Sports Questions and Answers

Answer: C

The correct matching is a-4, b-3, c-2, d-1.

Silvanus Dungdung of Simdega was a member of India's gold-winning hockey team at the 1980 Moscow Olympics (a-4). Shubhalaxmi is linked with cricket (b-3). Premlata Agrawal of Jamshedpur climbed Everest in 2011 and later completed the Seven Summits, making her a mountaineer (c-2). Aruna Mishra of Jamshedpur is a boxer who won a silver medal at the 2006 Women's World Boxing Championships (d-1).

Options that pair Premlata Agrawal with boxing, or Silvanus Dungdung with anything but hockey, fail on these well-known names.

Answer: A

The JSCA International Cricket Stadium was constructed in 2013.

The stadium of the Jharkhand State Cricket Association stands at Dhurwa in Ranchi. It was completed and hosted its first One Day International, India against England, on 19 January 2013, and its first Test match in 2017.

2010 and 2012 fall during construction, before the ground was ready for international cricket, and 2014 is after the first international match had already been played there.

Answer: B

The International Olympic Committee has its headquarters in Lausanne.

The IOC, founded in Paris in 1894 by Pierre de Coubertin, moved its headquarters to Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1915, during the First World War. Lausanne is also home to the Olympic Museum and is officially styled the Olympic Capital.

Paris is where the IOC was founded but not where it is based. Mumbai and London have never been its base, though London has hosted the Summer Games three times; neither is the IOC's headquarters.

Answer: C

The slalom events were held at Maheshwar.

The Khelo India Youth Games 2023 were hosted by Madhya Pradesh. The canoe slalom events, which need a stretch of fast-flowing water, were held on the Narmada at Maheshwar in Khargone district, where the river's rapids suit the event.

Gwalior, Jabalpur and Bhopal were also among the host cities, but for other sports. Bhopal hosted the flat-water canoeing and rowing on its lakes, so it is the nearest trap, while the white-water slalom went to Maheshwar.

Answer: B

India's first National Sports University was set up in Manipur.

The National Sports University at Imphal, Manipur, was established first by ordinance in 2018 and then by the National Sports University Act, 2018, as a central university for sports sciences, sports technology, sports management and coaching.

Madhya Pradesh, Meghalaya and Maharashtra do not host the national university. Some states have set up their own state sports universities, but the first central National Sports University is the one in Manipur.

Answer: A

The 2022 Arjuna Award for Mallakhamb went to Sagar Kailas Ovhalkar.

In the National Sports Awards for 2022, the Arjuna Award in Mallakhamb, the traditional Indian sport of gymnastic poses on a wooden pole or rope, was given to Sagar Kailas Ovhalkar of Maharashtra.

The others won their awards in different sports: Lakshya Sen in badminton, Manasi Joshi in para-badminton and Sakshi Kumari in kabaddi, all among the Arjuna awardees of 2022.

Answer: D

The answer is All of the above.

The Khelo India Youth Games 2023, held from January to February 2023, were hosted by Madhya Pradesh across several cities rather than in one: Indore, Ujjain and Mandla were among the host cities, along with Bhopal, Jabalpur, Gwalior and Maheshwar, with track cycling held in New Delhi.

Because Ujjain, Indore and Mandla were each among the venues, choosing any one of them alone would be incomplete.

Answer: B

The term Chinaman belongs to cricket.

In cricket, a 'Chinaman' is the stock delivery of a left-arm wrist spinner: it turns from off to leg for a right-handed batsman, the mirror image of a right-arm leg-break. The term is traditionally traced to Ellis 'Puss' Achong, a West Indies spinner of Chinese descent, in the 1930s; today it is often replaced by 'left-arm unorthodox spin'.

Gymnastics, volleyball and handball have no such term, so the word points only to cricket.

Answer: B

The Institute was established in 1957.

The Lakshmibai National Institute of Physical Education at Gwalior was founded in 1957 as the Lakshmibai College of Physical Education, named after Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi, who died fighting near Gwalior in 1858. It was later given deemed university status and is run under the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports.

1952, 1960 and 1961 are not its founding year.

Answer: D

En passant is a term from chess.

The French phrase means 'in passing'. It is a special pawn capture: when a pawn advances two squares from its starting position and lands beside an opposing pawn on its fifth rank, the opposing pawn may capture it as if it had moved only one square, but only on the very next move.

Billiards, snooker and carrom are cue and striker games with their own terms, such as cannon, break and pocket, and none of them uses en passant.