Sports Current Affairs Quiz - July 2016

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1. 14th edition of Homeless World Cup 2016 started in Glasgow (____________). It is an annual football tournament focusing on advocating a global awareness about homelessness. Slum Soccer also partnered with Tata Trusts and Football Players Association of India (FPAI) for Indias participation in world cup ?

Scotland
Netherlands
Denmark
Poland
None of These


2. 2016 Swiss Open Gstaad, a men's tennis tournament has been won by __________ player Feliciano Lopez. He defeated Robin Haase of Netherlands. ?

Danish
Polish
Spainish
Swiss
None of These


3. 2016 Wimbledon Championships winners (130th edition) winners - Men's Singles - Andy Murray (_________) won by defeating Canadas Milos Raonic. It was his second Wimbledon title after 2013 ?

Mens Doubles - French pair of Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut defeated French pair Julien Benneteau and °douard Roger-Vasselin.

Womens Doubles - USA pair of Serena Williams and Venus Williams defeated T­mea Babos (Hungary) and Yaroslava Shvedova (Kazakhstan).

Mixed Doubles - Henri Kontinen (Finland) and Heather Watson (UK) defeated Robert Farah (Colombia) and Anna-Lena Gr¶nefeld (Germany). ?

USA
Russia
Spain
Britain
None of These


4. 2016 Wimbledon Championships winners (130th edition) winners - Womens Singles - Serena Williams (_______) won by defeating Germanys Angelique Kerber. It is Williams seventh Womens Singles Wimbledon title (2002, 2003, 2009, 2010, 2012 and 2015) and overall 22nd Grand Slam title. ?

France
Denmark
Poland
Russia
USA


5. 73rd Senior National Squash Championship (held in Mumbai (Maharashtra)) winners - Men's singles ______________ won by defeating Harinderpal Singh Sandhu (he won this title for 11th time). Women's Singles - Dipika Pallikal Karthik won by defeating Joshna Chinappa ?

Anuroop BS
Kidambi Srikkanth
Saurav Ghosal
Pankaj Advani
None of These


6. ______ became First Indian gymnast to be named a ‘Gymnaste de Classe Mondaile (World class gymnast) by International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) ?

Dipa Karmakar
Ashish Kumar
Pankaj Advani
Rajyawardhan Rathore
None of These


7. Gordon Reid (______) won first-ever Wimbledon wheelchair tennis mens singles title 2016 by defeating Swedens Stefan Olsson ?

Russia
Great Britain
USA
Poland
None of These


8. Gurpreet Singh Sandhu became first Indian football player to play in UEFA Europa League, after being named in _______ club Stabaek FCs squad for qualifying match against Connahs Quay Nomads FC in Europa League ?

Norwegian
Polish
French
Portugese
None of These


9. __________ entered into a two-year partnership with Indian Olympic Association to be official nutrition sponsor of Indian Olympic contingent to Rio De Janeiro Olympics 2016 ?

Herbalife
Google
Yahoo
Microsoft
None of These


10. ________ won 41st All India Electricity Board Kabaddi tournament 2016 by defeating Punjab. ?

Jammu and Kashimr
Haryana
Punjab
Himachal Pradesh
None of These


11. IWAS (International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports) U-23 World Games held in Prague (____________). India's para-swimmer Niranjan Mukundan won eight medals in these games, including three golds ?

Serbia
Slovakia
Poland
Czech Republic
None of These


12. India jumped 11 places to occupy _________ spot in latest world football rankings issued by FIFA ?

162nd
152nd
172nd
182nd
None of These


13. India's Wrestling Entry for Rio Olympics, __________ failed dope test after he was tested positive for a banned substance steroid. Besides, Shot Putter Inderjeet Singh also failed dope Test ?

Vinesh Phogat
Babita Kumari
Yogeshwar Dutt
Sushil Kumar
Narsingh Yadav


14. Indian Badminton Player _________ won 2016 Canada Open Grand Prix Badminton title by defeating Lee Hyun II of South Korea. Mens doubles title was won by Indian pair Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Reddy. ?

B Sai Praneeth
Saina Nehwal
Jwala Gutta
Kidambi Srikkanth
None of These


15. Indian professional boxer Vijender Singh won 2016 WBO Asia Pacific Super Middleweight title after defeating former WBC European champion Kerry Hope (_________) ?

American
British
Polish
Australian
None of These


16. Indian shooter Manavaditya Rathore (son of Athens Olympics silver medallist Rajyawardhan Rathore) won trap bronze medal in Champion of Champions match at Junior World Cup in Porpetto (_______). Anant Naruka also won a bronze ?

