How many medals did India win in International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup 2022, which was held in Cairo, Egypt?
- (a)9
- (b)7
- (c)6
- (d)8
Answer
Why
Correct — B. India finished the 2022 ISSF World Cup stage in Cairo with seven medals, and seven is the figure SSC's key records.
There is nothing to derive here — this is pure recall, and the only defence is having read the tally.
What makes such a number plausible at all is the shape of an ISSF World Cup: medals come from individual rifle, pistol and shotgun events and from mixed-team events as well, so a country's count runs well above its number of star shooters.
Why the others are wrong
- (a)9 — Nine is the largest figure offered and the natural pick if all you remember is that India did well in Cairo. The key records seven.
- (c)6 — Six is one short. On a tally item the adjacent number is the standard distractor, and a near-miss scores exactly what a wild guess scores.
- (d)8 — Eight sits one above the keyed total. If you cannot place the number, leaving a tally item blank beats guessing, because negative marking makes a one-in-four shot a losing bet.
Concept
The ISSF, the International Shooting Sport Federation, is the world governing body for Olympic shooting — rifle, pistol and shotgun.
Its World Cup is an annual series of stages held in different host cities, feeding world rankings and closing with a Final for the leading shooters.
Cairo has been one of those host cities, and India is a regular medal-winner on the circuit, which is why SSC treats a World Cup tally as fair current-affairs recall.
How the counting works matters: the ISSF awards medals in men's, women's and mixed-team events, so a national tally aggregates several categories.
This card follows the key for the count itself.
A single-stage medal tally is exactly the kind of number that drifts between coaching lists, so if you are revising it, check it against the ISSF's own results page rather than a circulating PDF.
Key facts
- The ISSF governs the Olympic shooting disciplines: rifle, pistol and shotgun.
- The ISSF World Cup is a multi-stage annual series, each stage hosted by a different country.
- SSC's key records India's medal count at the Cairo 2022 World Cup as seven.
Study next
Common traps
- Mixing a World Cup stage tally with a World Championship tally from the same period
- Recalling India's gold count and answering with that instead of the total
- Guessing on a pure-recall tally when negative marking makes a blind guess costly
Shooting recurs as a name-and-fact slot in this cycle: 24 Sep 2024, 12:30, GA Q.16 asks which sport Rudrankksh Patil is associated with, and 09 Sep 2024, 12:30, GA Q.15 asks at which Olympics Gagan Narang won bronze.
The same shift asks the year the International Olympic Committee was formed (10 Sep 2024, 12:30, GA Q.11), so sports GA here is mostly dates, tallies and names.
Related PYQs
No directly related past PYQ was found.