Sports Questions and Answers

Answer: D

The correct pairs are 2 and 4.

The Venus Rosewater Dish is the trophy for the women's singles champion at Wimbledon (2), and the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup is the trophy for the women's singles champion at the Australian Open (4).

The other two pairs are swapped: Flushing Meadows in New York is the home of the US Open, and Roland Garros in Paris is the home of the French Open. So options containing 1 or 3 are wrong.

Answer: D

The weightlifter of international fame is Karnam Malleshwari.

Karnam Malleswari won the bronze medal in weightlifting at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, becoming the first Indian woman to win an Olympic medal. She had earlier won world championship titles.

Sunita Williams is an astronaut who has spent long periods on the International Space Station, and Bachendri Pal was the first Indian woman to climb Mount Everest. Suryamani is the forest-rights activist from Jharkhand whose story appears in the EVS textbook; she is not a weightlifter.

Answer: C

Karnam Malleswari played weight lifting.

She won a bronze medal in weightlifting at the Sydney Olympics in 2000, becoming the first Indian woman to win an Olympic medal. She was also a world champion in her category in the 1990s.

She was not a wrestler, cricketer or chess player; those options name other sports in which Indian women have done well.

Answer: D

Jujutsu is given here as the national game of Japan. It is the classical Japanese martial art of unarmed combat, from which both judo and aikido derive.

Sumo is Japan's traditional national sport by many accounts, and baseball is by far the most popular game played there; but jujutsu is the answer this question records.

Answer: B

Sania Mirza and Mahesh Bhupathi won the mixed doubles at the 2009 Australian Open, beating Nathalie Dechy and Andy Ram in the final.

It was Sania's first Grand Slam title. She went on to win six in all, including three women's doubles majors with Martina Hingis.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Lawn tennis

The Davis Cup is the premier international team competition in men’s tennis, begun in 1900. The equivalent women’s competition was long called the Federation Cup and is now the Billie Jean King Cup.

Answer: A

England and Wales are recorded here as the venue for the inaugural World Test Championship.

The competition was eventually launched in 2019 over a two-year cycle, and its first final was played at the Rose Bowl in Southampton in June 2021, where New Zealand beat India.

Answer: A

Yuvraj Singh made his one-day international debut at Nairobi, Kenya, in the ICC KnockOut Trophy of October 2000.

He announced himself in his second match with 84 off 80 balls against Australia, a innings that took India into the semi-final.

Answer: C

Rahul Dravid made his one-day international debut against Sri Lanka, at Singapore in the Singer Cup of April 1996.

He scored 3. He went on to play 344 one-day internationals and to captain India, and he also kept wicket in the format to balance the side.

Answer: A

Mumbai Indians won the tenth Indian Premier League, in 2017, beating Rising Pune Supergiant by one run in the final at Hyderabad.

It was their third title, and the narrowest margin in any IPL final.