Sports Current Affairs Quiz - November 2018

1. 2018 Rolex Paris Masters Tennis Title -

1. Singles - Karen Khachanov (___________________________)
2. Doubles - Rajeev Ram (USA) AND Marcel Granollers (Spain)

2. 34th National Junior Athletics Championships 2018 held in Ranchi (_____________________).

3. 8th Asian Shotgun Championship held in ____________________. Angad Vir Singh Bajwa won gold medal by setting world record score in men’s skeet final. He became first Indian skeet shooter to win continental or world level event.

4. Alexander Zverev (___________________) won ATP World Tour finals in London, defeating Novak Djokovic (Serbia). He became first player to beat both Djokovic and Federer in same ATP Finals.

5. __________________ Footballer Lionel Messi named La Liga Player of the Year for 6th time. England player Bobby Robson received FIFA’s fair play award, while presidential award for contributions to football and society went to Jordan’s Queen Rania.

6. __________________ won ICC Women’s World Twenty20 Cricket title, defeating England . This is ________________’s 4th title win at Women’s World T20 in 6 editions of the tournament. West Indies hosted the event.

7. Croatia defeated ____________________ to 2018 Davis Cup Tennis Tournament, as 2nd title for Croatia.

8. _______________________ won 2018 Fed Cup Tennis Trophy for 6th time in eight years, defeating defending champion USA.

9. Former Indian crickcter ___________________ formally inducted into ICC Cricket Hall of Fame, as 5th Indian to receive this honour.  The other four Indians are Bishan Singh Bedi, Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev and Anil Kumble.

10. Fuzhou China Badminton Open 2018 -

1. Men’s Singles - Kento Momota (______________)
2. Women’s Singles - Chen Yufei (China)
3. Men’s Doubles - Marcus Fernaldi Gideon Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo (Indonesia)
4. Women’s Doubles - Lee So-hee, Shin Seung-chan (South Korea)

11. Hong Kong Badminton Open 2018 -

1. Men's Singles - Son Wan-ho (__________________)
2. Women's Singles - Nozomi Okuhara (Japan)
3. Men's Doubles - Indonesia's Marcus Fernaldi Gideon AND Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo
4. Women's Doubles - Japan's Yuki Fukushima AND Sayaka Hirota
5. Mixed Doubles - Japan's Yuta Watanabe AND Arisa Higashino

12. India and 6 other members of South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) pulled out of ____________________________ led-South West Asian Football Federation (SWAFF). Other are Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives, Sri Lanka and Pakistan.

13. India’s Ankita Raina and Karman Kaur Thandi won doubles title at Taipei Open Women's Tennis 2018. In final, they defeated Russian pair of Olga Doroshina and Natela Dzalamidze. This marks first WTA title for an Indian since Sania Mirza, success came on WTA Tour and Grand Slam stage.

1. In Singles, ___________________’s Luksika Kumkhum won by defeating Sabine Lisicki (Germany).

14. India’s Badminton Player Lakshya Sen won bronze medal in BWF World junior badminton championship at Markham (______________). He was defeated by Thailand’s Vitidsarn.

1. Boys' Singles title was won by Kunlavut Vitidsarn (Thailand), while Girls' Singles title won by Goh Jin Wei (Malaysia).

15. India’s Sameer Verma won Syed Modi India Grand Prix Gold badminton title 2018 in men’s singles category, held In Lucknow (____________). He defeated China’s Lu Guangzu. Women’s singles title won by China’s Han Yue, defeating India’s Saina Nehwal.

16. India’s junior shooters won total 11 medals (4 gold, 5 silver and 2 bronze), at 11th Asian Air Gun championships held in Kuwait City (____________).

17. International Cricket Council (ICC) renamed ICC World T20 as ICC T20 World Cup. Next edition of events in 2020 in _______________ will be known as ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2020 and ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2020.

18. F1 Races in November 2018 -

• Mercedes Racer Lewis Hamilton (________) won Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and Brazilian Grand Prix.

