India Win Men's Compound Team Archery Gold at Asian Games

The correct answer is Kushal Dalal, Sahil Rajesh Jadhav and Ganesh Maniratnam Thirumuru. These three archers won the men's compound team gold at the Asian Games after a final that went to the closing arrows, and the Prime Minister congratulated them on the result. Option B names an all-women line-up and is wrong for a men's event. Option C mixes shooters with an archer and so cannot be the compound archery team. Option D is a mixed list drawn from different events and disciplines, which is exactly the trap set in team-event questions. The lesson for candidates is that a team medal must be learnt as a complete line-up, because the paper setter will change one name in the list and leave the rest intact.

The correct answer is compound. The gold won by Kushal Dalal, Sahil Rajesh Jadhav and Ganesh Maniratnam Thirumuru came in the men's compound team event, not in any other archery category. Option A, recurve, is the other discipline contested at multi-sport games, and because both compound and recurve medals are often won at the same Games it is the distractor most likely to be picked by a hurried candidate. Options C and D, barebow and longbow, are archery categories that do not feature in this programme and can be set aside. Whenever an archery medal is reported, note the discipline and whether the medal came in the team, individual or mixed team competition, since all three are contested and all three are asked.

The correct answer is the Prime Minister. Narendra Modi congratulated Kushal Dalal, Sahil Rajesh Jadhav and Ganesh Maniratnam Thirumuru on winning the gold, saying they had clinched it after a thrilling final and lauding their accuracy and teamwork, and he extended his best wishes for their future endeavours. Options A and B are wrong because neither the President nor the Vice-President issued this message, and option D is wrong because the Chief Justice of India holds a judicial office with no role in such congratulations. Candidates should still keep the emphasis on the sporting fact rather than on the message: the names of the archers, the event and the medal are what carry marks, with the congratulatory message only fixing the date in memory.