Sports GK MCQs

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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.

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Michael Jordan is an American basketball player. Michael Jeffrey Jordan, also known by his initials MJ, is a former American professional basketball player. He played 15 seasons in the National Basketball Association, winning six championships with the Chicago Bulls. His biography on the official NBA website states: “By acclamation, Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time”. He was integral in helping to popularize the NBA around the world in the 1980s and 1990s, becoming a global cultural icon in the process.

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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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Mima Ito is a Japanese table tennis player. Mima Ito is a Japanese table tennis player. She won a bronze medal in the Women’s Team event at the 2016 Summer Olympics when she was 15 years old. Often termed as the ‘greatest threat’ to Chinese table tennis dominance, Ito Mima has the highest winning rate against Chinese players in the history of women’s table tennis.

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The United States of America and China are the two countries involved in the Ping-pong diplomacy. Ping-pong diplomacy refers to the exchange of table tennis (ping-pong) players between the United States (US) and People’s Republic of China (PRC) in the early 1970s, that began during the 1971 World Table Tennis Championships in Nagoya, Japan as a result of an encounter between players Glenn Cowan (of the US) and Zhuang Zedong (of the PRC). The event marked a thaw in Sino-American relations that paved the way to a visit to Beijing by President Richard Nixon in 1972. The event has been seen as a key turning point in relations, and the policy approach has since been carried out elsewhere.

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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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International Golf Federation is recognized by the International Olympic Committee as the world governing body for golf. The International Golf Federation (IGF) was founded in 1958 in Switzerland and is the international federation recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as the world governing body for golf.

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Tiger Woods is an American professional golfer. He is tied for first in PGA Tour wins and ranks second in men’s major championships and also holds numerous golf records. Woods is widely regarded as one of the greatest golfers, and one of the most famous athletes of all time. He will be inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2021.

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The Professional Golfers’ Association of America (PGA of America) is an American organization of golf professionals that was founded in 1916. The PGA of America’s undertaking is to establish and elevate the standards of the profession and to grow interested and participating in the game of golf.

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Foursomes, also known as alternate shot, is a pair playing format in the sport of golf. Golfers compete in teams of two, using only one ball per team, and taking alternate shots until the hole is completed. Team members take turns in teeing off on each hole, i.e. one player will take the tee shot on odd-numbered holes, and the other on even-numbered holes.