SP | MCQs

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Violence in sports usually refers to violent and often unnecessarily harmful intentional physical acts committed during, or motivated by, a sports game, often in relation to contact sports such as American football, ice hockey, rugby football, lacrosse, association football, boxing, etc.

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In Greek Olympics, the pentathlon included a race the length of the stadium, the long jump, the discus throw, the javelin throw, and a wrestling match between the two athletes who performed best in the previous four events.

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Hockey is a sport in which two teams play against each other by trying to manoeuvre a ball or a puck into the opponent's goal using a hockey stick.

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Japan's space agency, JAXA, touts the Kounotori8 as "the world's biggest transport space ship".

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Know everything about International Space Station (ISS)

ISS serves as a microgravity and space environment research laboratory.

Five different space agencies representing 15 countries built the 100 billion-dollar international space station.

ISS is a joint project between NASA of US, Roscommon of Russia, JAXA of Japan, ESA of Europe and CSA of Canada.

ISS is expected to operate until 2030.

In February 2022, (NASA) announced plans to retire and decommission the International Space Station (ISS) by 2031.

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The US space agency NASA has announced plans to officially close the International Space Station in 2031.

After dozens of launches since 1998, the station was moved to a higher orbit.

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South Asia Satellite also known as GSAT-9.

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The novel Siddhartha was written by Herman Hesse in 1922.

Herman Hesse was a German novelist, poet and painter.

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The UN General Assembly (UNGA) is the main policy-making organ of the Organization.

Comprising all Member States, it provides a unique forum for multilateral discussion of the full spectrum of international issues covered by the Charter of the United Nations