Sports Current Affairs Questions and Answers

Answer: C

Harmanpreet Kaur scored 171 runs.

In the semi-final of the 2017 Women's World Cup against Australia at Derby on 20 July, Harmanpreet Kaur made 171 not out off 115 balls in a match cut to 42 overs. India won by 36 runs and went through to the final, which they lost to England.

It remains one of the best innings in women's one-day cricket. 151, 161 and 181 are simply the neighbouring figures offered as distractors.

Answer: D

Avani Lekhara is associated with shooting.

Avani Lekhara, a para shooter from Jaipur, won gold in the women's 10 m air rifle standing SH1 event at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, and won the same event again at the Paris 2024 Paralympics.

She does not compete in wrestling, chess or athletics.

Answer: C

Harshini won the title in chess.

A. Harshini of Tiruvarur (Tamil Nadu) won the Girls Under-15 section of the 2016 World Schools Chess Championship at Sochi, Russia, held from 2 to 12 December 2016, scoring 7.5 points. The question's 'world Championship 2016 held in Russia' is that event.

The other sports have no connection with her title: carrom, swimming and snooker were not part of that championship.

Answer: B

The 2016 IAAF female World Athlete of the Year was Almaz Ayana.

The Ethiopian won the 10,000 m at the Rio Olympics in a world record of 29:17.45, breaking a record that had stood since 1993, and also took bronze in the 5,000 m.

Yelena Isinbayeva (pole vault) and Valerie Adams (shot put) won the award in earlier years, and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce won it in 2013; none won it in 2016.

Answer: A

P.V. Sindhu won the China Open Super Series.

In November 2016, a few months after her Olympic silver at Rio, she won the China Open Super Series Premier at Fuzhou, beating Sun Yu of China in the final. It was her first Super Series title.

The following week she reached the final of the Hong Kong Open but lost, so that title was not hers. The Russian Open and the Chinese Taipei Grand Prix are lower-level events she did not win that month.

Answer: B

India won 26 gold medals at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.

At the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games in Australia in April 2018, India won 26 gold, 20 silver and 20 bronze medals, 66 in all, and finished third in the medal table behind Australia and England.

66 is the total, not the gold count. 23, 28 and 31 do not match the gold tally.

Answer: C

The 2019 Qatar Open women's singles title was won by Elise Mertens.

Elise Mertens of Belgium beat Simona Halep in the final in Doha in February 2019, the biggest title of her career at that point.

Halep was the runner-up, which is the trap in option A. Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka did not win the event.

Answer: D

The Irani Trophy 2019 was won by Vidarbha.

The Irani Trophy is played between the Ranji Trophy champions and a Rest of India team. Vidarbha, the 2018-19 Ranji champions, drew the match against Rest of India in Nagpur in February 2019 and kept the trophy on the first-innings lead, their second Irani Trophy in a row.

Rest of India was the losing side. Karnataka and Mumbai were not in the match.

Answer: A

The Man of the Tournament was Kevin Pietersen.

England won the ICC World Twenty20 2010 in the West Indies, their first major global title, beating Australia in the final at Barbados. Pietersen scored 248 runs in the tournament and was named Player of the Tournament.

Craig Kieswetter was England's opening batsman and the Man of the Match in the final, which makes him the likely trap. Salman Butt of Pakistan and M. S. Dhoni of India were not named for the tournament award.

Answer: B

The batsman was Kumar Sangakkara (printed 'Sangakara').

Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara scored 319 against Bangladesh in the second Test at Chittagong in February 2014, his highest Test score, and followed it with a century in the second innings.

Shamsur Rahman is a Bangladeshi batsman who played in that series, but he did not score 319. Virender Sehwag (printed 'Birendra Sehwag') made his triple centuries in 2004 and 2008. Since Sangakkara is offered, 'None of them' is wrong.