Sports Current Affairs - Expected MCQ Set 2

51. Who has been appointed as the brand ambassador
of All India Chess Federation for the Blind (AICFB)?
A) Saurabh Malik
B) Deepak Kumar
C) Vidit Gujrathi
D) Swapnil Jha
52. Who won the Allan Border Medal?
A) David Warner
B) Mitchell Starc
C) Nathan Lyon
D) Steve Smith
53. What was the title of opening ceremony of Winter
Olympics held in Pyeongchang, South Korea?
A) Together We Grow
B) Rise in Unity
C) Shine to Glory
D) Peace in Motion
54. Who won the 13th National ‘A’ Chess
Championship for Blind?
A) Ashvin Makwana
B) Soundarya Kumar Pradhan
C) Kishan Gangolli
D) Prakash Kumar
55. Who has become the first Asian and the youngest
to swim across the Cook Strait between North and
South Islands of New Zealand?
A) Saksham Mitra
B) Pradeep Singla
C) Abhay Rawat
D) Rohan More
56. Which team has won its maiden title in the 23rd
edition of the Senior Women’s National Football
Championship?
A) Tamilnadu
B) Punjab
C) West Bengal
D) Maharashtra
57. Who has become the first batsman to score 500
runs in a bilateral ODI series?
A) Shikhar Dhawan
B) MS Dhoni
C) Rohit Sharma
D) Virat Kohli
58. Which state government has announced to sponsor
Indian Hockey teams for the next five years?
A) Maharashtra
B) Haryana
C) Telangana
D) Odisha
59. Who has become the oldest world No 1 in the
history of tennis?
A) Rafael Nadal
B) Grigor Dimitrov
C) Roger Federer
D) Dominic Thiem
60. Who has become the first player to score more than
100 Champions League goals for a single club?
A) Luis Suárez
B) Lionel Messi
C) Cristiano Ronaldo
D) Neymar
61. Which team won the fifth Commonwealth bridge
championship, held in Gold Coast, Australia?
A) India
B) China
C) Australia
D) USA
62. Who won the men’s singles at the Rotterdam Open
tennis tournament?
A) Rafael Nadal
B) Grigor Dimitrov
C) Dominic Thiem
D) Roger Federer
63. Who has been named the brand ambassador of the
Pakistan Cricket Board?
A) Shahid Afridi
B) Shoaib Akhtar
C) Wasim Akram
D) Waqar Younis
64. Who won the men’s singles title at the Chennai
Open?
A) Stefan Zverev
B) Yuki Bhambri
C) Jordan Thompson
D) Ramkumar Ramanathan
65. Which athlete has broken a 20 year old world
record in the 60m sprint?
A) Peter Sagan
B) Christian Coleman
C) Usain Bolt
D) Justin Gatlin
66. Which player has become the first Indian bowler to
bag a five-wicket haul in all the three formats of
cricket?
A) Kuldeep Singh
B) Jasprit Bumrah
C) Bhuvneshwar Kumar
D) R Ashwin
67. Who became the first Indian player to cross the
900-point mark in the One-day International rankings?
A) Virat Kohli
B) Rohit Sharma
C) Shikhar Dhawan
D) MS Dhoni
68. Who has become the first Indian to win an
individual medal at the Gymnastics World Cup?
A) Aditya Ranjan
B) Sachin Reddy
C) Aruna Budda Reddy
D) Sakhya Krishnan
69. Which country topped the medal tally in the
PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games, which
concluded recently?
A) Germany
B) Norway
C) Canada
D) USA
70. Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has announced
which company to be the sponsor of the Indian
contingent for the upcoming games?
A) Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services Limited
B) Polaris Consulting & Services Limited
C) Dewan Housing Finance Corporation
D) Edelweiss Financial Services Limited
71. Which of the following has become the first
Associate member of International Cricket Council (ICC)
to get approval for a Global T20 venture?
A) China
B) Germany
C) Russia
D) Canada
72. Which Indian player won the men’s singles at the
Austrian Open International Challenge?
A) Sai Praneeth
B) Kidambi Srikanth
C) HS Prannoy
D) Parupalli Kashyap
73. How many medals did India win at the 69th
Strandja Memorial boxing tournament, held in Sofia,
Bulgaria?
A) 11
B) 17
C) 6
D) 8
74. Which team won the Vijay Hazare Trophy?
A) Maharashtra
B) Karnataka
C) Haryana
D) Saurashtra
75. International Tennis Federation has proposed to
transform which of the following tournaments into a
18-nation World Cup of Tennis?
A) Davis Cup
B) Grand Slam
C) Hopman Cup
D) Fed Cup
76. Which country’s membership has been reinstated
by International Olympic Committee (IOC)?
A) Italy
B) Russia
C) Pakistan
D) Ukraine
77. Who has been honoured with Sportsman of the
Year at the Laureus World Sports Awards 2018?
A) Lionel Messi
B) Roger Federer
C) Cristiano Ronaldo
D) Rafael Nadal
78. Who is going to become the youngest captain in the
history of international cricket?
A) Rashid Khan
B) JE Taylor
C) Hasan Raza
D) Salman Butt
79. Who won the Tal Memorial rapid chess title held in
Moscow?
