What is the length of each stump in Cricket
Answer: A
Each stump is 28 inches (71.1 cm) high above the ground.
The three together, with the bails on top, make a wicket 9 inches wide. The bails add about half an inch, so the whole wicket stands 28.5 inches high.
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Which Indian Criketer was given the title 'Tiger'?
Answer: D
Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi was called Tiger, a nickname given him as a child long before he played for India.
He captained India in 40 Tests from the age of 21 - then the youngest Test captain ever - and led the side to its first overseas series win, in New Zealand in 1968, playing throughout with the sight of one eye lost in a car accident.
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How many wickets Kapil Dev had taken in Test matches when he retired?
Answer: D
Kapil Dev retired with 434 Test wickets, then the world record, from 131 matches.
He passed Richard Hadlee's 431 in his final Test series in 1994. He is still the only cricketer with over 400 Test wickets and more than 5,000 Test runs.
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Which female tennis player equalled the record for her fifth Olympic 2016 tennis medal?
Answer: A
Venus Williams won her fifth Olympic tennis medal at Rio in 2016, taking silver in the mixed doubles.
She had won four golds before that - singles and doubles at Sydney in 2000, and doubles at Beijing and London. The total equals the record for the sport.
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Michael Ferreira is associated with which game/sport?
Answer: A
Michael Ferreira is an Indian billiards player, and won the World Amateur Billiards Championship three times, in 1977, 1981 and 1983.
He held the world record break of 1,276 and received the Padma Shri and the Arjuna Award.
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Which county did Sachin Tendulkar play for?
Answer: B
Sachin Tendulkar played for Yorkshire in 1992, the first overseas player the county had ever signed in its 129-year history.
He was 19, and scored 1,070 runs at 46.52 in his single season there.
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The term 'Bishop' in sports is related to-
Answer: A
The bishop is a chess piece, moving any number of squares diagonally.
Each player starts with two, one on light squares and one on dark, and neither can ever change colour - which is why a lone bishop cannot control the whole board.
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How many wickets did Zaheer Khan pick up in his ODI debut?
Answer: B
Zaheer Khan took three wickets on his one-day international debut, against Kenya at Nairobi in the ICC KnockOut Trophy of October 2000.
The left-arm fast bowler was 21. He went on to take 282 wickets in ODIs and 311 in Tests, and was the leading wicket-taker of the 2011 World Cup that India won.
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Which county did speedster Javagal Srinath play for in 1995?
Answer: C
Javagal Srinath played for Gloucestershire in 1995, his first county season.
He took 87 first-class wickets that summer, and later played for Leicestershire and Durham.
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Who are winners of 2016 Kabaddi World Cup ?
Answer: C
India won the 2016 Kabaddi World Cup, beating Iran 38–29 in the final at Ahmedabad.
It was India's third World Cup title in the standard style, and the tournament was played under the rules used in the Pro Kabaddi League.
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