The Olympic Games are organised after a gap of ___ years
Answer: A
The Olympic Games are held every four years, the interval the Greeks called an Olympiad.
Since 1994 the Winter and Summer Games have been staggered, each still on its own four-year cycle but two years apart, so an Olympics of one kind or the other falls every second year.
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Which city hosted the First Afro-Asian games?
Answer: B
The first Afro-Asian Games were held at Hyderabad in October 2003.
Athletes from 96 countries across the two continents competed in eight sports. It was the only edition ever staged.
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The first World Cup in cricket was held in-
Answer: A
The first Cricket World Cup was held in 1975, in England.
Eight teams played 60-over matches in white clothing with a red ball. The West Indies beat Australia in the final at Lord's, and won again in 1979.
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Which of the following terms is associated with the game of football?
Answer: B
The scissor kick belongs to football - a shot struck with the body horizontal and the legs swinging past each other in the air.
Follow on and slice belong to cricket and golf, and the short corner is a hockey term.
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Which game is Ian Thorpe associated with
Answer: D
Ian Thorpe is an Australian swimmer, who won five Olympic golds and eleven world titles.
Nicknamed the Thorpedo, he won three golds at Sydney in 2000 aged 17, and set thirteen individual world records over his career.
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With which game is the Double Fault associated?
Answer: D
A double fault belongs to tennis: the server misses with both attempts at a point and loses it outright.
Hockey, volleyball and cricket have no such term. The same rule applies in badminton and table tennis, but only tennis allows a second serve at all.
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Who scored the fastest individual Test century?
Answer: D
Brendon McCullum scored the fastest Test century, off 54 balls, against Australia at Christchurch in February 2016.
It was his last Test innings. He beat the 56-ball hundreds of Viv Richards and Misbah-ul-Haq.
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Dipa Karmakar was recently in news, she is associated with -
Answer: D
Dipa Karmakar is a gymnast, and won bronze in the vault at the 2014 Commonwealth Games - India's first Commonwealth medal in the sport.
She went on to finish fourth at the Rio Olympics and won gold at the 2018 World Challenge Cup.
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The headquarters of International Olympic Committee(IOC) is located in
Answer: D
The International Olympic Committee is based at Lausanne, Switzerland.
Founded in Paris in 1894, it moved to Lausanne in 1915 when Pierre de Coubertin relocated it during the First World War, and the city is now home to dozens of international sports federations.
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Where is the International Cricket Council headquartered?
Answer: A
The International Cricket Council has its headquarters at Dubai in the UAE, where it moved from Lord's in 2005.
Founded in 1909 as the Imperial Cricket Conference, it now has 108 members and runs the World Cup and the world rankings.
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