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Physical Education Sports MCQs For Competitive Exam
a. Lacrosse/Ice hockey
b. Cricket
c. Field hockey 5. When was the Commonwealth
d. Volleyball game started?
a. 1930
ANSWER: a. Lacrosse/Ice hockey b. 1934
c. 1938
d. 1950
a. Doha
4. _____________ is the national sport of b. Bangkok
Turkey c. New Delhi
d. Tokyo
a. Wrestling
b. Rugby union View Answer / Hide Answer
c. Golf
d. Basketball ANSWER: a. Doha
ANSWER: a. India
12. Which country has hosted
Commonwealth Games for the maximum
number of times?
9. Which city hosted commonwealth
games in 1966? a. Canada
b. New Zealand
a. Kingston c. England
b. Perth d. Scotland
c. Melbourne ANSWER: a. Canada
d. Kuala Lumpur
a. 1951
b. 1954
10. ____________ has won Cricket world c. 1958
cup for the maximum number of times. d. 1962
a. Golf a. Thailand
b. Baseball b. Japan
c. Billiards c. India
d. Bridge d. China
ANSWER: a. Golf ANSWER: a. Thailand
16. Which country had started 20. In which year Olympic Games
Football World? were cancelled because of World War I?
a. Uruguay a. 1916
b. Italy b. 1912
c. West Germany c. 1920
d. Brazil d. 1944
ANSWER: a. Uruguay ANSWER: a. 1916
17. In which year Cricket world cup 21. Which term is commonly used in
was first hosted by West Indies? Badminton and Volleyball?
a. 1975 a. Deuce
b. 1979 b. Dribble
c. 1983 c. Double
d. 1976 d. Dummy
ANSWER: a. Deuce
ANSWER: a. 1975
ANSWER: a. Russia
23. If we are using the following
words in a game. Which game are we
playing? 27. How many nations participated in
2012 Olympic Games?
Break, Cannons, Cue, In off, Jigger, Scratch
a. 204
a. Billiards b. 197
b. Bridge c. 199
c. Polo d. 121
d. Baseball
ANSWER: a. Billiards ANSWER: a. 204
24. In which year Football World Cup 28. In __________ Olympic Games were
was held in France? held in Spain.
a. 1998 a. 1992
b. 1950 b. 1948
c. 1962 c. 1968
d. 1990 d. 1980
ANSWER: a. 1998
26. Olympic Games were first started 30. In 2012 which country hosted
by which country and in which year? Olympic Games?
3. When was overhead smash introduced? In 1881, the ladiesâ €™ open events were
introduced in England. Her first public
a) 1875 appearance was at the Edgbaston Cricket
b) 1877 and Lawn Tennis Club tournament at the
c) 1880 age of 16 years.
d) 1884
ANSWER: d) 1884
7. When did the All England Croquet Club
The All England Club added Ladies' change its name to the All England Tennis
Singles and Gentlemen's Doubles & Croquet Club?
tournaments to the Gentlemen's Singles
tournament. a) 1899
b) 1905
c) 1907
d) 1908
5. Who was the first female Wimbledon
champion? View Answer / Hide Answer
In 1905 she became the first American View Answer / Hide Answer
player to win the singles title at
Wimbledon. ANSWER: a) Arthur Gore
4. When did Bjorn Borg win his first In 2001, Goran Ivansevic of Croatia won
singles title? the men's singles title at Wimbledon as a
wildcard.
a) 1971
b) 1973
c) 1975 7. When was International Olympic
d) 1976 Committee founded?
5. When was Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Demetrios Vikelas was its first president.
Museum opened?
ANSWER: d) 1974
3. When was Amateur Athletics
The Davis Cup had only ever been won by Federation of India established?
the United States, Great Britain/British
Isles, France and Australia/Australasia a) 1936
until 1973. South Africa and India b) 1946
qualified for the final in 1974. The final c) 1956
was scratched and South Africa was d) 1966
awarded the Davis Cup after India refused
to travel to South Africa for the final in View Answer / Hide Answer
protest of the South African government's
apartheid policies ANSWER: b) 1946
1. How many times did Geet Sethi win the
IBSF World Billiards title? Amateur Athletic Federation of India
(AAFI) was formed at the initiative of
a) 2 Prof. G.D. Sondhi and Maharaja Yadvindra
b) 3 Singh.
d) 8
ANSWER: d) Ty Cobb
5. How many gold medals did P. T. Usha
win in the 1986 Seoul Asian Games? As of the end of the 2013 season, he still
holds several records including the
a) 1 highest career batting average and most
b) 2 career batting titles.
c) 3
d) 4
8. What do African-American football
View Answer / Hide Answer players Ernie Davis, Archie Griffin, and
Tony Dorsett have in common?
