General Awareness Sports & Games | Questions & Answers | Notes

General Awareness Sports & Games | Questions & Answers | Notes  

Sports and Related Terms

• Badminton
Angled drive, serve, bird, deuce, double drop, fault, let, lob, love all, smash

• Basketball
Ball, basket, blocking, dribbling, free throw, held ball, holding, jump ball, multiple throws, pivot.

• Baseball
Base, bunting, battery, diamond, hitter, home, pitcher, pullout, strike.

• Billiards
Baulk line, break, bolting, Cannon, cue, hazard, in- off, jigger, long jenney, pot, scratch, screw back, short jenney, spot stroke.

• Boxing
Auxiliary point  system, babit  punch, defence, hook, jab, knock out, slam.

• Bridge
Auction, Chicane, declarer, dummy, grand slam, nortrumps, revoke, ruff, suit.

• Chess
Bishop, capture, castling, checkmate, en passant, gambit, king, knight, pawn, queen, rook, stalemate.

• Cricket
Ashes, boundary, bowling, catch, chinaman, crease, duck, follow on, googly, gully, hat-trick, hit wicket, l.b.w., no ball, off break, on drive, pitch, rubber, silly point, square leg, stone walling, yorker, wicket.

• Croquet
Hoops, mallet, peg out.

• Draughts
Huff.

• Football
Advantage clause, blind side, corner kick, dribble, free kick, marking, off side, penalty kick, throw in tripping.

•Golf
Bogey, bunker, caddie, dormy, fairway, four some, greed holes, links, par, putt, tee, threesome.

•Gymnastics
A-bars, ariel, blocks cone of swing, dish, giants, inlocate, kip, planche, tariff, tumble, wrap.

• Hockey
Bully, corner, flick, free-hit, roll in, scoop, short corner, stick, striking circle, tackle, tie breaker.

• Horse-racing
Jockey, punter, steeplechase.

•Judo
Chui, dan, dojo, gyaku, ippon, randori, yoshi, yuko.
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• Karate
Dachi, gedan, jion, koka, shiro, ude, zen-no.

• Polo
Bunker, chukker, mallet

• Rowing
Bow, bucket, cow, feather, paddle, regatta.

• Rugby
Trackle, lines, scrum, touch, try.

• Shooting
Bag, bull’s eye, marks- manship, muzzle, plug.

• Swimming
Back-stroke, breast-stroke, butterfly-stroke, crawl, free stroke.

• Table Tennis
Antiloop, backspin, chop, loop, penhold, grip, twiddle.

•Tennis
Ace, backhand, stroke, deuce, fault, let, love, volley.

• Volleyball
Ace, blocking, doubling, heave, holding, spike, service.

• Wrestling
Half nelson, head lock,  heave, hold, rebouts, scissor.

Cups and Trophies Associated with Sports and Games

• Air Racing
Jawaharlal  Challenge Trophy
King’s Cup
Schneider Cup (Sea plane race  in UK)

•Archery
Federation Cup

• Athletics
Charminar Trophy
World Cup

• Badminton
Agarwal Cup
Amrit Diwan Cup
Australasia Cup
Chadha Cup
European Cup
NarangCup
Konica Cup
Thomas Cup
Uber Cup
World Cup
Yonex Cup

Basketball
Basalat Jha Trophy
B.C.Gupta Trophy
Todd Memorial Trophy
William Jones Cup
Federation Cup

Boat Rowing
American Cup (Hachtracing)
Wellington Trophy (India)

Boxing
Aspy Adjahia Trophy
Federation Cup

Bridge
Holkar Trophy
Ruia Gold Cup
Singhania Trophy

 Chess
Naidu Trophy
Khaitan Trophy
Limca Trophy
World Cup

• Cricket
Anthony Demellow Trophy
Ashes
Asia Cup
Benson and Hedges Cup
Champions Trophy
Charminar Challenge Cup
C.K. Nayudu Trophy
Deodhar Trophy
Duleep Trophy
G.D.Birla Trophy
Gillette Cup
Ghulam Ahmed Trophy
Irani Trophy
Jawaharlal Nehru Cup
Merchant Trophy
Natwest Trophy
Prudential Cup (World Cup)
Ranji Trophy
Sharjah Cup
Sheesh Mahal Trophy
Vijay Hazare Trophy
Vijay Merchant Trophy

• Football
Bandodkar Trophy
B.C.Roy Trophy
DCMCup Durand Cup
European Cup
Federation Cup
Governor’s Cup
Great Wall Cup
IFA Shield
Jules Rimet Trophy (World Cup)
Kings Cup
Lai Bahadur Shastri Trophy
Merdeka Cup
Nations Cup
Nehru Gold Cup
Nizam Gold Cup
Rovers Cup
Santosh Trophy
Stafford Cup
Subroto Cup
Todd Memorial Trophy
UEFA Cup
Vittal Trophy
Airlines Cup
Asia Cup
America Cup
Winner’s Cup
Indira Gandhi Trophy
Rajiv Gandhi Trophy

Golf
Canada Cup
Eisenhower Trophy
Muthiah Gold Cup
Nomura Trophy
Ryder Cup
Walker Cup
U.S. Open
British Open

.Hockey
Agha Khan Cup
Allwyn Asia Cup
Azian Shah Cup
Beighton Cup
Bombay Gold Cup
Champions Trophy
Clarke Trophy
Dhyan Chand Trophy
Guru Nanak Cup
Indira Gandhi Gold Cup
Intercontinental Cup
Kuppuswamy Naidu Cup
Maharaja Ranjit Singh Gold Cup
Modi Gold Cup
Nehru Trophy
Obaidullah Gold Cup
Rangaswami Cup
Rene Frank Trophy
Scindia Gold Cup
Shriram Trophy
World Cup
Yadavindra Cup

. Kabaddi
Federation Cup

. Kho-Kho
Federation Cup

.Shooting
North Wales Cup
Welsh Grand Prix

. Table Tennis
Asian Cup
Berna Bellack Cup
Corbillion Cup (Women)
Electra Gold Cup
Gasper-Giest Prize
Jayalaxmi Cup (Women)
Pethapuram Cup (Men)
Swaythling Cup (Men)
World Cup

Tennis
Davis Cup
Federation Cup
Wimbledon Trophy
U.S.Open
French Open
Australian Open
Hopman Cup

. Volleyball
Federation Cup
Shivanthi Gold Cup
World Cup

. Yacht Racing
America  Cup

Olympic  Games
• The first modern Olympic Games took place in 1896, founded by the Frenchman Baron de coubertin.
• They are held every four years.
• Women first competed in 1900.
• The first separate winter games celebration was in 1924, beginning in i994, the winter games will take place between summer games celebration.
• The Olympic motto is Citius, Allius, Fortivs meaning Surfer Higher and stronger composed by Father Dixon in 1897, and introduced in 1920 for the first time.

Venues

Commonwealth Games

• First held as the British Empire Games in 1930.
• They take place every four years and between Olympic celebrations.
• They became the British Empire and commonwealth Games in 1954
The current title was adopted in 1970.

Asian Games Motto
Ever onward (coined by Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru)

Emblem
A bright full rising Sun with interlocking rings.

World Cup (Football)

• The largest single sporting event in the world is the World Cup Football tournament.
• The first edition was held in 1930.
• The 1998 World Cup, the latest edition was held in France; France emerged winner by defeating Brazil.
• The World Cup is now officially called the Jules-Rimet Cup.