Sports GK Mixed Quiz: Set 39

The driver from Coimbatore made his Formula One debut with the Jordan team in 2005 and so became the first Indian to compete in the championship, returning later with another team.

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

The Ezra Cup is the oldest polo tournament in India and is played under the Indian Polo Association, along with other well known trophies such as the Sir Pratap Singh Cup and the Maharaja Jiwajirao Scindia Gold Cup.

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.

The race was started by Henri Desgrange, the editor of the sports newspaper L Auto, which hoped to raise its circulation by organising a long bicycle race around France, and it has been run almost every July since then except during the two World Wars.

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.

Polo featured in five editions of the Olympic Games between 1900 and 1936 and was dropped after the Berlin Games of 1936, mainly because of the cost and difficulty of transporting strings of horses; Argentina won that last Olympic title.

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 yellow jersey, called the maillot jaune in French, is worn by the rider with the lowest cumulative time over all the stages completed so far, and whoever wears it after the final stage in Paris wins the race.

The Indian Super League was launched in 2014 with franchises in eight cities and is run under the All India Football Federation, which from the 2019-20 season recognised it as the country's top football division, with the I-League below it.

Argentina has produced most of the ten-goal handicap players in the history of the game and its Argentine Open, played at the Palermo ground in Buenos Aires, is considered the most important polo tournament in the world; Argentina also won the last Olympic polo title.

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.

Points are awarded at the top of each categorised climb, and the rider leading that classification wears the white jersey with red dots, which is why the best climbers of a generation are remembered by this jersey.

At the Montreal Olympics, the fourteen-year-old Nadia Comaneci was awarded a perfect score of 10 on the uneven bars, the first such mark in Olympic gymnastics; the scoreboards of the day could not display it and showed 1.00 instead.

The correct answer is A, FEI, the Federation Equestre Internationale, founded in 1921 with its headquarters at Lausanne in Switzerland; it governs dressage, jumping, eventing, driving, endurance, vaulting and para-equestrian sport.

The Winter series began the next year, in 1960, at Chamonix in France, so option B is the right city attached to the wrong series, and that swap is the usual way this question is made difficult.

It is one of the best known one-day classics, famous for its cobbled roads and for the nickname the Hell of the North, but a single day race can never be a Grand Tour.

The Olympic programme has exactly these three equestrian disciplines, each with an individual and a team event; dressage tests set movements in a marked arena, jumping tests clearing a course of fences, and eventing combines dressage, cross-country and jumping with the same horse.

It is a movable flap in the rear wing which a driver may open in marked zones of the circuit when close enough to the car in front; opening the flap cuts air resistance, raises the top speed and makes overtaking easier.

Equestrian events are not divided by the sex of the rider, so male and female riders contest the same medals in dressage, jumping and eventing, and it is also the only Olympic sport in which an animal competes alongside the athlete.