Sports Questions

Abhinav Bindra is an Indian professional shooter who is the world and Olympic champion in the 10 m air rifle event.

The ball with which Table Tennis is played is called Ping Pong Ball.

According to the International rules, the diameter of the ping pong ball must be not less than 39.5 millimeters and not greater than 40.5  millimeters having a mass of 2.7 grams.

A red flag with a diagonal white stripe indicates scuba diving.

And the alpha flag indicates that there is a diver inside.

SCUBA means Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus.

Two times IPL champions Mumbai Indians (MI) reached a new milestone as they became the first team in history to win 100 T20 matches. The Mumbai outfit defeated Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) at the Eden Gardens by 9 runs in their final match of the league stage of IPL 2017.

Brooks Koepka shot a final round 68 for 281 (+1) to win his second straight U.S. Open, one stroke ahead of runner-up Tommy Fleetwood, who closed with the sixth round of 63 in U.S. Open history.

The first Indian woman to ever win an Olympic medal for India was Karnam Malleswari who won a bronze medal at the Sydney Olympics 2000 in the Women's 69 kg category in Weightlifting.

Karnam Malleswari is a retired Indian weightlifter. In 1995 she received the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, India's highest sporting honour, and in 1999 the civilian Padma Shri award.

After that Indian women who won Olymic medals to India was : 

1. Mary Kom at the London 2012 Summer Olympics won bronze medal in women's boxing.

2. Saina Nehwal was the first Indian to win a medal in Badminton at the Olympics, by winning the Bronze medal at the London Olympics 2012.

3. Sakshi Malik became the first Indian woman to win a medal in Wrestling. She won the Bronze medal in Women's 58 kg freestyle wrestling in 2016 Summer Olympics held in Rio.

4. P.V. Sindhu became the first ever Indian woman to win the Silver medal at the Olympics, by reaching the Badminton final at Rio Olympics 2016.