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The correct answer is C, New Delhi. The first Asian Games were held at the National Stadium in New Delhi in 1951, after Guru Dutt Sondhi of India proposed a games for the newly independent countries of Asia in place of the older Far Eastern Games. Eleven nations competed and India finished second in the medal table behind Japan. Option A, Tokyo, hosted the third Asian Games in 1958 and is the city most associated with the Summer Olympics of 1964 in Asia, not the first Asian Games. Option B, Manila, hosted the second edition in 1954, so it comes immediately after Delhi in the sequence and is the commonest wrong answer. Option D, Jakarta, hosted the fourth edition in 1962 and again in 2018 along with Palembang. Remember the opening order as Delhi 1951, Manila 1954, Tokyo 1958 and Jakarta 1962.

The correct answer is A, the 1982 Asian Games at New Delhi. Appu was the cheerful baby elephant created as the mascot of the ninth Asian Games, and the figure became so popular that an amusement park in Delhi was named after it. The same Games brought colour television to India and gave the capital the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium. Option B is wrong because the mascot of the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi was Shera, a tiger, with the slogan Come Out and Play. Option C is wrong because the mascot of the 2011 Cricket World Cup was Stumpy, a young elephant with a cricket bat, a different animal character from a different event, and the two elephants are often mixed up. Option D is wrong because the mascot of the 2017 FIFA Under-17 World Cup was Kheleo, a clouded leopard chosen to represent the North East.

The correct answer is C, the 19th Games in 2010. Delhi hosted the nineteenth Commonwealth Games in 2010, the first and so far the only time India has held them. Shera the tiger was the mascot, the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium held the ceremonies and the athletics, and India finished second in the medal table with 101 medals, including 38 gold. Option A is wrong because the seventeenth Games in 2002 were held at Manchester in England. Option B is wrong because the eighteenth Games in 2006 were held at Melbourne in Australia, where India finished fourth. Option D is wrong because the twentieth Games in 2014 were held at Glasgow in Scotland. Linking the edition number to the year is the safest way to answer: Manchester 2002, Melbourne 2006, Delhi 2010 and Glasgow 2014 run in a simple four year chain.

The correct answer is A, it was the first World Cup held outside England. The first three World Cups of 1975, 1979 and 1983 were all played in England, and the 1987 tournament, sponsored as the Reliance Cup, moved the event to the subcontinent for the first time; the overs were reduced from sixty to fifty, which has remained the standard since. Australia won the final against England at Kolkata. Option B is wrong because India's World Cup wins came in 1983 in England and in 2011 at home. Option C is wrong because day and night matches with a white ball became part of the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand in 1992, along with coloured clothing. Option D is wrong because the Duckworth Lewis method for rain affected matches was introduced in the late nineteen nineties, well after 1987.

The correct answer is B, the Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai. India beat Sri Lanka in the final of the 2011 World Cup at the Wankhede, with Mahendra Singh Dhoni finishing the match with a six and Gautam Gambhir making the highest score of the innings. It was the first time a host country won the fifty over World Cup on its own soil. Option A, Eden Gardens in Kolkata, hosted the 1987 World Cup final and the final of the 2016 World Twenty20, which is why it is a convincing distractor. Option C, the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru, hosted league matches in 2011 but no final. Option D, Feroz Shah Kotla in Delhi, now renamed the Arun Jaitley Stadium, also hosted matches rather than the final. India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh were the three co-hosts of that edition.