Faisal Qureshi

World General Knowledge about

Sports & Games
FAMOUS-SPORTS-EVENTS-AND-INFORMATION
Davis cup is for tennis.
• Thomas cup badminton is for men only.
• Uber cup is for badminton.

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• Each team in volleyball consists of 6 players.

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• Antoly Karpov, the world chess player belongs to Russia.

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• Modern Olympic Games were first held in Athens.
• ICC has 10 members and it was founded in 1965.
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• Lowest total in cricket is 36 by Canada.
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• Tennis player steffi graf belongs to Germany.

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• Natwest trophy is for cricket.

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• The Swythiling cup is related to Table Tennis.

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• Morocco cup is for cricket.

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• First modern Olympic games were held in 1896 in Athens.

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• First women competed in Olympic games in 1912.

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• France and which country contested first ever world cup match Mexico
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• The number of countries which participated in the first Olympic Games held at Athens
was Nine
• Who owns The Oval cricket ground- Prince Charles
• Who among the following batsmen achieved the feat of hitting six 6s in one over for
the first time in international cricket during the World Cup 2007 Herschelle Gibbs
• Where were the first winter Olympics held in 1924 -Charmonix France
• FINA is the governing body of what amateur sport-Swimming
• FITA are the governing body of what sport-Archery
• A Lady Paramount judges at what sport- Archery

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• First cricket cup was played in England in 1974.

• First Asian Games were held in New Delhi in 1951. From 1954 they were held every
four years.
• Baron Pierre de Coubertin was founder of the modern Olympic Games.
• Bunting is a term in the game of Baseball.
• Grand Master is a term in Chess.
• Grand Slam is a term in sports associated with Bridge as well as Lawn Tennis.
• Martina Hinges is the youngest woman tennis player to win three major singles titles in
one season.
• Iron- a sports term is associated with Golf.

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• McDowell Cup is associated with football.

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• Olympic Games were held twice in Paris and London.

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• Paralympics are the games for disabled.
• Uber cup is associated with Badminton. or
• Yankee Stadium is associated with Boxing.
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• World‘s oldest sports daily is Gazetta dello Sport of Italy.

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• Val Barker Cup is awarded in the Olympic Games in Boxing.

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• The Paralympics Games 2008 were held in Beijing.

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• Asafa Powell is 100 m sprinter.

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• The term ―S
talemate‖ is related to the game of Chess.
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• With which sport is the term ‗butterfly‘ associated? Swimming

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• Next Football world Cup in 2010 is in…..South Africa

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• How many rings on the Olympic flag: Five

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• Who ran the first marathon: Phidipedes

• What colour is the cap given to an England cricket player-Blue
• What held up a Cricket test Match between England Pakistan-Mouse on pitch
• What is the first race in the Grand Prix season-Brazilian
• By Olympic rules what must have 14 feathers Badminton Bird
• How is the Olympic torch lit- By the sun in Greece
• Martina Navratilova belongs to Czech Republic.
• Tour De France is French cycle race.

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• National game of Switzerland is skiing.

• What has 32 panels and 642 stitches-A football (soccer)
• In Tennis where is the Australian Open played-Flinders Park
• What Olympic event was dropped in 1920-Tug of War -1900 to 1920
• FIDE govern what game -Chess.
• Footballer Zaidane originally belongs to which country? Algeria

• What has 32 panels and 642 stitches-A football (soccer)

• First British open squash championship played in 1922.
• First world squash championship 1976.

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• Jhangir khan has won world open 6 times.

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• Wimbledon open tennis was instituted in 1877.

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• A winner of four competitions (Wimbledon, French open, us open, and Australia open)

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is called Grand Slam.
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• Most Wimbledon single (Men) title are won by Pete Sampras (USA).
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• Most Wimbledon single (woman) title won by Martina Navratilova (USA).
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• Common Wealth game are held every 4 years, they were started in 1931.
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• First Asia games were played at New Delhi in 1951.

• 15th Asian Games will be held in Qatar in 2006.
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• Current World cup holder of hockey is Netherlands.

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• FIFA established in Paris on May 21, 1904.

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• Grand slam is the title associated with Pete Sampras.

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• Michael Chang (USA) is the youngest to win the title of grand slam.
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• Shahid Afridi has made century on 37 balls.

• The title ―Oval He
ro‖ is with Fazal Muhammad.
• The sports man Kasparvo is associated with Chess.
• Modern summer Olympic were held in Greece in 1896.
• Olympic held every 4 years.
• Hockey became Olympic event in 1908. Pakistan took part in 1948 in London.
• 1st world cup hockey 1971 at Barcelona (Spain).
• Hockey world cup held every 4 year.
• First world cup cricket 1975, won by West Indies.

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• India won world cup cricket in 1983 by beating West Indies.

• 10 countries have test status.
• First test mach was played in 1877 between Australia and England.
• First One day match between Australia and England in Jan 5, 1971.
• First word cup football 1930, Uruguay, and won by Uruguay.
• 1942 world cup football cup did not hold due to Second World War.
• Nigeria is current Olympic footfall champion.
• Geoff hunt is associated with Squash.
• South Africa was expelled from ICC in 1970 because of its apartheid policies.
• Current heavy weight championship is with L. Lewis.

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• In cricket batsman can be out by 10 ways.

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• Peter Marshal is associated with Squash.

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• Pakistan had won 4 title of world cup hockey so far.
• First three work cup crickets were played with 60 over.
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• Rocky Morciono only heavy weight boxer remained unbeaten throughout his career.
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• Lowest test match inning is 26 by New Zealand.

