Sports Current Affairs Questions and Answers

Answer: D

Kapil Parmar is associated with Para Judo.

Kapil Parmar, from Sehore district of Madhya Pradesh, won a bronze medal in the men's 60 kg J1 category of judo at the Paris 2024 Paralympics, India's first medal in Paralympic judo.

He is not a para water sports athlete, hockey player or shooter; the Paralympic medal in judo is what made his name. J1 is the classification for judokas with the most severe visual impairment.

Answer: D

Dev Meena won gold in the pole vault.

Dev Kumar Meena of Madhya Pradesh won the pole vault at the 27th National Federation Senior Athletics Championships in 2024, taking the national title in the event.

He is a pole vaulter, not a high jumper, long jumper or steeplechaser. The pole vault is the only one of these events in which the athlete clears the bar with the help of a flexible pole, and good technique on the pole matters as much as sprint speed.

Answer: D

The Madhya Pradesh State Archery Academy is in Jabalpur.

The state's sports department runs a network of residential academies in different cities, and archery is based at Jabalpur, where its trainees have won national and international medals.

Bhopal hosts several of the other state sports academies, which is why it is the usual wrong answer; Indore and Dewas do not house the archery academy.

Answer: B

The key gives Vidhyanshi Mishra (B).

I could not confirm this. I found no report of the IQ Foil results of the 2024 Senior National Sailing Championship that names the gold medallist, and nothing that points to Neha Thakur, Preeti Rajak or Ashi Chouksey instead. The IQ Foil is a hydrofoiling windsurfing class.

The key is kept as printed; the question depends on a sports news item from 2024 that I could not check.

Answer: C

The para-canoe athlete is Prachi Yadav.

Prachi Yadav of Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, is a para-canoeist who represented India at the Tokyo Paralympics. She received the Arjuna Award in the 2023 National Sports Awards.

Aishwarya Pratap Singh Tomar is a shooter from Madhya Pradesh, Sushila Chanu a hockey player from Manipur, and Shivendra Singh a hockey player.

The Arjuna Award is given by the Government of India for outstanding performance in sport over the previous four years.

Answer: C

The youngest Candidates winner is D. Gukesh.

At 17, Gukesh Dommaraju won the 2024 FIDE Candidates Tournament in Toronto, becoming the youngest player ever to win it, and went on to beat Ding Liren for the World Championship later that year.

He broke the record previously held by Garry Kasparov. Anand and Ding Liren were older when they won their places as challengers.

The Candidates Tournament decides the challenger for the World Chess Championship, so his win earned him the title match.

Answer: B

The series was won by India by 4 - 1.

England won the first Test at Hyderabad, but India then won the next four, at Visakhapatnam, Rajkot, Ranchi and Dharamsala, taking the five-Test series 4-1 in March 2024.

England did not win the series, and India's margin was 4-1, not 3-2.

Young players such as Yashasvi Jaiswal, who scored over 700 runs in the series, and Shubman Gill played a large part in the comeback after the first-Test defeat.

Answer: D

The answer is All of the above.

The Indian women's hockey team at the Tokyo Olympics (held in 2021) reached the semi-finals for the first time and finished fourth after losing the bronze medal match to Great Britain. Sushila Chanu and Monika (Monika Malik) played in midfield, and forward Vandana Katariya became the first Indian woman to score a hat-trick at the Olympics, against South Africa.

Since all three named players were part of the squad, no single-player option is complete.

Answer: D

The Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award 2022 went to Sharath Kamal.

Achanta Sharath Kamal, the table tennis player, was the sole recipient of the Khel Ratna for 2022, after winning four medals, including three golds, at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.

Manika Batra received the Khel Ratna in 2020, not 2022. Sathiyan Gnanasekaran received the Arjuna Award, and Kamlesh Mehta is a former national table tennis champion and coach; neither received the 2022 Khel Ratna.

Answer: B

Only two statements are correct, so the answer is Only two, on the key's reading that statement 1 is the false one.

Statement 1: a player does not gain the Grandmaster title by winning the World Championship. FIDE awards titles through norms and rating, or directly for particular results listed in its title regulations, and that direct-titles table has no row for the World Championship. A champion is already a Grandmaster before the match; Gukesh earned the title in 2019. The word 'accorded' is loose, so this statement is the weak point of the question.

Statement 2 is right: a FIDE title once awarded is kept for life. Statement 3 is right: Gukesh Dommaraju beat Ding Liren in Singapore in December 2024 and, at 18, became the youngest undisputed World Champion.

'All three' would need statement 1 to hold, and 'only one' would need one of the other two to fail.