Indian Women's Hockey Team Wins Asian Games Gold After 4 Decades

The correct answer is hockey. The gold medal that ended a wait of more than four decades was won in the hockey competition at the Asian Games by India's women's team, and the Prime Minister's message spoke of the win carrying hockey's popularity further across the country. Option B, kabaddi, is wrong because the achievement being marked was in hockey and the message named hockey as the sport that would gain from it; no kabaddi result is involved in this story. Option C, handball, is wrong for the same reason, and the Indian women's handball side is not the team being congratulated here. Option D, basketball, is also wrong: the medal under discussion belongs to the hockey event, not to basketball. The three facts that hold this question together are the sport, hockey; the medal, gold; and the gap, more than four decades. Candidates should learn the three as one unit, because a paper setter can swap any one of them to build a distractor.

The correct answer is more than four decades. That is the length of the wait that the Indian women's hockey team ended by winning the gold medal at the Asian Games, and it is the figure named when the win was described as a very special moment for Indian hockey. Option A, less than one decade, is wrong because the gap was far longer than that; had the team won the gold recently, the result would not have been treated as the landmark it was. Option B, exactly two decades, is wrong because the stated gap runs past four decades, not two, and the word used was more rather than exactly. Option D, more than eight decades, overstates the wait: the gap is given as over four decades, so a span of eighty years or longer does not fit the facts. For revision, hold on to the pairing of the women's hockey gold with a gap of more than four decades, since the length of the wait is the detail examiners most often test on this story.

The correct answer is the women's team won gold. The achievement in the news is the Indian women's hockey team finishing first in the hockey competition at the Asian Games, a gold that came after a wait of more than four decades. Option B is wrong because the side being congratulated was the women's team, not the men's; the story turns on the women's result and the decades-long gap that it closed. Option C is wrong on the colour of the medal: the team took the gold, the highest placing, and not the bronze, which is the third placing. Option D is wrong on both counts, naming the wrong team and the wrong medal. When a question offers a grid of team and medal colour like this, candidates should settle the team first and the medal second; here both answers are fixed by the same sentence, which records a gold for the Indian women's hockey team at these Games.