Sports Current Affairs Questions and Answers

Answer: A

Rudrankksh Patil won the gold medal.

At the ISSF World Championship in Cairo in October 2022, Rudrankksh Balasaheb Patil won the men's 10 m air rifle gold, becoming only the second Indian after Abhinav Bindra to win a world championship title in the event. The result also earned India a quota place for the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Silver and bronze understate his result.

Answer: C

The MAKA Trophy 2023 was won by Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar.

The Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Trophy is given by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports to the university with the best overall performance in inter-university sport. Guru Nanak Dev University received it for 2023 at the National Sports Awards in January 2024.

Delhi, Jammu and Kurukshetra universities were not the 2023 winners.

Answer: D

The incorrect statement is China won Thomas Cup 2024 by winning all five games against its opponents.

In the 2024 finals at Chengdu, China won both titles, beating Indonesia in each final. The Thomas Cup final ended 3-1, not 5-0, because Indonesia won one of the matches; the Uber Cup final ended 3-0.

So the statements that China won both cups and beat Indonesia in both finals are correct, and only the claim of a clean sweep in the Thomas Cup is wrong.

Answer: D

The incorrect statement is Mumbai team for Ranji Trophy 2024 final was led by Rohit Sharma.

Mumbai were captained by Ajinkya Rahane in the 2023-24 Ranji Trophy final at the Wankhede Stadium in March 2024. Rohit Sharma was not part of the side.

The other statements are correct. Mumbai beat Vidarbha by 169 runs in the final to win their record 42nd title, and their previous title had come in the 2015-16 season, eight years earlier.

Answer: D

The mascot was Sheen-e-She (Shan).

The fourth Khelo India Winter Games, held in 2024 in Ladakh and in Gulmarg, Jammu and Kashmir, had as their mascot a snow leopard named Sheen-e She, or Shan, reflecting the animal of the high Himalaya where the games were held.

A panda, a Ladakh pika and a white tiger are not the 2024 mascot. The pika is a small mammal of the Ladakh highlands, which makes it a tempting distractor.

Answer: B

Only statements 1 and 3 are correct. When the BCCI announced equal match fees for its centrally contracted men and women players in October 2022, the women's fees were raised to Rs 15 lakh per Test, Rs 6 lakh per ODI and Rs 3 lakh per T20I, the same as the men's. Statement 1 (Rs 15 lakh per Test) and statement 3 (Rs 3 lakh per T20I) match these figures. Statement 2 gives Rs 5 lakh per ODI, which is wrong because the ODI fee is Rs 6 lakh. So the options that include statement 2 (only 1 and 2, only 2 and 3, and all three) are wrong, and only 1 and 3 is right.

Answer: A

The Indian cricketer honoured with Brian Lara is Sachin Tendulkar. The Sydney Cricket Ground named a set of gates the Tendulkar-Lara Gates in recognition of the two batters, who produced many memorable innings there. Kapil Dev, Rahul Dravid and Saurav Ganguly (Sourav Ganguly) are Indian cricketers as well, but the honour in the question went to Tendulkar. The question prints the first name as Brain Lara, a misspelling of Brian Lara, and it is left as printed above. The answer follows the official key.

Answer: C

Neeraj Chopra became the first Indian to win a gold medal at the World Athletics Championships, in the men's javelin throw at Budapest in August 2023. Saina Nehwal is a badminton player and Sakshi Malik a wrestler, so neither is an athletics world champion, and Kishor Jena is a javelin thrower who did not win the world gold. So Neeraj Chopra is the answer.

Answer: D

The Mumbai Indians and the Chennai Super Kings are the teams with the most titles in the Indian Premier League, five each, after Chennai won its fifth title in the final of 29 May 2023. Mumbai won in 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2020. Kolkata Knight Riders have won three titles, so the option that pairs them with Chennai is wrong, and the options naming only one of the two top teams leave out the other which has the same number. The answer is Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings, option D.

Answer: D

The answer is shot put. At the 60th Inter-State Athletics Championships in June 2021, Tajinderpal Singh Toor won gold in the shot put, setting a new national record, as the question states. He is a shot putter and not a pole vaulter, high jumper or discus thrower, so the other options do not fit. The record is stated in the question itself, and the event agrees with the official key.