Sports GK Mixed Quiz: Set 36

The Hockey India League began in 2013 under Hockey India, and Ranchi Rhinos won the first final; the league was notable for buying the world's best players at auction and for bringing international hockey to Indian cities for several weeks each winter.

Rajasthan Royals, led by the Australian leg spinner Shane Warne, won the 2008 final against Chennai Super Kings at the Dr D. Y. Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai, and they remain the only team to win the title in the league's first attempt with the smallest purse of that season.

The phrase has been WADA's slogan since its early years and appears on its campaigns, its outreach programmes at major Games and its education material for athletes.

WADA was created on 10 November 1999, a year after the Festina affair of the 1998 Tour de France, in which a team car carrying banned drugs exposed how organised doping had become and pushed the Olympic movement and governments to build a joint agency.

A frame of snooker begins with fifteen red balls arranged in a triangle behind the pink, each worth one point.

The American swimmer competed at five Olympic Games and finished with 28 medals, of which 23 are gold, far ahead of anyone else in any sport.

A Canadian physical instructor at the YMCA training school in Springfield, Massachusetts, he devised the game in 1891 to keep his class occupied indoors during a hard winter, nailed two peach baskets to the gallery railings and wrote thirteen rules, of which the ban on running with the ball survives…

The regional games of the subcontinent began in the Nepalese capital in 1984 under the name South Asian Federation Games, commonly shortened to SAF Games, and the shorter name South Asian Games was adopted in 2004.

The Ranji Trophy, begun in 1934-35 and named after Ranjitsinhji, is India's premier first-class cricket championship, played between teams representing states and a few institutional sides selected by the BCCI, not between privately owned city franchises.

The boxer from Manipur, a multiple world amateur champion and an Olympic medallist from the London Games of 2012, was called Magnificent Mary by the international boxing federation, and the name has stayed with her.

The case is treated as the moment doping became a public issue and is the usual example in questions on the subject.

India beat Sri Lanka in the final of the 2011 World Cup at the Wankhede, with Mahendra Singh Dhoni finishing the match with a six and Gautam Gambhir making the highest score of the innings.

The six colours of snooker are valued in a fixed order, yellow two, green three, brown four, blue five, pink six and black seven, so the black is the highest valued ball on the table and is the one a player takes after each red while building a big break.

Miraitowa, a blue chequered figure whose name joins the Japanese words for future and eternity, was the mascot of the Tokyo Olympic Games held in 2021 under the name Tokyo 2020.

William G. Morgan gave the game that name in 1895 because he had borrowed the net and the light ball from badminton, and only afterwards did a watching professor suggest volleyball, from the volleying of the ball back and forth over the net.

The Himalayan Mountaineering Institute was founded at Darjeeling in West Bengal in 1954, the year after the first ascent of Everest, and Tenzing Norgay served as its first director of field training.

Erythropoietin is a hormone that signals the bone marrow to make red blood cells; when it is injected, the blood carries more oxygen to the muscles and endurance rises, which is why it has been the drug of choice in cycling and distance events and why it is banned at…

The figure is arrived at by potting all fifteen reds for fifteen points, taking the black worth seven after each red for one hundred and five points, and then clearing the six colours in order of value for twenty-seven points, giving a total of one hundred and forty-seven.

The net divides the court into two squares of nine metres by nine metres, and an attack line is drawn three metres back from the centre line, behind which a back-row player must take off when attacking.

Officers of the British garrison at Jabalpur, in present-day Madhya Pradesh, added coloured balls to the older game of black pool in 1875, and Sir Neville Francis Fitzgerald Chamberlain of the Devonshire Regiment gave the new game the name snooker, which was slang at the Woolwich military academy for a…