Sports GK MCQs

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“Hanetsuki” is a Japanese version of badminton. Hanetsuki is a Japanese traditional game, similar to racket games like badminton but without a net, played with a rectangular wooden paddle called a hagoita and a brightly coloured shuttlecock. Often played by girls at the New Year, the game can be played by any gender in two fashions: by one person attempting to keep the shuttlecock aloft as long as possible, or by two people batting it back and forth.

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Australia became the runners-up 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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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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Ma Long and Wang Chuqin won the gold medal in men’s doubles 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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Ding Ning won the gold medal in table tennis women’s singles at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Table tennis at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro took place from 6 to 17 August 2016. Table tennis had appeared at the Summer Olympics on seven previous occasions beginning with the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. In addition to men’s and women’s singles, the team events were staged for the third time since replacing doubles events at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

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Sharath Achanta and Sathiyan Gnanasekaran won the silver 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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Brooks Koepka is an American professional golfer on the PGA Tour. In October 2018, he became World Number 1 in the Official World Golf Ranking after winning the 2018 CJ Cup. He won the U.S. Open in 2017 and 2018, and the PGA Championship in 2018 and 2019, becoming the first golfer in history to hold back-to-back titles in two majors simultaneously.

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The World Golf Hall of Fame is located at World Golf Village near Florida, in the United States of America, and it is unusual among sports halls of fame in that a single site honours both men and women.

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Augusta National Golf Club sometimes referred to as Augusta or the National, is a golf club in Augusta, Georgia, United States. Augusta National is a for-profit corporation. Founded by Bobby Jones and Clifford Roberts, the course was designed by Jones and Alister MacKenzie and opened for play in 1932. Since 1934, the club has played host to the annual Masters’ Tournament, one of the four major championships in professional golf, and the only major played each year at the same course. It was the top-ranked course in Golf Digest’s 2009 list of America’s 100 greatest courses and was the number ten ranked course based on course architecture on Golfweek Magazine’s 2011 list of best classic courses in the United States.

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The “President’s Cup” is a series of men’s golf matches between a team representing the United States of America and an international team representing the rest of the world minus Europe.