Sports Current Affairs Quiz - April 2018

1. 'Son of Dreams' has been unveiled as official Mascot of FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 to be held in 8 __________ Cities in August to September 2019 ?

Chinese Russian Japanese Czech None of These

2. 2018 Asian Youth and Junior Weightlifting Championships in Urgench (_____________) -

1. India won 6 Medals, 5 in Youth Championships and 1 in Junior Championships (Bronze by JEREMY Lalrinnunga).
2. Medals in Youth Championships - SURAJIT Changmai (Bronze), GOGOI Sidhant (Bronze), JACOB Vanlaltluanga (Bronze), SHEULI Achinta (Silver), JEREMY Lalrinnunga (Silver).
3. India will host Asian Weightlifting Championships in 2019.

Turkmenistan Tajikistan Uzbekistan Kyrgyzstan None of These

3. 2018 Badminton Asia Championships Held in Wuhan (China) -

1. Winners -

   1. Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
      Men's singles	Kento Momota (Japan)	Chen Long (China)	Lee Chong Wei (Malaysia)
      			_________________ (India)
      Women's singles	Tai Tzu-ying (Chinese Taipei)	Chen Yufei (China)	Saina Nehwal (India)
      			Sung Ji-hyun (South Korea)
      Men's doubles	Li Junhui (China) Liu Yuchen (China)	Takeshi Kamura (Japan) Keigo Sonoda (Japan)	Huang Kaixiang (China) Wang Yilü (China)
      			Liu Cheng (China) Zhang Nan (China)
      Women's doubles	Yuki Fukushima (Japan) Sayaka Hirota (Japan)	Misaki Matsutomo (Japan) Ayaka Takahashi (Japan)	Della Destiara Haris (Indonesia) Rizki Amelia Pradipta (Indonesia)
      			Kim So-yeong (South Korea) Kong Hee-yong (South Korea)
      Mixed doubles	Wang Yilü (China) Huang Dongping (China)	Tontowi Ahmad (Indonesia) Liliyana Natsir (Indonesia)	Zheng Siwei (China) Huang Yaqiong (China)
      			Zhang Nan (China) Li Yinhui (China)

2. Medal Table -

   1. Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
      1	China	2	2	4	8
      2	Japan	2	2	0	4
      3	Chinese Taipei	1	0	0	1
      4	Indonesia	0	1	1	2
      5	India	0	0	2	2
      	South Korea	0	0	2	2
      7	Malaysia	0	0	1	1

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Prannoy Kumar Yuki Bhambri Kidambi Srikkanth H. S. Prannoy None of These

4. 2018 Barcelona Open Banco Sabadell Men's Tennis Title -

1. Singles - Rafael Nadal (_________)
2. Doubles - Spain's Feliciano López AND Marc López

Germany France USA Russia Spain

5. 2018 Hyundai Archery World Cup Round 1 (Shanghai (____________)) -

1. India - (2 Bronze). Medalists -
   1. Bronze for Abhishek Verma (Coumpund Men)
   2. Bronze for Recurve Mixed Team (Atanu Das and Ankita Bhakat).

Japan Russia China Spain None of These

6. 2018 Kunming Open Tennis Title (____________) -

1. Men's Singles - Prajnesh Gunneswaran (India), defeated Mohamed Safawat (Egypt)
2. Women's Singles - Irina Khromacheva (Russia)
3. Men's Doubles -Aliaksandr Bury (Belarus) AND Lloyd Harris (South Africa)
4. Women's Doubles - Dalila Jakupović (Slovenia) AND Irina Khromacheva (Russia)

China Japan Vietnam Russia None of These

7. 2018 Monte - Carlo Masters Men's Tennis Tournament (France) -

1. Singles - Rafael Nadal (___________)
2. Doubles - USA's Bob Bryan AND Mike Bryan

Russia Spain France Germany None of These

8. ______________ became first team in 85 years to win four straight Copa del Rey Football titles after defeating Sevilla. _________ also defeated Deportivo to win La Liga Football League Title (Spain) for 25th time.

Barcelona FC Real Madrid Osasuna Valencia None of These

9. Bayern Munich FC won ___________ Footnall League called Bundesliga for 28th time, defeating Augsburg.

German Spanish Russian French None of These

10. Bengaluru FC won inaugural edition of Super Cup Football tournament in Bhubaneswar (___________), defeating Kolkata football giants East Bengal.

Assam Bihar Chhattisgarh Odisha None of These

11. Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) recommended Rahul Dravid for Dronacharya award,Virat Kohli’s for Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna honour and _____________ for Dhyan Chand Lifetime Achievement Award. ?

