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National sport of some countries

Q 1. Which is the national game of Bhutan?
Answer:- Archery ( Tir andaji )

Q 2. Which is the national game of the United States of America?
Answer:- Baseball

Q 3. Which is considered the national game of India?
Answer:- Hockey

Q 4. The national game of Turkey is ........?
Answer:- Wrestling

Q 5. Which is the national game of Scotland?
Answer:- Rugby Football

Q 6. Which is the most popular game of Nepal?
Answer:- Volleyball

Q 7. Bull fighting is the national game of which country?
Answer:- Spain

Q 8. Ice hockey is the national game of which country?
Answer:- Canada

Q 9. Table tennis is the national game of which country?
Answer:- China

Q 10. Which is called the national recreational game of America?
Answer:- Baseball

Games and their origin countries

Q 11. Who started the game of Polo in India?
Answer:- Turkey

Q 12. In which state of India did the game of Polo originate?
Answer:- Manipur

Q 13. In which country did the game of Kabaddi originate?
Answer:- India

Q 14. Which country is called the originator of chess?
Answer:- India

Q 15. In which country did the game of cricket originate?
Answer:- England

Q 16. Which game has not originated in India?
Answer:- Billiards

Q 17. Which game has not originated in England?
Answer:- Volleyball

Number of players / method played

Q 18. How many players are there in a Kho-Kho team?
Answer:- 9

Q 19. What is the number of players in a side in water polo?
Answer:- 7

Q 20. How many players are there in a polo team?
Answer:- 4

Q 21. What is the number of players in each side in baseball?
Answer:- 9

Q 22. What is the number of players in each side in volleyball?
Answer:- 6

Q 23. How many players are there on each side in the game of basketball?
Answer:- 5 in a team

Q 24. What is the number of players in each side in Kabaddi?
Answer:- 7

Q 25. Which of the following games does not have 11 players on each side?
Answer:-  Kho-kho

Q 26. How many players are there on each side of football?
Answer:-  11

Q 27. How many players are there on each side of rugby football?
Answer:-  15

Q 28. Which game usually has the shortest duration?
Answer:-  Kabaddi

Q 29. What is the normal duration of an international football match?
Answer:-  90 minutes

Q 30. What is the normal duration of an international hockey match?
Answer:-  60 minutes

Q 31. In a boxing competition, there are three rounds of how many minutes each?
Answer:-  3 minutes each

Players and their nicknames

Q 32. Which player is called the magician of hockey?
Answer:- Major Dhyanchand

Q 33. Which player is known as Dada?
Answer:- Major Dhyanchand

Q 34. Who is known as Black Pearl in football?
Answer:- Pele

Q 35. Which Indian female athlete is known as Golden Girl and Flying Fairy?
Answer:- P.T. Usha

Q 36. Who is called Rawalpindi Express?
Answer:- Shoaib Akhtar

Q 37. Who is famous as Hollywood among cricket players?
Answer:-  Shane Warne

Q 38. Which international cricket umpire is known as Great Delayer?
Answer:-  Steve Bucknor

Q 39. Who is known as Dancing Umpire?
Answer:-  Billy Bowden

Q 40. Bombay Bomber is the nickname of which international cricketer?
Answer:-  Sachin Tendulkar

Q 41. Which Indian cricket player is known as Little Master?
Answer:-  Sunil Gavaskar

Q 42. What is the nickname of Indian cricket's pillar Rahul Dravid?
Answer:- Mr. Reliable/The Wall/Jamie

Q 43. What is the nickname of Indian cricketer Anil Kumble?
Answer:- Jumbo

Q 44. Who is known as Turbinator?
Answer:- Harbhajan Singh

Q 45. Who is known as Thorpedo?
Answer:- Ian Thorpe

Q 46. Who is called pole vaulter?
Answer:- Sergey Bukov

Q 47. By what other name is Milkha Singh known?
Answer:- The Flying Sikh

Sports and related sports complexes

Q 48. "Velodrome" is related to which sport?
Answer:- Cycling

Q 49. What is the complex for boxing called?
Answer:- Ring

Q 50. What is the sports complex for shooting and archery known as?
Answer:- Range

Q 51. What is the sports complex for horse riding known as?
Answer:- Arena

Q 52. What is the name of the place where skating is played?
Answer:- Ring

Q 53. What is the sports complex for ice hockey known as?
Answer:- Rink

Q 54. The sports complex for which sport is called "Diamond"?
Answer:- Baseball

Q 55. The sports complex for which sport is called "Course"?
Answer:- Golf

Q 56. What is the sports complex for swimming called?
Answer:- Pool

Measurements of various playing fields

Q 57. What is the length of a cricket pitch?
Answer:- 22 yards (20 meters)

