World GK MCQs

World Famous Sports Personalities MCQs with Answers

Who is widely regarded as the greatest basketball player of all time?
a) Michael Jordan
b) LeBron James
c) Kobe Bryant
d) Magic Johnson
Answer: a) Michael Jordan

Who holds the record for the most goals scored in FIFA World Cup history?
a) Cristiano Ronaldo
b) Lionel Messi
c) Pele
d) Miroslav Klose
Answer: d) Miroslav Klose

Which athlete won the most gold medals at a single Olympic Games?
a) Usain Bolt
b) Michael Phelps
c) Simone Biles
d) Carl Lewis
Answer: b) Michael Phelps

Who is the fastest man in recorded history?
a) Usain Bolt
b) Carl Lewis
c) Jesse Owens
d) Asafa Powell
Answer: a) Usain Bolt

Which tennis player has the most Grand Slam titles in the Open Era?
a) Rafael Nadal
b) Roger Federer
c) Novak Djokovic
d) Serena Williams
Answer: d) Serena Williams

Who is considered the greatest swimmer of all time?
a) Mark Spitz
b) Michael Phelps
c) Ian Thorpe
d) Ryan Lochte
Answer: b) Michael Phelps

Which Formula One driver holds the record for the most World Championships?
a) Ayrton Senna
b) Lewis Hamilton
c) Michael Schumacher
d) Sebastian Vettel
Answer: b) Lewis Hamilton

Who is the most decorated Olympian of all time?
a) Usain Bolt
b) Simone Biles
c) Michael Phelps
d) Katie Ledecky
Answer: c) Michael Phelps

Which golfer has won the most major championships?
a) Tiger Woods
b) Jack Nicklaus
c) Phil Mickelson
d) Arnold Palmer
Answer: b) Jack Nicklaus

Who is the only boxer to hold world titles in eight different weight divisions?
a) Muhammad Ali
b) Manny Pacquiao
c) Mike Tyson
d) Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Answer: b) Manny Pacquiao

Who is the all-time leading goal scorer in the history of men’s international soccer?
a) Lionel Messi
b) Cristiano Ronaldo
c) Pele
d) Romário
Answer: b) Cristiano Ronaldo

Which sprinter won three consecutive Olympic 100m titles from 2008 to 2016?
a) Usain Bolt
b) Tyson Gay
c) Justin Gatlin
d) Yohan Blake
Answer: a) Usain Bolt

Who is the most successful female alpine ski racer in history?
a) Mikaela Shiffrin
b) Tina Maze
c) Lindsey Vonn
d) Anna Veith
Answer: c) Lindsey Vonn

Which Brazilian soccer player is known as “The King of Football”?
a) Ronaldo
b) Neymar
c) Ronaldinho
d) Pele
Answer: d) Pele

Who is the only Formula One driver to have won the World Championship with Ferrari in the 21st century?
a) Michael Schumacher
b) Sebastian Vettel
c) Lewis Hamilton
d) Fernando Alonso
Answer: b) Sebastian Vettel

Which American gymnast dominated the 1996 Olympics and became the “Magnificent Seven?
a) Simone Biles
b) Shannon Miller
c) Dominique Dawes
d) Kerri Strug
Answer: d) Kerri Strug

Who is the first and only player to have won five FIFA Ballon d’Or awards?
a) Lionel Messi
b) Cristiano Ronaldo
c) Ronaldinho
d) Zinedine Zidane
Answer: a) Lionel Messi

Which American athlete is known as “The Greatest” and considered one of the most significant and celebrated sports figures of the 20th century?
a) Michael Jordan
b) Muhammad Ali
c) Tiger Woods
d) Serena Williams
Answer: b) Muhammad Ali

Who is the most successful cyclist in the history of the Tour de France, with seven overall victories?
a) Eddy Merckx
b) Lance Armstrong
c) Miguel Indurain
d) Chris Froome
Answer: b) Lance Armstrong

Which Argentine soccer player is often compared to Diego Maradona and has won the FIFA World Player of the Year award multiple times?
a) Gabriel Batistuta
b) Lionel Messi
c) Diego Milito
d) Sergio Aguero
Answer: b) Lionel Messi

Who is the most decorated Winter Olympian of all time?
a) Marit Bjørgen
b) Ole Einar Bjørndalen
c) Simon Ammann
d) Bjørn Dæhlie
Answer: a) Marit Bjørgen

Which American football quarterback has won the most Super Bowl titles?
a) Tom Brady
b) Joe Montana
c) Peyton Manning
d) Brett Favre
Answer: a) Tom Brady

Who is the most successful female tennis player of all time in terms of Grand Slam singles titles?
a) Martina Navratilova
b) Steffi Graf
c) Margaret Court
d) Serena Williams
Answer: c) Margaret Court

Which German tennis player has won the most Wimbledon titles in the Open Era?
a) Boris Becker
b) Michael Stich
c) Steffi Graf
d) Angelique Kerber
Answer: c) Steffi Graf

Who is the only female skater to have won four consecutive World Figure Skating Championships?
a) Kim Yuna
b) Katarina Witt
c) Midori Ito
d) Michelle Kwan
Answer: b) Katarina Witt

Which British boxer won an Olympic gold medal in the super heavyweight division at the 2012 Summer Olympics?
a) Anthony Joshua
b) Lennox Lewis
c) Frank Bruno
d) Audley Harrison
Answer: a) Anthony Joshua

