CBSE Questions for Class 8 General Knowledge Sports And Games Of India And World Quiz 5 - MCQExams.com

• Cristiano Ronaldo is a Portuguese football superstar. He plays for the Italian club Juventus and the national football team of Portugal. He plays as a forward for both teams.
• He is considered by many to be the greatest soccer player of all time. 

• Abhinav Bindra is a professional Indian shooter. He is the first Indian to win an individual gold medal at the Olympic Games.
• He was a medalist in the 10-metre Air Rifle event.
• He is the only Indian to have held both the World and Olympic titles at the same time

• Former Cricketer Ravi Shashtri was appointed as the head coach of Indian cricket team.
• Shastri played the role of the Team Director earlier.
• He was an all-rounder and represented India in 80 Tests and 150 ODIs.

• The 2016 Summer Olympics was held at Rio, Brazil. The mascot of the event was Vinicius.
• It represents the diversity of the Brazilian people and culture, as well as its cheerful nature.
• The name of the Olympic mascot pays tribute to Brazilian musician Vinicius de Moraes.

• Cricket, Football and Baseball are games that require a large ground or field to be played. They are outdoor games.
• Table tennis is also known as ping pong and is played on a table having a small net. The game is played using a bat and small ping pong ball.

• The closing ceremony marks the end of all games in the Olympics.
• Athletes from each country walk around celebrating the medals they won and the fact that they were part of such an important international event.
• They gather in the middle of the stadium, coming together as one nation in a party-like atmosphere. 

• Badminton is a game where players use rackets to hit a shuttlecock over a net.
• The aim of the game is to hit the shuttlecock over the net in a way that the other player or pair cannot hit it back properly before it hits the floor.
• Every time this is done, the player or pair gets one point. 

• Roller skating is a physical activity on roller skates.
• Participants use special shoes called Roller skates fitted with small wheels to move about on rinks or paved surfaces. 

• Sunil Gavaskar is a former Indian cricketer best known for the numerous records he set over the span of his playing career.
• Sunil Gavaskar was the first batsman to score 10,000 runs in Test history. He was also conferred the Padma Bhushan in 1980 

• Kiran Bedi is an Indian social activist and retired Indian Police Service (IPS) officer. She was the first woman to join IPS.
• At a young age, she took a liking to sports, especially tennis, and won the Asian Women’s Lawn Tennis Championship in 1972. She was also honoured with the Magsaysay award in the year 1994.

Gamesmanship is the use of dubious methods to win or gain a serious advantage in a game or sport. It has been described as "Pushing the rules to the limit without getting caught, using whatever dubious methods possible to achieve the desired end. All the above are examples of Gameship.

• Under the Olympic games precise protocol, Greece always marches first and the host country always goes last.
• The remaining countries are ordered alphabetically in the language of the host nation.