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1. Which country won the Thomas Cup 2016 ?
(A) Spain
(B) Australia
(C) France
(D) Denmark
2. 2018 FIFA World Cup Football will be held in-
(A) Brazil
(B) Russia
(C) USA
(D) France
3. Who is the present (December 2016) President of International Cricket Council ?
(A) David Morgan
(B) Percy Sonn
(C) Sunil Gavaskar
(D) Zaheer Abbas
4. Which team won the ICC World Twenty-20 Cricket Tournament played in March/April 2016 ?
(A) India
(B) West Indies
(C) Australia
(D) South Africa
5. Who is the new President of the BCCI ?
(A) Anurag Thakur
(B) Jagmohan Dalmia
(C) Sharad Pawar
(D) Suresh Kalmadi
6. Who holds the record of taking the maximum number of wickets in test cricket ?
(A) Anil Kumble (India)
(B) Muthia Murlitharan (Sri Lanka)
(C) Courtney Walsh (West Indies)
(D) Irfan Pathan (India)
7. Who won the Ranji Cricket Trophy in 2016 ?
(A) Uttar Pradesh
(B) Karnataka
(C) Andhra Pradesh
(D) Mumbai
8. Who among the following has won the World Chess Championship for the year 2015 ?
(A) Sergey Karjaki
(B) Veselin Topalov
(C) Karen Asrian
(D) Mark Diesen
9. Which of the following country has won the 2014 Men's Hockey World Cup held in Netherlands on June 15, 2014 ?
(A) Australia
(B) Germany
(C) Netherlands
(D) None of the above
10. Which country won the 'FIFA World Cup Football-2014' in July 2014 ?
(A) Brazil
(B) Spain
(C) France
(D) Germany
11. Who among the following Cricketers has not had the distinction of being the highest wicket taker at one time or another in Test Cricket ?
(A) Dennis Lillee
(B) Imran Khan
(C) Richard Hadlee
(D) Courtney Walsh
12. Who has emerged as the richest footballer of the world in 2014-15 ?
(A) Ronaldo
(B) Lionel Messi
(C) David Beckhan
(D) None of the above
13. Who was adjudged as the David Dixon Award for the best Athlete at 19th Commonwealth Games held at Glasgow in July 2014 ?
(A) Major Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore (India)
(B) Alexandra Orlando (Canada)
(C) Francesca Jones (Wales)
(D) None of the above
14. Who won Women's Singles Championships 2016, held in January 2016?
(A) Li Na (China)
(B) Anastasia Msykina (Russia)
(C) Maria Sharapova (Russia)
(D) Angelique Kerber (Germany) the Australian Lawn Tennis
15. Which team won the Deodhar Trophy of Cricket 2015-16 ?
(A) West Zone
(B) India A
(C) North Zone
(D) South Zone
16. Cricket World Cup-2015 was held in-
(A) New Zealand
(B) Australia
(C) Both (A) and (B)
