NDA (II) 2025 GAT Q141: What is the nickname of the National Men's Hockey Team of

Q: What is the answer to NDA (II) 2025 GAT Q141?

D. Correct — D, The Kookaburras. Australia's men's national field-hockey team is nicknamed 'the Kookaburras', after the native laughing kookaburra bird; the women's national hockey team are 'the Hockeyroos'. (Provisional — pending the official UPSC key.)

NDA (II) 2025 General Ability Test · Question 141 of 147

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Provisional answers. UPSC has not yet released the official NDA 2025 answer key (it is published several months after the exam). The answers here are our best-supported answers — derived from careful subject-solving and cross-checked against independent solved papers and primary sources — and will be reconciled to the official key as soon as UPSC publishes it. They are not the official UPSC answer key.

What is the nickname of the National Men's Hockey Team of Australia?

(a)The Kangaroos
(b)The Boomers
(c)The Dolphins
(d)The Kookaburras

Answer

Why

Correct — D, The Kookaburras. Australia's men's national field-hockey team is nicknamed 'the Kookaburras', after the native laughing kookaburra bird; the women's national hockey team are 'the Hockeyroos'.

Why the others are wrong

(a)The Kangaroos — 'The Kangaroos' is the nickname of Australia's men's national rugby league team, not the hockey side.
(b)The Boomers — 'The Boomers' is the nickname of Australia's men's national basketball team (the women are 'the Opals').
(c)The Dolphins — 'The Dolphins' is not the Australian men's hockey team's nickname — the name is associated with a rugby league club, not national field hockey.

Concept

Many national sporting teams carry nicknames drawn from local wildlife. Australia's men's field-hockey team are the Kookaburras and the women's are the Hockeyroos. Across other sports Australia fields the Boomers and Opals (basketball), the Kangaroos (rugby league) and the Socceroos (football).

All four options are plausible Australian sporting nicknames, but each belongs to a different sport. The task is simply to match the nickname that goes with field hockey, which is the Kookaburras.

Key facts

Australia's men's field-hockey team is nicknamed the Kookaburras; the women's team is the Hockeyroos.
The Boomers is the nickname of Australia's men's national basketball team.
The Kangaroos is the nickname of Australia's men's national rugby league team.
The kookaburra is a native Australian kingfisher famous for its laughing call.

A laughing kookaburra perched on a branch, showing its large beak and blue-green wing patch — Australia's men's national field-hockey team, the Kookaburras, takes its nickname from this laughing kookaburra bird.Image: JJ Harrison · Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Study next

Nicknames of national field-hockey teams around the worldAustralian national team nicknames across sports (Hockeyroos, Boomers, Opals, Socceroos)Major field-hockey events — Olympics, World Cup and Pro LeagueIndia's field-hockey history and achievementsWell-known field-hockey players and Olympic medallists

Common traps

Do not pick a nickname from the wrong sport — the Kangaroos (rugby league) and Boomers (basketball) are Australian but not hockey.
The Hockeyroos is the women's hockey team, not the men's.

Sports GK is asked as 'match the team to its nickname', mixing nicknames across different sports of the same country.

Related PYQs

No directly related past PYQ was found.

Practice

practice — not a real PYQ
The women's national field-hockey team of Australia is nicknamed
- (a)The Opals
- (b)The Hockeyroos
- (c)The Diamonds
- (d)The Matildas
Answer(b) The Hockeyroos — the women's hockey side (the Matildas are the women's football team).
practice — not a real PYQ
The nickname of the Australian men's national basketball team is
- (a)The Kookaburras
- (b)The Socceroos
- (c)The Boomers
- (d)The Wallabies
Answer(c) The Boomers — Australia's men's basketball team (the Wallabies are rugby union).