COMMONWEALTH GAMES After Olympics, Commonwealth Games is the second largest sports festival in the world. The Games are held once in four years but only in between the Olympic years. The Games were originally known as the British Empire Games. The first Commonwealth Games were held in 1930 at Hamilton,Continue Reading
The FIFA World Cup, also called the Football World Cup or the Soccer World Cup, but usually referred to simply as the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the men’s national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport’s global governingContinue Reading
CottonKing Maharashtra Premier League (MPL) is the first state run League in India, which is being organized by Maharashtra Cricket AssociationContinue Reading
Badminton Court: 13.40 m x 5.18 m Net: 1.524 m high Shuttle: 4.73 to 5.50 gms Cricket Pitch: 20.12 metres Bat: 96.5 cm length and 10.8 cm width Ball: 155.9 to 163 gms Derby Course Route length: 2400 metres (or) 11/2 miles Football Field: 100 x 64 m to 110Continue Reading
Field Person The first Indian woman to swim across the English Channel Miss. Arati Shah The first Indian to win world Billiards Trophy Wilson Jones The first to cross the Damelles by swimming Mihir Sen The first to conquer Everest Sherpa Tenzing (1953) The first to sail round the worldContinue Reading
Vishwanathan Anand has retained his World Chess Championship title after a dramatic end to one of the closest matches in the one hundred and twenty four year history of the competition at Sofia. The forty year old Indian grandmaster, the fifteenth world champion, secured a further two year tenure andContinue Reading
Badminton Angled Drive Serve, Backhand Low Serve, Bird, Deuce, Double Droup, Fault, Flick Serve, Forehand Smash, Let, Lob, Love All, net Shots, Rush, Smash. Baseball Base, Battery, Bunting, Catcher, Diamond, Hitter, Home Infield, Outfield, Pinch, Pitcher Plate, Pullout, Short Stop, Strike. Basketball Ball, Basket, Blocking, Dribbling, Free Throw, Held Ball,Continue Reading
City Year Country London 2012 United Kingdom Beijing 2008 China Athens 2004 Greece Sydney 2000 Australia Atlanta 1996 United States Barcelona 1992 Spain Seoul Continue Reading
Suranjoy wins gold at President’s Cup boxing Asian champion Suranjoy Singh has become the first Indian boxer to clinch a gold medal at the inter-continental President’s Cup. He out-punched Frenchman Nordine Oubaali 8-1 in the flyweight (51kg) final, in Baku, Azerbaijan. The 22-year-old Manipuri’s triumph also fetched him US $3,000Continue Reading
1. The Biography of Mohammed Azharuddin, “Azhar” was written by— (A) Azharuudin (B) Harsha Bhogle (C) Harbhajan singh (D) Azhar’s Mother. Ans : (B) 2. India played its first one day in— (A) 1970 (B) 1971 (C) 1972 (D) 1974 Ans : (D) 3. Yuvraj Singh scored his first one-dayContinue Reading
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