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Question : 11 [SSC CGL 2016]

Who among the following was not a member of Boxing team of India at Rio Olympics?

a) Vikas Krishan

b) Manoj Kumar

c) Avtar Singh

d) Shiv Thapa

Answer: (c)

Three boxers represented India at the 2016 Rio Olympics:

  1. Shiva Thapa in 56 kg,
  2. Manoj Kumar in 64 kg and
  3. Vikas Krishan in 75 kg categories.

Avtar Singh is an Indian judoka who represented India at the 2016 Rio Olympics. He lost in the first round against Popole Misenga of the Refugee Olympic Team in the Men’s 90 kg event.

Question : 12

Who won the LG People’s Choice Awards 2014 ?

a) Bhuvneshwar Kumar

b) Rohit Sharma

c) M.S. Dhoni

d) Virat Kohali

Answer: (a)

Cricketer Bhuvneshwar Kumar won LG People’s Choice Award 2014. He is the third Indian player after Sachin and Dhoni to win the coveted prize.

Question : 13

Dipa Karmakar, who won a bronze medal in the Glasgow Commonwealth games-2014 is associated with which game?

a) Judoka

b) Squash

c) Shooting

d) Artistic gymnastics

Answer: (d)

Dipa Karmakar became the first Indian to win a medal in artistic gymnastics at a major sporting event.

Question : 14 [Kerala PSC (Pre) 2016]

India first won the Olympic Hockey gold at

a) Berlin

b) Rome

c) London

d) Amsterdam

Answer: (d)

Question : 15 [SSC SO 2006]

When were the first recorded Olympics held ?

a) 320 BC

b) 776 BC

c) 80 AD

d) 825 BC

Answer: (b)

In ancient history, the first recorded Olympic Games took place in a glade called Olympia, surrounded by a pine forest on the northwestern coast of the Peloponnesus, in the year 776 BCE.

That was the date when the names of the winners were first recorded, but the games themselves go back another 1500 years at least.

They continued to be celebrated when Greece came under Roman rule until the emperor Theodosius I suppressed them in 394 AD as part of the campaign to impose Christianity as the state religion of Rome.

The games were usually held every four years, or olympiad, which became a unit of time in historical chronologies.;

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