GS Paper About Sports

1. ‘Queen’s berry Rules’ is the name. give to the rules in which game? – Boxing 2. Misha Grewal is associated with which game/sport? – Squash 3. The first Indian to cross seven important seas by swimming? – Bula Chaudhary 4. Which game is associated with? – 5. Who was the first Indian batsman to have achieved 300 runs in an innings in Tests? – 6. Where did Mahendra Singh Dhoni make his ODI debut? – Chittagong 7. Which is the most southerly test match grounds of England? – The Lords 8. Which Indian batsman was the first to hit 44 fours in a test match innings? – Laxman 9. What was ’s average when he made his first thousand runs in ODls? – 35.83 10. Sergei Bubkha,an athlete of international repute, belongs to which country? – Ukraine 11. How long are professional Golf Tour players allotted per short? – 45 seconds 12. How many centuries in Tests did Sunil Gavaskar bag when he retired? – 34 13. Former Australian captain Allan Border was sometimes known as “Captain Grumpy”. What was his other nickname? – AB 14. Which country was readmitted to the Olympics after her 21 year suspension? – South Africa 15. When did the first Commonwealth Games take place? – 1930

16. Shiny Wilson is associated with which game/sport? – Athletics 17. Ben Johnson, the well known athlete belongs to which country? – Canada 18. Which country has hosted the Asian Games for maximum number of times? – Thailand 19. Who is the only cricketer to score two successive centuries in a World Cup? – 20. Where did play its 1st one day international match? – Headingley 21. Who was the first Indian, to reach the semi final in Wimbledon Tennis Championship? – Ramanathan Krishnan 22. Which is the Trophy/Cups associated with the game of Hockey? – Agha Khan Cup 23. Against which team did Virender Sehwag make his one day international debt? – Pakistan 24. The first Commonwealth Games were held in the year 1930 at which place? – Hamilton (Canade) 25. Since the revival of the Modern Olympic Games, how many times have the game been canceled? – Thrice: 1916, 1940 and 1944 26. is Known for his outstanding performance in which game? – Archery 27. How many wickets had taken in Test matches when he retired? – 434 28. Which batsman started his International cricketing career at the age of 16? – Sachin Tendulkar 29. Which Indian batsman made three consecutive centuries in his first three Test Matches? – M-S.M. Gavaskar 30. The name of is associated with which game? – Badminton

31. In which year did the first modem Olympic Games take place? – 1896 32. Yondieki who set up a new world record in 10,000 meters race, belongs to which country? – Kenya 33. Which is the only golfer to win the Masters Tournament six times? – Jack Nicklaus 34. The Asian Games were held in Delhi for the first time in which year? – 1951 35. The Indian Football team made its first appearance at Olympics in ? – 1948 36. When did Sachin Tendulkar make his Test dubut? – 1989 37. Who was the first black tennis player to win a Wombledon title? – Althea Gibson 38. Olympic Games after 4th century AD Restarted (Under IOC) from which year? – 1896 39. Who was named India’s Cricketer of the Century by Wisden? – Kapil Dev 40. Ben Johnson (Canadian) was disqualified in the 1998 Seoul Olympic in the Athletics? – 100 m 41. What is the duration of a normal one half of a Hockey match? – 30 min 42. Who was the first Indian to win an individual medal in Olympics? – K.D. Yadav 43. Who has scored the slowest century in the test cricket? – Mudassar Nazar 44. Who has scored the highest run in a test cricket innings? – Brian Lara 45. All Sher, an Arjuan award winner, is associated with which game? – Golf 46. Who is the highest wicket taker in the world in one day cricket? – Muttiah Muralitharan 47. Which team did Sachin Tendulkar play for in the Ranji Trophy when he made his debut in first class cricket? – Mumbai

48. The name is associated with which gaem? – Weight lifting 49. Who is the first Indian woman to win an Asian Games gold in 400m run? – Kamaljit Sandhu 50. Victoria Azarenka is associated with which game? – Tennis