Sports GK Mixed Quiz: Set 15

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.

Karnataka won the 2017-18 Vijay Hazare Trophy, beating Saurashtra in the final played in Delhi.

The Davis Cup is the international team competition for men in lawn tennis, played between countries in ties spread over a season, and the corresponding competition for women is now called the Billie Jean King Cup.

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 Games held at Rome in 1960, with about four hundred athletes from twenty-three countries, are recognised as the first Paralympic Games, and the event has been held every four years since.

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.

It was founded in 1931 as the Federation Internationale de Tir a l'Arc, known by the short form FITA, and adopted the name World Archery in 2011.

He had also played in the World Cups of 1971 and 1973 and was later given the Padma Shri for his services to the game.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India was formed in 1928 and India played its first Test match four years later, in 1932.

Sania Mirza and Mahesh Bhupathi won the mixed doubles title at Melbourne Park in 2009, and that made Mirza the first Indian woman to win any Grand Slam title.

He was a neurologist who had left Germany for England and was put in charge of a spinal injuries unit at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, where he used sport as part of the treatment of soldiers paralysed in the Second World War; on 29 July 1948, the opening day of the…

The Olympic steeplechase is a 3000-metre race in which runners clear solid barriers and a water jump on every lap.

Archery was part of the 1900 Paris Olympics and a few Games after it, but disappeared from the programme after 1920 because the rules varied from country to country.

The date marks the founding of FIDE, the international chess federation, in Paris on 20 July 1924, and the day is observed by chess federations across the world with tournaments and school events.

The Beighton Cup has been played at Kolkata since the closing years of the nineteenth century and is among the oldest field hockey tournaments anywhere, older than most international competitions in the game, and the great teams and players of Indian hockey have all passed through it.

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 International Paralympic Committee was founded in 1989 as the world governing body of the movement, and it has been based at Bonn since then; it organises the Summer and Winter Paralympic Games and recognises the national Paralympic committees.

All Olympic recurve events, individual, team and mixed team, are shot at 70 metres at a target face of 122 centimetres.

FIFA was founded in 1904 and has long had its headquarters at Zurich in Switzerland, from where it organises the World Cup and governs the national federations.

The motto was adopted along with the emblem of three Agitos, the red, blue and green curved shapes that sweep around a central point; agito is Latin for I move, and together the symbol and the motto stand for movement and for athletes converging from every direction.