Who is the only female athlete to have won Olympic gold medals in both track and field events and bobsledding?
a) Florence Griffith Joyner
b) Marion Jones
c) Lolo Jones
d) Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Answer: c) Lolo Jones

Which Brazilian Formula One driver is regarded as one of the greatest in the history of the sport?
a) Felipe Massa
b) Ayrton Senna
c) Nelson Piquet
d) Rubens Barrichello
Answer: b) Ayrton Senna

Who is the most successful male ski racer in history, with a record eight World Cup overall titles?
a) Alberto Tomba
b) Ingemar Stenmark
c) Bode Miller
d) Marcel Hirscher
Answer: d) Marcel Hirscher

Which Indian cricketer is regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of the sport?
a) Virat Kohli
b) Sachin Tendulkar
c) Rahul Dravid
d) Sunil Gavaskar
Answer: b) Sachin Tendulkar

Who is the only male player to have won tennis’ Golden Slam (all four Grand Slam titles and Olympic gold in the same year)?
a) Rafael Nadal
b) Roger Federer
c) Novak Djokovic
d) Andre Agassi
Answer: c) Novak Djokovic

Which Jamaican sprinter set a new 100m world record at the 2008 Beijing Olympics?
a) Usain Bolt
b) Asafa Powell
c) Yohan Blake
d) Tyson Gay
Answer: a) Usain Bolt

Who is the only golfer to have completed the career Grand Slam three times?
a) Tiger Woods
b) Jack Nicklaus
c) Gary Player
d) Ben Hogan
Answer: b) Jack Nicklaus

Which American basketball player is known for his famous “Skyhook” shot?
a) Magic Johnson
b) Larry Bird
c) Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
d) Shaquille O’Neal
Answer: c) Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Who is the first African-American to win a Grand Slam singles title in tennis?
a) Arthur Ashe
b) Althea Gibson
c) Serena Williams
d) Venus Williams
Answer: b) Althea Gibson

Who is the only player to have scored in a World Cup final, UEFA Champions League final, and European Championship final?
a) Cristiano Ronaldo
b) Lionel Messi
c) Zinedine Zidane
d) Diego Maradona
Answer: a) Cristiano Ronaldo

Which American sprinter won four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, disproving Adolf Hitler’s theory of Aryan racial superiority?
a) Carl Lewis
b) Jesse Owens
c) Tommie Smith
d) Wilma Rudolph
Answer: b) Jesse Owens

Who is the most successful female golfer of all time, with 10 major championships?
a) Annika Sörenstam
b) Lorena Ochoa
c) Inbee Park
d) Patty Berg
Answer: a) Annika Sörenstam

Which Argentine Formula One driver won five consecutive World Championships from 1950 to 1954?
a) Juan Manuel Fangio
b) Carlos Reutemann
c) José Froilán González
d) Roberto Mieres
Answer: a) Juan Manuel Fangio

Who is the most successful female gymnast in history, with a record number of World Championship medals?
a) Nadia Comaneci
b) Simone Biles
c) Larisa Latynina
d) Olga Korbut
Answer: b) Simone Biles

Which Italian soccer player won the FIFA World Player of the Year award three times in the 1990s?
a) Roberto Baggio
b) Francesco Totti
c) Fabio Cannavaro
d) Marco van Basten
Answer: d) Marco van Basten

Who is the most successful female track and field athlete in Olympic history, with nine Olympic gold medals?
a) Jackie Joyner-Kersee
b) Florence Griffith Joyner
c) Allyson Felix
d) Fanny Blankers-Koen
Answer: a) Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Which American football player has won the most NFL Most Valuable Player (MVP) awards?
a) Tom Brady
b) Peyton Manning
c) Brett Favre
d) Aaron Rodgers
Answer: b) Peyton Manning

Who is the first and only male player to have won seven French Open singles titles?
a) Rafael Nadal
b) Roger Federer
c) Novak Djokovic
d) Bjorn Borg
Answer: a) Rafael Nadal

Which Japanese tennis player won the US Open singles title in 2020, becoming the first Asian player to win a Grand Slam singles championship?
a) Kei Nishikori
b) Shingo Kunieda
c) Naomi Osaka
d) Kimiko Date-Krumm
Answer: c) Naomi Osaka

Who is the most successful female marathon runner of all time, holding the world record for both the women’s marathon and half marathon?
a) Paula Radcliffe
b) Mary Keitany
c) Brigid Kosgei
d) Catherine Ndereba
Answer: a) Paula Radcliffe

Which American soccer player has won the most FIFA World Player of the Year awards?
a) Landon Donovan
b) Alex Morgan
c) Mia Hamm
d) Carli Lloyd
Answer: c) Mia Hamm

Who is the only male athlete to have won gold medals in the 100m and 200m sprints at three consecutive Olympic Games?
a) Usain Bolt
b) Carl Lewis
c) Jesse Owens
d) Yohan Blake
Answer: a) Usain Bolt

Which American baseball player holds the record for the most career home runs?
a) Babe Ruth
b) Hank Aaron
c) Barry Bonds
d) Alex Rodriguez
Answer: c) Barry Bonds

Who is the first and only male player to have won the Career Golden Slam in tennis (winning all four Grand Slam titles and an Olympic gold medal in singles)?
a) Andre Agassi
b) Roger Federer
c) Rafael Nadal
d) Novak Djokovic
Answer: c) Rafael Nadal

 

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