Sports GK MCQs

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Maharashtra Kesari is an Indian-style wrestling championship, established in 1961 in the Indian state of Maharashtra.

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Olympic weightlifting, often simply referred to as weightlifting, is a sport in which the athlete attempts a maximum-weight single lift of a barbell loaded with weight plates. The two competition lifts in order are the snatch and the clean and jerk. The snatch is a wide-grip, one-move lift. The clean and jerk is a close-grip, two-move lift.

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Larry Pacifico is an American former world champion powerlifter. Larry won nine straight IPF World Powerlifting Championships from 1971–1979. Larry won a total of 102 competitions and set 54 World Records during his powerlifting career. Larry is widely regarded as one of the greatest powerlifters of all time, and goes by the nickname “Mr. Powerlifting”.

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Sathish Sivalingam is an Indian weightlifter who won gold medals in the men’s 77 kg weight class at both the 2014 and the 2018 Commonwealth Games.

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The compound bow was invented by Holless Wilbur Allen in 1966. It revolutionized archery by using a system of pulleys and cables to reduce the amount of force needed to draw the bow, allowing for greater accuracy and power. This innovation importantly changed both target archery and hunting practices.

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The correct answer is Brady Ellison. He holds the record for the longest continuous period as the world number-one-ranked men’s recurve archer, achieving this status for over 250 weeks. Ellison is a three-time World Champion and has represented the USA in multiple Olympic Games, winning a team bronze in 2008 and individual silver in 2012. His consistency and skill have made him a prominent figure in archery.

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In the winter of 1895, in Holyoke, Massachusetts of the United States of America, William G. Morgan, a YMCA physical education director, created a new game called Mintonette, a name derived from the game of badminton, as a pastime to be played (preferably) indoors and by any number of players.

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Backcourt (or back row) is an attack performed by a back-row player. The player must jump from behind the 3-meter line before making contact with the ball, but may land in front of the 3-meter line.

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The International Handball Federation (IHF) is the administrative and controlling body for handball and beach handball. IHF is responsible for the organisation of handball’s major international tournaments, notably the IHF World Men’s Handball Championship and the IHF World Women’s Handball Championship.

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Denmark holds the record of most numbers of gold medals won in women’s handball at the Summer Olympics with a record of 3 gold medals.