NDA (I & II) 2020 GAT Q67: Koneru Humpy excels in which one of the following

Q: What is the answer to NDA (I & II) 2020 GAT Q67?

C. Correct — C, Chess. Koneru Humpy is one of India's greatest chess players — a Grandmaster who in 2002 became the world's youngest woman to earn the GM title, and who won the Women's World Rapid Chess Championship in December 2019, an achievement fresh in the news at the 2020 exam. She has no association with boxing, table tennis or billiards.

NDA (I & II) 2020 General Ability Test · Question 67 of 148

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Koneru Humpy excels in which one of the following sports?

(a)Boxing
(b)Table Tennis
(c)Chess
(d)Billiards

Answer

Why

Correct — C, Chess. Koneru Humpy is one of India's greatest chess players — a Grandmaster who in 2002 became the world's youngest woman to earn the GM title, and who won the Women's World Rapid Chess Championship in December 2019, an achievement fresh in the news at the 2020 exam. She has no association with boxing, table tennis or billiards.

Why the others are wrong

(a)Boxing — India's leading boxers of the era are Mary Kom and Vijender Singh, not Koneru Humpy.
(b)Table Tennis — Table-tennis names such as Manika Batra are unrelated; Humpy's game is chess.
(d)Billiards — Billiards and snooker are associated with Pankaj Advani; Koneru Humpy plays chess.

Concept

Koneru Humpy is an Indian chess Grandmaster from Andhra Pradesh, an Arjuna Award and Padma Shri recipient, and the 2019 Women's World Rapid Chess champion. She is regarded, alongside Viswanathan Anand, as one of India's chess greats.

These 'person to sport' items are answered by recalling the individual. Koneru Humpy is firmly a chess icon, so the other three sports can be eliminated at once.

Key facts

Koneru Humpy is an Indian chess Grandmaster.
In 2002 she became the youngest woman ever to earn the GM title (a record at the time).
She won the Women's World Rapid Chess Championship in December 2019.
She has received the Arjuna Award and the Padma Shri.

A wooden chessboard with Staunton pieces set up for a game — Koneru Humpy is an Indian chess Grandmaster and 2019 Women's World Rapid championImage: Wilfredor · Wikimedia Commons (CC0)

Study next

Indian chess Grandmasters (Viswanathan Anand, D. Gukesh)Women's World Chess Championship formats (Classical, Rapid, Blitz)National sports honours (Arjuna Award, Khel Ratna, Padma awards)The Chess Olympiad and India's teamsSports personalities and their disciplines

Common traps

Guessing the sport from the name alone.
Confusing sportspersons with the wrong discipline in a mixed list.

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