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17. The cricketer who became the brand Amba-ssador of ‘Indigo Nation’ is—
(A) Sachin Tendulkar (B) Sourav Ganguly (C) Anil Kumble (D) Ajay Ratra 18. Who won the World Snooker Championship
2014 ?
(A) Peter Aden (B) Mark Selby (C) Pankaj Advani (D) R.O. Sullivan 19. Who is the first Indian woman athlete to win
a medal in Olympic Games 2012 ? (A) Saina Nehwal (B) Mary Com (C) Deepika Kumari (D) Sudha Singh 20. Saina Nehwal is a famous name in—
(A) Swimming (B) Weightlifting (C) Badminton (D) Boxing
21. Famous Michael Schumacher, the World No.
1 in motor racing (Formula 1), belongs to—
(A) Italy (B) Spain
(C) Germany (D) Brazil
22. Which team won the Pepsi Indian Premier League in 2014 ?
(A) Kolkata Knight Riders (B) Mumbai Indians (C) Rajasthan Royals (D) Delhi Daredevils
23. Who won the Augusta Masters Golf Title 2014 ?
(A) Bubba Watson (B) Adam Scott (C) Jyoti Randhawa (D) None of these 24. Vijay Kumar won the silver medal in London
Olympic Games 2012 in—
(A) Boxing (B) Wrestling (C) Shooting (D) Swimming 25. Which country won the FIFA World Football
Cup of the year 2014 ?
(A) France (B) Spain
(C) Germany (D) Brazil
26. Germany won the FIFA World Cup Football 2014 in 2014. Which country secured the runner-up place in it ?
(A) France (B) Argentina (C) Portugal (D) Switzerland
27. Who won the Rajiv Gandhi Khelratna Award-2013 ?
(A) Vijay Kumar (B) Mary Com (C) Yogeshwardatt (D) Ronjan Sodhi 28. Which of the following games has been
introduced for the first time in Olympic 2012 at London?
(A) Women Skating (B) Women Boxing (C) Women Cycling (D) Women Wrestling 29. Match the List-I with List-II and select the
correct answer using the codes given below the lists—
List-I List-II
(a) Basketball 1. Half Nelson
(b) Bridge 2. Revoke
(c) Golf 3. Pivot
(d) Wrestling 4. Bunker Codes :
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) 2 3 1 4
(B) 2 3 4 1
(C) 3 2 1 4
(D) 3 2 4 1
30. Match the List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists—
List-I (Person)
(a) K. M. Beenamol (b) Anjali Bhagwat (c) Anju B. George (d) Sania Mirza List-II (Achievement)
1. Rifle Shooting 2. Athletics 3. Tennis
4. Medium range racer Codes :
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) 4 3 2 1
(B) 2 4 1 3
(C) 4 1 2 3
(D) 2 1 3 4
31. What is the another name of Athletics ? (A) Sports (B) Track & Field (C) Gymnastic (D) Decathlon
O.G.K. | 77A 32. The World Chess Champion Veselin Topalov
belongs to—
(A) Albania (B) Kazakhstan (C) Russia (D) Brazil
33. Match the List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists—
List-I List-II
(a) Square leg 1. Hockey (b) Touch down 2. Bridge
(c) Bully 3. Rugby
(d) Grandslam 4. Cricket Codes :
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) 4 3 2 1
(B) 4 3 1 2
(C) 3 4 1 2
(D) 3 4 2 1
34. Which of the following is the winner of Wimbledon 2014 women’s single title ? (A) Venus Williams (B) Petra Kvitova (C) Serena Williams (D) Marion Bartoli 35. Who holds the record for the highest number
of runs in Test Cricket ?
