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Questions : Who won the first silver medal for an individual event at the Olympics for India ?

(a) Major R.S. Rathore

(b) Wilson Jones

(c) Leander Paes

(d) Maharaja Karni Singh

The correct answers to the above question in:

Answer: (a)

Colonel Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore is an Indian shooter who won the silver medal in Men’s Double Trap at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.

He is the first Indian (post-independence) to win an individual silver, after Norman Pritchard, a British origin born in India, who won two silver medals at the 1900 Paris Olympics.

Rathore’s silver was India’s best individual Olympic performance post-Indian Independence.;

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Question : 1

Babita Kumari represented India in the Rio Olympics 2016 in which sport?

a) Hockey

b) Wrestling

c) Badminton

d) Boxing

Answer: (b)

Babita Kumari is an Indian female wrestler, who won a silver medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. She also won a bronze medal at the 2012 World Wrestling Championships, and won the gold medal in 2014 Commonwealth Games.;

Question : 2

Who won the National Billiards title for seventh time ?

a) S. Shrikrishna

b) None of these

c) Ishpreet Singh Chadha

d) Pankaj Advani

Answer: (d)

Pankaj Advani won National Billiards Championship at the Bengal Rowing club in Kolkata.

He defeated his PSPB male Dhruv Sitwala. This was his seventh senior National Billiards Championship.

Advani has won the previous six titles in

  1. 2005,
  2. 2007,
  3. 2008,
  4. 2009,
  5. 2011 and
  6. 2012.

Question : 3

Consider the following statements.

  1. Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe was awarded with the 2015 Confucius Peace Prize by China.
  2. The prize was established in 2009 by China’s Communist Government after it was angered by Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to the imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.
  3. Some of the previous recipients of the award are Vladimir Putin (2011), Kofi Annan and Yuan Longping (2012) and Fidel Castro (2014).
Which of the above statement(s) is/are correct?Codes:

a) 1 and 3 only

b) 1 and 2 only

c) 2 and 3 only

d) None of these

Answer: (a)

The prize was established in 2010 by China’s Communist Government after it was angered by Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to the imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.

Question : 4

Beighton Cup and Agha Khan Cup are associated with which of the following games?

a) Hockey

b) Cricket

c) Football

d) Volleyball

Answer: (a)

Question : 5

In which among the following Commonwealth Games, India won maximum medals ?

a) 1998, Kualalampur

b) 1990, Auckland

c) 2002, Manchester

d) 1994, Victoria

Answer: (c)

India has competed in fourteen of the eighteen previous Commonwealth Games; starting at the second Games in 1934. India hosted the 2010 Commonwealth Games which were held in Delhi. India won 101 medals in total, including 38 Gold medals, enabling it to finish the Games at second position behind Australia.

For the first time in the history of the Games India won over 100 medals in total. For the first time in the history of the Games, India won a medal in Gymnastics, where Ashish Kumar won Silver and a Bronze. And it was after a gap of 52 years that India won Gold in Athletics when Krishna Poonia won Gold in Women’s discus throw.

Note: The 2010 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XIX Commonwealth Games, were held in Delhi, India, from 3 to 14 October 2010.

Here India won the highest of 101 medal and secured 2nd position. India participated in the 2014 Commonwealth Games at Glasgow, Scotland, the United Kingdom held from 23 July to 3 August 2014.

Here India won a total of 64 medals and secured 5th position. The 2018 Commonwealth Games will be held on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia between 4 and 15 April 2018.

Question : 6

Consider the following statements about the World anti-Doping Agency (WADA).

  1. ‘It was set up on November 10, 1999 in New York.
  2. The agency’s key activitiesinclude scientific research, educaiton, development of antidoping capacities and monitoring of the World Anti-Doping Code.
Which of the above is/are true?

a) Both 1 and 2

b) None of these

c) 2 only

d) 1 only

Answer: (c)

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