Sports GK MCQs

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Pullela Gopichand became the second Indian badminton player to have won the All England Open Badminton Championships. Pullela Gopichand is a former Indian badminton player. Presently, he is the Chief National Coach for the Indian Badminton team. He won the All England Open Badminton Championships in 2001 becoming the second Indian to achieve this feat after Prakash Padukone.

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Chou Tien-Chen is a Chinese badminton player. Chou Tien-Chen is a badminton player from Taiwan, representing Chinese Taipei. He became the first local shuttler in 17 years to win the men’s singles title of the Chinese Taipei Open in 2016 since Indonesian-born Fung Permadi won it in 1999. He won his first BWF Super Series title at the 2014 Yonex French Open, beating Wang Zhengming of China. He is the record holder of three consecutive Bitburger Open Grand Prix Gold titles from 2012 till 2014.

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Nozomi Okuhara is a Japanese badminton player. Nozomi Okuhara is a Japanese badminton player and the former World’s No. 1 in BWF rankings for the women’s singles, well known for her speed, agility and endurance. She won a bronze at the 2016 Summer Olympics and a gold medal at the 2017 World Championships.

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Alvaro Salvadores became the “top scorer” of the first FIBA Basketball World Championship held in 1950. The 1950 FIBA World Championship, also called the 1st World Basketball Championship – 1950, was an international basketball tournament held by the International Basketball Federation in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 22 October to 3 November 1950.

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International Table Tennis Federation is the highest governing body of table tennis sport. The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) is the governing body for all national table tennis associations. The role of the ITTF includes overseeing rules and regulations and seeking technological improvement for the sport of table tennis. The headquarters of the ITTF is located in Switzerland.

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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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Kamlesh Mehta is an Indian table tennis player. In March 2017, the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India, appointed him as the national observer for table tennis.

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Gao Ning won the gold medal in table tennis men’s singles 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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The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews is the oldest golf club in the world. It is based in Scotland, United Kingdom and is regarded as the worldwide “Home of Golf”. Formerly, it was also one of the governing authorities of the game, but this role was handed over to The R&A.

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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.