19. Misc. Sporting Events (November 2018) -

1. Indian Cricketer Rohit Sharma became 1st to score 4 T20I Centuries, after his knock against West Indies.
2. Badminton Player Subhankar Dey won SaarLorLux Open at Saarbrucken in ____________________________, defeating Rajiv Ouseph of Britain.
3. Simone Biles (US) became first gymnast to win 13 world championship gold medals, by winning her 13th gold medal at world gymnastics championships in Doha (Qatar).
4. Newly-built Ekana International Stadium of Lucknow renamed after former PM Late Atal Bihari Vajpayee, to be known as Bharat Ratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee International Cricket Stadium.
5. Qatar will host 23rd World Corporate Games 2019, for corporations around world to showcase their competitive prowess through sports. This is the first time the World Corporate Games will be held in Middle East.
6. India won bronze medal in the SAFF U-15 Football Championship at Nepal.
7. India entered into Division B final of FIBA U-18 women’s Asian championship held at Bengaluru, defeating Hong Kong. India is to face Kazakhstan for its promotion to Division A.
8. Indian wrestler Bajrang Punia achieved number one rank in world in 65kg category, with 96 points in UWW list.
9. Harmanpreet Kaur became first ever Indian female Cricketer to hit a hundred in T20I cricket, achieving it against New Zealand in Women’s World T20 2018 in West Indies.
10. Thailand’s Luksika Kumkhum won first WTA Tennis title in L&T Mumbai Open in Mumba. In Doubles, Natela Dzalamidze and Veronika Kudermetova of Russia won the title.
11. All India Football Federation (AIFF) and State government of Odisha signed MoU, to host National team camps and become home of I-League side Indian Arrows.
12. India U-19 cricketer Saurabh Netravalkar has been appointed captain of United States national cricket team.
13. 62nd National Shotgun championship held at Jaipur (Rajasthan).
14. India’s Pankaj Advani won his third straight IBSF billiards crown in 150-up format, defeating Nay Thway Oo of Myanmar in final.
15. Kashmiri student Aabid Hamid won gold medal at World Kick Boxing Championships in Argentina.
16. Indian Chess Maestro Viswanathan Anand won inaugural Tata Steel Chess India Blitz Tournament in Kolkata.
17. 59th edition of Subroto Cup International Football Tournament held in New Delhi, won by Bangladesh Krida Shiksha Prothishtan (BKSP) by defeating Amini School (Afghanistan).
18. Indian gymnasts Prins Aris and Rejilesh Suribabu won two bronze medals in Acrobatic Gymnastics World Cup In Baku (Azerbaijan).
19. Indian Gymnast Dipa Karmakar won bronze medal in vault event in Artistic Gymnastics World Cup in Cottbus (Germany).
20. Known as Oscars of sports, Laureus World Sports Awards 2019 will be held in Monaco on February 18, 2019.
21. 47 years old Indian Cricketer Pravin Tambe became first player to pick up a hat-trick in history of cricket’s newest format T-10 League. Playing for Sindhis, He achieved this against Kerala Knights.
22. 62nd National Shooting Championships Held in Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala).
23. Cricket Administrator BCCI Increased Ban duration for Age Related Frauds, from 1 to 2 years.
24. Abhinav Bindra (India’s Olympic gold medal-winning shooter) became first Indian to be honoured with Blue Cross by International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF). Blue Cross is the highest laurel for shooters given by ISSF.
25. India’s Manav Thakkar won bronze medal in U-21 Men’s singles category in International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Challenge Belgosstrakh Belarus Open in Minsk (Belarus).

20. Netherlands won its seventh Women’s Hockey Champions Trophy, held in Changzhou (________________), defeating Australia.

21._________________’s Magnus Carlsen retained his title as World Chess Champion beating US opponent Fabiano Caruana, at World Chess Championships in London (UK).

22. ______________ became first cricketer to score 11000 runs in Domestic Cricket Tournament Ranji Trophy.

23. Women’s World Boxing Championships 2018 Held in ____________________, as 10th edition of the tournament.

1. 277 Players from 62 nations participated.
2. Medal Table -

   1. Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
      1	China (CHN)	4	1	0	5
      2	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	2	0	0	2
      3	India (IND)	1	1	2	4
      4	North Korea (PRK)	1	0	2	3
      5	Germany (GER)	1	0	1	2

3. Indian Medallists -
   1. Gold -
      1. Mary Kom became India’s only six-time world boxing champion after defeating Hanna Okhota of Ukraine.
   2. Silver -
      1. Sonia Chahal won silver medal after losing to Germany’s OG Wahner in 57-kg category.
   3. Bronze -
      1. Simranjit Kaur (64kg)
      2. Lovlina Borgohain (69kg)

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