Sports GK MCQs

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The T.League or Nojima T.League is the premier table tennis league of Japan which began in 2018. It is the first professional table tennis league in Japan.

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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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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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The Open Championship, often referred to as The Open or the British Open, is the oldest golf tournament in the world, and one of the most prestigious. Founded in 1860, it was originally held annually at Prestwick Golf Club, Scotland, before evolving to being rotated between a select group of coastal links golf courses in the United Kingdom, under the authority of The R&A.

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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.

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Yuka Saso won the gold medal in golf women’s individual at the 2018 Asian Games. Golf at the 2018 Asian Games was held at Pondok Indah Golf Course, Jakarta, Indonesia, from 23 to 26 August 2018 and featured four events: the men’s individual and team events and women’s individual and team events.

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Jab is a quick, straight punch thrown with the lead hand from the guard position. The jab extends from the side of the torso and typically does not pass in front of it. It is accompanied by a small, clockwise rotation of the torso and hips, while the fist rotates 90 degrees, becoming horizontal upon impact.

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The modern International Boxing Hall of Fame (IBHOF), located in New York, United States, honours boxers, trainers and other contributors to the sport worldwide. Inductees are selected by members of the Boxing Writers Association of America. The IBHOF started as a 1990 initiative by Ed Brophy.

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Boxing has been contested at every Summer Olympic Games since its introduction to the program at the 1904 Summer Olympics, except for the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, because Swedish law banned the sport at the time. The 2008 Summer Olympics were the final games with boxing as a male-only event. Since the 2012 Summer Olympics, women’s boxing is part of the program.

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Greco-Roman or French wrestling is a style of wrestling that is practised worldwide. It was contested at the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 and has been included in every edition of the summer Olympics held since 1904. This style of wrestling forbids holds below the waist, which is the main feature that differentiates it from freestyle wrestling (the other form of wrestling contested at the Olympics).