Sports GK GK Questions with Answers – Page 13

A player may begin a round with no more than fourteen clubs and may not add to that number during play, except to replace a club damaged in the normal course of the round; carrying more brings a penalty.

Aditi Ashok won the Hero Women's Indian Open in 2016, becoming the first Indian woman to win on that tour, and she went on to represent India at the Olympic Games, finishing fourth at Tokyo.

Golf entered the Asian Games at the ninth edition, held in New Delhi in 1982, the Games whose mascot was the elephant Appu, and both individual and team events have been contested since.

Golf had been played at the Olympic Games of 1900 in Paris and 1904 in St Louis and then dropped out; it came back at Rio in 2016 as a 72-hole stroke play competition for men and for women, with sixty players in each field.

Founded in 1829, it is the oldest golf club in India and the oldest anywhere outside Great Britain, and it was given the title Royal in 1911.

The bird names rise with the achievement: one stroke under par on a hole is a birdie, two under is an eagle and three under is an albatross or double eagle.

Atwal won the Wyndham Championship in 2010 and so became the first golfer from India to win on the PGA Tour, the premier professional circuit of the United States.

The Ryder Cup is the biennial match play contest named after the English seed merchant Samuel Ryder, first played in 1927; the European side was originally Great Britain alone and was widened to the whole of Europe in 1979, and no prize money is paid to the players.

Often called the British Open, it was first played in 1860 and is the oldest of the majors; it is run by The R&A and its trophy is the Claret Jug.

The Masters, founded in 1934 by the amateur Bobby Jones with Clifford Roberts, is the only one of the four majors played on the same course every year, Augusta National in the state of Georgia in the United States, and its champion is given the famous green jacket.

The men's competition bar weighs twenty kilograms and the women's fifteen, and the discs loaded on it are colour coded so that the total can be read from a distance: red for twenty-five kilograms, blue for twenty, yellow for fifteen, green for ten and white for five.

Rhythmic gymnastics combines dance and gymnastic movement with a hand apparatus, and the five recognised apparatus are the rope, the hoop, the ball, the clubs and the ribbon; a routine is performed on a floor area to music, and the apparatus must be kept in continuous motion.

The beam is a padded bar about five metres long and only ten centimetres wide, raised roughly a metre and a quarter above the floor, and it is one of the four women's apparatus along with the vault, the uneven bars and the floor exercise.

Dipa Karmakar performed it at the Rio Games of 2016, where she became the first Indian woman gymnast to qualify for the Olympics and finished fourth in the vault final.

It governs artistic, rhythmic, trampoline, acrobatic and aerobic gymnastics and sets the code of points by which routines are scored.

The correct answer is C, Nadia Comaneci of Romania, who received the first perfect ten in Olympic gymnastics at the Montreal Games of 1976, at the age of fourteen; the scoreboard of the day could show only three digits and displayed her mark as 1.00.

The men's programme has six apparatus, the floor exercise, pommel horse, still rings, vault, parallel bars and horizontal bar, and of these the pommel horse, the rings, the parallel bars and the horizontal bar appear in no women's event.

Powerlifting is made up of three lifts, the squat, the bench press and the deadlift, in none of which the bar finishes overhead, and the sport is not on the Olympic programme; para powerlifting, contested at the Paralympic Games, is the bench press alone.

Karnam Malleswari took bronze there and became the first Indian woman ever to win an Olympic medal, a feat that earned her the popular title Iron Lady of India.

Olympic weightlifting consists of the snatch and the clean and jerk, and a competitor is allowed three attempts at each; the best valid lift in each is added to give the total that decides the medal.