Table Tennis Quiz

Today’s specimen quiz is on the sport of Table tennis and is divided into three subsequent categories.

 History and Gameplay

 India in table tennis
 Table tennis in world

Quiz-1: History and Gameplay

1. Which one is the international governing body of table tennis?

a) International federation of table tennis

b) International Table Tennis Federation
c) Federation of world table tennis
d) World federation of table tennis
Hint: It was founded in 1926.
Did you know? The headquarters of the Internation governing body of table tennis is
in Lausanne, Switzerland.

2. When table tennis was introduced in Summer Olympic Games?

a) 1960
b) 1972
c) 1980
d) 1988
Hint: It was  XXIV Olympiad.
Did you know? Besides coin toss, there is also a common method for first service decision in
which one player hides the ball in one or the other hand, usually hidden under the table,
allowing the other player to guess which hand the ball is in. The correct or incorrect guess gives
the "winner" the option to choose to serve, receive, or to choose which side of the table to use.

3. In which year, the first official World Championship of table tennis held?

a) 1921
b) 1926
c) 1931
d) 1933
Hint: London had hosted the first world championship
Did you know? An unofficial world championship was held in 1902.

4. Which one of the following justify the term “Let” mean in table tennis?

a) The opponent fails to make a correct service or return.

 b) The opponent obstructs the ball.
c) When the player on the receiving side is not ready and the service is delivered.
d) The server obstructs the game.
Hint: It is also known as foul service.
Did you know? Singles and doubles are both played in the Commonwealth Games since 2002.

5. When the Table tennis world cup started?

a) 1978
b) 1980
c) 1990
d) 1996
Hint: That year, the host city was Hong Kong.
Did you know? The team competitions, the World Team Cup, were canceled until the relaunch
in 2007, and now held in odd-numbered years.

6. Who is the current ranked 1st player of women’s world tennis player?

a) Feng Tianwei
b) Liu Shiwen
c) Ding Ning
d) Zhu Yuling
Hint: She has won the gold twice in world table tennis championships.
Did you know? The competitions in table tennis world cup are classified as R1 in rating
weightings, B2 in bonus weightings in the ITTF world ranking.

Quiz-2: India in Table Tennis

1. Which one is the national governing body of table tennis in India?

a) Table Tennis federation of India

b) Federation of Table tennis India
c) India Table Tennis federation
d) Table tennis India federation
Hint: It was founded in 1926.
Did you know? Currently, Mr. P.C Chaturvedi is the president of National governing body of
table tennis in India.

2. What is the current ranking of India in World table tennis?

 a) 24th
b) 27th
c) 30th
d) 31st
Hint: This number is semi perfect number.
Did you know? The ITTF was founded by William Henry Lawes of Wymondham, the nine
founding members being Austria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, England, Germany, Hungary,
India, Sweden and Wales.

3. Which Indian table tennis player succeeded to get rank in the top 50 of world’s table tennis
player?

a) Mamta Prabhu
b) Sharath Kamal
c) Poulomi Ghatak
d) Mouma Das
Hint: This player has 43rd current world rank.
Did you know? Mouma Das and Manika Batra reached the reach the quarterfinals of the 2017
World Table Tennis Championships, becoming the first Indian pair and the first Indians in over
61 years to do so at the World Championships.

4. Which Indian table tennis player has won the first ever gold in commonwealth table tennis
championship?

a) Sharath Kamal
b) Chetan Baboor
c) Subramaniam Raman
d) Subhajit Saha
Hint: He has won two gold in commonwealth table tennis championships.
Did you know? India has hosted the commonwealth table tennis championship six times.

5. In which commonwealth games, Indian women’s team won silver in table tennis?

a) 2002
b) 2006
c) 2010
d) 2014
Hint: Mamta Prabhu was the part of women team in Commonwealth Games that year.
Did you know? In 2007, Mamta Prabhu won a Gold Medal in the Indian Open Table Tennis
tournament held in Shillong, India.
 6. Which tennis player won the gold medal for India in Commonwealth Games men’s singles?

a) Sharath Kamal
b) Chetan Baboor
c) Subramaniam Raman
d) Mamta Prabhu
Hint: This player won at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.
Did you know? In 2001, commonwealth table tennis championship held in India at Indra
Gandhi Indoor Stadium.

Quiz-3: Table Tennis in world

1. In which year, the commonwealth table tennis started?

a) 1969
b) 1971
c) 1979
d) 2002
Hint: That year, Singapore was the host country.
Did you know? India has hosted the commonwealth table tennis consecutively in 2013 and 2015.

2. Where the first World Table Tennis championship played?

a) England
b) Hungary
c) Germany
d) Sweden
Hint: This country also hosted in 1954.
Did you know? In between 1989 to 2000, Sweden won the title of world championship four
times.

3. Which country holds the most title of World table tennis championship in men’s team?

a) Hungary
b) Japan
c) China
d) Sweden
Hint: This country holds 20 world championship title.
Did you know? In the 1950s, Japan's women team was a force to be reckoned with winning a
total of 8 titles

4. Who is the current ranked 1st table tennis men player of the world?
 a) Zhang Jike
b) Xu Xin
c) Fan Zhendong
d) Ma Long
Hint: He is number 1st since March 2015
Did you know? China is the most successful country in Table Tennis.

5. In which year, ITTF World tour introduced?

a) 1990
b) 1996
c) 1998
d) 1994
Hint: It is known as the ITTF Pro Tour until 2011.
Did you know? The players who gain the most points in each of the six different categories of
ITTF world tour, will be invited to participate in the ITTF World Tour Grand Finals at the end of
the year.

6. Who won the first Australian open of ITTF World tour in men’s single?

a) Ding Song
b) Karl Jindrak
c) Werner Schlager
d) Wang Chen
Hint: He is an Austrian table tennis player.
Did you know? In Egypt open of ITTF world tour 2010, Sharath Kamal of India won in men’s
singles.