V V S Laxman Ravi Shastri Kapil Dev Sunil Gavaskar None of These

12. ESPN Multi-Sport Awards -

1. Badminton players, PV Sindhu and Kidambi Srikanth named Sportspersons of the Year in Male and Female Categories.
2. ______________ Coach Pullela Gopichand adjudged ‘best coach’.
3. Indian Women’s Hockey Team got ‘Team of the Year’ title.

Tennis Badminton Cricket Table Tennis None of These

13. ____________ Football Player forward Mohamed Salah is named Player of the Year by England’s Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA) ?

Iranian Turkish British Russian Egyptian

14. F1 Grand Prix Races in April 2018 -

1. Bahrain Grand Prix - Ferrari’s German Racer Sebastian Vettel
2. Azerbaijan Grand Prix - Mercedes’ British driver Lewis Hamilton
3. Chinese Grand Prix - Red Bull’s _____________ Racer Daniel Ricciardo

Australian French Russian German None of These

15. Indian Cricketers Virat Kohli and _________________respectively were named as Wisden’s leading male cricketer and standout female cricketer of the year. England's Female Cricketers Heather Knight, Anya Shrubsole and Natalie Sciver are also named among Wisden's five cricketers of the year.

Harmanpreet Kaur Smrityi Madana Jhulan Goswami Mithali Raj None of These

16. Indian tennis’ Player Leander Paes became most successful doubles player in history of ______________, after he won his record 43rd title along with Rohan Bopanna.

Thomas Cup Wimbeldon Davis Cup French Open None of These

17. International Cricket Council (ICC) approved granting International status to all Twenty20 matches between Member Nations. It is a part of wider strategic aim of using the T20 format to globalize the game. All Member women’s teams will be awarded T20I status on 1 ___________, 2018, whilst all Member men’s teams will be awarded T20I status on 1 January 2019.

June July September October None of These

18. International Shooting Sport Federation ISSF World Cup 2018 Leg 2 (Changwon, _____________) -

1. India could win 1 Silver medal at ISSF WC Leg 2, won by Shahzar Rizvi in 10 metre men's air pistol.
2. In ISSF World Cup 2018 Leg 1 in Guadalajara (Mexico), India topped medal tally with 4 Gold, 1 Silver and 4 bronze medals (9 Medals).
3. India's Total Medal Tally in ISSF WC 2018 stands at 10 Medals, as of now. Medal Tally after Leg 2 looks like -

4. Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
   1	China	6	4	2	12
   2	United States	5	1	3	9
   3	India	4	2	4	10
   4	Russia	3	2	0	5
   5	Finland	2	0	1	3

China South Korea Japan Vietnam None of These

19. ____________ won their sixth Santosh Trophy Football title, defeating Bengal.

Odisha Andhra Pradesh Karnataka Kerala None of These

20. _____________ became first Indian male badminton player to attain world number 1 ranking, since Prakash Padukone in 1980s.

Kidambi Srikkanth H S Prannoy Yuki Bhambri Pullela Gopichand None of These

21. Mario Abdo Benítez has been elected as New president of South American Nation __________ ?

Paraguay Uruguay Chile Brazil None of These

22. Miami Open Tennis 2018 (USA) -

1. Men’s Singles - John Isner (_____________)
2. Women’s Singles - Sloane Stephens (USA)
3. Men’s Doubles - Mike Bryan (USA), Bob Bryan (USA)
4. Women’s Doubles - CoCo Vandeweghe (USA), Ashleigh Barty (Australia)

Russia USA France Spain None of These

23. Misc. Sports Events (April 2018) -

1. 17th Sub-junior National Wushu Championships held in Jammu.
2. India defeated Bangladesh to win fifth South East Asian Women Handball Championship, in Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh).
3. India’s Selena Selvakumar and Shreya Shivakumar won 2 bronze medals at 2018 Ivory Coast Junior and Cadet Open Table Tennis Tournament in Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire).
4. 8th South Asian Judo Championships held in Lalitpur (Nepal). India won 10 Gold medals and stayed on top. India won all 7 Gold medals in Women's events and men won 4 Gold medals. Next South Asian Judo Championships will be held in Bangladesh.
5. 16th Federation Cup Junior National athletics championships held at Coimbatore (Tamilnadu). This meet will serve as selections trials for 18th Asian Junior Athletic Meet to be held at Gifu (Japan) in June.
6. Asian Armwrestling Championships and Para Armwrestling Championships 2018 held in ______________. India's Differently-abled Indian arm wrestler Shrimant Jha won a bronze medal in 80kg senior category.
7. India will host Asian Weightlifting Championship in 2019.
8. Iindia’s CA Bhavani Devi won silver medal in sabre event of Tournoi World Cup Satellite Fencing Championship in Reykjavik (Iceland).
9. 56th Belgrade International Boxing Championship held at Belgrade in Serbia. Indian boxers won 3 gold, 5 silver and 5 bronze medals.

