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According to the Prime Minister's message, Naorem Roshibina Devi has won medals at how many consecutive Asian Games?

  1. A.Two
  2. B.Three
  3. C.Four
  4. D.Five

Correct answer

B. Three

Explanation

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.

Read the full article: Roshibina Devi Takes Sanda Silver, Rowers Win Sculls Bronze

Q1.SportsEasy

Naorem Roshibina Devi, congratulated by the Prime Minister, won a silver medal in which event?

  1. A.Women's Sanda 60kg
  2. B.Women's boxing 60kg
  3. C.Women's judo 63kg
  4. D.Women's double sculls
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Correct answer: A. Women's Sanda 60kg

Explanation

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.

Q2.SportsMedium

Satnam Singh and Salman Khan won a bronze medal for India in which event?

  1. A.Men's single sculls
  2. B.Men's coxless pair
  3. C.Men's double sculls
  4. D.Men's quadruple sculls
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Correct answer: C. Men's double sculls

Explanation

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.

Q3.SportsMedium

Parinaaz Dhaliwal, Maheshwari Chauhan and Raiza Dhillon won a bronze medal in which event?

  1. A.Women's archery team
  2. B.Women's trap team
  3. C.Women's skeet team
  4. D.Women's air rifle team
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Correct answer: C. Women's skeet team

Explanation

The correct answer is the women's skeet team event. The Prime Minister congratulated the three shooters on the bronze medal and said their focus, precision and teamwork had brought another proud moment for Indian sport. Skeet is a shotgun discipline in which clay targets are flung across the range and the team result is arrived at by combining the members' scores. Option A, women's archery team, is wrong because all three are shooters and no archery result was announced in this message. Option B, women's trap team, names a different shotgun event; trap and skeet are separate disciplines and the medal here was specifically in skeet. Option D, women's air rifle team, belongs to the rifle group of shooting events and not to the shotgun group, so it does not fit this result either.

Q4.SportsMedium

Mirabai Chanu won a silver medal in which event?

  1. A.Women's 45 kg weightlifting
  2. B.Women's 49 kg weightlifting
  3. C.Women's 55 kg weightlifting
  4. D.Women's skeet individual
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Correct answer: B. Women's 49 kg weightlifting

Explanation

The correct answer is the women's 49 kg weightlifting event. The Prime Minister congratulated Mirabai Chanu on winning the silver medal in that category, saying her determination and consistency continue to inspire the nation and that India is proud of her. The weight class is the detail an examiner will test, so it should be memorised along with the colour of the medal. Option A, 45 kg, and option C, 55 kg, are other weight categories in the sport but are not the one in which she competed here. Option D, women's skeet individual, belongs to shooting and not to weightlifting; on the same day a women's skeet team bronze went to Parinaaz Dhaliwal, Maheshwari Chauhan and Raiza Dhillon, which is a separate result and a team event rather than an individual one.

Q5.SportsEasy

Who became India's first-ever Asian Games medallist in soft tennis?

  1. A.Jay Meena
  2. B.Mirabai Chanu
  3. C.Raiza Dhillon
  4. D.Maheshwari Chauhan
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Correct answer: A. Jay Meena

Explanation

The correct answer is Jay Meena. He won the bronze medal in the men's individual event in soft tennis and thereby became the first Indian ever to win an Asian Games medal in that sport. The Prime Minister described the result as a historic achievement for Indian soft tennis, said it marks a memorable new chapter for the game in India, and expressed the hope that it would inspire more youngsters to take up the sport. Option B, Mirabai Chanu, is wrong because she is a weightlifter and was congratulated the same day for a silver medal in the women's 49 kg event, not for anything in soft tennis. Option C, Raiza Dhillon, and option D, Maheshwari Chauhan, are wrong because both are shooters who were part of the women's skeet team that won a bronze medal, along with Parinaaz Dhaliwal.