Sports GK Mixed Quiz: Set 3

Milkha Singh, the quarter-miler known as the Flying Sikh, won the 440 yards at Cardiff in 1958, giving India its first athletics gold at the Commonwealth Games.

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.

India beat Sri Lanka in the final at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on 2 April 2011, and Dhoni, who finished the chase himself, was named player of the match; Yuvraj Singh was player of the tournament.

The Dronacharya Award, India's honour for coaches who produce outstanding sportspersons, was given for the first time in 1985, and Bhalchandra Bhaskar Bhagwat, a wrestling coach, was among the first three to receive it, along with O.M.

FIFA has its headquarters at Zurich in Switzerland, from where it administers the World Cup and the world rankings.

Chadalavada Anandha Sundhararaman Bhavani Devi is an Indian fencer from Chennai who competes in the sabre event. She became the first Indian fencer to qualify for the Olympic Games, at Tokyo in 2021, and won her opening bout there.

The nickname records the spirit in which the meet was set up, a gathering of nations bound by a shared history rather than a contest of blocs, and it fits the Federation motto, Humanity, Equality, Destiny.

The first FIFA World Cup was staged in Uruguay in 1930, the country having been chosen partly because it was celebrating the centenary of its independence and partly because it was the reigning Olympic football champion.

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.

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.

The penalty mark in football is twelve yards, about eleven metres, from the midpoint of the goal line, and a penalty kick is taken from that spot with only the goalkeeper defending.

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 Thai capital has staged the Asian Games on four occasions, more than any other city, and it twice stepped in at short notice when another host withdrew, which is how it built up that record.

The first World Cup was played in England in 1975 over 60 overs an innings, and West Indies beat Australia in the final at Lord's under Clive Lloyd.

England and New Zealand finished level after fifty overs each at Lord's, and the Super Over that followed was tied as well.

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 Durand Cup was first played at Shimla in 1888 and is the oldest football tournament in India and in Asia, and the third oldest in the world.

Australia has won the one-day World Cup six times, in 1987, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2015 and 2023, and its run of three in a row between 1999 and 2007 is unmatched.

The Jules Rimet Trophy, named after the FIFA president who conceived the World Cup, was to be kept permanently by the first nation to win the competition three times.

The first men's T20 World Cup was staged in South Africa in 2007, and India beat Pakistan in the final at Johannesburg under M. S. Dhoni, a match remembered for its last over.