Sports GK MCQs

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The Seve Trophy was a biennial golf tournament between teams of professional male golfers; one team representing Great Britain and Ireland, the other team representing Continental Europe. The tournament was played in years when there is no Ryder Cup. The competition was held eight times from 2000 to 2013.

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A classic “boxer” or stylist (also known as an “out-fighter”) seeks to maintain distance between himself and his opponent, fighting with faster, longer range punches, most notably the jab, and gradually wearing his opponent down.

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Parrying or blocking uses the boxer’s shoulder, hands or arms as defensive tools to protect against incoming attacks. A block generally receives a punch while a parry tends to deflect it. A “palm”, “catch”, or “cuff” is a defence which intentionally takes the incoming punch on the palm portion of the defender’s glove.

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Clinching is a form of trapping or a rough form of grappling and occurs when the distance between both fighters has closed and straight punches cannot be employed. In this situation, the boxer attempts to hold or “tie up” the opponent’s hands so he is unable to throw hooks or uppercuts.

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Mary Kom is the first Indian female boxer to win a gold medal in the Commonwealth Games. Mary Kom is an Indian amateur boxer. She is the only female to become World Amateur Boxing champion for a record six times, the only female boxer to have won a medal in each one of the first seven World Championships, and the only boxer (male or female) to win eight World Championship medals. Nicknamed Magnificent Mary, she is the only Indian female boxer to have qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics, competing in the flyweight (51 kg) category and winning a bronze medal. She became the first Indian female boxer to win a gold medal in the Asian Games in 2014 at Incheon, South Korea and is the first Indian female boxer to win gold at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. She is also the only boxer to become Asian Amateur Boxing Champion for a record six times.

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Deepika Kumari is a famous Indian Archer who has represented India in multiple international level competitions. She was born in Jharkhand and began her career in archery at a young age. Deepika has won numerous awards for her outstanding performance in archery, including gold medals at the Commonwealth Games. She has also ranked as the world number one in Women’s Recurve Archery.

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Starting from 1972, Archery has been a permanent feature of the Olympic Games following a 52-year absence. For the first time, it was included in the Paris 1900 games, then subsequently in 1904, 1908, and 1920. Presently, the competition format includes individual, mixed team, and team events. A mixed team event comprises two archers, a man and a woman, who shoot in the same category. Similarly, in the team event, it involves three archers from the same gender competing in the same category.

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Skyball serve is a specific type of underhand serve occasionally used in beach volleyball, where the ball is hit so high it comes down almost in a straight line. This serve was invented and employed almost exclusively by the Brazilian team in the early 1980s and is now considered outdated. During the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, however, the sky ball serve was extensively played by Italian beach volleyball player Adrian Carambula.

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The Soviet Union won the most number of medals in volleyball at the Summer Olympics with 12 medals.

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Holger Nielsen was a Danish fencer, shooter, and athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. He is probably best known for drawing up the first modern set of rules for the game of handball.