Sports Current Affairs Questions and Answers

Answer: A

Bhavinaben Patel won India's first silver medal in the Tokyo Paralympics, held in August 2021, in table tennis, in the women's singles class 4 event. She lost the final to Zhou Ying of China and became the first Indian table tennis player to win a Paralympic medal.

Shooting, archery and badminton also produced Indian Paralympic medals at Tokyo, but not this first silver medal. Badminton was on the Paralympic programme for the first time in 2020, and the medals there came later in the Games.

Answer: B

Virat Kohli reached 12000 ODI runs fastest, in 242 innings, in November 2020 against Australia. Sachin Tendulkar needed 300 innings for the same mark, so Kohli beat his record by 58 innings.

Rohit Sharma and Steve Smith had not reached 12000 ODI runs by December 2020, so neither could be the fastest to that mark.

Answer: B

India won two silver medals at the Tokyo Olympics held in 2021 under the name 2020 Summer Olympics: Mirabai Chanu in weightlifting and Ravi Kumar Dahiya in wrestling. India's total of seven medals also included one gold (Neeraj Chopra in javelin) and four bronze. So the number of silver medals is 2, not 1, 4 or 7; 7 is the total of all medals. Mirabai Chanu won silver in the women's 49 kg weightlifting event and Ravi Kumar Dahiya won silver in the 57 kg wrestling event, which are the two silver medals of India at the games.

Answer: C

Novak Djokovic won the men's singles title of the Australian Open in 2021, beating Daniil Medvedev in straight sets in the final at Melbourne, and this was his ninth title at that tournament. Rafael Nadal lost in the quarter-finals that year and Andy Murray did not go far, and Medvedev, the runner-up, lost the final. So the winner was Novak Djokovic, option (C), and the other names are distractors from the draw. The final was played at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, and the scores were 7-5, 6-2, 6-2.

Answer: B

Pramod Bhagat, from Odisha, won a gold medal in men's singles SL3 badminton at the Tokyo Paralympic Games, which were held in 2021 and named Tokyo 2020, when badminton was played at the Paralympics for the first time. He beat Daniel Bethell of Great Britain in the final. He is not a shooter, a table tennis player or an archer, so the sport is Badminton, option (B). The SL3 class is for players with a lower limb impairment, and Bhagat, who has had a physical impairment since childhood, won it by 21-14, 21-17.

Answer: B

Manika Batra became the first Indian woman to win a medal at the Asian Cup Table Tennis tournament, when she took a bronze in November 2022 at Bangkok. She is among India's leading paddlers and had earlier won gold at the Commonwealth Games.

Naina Jaiswal, Sutirtha Mukherjee and Mouma Das are other Indian players, but none of them is the one the key gives for this first. The second option is the answer.

Answer: C

The key gives Supriya Jatav, of Madhya Pradesh, as the karate player who won a mixed event gold and an individual bronze in the 55 to 61 kg kumite category at the US Open Karate Championships in Las Vegas. News reports from 2022 describe her as the first Indian karate player to win a gold medal in the mixed event there.

I could not confirm the exact year from a primary source, since one reference gives an earlier date for a US Open title, so the answer rests on the key and the news reports. Sandhya Shetty, Bhavisha Singh and Tashvi Menghi are the other names offered.

Answer: B

The company was Domino's.

After Mirabai Chanu won silver in weightlifting at Tokyo 2020 and said she would first eat a pizza, Domino's India replied on social media that she would get free Domino's pizza for life.

Pizza Hut, La Pino'z and Chicago Pizza did not make this offer.

The offer was widely reported in July 2021 after Chanu's silver in the 49 kg weightlifting event, India's first medal at Tokyo 2020. Domino's India replied to a social media post saying it would give her free pizza for life and sent pizzas to her family in Imphal. The other names are not linked to the offer.

Answer: C

The 2023 ICC Women's T20 World Cup was held in South Africa, in February 2023. India, Australia and New Zealand all played in the tournament but none of them hosted it, so the first, second and fourth options are wrong. South Africa is the only option that names the host country of that edition. Australia beat the hosts in the final at Cape Town to win the title.

Answer: D

Bhakti Pradip Kulkarni received the Arjuna Award 2022 for chess, along with R Praggnanandhaa. She is an International Master from Goa and was part of the Indian team that won bronze at the 44th Chess Olympiad in Chennai. Para swimming, shooting and judo are not the sports for which she was honoured. She is the first woman from Goa to win the Arjuna Award, and the award ended a long gap since a chess player had last received it.