Sports Current Affairs Quiz - July 2017

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1. 2017 Aegon International Eastbourne Tennis Title (UK) -

  1. Men's Singles - Novak Djokovic (___________)
  2. Women's Singles - KarolIna Pliskova (Czech Republic)
  3. Men's Doubles - USA's Bob Bryan AND Mike Bryan
  4. Women's Doubles - Chan Yung-jan (Chinese Taipei) AND Martina Hingis (Switzerland)
Serbia
Switzerland
Bolivia
Lithunia
None of These


2. 2017 US Open Grand Prix Gold Badminton title -

  1. Men's singles -______________  (India) (Defeated India's Kashyap Parupalli)
  2. Women's singles - Aya Ohori (Japan) (Defeated Canada's Michelle Li)
  3. Men's doubles - Japan's Takuto Inoue AND Yuki Kaneko
  4. Women's doubles - South Korea's Lee So-hee AND Shin Seung-chan
  5. Mixed doubles - South Korea's Seo Seung-jae AND Kim Ha-na

 

Kidambi Srikkanth
Sourabh Verma
H. S. Prannoy
Ajay Jayaram
None of These


3. 2017 WSF-World junior squash championships held in Tauranga (______________). Indian Team finished 6th in girl’s team event ?

USA
UK
Russia
New Zealand
None of These


4. 22nd Asian Athletics Championships held at Kalinga Stadium of Bhubaneshwar (_________________)

  1. India topped medal tally for first time in the history of Asian Athletics Championships. India's medal tally stood at 29 medals (12 gold, 5 silver, 12 bronze). China came second with 20 Medals (8 gold, 7 silver, 5 bronze). Kazakhstan 3rd with 8 Medals and Iran 4th with 5 medals.
Assam
Bihar
Chhattisgarh
Jharkhand
Odisha


5. 57th National Inter State Senior Athletics Championships organized by _______________ Athletics Association at Guntur ?

Telangana
Kerala
Andhra Pradesh
Karnataka
None of These


6. 7th Edition of Kamada Kinkar Mukherjee Rural Football Tournament held in Murshidabad (______________) ?

West Bengal
Uttarakhand
Haryana
Himachal Pradesh
None of These


7. ATP Atlanta title Tennis Tournament (___________) -

  1. Men's Singles - John Isner (USA)
  2. Men’s doubles - Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan (USA)
UK
USA
Russia
Spain
None of These


8. Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Competition Committee chosesn _____________ as host of AFC Under-19 Championship 2018 ?

Indonesia
Thailand
Malaysia
Japan
None of These


9. Asian Youth and Junior Weightlifting Championships held at Kathmandu (__________).

  1. India won 4 medals in this championship - 1 Gold and 3 Bronze.
  2. Bronze - Ajay Singh, S. Nirpupama Devi and Lovepreet Singh.
  3. Gold - Konsam Ormila
Nepal
Bangladesh
Sri Lanka
Bhutan
None of These


10. __________ Boxer Jeff Horn Defeated Manny Pacquiao (Philippines) to win WBO world welterweight title ?

Russian
Spanish
French
Australian
None of These


11. _____________ has been appointed Indian Cricket Team's bowling coach until 2019 World Cup. Sanjay Bangar has been appointed assistant coach and R Sridhar as fielding coach till 2019 ODI World Cup ?

Ravi Shastri
Venkatesh Prasad
Sanjay Manjrekar
Bharat Arun
None of These


12. Canadian Swimmer Kylie Masse has set up a new 100m backstroke world gold during world aquatics championships in Budapest (________________) by completing in 58.10 seconds. Caeleb Dressel of USA also made headlines by becoming first swimmer to win 3 gold medals on a single night at 2017 FINA World Aqatics Championships in Budapest (Hungary).

