FUNDAMENTALS

The Indian Olympic team has become the toast of the nation. Over a billion Indians brought up on a diet of cricket and more cricket have now become fans of India’s golden Olympians. Find out more in today’s theme.

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OUR GOLDEN OLYMPIANS

1. Name the hearing impaired female athlete who became the last Indian to qualify for the Olympics?

2. MS Dhoni once worked as a ticket checker with Indian Railways. Which two time Olympian and member of the Women’s hockey team is still a ticket checker with Indian railways?

3. Lovlina Borgohain started in another sport before switching over to boxing and making her mark in boxing, Which sport?

4. Her father was a cart puller and her mother worked as domestic help. Name this inspirational athlete who came out of poverty to become the toast of the nation?

5. Who did PV Sindhu beat in straight games 21-13, 2115 to win her second Olympic medal at Tokyo

2020?

6. What is common to these Indian athletes at Tokyo 2020 — Neeraj Chopra, Amit Panghal, Avinash Sable, Manish Kaushik, Tarundeep Rai, Gurpreet Singh, Sandeep Kumar and Pravin Jadhav?

7. A good part of the credit of Indian hockey’s spectacular success at Tokyo goes to the coaches. Name the two chief coaches of both the men’s and women’s hockey team?

8. Mirabai Chanu created a world record when she lifted 119 kg in clean and jerk at the Asian weightlifting championships 2020. How many kgs did she lift in clean and jerk at the 2016 Rio Oympics?

9. There are two women from Manipur both named Sushila who made it to the Olympics team in Tokyo. The most famous one is hockey player Sushila Chanu. Who is the other Sushila and which event did she take part in?

10. Who became the first Indian woman sailor to qualify for the Olympics when she sealed her spot in the laser radial discipline?

ANYTHING GOES

1. This Tamilian was the Prime Minister of Kashmir from 1937 to

1943. He is most well known as the person who drafted the Article 370 of the Indian constitution. Name him? (Dee Surendranath, Hyderabad)

2. Indian hockey team is the only team to have won the Olympic Gold medal without conceding a goal in the competition. One was in 1928 Amsterdam. When was the other occasion?Nivriti (Sreelekha P. N., Secunderabad)

3. Norman Pritchard won two silver medals for India in the 1900 Paris Olympics. Which two events were these? (Miracle S., Secunderabad)

4. Though not a medal, weightlifter Lakshmikanta Das, an Arjuna Awardee who took part in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, brought which souvenir as a prized possession? (Bikram Keshari Jena, Nayagarh)

5. This Indian UNESCO World Heritage site is a Shiva temple (Rudreshwara). Its construction started in 1213 CE and was completed in over 40 years. The temple has a distinctive pyramidical vimana made of light weight porous bricks called "Floating Bricks". Name this site ? (Dr Kota Tirupataiah)

6. Elizabeth Robinson from the U.S.A. took part in the inaugural 100 meters race for Women at the 1928 Amsterdam games and won the Gold medal at the age of 16 years. at the 1936 Berlin Olympics , where she won a Gold medal as a member of the U.S. 4 x100 meters quartet women’s relay team. What was so special about her 1936 medal? (BK Harinath, Mysuru)

7. One of the most famous cases relating to Habeas Corpus is ADM Jabalpur vs. Shivkant shukla in the Supreme Court. Who was the lone dissenting judge to declare that the rights of life and liberty could not be subjugated to any executive decree even during an emergency? (Dr.Dasari Sai Nishma, Tirupati)

8. Women were never allowed to compete in the Olympics until the Paris Games in 1900. In which games did they debut?(Philip Joshua, Secunderabad)