This Sports GK quiz on Motorsport and Cycling: Formula One and the Tour de France puts 10 multiple-choice questions to you, the verified MCQs published with GK24's note on the topic. Every question carries a full explanation of why the correct option is right and why the other options are wrong, so you learn the fact behind the answer rather than the letter. Attempt it right after reading the note, keep to the timer, and use the explanations at the end to mark what needs another look. Sit it again before the exam as a quick revision of the topic.
10 questions with answers and explanations
The Formula One World Championship was held for the first time in which year?
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.
Read the full explanation →The Indian Grand Prix of Formula One was held at which circuit?
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.
Read the full explanation →In motor racing, what does a blue flag shown to a driver mean?
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.
Read the full explanation →The Federation Internationale de l Automobile, the world governing body of motorsport, has its headquarters in which city?
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.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first Indian driver to race in Formula One?
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.
Read the full explanation →The Tour de France, the most famous cycling race in the world, was held for the first time in which year?
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.
Read the full explanation →In the Tour de France, the rider leading the general classification wears a jersey of which colour?
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.
Read the full explanation →In the Tour de France, the polka dot jersey is awarded to the:
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.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is NOT one of the three Grand Tours of professional cycling?
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.
Read the full explanation →In Formula One, what is the full form of DRS?
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.
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