Commonwealth Games GK 2018
1. What nation is not participating in Commonwealth Games 2018?
France
2.Who is the current Head of the Commonwealth?
Queen Elizabeth II
3.What is the host city of the 2018 Commonwealth Games?
Gold Coast
4.By which name the XXI Commonwealth Games is known as?
Goldcoast 2018
5.What is the mascot name of XXI Commonwealth Games?
Borobi
6.What is the motto of the Gold Coast 2018?
Share the Dream
7.How many times Australia has hosted the Commonwealth Games?
5 times
8.When Australia won bid to host Commonwealth Games 2018?
2011
9.How many nations are participating in 2018 Commonwealth Games?
71
10.Who made the Athletes Oath in 2018 Commonwealth Games?
Karen Murphy
11.What city to host 2022 Commonwealth Games?
Birmingham
12.What country is leading in winning gold medal?
Australia
13.What was the host city of 2014 Commonwealth Games?
Glasgow
14.By which name the Commonwealth Games earliest known as?
British Empire Games
15.In which year the first Commonwealth Games were held?
1930
16.There are how many sport events in 2018 Commonwealth Games?
275
17.What team won first medal in Gold Coast 2018?
England
18.How many athletes participated in 2014 Commonwealth Games?
4947
19.What was the host city of XIX Commonwealth Games held in 2010?
New Delhi
20.What was the host city of XVIII Commonwealth Games held in 2006?
Melbourne
21.What is the main venue of 2018 Commonwealth Games?
Carrara Stadium
22.How many contestants represents India at the Commonwealth Games 2018?
218
23.Who won gold in women’s 48 kg weightlifting event in the 2018 Commonwealth Games?
Saikhom Mirabai Chanu
24.Who won gold in Men’s 400 meter freestyle swimming event?
Mack Horton
25.Who won gold in Women’s 58 kg weightlifting event in 2018 Commonwealth Games?
Tia Clair Toomey
26.Who won gold in Women’s sprint cycling event in 2018 Commonwealth Games?
Stephanie Morton
27.Who won gold in Men’s 10 meter air pistol shooting event in Gold Coast 2018?
Jitu Rai
28.Who won gold in women’s 69kg weightlifting even in Gold Coast 2018?
Punam Yadav
29.There are how many sports in Gold Coast 2018?
19
30.Who won gold in men’s sprint cycling track event in 2018 Commonwealth Games?
Sam Webster
31.Which gymnast from Northern Ireland won first gold in Men’s pommel horse event in Gold Coast 2018?
Rhys McClenaghan
32.Which Indian weightlifter won gold in Men’s 77 kg event in Gold Coast 2018?
Sathish Sivalingam
33.Which Australian won gold in women’s 100 meter freestyle s8 swimming event in 2018 CWG?
Lakeisha Patterson
34.How many gold India won at 2018 CWG?
26
35.How many medals India won totally at 2018 Commonwealth Games?
66
36.Who won gold in women’s 25 meter pistol event in shooting in 2018 Gold Coast?
Heena Sidhu
37.Who won gold in women’s light flyweight 48 kg boxing event in Gold Coast 2018?
Mary Kom
38.How many countries are in the Commonwealth Games?
Although there are 53 members of the Commonwealth of Nations, 71 teams participate in the Commonwealth Games, as a number of dependent territories compete under their own flags. The four Home Nations of the United Kingdom—England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland—also send separate teams.
39.Where are the Commonwealth Games being held?
The 2018 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXI Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Gold Coast 2018, is an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth that will be held on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia between 4 and 15 April 2018.
40.Which city will host the 2018 Commonwealth Games?
| 2018 Commonwealth Games bidding results | ||
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| City | Country | Votes |
| Gold Coast City | Australia | 43 |
| Hambantota | Sri Lanka | 27 |
41.What sports are played at the Commonwealth Games?
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Athletics
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Badminton
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Basketball
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Bowls
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Boxing
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Cycling
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Diving
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Gymnastics
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Hockey
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Netball
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Rugby Sevens
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Shooting
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Squash
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Swimming
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Table Tennis
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Triathlon
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Volleyball
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Weightlifting
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Wrestling
41.When will the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games (GC2018) be held?
The Gold Coast will host the Commonwealth Games from 4-15 April in 2018.
42.Who is organising GC2018?
The Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Corporation (GOLDOC) have the role to plan, organise and deliver GC2018, working alongside the Commonwealth Games Federation, Australian Commonwealth Games Association, Federal and Queensland Government and the Gold Coast City Council.
43.Where will the Games be held?
Events will predominately be held at venues on the Gold Coast. Some events will also be held in Brisbane, Townsville and Cairns.