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• Highest no of one-days are played at Sharjah Cricket Ground.

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• The champion trophy hockey tournament was introduced by Pakistan in year 1978.
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FOOT-BALL-WORLD-CUPS
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Year Place Winner Runners up

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1930 Uruguay Uruguay Argentina

1934 Italy Italy Czechoslovakia

1938 France Italy Hungary

1942 Cancelled (2nd World ————— ——————-

War)

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1946 Cancelled (2nd World —————- ——————

War)

1950 Brazil Uruguay Brazil

1954 Switzerland West Hungary

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1958 Sweden Brazil Sweden

1962 Chile Brazil Czechoslovakia

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1966 England England West Germany

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1970 Mexico Brazil Italy

1974 West Germany West

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1978 Argentina Argentina Holland

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1982 Spain Italy West Germany

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1986 Mexico Argentina West Germany

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1990 Italy West Argentina

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1994 United States of America Brazil Italy

1998 France France Brazil

2002 Japan and South Korea Brazil Germany

2006 Germany Italy France

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CRICKET-WORLD-CUP
Year Place Winner Runners up

1975 England West Indies Australia

1979 England West Indies England

1983 England India West Indies

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1987 India and Pakistan Australia England

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1991 Australia and New Zealand Pakistan England
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1996 India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka Sri Lanka Australia
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1999 England Australia Pakistan

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2003 South Africa Australia India

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2007 West Indies, Bangladesh & America Australia Sri Lanka

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HOCKEY WORLD CUP

Year Place Winner Runners up

1971 Barcelona Pakistan Spain

1972 Amsterdam Holland India

1975 Kuala Lumpur India Pakistan

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1978 Buenos Aires Pakistan Holland

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1982 Mumbai Pakistan West Germany
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1986 London Australia England
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1990 Lahore Holland Pakistan

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1994 Sydney Pakistan Holland

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1998 Utrecht Holland Spain

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2002 Kuala Lumpur Germany Australia

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2006 Germany Germany Australia

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GENERAL-KNOWLEDGE-OF-SPORTS-
AND-GAMES
Game No. of Players Game No. of Player

Chess 2 Baseball 9

Gymnastic 8 Rugby Football 15

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Basket Ball 5 Polo 4

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Water Polo 7 Football 11

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Kho-Kho 9 Cricket – 11
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Kabbaddi 7 Volleyball 6
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Hockey 11 Tennis 1 or 2
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Table tennis 1or 2

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NATIONAL-GAMES-OF-WORLD-COUNTRIES
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Country Game Country Game

Bhutan Archery Indonesia – Badminton

USA Baseball Spain Bulls Fighting

Canada Ice Hockey India Hockey

Russia Football, Chess China Table Tennis

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Brazil Football France Football

England Cricket Australia Cricket

Japan Judo Malaysia BadMinton

Pakistan Hockey Scotland Rugby Football

GENERAL-KNOWLEDGE-ABOUT-

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OLYMPIC-GAMES

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On 6 April 1896 at Athens, King George I of Greece opened the Ist Olympic Games of
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This time, 14 nationalities participated in 43 events. A total of 241 athletes (all male)
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The Motto of the Olympic Games is Citius, Altius, Fortius (Faster, Higher, Stronger).
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The Olympic Anthem. The Olympic hymn was written by the Greek national poet, Costis
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Palamas, with music composed by Spiros Samaras and was first sung at the 1896
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Games. It was during the 1958 Olympic Games in Tokyo that the IOC adopted this
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hymn as the official Olympic anthem.

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Detail of Olympic games years

1896 Olympic Games at Athens

1900 Olympic Games at Paris
1904 Olympic Games at St. Louis
1908 Olympic Games at London
1912 Olympic Games at Stockholm
1916 Olympic Games – Not held

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1920 Olympic Games at Antwerp

1924 Olympic Games at Paris
1928 Olympic Games at Amsterdam
1932 Olympic Games at Los Angeles
1936 Olympic Games at Berlin
1940 Olympic Games – Not held
1944 Olympic Games – Not held
1948 Olympic Games at London
1952 Olympic Games at Helsinki
1956 Olympic Games at Melbourne

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1960 Olympic Games at Rome

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1964 Olympic Games at Tokyo

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1968 Olympic Games at Mexico
1972 Olympic Games at Munich or
1976 Olympic Games at Montreal
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1980 Olympic Games at Moscow

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1984 Olympic Games at Los Angeles

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1988 Olympic Games at Seoul

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1992 Olympic Games at Barcelona

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1996 Olympic Games at Atlanta

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2000 Olympic Games at Sydney

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2004 Olympic Games at Athens

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2008 Olympic Games at China

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2012 Olympic Games at London

GENERAL-KNOWLEDGE-OF-SAF-GAMES

South Asian Games are known as SAF games Games

The governing body of these games is South Asian Sports Council formed in 1983.

At present, SAG are joined by eight members namely

Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka.

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The first South Asian Games were hosted by Kathmandu, Nepal in 1984

These games held after every two years except for some occasions.

Year Host City Country

1984 Kathmandu Nepal

1985 Dhaka Bangladesh

1987 Calcutta India

1989 Islamabad Pakistan

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1991 Colombo Sri Lanka

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1993 Dhaka Bangladesh

1995 Madras India

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1999 Kathmandu Nepal

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2004 Islamabad Pakistan

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2006 Colombo Sri Lanka

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2010 Dhaka Bangladesh

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2013 New Delhi India

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