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Top 50 Sports Questions and Answers in English
General Sports Questions and Answers part 1 (1-17)
1) What does FIFA stand for?
Answer: Federation International de Football Association.
2) When is the ball considered out of play in football?
Answer: (i) When it has crossed the goal or touchline on the ground and (ii) When the referee stops the game.
3) A referee carries along seven things with him. Name them?
Answer: Whistle, Coin, Watch, Notebook, Pencil, Ball, Coloured cards.
4) Describe a bicycle kick?
Answer: An overhead kick.
5) When was FIFA founded?
Answer: 21 May 1904 in Paris.
6) When and where was the first Ranji Trophy match played?
Answer: In Madras.
7) Two cities of the same name but in different countries are test cricket centres. Name them:
Answer: Hyderabad – India, and Pakistan.
8) Name two Test cricket grounds with facilities for day-night cricket?
Answer: Sydney and Melbourne Cricket Ground.
9) What is the weight of a cricket ball?
Answer: 155.9 to 163 gms.
10) What should be the width of the wickets?
Answer: 9 inches.
11) Martina Navratilova has been a multiple Wimbledon Championship winner. She became an American citizen, but in which country was she born?
Answer: Czechoslovakia.
12) Who won the Men’s Singles Championships for the third time at Wimbledon in 1989?
Answer: Boris Becker.
13) Which two sisters fought out a Wimbledon Singles final?
Answer: Maud and Lilian Watson, 1884.
14) Who has been the youngest to win Wimbledon Singles?
Answer: Charlotte Dod (1887), 15 years and 10 months.
15) Who has been the oldest Men’s Single’s Wimbledon Champion?
Answer: A.W. Gore (1909), 41 years and 6 months.
16) The first middle-distance runner to win three Olympic gold was:
Answer: Peter Snell.
17) Which athlete broke five world records in spite of having an injured back?
Answer: Jesse Owens.
Online Sports Quiz Questions with Answers part 2 (17-34)
18) Who was the first man to run 10,000 m in under 29 minutes?
Answer: Emil Zátopek.
19) What is the real name of sprinter ‘Bones’?
Answer: Harrison Dillard.
20) Who was nicknamed ‘The Beast of Prague’?
Answer: Emil Zátopek.
21) Whose is the World Record in Discuss women’s?
Answer: Gabriele Reinsch of GDR – Distance 76.80 metres – at Neubrandenburg, Germany on 9,h July 1988.
22) Whose is the World Record in Hammer women’s?
Answer: Anita Włodarczyk.
23) The oldest track and field gold medallist in the Olympics was:
Answer: Pat McDonald.
24) How many gold medals did India win in the first Asian Games in athletic events?
Answer: Ten.
25) Name the Indian athlete who has also been a winner of the Helm’s Award:
Answer: Milkha Singh.
26) One athlete was the first to win both the 100 m and 200 m dash in Olympics. Name him:
Answer: Archie Hahn (USA).
27) A famous Olympic Star (a polio patient) overcame his handicap to win 10 Olympic gold’s. Name him:
Answer: Ray Ewry ( USA).
28) An athlete ran barefoot and in his third Marathon event, not only won the Olympic gold but also set a world record. Who was he?
Answer: Abebe Bikila (Ethiopia) in 1960.
29) What is the multi-discipline event in women’s international athletics in which contestants compete over a two-day period?
Answer: Heptathlon.
30) In which four events did Jesse Owens, in 1936 and Carl Lewis in 1984 win gold medals?
Answer: 100 m, 200 m; long jump; 4×100 m relay.
31) At which Commonwealth Games did Milkha Singh win the 440 yards gold?
Answer: 1958 Cardiff Games.
32) Which is the oldest standing national athletic record? Who set it? When and where?
Answer: 200 meters (Men). Milkha Singh, Lahore in January 1960.
33) When was the Indian Olympic Association formed?
Answer: 1927.
34) To whom does the Olympic movement in India owe its birth?
Answer: Dorabji Tata.
General Knowledge Sports Questions Answers part 3 (35-50)
35) Who ordered the closure of the ancient Olympics and when?
Answer: Emperor Theodosius in AD 394.
36) The first modern Olympics were made possible by the help of a Greek merchant who paid for repairs and restoration of the stadium. Name him:
Answer: George Averoff.
37) By what name are the 1906 Games popularly known?
Answer: Phantom or Interim Games.
38) During which Olympics did the jumpers have to dig their own pits?
Answer: 1900 Paris.
39) The man who got the silver behind Jesse Owens in 1936 was the silver medallist four years earlier too. Name him:
Answer: Ralph Metcalfe (USA).
40) The 1500 m walk gold was won by an athlete who had never before participated in a walking event. Who?
Answer: George Bonhag (USA).
41) The Indian girl (Sunitha Rani) missed it by two-hundredths of a second as Supriyati Sutono won Indonesia’s first athletics gold in 36 years in 1998 Bangkok Asia. Name the event:
Answer: 5000 m.
42) The first Olympics in which P. T. Usha participated?
Answer: 1980. Mexico.
43) Who is the only man to win Olympic gold in both summer and winter Olympics?
Answer: Eddie Eagan (USA)
44) Who was the first Indian to qualify for an Olympic track event semi-final?
Answer: Lavy Pinto (1952).
45) Who was the first Asian athlete to win Olympic gold?
Answer: Mikio Oda (Japan), 1928 in Triple Jump).
46) Who is reported to have been the first woman to have witnessed the ancient Olympics?
Answer: At that time women were barred, by law to watch the Games. If caught, the penalty was death (Kallipatira from Rhodes. She came dressed as a man to watch her son compete (and win) the boxing event)
47) He is the first to win Olympic gold in both the 100 m and the 110 m hurdles. Name him?
Answer: Harrison Dillard (USA).
48) Which Olympic gold medallist athlete had his heart on the right side instead of the left side of the chest?
Answer: Joseph Guillemot (France), 1920 Olympics 5000 m gold winner.
49) Who is the only man to have jumped 8 feet or more in the high jump?
Answer: Javier Sotomayor (Cuba) at Puerto Rico in the Caribbean championship (1989).
50) Who won five Olympic gold’s in a week?
Answer: Paavo Nurmi, 1924.
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