Sports GK MCQs

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Only six nations have participated in every Commonwealth Games: Australia, Canada, England, New Zealand, Scotland and Wales. Of these six, Australia, England, Canada and New Zealand have each won at least one gold medal in every Games. Australia has been the highest achieving team for thirteen editions of the Games, England for seven, and Canada for one. These three teams also top the all-time Commonwealth Games medal table in that order.

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The “Pierre de Coubertin Medal” is awarded for the excellence in the sports field. The Pierre de Coubertin medal, also known as the Coubertin medal or the True Spirit of Sportsmanship medal, is an award given by the International Olympic Committee to athletes who demonstrate the spirit of sportsmanship in the Olympic Games. The medal was inaugurated in the year 1964. Pierre de Coubertin is known as the father of the modern Olympic Games.

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Five rings are present in the symbol of the Olympic Games. The rings are five interlocking rings, coloured blue, yellow, black, green and red on a white field, known as the “Olympic rings”. The symbol was originally created in 1913 by Pierre de Coubertin. He appears to have intended the rings to represent the five continents: Europe, Asia, Africa, The Americas, and Oceania. According to Coubertin, the colours of the rings together with the white of the background included the colours composing every competing nation’s flag at the time.

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The 1928 Summer Olympics, Amsterdam was the first Summer Olympic Game which allowed females to compete at track and field athletics.

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The 1972 Summer Olympics, Munich was the venue for the infamous “Munich massacre”. The Munich massacre was an attack during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, by eight members of the Palestinian terrorist group Black September, who took nine members of the Israeli Olympic team hostage, after killing two of them previously, and killing them along with a West German police officer. The motive was Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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Israeli-Palestinian Conflict was the motive behind the infamous “Munich massacre” in the 1972 Summer Olympics, Munich. The Munich massacre was an attack during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, by eight members of the Palestinian terrorist group Black September, who took nine members of the Israeli Olympic team hostage, after killing two of them previously, and killing them along with a West German police officer. The motive was Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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Commonwealth Games is the world’s first multi-sport event which inducts an equal number of women’s and men’s medal events. The Commonwealth Games is an international multi-sport event involving athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. It is also the world’s first multi-sport event which inducts an equal number of women’s and men’s medal events and was implemented recently in the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Because of this unique action, the World Economic Forum called the event inspiring and significant.

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The 2010 Commonwealth Games is the most expensive Commonwealth Games ever held. The estimated cost of the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi was US11 billion, according to Business Today magazine. The initial total budget estimated by the Indian Olympic Association in 2003 was US250 million. In 2010, however, the official total budget soon escalated to an estimated US$1.8 billion, a figure which excluded non-sports-related infrastructure development. The 2010 Commonwealth Games are reportedly the most expensive Commonwealth Games ever.

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China tops the “All-time Asian Games Medal table”. China tops the All-time Asian Games Medal table with 1473 gold medals, 994 silver medals and 720 bronze medals, thereby totalling  3187 medals.

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Marylebone Cricket Club maintains and owns the copyright of the “Laws of Cricket”, a code for the cricket game. Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) is a cricket club founded in 1787 and based since 1814 at Lord’s Cricket Ground, which it owns, in London. The club was formerly the governing body of cricket and still holds considerable global influence. In 1788, the MCC took responsibility for the laws of Cricket, issuing a revised version that year. Changes to these Laws are now determined by the International Cricket Council (ICC), but the copyright is still owned by MCC.