Captain Roop Singh Stadium is related with which sports ?
- (a)Volleyball
- (b)Cricket
- (c)Athletics
- (d)Hockey
Correct — B, Cricket. The Captain Roop Singh Stadium at Gwalior is Madhya Pradesh's international cricket ground, managed by the Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association. It is best remembered as the venue where Sachin Tendulkar scored the first men's ODI double-century (200 not out) against South Africa on 24 February 2010. The name is the trap: it honours Captain Roop Singh, an Olympic field-hockey player — yet the stadium itself is a cricket venue.
- (a)Volleyball — Not a volleyball venue; the ground is a full-size international cricket stadium.
- (c)Athletics — It is a cricket stadium, not an athletics track-and-field arena.
- (d)Hockey — Tempting because the stadium is named after hockey Olympian Roop Singh (younger brother of Major Dhyan Chand) — but the venue itself hosts cricket, not hockey.
Captain Roop Singh Stadium, Gwalior, is one of Madhya Pradesh's premier international cricket grounds. The name commemorates Roop Singh, a field-hockey forward who won Olympic golds with India in 1932 and 1936 alongside his elder brother Major Dhyan Chand — so the stadium honours a hockey legend even though the sport played there is cricket.
Venue-to-sport questions bait you with the namesake. Read what the ground is actually used for, not just who it is named after — the same trap recurs with grounds named after hockey or athletics stars that in fact host cricket.
- Location: Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh; sport: cricket (Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association).
- Venue of the first men's ODI double-century — Sachin Tendulkar's 200* vs South Africa, 24 Feb 2010.
- Named after Captain Roop Singh, an Olympic field-hockey gold medallist (1932 and 1936).
- Roop Singh was the younger brother of hockey wizard Major Dhyan Chand.
- Assuming a stadium hosts the sport its namesake played
- Confusing Captain Roop Singh Stadium (Gwalior, cricket) with Holkar Stadium (Indore, cricket)
MPPSC likes 'which sport is this MP stadium/player linked to' — match the venue to its actual sport, ignoring the namesake'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 MP sports-GK concept — matching a Madhya Pradesh sports subject to a discipline; here the sport is hockey, the very discipline of the namesake Roop Singh.
Player of Madhya Pradesh Chinki Yadav is associated with which sport?
- (a) Shooting
- (b) Swimming
- (c) Hockey
- (d) Cricket
Answer(a) Shooting
Same format — link a Madhya Pradesh sports name to its sport, testing MP sports awareness.
- practice — not a real PYQ
At which stadium did Sachin Tendulkar score the first men's ODI double-century (200*) in 2010?
- (a)Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai
- (b)Captain Roop Singh Stadium, Gwalior
- (c)Holkar Stadium, Indore
- (d)Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi
Answer(b) Captain Roop Singh Stadium, Gwalior — vs South Africa on 24 Feb 2010.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Hockey player Roop Singh, after whom the Gwalior stadium is named, was the brother of which sporting legend?
- (a)Milkha Singh
- (b)Major Dhyan Chand
- (c)Balbir Singh Sr.
- (d)K. D. Singh Babu
Answer(b) Major Dhyan Chand.