Olympiad Test Level 2: Sports- 1 - Class 6 MCQ

A. Volleyball: A match is played by two teams of 6 players
B. Hockey: Each side has eleven players: ten field players and one goalkeeper.
C. Polo: A polo team is comprised of four players.
D. Basketball: There is a maximum of five players on the floor at one time.

A 10km short-distance walk was introduced at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm and the 50km long-distance event made its first appearance at the 1932 Games in Los Angeles. The Olympics has a 20km race walking category for both men and women. The 50km category, however, is only for men.

Chess is an abstract strategy game and involves no hidden information. It is played on a square chessboard with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid.

Table tennis is a game played inside by two or four people. The players stand at each end of a table which has a low net across the middle and hit a small light ball over the net, using small bats.

VVS Laxman, the former batsman, has been awarded the honorary life membership of Marylebone Cricket Club. With this, he joined fellow Indian icons Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, and Sourav Ganguly on the prestigious list of MCC Honorary Life Members.

Uttanasana or Standing Forward Bend, with variants such as Padahastasana where the toes are grasped, is a standing forward bending asana in modern yoga as exercise.

• The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) was founded in 1912 as the International Amateur Athletic Federation and changed its name to the “International Association of Athletics Federations” in 2001.
• The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) is now known as World Athletics.

Emblem: Designed by artist Lin Cunzhen, the Beijing 2022 emblem combines traditional and modern elements of Chinese culture, as well as features embodying the passion and vitality of winter sports.

• Mike Tyson is an American former professional boxer, who had a successful 20-year career in the sport. 
• Despite a few ups and downs along the way. he was the undisputed world heavyweight champion, and still holds the record as the youngest boxer ever to win a heavyweight title at 20 years.
• Tyson was the first heavyweight boxer to simultaneously hold the WBA, WBC, and IBF titles, and the only heavyweight to unify them successively. He is still considered, to this day, one of the best boxers of all time.

• The state-owned Coal India Ltd. was named the title sponsor for the next three editions of the Hockey India League beginning 2016 replacing two-wheeler giant Hero MotoCorp. 
• The tournament had six franchises teams from Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Mumbai, Ranchi, Odisha and Punjab. Except for Delhi and Punjab, the rest of the teams are from coal-bearing States.