Roshibina Devi Takes Sanda Silver, Rowers Win Sculls Bronze

The correct answer is the women's Sanda 60kg event, in which she took the silver medal. Sanda is the full-contact fighting format of wushu and its bouts are decided in weight categories, which is why the weight appears in the name of the event itself. The Prime Minister's message picked out not only the medal but the pattern behind it, namely that she has won at three Asian Games in a row, and he described her consistency, courage and determination as commendable. Options B and C move her to other combat sports and, in the case of judo, to a different weight class as well, so neither matches the event named in the message. Option D belongs to the other medal of the same day, the men's double sculls in rowing, which was won by a different pair of athletes altogether.

The correct answer is three. What the Prime Minister called noteworthy was not the single silver alone but the run behind it: medals at three Asian Games one after another, a record of turning up at the top of the sport over many years rather than in one good season. That is the phrase to remember, because a question on this athlete is far more likely to test the run of appearances than the score of any bout. Option A understates the record and would describe a competitor at only her second successful Games. Options C and D overstate it, and a candidate who guesses upwards on the assumption that a longer run sounds more impressive will lose the mark. Along with the count, note the words the message used about her, namely consistency, courage and determination.

The correct answer is the men's double sculls. The name of a rowing event tells you both the size of the crew and the way the oars are held: sculling means each rower works a pair of oars, and double means the boat carries two of them. That fits the fact that the medal was won by two athletes together, Satnam Singh and Salman Khan, and it is also why the Prime Minister's message dwelt on their composure and their coordination, since a sculling pair has to match every stroke. Option A is an event rowed alone, so it cannot be shared by two medallists. Option B carries two rowers but each handles a single oar, which is a different discipline. Option D is a boat of four, larger than the crew named here.