Sports GK Questions - MCQs on Sports General Knowledge

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Glenn McGrath holds the current record for most wickets in all the Cricket World Cup tournaments. He took a total of 71 wickets between the cricket world cups of 1996 and 2007.

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Malaysia hosted the 2019 Kabaddi World Cup. The 2019 Kabaddi World Cup is the inaugural standard-style Kabaddi World Cup, sanctioned and organised by World Kabaddi.

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An Ice Hockey competition is known as the “Ligue Magnus”.

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Russia hosted the 2018 FIFA Football World Cup. The 2018 FIFA World Cup was an international football tournament contested by men’s national teams and took place between 14 June and 15 July 2018 in Russia. It was the 21st FIFA World Cup. In the final, France played Croatia on 15 July at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow. France won the match 4–2 to claim their second World Cup.

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Croatia became the runner-up to the 2018 FIFA Football World Cup. The 2018 FIFA World Cup was an international football tournament contested by men’s national teams and took place between 14 June and 15 July 2018 in Russia. It was the 21st FIFA World Cup.

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Uruguay won the 1st FIFA Football World Cup held in 1930. The 1930 FIFA World Cup was the inaugural FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men’s national association football teams. It took place in Uruguay from 13 to 30 July 1930. In the final, Uruguay defeated Argentina 4–2 to become the first nation to win the World Cup.

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International Tennis Federation is the highest governing body of tennis sport. The International Tennis Federation (ITF) is the governing body of world tennis, wheelchair tennis, and beach tennis. It was founded in 1913 as the International Lawn Tennis Federation. The headquarters of ITF is located in London, England, UK.

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Suzanne Lenglen was a French tennis player. She was one of tennis’s biggest stars in the 1920s, building her popularity on her status as the youngest major champion in tennis history as well as her elegant style of play and exuberant personality. Often playing in front of sell-out crowds and appearing on the front pages of newspapers for her biggest matches, she is often regarded as the first female athlete to become a global sports celebrity. Lenglen was ranked No. 1 in the world from 1921 through 1926, winning 8 Grand Slam singles titles and 21 in total. She also won 10 World Championship titles across all disciplines. Dissatisfied with her lack of income, she forfeited her amateur status and became the first women’s tennis player to turn professional. Lenglen has been ranked by the Tennis Channel as the greatest women’s tennis player from the amateur era.

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The “Thomas Cup” is a Badminton competition. The Thomas Cup, sometimes called the World Men’s Team Championships, is an international badminton competition among teams representing member nations of the Badminton World Federation (BWF), the sport’s global governing body. The championships have been conducted every two years since the 1982 tournament, amended from being conducted every three years since the first tournament held in 1948–1949.

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Chetan Anand is an Indian badminton player. Chetan Anand is a badminton player from India. Anand was a four-time national champion in 2004, 2007, 2008 and 2010, also three times South Asian Games men’s singles champion in 2004, 2006 and 2010. He has a career-best world ranking of world no 10.