Sports Current Affairs Quiz - June 2017

1. ‚ ISSF Junior World Championship 2017 held in Suhl (_____________) -

1. India finished 2nd at ISSF Junior World Championship with 3 gold, 2 silver and 3 bronze medals . Gold Medals - Anish Bhanwala, Yashaswini Singh and a Team Event.
2. China topped tally with 19 medals, including eight gold.

Germany Poland Switzerland Russia None of These

2. 2017 Aegon Ilkley Tennis Trophy (UK)

1. Men's Singles - Mrton Fucsovics (___________)
2. Women's Singles - Magdal©na Rybrikov (Slovakia)
3. Men's Doubles - Leander Paes (India) AND Adil Shamasdin (Canada)
4. Women's Doubles - Anna Blinkova (Russia) AND Alla Kudryavtseva (Russia)

Germany Poland Hungary Poland None of These

3. 2017 Forbes list of ‘The World’s 100 highest paid athletes’ -

1. Top 5 -
   1. Christiano Ronaldo (_____________) - Soccer (93 million USD)
   2. LeBron James (USA) - Basketball ($86.2 million)
   3. Lionel Messi (Argentina) - Football ($80 million)
   4. Roger Federer (Switzerland) - Tennis ($64 million)
   5. Kevin Durant (USA) - basketball ($60 million).
2. Indian cricket captain Virat Kohli is the sole Indian sportsperson to feature in List with Pay of $22 Million USD.
3. Tennis star Serena Williams with $27 Million USD Earnings is only female in list, ranked 51st.

Switzerland Poland Germay Portugal None of These

4. 2017 Junior Asian Championships concluded in China's Taiwan, with Indian Wrestlers winning _________ medals ?

2 44 23 33 13

5. 21st Federation Cup National Senior Athletics Championships held in Patiala (Punjab). It provided an opportunity to Indian athletes to qualify for Asian Athletics Championships to be held in Bhubaneswar (______________) in July 2017. Some notable events in these championships -

1. Sarita Singh (Uttar Pradesh) set a new national record in women’s hammer throw with 65.25m throw.
2. Javelin thrower Anu Rani smashed her own national record after throwing the spear to a 61.86m. She also qualified for World Championships to be held in London in August 2017.

Chhattisgarh Jharkhand Odisha West Bengal None of These

6. Asian Junior Tennis Championships held in Pune (____________) -

1. Indian Player Nitin Kumar Sinha defeated Malaysia's Christian Didier Chin to win boys singles title.
2. Dhanya Shah and Sanmay Gandhi won Under-14 doubles title.

Maharashtra Goa Gujarat Odisha None of These

7. Australian Open Badminton 2017 -

1. Men's Singles - Kidambi Srikanth (India) by defeating Chen Long (______________________). This is Kidambi Srikanth's Second Successive Super Series Win after Indonesian Open. He has jumped into BWF's Top 10 Male Players.
2. Women's Singles - Nozomi Okuhara (Japan)
3. Man'e Doubles - Japan 's Takeshi Kamura AND Keigo Sonoda
4. Women's Doubles - Japan's Misaki Matsutomo AND Ayaka Takahashi
5. Mixed Doubles - China's Zheng Siwei AND Chen Qingchen

Malaysia China Vietnam Thailand None of These

8. Bhumika Sharma from Uttarakhand won Miss World Title in bodybuilding championships held in Venice (_________________) ?

Italy Switzerland Poland Ireland None of These

9. ___________ mobile handset manufacturer Vivo retained Indian Premier League title sponsorship rights for next five seasons (2018-2022) with a winning bid of INR 2199 crores (approximately US $341 million).

Chinese Japanese Vietnamese South Korean None of These

10. Cricket ___________ announced to launch Its Twenty20 cricket league with name‚ T20 Global League, to start in last quarter of 2017.

Australia New Zealand Zimbabwe South Africa None of These

11. Cricket board for West Indies re-branded themselves as Cricket West Indies from former West Indies Cricket Board. Board also officially ranamed cricket team from now on as‚ ______________?

