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Sports General Knowledge questions cover national games, famous athletes, and sports terminologies. These topics are frequently asked in SSC, banking, railway, and state PSC exams. Regular practice helps retain facts about international tournaments and traditional games.

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Sports General Knowledge Questions

Multiple choice

Which of the following combinations is correct?

A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are eight friends studying in three different engineering colleges - X, Y and Z. Taken together, they play three different games - volleyball, throwball and cricket. No less than two of them and no more than three of them study in any one college. Not more than three of them play in any one of the three games. G and E only study in college Y. G plays throwball and E plays volley ball. A and H do not study in college Z and play the same game but not throwball. C and F study in college Z. C palys volley ball and F plays throwball. D plays volleyball and does not study in the same college where C studies. B does not play cricket.

  1. Z - B - Cricket

  2. X - D - Volleyball

  3. Y - E - throwball

  4. X - A - throwball

  5. Y - H -throwball
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation
College / Sport V T C
X D -- A, H
Y E G -
Z C F, B -

V implies VolleyBall, T implies Throwball, C implies Cricket   ||||| |---|---|---|---| | College / Sport|V|T|C| |X|D|-|A, H, D| |Y|E|G|-| |Z|C|F, B|-|

  ||||| |---|---|---|---| | College / Sport|V|T|C| |X|D|-|A, H| |Y|E|G|-| |Z|C|F,B|C|

  ||||| |---|---|---|---| | College / Sport|V|T|C| |X|D|-|A, H| |Y|E|G|-| |Z|C|F, B|F|

Multiple choice

Which of the following Cups/Trophies is NOT associated with the game of Hockey?

  1. Surjeet Singh Cup

  2. Irani Trophy

  3. Federation Cup

  4. Cuppuswamy Cup

  5. Scindia Gold Cup
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The Irani Trophy (named after the late Zal R. Irani) is a domestic cricket tournament in India played between the reigning Ranji Trophy champions and a Rest of India team. The other options (Surjeet Singh Cup, Federation Cup, Cuppuswamy Cup, Scindia Gold Cup) are all associated with hockey. The Irani Trophy is exclusively a cricket competition.

Multiple choice

With which game Serena Williams is associated?

  1. Football

  2. Hockey

  3. Swimming

  4. Tennis

  5. Cricket

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Serena Williams is one of the most legendary tennis players in history, with 23 Grand Slam singles titles. She dominated women's tennis for over two decades. Football, hockey, swimming, and cricket are not her sports.

Multiple choice

With which of the following games is the Ryder Cup associated?

  1. Golf

  2. Tennis

  3. Baseball

  4. Basketball

  5. Ice hockey
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The Ryder Cup is a prestigious biennial men's golf competition between teams from Europe and the United States. Named after Samuel Ryder who donated the trophy, it's one of golf's most celebrated team events, dating back to 1927. Unlike individual golf tournaments, this unique team format creates intense patriotic rivalry and dramatic moments in the sport.

Multiple choice

Who is Afsana Mansuri?

  1. A hockey player

  2. A basketball player

  3. A badminton player

  4. A kabaddi player
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Afsana Mansuri is a basketball player from a poor family.

Multiple choice

Choose the odd one out.

  1. Basketball

  2. Volleyball

  3. Baseball

  4. Badminton
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Badminton is different from all the three games as it is not played with a ball.

Multiple choice

Choose the odd one out.

  1. Cricket

  2. Hockey

  3. Badminton

  4. Chess
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Chess is an indoor game that we can play at home whereas rest of the three are outdoor games.

Multiple choice

Ryder Cup is related with which of the following sports?

  1. Football

  2. Golf

  3. Badminton

  4. Cricket
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The Ryder Cup is a prestigious biennial golf competition between teams from the United States and Europe. It is one of the most famous events in professional golf, not football, badminton, or cricket.

Multiple choice

What is the post of Q?

P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, X are eight friends and coaches of different games like cricket, football, coco, kabaddi, volleyball, martial arts, carrom, badminton, table tennis. P sits third to right of martial arts coach. Two people sit between the martial arts coach and X. Volleyball coach and carroms coach are immediate neighbours of each other. Neither P nor X is a volleyball coach or carroms coach. Volleyball coach is not an immediate neighbour of martial arts coach. Coco coach sits second to the left of T. T is not an immediate neighbour of X. Coco coach is an immediate neighbor of both kabaddi coach and football coach. Football coach sits third to right of Q. Q is not the volleyball coach. R sits to the right of the coco coach. P is not the cricket coach. U is not an immediate neighbour of P. V is not an immediate neighbour of the kabaddi coach.

