Sardar Patel Stadium is located at -
Answer: A
The Sardar Patel Stadium is at Ahmedabad, in the Motera area on the bank of the Sabarmati.
Rebuilt and reopened in 2020 as the Narendra Modi Stadium, it holds 132,000 - the largest cricket ground in the world.
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Which state of India does Sakshi Malik belong to?
Answer: C
Sakshi Malik is from Rohtak, Haryana.
Haryana produces a large share of India's wrestlers and boxers; the state's akharas and its sports policy of cash awards and government jobs for medallists are usually credited for it.
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Dronacharya Awards are given to
Answer: B
The Dronacharya Award is given to outstanding coaches in sport, instituted in 1985.
It is named after Drona, the archery teacher of the Mahabharata. Players are honoured with the Arjuna Award and the Khel Ratna instead.
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Which country led a boycott of the 1980 Olympic Games held in Moscow?
Answer: B
The United States led the boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics, in protest at the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
Sixty-five countries stayed away. The Soviet Union and its allies retaliated by boycotting the Los Angeles Games in 1984.
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Sania Mirza is a
Answer: D
Monica Seles is a tennis player who won nine Grand Slam singles titles, eight of them before she turned twenty.
She was stabbed on court by a spectator at Hamburg in 1993 and did not play for two years, returning to win one further major, the 1996 Australian Open.
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With which game is Subroto Cup associated?
Answer: D
The Subroto Cup is an inter-school football tournament, held in Delhi since 1960.
It is named after Subroto Mukerjee, the first Indian chief of the air staff, and is one of the largest youth football competitions in the world.
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'Fianchetto' is a strategy in the game of -
Answer: C
Fianchetto is a chess strategy: developing a bishop to the long diagonal by moving the knight's pawn one square and placing the bishop behind it.
The word is Italian for 'little flank'. The King's Indian and Sicilian Dragon defences both use it.
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Which cup/trophy is associated with the game of cricket?
Answer: A
The Rovers Cup is a football competition, first held at Bombay in 1891 and among the oldest football tournaments in the world.
The Durand Cup, IFA Shield and Santosh Trophy are the other historic Indian football trophies.
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The winner of Asia Cup Cricket 2012 is
Answer: A
Pakistan won the 2012 Asia Cup, beating Bangladesh by two runs in the final at Mirpur.
Bangladesh needed four off the last ball and got one. India, the defending champions, failed to reach the final despite Tendulkar's hundredth hundred in the tournament.
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Michael Phelps, who won the highest number of gold medals in Olympic Games in 2008 and 2012, broke the record of
Answer: D
Michael Phelps broke Mark Spitz's record of seven golds at a single Games, set at Munich in 1972, by winning eight at Beijing in 2008.
Phelps finished his career with 23 Olympic golds and 28 medals in all.
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