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(a) Shooting, Wrestling and Tennis
(b) Shooting, Boxing and Archery
(c) Shooting, Boxing and Hockey
(d) Shooting, Boxing and Wrestling
The correct answers to the above question in:
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).
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Question : 1
Which of the following statements is incorrect?
a) The next World Cup Football is scheduled to be held in 2010 in South Africa
b) The next Asian Games in 2010 are scheduled to be held at Bangkok
c) The first-ever Afro-Asian Games were held in 2003 at Hyderabad
d) The next Commonwealth Games in 2010 are scheduled to be held at New Delhi
Answer »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.
Question : 2
Aswini Nachappa distinguished herself in
a) Badminton
b) Athletics
c) Hockey
d) Swimming
Answer »Answer: (b)
Question : 3
The 2010 World Cup Football Tournament will be held in
a) Germany
b) China
c) South Africa
d) France
Answer »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.;
Question : 4
Which among the following teams won Hero Hockey India League (HHIL) 2015?
a) Uttar Pradesh Wizards
b) Delhi Waveriders
c) Punjab Warriors
d) Ranchi Rays
Answer »Answer: (d)
Ranchi Rays defeated Punjab Warriors by 3-2 goals in the final match of HHIL 2015. The result was decided through tie-breaker.
Question : 5
The term ‘Gambit’ is associated with
a) Basketball
b) Baseball
c) Tennis
d) Chess
Answer »Answer: (d)
A Gambit is a term associated with the game of Chess. Gambit is a chess opening in which a player sacrifices material, usually a pawn, with the hope of achieving a resulting advantageous position.
Question : 6
At Rio Olympics, what was the final position of Dipa Karmakar in her category?
a) 6
b) 5
c) 7
d) 4
Answer »Answer: (d)
Dipa Karmakar, India’s first-ever female gymnast ever to compete in the Olympics, attained 4thposition in the Women's Vault Gymnastics event of Rio Olympics 2016 with an overall score of 15.066.
For her commendable performance in Rio Olympics 2016, the Government of India conferred upon her the Khel Ratna award in August 2016.;
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