Who congratulated the Indian archers on their men's compound team gold at the Asian Games?

The correct answer is Kushal Dalal, Sahil Rajesh Jadhav and Ganesh Maniratnam Thirumuru. These three archers won the men's compound team gold at the Asian Games after a final that went to the closing arrows, and the Prime Minister congratulated them on the result. Option B names an all-women line-up and is wrong for a men's event. Option C mixes shooters with an archer and so cannot be the compound archery team. Option D is a mixed list drawn from different events and disciplines, which is exactly the trap set in team-event questions. The lesson for candidates is that a team medal must be learnt as a complete line-up, because the paper setter will change one name in the list and leave the rest intact.

The correct answer is compound. The gold won by Kushal Dalal, Sahil Rajesh Jadhav and Ganesh Maniratnam Thirumuru came in the men's compound team event, not in any other archery category. Option A, recurve, is the other discipline contested at multi-sport games, and because both compound and recurve medals are often won at the same Games it is the distractor most likely to be picked by a hurried candidate. Options C and D, barebow and longbow, are archery categories that do not feature in this programme and can be set aside. Whenever an archery medal is reported, note the discipline and whether the medal came in the team, individual or mixed team competition, since all three are contested and all three are asked.

The correct answer is that the compound bow uses a system of cams and cables, which cuts the effort of holding the string at full draw, and that the division permits a magnifying sight and a mechanical release aid. That equipment is why compound scores run so high and so close together, and why a single arrow off the centre normally decides a match. Option A describes the recurve division, the one shot at the Olympic Games, where the archer holds the full weight of the draw and uses a sight without magnification. Option C describes mounted archery, a traditional sport that is not part of this programme. Option D describes a crossbow, a separate weapon altogether and not an archery division. India won the women’s compound team gold at the Asian Games 2026 and equalled the World Record in that division.

The correct answer is Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Prithika Pradeep and Chikitha Taniparthi, the trio whose shooting won the women’s compound team gold at the Asian Games 2026 and equalled the World Record in the process. Option A names recurve archers, and recurve is a different division from compound, with a different bow and different scoring, so that team cannot win a compound event. Option C is the trap most likely to catch a hurried candidate, because it keeps the one famous name, Jyothi Surekha Vennam, and replaces her two team-mates with archers who were not in this team. Option D mixes divisions in the same way. The safest approach is to learn the three names as a set, since a question can drop any one of them and ask which archer does not belong to the gold-winning team.

The correct answer is that the trio equalled the World Record. The Prime Minister specifically noted that their performance matched the world mark, and said this was what made the gold even more special. Option A, broke it, is the usual wrong choice, because a reader who remembers only that a record was involved will assume it fell; the record was levelled, not bettered. Option C, missed it by one point, describes the opposite of what happened and would not have drawn any mention of a record at all. Option D swaps the level of the record: an Asian Record is a continental mark, while what the team touched here was the World Record, the best score shot anywhere. The distinction between equalling and breaking a record is a favourite of paper setters, so it is worth fixing firmly.