Carribea League West Indians Carribean WINDIES None of These

12. _________ won FIFA U-20 World Cup for first time ever, defeating Venezuela. It was hosted by South Korea. Note that India will host U-17 FIFA World Cup in 2017.

Portugal England Brazil Argentina None of These

13. Former Indian _________ captain Dhanraj Pillay would be conferred East Bengal football club's highest honour‚ Bharat Gaurav‚ at its foundation day on 1 August 2017. ?

Football Cricket Volleball Basket Ball Hockey

14. French Open Tennis 2017 -

1. Men's Singles - Rafael Nadal (_______________), won by defeating Stan Wawrinka (Switzerland). It is Nadal's Record 10th French Open and overall 15th Grand Slam Title. After This win, Nadal has been ranked 2nd globally, with UK's Andy Murray at top.
2. Women's Singles - Je„¼ena Ostapenko (Latvia), won by defeating Simona Halep (Romania)
3. Men's Doubles - Ryan Harrison (USA) AND Michael Venus (New Zealand)
4. Women's Doubles - Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA) AND Lucie  af„ov (Czech Republic)
5. Mixed Doubles - Gabriela Dabrowski (Canada) /AND‚ Rohan Bopanna (India)

Spain Russia France Germany None of These

15. Halle Open Men's Tennis Tournament (Also called Gerry Weber Open) -

1. Singles - Roger Federer (_____________) by Defeating Alexander Zverev (Germany)
2. Doubles - ukasz Kubot (Poland) AND Marcelo Melo (Brazil)

Luxembourg Lithunia Poland Switzerland None of These

16. ISSF Shooting World Cup 2017 Third Leg Held in Gabala (______________) -

1. Indian shooters Jitu Rai and Heena Sidhu won Gold Medal in mixed team 10m air pistol event, as India's Only Medal at ISSF Shooting World Cup 2017 Held in Gabala (Azerbaijan).
2. First Leg of ISSF Shooting World Cup 2017 was held in New Delhi in Feb - Mar 2017. Finals will also be held in India, in oct 2017. So far India has 6 Medals in ISSF Shooting World Cup 2017 tally. China is leading with 28 Medals

Iran Turkmenistan Azerbaijan Uzbekistan None of These

17. India won 6 medals in Wushu competition of first ever BRICS Games, concluded in Guangzhou (___________).

1. BRICS Games featured approx 300 athletes from 5 BRICS countries- Brazil, China, India, Russia and South Africa. There were 10 events in 3 sports ‚œ men’s basketball, women’s volleyball, and Wushu.

Brazil China Russia South Africa None of These

18. India's Shashikant Kutwal won gold medal at 17th World Individual Chess Championship for differently-abled, held in ______________ ?

Czech Republic Slovakia Slovenia Iceland None of These

19. India's Srinivas Gokulnath and‚ Amit Samarth‚ became first Indians to complete 4,900-km RAAM (_____________) in 18-59 age category. Among 9 persons who finish the race,‚ Gokulnath stood 7th while Samarth‚ finished 8. Race was won by Christoph Strasser ?

Rare Access America Rare Across America Rear Access America Race Across America None of These

20. Indian Boxer Ankush Dahiya won gold Medal and L Devendro Singh won silver medal at of Ulaanbaatar Cup boxing tournament in ________ ?

Mongolia China Japan Vietnam None of These

21. Indian Cricket Team created record for scoring most 300-plus totals in One Day International (ODI) Cricket, after they scored 310 Runs in an ODI against West Indies. India went past ________________’s record of 95 Times 300+ Scores in ODIs ?

Australia New Zealand South Africa Windies None of These

22. Indian men’s and women’s throwball teams won gold medals in World Games held at Kathmandu (_______________). Women’s team defeated Pakistan while men's team defeated Bangladesh ?

