You Are On Question Answer Bank SET 430
21504. Which award is given for the Best Goalkeeper in World Cup Football tournaments?
Answer: The Yashin Award.
21505. Which player has played the most World Cup matches overall, with 25 appearances?
Answer: Lothar Matthaus (Germany).
21506. Who is the all-time top scorer in the history of the World Cup with 15 goals for Brazil between 1998 and 2006?
Answer: Ronaldo.
21508. Name of the two players who share the record for playing in the most World Cups?
Answer: Antonio Carbajal
21509. The first player to score a hat-trick in a World Cup match was?
Answer: Bert Petenaude (United States).
21512. Name the only people to date to win the World Cup as both player and head coach?
Answer: Mário Zagallo (Brazil) and Franz Beckenbauer(West Germany).
21513. Who is the oldest man to have represented his country at the World Cup?
Answer: Roger Milla. He was 42 years and 49 days old when he appeared for Cameroon against Russia in 1994.
21514. The first player to score a hat trick in 2 World Cups?
Answer: Gabriel Omar Batistuta(Argentina).
21515. Name of the footballer who was sent home from the 1994 World Cup in USA for using ephedrine (a sympathomimetic amine commonly used as a stimulant)?
Answer: Diego Maradona.
21518. Who scored the fastest goal ever in the history of World Cup, needing only 11 seconds to notch against South Korea in 2002?
Answer: Hakan Suker (Turkey)
21519. The first self goal in World Cup history was scored by?
Answer: Ernst Lotscher of Switzerland against Germany in 1938.
21520. What is the minimum rest period between two games for any team at the 2006 World Cup according to FIFA competition rules?
Answer: 48 hours
21521. Who holds the record for the most goals scored in a single World Cup tournament?
Answer: Just Fontaine (France).
21522. Which country withdrew from the World Cup Football held in Brazil in 1950 because FIFA refused to let their team play barefoot?
Answer: India.
21523. Players first wore numbered shirts in World Cup finals during which world Cup?
Answer: World Cup in 1938 held in France.
21524. Who won the Golden Shoe award as top scorer with eight goals in the 2002 World Cup?
Answer: Ronaldo(Brazil).
21526. How many nations participating in the World Cup Football -2010 tournament in South Africa?
Answer: 32
21527. Name of the Indian who is selected as a member of the Appeals Committee of the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA)?
Answer: P.P. Lakshmanan.
21529. How much prize money will be given for the winners of 2010 World Cup?
Answer: $30 million. $24 million for the runners up.
21531. The match ball for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, manufactured by Adidas, is named as?
Answer: The Jabulani, which means "bringing joy to everyone"
21534. The team which have come roaring from the bottom of the table in the first season of the Indian Premier League to be crowned champions in IPL-2
Answer: Deccan Chargers
21537. In the last Olympics held in 2004, how many medals have India got?
Answer: -Only one Silver Medal (Rajya Vardhan Singh Rathod got silver for Double Trap Shooting)
21538. 7 In which Olympics, India got her first Olympic medal?
Answer: - Olympic Game held in 1900 in Paris , India got 2 Silver medals and bags the 17th spot
21539. What is social welfare program "Indira Awaas Yojana (IAY) – 1985" intented for ?
Answer: Provides financial assistance to rural poor for constructing their houses themselves
21540. What is social welfare program "Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) – 1975 October 2" intented for ?
Answer: Tackle malnutrition and health problems in children below 6 years of age and their mothers
21542. What is social welfare program "Integrated Rural Development Program (IRDP) -1978" intented for ?
Answer: Self-employment program to raise the income-generation capacity of target groups among the poor
21543. What is social welfare program "Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) – 2005" intented for ?
Answer: One-time cash incentive to pregnant women for institutional/home births through skilled assistance
21544. What is social welfare program "Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act(MGNREGA)" intented for ?
Answer: Legal guarantee for one hundred days of employment in every financial year to adult members of any rural household willing to do public work-related unskilled manual work at the statutory minimum wage of Rs. 120 per day in 2009 prices.
21545. What is social welfare program "Midday Meal Scheme" intented for ?
Answer: Lunch (free of cost) to school-children on all working days
21546. What is social welfare program "Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojana (PMAGY) - 2010 July 23" intented for ?
Answer: Integrated development of Schedule Caste majority villages in four states
21547. What is social welfare program "Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) – 2000 December 25" intented for ?
Answer: Good all-weather road connectivity to unconnected villages
21548. What is social welfare program "Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana (SGRY) – 2001 September 25" intented for ?
Answer: Providing additional wage employment and food security, alongside creation of durable community assets in rural areas
21549. What is social welfare program "Swarnajayanti Gram Sarozgar Yojana(SGSY) - 1999 April 1" intented for ?
Answer: Bring the assisted poor families above the poverty line by organising them into Self Help Groups (SHGs) through the process of social mobilisation, their training and capacity building and provision of income generating assets through a mix of bank credit and government subsidy
21550. What is social welfare program "National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) – 2011 June" intented for ?
Answer: This scheme will organize rural poor into SHG groups and make them capable for self-employment. The idea is to develop better livelihood options for the poor
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