30 Popular Sports GK Questions for Children with Answers

Children love playing various sports and they are curious to know about the other sports that they don’t know. Sports play a very important role in everyone’s life whether it’s children, adults or age one. Everyone plays sports as it acts as an exercise for them and works on the physical and mental health of children. In this article, we will share information on general knowledge questions on sports with answers for kids. Here are the top 30 sports GK quizzes for classes 1, 2, and 3 children that will prepare them in advance:

How will Sports General Knowledge help Children?

Here are a few benefits of teaching GK sports to children:

• Sports help us to work on our mental and physical health and keep us healthy and physically fit.
• Teaching children about more sports will helps them grow their knowledge at a young age which will help them in education or at a personal level.
• Understanding various sports will help children to increase their productivity, they will be able to develop leadership skills and understands how sports can help them.
• Gaining this knowledge will help them to improve their communication skills and raise their team spirit.
• This basic general knowledge help children improve their level of thinking and intelligence.
• This knowledge will help them in their education and will help them to get confident in life.
• GK will help kids to participate in various quiz competitions or in school tests, where they will be appreciated and sometimes get a prize for it.

30 General Knowledge Questions on Sports for Children

We have added here the top 30 general knowledge questions to test children’s GK knowledge of sports. This article covers questions on various sports from different countries, national games, and Olympic games. Let’s test your children’s knowledge through sports MCQs:

Q1. From the following which sport is known as Muhammad Ali?

a) Swimming
b) Tennis
c) Cricket
d) Boxing

Q2. Which color belt is worn by the highest martial arts experts?

a) Yellow
b) Black
c) Orange
d) White

Q3. In a baseball team, how many players are there?

a) Six
b) Four
c) Nine
d) Eight

Q4. In the volleyball team, how many players are there?

a) 8
b) 3
c) 5
d) 6

Q5. Name the National Recreational Game of America.

a) Baseball
b) Table Tennis
c) Women’s Cricket
d) Badminton

Q6. Which Indian player was known as Pocket Dynamo?

a) KD Jadhav
b) Leander Paes
c) Vijender Singh
d) Gurbax Singh

Q7. From the following which sport has a slam dunk?

a) Golf
b) Basketball
c) Baseball
d) Snowboarding

Q8. Out of the list name the full form of IPL.

a) International Players League
b) India-Pakistan League
c) Indian Premier League
d) Indo-Persian League

Q9. From the following which sport has the term double fault?

a) Football
b) Polo
c) Tennis
d) Racing

Q10. From the following which country won the title of the 2018 UCI America Tour circuit?

a) Colombia
b) Canada
c) Mexico
d) USA

Q11. Who wrote the book Cricket, My Style?

a) Sunil Gavaskar
b) Kapil Dev
c) Anil Kumble
d) None of them

Q12. Name another name for table tennis.

a) Air Hockey
b) Snooker
c) Ping Pong
d) Lawn Tennis

Q13. Among the list name the person who is called the Flying Sikh of India.

a) Milkha Singh
b) Usain Bolt
c) Navjot Singh
d) Sandeep Singh

Q14. Name the person who won India’s first medal in Badminton at the Olympics.

a) P.V. Sindhu
b) Sania Mirza
c) Saina Nehwal
d) P.T. Usha

Q15. Name the most famous and successful boxer in the World Amateur Boxing Championships.

a) Felix Savon
b) Zou Shiming
c) Adolfo Horta
d) Roberto Balado

Q16. From the following which team won the T20 World Cup in the 1st edition of the Cup?

a) Sri Lanka
b) Canada
c) India
d) USA

Q17. Name the region that won the Ranji Trophy tournament in 2019.

a) Saurashtra
b) Rajasthan
c) Mumbai
d) Vidarbha

Q18. Name the standard basketball ring size.

a) 30 inches
b) 18 inches
c) 15 inches
d) 20 inches

Q19. From the given list which country plays every year in Football World Cup?

a) Pakistan
b) India
c) Argentina
d) Brazil

Q20. Which sport has love as its score?

a) Hockey
b) Basketball
c) Cricket
d) Tennis

Q21. Name the national game of the USA.

a) Baseball
b) Basketball
c) Cricket
d) Volleyball

Q22. Name the national game of Spain.

a) Lecross
b) Rugby Football
c) Bullfighting
d) Judo

Q23. Matthew Hayden Cricketer is a player from which country?

a) Nepal
b) Australia
c) India
d) Sri Lanka

Q24. Name the year when India becomes the champion of world cup cricket for the first time.

a) 1980
b) 1981
c) 1982
d) 1983

Q25. Name the country where Ice Hockey is considered their national game.

a) Nepal
b) Canada
c) Scotland
d) Denmark

Q26. Name the country which is called the father of cricket.

a) India
b) USA
c) Sri Lanka
d) England

Q27. Name the sport where Checkmate is used.

a) Tennis
b) Football
c) Chess
d) Wrestling

Q28. From the following what is the maximum width of a football goalpost?

a) 21.33 feet
b) 22.34 feet
c) 23.37 feet
d) 24.66 feet

Q29. What is the maximum length of bat used in cricket?

a) 37 inches
b) 38 inches
c) 39 inches
d) 40 inches

Q30. What is the maximum weight of a ball used in cricket?

a) 152, 165 grams
b) 153, 166 grams
c) 154, 167 grams
d) 155, 168 grams

Answers:

Here is the all the answers to the above questions. We hope young ones will  learn lot of new names from it:

We hope young ones have learned a lot from the above quizzes. This GK quiz on sports will definitely help them in their overall development and make them intelligent and more aware of the games played in the world and they will get more confident when asked in any examinations.

Suhana Dessai

Suhana holds a master’s degree in computer and from the University of Goa. She has around 3 years of experience in various fields of writing and editing. By profession, she is a freelancer Content Writer. As an associate editor at SudivGuide, Suhana edits and ensures the articles are aligned with the website’s editorial standards.