Sports GK Previous Year Questions (PYQ) with Answers – Page 3

The Indian wicketkeeper-batter won the ICC Emerging Player of the Year award for 2018, after a debut year in Test cricket that included a century in England.

Aishwarya Pissay is a motorcycle racer from Bengaluru who in 2019 became the first Indian to win a world title in motorsports, the FIM World Cup in Bajas for women.

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.

An offside trap is a defensive tactic in which the defenders move up the field together at the right moment so that an attacking player is left beyond the last defender when the ball is played forward, and the referee then gives offside.

The Ryder Cup is a team golf tournament, played between teams representing the United States and Europe. It began in 1927 and is named after Samuel Ryder, the English seed merchant who donated the trophy.

Till July 2018 Tendulkar was not yet in the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame; he was inducted a year later, in July 2019.

Neeraj Chopra is India's leading javelin thrower and the country's first Olympic gold medallist in track and field.

India beat China 5-4 in a penalty shoot-out after a 1-1 draw in the final at Kakamigahara, Japan, in November 2017.

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".

Birdie and eagle are scoring terms used in golf. Every hole on a golf course is given a par, the number of strokes a good player is expected to take on it.

M. C. Mary Kom was born in Kangathei village of Churachandpur district in Manipur. Mary Kom is the only woman boxer to have won six world championship titles, and she is nicknamed Magnificent Mary.

He won gold in the men's javelin F46 class at Rio 2016 with a world record throw of 63.97 m. Devendra Jhajharia, from Churu in Rajasthan, lost his left arm to an electric shock as a child.

At the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, India won two medals, both by women: a silver in badminton and a bronze in wrestling.

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

Chile beat Argentina in the final of the 2016 Copa América Centenario to win the title. The 2016 tournament marked 100 years of the Copa América and was held in the United States, the first time it was played outside South America.