Sports Current Affairs - MCQ Based Questions Jan-Mar'18

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
Who has been named Arab Player of the Year for 2017?
A) Omar Al-Soma
B) Majed Abdullah
C) Omar Khribin
D) Mohamed Salah
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
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
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
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
Who won men’s singles title at the inaugural Tata Open Maharashtra?
A) Gilles Simon
B) Yuki Bhambri
C) Ramkumar Ramanathan
D) Marin Cilic
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
Which team recently won its third Hopman Cup title?
A) Poland
B) Switzerland
C) France
D) Spain
Who won the men’s singles at the Brisbane International?
A) Dominic Thiem
B) David Goffin
C) Grigor Dimitrov
D) Nick Kyrgios
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
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
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) Manoh Dwivedi
C) Ashok Parmar
D) Harjinder Singh
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
Who has won the Kolkata Open 2018 International Invitation Snooker Championship?
A) Laxman Rawat
B) Brijesh Damani
C) Rishabh Verma
D) Aditya Mehta
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
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
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
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
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
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
Which team won the 2018 Blind Cricket World Cup, held in Sharjah?
A) UAE
B) Pakistan
C) Bangladesh
D) India
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
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
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
First stand-alone edition of the ICC Women’s World Twenty20 will be held in?
A) India
B) West Indies
C) England
D) Australia
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
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
Which team recently lifted its maiden Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy?
A) Delhi
B) Rajasthan
C) Haryana
D) Tamilnadu
Which team won the 68th Senior National Basketball Championship (Men)?
A) Punjab
B) Maharashtra
C) Tamilnadu
D) Haryana
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
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
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
Which team has retained the ICC Test Championship mace?
A) South Africa
B) Australia
C) Windies
D) India
Who won the men’s singles title at the Australian Open?
A) Rafael Nadal
B) Marin Cilic
C) Grigor Dimitrov
D) Roger Federer
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
How many medals did India win at the India Open Boxing Tournament?
A) 12
B) 10
C) 4
D) 6
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
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
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
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
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
Which Indian golfer won the The Maybank Championship, Malaysia?
A) Shubhankar Sharma
B) Shiv Chawrasia
C) Jeev Milkha Singh
D) Anirban Lahiri
Which team won the Under-19 cricket World Cup held in New Zealand?
A) Australia
B) India
C) South Africa
D) Pakistan
Which country won the Gold trophy at 4th International Young Chef Olympiad 2018, held in India?
A) Malaysia
B) China
C) India
D) Singapore
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
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
Which country has announced a new athletics World Cup event featuring eight top nations?
A) Germany
B) UK
C) China
D) USA
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
Worlds first ski tournament for robots was recently held in?
A) Gold Coast
B) Beijing
C) Sochi
D) Pyeongchang
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
Who won the Allan Border Medal?
A) David Warner
B) Mitchell Starc
C) Nathan Lyon
D) Steve Smith
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
Who won the 13th National ‘A’ Chess Championship for Blind?
A) Ashvin Makwana
B) Soundarya Kumar Pradhan
C) Kishan Gangolli
D) Prakash Kumar
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
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
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
Which state government has announced to sponsor Indian Hockey teams for the next five years?
A) Maharashtra
B) Haryana
C) Telangana
D) Odisha
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
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
Which team won the fifth Commonwealth bridge championship, held in Gold Coast, Australia?
A) India
B) China
C) Australia
D) USA
Who won the men’s singles at the Rotterdam Open tennis tournament?
A) Rafael Nadal
B) Grigor Dimitrov
C) Dominic Thiem
D) Roger Federer
Who has been named the brand ambassador of the Pakistan Cricket Board?
A) Shahid Afridi
B) Shoaib Akhtar
C) Wasim Akram
D) Waqar Younis
Who won the men’s singles title at the Chennai Open?
A) Stefan Zverev
B) Yuki Bhambri
C) Jordan Thompson
D) Ramkumar Ramanathan
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
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
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
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
Which country topped the medal tally in the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games, which concluded recently?
A) Germany
B) Norway
C) Canada
D) USA
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
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
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
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
Which team won the Vijay Hazare Trophy?
A) Maharashtra
B) Karnataka
C) Haryana
D) Saurashtra
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
Which country’s membership has been reinstated by International Olympic Committee (IOC)?
A) Italy
B) Russia
C) Pakistan
D) Ukraine
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
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
Who won the Tal Memorial rapid chess title held in Moscow?
A) Viswanathan Anand
B) Pentala Harikrishna
C) Krishnan Sasikiran
D) Baskaran Adhiban
Which team won the IBSF Snooker Team World Cup held in Doha?
A) India
B) Bangladesh
C) Sri Lanka
D) Pakistan
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
Who broke the world record for 50-metres long-course freestyle in 100 to 104 years men’s masters category?
A) Briton John
B) Peter Evans
C) George Corones
D) Kevin Berry
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
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
Which team won the interstate national tennis championship 2018, held in Chhattisgarh?
A) Andhra Pradesh
B) Haryana
C) Maharashtra
D) Gujarat
Which team won the title of I-League?
A) Churchill Brothers FC
B) Mohun Bagan FC
C) Shillong Lajong FC
D) Minerva Punjab FC
How many gold medals did India win at the Archery Asia Cup, held in Bangkok?
A) 3
B) 5
C) 1
D) 9
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
Which country topped the medal tally at the ISSF World Cup shooting in Guadalajara, Mexico?
A) Germany
B) India
C) China
D) US
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
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
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
Which cricket team won the Deodhar Trophy title, held at Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh?
A) Karnataka
B) Haryana
C) India B
D) Maharashtra
Which team won the 27th Sultan Azlan Shah Cup title held in Ipoh, Malaysia?
A) Netherlands
B) Australia
C) England
D) India
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
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
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
FIFA has lifted its three-decade ban on hosting international football from which country ?
A) Iraq
B) Nigeria
C) Pakistan
D) Sudan
Which Indian Chess player has won the 33rd Reykjavik Open?
A) Abhijeet Gupta
B) Viswanathan Anand
C) Baskaran Adhiban
D) Pentala Harikrishna
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
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
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
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
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
Which cricket team won the Irani Cup?
A) Rest of India
B) Saurashtra
C) Vidarbha
D) Tamilnadu
Which country has topped the medal tally at the Pyeongchang Winter Paralympics 2018?
A) USA
B) France
C) Canada
D) Germany
Which team won the Nidahas Trophy, in the final held in Colombo, Sri Lanka?
A) Bangladesh
B) India
C) Pakistan
D) Sri Lanka