| Sports Quiz Questions |
Answers |
| The first Indian (among women) to swim across the English Channel |
Miss Arati Saha (Now Mrs. Arati Gupta) |
| The first Indian (among men) to swim across the English Channel |
Mihir Sen |
| The first person to ski down Mount Everest |
Yuichiro Miura of Japan |
| The first Indian to win World Billiards Trophy |
Wilson Jones |
| The first black player to win the Wimbledon men’s singles title |
Arthur Ashe (U.S. 1975) |
| First Indian woman to climb Mount Everest |
Bachendri Pal |
| First Indian Grand Master (in Chess) |
Viswanathan Anand |
| The first man to win 4 Olympic Gold Medals |
Alvin Kranzein (U.S.A.) in 1900 |
| The first lawn tennis player who won the Wimbledon Championship for five years consecutively |
Bjorn Borg |
| First batsman to score three Test century in three successive Tests on debut |
Mohammad Azharuddin |
| The first batsman in the world to score centuries against all the other 8 test playing nations |
Steve Waugh (Australia) |
| The first Indian to be Chess World Champion |
Viswanathan Anand |
| The youngest Cricketer to score a century |
Mohammad Asharful of Bangladesh |
| The first Indian women to register a win in Wimbledon Lawn Tennis |
Sania Mirza (July 2003) |
| The first Indian sports woman to win a medal in World Athletics |
Anju B George (August 2003, Paris) |
| World’s first batsman to score 400 runs in an innings in a test match |
Brian Lara (April 2004) |
| India’s first batsman to score double century in five test matches |
Rahul Dravid (April 2004) |
| The first woman cricketer to score the highest yet ever runs |
Kiran (Pakistan, March) |
| First Indian woman to qualify for the 2006 Winter Olympics |
Neha Ahuja |
| The fastest man on the earth |
Usain Bolt (August 16, 2008, 100 meters clocking 9-69 seconds, an all time world record) |
| The first person from Africa to be appointed as the new President of the ICC (International Cricket Council) |
Percy Sonn appointed on July 7, 2006 |
| The first Indian woman player to win a four star badminton tournament |
Saina Nehwal, May 2006 |
| The first Indian sports woman to win Gold Medal in World Cup Archery |
Dola Benerjee (Won the honor in World Cup Archery final in Dubai (UAE) on November 24, 2007) |
| The highest test cricket wicket taker in the cricket world |
Muttiah Muralitharan of Sri Lanka, acquired on December 3, 2007 |
| The first sportsman to clinch 8 Gold Medals in individual events at an Olympic |
Michael Phelps at the 29th Olympiad in Beijing in August 2008. |
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