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The Swaythling Cup is the men's team championship of the world table tennis championships and the Corbillon Cup is the women's team championship of the same event, and the two names are almost always set together in question papers.

The Santosh Trophy is the national football championship of India, played between teams representing the states and certain institutions, and it has been held since 1941.

The International Olympic Committee, founded in 1894 on the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin, moved its seat to Lausanne during the First World War and has worked from that city ever since, which is why Lausanne is called the Olympic capital.

The Irani Cup was begun to mark twenty five seasons of the Ranji Trophy and is a single first class match in which the reigning national champions meet a side drawn from the best players of the other teams, which makes it a selection trial as much as a contest.

The Thomas Cup is the world team championship for men in badminton, and its counterpart for women is the Uber Cup, while the Sudirman Cup is the mixed team championship of the same game.

The Durand Cup was begun at Shimla in 1888 and is named after Mortimer Durand, who was then the foreign secretary of the British Indian government.

Mohun Bagan Athletic Club was founded in 1889 in Kolkata and is among the oldest football clubs of the country.

The Royal Calcutta Golf Club was founded in 1829 in the city that was then the capital of British India, and it is counted as the first golf club established anywhere outside Britain.

India beat Sri Lanka there in the final of the 2011 tournament, which India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh had hosted together, and it was the first time a host country had won the World Cup final on its own ground.

The Kalinga Stadium is the sports complex of the capital of Odisha and it staged the men's Hockey World Cup of 2018; the state has since become the main home of Indian hockey, and the Birsa Munda Hockey Stadium built at Rourkela in the same state hosted matches of the…

Camp Nou stands in the city of Barcelona in Spain and is the home of that club and one of the largest football stadiums in Europe.

The circuit was built there and held the Formula One Indian Grand Prix in 2011, 2012 and 2013, the only rounds of the world championship ever staged in India; it continues to be used for motorcycle racing and other motor sport events.

The ground of the Delhi and Districts Cricket Association was renamed in 2019 in memory of the former union minister who had led that association for many years; the playing area alone was renamed, and the older name Feroz Shah Kotla still attaches to the historic complex beside it.

The ground's formal name is Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan, it stands in the Salt Lake area of Kolkata, and it is the largest football stadium in the country and among the largest in the world; the city's clubs and the national team both play there, and it hosted the final…

Wimbledon is held at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London, it is the oldest of the four Grand Slam tournaments and it is the only one still played on grass, a surface on which the ball keeps low and comes quickly on to the racket, so…

Lord's was founded by Thomas Lord and is owned by the Marylebone Cricket Club, the body that framed the laws of cricket and guarded them for two centuries; the final of the first Cricket World Cup in 1975 was played there, and the pavilion holds the game's most famous museum.

The ground stands in the Motera area of Ahmedabad in Gujarat, inside the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Sports Enclave, and after rebuilding it became the largest cricket stadium in the world by seating capacity; it was given its present name in 2021, so papers of earlier years call it the Motera…

The ground was laid out in 1864, which makes it the oldest cricket ground in the country by a wide margin; it is the home of the Cricket Association of Bengal, one of the largest cricket grounds in the world by seating and is often called the Lord's of the…

India marched behind its own flag at the Olympics for the first time at Antwerp in 1920, and the athlete Purma Banerjee carried it at the opening ceremony.

A volleyball court is a rectangle 18 metres long and 9 metres wide, divided into two square halves of 9 metres by 9 metres by the centre line, above which the net is fixed at 2.43 metres for men and 2.24 metres for women.