General Awareness

Sports Rules and Tournaments

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Sports rules and tournaments questions cover player counts, scoring systems, and terminology across various games like volleyball, baseball, and hockey. This section helps candidates prepare for the general awareness parts of government exams. Detailed explanations provide better retention of specific sports facts.

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Sports Rules and Tournaments Questions

Multiple choice parenthesis punctuation english

Choose the option that contains a double dash:

  1. The students, who are wearing sports shoes, will participate in the match.

  2. The students -- who are wearing sports shoes -- will participate in the match.

  3. The students (who are wearing sports shoes) will participate in the match.

  4. The students-who are wearing sports shoes, will participate in the match.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The double dash contains two em dashes, which are longer in length than the hyphen. Depending on the context, they can replace parentheses, comma and colon. It's more informal, compared to the parentheses. It adds emphasis to the group of words that it encloses, hence separating it from the sentence. From the options, the double dash - - is seen in option B, hence it's correct. Option A contains two commas, ",  ," it does not contain a double dash, hence option A is incorrect. Option C contains parentheses ( ), not the double dash. Option D contains a single dash and a comma, which is grammatically incorrect because there should either be a double dash or two commas enclosing the phrase, hence options C and D are incorrect.

Multiple choice

What does the cornerback do?

  1. Pass the ball to the nearest receivers

  2. Catch punts

  3. Block/cover receivers to try to get an interception

  4. Call timeouts
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

A cornerback's primary responsibility in the NFL is to cover wide receivers and prevent them from catching passes, often attempting to intercept the ball. The other options describe duties of other positions.

Multiple choice statistics information processing fundamental principle of addition fundamental principles of counting principles of counting

There are 8 teams in a certain league and each team plays each of the other teams exactly once. If each game is played by 2 teams, what is the total number of games played? 

  1. 15

  2. 6

  3. 28

  4. 56

  5. 64
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Matches played between 8 teams =$ 7+6+5+4+3+2+1 = 21$

In these 8 matches, 4 winners will emerge.
So, total number of matches between these 4 winners = $ 3+2+1= 6$
Two winners will emerge from these 4 winners who will play the final match.
so, total matches played in the tournament = $21 + 6+1 = 28$ (option C)

Multiple choice maths combinatorics and mathematical induction fundamental principle of addition fundamental principles of counting principles of counting

The 30 members of a club decided to playa badminton singles tournament. Every time a member loses a game he is out of tournament. There is no ties. What is the minimum number of matches that must be played to determine the winner?

  1. 15

  2. 29

  3. 61

  4. 435
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Clearly, every member except one (i.e. the winner) must lose one game to decide the winner. Thus, minimum number of matches to be played = 30 - 1 = 29.

Multiple choice

... football, golf, tennis

  1. do

  2. go

  3. make

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

The verb 'play' is used for competitive sports and games. 'Do' is used for individual activities like karate, and 'go' for activities ending in -ing.

Multiple choice

John is a better player than me. = ?

  1. John does not play as well as I do.

  2. I do not play as good as John does.

  3. John does not play as good as I do.

  4. I do not play as well as John does.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The comparative 'better' means the speaker does not play as well as John. Option D correctly expresses this using the 'as...as' structure.

Multiple choice maths introduction of probability theory types of events some more terms in probability events and its algebra

$8$ players compete in a tournament, every one plays everyone else just once. The winner of a game gets $1$, the loser $0$ or each gets $\dfrac{1}{2}$ if the game is drawn. The final result is that every one gets a different score and the player playing placing second gets the same as the total of four bottom players.The total score of all the players is

  1. $28$
  2. $21$
  3. $20$
  4. $22$
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The players get $1$ for winning 

and $\dfrac 12$ for a draw 
So the sum of points of the players for one match is $1$
Hence the total score for $^8C _2=\dfrac{8\times7}2$ matches is $28$
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