Where and in which year were the first Asian Games held?

The correct answer is 21. India's campaign at the 20th Asian Games closed with 85 medals in all, and 21 of them were gold. Archery was the richest source with five gold medals, shooting and boxing returned three each, cricket, hockey and kabaddi contributed two each, wrestling added two, and athletics and golf one apiece. Option C, 27, is the number of silver medals India won, not the gold count, so it is wrong. Option D, 37, is the bronze figure from the same tally and therefore also wrong. Option A, 18, does not match any part of India's medal breakdown at these Games. A student should keep the three parts of the tally apart: 21 gold, 27 silver and 37 bronze adding up to 85 medals overall.

The correct answer is Aichi-Nagoya. The 20th Asian Games were held in this Japanese host region from 19 September to 4 October 2026, and the city will also stage the 5th Asian Para Games from 18 to 24 October 2026. Option D, Tokyo, hosted an earlier edition of the Asian Games in 1958 and is therefore a plausible but wrong choice. Option B, Hiroshima, was Japan's second host city, in 1994, which makes Aichi-Nagoya the third Japanese venue for the event. Option A, Hangzhou, is where the Asian Para Games were held in 2022, when India gathered 111 medals including 29 gold, but it was not the host of the 20th Asian Games. Candidates should link each edition to its own city and year.

The correct answer is Imagine One Asia. This was the official slogan adopted for the 20th Asian Games at Aichi-Nagoya, a meet organised by the Olympic Council of Asia with forty-five countries and regions taking part. The mascot of the same edition was HONOHON, a name traced to a Japanese word connected with flame, and its design drew on the Shachihoko of Nagoya Castle. Options A, C and D are invented or borrowed slogans and none of them was used for this edition, so each is wrong. Questions on multi-sport events very often ask for the slogan, the mascot, the emblem and the host city together, so these four should be memorised as one set for the 2026 edition.

The correct answer is silver. The Prime Minister congratulated Antim Panghal on winning the silver medal in the women's 53 kg freestyle wrestling event at the Asian Games, describing her performance as exemplary and wonderful. Option B, gold, is wrong because a gold would mean she stood first in her weight class, which the message does not say. Option C, bronze, is wrong because bronze is awarded for third place, while her finish was second. Option D is wrong because she did win a medal, and that is exactly why the result was in the news. The Prime Minister also expressed the hope that she would bring more laurels to the country and inspire other athletes, a line worth recalling in descriptive answers on Indian wrestling.

The correct answer is freestyle. The event named in the Prime Minister's congratulatory message is the women's 53 kg freestyle wrestling competition, so that is the style in which the silver medal was won. Option A, Greco-Roman, is wrong: it is the other recognised style of Olympic wrestling, and the women's section is not contested in it. Option B, beach wrestling, is wrong because that is a separate discipline altogether and not the one in question here. Option D, belt wrestling, is also wrong. Aspirants should note the pattern that a wrestling question usually combines three elements, namely the style, the weight category and the section, and that getting the style right is often the easiest of the three marks to secure.