General Awareness

Sports Rules and Tournaments

2,634 Questions

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

Which of the following terms is used in the game of hockey?

  1. Cox

  2. Throw

  3. Short corner

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

Short corner is a specific penalty corner situation in field hockey where the attacking team takes a shot from the goal line within the striking circle. Cox, throw, and bouncer are terms from cricket, not hockey.

Multiple choice

Which of the following teams won the Champions League Twenty 20 championship 2009?

  1. Royal Challengers

  2. Deccan Chargers

  3. The New South Wales Blue

  4. Trinidad Tobago
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The New South Wales Blues won the Champions League Twenty20 championship in 2009. In the final held in Hyderabad, they defeated Trinidad & Tobago. This was the inaugural edition of the Champions League Twenty20 tournament, featuring domestic T20 champions from various cricket-playing nations.

Multiple choice

Choose the incorrect statement.

  1. Players should take a balanced diet.

  2. Players should work hard.

  3. Women can also play games.

  4. Only boys can play games.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Both boys and girls can play games.

Multiple choice

What is the game played by the female in the group?

There are five friends P, Q, R, S, T. In them, there is one married couple. One is football player, one is chess player, and one is hockey player. P and S are unmarried females and do not participate in any game. T, an hockey player, is a married male. Q is the brother of R and is neither a chess player nor a hockey player.

  1. Football

  2. Hockey

  3. Chess

  4. Both1 and 2 are true

  5. Both 2 and 3 are true
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Yes it is the correct choice.

P and S are unmarried females and do not participate in any game .    |||| |---|---|---| |P|Female/Unmarried|No game| |Q| | | |R| | | |S|Female / Un married |No games| |T| |   |

T, an hockey player, is married male .

  |||| |---|---|---| |P|Femlae/Unmarried|No game| |Q| | | |R| | | |S|Female / Un married |No games| |T|Married male| Hockey.  |

Q is brother of R and is  neither a chess player nor a hockey player.er a chess player nor a hockey player.

  |||| |---|---|---| |P|Femlae/Unmarried|No game| |Q|Male /Unmarried|Football| |R| | | |S|Female / Un married |No games| |T| |   |

Q is married male and he is brother of R . means Q is male.he plays neither chess nor hockey means one game left over that is foot ball.   So R should be femlae and she will play chess because it is only left with |||| |---|---|---| |P|Femlae/Unmarried|No game| |Q|Male / Unmarried|Foot ball player| |R|Female /married to T |Chess| |S|Female / Un married |No games| |T|Male / married |Hockey   |