44.What sports will be contested at GC2018?
Eighteen sports and 7 para-sports will be contested at GC2018. A complete list is available on the sports page.
46.What are the dates and times for the GC2018 Sports Program?
You can check the full sports program and plan you games with our handy interactive competition schedule.
47.Past games
Commonwealth Games have been held on the following years, in these locations:
- 1930 Hamilton (Canada)
- 1934 London (England)
- 1938 Sydney (Australia)
- 1950 Auckland (New Zealand)
- 1954 Vancouver (Canada)
- 1958 Cardiff (Wales)
- 1962 Perth (Australia)
- 1966 Kingston (Jamaica)
- 1970 Edinburgh (Scotland)
- 1974 Christchurch (New Zealand)
- 1978 Edmonton (Canada)
- 1982 Brisbane (Australia)
- 1986 Edinburgh (Scotland)
- 1990 Auckland (New Zealand)
- 1994 Victoria (Canada)
- 1998 Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
- 2002 Manchester (England)
- 2006 Melbourne (Australia)
- 2010 Delhi (India)
- 2014 Glasgow (Scotland)
- and 2018 will be held on the Gold Coast (Australia)
48.The Commonwealth Games are the third-largest multi-sport event in the world, after …
Olympic Games and the Asian Games
49.Which of these nations has competed in the Commonwealth Games ?
Bangladesh
50.Which Indian shooter won the gold in the women’s 25m pistol event?
Heena Sidhu
51. Who became the only second Indian after legendary Milkha Singh to qualify for 400m finals in CWG 2018?
Mohammad Anas
52. Which Indian shooter won the gold medal in the women’s double trap event?
Shreyasi Singh
53.Who won the Gold medal in 10m men’s air pistol at Commonwealth Games 2018?
Jitu Rai
54.Who won the Gold medal in 10m women’s air pistol at Commonwealth Games 2018?
Manu Bhaker
55.Indian weightlifter Punam Yadav has won gold in which women’s weightlifting category at CWG 2018?
69kg
56.The Indian women’s table tennis team defeated which nation to bag the gold medal at Commonwealth Games 2018?
Singapore
57.Which Indian Para athlete became the first one to clinch a Paralympic medal for India in CWG 2018?
Sachin Chaudhary
59.Which Indian wrestler won gold in the 74kg men’s freestyle wrestling event at CWG 2018?
Sushil Kumar
60.Who became the youngest Indian to win a gold medal in the Commonwealth Games?
Anish Bhanwala
61. Which team event was dominated by India in both men’s and women’s category?
Table Tennis
62.Which Indian wrestler won the gold medal in the men’s 85kg category?
Venkat Rahul Ragala
63.Which Indian wrestler won gold in the men’s freestyle 65 kg category?
Bajrang Punia
64.Who became the first Indian javelin thrower to claim a gold medal at CWG 2018?
Neeraj Chopra
65.Who the gold medal in Table Tennis women’s singles?
Manika Batra
66.India has won how many gold medals at the Commonwealth Games 2018?
26
67. India finished at which position at CWG 2018?
Third
68.Medal Standings
| Rank | Nation |  |
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Total |
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| 1 | Australia | 80 | 59 | 59 | 198 |
| 2 | England | 45 | 45 | 46 | 136 |
| 3 | India | 26 | 20 | 20 | 66 |
| 4 | Canada | 15 | 40 | 27 | 82 |
| 5 | New Zealand | 15 | 16 | 15 | 46 |
| 6 | South Africa | 13 | 11 | 13 | 37 |
| 7 | Wales | 10 | 12 | 14 | 36 |
| 8 | Scotland | 9 | 13 | 22 | 44 |
| 9 | Nigeria | 9 | 9 | 6 | 24 |
| 10 | Cyprus | 8 | 1 | 5 | 14 |
| 11 | Jamaica | 7 | 9 | 11 | 27 |
| 12 | Malaysia | 7 | 5 | 12 | 24 |
| 13 | Singapore | 5 | 2 | 2 | 9 |
| 14 | Kenya | 4 | 7 | 6 | 17 |
| 15 | Uganda | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 16 | Botswana | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 17 | Samoa | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 18 | Trinidad and Tobago | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 19 | Namibia | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 20 | Northern Ireland | 1 | 7 | 4 | 12 |
| 21 | The Bahamas | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 22 | Papua New Guinea | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 23 | Fiji | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 24 | Pakistan | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| 25 | Grenada | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 26 | Bermuda | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 26 | Guyana | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 26 | British Virgin Is. | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 26 | Saint Lucia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 30 | Bangladesh | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 31 | Sri Lanka | 0 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 32 | Cameroon | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 33 | Dominica | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 34 | Isle of Man | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 34 | Mauritius | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 34 | Nauru | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 37 | Malta | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 37 | Vanuatu | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 39 | Cook Islands | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 39 | Ghana | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 39 | Norfolk Island | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 39 | Seychelles | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 39 | Solomon Islands | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
69. New Zealand claimed how many total medals at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, the country’s third-best tally?
