Consider the following statements about the emblem of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games : 1. The name of the emblem is 'Futura' 2. The emblem of the Games was decided by a popular vote for the first time in the history of the Olympic Which of the above statements is/are correct?
- (a)1 only
- (b)2 only
- (c)Both 1 and 2
- (d)Neither 1 nor 2
Correct — C, Both 1 and 2. The emblem of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games is called Futura, and it is drawn as a single unbroken white line tracing the number 26, meant to read as a line cut by a skate or a ski. It was selected by a global online vote open from 7 to 25 March 2021, in which about 871,000 people from 169 countries chose between Futura and a rival design; roughly three-quarters picked Futura. The organisers and the International Olympic Committee described it as the first time in the history of the Games that the public had chosen the emblem, so both statements stand.
- (a)1 only — This accepts the name and rejects the vote, but the public poll is the most-reported fact about this emblem and was presented as an Olympic first.
- (b)2 only — The vote happened and the winning design is named Futura. Rejecting the name leaves the statement about the vote without a subject.
- (d)Neither 1 nor 2 — Both statements are accurate: the name is Futura, and the emblem was chosen by an open worldwide vote in March 2021.
The 2026 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games are hosted jointly by Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, the first Winter Games awarded to two host cities spread across a wide region of northern Italy, with events in Lombardy, Veneto, Trentino and South Tyrol. Italy has hosted the Winter Games twice before, at Cortina d'Ampezzo in 1956 and Turin in 2006. A single emblem serves both the Olympic and the Paralympic Games, which itself is a recent practice.
Current-affairs items of this kind reward attention to how something was decided, not only to what it is called. The public vote is what makes this emblem worth a question at all, and the claim of an Olympic first is the part a candidate is being asked to have registered. As of the 2024 exam the Games were still ahead; they were held in February 2026, so the honest reading today is that this was the emblem the Games actually went on to use.
- Futura is the emblem of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.
- It was chosen by a worldwide online public vote held from 7 to 25 March 2021.
- About 871,000 votes were cast from 169 countries, with roughly three-quarters for Futura.
- It was presented as the first occasion on which the public chose an emblem for the Games.
- Milano Cortina 2026 is the third Winter Games hosted by Italy, after Cortina d'Ampezzo in 1956 and Turin in 2006.
Both statements hold, which is why the answer is 'Both 1 and 2' rather than either alone.
- Recalling the emblem's look but not its name.
- Assuming a claim of an Olympic first must be an exaggeration.
- Mixing up the emblem with the mascots, which were chosen separately.
A current-affairs item where both statements are true, so a candidate who knows only one of them still has to resist the pull of the single-statement options.
No directly related past PYQ was found.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Games are hosted by
- (a)one city
- (b)two cities
- (c)three cities
- (d)four cities
Answer(b) two cities — Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, with venues spread across northern Italy.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Which Italian city hosted the Winter Olympic Games in 2006?
- (a)Rome
- (b)Turin
- (c)Milan
- (d)Cortina d'Ampezzo
Answer(b) Turin — Cortina d'Ampezzo hosted in 1956 and Rome hosted the Summer Games in 1960.