Poland
Denmark
Italy
Switzerland
None of These


17. Indian cricketer ________ became first Indian captain to score a double century outside India. He achieved this after scoring 200 runs against West Indies on second day of first Test. ?

M S Dhoni
Virat Kohli
Suresh Raina
Rohit Sharma
None of These


18. India's Chess Grand Master Harika Dronavalli won Fide Womens Grand Prix trophy in Chendu (__________) by defeating Russia's Olga Girya ?

Japan
China
Vietnam
Malaysia
None of These


19. Javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra (18 years age) became first Indian Junior athlete ever to create a World Record in Junior athletics Championship. He achieved this after a throw of record 86.48 metre distance furing Under-20 World Athletics Championships in Bydgoszcz (_________) ?

Switzerland
Denmark
France
Poland
None of These


20. Javeline thrower Annu Rani beat her national record with a 59.87m throw at 56th National Inter-State Senior Athletics Championships in _________ ?

Hyderabad
Delhi
Ahmedabad
Mumbai
None of These

 

21. Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton from _______ has won all 4 F1 Grand Prix in July 2016 - Austria, Britain, Hungary and Germany ?

UK
USA
Russia
France
None of These


22. Muttaiah Muralitharan (Sri Lanka), Australia's Arthur Morris, Karen Rolton and George Lohmann of ________ will be included in ICC hall of fame. Muttaiah Muralitharan will be first Sri Lankan to be included in ICC's Hall of Fame. ?

Australia
England
New Zealand
South Africa
None of These


23. Noted sprinter Sameer Mon won gold in 100 meters in 56th National Inter-state Athletics (__________) by completing in 10.60 seconds ?

Mumbai
Ahmedabad
Delhi
Hyderabad
None of These


24. _________ government announced 60 lakh rupees cash special incentive for 6 sportswomen of the state who qualified for Rio Olympics. The six sportspersons are - Dutee Chand, Srabani Nanda and four hockey players Deep Grace Ekka, Namita Toppo, Lilima Minz and Sunita Lakra ?

Manipur
Meghalaya
Madhya Pradesh
Jharkhand
Odisha


25. PM Narendra Modi Completed his Visit to 4 African Nations - South africa, Mozambique, Tanzania, _________ ?

Sudan
Nigeria
Kenya
Zimbabwe
None of These


26.During a recent visit by PM Narendra Modi, India announced to finance a cancer hospital in _____ and donate medicines for AIDS patients. India will also provide credit of 60 million dollars for power transmission project to the nation ?

Kenya
Nigeria
Niger
Chad
None of These


27. During a recent visit by PM Narendra Modi, India announced to Establish a Vocational Training Centre at Zanzibar (_________). India will also provide Line of Credit (LoC) of US 92 million dollars for improvement of water supply in Zanzibar ?

Nigeria
Tanzania
Chad
Brazil
None of These


28. Pakistani cricketer _________ became oldest captain to score Test hundred as he scored 110 against England at First test at Lord's. ?

Younis Khan
Shahid Afridi
Misbah-ul-Haq
Inzamam Ul Haq
None of These


29. Portugal won 2016 UEFA European football championship (Euro Cup 2016) by defeating host __________. It was Portugals first UEFA European Championship title ?

Switzerland
Serbia
Poland
Germany
France


30. ___________ elected as 39th Associate Member of International Cricket Council’s (ICC) during its meeting in Edinburgh (Capital of Scotland) ?

Qatar
Kuwait
Saudi Arabia
Iraq
None of These


31. Spinner Yasir Shah ranked number one in ICC Test rankings, becoming first _________ bowler to do so since Mushtaq Ahmed in December 1996. He took 10 qickets in macth against England at Lord's. ?

Bangladeshi
Afghani
Sri Lankan
Pakistani
None of These


32. _________ football team captain Bastian Schweinsteiger retired from national team ?

French
German
Polish
Swiss
None of These


33. _______ will host 2016 Kabaddi World Cup to be held in October 2016 ?

India
Pakistan
Bangladesh
Nepal
None of These


34. International Weightlifting Federation suspended 8-member _________ team from Rio Olympics due to doping offences ?

American
Polish
German
French
Russian


35. PM Narendra Modi flagged off‚ _________ event to encourage Indian contingent at 2016 Rio Olympics beginning on August 5, 2016. ?

Win Rio
Run for Rio‚ 
Conquer Olympics
India at Olympics
None of These


36. _________ won 4th edition of STAR Sports-ProKabaddi League by defeating Jaipur Pink Panthers. It was second consecutive title of ________. ?

Patna Pirates
U Mumba
Bengal Warriors
Telugu Titans
None of These


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