  1. Cricket coach

  2. Martial arts coach

  3. Carom coach

  4. Volleyball coach

  5. Football coach
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

P sits third to right of martial arts coach .Two people sit between the martial arts coach and X . Volleyball coach and caroms coach are immediate neighbours of each other .   ||| |---|---| | | | |P/|/Martial arts| | | | |X/|  |

Neither p nor X is a volley ball coach or caroms coach . volley ball coach is not an immediate neighbour of martial arts coach .coco coach sits second to the left of T    ||| |---|---| |Volley ball| caroms| |P/|/Martial arts| | / Volleyball /caroms| T/  caroms| |X/|  /caroms|

.Coco coach is an immediate neighbor of both kabaddi coach and football coach .Football coach sits third to right of Q   ||| |---|---| |Volley ball| Q/ caroms| |P/|/Martial arts| | / Foot ball | T/  caroms| |X/Coco | / Kabaddi |

Q is not the volley ball coach. R sits to the right of the coco coach .P is not he cricket coach .U is not an immediate neighbour of P . V is not an immediate neighbour of the coco .   ||| |---|---| |V/ Volley ball| Q/ caroms| |P/ table tennis|U  /Martial arts| |S / Foot ball | T/  Cricket| |X/Coco | R / Kabaddi   |

Multiple choice

Which coach is opposite to football coach?

P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, X are eight friends and coaches of different games like cricket, football, coco, kabaddi, volleyball, martial arts, carrom, badminton, table tennis. P sits third to right of martial arts coach. Two people sit between the martial arts coach and X. Volleyball coach and carroms coach are immediate neighbours of each other. Neither P nor X is a volleyball coach or carroms coach. Volleyball coach is not an immediate neighbour of martial arts coach. Coco coach sits second to the left of T. T is not an immediate neighbour of X. Coco coach is an immediate neighbor of both kabaddi coach and football coach. Football coach sits third to right of Q. Q is not the volleyball coach. R sits to the right of the coco coach. P is not the cricket coach. U is not an immediate neighbour of P. V is not an immediate neighbour of the kabaddi coach.

  1. Cricket

  2. Table tennis

  3. Martial arts

  4. Carom's

  5. Kabaddi
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Yes it's correct choice .

P sits third to right of mmartial arts coach .Two people sit between the martial arts coach and X . Volleyball coach and caroms coach are immediate neighbours of each other .   ||| |---|---| | | | |P/|/Martial arts| | | | |X/|  |

Neither p nor X is a volley ball coach or caroms coach . volley ball coach is not an immediate neighbour of martial arts coach .coco coach sits second to the left of T    ||| |---|---| |Volley ball| caroms| |P/|/Martial arts| | / Volleyball /caroms| T/  caroms| |X/|  /caroms|

.Coco coach is an immediate neighbor of both kabaddi coach and football coach .Football coach sits third to right of Q   ||| |---|---| |Volley ball| Q/ caroms| |P/|/Martial arts| | / Foot ball | T/  caroms| |X/Coco | / Kabaddi |

Q is not the volley ball coach. R sits to the right of the coco coach .P is not he cricket coach .U is not an immediate neighbour of P . V is not an immediate neighbour of the coco .   ||| |---|---| |V/ Volley ball| Q/ caroms| |P/ table tennis|U  /Martial arts| |S / Foot ball | T/  Cricket| |X/Coco | R / Kabaddi   |

Multiple choice

Who is the Table tennis coach?

P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, X are eight friends and coaches of different games like cricket, football, coco, kabaddi, volleyball, martial arts, carrom, badminton, table tennis. P sits third to right of martial arts coach. Two people sit between the martial arts coach and X. Volleyball coach and carroms coach are immediate neighbours of each other. Neither P nor X is a volleyball coach or carroms coach. Volleyball coach is not an immediate neighbour of martial arts coach. Coco coach sits second to the left of T. T is not an immediate neighbour of X. Coco coach is an immediate neighbor of both kabaddi coach and football coach. Football coach sits third to right of Q. Q is not the volleyball coach. R sits to the right of the coco coach. P is not the cricket coach. U is not an immediate neighbour of P. V is not an immediate neighbour of the kabaddi coach.

  1. Q

  2. P

  3. R

  4. S

  5. T
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

U / kabaddi

Multiple choice

Fed Cup is related to

  1. golf

  2. table tennis

  3. hockey

  4. tennis

  5. badminton
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Correct answer is (4).