General knowledge

Sports related quiz

1. 
   An avereage soccer player can run almost 5 to 7 miles in a whole ninty minutes of a socer game.
   
2. 
   Holes in a golf course must be 4.25 inches in diameter, and at least 4 inches deep and a standard golf course contains 18 holes between 100 and 600 yards length.
   
3. 
   In tennis there are most numbers of officials compare to the number of players like in tennis tournaments there are 13 officials in regards of two players.
   
4. 
   The spots on dice are called “pips. And the word ‘pip’ commonly used for a ‘spot’ or a ‘speck’.
   
5. 
   Try to add all the numbers on a roulette wheel which is usually played in the casinoand cosidered as easiest casion game, that is 1through 36, you get ’666′, the biblical number of fallen man.
   
6. 
   The world’s highest cricket ground is in Chail (HP), India, which has highest altitude of 2250 Meter of above sea level.
   
7. 
   Since 1896 from the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia are the pnly two nations whose athletes have taken parts in every Olympic Games.
   
8. 
   In 1935, Jesse Owens broke 4 world records in 45 minutes
   
9. 
   Fishing is the biggest participant sports in the world.
   
10. 
    Soccer is the most attended or watched sport in the world.
    
11. 
    Boxing became a legal sport in 1901.
    
12. 
    More than 100 million people hold hunting licences.
    
13. 
    The record for the most major league baseball career innings is held by Cy Young, with 7,356 innings.
    
14. 
    The first instance of global electronic communications took place in 1871 when news of the Derby winner was telegraphed from London to Calcutta in under 5 minutes.
    
15. 
    In 1898, one of the first programmes to be broadcasted on radio was a yacht race that took place in British waters.
    
16. 
    Sports command the biggest television audiences, led by the summer Olympics, World Cup Football and Formula One racing.
    
17. 
    Korfball is the only sport played with mixed teams, consisting of 4 men and 4 women.
    
18. 
    The Major League Baseball teams use about 850,000 balls per season.
    
19. 
    About 42,000 tennis balls are used in the plus-minus 650 matches in the Wimbledon Championship.
    
20. 
    A baseball ball has exactly 108 stitches, a cricket ball has between 65 and 70 stiches.
    
21. 
    A soccer ball is made up of 32 leather panels, held together by 642 stitches.
    
22. 
    The baseball home plate is 17 inches wide.
    
23. 
    Basketball and rugby balls are made from synthetic material. Earlier, pigs’ bladders were used as rugby balls.
    
24. 
    Golf the only sport played on the moon – on 6 February 1971 Alan Shepard hit a golf ball.
    
25. 
    Bill Klem served the most seasons as major league umpire – 37 years, starting in 1905. He also officated 18 World Series.
    
26. 
    The oldest continuous trophy in sports is the America’s Cup. It started in 1851, with Americans winning for a straight 132 years until Australia took the Cup in 1983.
    
27. 
    Volleyball was invented by William George Morgan of Holyoke, Massachusetts in 1895.
    
28. 
    A badminton shuttle easily travels 180 km/h (112 mph).
    
29. 
    Ferenc Szisz from Romania, driving a Renault, won the first Formula One Grand Prix held at Le Mans, France in 1906.
    

Since then, the Commonwealth Games have been held every four years, except for the period during the Second World War. The Games have been known by various names such as the British Empire Games, Friendly Games and British Commonwealth Games. Since 1978, they have been known as the Commonwealth Games. Originally having only single competition sports, the 1998 Commonwealth Games at Kuala Lumpur saw a major change when team sports such as cricket, hockey and netball made their first appearance.

In 2001, the Games Movement adopted the three values of Humanity, Equality and Destiny as the core values of the Commonwealth Games. These values inspire and connect thousands of people and signify the broad mandate for holding the Games within the Commonwealth.

After Olympics, Commonwealth Games is the second largest sports festival in the world. The Games are held once in four years but only in between the Olympic years. The Games were originally known as the British Empire Games. The first Commonwealth Games were held in 1930 at Hamilton, Canada. The 10th Commonwealth Games were held at Christchurch, New Zealand in 1974, the 11th in Edmonton (Canada) in 1978, the 12th in Brisbane (Australia) in 1982, the 13th in Edinburgh (Scotland) in 1986, the 14th in Auckland (New Zealand) in 1990 and the 15th in Victoria (Canada) in 1994, where about 3,350 athletes from a record 64 nations (including South Africa, which joined the family of Commonwealth athletes after 36 years) participated. Namibia also, which gained its independence in 1990, made its debut while Hong Kong made its final appearance in the Games before being ceded to China in 1997.

India played a leading role to organise sports festival for Asian countries on Olympic lines. 'Ever Onward' is the motto of the Asian Games and 'a bright full rising sun with interlocking rings' is its emblem. The first Asian Games were held at New Delhi in 1951 followed by Manila, Philippines (1954); Tokyo, Japan (1958); Jakarta, Indonesia (1962); Bangkok, Thailand (1966, 1970, 1978 & 1998); Teheran, Iran (1974); New Delhi, India (1982); Seoul, South Korea (1986); Beijing, China (1990); Hiroshima, Japan (1994); Bangkok, Thailand (1998); Busan, South Korea (2002); Doha, Qatar (2006). The next editions of the Games is scheduled to be held in and Guangzhou, China (2010).

The South Asian Federation Games (SAP Games) is a sport festival of South Asian countries. The South Asian Sports Federation comprising India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and Maldives was formed in New Delhi in November, 1982. The first SAP Games were held in Kathmandu in 1984 followed by Dhaka (1985), Kolkata (1987), Islamabad (1989), Colombo (1991), Dhaka (1993) and Chennai (1995). The Eighth SAF Games (September 25-Octobcr 4, 1999) were held in Kathmandu. Three new events—badminton, rowing and karate were introduced for the first time in the 9th SAP Games. 

The Championships, Wimbledon, or simply Wimbledon, is the oldest tennis tournament in the world and is considered the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in the London suburb of Wimbledon since 1877. It is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, and the only one still played on the game's original surface, grass, which gave the game of lawn tennis its name. The tournament takes place over two weeks in late June and early July.

The "US Open Court of Champions" honors the greatest champions in the 122-year history of the U.S. Championships, which spans three centuries, beginning in 1851, becoming the US Open.

The Australian Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It is the first Grand Slam event of the year. It took place at the Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia, in January - February.

The French Open is a major tennis tournament held over two weeks between late May and early June in Paris, France, at the Stade Roland Garros. It is the second of the Grand Slam tournaments on the annual tennis calendar and the premier clay court tennis tournament in the world. Roland Garros is the only Grand Slam still held on clay and ends the spring clay court season.