MPPSC 2020 Prelims Paper-I · Question 15 of 100

Correct — C, Jabalpur. The Madhya Pradesh State Archery Academy, run under the state Department of Sports and Youth Welfare, is located at Jabalpur. MP operates discipline-specific sports academies in different cities, and archery is the one based at Jabalpur.

• (a)Bhopal — As the state capital, Bhopal hosts several MP sports academies, which makes it a natural guess — but the archery academy is at Jabalpur, not Bhopal.
• (b)Indore — A major, sports-active MP city, but it is not the seat of the state archery academy.
• (d)Jhabua — Jhabua's tribal belt is famous for producing archery talent, which is a tempting link — but the state academy itself is located at Jabalpur, not Jhabua.

Madhya Pradesh's Department of Sports and Youth Welfare set up dedicated academies for individual sports, each based in a particular city to build talent in that discipline. The archery (tirandazi) academy is headquartered at Jabalpur.

The trap pairs the capital (Bhopal, where many academies sit) with a tribal district associated with archers (Jhabua). Neither is the archery academy's home — separate 'where archers come from' (Jhabua's tribal talent) from 'where the academy is' (Jabalpur).

• The Madhya Pradesh State Archery Academy is located in Jabalpur.
• It functions under the MP Department of Sports and Youth Welfare.
• Jhabua (tribal MP) is noted for archery talent but is not the academy's site — a classic distractor.
• Olympic archery is contested with the recurve bow; the compound bow features at World and Asian events.

• Assuming a state academy must be in the capital, Bhopal
• Linking archery to Jhabua (tribal talent) instead of Jabalpur (the academy)

MP GK 'where is X academy/institution located' — a place-recall item. Lock MP State Archery Academy ↔ Jabalpur.

No directly related past PYQ was found.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  The Madhya Pradesh district especially associated with tribal archery talent is:

  • (a)Jhabua
  • (b)Panna
  • (c)Datia
  • (d)Rewa

  Answer(a) Jhabua — its tribal belt is known for producing archers, though the state academy is at Jabalpur.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  India's Deepika Kumari, a world-ranked athlete, is associated with which sport?

  • (a)Shooting
  • (b)Archery
  • (c)Wrestling
  • (d)Boxing

  Answer(b) Archery — a leading Indian recurve archer.