(A) Sunil Gavaskar (B) Geoffrey Boycott (C) Sachin Tendulkar (D) Gary Sobers 36. Match the following—
List-I List-II
(Countries) (Sports)
1. Australia (a) Bull fighting 2. U.S.A. (b) Ice hockey 3. Spain (c) Cricket 4. Japan (d) Baseball
(e) Ju Jitsu Codes :
(a) (b) (c) (d) (e)
(A) 4 3 1 2 —
(B) — 2 3 1 4
(C) 3 — 1 2 4
(D) 3 2 1 — 4
37. Who won the Chennai Open Tennis Tourna-ment 2014 ?
(A) Mahesh Bhupati (B) Janko Tipsarevic (C) Leander Paes (D) Stanislas Wawrinka
38. The highest wicket taker in test matches is now—
(A) Shane Warne (B) Muthia Muralitharan (C) Kapil Dev
(D) Dennis Lillee
39. Which country has won the Davis Cup for 2013 in Lawn Tennis ?
(A) India (B) Czech Republic (C) Australia (D) France
40. Who is the athlete who set the maximum number (6) of the world records in a span of 45 minutes ?
(A) Michael Johnson
(B) ‘Jesse’ (John Cleveland) Owens (C) Florence G. Joyner
(D) Carl Lewis
41. Which country has won the ICC Twenty-20 World Cup Cricket played in April 2014 ? (A) West Indies (B) Sri Lanka (C) India (D) Australia
42. Who retained the Chess World Championship 2013 ?
(A) Magnus Carlsen (B) Veselin Topalov (C) Boris Spasky (D) Almasi
43. Who was the Indian to win the All England Championship in Badminton ?
(A) P. Gopichand (B) Mahesh Bhupati (C) Vijay Amritraj (D) Malleshwari 44. Identify Lionel Messi—
(A) FIFA Footballer of the year 2012 (B) He is the United States Baseball player (C) He is Brazil No. 2 seeded football player (D) None of the above
45. Standard cricket bats are made of—
(A) Pine wood (B) Rose wood (C) Teak wood (D) Willow wood 46. India’s Saina Nehwal created a hat-trick by
winning third super series title. Whomdidshe defeatin Indonesia Open Super Series ?
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(A) China (B) Indonesia (C) Japan (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. Who won the men’s single title in the Miami
International Tennis in 2014 ?
(A) Novak Djokovic (B) Rafael Nadal (C) Ivan Ljubicic (D) Mikhail Youzhny 50. Who among the following has won the
Hungarian Grand Prix Race in 2014 ? (A) Vijay Singh
(B) Arjun Atwal (C) Daniel Ricciordo (D) Randhawa
51. Who won ICC U-19 Cricket World Cup 2014 at ?
(A) South Africa (B) Australia (C) New Zealand (D) U. K.
52. Who is the first cricket player from Kerala to make a test debut ?
(A) T. Krishnan (B) T. S. Shekar (C) T. Yohannan (D) R. Somasunder 53. Who is the latest Indian to have joined the
ranks of those who have achieved the distinc-tion of having scored a century on their debut in a test match ?
(A) Azaharuddin (B) Gavaskar (C) Sehwag (D) Tendulkar
54. Which of the following won Wimbledon Lawn Tennis men’s singles title for 2014 ? (A) Andy Murry (B) Andy Roddick (C) Marat Safin (D) Novak Djokovic 55. Match the List-I with List-II and select the
correct answer using the codes given below the lists—
List-I (Player) List-II (Event) (a) Sushil Kumar 1. Boxing (b) Mary Com 2. Wrestling (c) Vijay Kumar 3. Shooting (d) Saina Nehwal 4. Badminton
Codes :
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) 1 2 3 4
(B) 1 3 2 4
(C) 2 1 3 4
(D) 1 2 4 3
56. Who are the man and woman winners of the singles title in French Open Lawn Tennis Tournament held in Paris in June 2014 ? (A) Rafael Nadal and Maria Sharapova (B) Pete Sampras and Serena Williams (C) RafaelNadalandJustineHeninHardenne (D) Peter Sampras and Venus Williams 57. ThewinnerofVijay Hazare Trophy in Cricket
2013-14 was—
(A) Uttar Pradesh (B) Maharashtra (C) Karnataka (D) Punjab
58. Which of the following event was dropped from the Olympics ?
(A) Polo (B) Football (C) Hockey (D) Tennis 59. Who has won the Santosh Trophy 2014 ?
