Where were the BRICS Traditional and Indigenous Demonstration Games 2026 held?

The correct answer is Mallakhamb, which India demonstrated along with Yogasana and Kalaripayattu. Option A, Sambo, is a Russian combat sport, and Russia showed it alongside Gorodki. Option B, Gorodki, is the one sport demonstrated by two delegations at the event, Russia and Belarus, which makes it a tempting answer for anyone who remembers seeing it twice in the list. Option D, Al Tabbah, was presented by the United Arab Emirates. Other demonstrations included Wushu, the Lion Dance and Health Qigong from China, Asyk Atu, Togyzkumalak and Qazaq Kuresi from Kazakhstan, Zoorkhaneh, Haft Sang and Ghanieh from Iran, Kgati and Iintonga from South Africa, Capoeira and the log race from Brazil, and a long set from Bolivia that included Lucha de Cholitas and Tinku.

The correct answer is a voluntary BRICS Repository of Traditional and Indigenous Sports, the first of three practical areas of cooperation the minister placed before the member countries. The repository would record each sport's history, cultural significance, rules, equipment and field-of-play requirements, so that the knowledge survives even as sport modernises. The second proposal was for exchanges among practitioners, coaches, researchers, educational institutions and cultural experts across the grouping, and the third was for periodic demonstrations of traditional and indigenous sports at future BRICS sporting events. Options B, C and D describe the kinds of institutions sporting blocs sometimes build, but none of them was proposed at this event. The minister framed traditional sport as a vehicle for youth development, inclusion, cultural understanding and international cooperation.

The correct answer is Havildar Sawan Barwal. He took silver in the men's marathon in a national record time of 2:11:37, and that medal closed the long gap of 44 years since India had last stood on an Asian Games marathon podium. Option A, Naib Subedar Gulveer Singh, is also a track and field athlete, but his medals were two silver and one bronze, and his distinction is being the first Indian man in athletics with three individual medals at a single edition. Option B, Naib Subedar Sarvesh Kushare, won his medal in the men's high jump, an event where India had waited 56 years for a podium finish, so the gap is a different one. Option D, Naib Subedar Neeru Dhanda, is a shooter who won gold in the women's trap event.

The correct answer is Naib Subedar Neeru Dhanda. She finished the Games with two gold and one silver, and her win in the individual women's trap event made her the first Indian woman to take gold in that shooting event at the Asian Games. Option B, Havildar Sawan Barwal, is a male marathon runner whose silver came in a national record time and ended a long gap in that event, so he could not have competed in a women's event. Option C, Naib Subedar Gulveer Singh, won two silver and one bronze and is the first Indian man in track and field to take three individual medals at one edition of the Games. Option D, Naib Subedar Sarvesh Kushare, won his medal in the men's high jump. Only option A matches both the event and the first.

The correct answer is 27. Athletes of the three Services returned from the Asian Games in Japan with 27 medals, broken up as 6 gold, 11 silver and 10 bronze, which is the best the defence forces have ever managed at the event. Option A, 21, is the number of gold medals won by the whole Indian contingent, not the Services total. Option C, 37, is the number of bronze medals in India's overall tally, so it too belongs to the national figure and not to the Services. Option D, 85, is India's complete medal haul at these Games, of which the Services share worked out to 32 per cent. A candidate who keeps the two layers apart, the national count and the Services count, will not confuse these numbers. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh felicitated the medal winners in New Delhi on 12 October 2026.