Sports GK Mixed Quiz: Set 38

A frame of snooker begins with fifteen red balls in a triangle, six colours on their own spots, namely yellow, green, brown, blue, pink and black, and the white cue ball with which the player strikes, making twenty-two balls in all.

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 correct answer is B, two halves of thirty minutes each, making an hour of play with an interval between the halves.

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.

The first Formula One World Championship season opened with the British Grand Prix at Silverstone on 13 May 1950, and Giuseppe Farina of Italy, driving an Alfa Romeo, became the first world champion at the end of that season.

Jaipur Pink Panthers won the inaugural Pro Kabaddi League final of 2014 against U Mumba, and the team's association with a film star owner gave the new league much of its early publicity.

A polo team puts four mounted players on the field, numbered one to four, where number one is the attacking forward and number four, called the back, is the main defender.

Bradman played 52 Test matches between 1928 and 1948 and scored 6,996 runs with 29 centuries, leaving him with an average of 99.94, a figure no batter has approached since.

In May 2020 Sania Mirza won the Fed Cup Heart Award for the Asia/Oceania zone, becoming the first Indian to receive it.

FISU was founded in 1949, has its headquarters at Lausanne in Switzerland, and runs both the Summer and the Winter World University Games along with a long list of World University Championships.

Under the rally point system, in which every rally gives a point to one side or the other whoever served, the first four sets of a match are played to twenty-five points and must be won by a margin of at least two, so a set can run to 26-24…

CAS was established in 1984 at the initiative of the International Olympic Committee, whose own headquarters is in the same city, and it also keeps branch offices at Sydney and New York besides sitting in ad hoc divisions at the Olympic Games.

The circuit in Uttar Pradesh hosted the Indian Grand Prix three times, in 2011, 2012 and 2013, and Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull won on each occasion before the race was dropped from the calendar.

Beijing held the Summer Olympic Games of 2008 and the Winter Olympic Games of 2022, becoming the first city anywhere to host both, and its Winter mascot was the panda Bing Dwen Dwen.

A polo match is divided into chukkas, also spelt chukker, of seven minutes each, and a match has four to six of them depending on the tournament; ponies are usually changed between chukkas because the galloping is so hard on the horse.

Pele of Brazil, the only player to win three World Cups, was called Perola Negra, the Black Pearl, and also the King of Football.

The correct answer is B, seven metres, which is why a handball penalty is often simply called a seven-metre throw.

The blue flag is shown to a slower driver, usually one who is about to be lapped, and ignoring it repeatedly brings a penalty, because the leaders must not be held up by backmarkers.

Sagol Kangjei, played in Manipur on the small Manipuri pony, is the game from which the modern rules of polo were drawn after British officers and tea planters saw it in the eighteen fifties, which is why Manipur is called the birthplace of modern polo.

The FIA was founded in 1904 and is based in Paris, and besides running the Formula One World Championship and the World Rally Championship it also works on road safety and on the regulation of motoring clubs across the world.