(D) South Africa
17. Which country won the African Nations Cup of Football 2015 ?
(A) Cameroon
(B) Zambia
(C) Ivory Coast
(D) Ghana
18. Saina Nehwal who was recently in the news is associated with-
(A) Badminton
(B) Lawn Tennis
(C) Table Tennis
(D) Chess
19. The Under-19 World Cup Cricket Tournament 2016 was won by-
(A) Sri Lanka
(B) West Indies
(C) England
(D) Denmark
20. Which country will host the World Cup Football Tournament in 2018 ?
(A) New Zealand
(B) West Indies
(C) Russia
(D) South Africa
21. The 2016 UEFA European Football Championship (Euro 2016) was won by-
(A) Brazil
(B) Germany
(C) Portugal
(D) Netherlands
22. Arina is related with which of the following games ?
(A) Judo
(B) Kho-Kho
(C) Golf
(D) Horse Riding
23. Where the 20th Commonwealth Games has held ?
(A) Edinburgh-2008
(B) Glasgow-2014
(C) Nairobi-2012
(D) Islamabad-2010
24. Barcelona Open title in Tennis in April 2016 was won by-
(A) Roger Federer
(B) Rafael Nadal
(C) Kei Nishikori
(D) Novak Djokovic
25. Which player won the Men's Singles National title in the 80th Senior Badminton Championship held in February 2016 ?
(A) Anup Sridhar
(B) Rupesh Kumar
(C) Jishnu Sanyal
(D) Sameer Verma
26. Which of the following cricket teams set a new world record of 16 successive test wins ?
(A) South Africa
(B) Australia
(C) Pakistan
(D) India
27. 2019 Cricket World Cup will be held in-
(A) New Zealand
(B) India
(C) England
(D) South Africa
28. In the game of volleyball, the number of players on each side is-
(A) Eight
(B) Five
(C) Seven
(D) Six
29. Who is the winner of Wimbledon Men's Single 2016 ?
(A) Novak Djokovic
(B) Rafael Nadal
(C) Andy Murray
(D) Juan Martindel Potro
30. Who is the winner of BNP Paribas Open 2016 ?
(A) Roger Federer
(B) Rafael Nadal
(C) Kei Nishikori
(D) Novak Djokovic
31. Who is the Present (December 2015) President of the Indian Olympic Association ?
(A) Jagmohan Dalmia
(B) N. Ramchandran
(C) A. C. Muthia
(D) K. P. S. Gill
32. Which one of the following Indian women athletes does not figure in the world's top-50 list ?
(A) Anju B. George
(B) Seema Antil
(C) K.M. Beenamol
(D) Madhuri Gurnlay
33. Winner of Woman's Single Wimbledon 2016-
(A) Serena Williams
(B) Ana Ivanovic
(C) Cara Black
(D) Maria Sharapova
34. Fifth Women's Asia Cup-2012 for Cricket played in Guangzhou (China), was won by-
(A) Pakistan
(B) Sri Lanka
(C) India
(D) Bangladesh
35. The 2016 Uber Cup Badminton Championship has been won by-
(A) South Korea
(B) China
(C) India
(D) Indonesia
36. In the history of the world cricket only three times it has so happened that in a test match the team being given (a follow-on has defea- ted the team giving) the follow-on. In this connection all the following statements are true except-
(A) The last distinction was cornered by India
(B) On both the earlier occasions England got the distinction
(C) Each time the defeated team Australia was
(D) On one occasion it was England and on the other it was the West Indies
37. 35th National Game of India was held in 2015 at-
(A) Chandigarh
(B) Thiruvananthapuram
(C) Jaipur
(D) Indore
38. Which state won the B.C. Roy Trophy in National Junior Football Championship played in February 2016
(A) Odisha
(B) West Bengal
(C) Andhra Pradesh
(D) Punjab
39. Who won the French Open Lawn Tennis 2016 men's singles title played in June 2016 ?
(A) Roger Federer (Switzerland)
(B) Novak Djokovic
(C) Marat Safin (Russia)
(D) Gaston Gaudio (Argentina)
40. Who is the athlete who set the maximum number (6) of the world records in a span of 45 minutes ?
(A) Michael Johnson "Jesse' (Jo
(C) Florence G. Joyner
(D) Carl Lewis
41. Who lifted the ICC Champions Trophy 2013? Cleveland) Owens
(A) India
(B) England
(C) Australia
(D) Pakistan
42. Which cricketer is nicknamed the Pied Piper of Punjab ?
(A) Yuvraj Singh
(B) Reetinder Sodhi
(C) Navjot Sidhu
(D) Mohinder Amarnath
43. Who scored most ODI runs and the highest number of centuries ?
(A) Rahul Dravid
(B) Allan Border
(C) Sachin Tendulkar
(D) Sanath Jaysurya
44. To which country does the traditional martial form Tackwondo belong ?
(A) Korea
(B) Japan
(C) China
(D) Cuba
45. In the auction by Indian Badminton League, Saina Nehwal was purchased for-
(A) 80 Lac
(B) 90 Lac
(C) 60 Lac
(D) 72 Lac
46. Who won the Azlan Shah Hockey Tourna- ment held in March 2016 in Ipoh ?
(A) Malaysia
(B) Singapore
(C) Australia
(D) Pakistan
47. With which game is Geet Sethi associated ?
(A) Lawn Tennis
(B) Kabaddi
(C) Billiards
(D) Squash
48. The most popular game in the United States of America is-
(A) Baseball
(B) Cricket
(C) Hockey
(D) Lawn Tennis
49. The French Open men's singles title for 2016 was won by-
(A) Novak Djokovic
(B) Andy Murray
(C) Stanislas Wawrinka
(D) Juan Martindel Potro
50. The women's singles title in French Open 2016 was won by-
(A) Garbine Muguruza
(B) Venus Williams
(C) Lisa Raymond
(D) Jelena Jankovic
51. Which of the following country has won the men's Asia Cup Cricket Tournament T-20 in March 2016 ?
(A) Pakistan
(B) India
(C) Sri Lanka
(D) Bangladesh
52. With which game/sport is J. J. Shobha associated ?
(A) Badminton
(B) Hockey
(C) Athletics
(D) Cricket
53. Who the U.S. Lawn Tennis won Women's Singles Championship 2016, held in September 2016 ?
(A) Justine Henin Hardenne
(B) Svetlana Kuznetsova
(C) Angelique Kerber
(D) Lisa Raymond
54. With which game is Kenya's Denis Ndiso associated ?
(A) Tennis
(B) Athletics
(C) Boxing
(D) Archery
55. Who is the new coach of Indian Hockey Team appointed in November 2015 ?
(A) Ajit Pal Singh
(B) Pragat Singh
(C) Roclant Oltmash
(D) None of these
56. Who won the U.S. Lawn Tennis Men's Singles Championship 2016, held in August- September 2016?
(A) Marin Cilic
(B) Stan Wawrinka
(C) Thomas Berdych
(D) Jonas Bijorkman
57. With which game/sport is Robin Utthappa associated ?
(A) Golf
(B) Hockey
(C) Cricket
(D) Billiards
58. Which of the following country has won the Davis Cup Tennis Tournament 2016 ?
(A) Argentina
(B) Croatia
(C) Russia
(D) China
59. Who is the first Indian woman to reach the South Pole ?
(A) Shikha Tandon
(B) Bula Chaudhury
(C) Naina Sehwal
(D) Reena Kaushal
60. Which of the following team has won the Durand Cup Football for 2016 ?
(A) Army Green
(B) Mahindra United
(C) Boys Sports Company, Bengaluru
(D) Mohun Bagan
61. Which of the following is the winner of the Australian Open Tennis Men's Singles Championship 2016 ?
(A) Roger Federer
(B) Stanislas Wawrinka
(C) Novak Djokovic
(D) Marat Safin
62. Which team won Vijay Hazare Trophy 2015-16 ?
(A) Gujarat
(B) Assam
(C) Rajasthan
(D) None of these
63. Twenty-20 World Cup Cricket in 2016 was held at-
(A) Australia
(B) New Zealand
(C) Bangladesh
(D) India
64. Which of the following team has won Irani Trophy Cricket played on March 2016 ?
(A) West Bengal
(B) Mumbai
(C) Rest of India
(D) Delhi
65. Which of the following team has won the IPL-9 tournament ?
(A) Rajasthan Royals
(B) Delhi Daredevils
(C) Sunrisers Hyderabad
(D) Chennai Super Kings
Answers
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