Sports GK Mixed Quiz: Set 4

The tournament began in the 1934-35 season and Bombay won that first edition; Mumbai has remained by far its most successful team.

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 won the Asian Games football gold medal twice, first at the inaugural Games in New Delhi in 1951 and again at Jakarta in 1962, where the team beat South Korea in the final.

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.

The Irani Cup is a single first-class match, usually played at the start of the season, in which the reigning Ranji champion meets a Rest of India side drawn from the rest of the country.

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.

A hat-trick in football means three goals scored by the same player in a single match. The term travelled to football from cricket, where it originally meant three wickets in three successive balls and the bowler was rewarded with a hat, and it is now used across several games.

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.

India had slipped to 17 for 5 when Kapil Dev came in and made 175 not out at Tunbridge Wells, taking the side to 266 and a win that kept the campaign alive.

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 Santosh Trophy, started in 1941 and named after the Maharaja of Santosh in undivided Bengal, is the national football championship of India, played between teams representing the state associations and certain institutional units such as the services and the railways.

Brazil has won the FIFA World Cup five times, in 1958, 1962, 1970, 1994 and 2002, more than any other nation.

No bowler had managed a hat-trick in the four earlier editions, so the record stands as the first of its kind in the tournament.

India beat West Indies in the final on 25 June 1983 at Lord's in London, defending a total of 183 and winning by 43 runs; Mohinder Amarnath was named player of the match and Kapil Dev was the captain who received the trophy on the famous balcony.

The World Cup is played every four years, so after the 1938 tournament in France the next editions would have fallen in 1942 and 1946.

Greece was chosen for the first modern Games because the ancient festival had been held there, and the event took place in 1896, two years after the International Olympic Committee was founded.

It is the inter-state Twenty20 tournament run by the Board of Control for Cricket in India and is named after the batsman who scored the first century by an Indian in a Test abroad.

The ninth Asian Games at New Delhi in 1982 were the first Games organised under the newly formed Olympic Council of Asia, and their elephant mascot became one of the best remembered images in Indian sport.

A football side takes the field with eleven players, one of whom is the goalkeeper, the only member of the team permitted to handle the ball, and that only within his own penalty area.

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