Seema won a bronze medal for India at the Asian Games in which event?

The correct answer is the skeet mixed team event. The Prime Minister congratulated Parinaaz Dhaliwal and Anantjeet Singh Naruka on the bronze and said their achievement marks the first ever Indian medal in this event at the Asian Games, adding that he hoped the success would inspire many more milestones. Option A is wrong because trap, though also a shotgun discipline, is a separate event with a different target release pattern. Option B is wrong because the air rifle mixed team belongs to the rifle group of events and was not the one named. Option D is wrong because the air pistol mixed team is again a distinct event. The phrase to carry into the examination hall is first ever medal in the skeet mixed team, linked with these two names.

The correct answer is that the men's badminton team won a bronze medal. The Prime Minister congratulated the squad and said the medal reflects the passion and hard work of the players, adding that the entire team displayed great spirit through the competition and wishing them well for the events still ahead. Option B is wrong because the colour of the medal was bronze and not silver. Option C is wrong because the message named the men's team, and no women's team gold was announced in these releases. Option D is wrong because the mixed team format was not the one mentioned in the badminton congratulation. Note that the other two medals of the day, Seema in the women's 10,000m and the skeet mixed team pair, were also bronze, so the colour is common to all three.

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.

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.