Uzbekistan Turkmenistan Tajikistan Kazakhstan None of These

24. Monterrey Open Women's Tennis 2018 (Mexico) -

1. Women's singles - Garbiñe Muguruza (________________)
2. Women's doubles - Naomi Broady (United Kingdom) & Sara Sorribes Tormo (Spain)

Germany Italy France Russia Spain

25. _____________ Football Arena will host inaugural edition of 4 nation Intercontinental Cup to be held in June 2018 and will see participation of South Africa, New Zealand and Chinese Taipei.

Kolkata Guwahati Mumbai Bhbaneswar None of These

26. XXI (21st) Commonwealth Games 2018, Held at Gold Coast, Queensland Country (_______________) -

1. About -
   1. Motto - Share theDream.
   2. 4426 Athletes from 71 Commonwealth Nations participated in 275 Events of 19 sports.
   3. Borobi is Official mascot of 2018 Commonwealth Games. Borobi is a blue koala, with indigenous markings on its body.
2. Medal Tally -

   1. Rank	CGA	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
      1	Australia	80	59	59	198
      2	England	45	45	46	136
      3	India	26	20	20	66
      4	Canada	15	40	27	82
      5	New Zealand	15	16	15	46
      6	South Africa	13	11	13	37
      7	Wales	10	12	14	36
      8	Scotland	9	13	22	44
      9	Nigeria	9	9	6	24
      10	Cyprus	8	1	5	14

3. India at CWG 2018 -
   1. PV Sindhu was flag-bearer of Indian contingent for opening ceremony.
   2. India Finished 3rd with 66 Medals (26 Gold, 20 Silver and 20 Bronze), better than 5th Place India had in 2014 CWG Games in Glasgow (Scotland) with 64 Medals (15 G, 30 S, 19 B).
   3. Indian Gold Medalists at CWG 2018 -
      1. Saikhom Mirabai Chanu - Weightlifting Women's 48 kg
      2. Khumukcham Sanjita Chanu - Weightlifting Women's 53 kg
      3. Sathish Sivalingam - Weightlifting Men's 77 kg
      4. Ragala Venkat Rahul - Weightlifting Men's 85 kg
      5. Punam Yadav - Weightlifting Women's 69 kg
      6. Manu Bhaker - Shooting Women's 10 metre air pistol
      7. Table tennis Women's team (Manika Batra, Mouma Das,Sutirtha Mukherjee,Madhurika Patkar, Pooja Sahasrabudhe )
      8. Jitu Rai - Shooting Men's 10 metre air pistol
      9. Table tennis Men's team (Sharath Achanta, Anthony Amalraj, Harmeet Desai, Sanil Shetty, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran)
      10. Badminton Mixed team (Pranav Chopra, Prannoy Kumar, Saina Nehwal, Ashwini Ponnappa, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, Sikki Reddy, Chirag Shetty, Gadde Ruthvika, Shivani, P V Sindhu, Kidambi Srikanth)
      11. Heena Sidhu - Shooting Women's 25 metre pistol
      12. Shreyasi Singh - Shooting Women's double trap
      13. Rahul Aware - Wrestling Men's freestyle 57 kg
      14. Sushil Kumar - Wrestling Men's freestyle 74 kg
      15. Tejaswini Sawant - Shooting Women's 50m rifle 3 positions
      16. Anish Bhanwala - Shooting Men's 25 metre rapid fire pistol
      17. Bajrang Punia - Wrestling Men's freestyle 65 kg
      18. Mary Kom - Boxing Women's light flyweight 48 kg
      19. Sanjeev Rajput - Shooting Men's 50m rifle 3 positions
      20. Gaurav Solanki - Boxing Men's flyweight 52 kg
      21. Neeraj Chopra - Athletics Men's javelin throw
      22. Sumit Malik - Wrestling Men's freestyle 125 kg
      23. Vinesh Phogat - Wrestling Women's freestyle 50 kg
      24. Manika Batra - Table tennis Women's singles
      25. Vikas Krishan Yadav - Boxing Men's middleweight 75 kg
      26. Saina Nehwal - Badminton Women's singles (Beating India's P V Sindhu)

Australia UK Russia Netherlands None of These

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