International Sports Trivia

India has won 8 Olympic gold medals in men's field hockey: 1928 (Amsterdam), 1932 (Los Angeles), 1936 (Berlin), 1948 (London), 1952 (Helsinki), 1956 (Melbourne), 1964 (Tokyo), and 1980 (Moscow). This dominant streak established India as a hockey powerhouse before other nations caught up.

The Munich massacre occurred during the 1972 Summer Olympics when the Palestinian group Black September took 11 Israeli athletes hostage, killing them along with a West German police officer. This was a tragic terrorist attack that shocked the world and changed Olympic security protocols permanently.

India qualified for the 1950 FIFA World Cup by default after several other countries withdrew from the qualification tournament. This is a factual question about Indian football history.

England has won the FIFA World Cup only once, in 1966 when they hosted the tournament and defeated West Germany 4-2 in the final. They have not won any other World Cup titles despite being strong contenders in subsequent tournaments.

Gangrene is the local death of body tissue (necrosis) due to loss of blood supply or bacterial infection. Leprosy (Hansen's disease) is a chronic infectious disease affecting skin and nerves. Frostbite is tissue damage from freezing. Necrophilia is a psychological condition unrelated to tissue death.

'Beyond Ten Thousand: My Life Story' is the autobiography of Australian cricketer Allan Border (not Alan Border exactly, but close enough for the option). Gavaskar wrote 'Sunny Days', Tendulkar's autobiography is 'Playing It My Way', and Bradman's is 'Farewell to Cricket'. Border was the first to reach 10,000 Test runs.

Ramanathan Krishnan reached the Wimbledon semifinals in 1960 and 1961, making him the first Indian to achieve this feat. His son Ramesh Krishnan also later reached semifinals, but Ramanathan was first.

India won its first Olympic gold medal in hockey at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics, beginning a dominant era where India won six consecutive Olympic hockey gold medals through 1956.

The first Asian Games held in Delhi were in 1951 (Asian Games I). Delhi later hosted again in 1982 (Asian Games IX), but 1951 was the inaugural edition in India.

Khashaba Dadasaheb Yadav (K.D. Yadav) won India's first individual Olympic medal - a bronze in wrestling at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. Milkha Singh and P.T. Usha were legendary runners who finished 4th in their Olympic finals but did not medal. Karnam Malleshwari became the first Indian woman to win an individual Olympic medal (bronze in weightlifting) in 2000, much later than Yadav.

Wilson Jones was the first Indian to win the World Amateur Billiards title in 1964. He was a pioneering billiards player who put India on the world billiards map. Geet Sethi, Michael Ferreira, and Manoj Kothari were later Indian billiards champions who won world titles in the 1980s and 1990s.