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Sports general knowledge questions are asked in many competitive written exams so general awareness about sports is essential.

Sports Vocabulary
Sports	IMPORTANT TERMS
Badminton	Deuce ; Smash ; Drop ; Let ; Game ; Love ; Double Fault
Cricket	Rubber ; Ashes ; Leg Bye ; Follow on ; Googly ; Gulley ; Silly Point ; Drive ; Cover point ; Leg-Break ; Stone-Walling
Chess	Gambit ; Checkmate ; Stalemate ; Check
Football	Dribble ; Offside ; Penalty ; Throw-in ; Hat-Tick; Foul ; Drop Kick ; Stopper
Golf	Fore some ; Stymie ; Caddy ; Niblick ; Bunker ; The Green
Hockey	Bully ; Striking ; Post Back ; Circle
Kho-Kho	Runner ; Chaser ; Poleby ; Out ; Foul
Lawn Tennis	Advantage ; Ace ; Dence ; Foot Fault ; Grand Slam ; Slice
Swimming	Breaststroke ; Twist ; Butterfly ; Crawl ; Springboard
Table Tennis	End line ; Topspin ; Let ; Foil ; Reverse
Volleyball	Deuce ; Booster ; Spikers ; Service ; Love
Wrestling	Hold Sager ; Freestyle ; Rebuts ; Hal ; Nelson

The table below shows the important cups and trophies awarded for different sports:

Cups and trophies
Sports	CUPS & TROPHIES
Badminton	Amrit Diwan Cup ; Asia Cup ; Chaddha Cup ; European Cup ; Harilela Cup ; Ibrahim Rahmatullah Challenger Cup ; Kitiyakara Cup ; Konica Cup ; Malaysian Open ; Sophia Cup ; Thomas Cup (Men) ; Uber Cup (Women)
Cricket	Irani Trophy ; Duleep Trophy ; Deodhar Trophy ; CK Naidu Trophy ; Cooch Behar Trophy ; The Ashes Series ; Gandhi Mandela Series
Boxing	Aspy Adajania Trophy
Football	Bandodkar Trophy ; B. C. Raj Trophy ; Santosh Trophy ; Scissor Cup ; Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee Trophy ; Subroto Cup ; Todd Memorial Trophy ; Confederation Cup ; DCM Trophy ; Durand Cup ; Jules Rimet Trophy ; IFA Shield ; Kalinga Cup ; Merdeka Cup ; Rovers Cup
Golf	Canada Cup ; Walker Cup ; Ryder Cup ; Muthian Gold Cup
Hockey	Agha Khan Cup ; Khan Abdul Ghaffar Club ; Dhyan Chand Trophy ; Nehru Trophy ; Scindia Gold Cup ; Beighton Cup
Polo	Ezra Cup ; West Chester Cup ; Winchester Cup ; Radha Mohan Cup
Table Tennis	Swaythling Cup (men) ; Corbillon Cup (women) ; Jayalaxmi Cup (women)
Rowing	Wellington Trophy

The table below shows the important organizations and associations of various sports and their headquarters:

Sports organization
ORGANISATION	HEADQUARTER
International Hockey Federation International Boxing Association International Olympic Organisation International Table Tennis Federation World Archery Federation	Lausanne, Switzerland
Fédération Internationale de Football Association	Zurich, Switzerland
International Cricket Council	Dubai, UAE
World Chess Federation	Athens, Greece
International Weightlifting Federation	Istvánmezei út, Hungary
Badminton World Federation	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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