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 exponent of a prime in n! factorial notation combinatorics and mathematical induction permutations and combinations maths

Number of ways in which these $16$ players can be divided into equal groups, such that when the best player is selected from each group, ${P} _{6}$ is one among them, is $(k)\dfrac{12!}{{4!}^{3}}$. The value of $k$ is:

  1. $36$
  2. $24$
  3. $18$
  4. $20$
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

This involves grouping 16 players into 4 groups of 4. The number of ways to divide them is 16! / ((4!)^4 * 4!). The condition regarding the best player involves combinations.

Multiple choice

How many players in a team in a hockey Match

  1. 10

  2. 11

  3. 12

  4. 9
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

A standard field hockey team consists of 11 players on the field at any given time, including the goalkeeper. The other options do not represent the standard team size for this sport.

Multiple choice

My brother ….. soccer.

  1. plays

  2. play

  3. play's

  4. plays'
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The subject my brother is third-person singular, requiring the verb to end in s in the present simple tense. Plays is the correct conjugation.

Multiple choice

A kabaddi team usually has ?

  1. 10 Players

  2. 11 Players

  3. 7 Players

  4. 6 Players
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

In standard tournament Kabaddi (Standard Style), each team has 7 players on the court at any given time.

Multiple choice

What does it mean to be an "unseeded" player?

  1. To be ranked among the top 5 players in a competition

  2. To be ranked among the top 16 players in a competition

  3. NOT to be ranked among the top 5 players in a competition

  4. NOT to be ranked among the top 16 players in a competition
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

In tennis tournaments, seeding is a system used to rank the top players to ensure they do not meet in the early rounds. An unseeded player is one who does not fall within the designated number of top-ranked players for that specific tournament.

Multiple choice

What does it mean to break?

  1. To hit the net

  2. To step on the line while serving

  3. To win a game as the receiving player or team

  4. To win a game as the serving player or team
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

In tennis, a 'break' occurs when the player who is receiving serve wins the game, thereby 'breaking' the serve of the opponent.