ANSWER: d) 4
a) They all led to Super Bowl titles
P. T. Usha won gold medals for 200 m, b) They all played for Pittsburgh
400 m, 400 m hurdles, and 4X400 m relay c) They all won the Heisman Trophy
in the 1986 Seoul Asian Games. d) They don't have any similarity
9. Which basketball player scored 8 Hart was the first man to win both the
points in the final 7 seconds of a game to WWF and WCW Triple Crown
lead his team to victory? Championships. He is the only two-time
King of the Ring, winning the 1991
a) Charles Barkley tournament and the first King of the Ring
b) Larry Bird pay-per-view in 1993.
c) Ray Allen
d) Reggie Miller
2. What was the name of the first World
View Answer / Hide Answer Cup trophy?
5. Against which team Uruguay won the View Answer / Hide Answer
first World Cup final in 1930?
ANSWER: a) Soviet Union
a) Argentina
b) Brazil The Euro 1960 is the first European
c) USA Nations Football Championship. The final
d) Yugoslavia tournament of 1960 was played in France
and won after extra time by USSR over
View Answer / Hide Answer Yugoslavia in a 2-1 score.
ANSWER: a) Argentina
8. Which football player was dubbed as
The first World Cup final was played on "The Fifth Beatle"?
July 30, 1930 at Centenario Stadium in
Uruguay. a) Bobby Charlton
b) Bobby Moore
c) Duncan Edwards
6. What was history's first official World d) George Best
Cup soccer ball called?
View Answer / Hide Answer
a) Azteca
b) Jabulani ANSWER: d) George Best
c) Tango
George Best earned the nickname ANSWER: a) 1908
â €œThe Fifth Beatleâ € in the mid-
1960s. The tag was popularized by British Field hockey was introduced at the
press who saw him both as a sporting and Summer Olympic Games as a men's
style icon. competition at the 1908 Games in London
with six teams.
Michael Ferreira is a three-time Amateur 8. Who became the first Indian to win a
World champion. grand slam title?
a) Leander Peas
6. When was the National Sports Festival b) Mahesh Bhupathi
for Women started? c) Both (a) and (b)
d) None of the above
a) 1970
b) 1974 View Answer / Hide Answer
c) 1975
d) 1976 ANSWER: b) Mahesh Bhupathi
View Answer / Hide Answer In 1997, he became the first Indian to win
a Grand Slam tournament.
ANSWER: c) 1975
9. Which of the following is the highest
award in sports in the world? In 1959, Milkha Singh was honoured with
Padma Shri.
a) Arjuna Award
b) Jesse Owens Award
c) Olympic Order 3. When were the first Commonwealth
d) Dronacharya Award Games held?
ANSWER: a) 1886
7. Which is the first Asian country to host
Commonwealth Games? The official world championship began
when the two leading players Johann
a) Bangladesh Zukertort from Europe and Willhelm
b) Malaysia Steinitz from the United States played a
c) Pakistan match.
d) Sri Lanka
View Answer / Hide Answer 10. Who was the first modern chess
master?
ANSWER: b) Malaysia
a) Adolf Anderssen
b) Jean Dufresne
c) Johannes Zukertort champion was not obliged to accept a
d) Paul Morphy challenge for a purse of less than US
$10,000; 20% of the purse was to be paid
View Answer / Hide Answer to the title holder, and the remainder
being divided, 60% going to the winner of
ANSWER: a) Adolf Anderssen the match, and 40% to the loser; the
highest purse bid must be accepted.
In 1842 Anderssen published "Task for
chess players" which is a collection of 60
chess problems. 3. When was World Chess Federation
1. Who held the title of world chess founded?
championship for the longest time?
a) 1924
a) Alexander Alekhine b) 1925
b) Emanuel Lasker c) 1926
c) Mikhail Botvinnik d) 1927
d) Siegbert Tarrasch
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ANSWER: a) 1924
ANSWER: b) Emanuel Lasker
The World Chess Federation is an
He held the title from 1894 to 1921. international organization that connects
the various national chess federations
around the world and acts as the
2. Who proposed the "London Rules"? governing body of international chess
competition. It is usually referred to as
a) Alexander Alekhine FIDE. It is French acronym.
b) Bobby Fischer
c) Emmanuel Lasker
d) Jose Raul Capablanca 4. When was Professional Chess
Association set up?