Myanmar Nepal Bhutan Bangladesh None of These

23. India’s __________ won ITF (International Tennis Federation) men’s Futures tennis title after defeating USA's Raymond Sarmiento in Singapore ?

Leander Paes Rohan Bopanna Mahesh Bhupathi Ramkumar Ramanathan None of These

24. India’s _____________ created record of becoming fastest Cricketer to score 8000 runs in ODI cricket. He went past South Africa’s AB de Villiers by achieving this Feat in 175 Innings. ?

Ajinkya Rahane M S Dhoni Rohit Sharma Cheteswar Pujara Virat Kohli

25. Indonesia Open Super Series Badminton 2017 -

1. Category	Winners
   Men's singles	‚ Srikanth Kidambi (India)‚ (Defeating ____________'s Kazumasa Sakai)
   Women's singles	‚ Sayaka Sato (Japan)
   Men's doubles	‚ Li Junhui‚ AND‚ Liu Yuchen (China)
   Women's doubles	‚ Chen Qingchen‚ AND‚ Jia Yifan (China)
   Mixed doubles	‚ Tontowi Ahmad‚ AND Liliyana Natsir (Indonesia)

China Vietnam Japan Malaysia None of These

26. International Cricket Council (ICC) conferred Test match status on Ireland and Afghanistan, taking number of test-playing nations to _________ ?

12 14 16 8 None of These

27. International Olympic Committee approved adding several new events‚ for 2020 Tokyo (_____________) Olympic Games. Tokyo Olympics would include‚ 321 events which is an increase from 306 events held at Rio 2016. ?

China Japan Vietnam Myanmar None of These

28. ____________ won AIFF player of year for 2016 while Sasmita Malik has been named as 2016 AIFF Women’s player of the year.

Sunil Chettri Mohun Bagan Jeje Lalpekhlua Subrata Pal None of These

29. Manika Batra and Mouma Das became first Indian pair to reach quarterfinals of World Table Tennis Championships held in Dusseldorf (__________) ?

Serbia Russia Poland Bolivia Germany

30. Mercedes' Driver Lewis Hamilton (____________) won Canadian Grand Prix‚ ?

Russia Serbia UK Poland None of These

31. ______________ Cricketer Luke Ronchi announced his retirement from international Cricket. ?

West Indian South Arican Australian Newzealander None of These

32. Noted ___________ spinner Muttiah Muralidaran inducted into ICC Cricket Hall of Fame ?

Bangladeshi Sri Lankan Afghan Nepali None of These

33. Pakistan defeated India to win 2017 Cricket ICC Champions Trophy hosted in _________. Pakistan’s Hasan Ali was declared Player of the Series ?

England South Africa Zimbabwe New Zealand None of These

34. __________ became first team to win back-to-back UEFA Champions League titles. This year they defeated Juventus. ?

Borussia Dortmund FC Bayern Munich FC Barcelona FC Manchester City FC Real Madrid FC

35. ________ Sprinter Wayde Van Niekerk broke World Record in 300m at Golden Spike Meet in Czech Republic by completing in 30.81 Seconds (previous record 30.85) ?

Jamaican South African Kenyan Nigerian None of These

36. Thailand Grand Prix Badminton 2017 -

1. Men's Singles -_____________(India)
2. Women's Singles - Ratchanok Intanon (Thailand)
3. Men's Doubles - Indonesian pair of Berry Angriawan and Hardianto
4. Women's Doubles - Indonesian pair of Greysia Polii and Apriyani Rahayu
5. Mixed Doubles - Chinese pair of He Jiting and Du Yue

B. Sai Praneeth Kidambi Srikkanth Prannoy Kumar Valiyavettil Diju None of These

37._____________'s Nguyen DucHoa won 10th Mumbai Mayor’s Cup International Open Chess Tournament by defeating India's Neelotpal Das ?

Laos Myanmar China Japan Vietnam

38. World ____________ Federation changed its name and Removed The word Federation from its name Officially ?

Taekwondo Table Tennis Badminton Tennis None of These

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