Muskan Kirar belongs to which sports ?
- (a)Kayaking
- (b)Sailing
- (c)Archery
- (d)Athletics
Correct — C, Archery. Muskan Kirar is an Indian archer from Madhya Pradesh who competes in compound archery and has represented India in international events. (The booklet's phrasing 'belongs to which sports' is reproduced exactly as printed.)
- (a)Kayaking — A paddling water sport; not Muskan Kirar's discipline.
- (b)Sailing — This is the sport of another MP athlete, Harshita Tomar — not Muskan Kirar.
- (d)Athletics — Track-and-field; Muskan Kirar is an archer, not a track athlete.
Muskan Kirar is a compound archer from Madhya Pradesh, one of several MP athletes to reach the national and international stage. Competitive archery in India has two styles — recurve (the Olympic format) and compound — and Muskan Kirar competes in recurve.
Player-to-sport recall questions are common in MPPSC's MP-GK section. The distractors here are all individual precision or endurance sports, so you must actually know Muskan Kirar's discipline (archery) rather than guess.
- Muskan Kirar — compound archer from Madhya Pradesh.
- Archery's two competitive styles: recurve (Olympic) and compound.
- She has represented India in international archery team events.
- Madhya Pradesh runs a state archery programme that has produced international archers.
- Confusing archery with other individual sports like shooting or sailing
- Guessing a sport instead of recalling the athlete's actual discipline
MPPSC's 'X belongs to which sport' format tests direct recall of an MP sportsperson's discipline.
Player of Madhya Pradesh Chinki Yadav is associated with which sport?
- (a) Shooting
- (b) Swimming
- (c) Hockey
- (d) Cricket
Answer(a) Shooting
Same 'which sport does this Madhya Pradesh player belong to' format — direct recall of an MP athlete's discipline.
Player of Madhya Pradesh Vivek Sagar is associated with the sport of
- (a) Shooting
- (b) Archery
- (c) Hockey
- (d) Cricket
Answer(c) Hockey
Same concept — matching a named Madhya Pradesh sportsperson to their sport (archery even appears as an option here).
- practice — not a real PYQ
In Olympic competition, 'recurve' is a format of which sport?
- (a)Archery
- (b)Shooting
- (c)Fencing
- (d)Rowing
Answer(a) Archery.
- practice — not a real PYQ
An archer competing in the recurve event uses which type of bow?
- (a)A recurve bow, whose limbs curve away from the archer at the tips
- (b)A compound bow with pulleys and cables
- (c)A crossbow
- (d)A traditional longbow only
Answer(a) A recurve bow — the format used at the Olympics.