Sports GK Mixed Quiz: Set 16

An army man wounded by bullets in the war of 1965, he took to swimming during his recovery and won the fifty metre freestyle event at the Heidelberg Games of 1972 in a world record time, giving India its first Paralympic gold medal, which remained the country’s only one for…

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.

The full target face used at 70 metres measures 122 centimetres across and carries ten concentric scoring rings, the innermost worth 10 points and the outermost worth 1.

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.

The correct answer is B, Deepa Malik, who won a silver medal in the shot put at the Rio Games of 2016 and so became the first Indian woman to win a Paralympic medal of any colour; she has since received the Khel Ratna, the highest sporting award of the…

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

The compound bow uses cams and cables that hold most of the draw weight for the archer, a magnifying scope and a mechanical release aid, so scores are far higher than with a recurve.

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.

Jhajharia lost the use of his left arm as a child and competes in the F46 class; he won gold at the Athens Games of 2004 and again at Rio in 2016, becoming the first Indian with two Paralympic golds, and he later added a silver at Tokyo.

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.

Archery is Bhutan's national sport and its village and festival contests, shot at long distances with small wooden targets and their own customs, are a part of national life.

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.

Avani Lekhara won the ten metre air rifle standing event in the SH1 class at the Tokyo Games, becoming the first Indian woman to win a Paralympic gold, and she took a second medal at the same Games in the fifty metre rifle three positions event.

The 1987 tournament, sponsored as the Reliance Cup, was the first taken away from England and the first in which an innings was cut from 60 overs to 50, the length used ever since.

Recurve individual matches are shot in sets of three arrows. The archer with the higher total in a set takes 2 set points, a tied set gives 1 set point to each, and the first archer to reach 6 set points wins the match.

A hat-trick in football means three goals scored by the same player in a single match. The term travelled to football from cricket, where it originally meant three wickets in three successive balls and the bowler was rewarded with a hat, and it is now used across several games.

Goalball is played by two teams of three, all of them wearing eyeshades so that every player competes on the same footing, and the ball has bells inside it so that it can be tracked by sound; the hall must therefore stay silent while play is on.

The archer from West Bengal won the women's recurve gold at the 2007 Archery World Cup Final in Dubai, the first World Cup Final title won by an Indian archer, and she was honoured with the Arjuna Award.

The Special Olympics was founded in 1968 by Eunice Kennedy Shriver and holds its own World Games on its own calendar, separate from both the Olympics and the Paralympics.

Limba Ram comes from a tribal family of the Udaipur region of southern Rajasthan and was India's best known archer of the early 1990s, shooting at three Olympic Games and equalling a world record at a continental event.