State Exams GK Questions 2026

At the Asian Games held in Indonesia in 2018, Fouaad Mirza won the individual silver and was part of the team that won silver in eventing, the first Indian equestrian medals at the Asian Games in a long gap, and he later represented India at the Olympic Games.

The correct answer is B, Eventing, also called the three-day event, in which the same horse and rider go through a dressage test, a cross-country course over natural obstacles and a show jumping round; penalty points from all three phases are added and the lowest total wins, so it is…

Equestrian events are not divided by the sex of the rider, so male and female riders contest the same medals in dressage, jumping and eventing, and it is also the only Olympic sport in which an animal competes alongside the athlete.

The Olympic programme has exactly these three equestrian disciplines, each with an individual and a team event; dressage tests set movements in a marked arena, jumping tests clearing a course of fences, and eventing combines dressage, cross-country and jumping with the same horse.

The correct answer is A, FEI, the Federation Equestre Internationale, founded in 1921 with its headquarters at Lausanne in Switzerland; it governs dressage, jumping, eventing, driving, endurance, vaulting and para-equestrian sport.

Argentina has produced most of the ten-goal handicap players in the history of the game and its Argentine Open, played at the Palermo ground in Buenos Aires, is considered the most important polo tournament in the world; Argentina also won the last Olympic polo title.

Polo featured in five editions of the Olympic Games between 1900 and 1936 and was dropped after the Berlin Games of 1936, mainly because of the cost and difficulty of transporting strings of horses; Argentina won that last Olympic title.

The Ezra Cup is the oldest polo tournament in India and is played under the Indian Polo Association, along with other well known trophies such as the Sir Pratap Singh Cup and the Maharaja Jiwajirao Scindia Gold Cup.

Sagol Kangjei, played in Manipur on the small Manipuri pony, is the game from which the modern rules of polo were drawn after British officers and tea planters saw it in the eighteen fifties, which is why Manipur is called the birthplace of modern polo.

A polo match is divided into chukkas, also spelt chukker, of seven minutes each, and a match has four to six of them depending on the tournament; ponies are usually changed between chukkas because the galloping is so hard on the horse.

A polo team puts four mounted players on the field, numbered one to four, where number one is the attacking forward and number four, called the back, is the main defender.

The Gangetic Plain zone covers the upper and lower Ganga plains including the Terai belt along the foot of the Himalaya, and Dudhwa in Uttar Pradesh protects its swamp deer or barasingha along with tiger and, after reintroduction, rhinoceros.

The North-East India zone has two parts, the Brahmaputra valley and the north-eastern hills, and Kaziranga lies in the valley part, where annual flooding maintains tall wet grasslands that support the one-horned rhinoceros, wild buffalo, swamp deer and hog deer.

Gir in the Saurashtra region of Gujarat falls in the Gujarat-Rajwara province of the Semi-Arid zone, a belt of thorn and dry deciduous forest between the desert and the Deccan, which also holds Ranthambore, Sariska and the blackbuck grasslands of Velavadar.

The Islands zone, made up of the Andaman and Nicobar group and Lakshadweep, accounts for only about 0.03 per cent of the area of India, the smallest share of any zone, yet it holds coral reefs and species found nowhere else, such as the Narcondam hornbill and the Nicobar megapode…

The Indian Desert zone has two parts, the sandy Thar of Rajasthan and the salt wastes of Kachchh in Gujarat, and the Indian wild ass or khur survives only in the Little Rann of Kachchh, protected in the Wild Ass Sanctuary.

Dachigam National Park near Srinagar, in the Himalaya biogeographic zone, is the last stronghold of the hangul, the Kashmir stag, which is the only surviving race of the red deer group in the Indian subcontinent and the state animal of Jammu and Kashmir.

The Western Ghats zone includes the hill chain and the Malabar coastal plain, and its wet evergreen forests and high shola grassland mosaic hold a very high share of endemic species, among them the lion-tailed macaque of the rainforest canopy and the Nilgiri tahr of the Eravikulam grasslands.

The sundari is a mangrove tree of the tidal deltaic forests of the Coasts biogeographic zone, and the Sundarbans of the Ganga-Brahmaputra delta take their name from it; its wood is hard and durable, and like other mangroves it has salt tolerant roots and breathing roots in the waterlogged mud.

The Trans-Himalaya is the belt lying beyond the Great Himalaya in Ladakh, Lahaul-Spiti and northern Sikkim; it is a cold desert because it stands in the rain shadow of the high ranges, and it is the one Indian zone whose fauna, such as the kiang, wild yak and black-necked crane…