Sports Questions and Answers

Answer: D

The correct pairs are 2 and 4.

The Venus Rosewater Dish is the trophy for the women's singles champion at Wimbledon (2), and the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup is the trophy for the women's singles champion at the Australian Open (4).

The other two pairs are swapped: Flushing Meadows in New York is the home of the US Open, and Roland Garros in Paris is the home of the French Open. So options containing 1 or 3 are wrong.

Answer: D

The weightlifter of international fame is Karnam Malleshwari.

Karnam Malleswari won the bronze medal in weightlifting at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, becoming the first Indian woman to win an Olympic medal. She had earlier won world championship titles.

Sunita Williams is an astronaut who has spent long periods on the International Space Station, and Bachendri Pal was the first Indian woman to climb Mount Everest. Suryamani is the forest-rights activist from Jharkhand whose story appears in the EVS textbook; she is not a weightlifter.

Answer: C

Karnam Malleswari played weight lifting.

She won a bronze medal in weightlifting at the Sydney Olympics in 2000, becoming the first Indian woman to win an Olympic medal. She was also a world champion in her category in the 1990s.

She was not a wrestler, cricketer or chess player; those options name other sports in which Indian women have done well.

Answer: A

The correct matching is A-3, B-1, C-4, D-2.

• The B.C. Roy Trophy is the national junior football championship.
• The Ezra Cup is a polo tournament played in Kolkata.
• The Murugappa Gold Cup is an all-India hockey tournament held in Chennai.
• The Nehru Trophy is the snake boat race on Punnamada lake at Alappuzha, Kerala.

The Nehru Trophy boat race is the best-known anchor, and only one option has it together with football for the B.C. Roy Trophy.

Answer: A

The first ODI at Dharamshala was played between India and England.

The HPCA Stadium in Dharamshala, set against the Dhauladhar range, hosted its first one-day international on 27 January 2013, the last match of England's series in India that winter. England won it by seven wickets.

Since that India-England match opened the ground to one-day internationals, any later fixture there, against South Africa, Australia or New Zealand, cannot be the first, and an England-New Zealand match would not have involved the home side at all.

Answer: A

The mountaineer is Kami Rita Sherpa.

Kami Rita Sherpa of Nepal reached the summit of Mount Everest for the 27th and then the 28th time in May 2023, the most ascents of anyone at the time.

Apa Sherpa held the earlier record of 21 ascents. Ang Dorje Sherpa and Pemba Gyalje Sherpa are well-known Everest guides but are not record holders for the number of ascents.

Answer: A

The first Indian to win a Grand Slam title was Mahesh Bhupati (Bhupathi).

Mahesh Bhupathi won the mixed doubles at the 1997 French Open with Rika Hiraki of Japan, the first Grand Slam title won by an Indian. He went on to win several more in doubles and mixed doubles.

Leander Paes won his first Grand Slam title, the French Open men's doubles with Bhupathi, in 1999. Sania Mirza's first Grand Slam title came in 2009. Ramanathan Krishnan reached two Wimbledon singles semi-finals (1960 and 1961) but never won a Grand Slam event.

Answer: C

The key's answer is 1, 2 and 3.

The 34th National Games were held from 12 to 26 February 2011 in Jharkhand, with Ranchi, Jamshedpur and Dhanbad as venues, and the opening ceremony was held at Ranchi, so statement 1 is accepted. The mascot was Chhaua, a deer figure, and the key treats 'baby deer' as correct for statement 2. Jharkhand, the host, won 33 gold medals (96 medals in all), so statement 3 is true.

Statement 4 is false: Services won the Games with 70 gold medals, and Jharkhand finished fifth. That removes option D. Options A and B each leave out two statements that the key counts as true. Statements 1 and 2 are loosely worded, since the Games were spread over three cities and the mascot's name means 'little boy', but the key is the reading used here.

Answer: B

The correct matching is a-4, b-3, c-2, d-1.

Keenan Stadium is the Tata Steel cricket ground at Jamshedpur (a-4). The MECON Stadium is in Ranchi, at the MECON township in Doranda (b-3). The Paramveer Albert Ekka Stadium is named after the Param Vir Chakra awardee from Gumla district and stands in Gumla (c-2), which leaves the Indoor Stadium for Dumka (d-1).

Once Keenan Stadium is placed in Jamshedpur and the MECON Stadium in Ranchi, only one option remains: the others put Keenan Stadium in Dumka or Ranchi.

Answer: C

Dhoni's first one day International was against Bangladesh.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni made his ODI debut at Chittagong on 23 December 2004, in India's tour of Bangladesh. He was run out for a duck in that match. His breakthrough came a few months later, with 148 against Pakistan at Visakhapatnam in April 2005, which is why Pakistan is a common wrong answer.

He played Australia and England only later in his career, so they cannot be the debut opponents.