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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Switzerland houses the headquarters of the “International Olympic Committee” in one of its municipalities known as Lausanne. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland. Founded by Pierre de Coubertin and Demetrios Vikelas in 1894, it is the authority responsible for organising the modern Summer and Winter Olympic Games. The IOC is the governing body of the National Olympic Committees (NOCs), which are the national constituents of the worldwide Olympic Movement. The current president of the IOC is Thomas Bach of Germany.

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The honor of hosting the 2026 Winter Olympic Games has been awarded to Italy. Specifically, the event is to be co-hosted by the cities of Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo. The Olympics are an internationally recognized sports event that takes place every four years with summer and winter games alternating biennially. Italy has previously hosted the Winter Olympics twice, once in 1956 and again in 2006.

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Festival of Empire event inspired the creation of the Commonwealth Games. As part of the festival, an Inter-Empire sports championship was held in which teams from Australasia (a combined team from Australia and New Zealand), Canada, South Africa, and the United Kingdom competed in five athletics events (100 yards, 220 yards, 880 yards, 1 mile and 120 yards hurdles), two swimming events (100 yards and 1 mile), heavyweight boxing and middleweight wrestling. This is regarded as a forerunner of the British Empire Games (now Commonwealth Games), held from 1930.

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Australia tops the all-time medal table in the Commonwealth Games. Australia has hosted the Commonwealth Games five times in 1938, 1962, 1982, 2006 and 2018; this is more times than any other nation. Australia tops the all-time medal table in the Commonwealth Games with 2415 medals.

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Far Eastern Championship Games is known as the precursor of the Asian Games. The Far Eastern Championship Games (also known as the Far Eastern Championships, Far Eastern Games or Far East Games) was an Asian multi-sport event considered to be a precursor to the Asian Games.

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Congcong, Lianlian, Chenchen, which are the three futuristic robot characters, is the mascot of the 2022 Asian Games. Since the 1982 Asian Games in New Delhi, India, the Asian Games have had a mascot, usually an animal native to the area or occasionally human figures representing the cultural heritage.

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Australia won the Cricket World Cup most number of times. The most successful side playing international cricket is Australia, which has won seven One Day International trophies, including five World Cups, more than any other country and has been the top-rated Test side more than any other country.

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Canada and the United States of America were the participating countries of the first official international cricket match took place in 1844. The Canadian cricket team in the United States in 1844 was both the first official international cricket match and the first official international game of any sport. The match between the two national teams was billed as ‘The United States of America versus the British Empire’s Canadian Province’. The match took place between 24 and 26 September 1844 at the St George’s Cricket Club’s ground at what is now 30th Street and Broadway (then Bloomingdales) in Manhattan. Canada won by 23 runs. On the first day, there were from 5,000 to 20,000 spectators and an estimated 100,000 to 120,000 worth of bets were placed on the match.

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The Narendra Modi Stadium (formerly: Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Cricket Stadium) is a cricket stadium situated inside the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Sports Enclave in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. As of 2022, it is the largest stadium in the world, with a seating capacity of 132,000 spectators.