Sports GK GK Questions with Answers – Page 2

Australia's men's field hockey team is known as the Kookaburras, after the laughing bird native to Australia. The Kookaburras are among the strongest sides in world hockey.

Avani Lekhara is a para shooter from Jaipur, Rajasthan, who competes in the SH1 rifle class.

The National Sports University is located in Imphal, Manipur, as provided first by the 2018 Ordinance and then by the National Sports University Act, 2018.

The mascot of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, held in Russia, was a wolf named Zabivaka, a Russian word meaning "the one who scores".

Pairs 1 and 3 are correctly matched, while pairs 2 and 4 describe other awards. The Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award, India's highest sporting honour, is given for the most spectacular and outstanding performance by a sportsperson over the previous four years, so pair 1 is correct.

Avani Lekhara is an Indian para-shooter from Jaipur, Rajasthan, who competes in rifle events in the SH1 class. A car accident in 2012 left her with a spinal cord injury, and she took up shooting a few years later.

India beat Pakistan by 17 runs in the final of the Women's Twenty20 Asia Cup in Bangkok, Thailand, in December 2016.

The first Kho Kho World Cup was held in New Delhi in January 2025, at the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium, so statement I is correct.

Saurabh Chaudhary is an Indian pistol shooter who competes in the 10 metre air pistol event. Born in 2002 in a farming family of Kalina village near Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, he burst onto the scene as a teenager.

'The Chevrons' is the nickname of the Zimbabwe national cricket team, taken from the chevron pattern linked with the stone walls of Great Zimbabwe.

Koneru Humpy, from Andhra Pradesh, is one of India's greatest chess players and among the strongest women players in the world.

The Marwari horse of the Marwar region of Rajasthan is identified at once by its inward-curving ears, whose tips can touch, and it was the warhorse of the Rathore rulers; it is used today in ceremonial riding and in the native dance called the horse dance.

At the Asian Games held in Indonesia in 2018, Fouaad Mirza won the individual silver and was part of the team that won silver in eventing, the first Indian equestrian medals at the Asian Games in a long gap, and he later represented India at the Olympic Games.

The correct answer is B, Eventing, also called the three-day event, in which the same horse and rider go through a dressage test, a cross-country course over natural obstacles and a show jumping round; penalty points from all three phases are added and the lowest total wins, so it is…

Equestrian events are not divided by the sex of the rider, so male and female riders contest the same medals in dressage, jumping and eventing, and it is also the only Olympic sport in which an animal competes alongside the athlete.

The Olympic programme has exactly these three equestrian disciplines, each with an individual and a team event; dressage tests set movements in a marked arena, jumping tests clearing a course of fences, and eventing combines dressage, cross-country and jumping with the same horse.

The correct answer is A, FEI, the Federation Equestre Internationale, founded in 1921 with its headquarters at Lausanne in Switzerland; it governs dressage, jumping, eventing, driving, endurance, vaulting and para-equestrian sport.

Argentina has produced most of the ten-goal handicap players in the history of the game and its Argentine Open, played at the Palermo ground in Buenos Aires, is considered the most important polo tournament in the world; Argentina also won the last Olympic polo title.

Polo featured in five editions of the Olympic Games between 1900 and 1936 and was dropped after the Berlin Games of 1936, mainly because of the cost and difficulty of transporting strings of horses; Argentina won that last Olympic title.

The Ezra Cup is the oldest polo tournament in India and is played under the Indian Polo Association, along with other well known trophies such as the Sir Pratap Singh Cup and the Maharaja Jiwajirao Scindia Gold Cup.