Sports Current Affairs - Expected MCQ Set 1

1. Which state has signed the host city contract with
the Indian Olympic Association for hosting the 39th
National Games in 2022?
A) Odisha
B) Tripura
C) Meghalaya
D) Assam
2. Who has been named Arab Player of the Year for
2017?
A) Omar Al-Soma
B) Majed Abdullah
3. Who has become India’s highest ranked player in the
latest International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF)
rankings?
A) Sharath Kamal
B) Soumyajit Ghosh
C) G Sathiyan
D) Subhajit Saha
4. Who has become the first batsman to score three
hundreds in T20 internationals?
A) Rohit Sharma
B) Colin Munro
C) Kane Williamson
D) Virat Kohli
5. Who has made the second most expensive transfer
in the history of football, by switching from Liverpool to
Barcelona for 160 million Euros?
A) Ousmane Dembele
B) Paul Pogba
C) Philippe Coutinho
D) Gareth Bale
6. Who has been appointed as the head coach of Delhi
Daredevils for 2018 season?
A) Glenn McGrath
B) Ricky Ponting
C) Michael Clarke
D) Jacques Kallis
7. Who won men’s singles title at the inaugural Tata
Open Maharashtra?
A) Gilles Simon
B) Yuki Bhambri
C) Ramkumar Ramanathan
D) Marin Cilic
8. Who has been appointed as the new chief head
coach by Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF)?
A) Hasan Sardar
B) Shebaz Khan
C) Nisar Bugti
D) Nawab Hussain
9. Which team recently won its third Hopman Cup title?
A) Poland
B) Switzerland
C) France
D) Spain
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10. Who won the men’s singles at the Brisbane
International?
A) Dominic Thiem
B) David Goffin
C) Grigor Dimitrov
D) Nick Kyrgios
11. Who has won the women’s singles title in the ATP
Auckland Open held at the ASB Tennis Centre, in
Parnell?
A) Donna Vekić
B) Caroline Wozniacki
C) Monica Puig
D) Julia Goerges
12. Who has become the first Indian to win an
international medal in skiing after winning Bronze at
the Alpine Ejder 3200 Cup, held in Turkey?
A) Aparna Vashisht
B) Shrishti Chawla
C) Aanchal Thakur
D) Smriti Rai
13. Who has been appointed by IOA as the Chef De
Mission for the 23rd Winter Olympic Games 2018 to be
held in Pyeongchang?
A) Ramesh Saini
B) Manoj Dwivedi
C) Ashok Parmar
D) Harjinder Singh
14. Who won the silver at the U-15 British Junior Open
squash held in Birmingham?
A) Puneet Sahni
B) Neel Joshi
C) Shrey Rana
D) Rahul Vashisht
15. Who has won the Kolkata Open 2018 International
Invitation Snooker Championship?
A) Laxman Rawat
B) Brijesh Damani
C) Rishabh Verma
D) Aditya Mehta
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16. Who won the best boxer trophy at the National
Women’s Boxing Championships held in Rohtak?
A) L Sarita Devi
B) Sarjubala Devi
C) Sonia Lather
D) Meena Kumari
17. Who has been appointed as the Chairman of the
Finance Commission of the Indian Olympic Association?
A) Anil Khanna
B) S Regunathan
C) DK Singh
D) Sahdev Yadav
18. Who has been named the ICC Cricketer of the Year
at the ICC Awards 2017?
A) R Ashwin
B) Virat Kohli
C) Rohit Sharma
D) Jasprit Bumrah
19. Which team won the third edition of the Premier
Badminton League championship held in Hyderabad?
A) Hyderabad Hunters
B) Bengaluru Blasters
C) Chennai Smashers
D) Delhi Dashers
20. Which team won the 8th Hockey India Sub Junior
Men National Championship 2018, held in Hojai,
Assam?
A) Haryana
B) Assam
C) Tamilnadu
D) Punjab
21. Which of the following have been unveiled as the
mascots of the ‘Khelo India’ intiative by Union Sports
Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore?
1. Vijay the tiger 2. Jaya the black buck
3. Rani the peakock 4. Heera the elephant
A) 1 & 2
B) 2 & 3
C) 3 & 4
D) 1 & 4
22. Which team won the 2018 Blind Cricket World Cup,
held in Sharjah?
A) UAE
B) Pakistan
C) Bangladesh
D) India
23. Who won both junior and cadet girls titles at 79th
Junior and Youth National Table Tennis Championships?
A) Surbhi Patwari
B) Moumita Datta
C) Nikita Sarkar
D) Archana Kamath
24. Which Indian shuttler won his maiden international
title, by winning the men’s singles event at Swedish
Open Junior International Series 2018?
A) Sai Praneeth
B) Ajay Jayaram
C) Siddharth Pratap Singh
D) H S Prannoy
25. Amane Gobena, who won the gold medal in the
elite women category in Tata Mumbai Marathon, hails
from?