A) Viswanathan Anand
B) Pentala Harikrishna
C) Krishnan Sasikiran
D) Baskaran Adhiban
80. Which team won the IBSF Snooker Team World Cup
held in Doha?
A) India
B) Bangladesh
C) Sri Lanka
D) Pakistan
81. Who has become the first Indian woman to win
gold at the Senior Asian Wrestling Championships?
A) Vinesh Phogat
B) Babita Kumari
C) Navjot Kaur
D) Sakshi Malik
82. Who broke the world record for 50-metres longcourse
freestyle in 100 to 104 years men’s masters
category?
A) Briton John
B) Peter Evans
C) George Corones
D) Kevin Berry
83. Mascots for which of the following games were
released recently?
A) Paris Summer Olympics 2024
B) Tokyo Summer Olympics 2020
C) Beijing Winter Olympics 2020
D) Los Angeles Summer Olympics 2028
84. Who has resigned recently from his post of the
Chairman of BCCI junior selection committee?
A) Venkatesh Prasad
B) Sunil Gavaskar
C) Kiran More
D) Anil Kumble
85. Which team won the interstate national tennis
championship 2018, held in Chhattisgarh?
A) Andhra Pradesh
B) Haryana
C) Maharashtra
D) Gujarat
86. Which team won the title of I-League?
A) Churchill Brothers FC
B) Mohun Bagan FC
C) Shillong Lajong FC
D) Minerva Punjab FC
87. How many gold medals did India win at the Archery
Asia Cup, held in Bangkok?
A) 3
B) 5
C) 1
D) 9
88. Which state has been announced to host the 80th
edition of Senior Nationals Table Tennis championships
after a gap of 12 years, by TTFI ?
A) Odisha
B) Haryana
C) Gujarat
D) Kerala
89. Which country topped the medal tally at the
ISSF World Cup shooting in Guadalajara, Mexico?
A) Germany
B) India
C) China
D) US
90. Who has been announced to be the ‘FMSCI
National MotorSports Person of the Year 2017?
A) Aditya Patel
B) Arjun Maini
C) Jehan Daruvala
D) Anindith Reddy
91. Which Indian wrestler has become World No. 2 in
the world women’s 65kg weight category rankings
released by United World Wrestling?
A) Vinesh Phogat
B) Babita Kumari
C) Sakshi Malik
D) Navjot Kaur
92. Who won the women’s category senior National
triathlon championship, held in Vishakhapatnam?
A) Samira Abraham
B) N Meher
C) Pragna Mohan
D) Monika Nagpure
93. Which cricket team won the Deodhar Trophy title,
held at Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh?
A) Karnataka
B) Haryana
C) India B
D) Maharashtra
94. Which team won the 27th Sultan Azlan Shah Cup
title held in Ipoh, Malaysia?
A) Netherlands
B) Australia
C) England
D) India
95. Who won a bronze medal in women’s 8km cross
country race in 14th Asian Cross Country
Championship, held in Guiyang, China?
A) Neha Kumar
B) Priti Singh
C) Sanjivani Jadhav
D) Anupama Bhati
96. Who has been named ‘Cricketer of the Year’ in the
sixth edition of Wisden India Almanack?
A) Rishabh Pant
B) Shardul Thakur
C) Yuzvendra Chahal
D) KL Rahul
97. Former world number two player Tommy Haas has
announced his retirement from ATP tour. He hails
from?
A) Germany
B) Denmark
C) Spain
D) Switzerland
98. FIFA has lifted its three-decade ban on hosting
international football from which country ?
A) Iraq
B) Nigeria
C) Pakistan
D) Sudan
99. Which Indian Chess player has won the 33rd
Reykjavik Open?
A) Abhijeet Gupta
B) Viswanathan Anand
C) Baskaran Adhiban
D) Pentala Harikrishna
100. Which Indian para-athlete won gold in the F53/54
Javelin event at the World Para Athletics Grand Prix in
Dubai?
A) Deepa Malik
B) Devendra Jhajharia
C) Sundar Singh Gurjar
D) Rinku Hooda
101. Who won the men’s singles title at the BNP
Paribas Open at Indian Wells?
A) David Goffin
B) Juan Martin del Potro
C) Grigor Dimitrov
D) Roger Federer
102. Which Indian shuttler has won the women’s
singles (Under-19) title at the Israel Junior 2018 held in
Rishon LeZion?
A) Ruchi Jangid
B) Purva Barve
C) Sonali Bisht
D) Tara Shah
103. Which team won the 4th edition of Hero Indian
Super League (ISL) title?
A) FC Goa
B) Bengaluru FC
C) Aizwal FC
D) Chennaiyin FC
104. Kevin Pietersen recently announced his retirement
from all forms of cricket. He played for which team ?
A) Australia
B) South Africa
C) England
D) New Zealand
105. Which cricket team won the Irani Cup?
A) Rest of India
B) Saurashtra
C) Vidarbha
D) Tamilnadu
106. Which country has topped the medal tally at the
Pyeongchang Winter Paralympics 2018?
A) USA
B) France
C) Canada
D) Germany
107. Which team won the Nidahas Trophy, in the final
held in Colombo, Sri Lanka?
A) Bangladesh
B) India
C) Pakistan
D) Sri Lanka