Sports Current Affairs Questions and Answers

Answer: A

Only statements (2) and (3) are correct, so the answer is (2) and (3) only.

The 38th National Games were held in Uttarakhand from 28 January to 14 February 2025, so statement (1), which says Patna, is wrong. Statement (2) is right: Meghalaya was named host of the 39th National Games, due in 2027. Statement (3) is right: the mascot was Mauli, named for the Himalayan monal, Uttarakhand's state bird. Statement (4) is wrong because the Services team topped the medal table; Maharashtra was second and Haryana third.

Option B uses the wrong venue, option C leans on the Haryana claim, and option D pairs the wrong venue with the mascot. Only (2) and (3) survive.

Answer: C

The campaign ran from August 29 to 31, 2025.

National Sports Day, 29 August, marks the birth anniversary of the hockey player Major Dhyan Chand. In 2025 the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports turned it into a three-day nationwide celebration under the Fit India movement, from 29 to 31 August, with the theme 'Ek Ghanta, Khel ke Maidan Mein' (one hour on the playground), asking every citizen to spend at least an hour a day in physical activity.

Options of one or two days miss the three-day span of the 2025 celebration.

Answer: D

The Khelo India Youth Games 2025 took place in Bihar.

The seventh edition of the Khelo India Youth Games was hosted by Bihar in May 2025, with Patna and Rajgir among the main venues.

Haryana, Punjab and Delhi were not the host state for the 2025 games.

The Khelo India Games, started in 2018, have separate youth, university and winter editions; the youth games are meant to find and support young talent under the age of 18.

Answer: B

Nandita Naganagoudar is associated with mountaineering.

The Karnataka Rajyotsava Awards for 2019 list Nandita Naganagoudar in the sports category for mountaineering.

Swimming, boxing and hockey are the sports of other awardees, not hers, so they are wrong.

Answer: C

Srihari Nataraj is related to swimming.

Srihari Nataraj is a backstroke swimmer from Bengaluru. He has won national titles and set national records in the 50 m, 100 m and 200 m backstroke, and in 2021 he became one of the first Indian swimmers to achieve the 'A' qualifying standard for the Olympic Games, competing at Tokyo.

He is not associated with badminton, hockey or tennis.

Answer: D

The winner was Abhinav Lohan.

The Bengaluru Open Golf Championship, played at the Karnataka Golf Association course in December 2019 on the TATA Steel PGTI tour with Karnataka Tourism as the powered-by partner, was won by Abhinav Lohan, who finished 13-under 275, one shot ahead of the field.

Karandeep Kochhar, Aadil Bedi and Udayan Mane were not the winners.

Answer: A

The 44th Chess Olympiad was organised in Chennai.

The 44th Chess Olympiad was held at Mamallapuram near Chennai, Tamil Nadu, from 28 July to 10 August 2022. It was the first Chess Olympiad held in India, and the first torch relay in the event's history began in Delhi.

Mumbai, Jodhpur and Bhopal did not host it.

India finished with bronze medals in both the open and women's sections at that Olympiad, and the event was organised at short notice after Russia, the original host, was replaced.

Answer: B

Djokovic defeated Casper Ruud.

In the men's singles final of the 2023 French Open at Roland Garros, Novak Djokovic beat Casper Ruud of Norway 7-6, 6-3, 7-5. It was Djokovic's third French Open title and his 23rd Grand Slam singles title, which took him past Rafael Nadal's record at the time.

Carlos Alcaraz lost to Djokovic in the semi-final that year, Stefanos Tsitsipas was the losing finalist in 2021, and Daniil Medvedev did not reach the 2023 final.

Answer: D

Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar is associated with shooting.

Tomar, a rifle shooter from Khargone in Madhya Pradesh, won the bronze medal in the men's 50 m rifle three positions event at the 2022 Asian Games, held in Hangzhou in 2023, and was part of the Indian team that won gold in the same event.

India's medals in equestrian, table tennis and boxing at those Games were won by other athletes, so those sports do not fit.

Answer: C

Sunil Chhetri received the Khel Ratna in 2021.

The former India football captain was awarded the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna in November 2021, the first footballer to receive India's highest sporting honour. He retired from international football in 2024 as the country's record goal-scorer.

2011 is when he received the Arjuna Award, and 2018 and 2024 are not the year of his Khel Ratna.