View Answer / Hide Answer
a) 1993
ANSWER: d) Jose Raul Capablanca b) 1994
c) 1995
In 1922 world champion Capablanca d) 1996
proposed the "London Rules": the first
player to win six games would win the View Answer / Hide Answer
match; playing sessions would be limited
to 5 hours; the time limit would be 40 ANSWER: a) 1993
moves in two and a half hours; the
champion must defend his title within one The PCA was created in 1993 by Garry
year of receiving a challenge from a Kasparov and Nigel Short for the
recognized master; the champion would marketing and organization of their chess
decide the date of the match; the world championship.
At the age of 18, he is the first teenager
and youngest person to ever become FIDE
5. Who was the FIDE World Chess World Champion.
Champion in 1999?
View Answer / Hide Answer 10. When did the French Championships
become open to all amateurs
ANSWER: c) Ruslan Ponomariov internationally?
a) 1924
b) 1925 Since 1981, new prizes have been
c) 1926 presented: the Prix Orange for the player
d) 1927 demonstrating the best sportsmanship
and cooperative attitude with the press,
View Answer / Hide Answer the Prix Citron for the player with the
strongest character and personality and
ANSWER: b) 1925 the Prix Bourgeon for the tennis player
revelation of the year.
International Lawn Tennis Federation
designated the French Championship as a
major championship. 13. When were the Prix Orange, the Prix
Citron, and the Prix Bourgeon presented?
a) Shooting
b) Swimming 3. Strike word is related to which game?
c) Weightlifting
d) None of these a) Baseball
b) Chess
View Answer / Hide Answer c) Cricket
d) Tennis
ANSWER: c) Weightlifting
View Answer / Hide Answer
Sathish Sivalingam is an Indian
weightlifter who won the gold medal in ANSWER: a) Baseball
the men's 77 kg weight class at the 2014
Commonwealth Games at Glasgow, A strike in baseball results when a batter
Scotland swings at and misses a pitch, does not
1. Tintu Luka is associated with which swing at a pitch in the strike zone or hits a
game? foul ball that is not caught.
a) Athletics
b) Shooting 4. Leander Paes is related to which game?
c) Swimming
d) None of these a) Chess
b) Cricket
View Answer / Hide Answer c) Football
d) Tennis
ANSWER: a) Athletics
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She is the national record holder in the
women's 800-metre race. ANSWER: d) Tennis
6. Who among the following is a football He is the only player ever to win
striker from Ivory Coas? professional world titles in both the long
and short formats of snooker and both
a) Garry Monk formats of English billiards.
b) Michu
c) Wilfried Bony
d) None 9. Abhinav Bindra is related to which
game?
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a) Billiards
ANSWER: c) Wilfried Bony b) Shooting
c) Swimming
Wilfried Guemiand Bony is an Ivorian d) Wrestling
footballer who plays for Manchester City
in the Premier League and the Ivory Coast View Answer / Hide Answer
national football team, as a striker.
ANSWER: b) Shooting
7. Amit Kumar is related to which game? Abhinav Singh Bindra is an Indian shooter
and is a World and Olympic champion in
a) Athletics the 10 m Air Rifle event.
b) Rowing
c) Shooting
d) Wrestling 10. Apurvi Chandela is related to which
game?
View Answer / Hide Answer
a) Athletics the current World Number One and a
b) Billiards four-time major champion.
c) Shooting
d) Swimming
13. Yuki Bhambri is related to which
View Answer / Hide Answer sport?
ANSWER: d) Tennis
11. Anirban Lahiri belongs to which
sport? Yuki Bhambri is an Indian professional
tennis player. He is winner of 2009
a) Baseball Australian Open Junior Championship.
b) Basketball
c) Chess
d) Golf 14. Lionel Messi is player of which
country?
View Answer / Hide Answer
a) Argentina
ANSWER: d) Golf b) Brazil
c) Germany
Anirban Lahiri is an Indian professional d) None of the above
golfer who currently plays on the Asian
Tour. View Answer / Hide Answer
ANSWER: a) Argentina
12. Rory Mcllroy belongs to which sport?
Lionel Messi is the captain for the
a) Chess Argentina national team.
b) Football
c) Golf
d) Hockey 15. Volley term is from which sport?