A) Uganda
B) Ethiopia
C) Jamaica
D) Kenya
26. First stand-alone edition of the ICC Women’s World
Twenty20 will be held in?
A) India
B) West Indies
C) England
D) Australia
27. Who has become the first Indian player to become
the world No 2 in the boys’ under-18 category of ITTF
rankings?
A) Manav Thakkar
B) Manush Shah
C) Snehit S
D) Jeet Chandra
28. Who won a gold medal in the 63kg women’s
category in the 33rd Women Senior National
Weightlifting Championships held in Mangaluru?
A) S Thasana Chanu
B) Rakhi Haider
C) Amandeep Kaur
D) Suneeta Malik
29. Which team recently lifted its maiden Syed
Mushtaq Ali Trophy?
A) Delhi
B) Rajasthan
C) Haryana
D) Tamilnadu
30. Which team won the 68th Senior National
Basketball Championship (Men)?
A) Punjab
B) Maharashtra
C) Tamilnadu
D) Haryana
31. Which Indian player won his 25th ATP Challenger
with partner James Cerretani at Newport Beach event?
A) Yuki Bhambri
B) Rohan Bopanna
C) Leander Paes
D) Sumit Nagal
32. Who has become the first Nepalese player to be
part of any IPL franchise?
A) Sandeep Lamichhane
B) Gyanendra Malla
C) Binod Bhandari
D) Sharad Vesawkar
33. Who won the women’s singles in Indonesia Masters
by defeating India’s Saina Nehwal in the finals?
A) Nozomi Okuhara
B) PV Sindhu
C) Tai Tzu Ying
D) Carolina Marin
34. Which team has retained the ICC Test
Championship mace?
A) South Africa
B) Australia
C) Windies
D) India
35. Who won the men’s singles title at the Australian
Open?
A) Rafael Nadal
B) Marin Cilic
C) Grigor Dimitrov
D) Roger Federer
36. Who has been appointed as the director general of
Sports Authority of India (SAI)?
A) Neelam Kapoor
B) Usha Sinha
C) Kirti Biswas
D) Sunidhi Chhabaria
37. How many medals did India win at the India Open
Boxing Tournament?
A) 12
B) 10
C) 4
D) 6
38. Who has become the highest-ranked Indian squash
player in the Professional Squash Association (PSA)
rankings?
A) Saurav Ghosal
B) Harinder Pal Sandhu
C) Joshna Chinappa
D) Dipika Pallikal
39. Who won the men’s singles at the Senior Table
Tennis Nationals held in Ranchi?
A) Kamlesh Mehta
B) Sharath Kamal
C) Anthony Amalraj
D) Soumyajit Ghosh
40. Football Delhi has honoured which footballer by
declaring his birthday ‘3rd August’, to be celebrated as
Delhi’s Football Day?
A) Bhaichung Bhutia
B) Sunil Chhetri
C) Subrata Pal
D) Gurpreet Sandhu
41. Who launched the inaugural Khelo India School
Games at the Indira Gandhi Stadium in New Delhi?
A) M Venkaiah Naidu
B) Ram Nath Kovind
C) Narendra Modi
D) Arun Jaitley
42. Who won the women’s singles in the India Open
Super 500 badminton tournament after defeating PV
Sindhu in the final?
A) Beiwen Zhang
B) Greysia Polii
C) Apriyani Rahayu
D) Christinna Pedersen
43. Which Indian golfer won the The Maybank
Championship, Malaysia?
A) Shubhankar Sharma
B) Shiv Chawrasia
C) Jeev Milkha Singh
D) Anirban Lahiri
44. Which team won the Under-19 cricket World Cup
held in New Zealand?
A) Australia
B) India
C) South Africa
D) Pakistan
45. Which country won the Gold trophy at 4th
International Young Chef Olympiad 2018, held in India?
A) Malaysia
B) China
C) India
D) Singapore
46. Which team won the 8th Hockey India Senior
Women National Championship 2018 (B Division), held
in Ranchi?
A) Maharashtra
B) Punjab
C) Kerala
D) CRPF
47. Who has become the first woman cricketer in the
world to take 200 wickets in One Day International
(ODI)?
A) Jhulan Goswami
B) Rajeshwari Gayakwad
C) Ekta Bisht
D) Deepti Sharma
48. Which country has announced a new athletics
World Cup event featuring eight top nations?
A) Germany
B) UK
C) China
D) USA
49. Which state topped the overall medal tally with 102
medals in the inaugural edition of the Khelo India
School Games?
A) Haryana
B) Maharashtra
C) Delhi
D) Punjab
50. World’s first ski tournament for robots was recently
held in?
A) Gold Coast
B) Beijing
C) Sochi
D) Pyeongchang