCQs Bank Course in GKToday Android App
31. What is Tai Tzu-Ying famous for?
[A] A Taiwanese golf player
[B] A Taiwanese polo player
[C] A Taiwanese badminton player
[D] A Taiwanese tennis player
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Correct Answer: C [A Taiwanese badminton player]
Notes:
Tai Tzu-Ying is a Taiwanese badminton player. Tai Tzu-Ying is a Taiwanese professional badminton player. At the age of 22, she became world No. 1 in the women’s singles on December 2016 and holds the record for most weeks ranked at the top in BWF history with 148 weeks (as of 17 March 2020).
32. What is Chen Yufei famous for?
[A] A Chinese badminton player
[B] A Chinese golf player
[C] A Chinese basketball player
[D] A Chinese polo player
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Correct Answer: A [A Chinese badminton player]
Notes:
Chen Yufei is a Chinese badminton player. She won the girls’ singles junior titles at 2016 Asian and the World Junior Championships. At the same year, Chen clinched her first senior title at the 2016 Macau Open Grand Prix Gold. She reaches a career-high as world number 1 in BWF World ranking on 17 December 2019.
33. Which of the following won the gold medal in badminton mixed doubles in the 2016 Summer Olympics?
[A] Zhang Nan and Zhao Yunlei
[B] Tontowi Ahmad and Liliyana Natsir
[C] Chan Peng Soon and Goh Liu Ying
[D] Xu Chen and Ma Jin
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Correct Answer: B [Tontowi Ahmad and Liliyana Natsir]
Notes:
Tontowi Ahmad and Liliyana Natsir won the gold medal in badminton mixed doubles in the 2016 Summer Olympics. The badminton tournaments at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil took place from 11 to 20 August.
34. What is LeBron James famous for?
[A] As an American football player
[B] As an American basketball player
[C] As an American tennis player
[D] As an American baseball player
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Correct Answer: B [As an American basketball player]
Notes:
LeBron James is an American basketball player. LeBron James is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Widely considered one of the greatest NBA players, James is frequently compared to Michael Jordan in debates over the greatest basketball player of all time.
35. What is Sathiyan Gnanasekaran famous for?
[A] As an Indian badminton player
[B] As an Indian squash player
[C] As an Indian table tennis player
[D] As an Indian tennis player
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Correct Answer: C [As an Indian table tennis player]
Notes:
Sathiyan Gnanasekaran is an Indian table tennis player, currently ranked at 32 in the world as of April 2020. He was a member of the Indian team that took the bronze in the 2011 Junior World Championships. In May 2019, Sathiyan attained his career-best World ranking of 24 and became the first Indian paddler ever to break into the World Top-25 ITTF rankings.
36. Which Indian players won the silver medal in table tennis women’s doubles at the 2018 Commonwealth Games?
[A] Manika Batra and Sutirtha Mukherjee
[B] Mouma Das and Madhurika Patkar
[C] Sutirtha Mukherjee and Pooja Saharabudhe
[D] Manika Batra and Mouma Das
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Correct Answer: D [Manika Batra and Mouma Das]
Notes:
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.
37. Which of the following is golf’s governing body along with the United States Golf Association, who governs the rules and the sport of golf worldwide?
[A] The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews
[B] The R&A
[C] International Golf Federation
[D] International Olympic Committee
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Correct Answer: B [The R&A]
Notes:
The R&A is golf’s governing body along with the United States Golf Association, who governs the rule and the sport of golf worldwide. They operate in different areas of the world, with the USGA governing in the United States and Mexico and The R&A governing in the rest of the world. They both share a single code for the Rules of Golf, Rules of Amateur Status, Equipment Standards and World Amateur Golf Rankings.TheR&A’s head office is based in Scotland.
38. Which sport’s scoring format is “Par and Bogey”?
[A] Tennis
[B] Badminton
[C] Cricket
[D] Golf
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Correct Answer: D [Golf]
Notes:
Par, or Bogey, is a scoring system used mostly in amateur and club golf. It is a match play format played against the course, with scoring based on the number of strokes taken compared to the par or bogey of each hole.
39. Which sport’s professional competition is “ANA Inspiration”?
[A] Golf
[B] Basketball
[C] Tennis
[D] Football
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Correct Answer: A [Golf]
Notes:
The ANA Inspiration (formerly known most recently as the Kraft Nabisco Championship, and still sometimes referred to as the Dinah Shore) is one of the five major championships of professional women’s golf. It is an event of the LPGA Tour. Currently, in the United States, it is the only one of the five women’s major golf tournaments not to have broadcast network exposure on the weekend; all four rounds are currently televised by the Golf Channel cable television network.
40. Which professional wrestler’s nickname is “King Kong”?
[A] Dara Singh
[B] Emile Czaja
[C] Sheik Ali
[D] Aslam Pahalwan
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Correct Answer: B [Emile Czaja]
Notes:
Emile Czaja, better known by his ring name King Kong, was an Australian-Indian professional wrestler. He was active from 1929 until 1970. He wrestled mostly in Japan, Singapore, Europe, New Zealand, and Australia. In professional wrestling, his arch-rivals were Aslam Pahalwan, Hamida Pahalwan, Sheik Ali and Dara Singh.