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Answer: (d)

India competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, the People’s Republic of China. On 11 August 2008, Abhinav Bindra won the gold medal in the men’s 10 m air rifle shooting event. In doing so, he won the first-ever individual gold medal for India, and the first medal in any event for India at the Beijing Games.

Sushil Kumar won the second-ever wrestling medal for India, the first being the bronze earned by Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav in the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. Vijender Kumar won a bronze medal in the middleweight boxing category, having lost in the semifinals. This was India’s first-ever Olympic medal in boxing. The 2008 Beijing Olympics saw the best ever performance by an Indian contingent, in terms of the number of medals.

They won three medals in all (one gold and two bronze medals), surpassing the two silvers by Norman Pritchard in the 1900 Paris Olympics and the gold and bronze medals won by the Indian field hockey team and Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav respectively, at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics.

Note: At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, India got silver to badminton player P. V. Sindhu in the women’s singles and bronze to freestyle wrestler Sakshi Malik in the women’s 58 kg. In Paralympics 2016, India won 4 medals won (2 Gold, 1 Silver and 1 Bronze).

Answer: (b)

The 2010 Asian Games, also known as the XVI Asiad, was a multi-sport event celebrated in Guangzhou, China from November 12 to 27, 2010. Guangzhou was the second Chinese city to host the Games, after Beijing in 1990.

A total of 9,704 athletes from 45 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) competed in 476 events from 42 sports and disciplines (28 Olympic sports and 14 non-Olympic sports), making it the largest event in the history of the Games.

Answer: (b)

Answer: (c)

The 2010 FIFA World Cup was the 19th FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men’s national association football teams. It took place in South Africa from 11 June to 11 July 2010. The matches were played in ten stadiums in nine host cities around the country, with the final played at the Soccer City stadium in South Africa’s largest city, Johannesburg.

Thirty-two teams were selected for participation via a worldwide qualification tournament that began in August 2007. In the final, Spain, the European champions, defeated third-time finalists the Netherlands 1–0 after extra time, with Andrés Iniesta’s goal in the 116th minute giving Spain their first world title, becoming the eighth nation to win the tournament, and the first European nation to win the tournament outside its home continent.

Note: 2018 FIFA World Cup is scheduled to take place in Russia. Zabivaka, the Official Mascot for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. It means “the one who scores” in Russian, a very suitable name for this wolf who radiates fun, charm and confidence.;

Answer: (b)