Norway
Hungary
Switzerland
Serbia
None of These


13. ______________ won ICC Women's World Cup 2017 (their 4th ICC Women's WC Title) with final held at Lord's (London) by defeating India in Final. India captain Mithali Raj named as Captain of the ICC Women’s World Cup 2017 team by International cricket Council (ICC). Harmanpreet Kaur and Deepti Sharma were other two Indians included in ICC’s team.

South Africa
West Indies
New Zealand
Australia
England


14. Ferrari Racer Sebastian Vettel (___________) won Hungarian Grand Prix  ?

Germany
Russia
Spain
France
None of These


15. Former Indian Cricketer _________ has named as brand ambassador of Indian Indoor Cricket Team for 10th World Indoor Cricket Federation (WICF) World Cup to be held in September 2017 in Dubai ?

Sanjay Manjrekar
Ravi Shastri
Sanjay Bangar
Sandeep Patil
None of These


16. Former Pakistan Cricketer Misbah-ul-Haq honoured with Honorary Life Membership by ________________'s Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) ?

South Africa
USA
England
Australia
None of These


17. Former professional Indian tennis player ____________ has been appointed to lead a Centre of Excellence at Delhi Lawn Tennis Association (DLTA)?

Mahesh Bhupathi
Somdev Devvarman
Leander Paes
Sania Mirza
None of These


18. Germany won First FIFA Confederation Cup Football title by defeating Chile in St Petersburg (__________) ?

Germany
Russia
USA
UK
None of These


19. India at recent sports events -

  1. Indian boxers won 8 Medals (5 G, 2 S, 1 B) at Czech Republic Boxing Tournament.
  2. India won 24 medals at Jordan Junior and Cadet Open table tennis tournament.
  3. India defeated _________ to win FIBA Women’s Asia Cup’s Division B Basketball title in Bengaluru.
  4. India finished 7th in 6th Youth Commonwealth Games held at Bahamas, with total 11 medals (4 gold, 1 silver and 6 bronze). England topped medal list with 51 medals, followed by Australia (39 medals).
  5. India team (consisting of Pankaj Advani and Laxman Rawat) won Asian Team Snooker Championship in Kyrgyzstan, by defeating Pakistan.
  6. India won 3 medals (1 gold) in Asian Cadet Judo Championships organized in Kyrgyzstan.
Uzbekistan
Turkmenistan
Kyrgyzstan
Kazakhstan
None of These


20. Indian Damneet Singh won India’s Only medal (silver in hammer throw) at IAAF World U18 Championships held in Nairobi (___________) ?

Kenya
Niger
Nigeria
Spain
None of These


21. Indian woman badminton player __________ won singles title in Ivory Coast International badminton tournament. While, Ritika Thaker and Simran Singhi won women’s doubles title ?

Ritika Thaker
Jwala Gutta
Saina Nehwal
P V Sindhu
None of These


22. India’s Harinder Pal Sandhu won South Australian Open squash title by defeating Rhys Dowling of _________ ?

USA
Australia
UK
Spain
None of These


23. International Boxing Association (AIBA) announced that India will host their first Men’s World Championship in ______________. AIBA Men’s World Championships 2019 will be held in Sochi (Russia). 2018 Women’s World Championships will be held in Delhi.

2020
2019
2018
2021
None of These


24. International Swimming Federation (FINA) announced that __________ city of Kazan and Hungarian city Budapest will host 2022, 2024 Short Course Swimming Championships respectively ?

French
Spanish
American
German
Russian


25. Jehan Daruvala became first Indian Racing driver to win in FIA Formula 3 European Championship held in ___________ ?

Russia
Spain
Germany
France
None of These


26. Karnataka’s Manudev won first National Masters snooker tournament title in Chennai (_________________) ?

Tamil Nadu
Kerala
Karnataka
Goa
None of These


27. Lagos International challenge Badminton Title -

  1. Men's singles - ___________ (India)
  2. Women's singles - Thilini Pramodika Hendahewa (Sri Lanka)
  3. Men's doubles - India's Manu Attri and B. Sumeeth Reddy
  4. Women's doubles - Sri Lanka's Thilini Pramodika Hendahewa and Ishadika Kavidi
  5. Mixed doubles - Israel's Misha Zilberman and Svetlana Zilberman
H S Prannoy
Rahul Yadav Chittaboina
Kidambi Srikkath
Parupalli Kashyap
None of These


28. Los Angeles (USA) formally announced its bid for 2028 Summer Olympics, paving way for ___________ to host 2024 Summer Olympics.

