Sports Questions and Answers

Answer: A

Chinki Yadav is associated with Shooting.

Chinki Yadav, from Bhopal, is a pistol shooter who competes in the women's 25 m pistol event. She represented India at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.

She is not a swimmer, hockey player or cricketer, so those options are wrong.

Answer: C

Vivek Sagar Prasad is associated with Hockey.

Vivek Sagar Prasad, from Itarsi in Narmadapuram (Hoshangabad) district, is a midfielder in the Indian men's hockey team. He was part of the team that won the bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, and he trained at the Madhya Pradesh Hockey Academy.

Shooting, archery and cricket are not his sport, so those options are wrong.

Answer: D

The key gives Delhi.

The Amateur Kabaddi Federation of India is the national federation for kabaddi, affiliated to the Indian Olympic Association. Its own public notices of 2021 and 2024 carry a New Delhi (Greater Kailash) address, which agrees with the key.

Some reference sites list Jaipur as its seat, so the sources do not fully agree. I take the federation's own letterhead as the better evidence and the key as right. Bhopal and Gwalior are not associated with the federation's headquarters.

Answer: D

India's first One Day International was against England in 1974.

India played its first ODI on 13 July 1974 at Headingley, Leeds, in a two-match series against England, under the captaincy of Ajit Wadekar. India lost the match by four wickets.

1975 was the year of the first World Cup, in which India played England and New Zealand, but by then India had already played ODIs, so 'England - 1975' and 'New Zealand - 1975' are not the first. India did not play its first ODI against Australia, and 1977 is too late.

Answer: C

The 2025 Dubai doubles title was won by Yuki Bhambri and Alexei Popyrin.

The Indian-Australian pair won the men's doubles at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships, an ATP 500 event held at the turn of February and March 2025.

The other pairs are well-known doubles players used as distractors. Harri Heliovaara and Henry Patten, for example, are a leading team who won Wimbledon in 2024, but they did not take the Dubai title in 2025.

Answer: B

The World Para Athletics Grand Prix 2025 was hosted by New Delhi.

The event was held at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi, in March 2025. It is part of the World Para Athletics Grand Prix series, a circuit of international meets at which para-athletes compete for ranking points.

Mumbai, Chennai and Bengaluru did not host it. The other cities are plausible distractors only because each has hosted other international sporting events.

Answer: B

The Phogat sisters are Babita and Geeta.

Geeta Phogat and Babita Kumari Phogat, wrestlers from Balali in Haryana, were trained by their father Mahavir Singh Phogat. Geeta became the first Indian woman wrestler to win a Commonwealth Games gold medal, in 2010, and Babita won gold in 2014. Their story was told in the film Dangal (2016).

The other pairs, Manjula and Seeta, Radha and Seeta, and Madhu and Geeta, do not name the sisters; only the last one even includes one correct name.

Answer: C

The Khelo India Youth Games held in 2024 were hosted by Tamil Nadu.

The sixth edition of the Khelo India Youth Games (named the 2023 Games) was held in January 2024 in Chennai, Madurai, Tiruchirappalli and Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, the first time the state hosted them. Maharashtra topped the medal table.

Goa hosted the National Games in 2023, and Kerala and Gujarat did not host the Youth Games in 2024.

Answer: C

The Wimbledon Championships are held in the UK.

Wimbledon, the oldest tennis tournament in the world (first played in 1877), is held every summer at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London. It is the only Grand Slam still played on grass.

The other countries each host one of the other three Grand Slams: the Australian Open in Melbourne, the US Open in New York and the French Open at Roland Garros in Paris. That is the usual source of confusion in this question.

Answer: B

The winner was Manipur.

The 2013 Junior National Girls' Football Championship was played at Barabati Stadium, Cuttack. In the final on 5 December 2013 Manipur beat the host team Odisha 3-0, with goals from Ratanbala Devi and a brace from Dangmei Grace, so the title stayed with Manipur.

Assam, Mizoram and Nagaland were not the finalists, so none of them won it. The Commission's final key gives (b), Manipur, which agrees.