46
70.After winning two golds and a bronze on the Gold Coast, Joelle King now has how many Commonwealth Games medals?
6
71.New Zealand defeated Fiji by what score to win the men’s sevens gold medal at the Commonwealth Games?
14-0
72.How many of host nation Australia’s table-topping 198 medals at the Commonwealth Games were gold?
80
73.England stunned Australia by what score in the final to win the netball gold medal at the Commonwealth Games?
51-52
74.How many of New Zealand’s 46 medals came in team sports (not team events) at the Commonwealth Games?
6
75.Howmany Nations Are Participating 2018 Commonwealth games?
71
76.Motto of the 2018 Commonwealth game?
Share the Dream
77.Which city host 2018 commonwealth games?
Gold Coast Queensland
78.Which Country Host 2018 Common wealth games ?
Australia
79.Who is won the first Gold medal in india 2018 Commonwealth games ?
Mira Bhai Chanu
80.Which African City will host 2022 Commonwealth Games ?
Durban
81.The 2018 commonwealth games Officialy Known as?
XX1 Commonwealth games
82.In which of the following Venue the 2018 Commonwealth Games were held recently in Queensland, Australia?
Carrara Stadium
The Badminton World Federation (BWF) highlighted 5 top players as the first Integrity Ambassadors to promote clean, fair and honourable sport.
India’s ace shuttler Saina Nehwal is one of them.
Denmark’s Christinna Pedersen and Viktor Axelsen, Saina and Japan’s Women’s Doubles pair, Misaki Matsutomo and Ayaka Takahashi were the others.
She became the only female player from India and the overall second Indian player after Prakash Padukone to attain this feat of being World Number 1 in BWF rankings.
She has represented India three times in Olympics, winning bronze in the second appearance.
Know About Saina Nehwal:
- BornL 17 March 1990
- She is a professional badminton singles player from India.
- Nehwal, the former world no. 1, has maintained her world ranking in the top ten since 2009.
- Won over twenty international titles, which include ten Superseries titles.
- In 2015 she was able to attain the world no. 1 ranking.
97. Shooting:
The list of Medal Winners are:
| S.No | Name | Event | Medal |
| 1 | Manu Bhaker | Women’s 10 metre air pistol | Gold |
| 2 | Jitu Rai | Men’s 10 metre air pistol | Gold |
| 3 | Heena Sidhu | Women’s 25 metre Pistol | Gold |
| 4 | Shreyasi Singh | Women’s Double Trap | Gold |
| 5 | Tejaswini Sawant | Women’s 50metre rifle 3 Positions | Gold |
| 6 | Anish Bhanwala | Men’s 25 metre rapid fire Pistol | Gold |
| 7 | Sanjeev Rajput | Men’s 50metre rifle 3 Positions | Gold |
| 8 | Heena Sidhu | Women’s 10 metre air pistol | Silver |
| 9 | Mehuli Ghosh | Women’s 10 metre air rifle | Silver |
| 10 | Tejaswini Sawant | Women’s 50metre rifle prone | Silver |
| 11 | Anjum Moudgil | Women’s 50m rifle 3 Positions | Silver |
| 12 | Ravi Kumar | Men’s 10 metre air rifle | Bronze |
| 13 | Om Prakash Mitharwal | Men’s 10 metre air pistol | Bronze |
| 14 | Apurvi Chandela | Women’s 10 metre air rifle | Bronze |
| 15 | Om Prakash Mitharwal | Men’s 50 metre pistol | Bronze |
| 16 | Ankur Mittal | Men’s double trap | Bronze |
Wrestling:
The list of Medal Winners are:
| S.No | Name | Event | Medal |
| 1 | Rahul Aware | Men’s freestyle 57 kg | Gold |
| 2 | Sushil Kumar | Men’s freestyle 74 kg | Gold |
| 3 | Bajrang Punia | Men’s freestyle 65 kg | Gold |