Q 58. What is the circumference of a cricket ball?
Answer:- 22.4 cm - 22.9 cm

Q 59. What is the maximum length of a cricket bat?
Answer:- 38 inches

Q 60. What is the height of the stump from the ground in cricket?
Answer:- 28 inches

Q 61. What is the weight of a cricket ball?
Answer:- 159.9 grams to 163 grams

Q 62. What is the width of the goal post in football?
Answer:- 7.32 meters

Q 63. What is the width of the goal post in hockey?
Answer:- 3.66 meters

Q 64. What is the height of the net from the ground in badminton?
Answer:- 1.55 meters

Q 65. How many cross lenses are there in a Kho-Kho ground?
Answer:- 8

Q 66. Which game has the largest field size?
Answer:- Polo

Q 67. How much distance do you have to run in a marathon race?
Answer:- 42.915 kilometers

Q 68. From what distance is a penalty stroke hit in hockey?
Answer:- 8 yards (7.3 meters)

Q 69. What is the size of a polo field?
Answer:- 275 meters x 145 meters

Q 70. How many lanes are there in a swimming pool in Olympic Games?
Answer:-  8 lanes

Q 71. How many squares are there in a chess board?
Answer:- 64 squares

Q 72. What is the weight of a badminton cork?
Answer:- 4.74 to 5.51 grams

Major promoter of Indian culture

Q73. Who called himself the parrot of Hindustan?
Answer:- Amir Khusro

Q74. Where was Amir Khusro born?
Answer:- In Patiyali, Uttar Pradesh.

Q75. Whose disciple was Amir Khusro?
Answer:-  Nizamuddin Auliya

Q76. What was the real name of Amir Khusro?
Answer:- Muhammad Hasan

Q77. Amir Khusro was a poet in the court of which ruler?
Answer:- Alauddin Khilji

Q78. Who was the great Hindu law maker?
Answer:- Manu

Q79. Who is considered the founder of the Sufi community in India?
Answer:- Muinuddin Chishti

Q80. When was Prophet Muhammad born?
Answer:- In 570 A.D.

Q81. When was Guru Nanak Dev born?
Answer:- In 1469 A.D.

Q82.Whose teachings did Chaitanya receive?
Answer:- Bhakti

Q83.Guru Nanak's disciple "Lahna" later became famous by which name?
Answer:- Angad

Q84.Who was Tyagaraj?
Answer:- Musician

Q85.Who is known as "Magician of Sitar" in the world of music?
Answer:- Rahim Sen

Q86.What was the real name of Guru Nanak?
Answer:- Nanak

Q87.What was the original name of Tansen?
Answer:- Ramtanu Pandey

Q88.What was the real name of Gautam Buddha?
Answer:- Siddhartha

Q89.What was the real name of Swami Vivekananda?
Answer:- Narendra Dutt

Q90.What was the real name of Mirza Ghalib?
Answer:- Asadullah Khan

Q91. Who said – ‘Delhi is still far’?
Answer:- Nizamuddin Auliya

Q92. Who said – ‘Everyone remembers God in sorrow, no one does it in happiness’, who said this line?
Answer:- Kabirdas

Q93. Who said – ‘Ram and Rahim’ are two different names of the same God?
Answer:- Kabirdas

Q94. Who gave the slogan of ‘Return to the Vedas’?
Answer:- Swami Dayanand Saraswati

Q95. Whose disciple was Saint Kabir?
Answer:- Ramanand

Q96. Who was the Guru of Music Emperor Tansen?
Answer:- Haridas

Q97. Where was Guru Nanak Dev, the founder of Sikhism, born?
Answer:- In Talwandi

Q98. Who is the tenth and last Guru of Sikhism?
Answer:- Guru Gobind Singh

Q99. Where was Guru Gobind Singh born?
Answer:- In Patna Sahib

Q100. Where was Prophet Muhammad, the founder of Islam, born?
Answer:- In Mecca

Q101. Where was Gautam Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, born?
Answer:- In Lumbini, in 563 AD

Science (Biology)

Q102. Who used the word 'Biology' first?
Answer:- Lamarck and Treviranis used the word 'Biology' first

Q103. Who is called the father of biology?
Answer:-- Arastoo is called the father of science.

Q104. Who is the father of botany?
Answer:- Theophrastus is the father of botany

Q105. Who is the father of medical science?
Answer:- Hippocrates is the father of medical science.

Q106. What is studied in Phycology?
Answer:- Algae are studied in Phycology.

Q107. In what field is the environment studied?
Answer:- Environment is studied in Ecology.

Q108. The study of flowers is called -
Answer:-- The study of flowers is called Anthology

Q109. What is studied in Spermology?
Answer:- Seeds are studied in Spermology.

Q110. What is studied in Agrostology?
Answer:- Grasses are studied in Agrostology

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