Sports GK Mixed Quiz: Set 1

The ancient Games were held at Olympia in Greece in honour of Zeus, and 776 BCE is the earliest celebration for which a written record of the winner survives.

ASIAD is the short name for the Asian Games, the continent's multi-sport event held every four years, and it is run by the Olympic Council of Asia, OCA, headquartered in Kuwait City.

The 2019 ICC Men's Cricket World Cup, the 12th edition, was played in England and Wales from 30 May to 14 July 2019.

The Sudirman Cup is the world mixed team championship of badminton, organised by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). It was first held in 1989 in Jakarta and is named after Dick Sudirman, the founder of the Badminton Association of Indonesia.

All three are Indian football tournaments. The Durand Cup, first played in 1888 and named after Sir Mortimer Durand, then Foreign Secretary of British India, is Asia's oldest football tournament and is still organised with the help of the armed forces.

The French educationist believed that sport built character in the young, and at a congress at the Sorbonne in Paris he founded the International Olympic Committee on 23 June 1894, which led directly to the first modern Games at Athens in 1896.

The first Asian Games were held at the National Stadium in New Delhi in March 1951, two years after the Asian Games Federation was formed in the same city, and eleven nations took part.

Greece was chosen for the first modern Games because the ancient festival had been held there, and the event took place in 1896, two years after the International Olympic Committee was founded.

The motto was adopted with the first Asian Games of 1951 at New Delhi and it goes with the emblem of a bright rising sun ringed by interlocking circles, which stands for the new energy of the Asian nations after the Second World War.

The International Olympic Committee moved its headquarters there during the First World War and has remained in the city since, which is why Lausanne is also called the Olympic Capital and houses the Olympic Museum.

His idea led to the formation of the Asian Games Federation at New Delhi in 1949 and to the first Games there in 1951.

The three Latin words were suggested to Pierre de Coubertin by his friend Henri Didon, a French priest and educator who used them for the pupils at his school, and Coubertin adopted them for the Olympic movement.

The ninth Asian Games at New Delhi in 1982 were the first Games organised under the newly formed Olympic Council of Asia, and their elephant mascot became one of the best remembered images in Indian sport.

Pierre de Coubertin designed the symbol in 1913, and the rings are interlaced to show the meeting of athletes from every part of the world at the Games.

It was set up in 1982 with its headquarters at Kuwait City and took over the running of the Asian Games from that year, which is why the 1982 Delhi Asiad is described as the first Games held under the new body.

The event held there in 1924 was recognised afterwards as the first Winter Olympic Games, and it created a separate cycle for sports played on snow and ice.

The first edition was held there in 1930 under the name British Empire Games, organised by Melville Marks Robinson, and it grew out of a proposal made as far back as 1891 by John Astley Cooper for a festival of the nations of the Empire.

Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav won a bronze medal in wrestling at the Helsinki Games of 1952, the first individual Olympic medal won by an Indian after independence, at a time when India's Olympic reputation rested entirely on the hockey team.

That was the official name from the first edition at Hamilton in 1930 until 1950. The title then changed with the politics of the Commonwealth: British Empire and Commonwealth Games from 1954, British Commonwealth Games from 1970 and simply the Commonwealth Games from 1978.

The Indian men's hockey team won the gold medal at the Amsterdam Games of 1928 and then kept winning, taking eight Olympic golds in all, in 1928, 1932, 1936, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1964 and 1980.