| 4 | Sumit Malik | Men’s freestyle 125 kg | Gold |
| 5 | Vinesh Phogat | Women’s freestyle 50 kg | Gold |
| 6 | Babita Kumari | Women’s freestyle 53 kg | Silver |
| 7 | Pooja Dhanda | Women’s freestyle 57 kg | Silver |
| 8 | Mausam Khatri | Men’s freestyle 97 kg | Silver |
| 9 | Kiran Bishnoi | Women’s freestyle 76 kg | Bronze |
| 10 | Divya Kakran | Women’s freestyle 68 kg | Bronze |
| 11 | Sakshi Malik | Women’s freestyle 62 kg | Bronze |
| 12 | Somveer Kadian | Men’s freestyle 86 kg | Bronze |
| S.No | Name | Event | Medal |
| 1 | Saikhom Mirabai Chanu | Women’s 48 kg | Gold |
| 2 | Khumukcham Sanjita Chanu | Women’s 53 kg | Gold |
| 3 | Sathish Sivalingam | Men’s 77 kg | Gold |
| 4 | Ragala Venkat Rahul | Men’s 85 kg | Gold |
| 5 | Punam Yadav | Women’s 69 kg | Gold |
| 6 | Gururaja Poojary | Men’s 56 kg | Silver |
| 7 | Pardeep Singh | Men’s 105 kg | Silver |
| 8 | Deepak Lather | Men’s 69 kg | Bronze |
| 9 | Vikas Thakur | Men’s 94 kg | Bronze |
Boxing:
The list of Medal Winners are:
| S.No | Name | Event | Medal |
| 1 | Mary Kom | Women’s light flyweight 48 kg | Gold |
| 2 | Gaurav Solanki | Men’s flyweight 52 kg | Gold |
| 3 | Vikas Krishan Yadav | Men’s middleweight 75 kg | Gold |
| 4 | Amit Panghal | Men’s light flyweight 49 kg | Silver |
| 5 | Manish Kaushik | Men’s lightweight 60 kg | Silver |
| 6 | Satish Kumar | Men’s super heavyweight (+91 kg) | Silver |
| 7 | Naman Tanwar | Men’s heavyweight 91 kg | Bronze |
| 8 | Hussamuddin Mohammed | Men’s bantamweight 56 kg | Bronze |
| 9 | Manoj Kumar | Men’s welterweight 69 kg | Bronze |
Table Tennis:
The list of Medal Winners are:
| S.No | Name | Event | Medal |
| 1 | Manika Batra Mouma Das Sutirtha Mukherjee Madhurika Patkar Pooja Sahasrabudhe |
Women’s team | Gold |
| 2 | Sharath Achanta Anthony Amalraj Harmeet Desai Sanil Shetty Sathiyan Gnanasekaran |
Men’s team | Gold |
| 3 | Manika Batra | Women’s singles | Gold |
| 4 | Manika Batra Mouma Das |
Women’s doubles | Silver |
| 5 | Sharath Achanta Sathiyan Gnanasekaran |
Men’s doubles | Silver |
| 6 | Harmeet Desai Sanil Shetty |
Men’s doubles | Bronze |
| 7 | Manika Batra Sathiyan Gnanasekaran |
Mixed doubles | Bronze |
| 8 | Sharath Achanta | Men’s singles | Bronze |
Badminton:
The list of Medal Winners are:
| S.No | Name | Event | Medal |
| 1 | Pranav Chopra Prannoy Kumar Saina Nehwal Ashwini Ponnappa Satwiksairaj Rankireddy Sikki Reddy Chirag Shetty Gadde Ruthvika Shivani P V Sindhu Kidambi Srikanth |
Mixed team | Gold |
| 2 | Saina Nehwal | Women’s singles | Gold |
| 3 | P. V. Sindhu | Women’s singles | Silver |
| 4 | Kidambi Srikanth | Men’s singles | Silver |
| 5 | Satwiksairaj Rankireddy Chirag Shetty |
Men’s doubles | Silver |
| 6 | Ashwini Ponnappa Sikki Reddy |
Women’s doubles | Bronze |
Athletics:
The list of Medal Winners are:
| S.No | Name | Event | Medal |
| 1 | Neeraj Chopra | Men’s javelin throw | Gold |
| 2 | Seema Antil | Women’s discus throw | Silver |
| 3 | Navjeet Dhillon | Women’s discus throw | Bronze |
Squash:
The list of Medal Winners are:
| S.No | Name | Event | Medal |
| 1 | Dipika Pallikal Karthik, Saurav Ghosal |
Mixed doubles | Silver |
| 2 | Dipika Pallikal Karthik, Joshna Chinappa |
Women’s doubles | Silver |
Para Powerlifting:
| S.No | Name | Event | Medal |
| 1 | Sachin Chaudhary | Men’s heavyweight | Bronze |