Sports GK Mixed Quiz: Set 37

Wilson Jones of Pune won the World Amateur Billiards Championship in 1958 and so became the first Indian to win a world title in any sport, a landmark often asked in general awareness papers.

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 gallery railing in the Springfield gymnasium from which James Naismith hung his peach baskets in 1891 happened to be ten feet above the floor, and the height has stayed the same ever since for men and women alike.

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

The World Snooker Championship, the oldest and most important event in the professional game, has been staged at this small theatre in the English city of Sheffield without a break since 1977, and the venue is so closely identified with the title that the championship is often called the Crucible.

The Pro Kabaddi League began in 2014, organised by Mashal Sports along with the Amateur Kabaddi Federation of India, and it was built deliberately on the franchise model of the IPL, with city teams, a player auction and a television contract.

The correct answer is C, seven, that is six court players and one goalkeeper, with further players available as substitutes.

Born Cassius Marcellus Clay in Louisville in the United States, he won the light heavyweight gold medal at the 1960 Rome Olympics, took the world heavyweight title from Sonny Liston in 1964 and changed his name to Muhammad Ali soon afterwards.

The billiards player from Bengaluru won both the time format and the points format of the World Billiards Championship in 2005, a double no player had achieved before, and it is for this that he is called the holder of the grand double.

The twelfth edition of the South Asian Games was held in 2016 across two north-eastern cities, with Guwahati in Assam as the main venue and Shillong in Meghalaya hosting part of the programme, and India finished at the top of the medal table as it has in almost every edition.

It runs the World Championship, the Volleyball Nations League and the beach volleyball circuit.

NADA was set up on 24 November 2005 as a registered society under that ministry, and it plans and carries out sample collection, manages results and runs education programmes so that sport in India is practised without doping.

Michael Ferreira of Mumbai won the World Amateur Billiards Championship in 1977, 1981 and 1983, and with those three titles he carried forward the tradition that Wilson Jones had begun and which Geet Sethi and Pankaj Advani later extended.

The Pakistani fast bowler came from Rawalpindi and bowled some of the quickest deliveries ever recorded, which earned him the name Rawalpindi Express, built on the same pattern as the Payyoli Express and the Chakda Express.

The correct answer is C, Tokyo in 1964, where both the men's and the women's events were held, the hosts winning the women's gold.

England beat Spain in the final at the Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata to win the 2017 Under-17 World Cup, the first FIFA tournament of any kind staged in India.

English billiards is played with three balls, and a cannon, in which the striker's cue ball hits both the red and the opponent's ball in the same stroke, scores two points.

The libero is a defensive specialist introduced to make long rallies possible: the player wears a shirt of a different colour, plays only in the back row, may be replaced freely without counting against the team's substitutions, and may not serve in most competitions, block, or attack a ball lying…

The pink ball is worth six points and is placed on its spot immediately in front of the apex of the triangle of reds, which is why it is so often involved in the opening shots of a break.

The shot clock gives the attacking side twenty-four seconds from gaining control of the ball to release a shot that touches the ring, and failure to do so hands possession to the opponents.