CBSE Questions for Class 8 General Knowledge Sports And Games Of India And World Quiz 9 - MCQExams.com

• South Asian Games are a bi-annual multi-sport event held among the athletes from South Asia. 
• Tikhor was the Brand Ambassador of the 12th South Asian Games, 2016. Tikhor is a famous character in Assamese folk literature and is regarded as the pioneer of modern Assamese literature. 
• The rhino calf with a blue cap, red T-shirt, and blue shorts is the messenger of peace, prosperity and amity in the 12th South Asian Games.

• Australia won the 2016 Trans-Tasman Trophy of Cricket by defeating New Zealand by 2-0 in two-Match test Series. 
• With this win, Australia had replaced India in the test rating and became World No. 1 in ICC Test ranking.

• Shankar Laxman was one of the greatest hockey players India ever produced.
• He was the first goalkeeper to become the captain of an international hockey team and the only player in the world to have played in three successive Olympic finals.

• Nagjee International Club Football Tournament is a premier football tournament in India and an event that is very popular in the Indian state of Kerala. Many top European and Latin American clubs participated in the tournament. 
• The former Barcelona and AC Milan player Ronaldinho was announced as the Brand Ambassador of the Nagjee International Club Football Tournament.

• The UEFA European Championship has existed since 1960 and ranks next to FIFA World Cup as the most prestigious completion for national football teams. 
• The official UEFA EURO 2016 mascot was called Super Victor after supporters on internet voted for it as their favourite ahead of Driblou and Goalix. 
• The mascot was dressed as a footballer in blue and white with a red cape and number 16 jersey.

• The Ex-Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports, Vijay Goel had inaugurated the Khelo India National-level competitions for various sports for Under-14 and Under-17 children at Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Swimming Pool Complex at New Delhi in the year 2017. 
• The purpose of the competition was to provide a platform to the budding talents to compete at national level. Approx 1000 participants from more than 25 states and union territories had taken part in the competitions. 

• It was in February 2010 when history was made in men's ODI cricket as Sachin Tendulkar became the first to score a double hundred - 200* vs South Africa in Gwalior. 
• Among the following, Chris Gayle was the first non-Indian to score a double ton, during the 2015 World Cup - 215 vs Zimbabwe in Canberra.

• Field Hockey is an eleven aside game. There are 11 players on a team made up of a goalkeeper, defenders, midfielders and forwards. 
• Each player has a stick with a rounded head to play the ball with and the objective is to score goals by putting the ball in the opposing team’s goal.

• Born in Germany, Steffi Graf entered pro tennis at the age of 13 and became one of the sport's top players. Known for her powerful forehand, Graf won 22 Grand Slam singles titles. 
• In 1988, she had a "Golden Slam," winning all four major competitions and Olympic gold in one calendar year. She retired from tennis in 1999.

• The 66th Senior National Basketball Championship for Men and Women is hosted by Mysuru from 9-16 January. The championship returned to Mysuru after a gap of 29 years. 
• Over 53 combined teams in the Men and Women divisions participated, and after two high-flying finals, Indian Railways (Women) and Services (Men) emerged as national champions.

• The 2017 T20 Blind Cricket World Cup was hosted by India from January 29 to February 12, 2017. Besides India, teams from Pakistan, Australia, Bangladesh, England, Nepal, New Zealand, South Africa, Sri Lanka and West Indies had taken part in the tournament.
• The former Indian Cricketer and Captain, Rahul Dravid was the brand ambassador for the tournament.

• The Val Barker Trophy, named after the Englishman who was President of the International Boxing Association (AIBA) has been awarded to boxers at every Olympics since 1936. 
• It goes to the most impressive boxer at an Olympic Games, signifying the best pound-for-pound boxer.

• The South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) is the unity of South Asian football playing countries. 
• The organization is made of football’s national governing units of each member countries of the region. India is the most successful country in SAFF with 7 titles.

• Mid wicket is a fielding position on the leg side, about 30-45 degrees forward of square, a position designed to either catch the ball from a misplaced pull shot, or to prevent runs from on drives, and defensive strokes on the on side.
• The cover is a fielding position on the off side, about 30 degrees forward of square, a position designed to prevent runs from cover drives, and defensive strokes on the off side.

• UEFA, the Union of European Football Associations is the governing body of European football and the umbrella organisation for 55 national associations.
• Gurpreet Singh Sandhu holds the distinction of being the only Indian to have played in the UEFA Europa League (Qualifier), which he achieved while playing for Norwegian club Stabaek Football in June 2016. He is also one of the youngest-ever to captain India.

• Gagan Narang is an Indian master shooter who rose to International acclaim at the 2006 Commonwealth games in Melbourne where he grabbed 4 gold medals, repeating this feat in 2010 at the Delhi Commonwealth Games. 
• He was chosen as a flag bearer for the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games because he had emerged as India’s best athlete in the Commonwealth Games with four gold medals and was also one of the most consistent performers for India in the past few years. 
• He was conferred with the Padma Shree Award in 2011.

• The FIFA U-17 World Cup was held across 6 cities in India viz. New Delhi, Navi Mumbai, Goa, Kochi, Guwahati and Kolkata. 
• England came from two goals down to defeat European champions Spain 5-2 and win their first-ever FIFA U-17 World Cup title at the Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan Stadium in Kolkata, India

• Having won the bid for the 2022 Olympic Winter Games on 31 July 2015, Beijing is set to become the first city in the world to have hosted both the summer and winter editions of the Olympic Games. 
• Beijing 2022 will build on the legacies of the landmark Beijing 2008 Olympic Games and expects to encourage millions of people across China to embrace winter sports.

• National Snooker Championship 2016 was the 83rd edition of Senior National Billiards and Snooker Championship. 
• Aditya Mehta won the 2016 Championship by defeating Manan Chandra by 6-3 in the men’s final round.
• The championship was held at Indore in Madhya Pradesh.

A class two student from Bandipora district in Jammu and Kashmir, defeated her rival from USA to win the kickboxing championship held in Italy's Andria where ninety countries participated in the event. She is 8 years of ageknown as Tajamul Islam.

'Claret Jug', is the trophy presented to the winner of the Open Championship for golf , the trophy  is presented to the winner of The Open Championship, one of the four major championships in golf.

Summer Olympic was first held in 1896. It is a major international multi-sport event held once every four years. London is the only city to hold the summer Olympics thrice.

The 1912 Summer Olympics officially known as the Games of the V Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Stockholm, Sweden. Women were allowed to compete first time. Fourteen sports other than swimming were allowed.

Fair Play Award is an annual cricket award given during each season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) to the team with the best record of fair play. Chennai Superking won it six times.

P.V sindhu won the Macau Open thrice. She also won the syed Modi International Prix Gold Championship. She is an Indian professional badminton player. She became the first Indian woman to win an Olympic silver medal, and one of the two Indian badminton players to ever win an Olympic medal.

An extremely talented being-Johnny Weissmuller was an Austro-Hungarian-born American competition swimmer and actor, also known for playing Edgar Rice Burroughs' ape man Tarzan in films of the 1930s and 1940s and for having one of the best competitive swimming records of the 20th century.

The athlete here is -Simone Arianne Biles is an American artistic gymnast. Biles is the 2016 Olympic individual all-around, vault and floor gold medalist, and balance beam bronze medalist. She was part of the gold-medal-winning team dubbed the "Final Five" at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.