Berlin
London
Paris
New Delhi
None of These


29. _________ became first Indian batsman to hit 200 sixes in One Day International (ODI) cricket ?

Gauta Gambhir
Ajinkya Rahane
Rohit Sharma
Virat Kohli
M S Dhoni


30. __________ Government launched Mission Football in Shillong, aimed at nurturing Footballing talent in state.?

Assam
Nagaland
Meghalaya
Tripura
None of These


31. Mercedes Driver Lewis Hamilton (Britain) won British Grand Prix  and Mercedes Driver Valtteri Bottas (___________) won Austrian Grand Prix ?

Russia
Norway
Spain
Finland
None of These


32. Mohun Bagan FC awards 2017 -

  1. Subrata Bhattacharya - Mohun Bagan Ratna
  2. Best Football Player of the Year - Balwant Singh
  3. Best Cricket Player of the Year - Debabrata Das
  4. Lifetime Achievement - Shyam Sundar Mitra
  5. India Women’s ________ team player Jhulan Goswami honored by a special award
Football
Cricket
Basketball
Volleyball
None of These


33. Noted _______ Footballer Francesco Totti announced his retirement ?

Italian
Russian
German
French
None of These


34. _______ government signed MOU with International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and Athletics Federation of India (AFI) to establish a High-Performance Academy in Bhubaneswar ?

Chhattisgarh
Jharkhand
Bihar
Sikkim
Odisha


35. ________ Golfer Atthaya Thitikul became youngest winner on Ladies European Tour as She defeated Ana Menendez of Mexico. ?

Malaysia
Thailnd
Russia
Indonesia
None of These


36. This year, Chennai will not host India’s lone ATP tour tournament - Chennai Open 2017. It will now be held in __________ and called Maharashtra Open. ?

Pune 
Mumbai
Nashik
Nagpur
None of These


37. Updated FIFA world football rankings have ranked Indian national football at _________ spot, best position for India in 29 years. ?

56th
66th
76th
86th
96th


38. Wimbeldon Tennis Tournemnt 2017 (UK) -

  1. Men's Singles - Roger Federer (________________________) (Defeated Croatia's Marin Čilić). It is federer's 8th Wimbeldon and 19th Grand Slam Title.
  2. Women's Singles - Garbiñe Muguruza (Spain) (Defeated USA's Venus Williams)
  3. Men's Doubles - Lukasz Kubot (Poland) AND Marcelo Melo (Brazil)
  4. Women's Doubles - Russian Pair of Ekaterina Makarova AND Elena Vesnina
  5. Mixed Doubles - Jamie Murray (UK) AND Martina Hingis (Switzerland)
Switzerland
Russia
Serbia
USA
None of These


39. World Para Athletics Championships 2017 held in London (United Kingdom).

  1. 1074 Athletes from 92 Nations participated in 213 events.
  2. India ended at ______________ Place with 5 Medals, best ever performance by India in Para Athletics Championships. For India, Sundar Singh Gurjar claimed gold medal in men’s javelin throw event. There were 2 Silver and 2 Bronze Medals.
    1. Silver - Sharad Kumar (High Jump), Amit Saroha (Club Throw)
    2. Bronze - Varun Bhati (High Jump), Karamjyoti Dalal (Discus throw)
  3. Medal Table -
    Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
    1  China 30 17 18 65
    2  United States 20 19 20 59
    3  Great Britain 18 8 13 39
    4  Ukraine 12 6 11 29
    5  Australia 11 9 8 28
24th
34th
14th
54th
None of These




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