(A) Mizoram (B) Gujarat (C) Rajasthan (D) Karnataka
60. Match the List-I (Sport person) with List-II (Sport/game) and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists—
List-I List-II
(Sport person) (Sport/game) (a) Arjun Singh 1. Car Racing (b) Baichung Bhutia 2. Golf (c) Narain Karthikeyan 3. Football (d) Subramanium
Raman
4. Table Tennis Codes :
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) 2 3 1 4
(B) 4 3 1 2
(C) 2 1 3 4
(D) 4 1 3 2
O.G.K. | 79A 61. Who won the French Open Tennis
Champi-onship’s Men’s Singles Title played in May/
June 2014 ?
(A) Roger Federer (Switzerland) (B) Gaston Gaudio (Argentina) (C) Rafael Nadal (Spain) (D) Jonas Bijorkman (Sweden)
62. Who is the youngest world champion in the history of Formula One Races to-late ? (A) Felipe Massa
(B) Robert Kubic (C) Kimi Raikkonen (D) Lewis Hamilton
63. Which place has been given to India’s ace cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni in ICC ODI ranking in August 2011 ?
(A) 4th place (B) 3rd place (C) 5th place (D) 8th place
64. Who won Australia Open Super Series, title played in June 2014 ?
(A) Carolina Marin (B) Saina Nehwal (C) Jwala Gutta (D) Jyotshna P.
65. Who won the Sudirman Cup World Badmin-ton Championship in May 2013 ?
(A) China (B) Singapore (C) South Korea (D) Denmark
66. Who won the U.S. Open tennis champion-ship’s of women’s singles title played in Sept.
2013 ?
(A) Maria Sharapova (Russia) (B) Samantha Stosur (Australia) (C) Serena Williams (U.S.A.) (D) Amelie Mauresmo (France)
67. Who won the U.S. Open tennis champion-ship’s men’s singles title played in September 2013 ?
(A) Rafael Nadal (Spain)
(B) Juan Martin del Potro (Argentina) (C) Ivan Ljubicic (Croatia)
(D) David Nalbandian (Argentina)
68. The winner of the Ranji Trophy Cricket played in January 2014 was—
(A) Punjab (B) Uttar Pradesh (C) Karnataka (D) West Bengal
69. ‘Come Out And Play’ is the anthem of—
(A) Olympic Games 2008 (B) Commonwealth Games 2010 (C) National Games 2008 (D) None of the above
70. Who won the Asia Cup Cricket Tournament 2014 ?
(A) Bangladesh (B) Sri Lanka (C) India (D) Pakistan
71. Which of the following has won the first ever individual gold medal for India in Olympic Games 2008 ?
(A) Vijendra Kumar (B) Abhinav Bindra (C) Sushil Kumar (D) Anju Bobby George
72. Who has won Australian Open Tennis Cham-pionship (Men’s singles title) 2014 ?
(A) Novak Djokovic (B) Andy Murray (C) Rafael Nadal (D) Stanislas Wawrinka
Answers
1. (D) 2. (B) 3. (B) 4. (A) 5. (B) 6. (B) 7. (C) 8. (A) 9. (D) 10. (A) 11. (B) 12. (B) 13. (B) 14. (D) 15. (D) 16. (B) 17. (C) 18. (B) 19. (A) 20. (C) 21. (C) 22. (A) 23. (A) 24. (C) 25. (C) 26. (B) 27. (D) 28. (B) 29. (A) 30. (C) 31. (B) 32. (D) 33. (B) 34. (B) 35. (C) 36. (C) 37. (D) 38. (B) 39. (B) 40. (B) 41. (B) 42. (A) 43. (A) 44. (A) 45. (D) 46. (C) 47. (C) 48. (A) 49. (A) 50. (C) 51. (A) 52. (C) 53. (C) 54. (D) 55. (C) 56. (A) 57. (C) 58. (A) 59. (A) 60. (A) 61. (C) 62. (D) 63. (D) 64. (B) 65. (A) 66. (C) 67. (A) 68. (C) 69. (B) 70. (B) 71. (B) 72. (D)