Which of the following Table Tennis World Championship events was held in India?

Correct — B. The 19th World Table Tennis Championships were held at Bombay in 1952, the first time the championships came to Asia.

The options are edition numbers, not years, so the item is asking whether you can attach the edition to its host. The count is not a subtraction: 1926 was the 1st, there was no championship in 1927, and none at all from 1940 to 1946. Bombay 1952 is the 19th — option (b).

Why the others are wrong

• (a)
  17 — The 17th edition falls two places before the Bombay championships in the sequence. Nothing in it connects to India.
• (c)
  20 — The 20th came after Bombay and was staged elsewhere. In this era one edition was held per year, so being one place late puts you in a different country.
• (d)
  18 — The 18th is the edition immediately before Bombay. Off-by-one is the whole design of this question, and one place early is still not India.

The World Table Tennis Championships began at London in 1926, the year the International Table Tennis Federation was founded. The 2nd followed at Stockholm in 1928 — 1927 was skipped — after which they ran yearly to Cairo in 1939, resumed at Paris in 1947, and moved to a two-yearly cycle from the late 1950s.

The 19th edition at Bombay in 1952 was the first held in Asia. It is remembered for Japan's arrival at the top of the sport, with Hiroji Satoh taking the men's singles using a sponge-covered bat.

Key facts

• The 19th World Table Tennis Championships were held at Bombay in 1952.
• It was the first World Table Tennis Championships held in Asia.
• The first edition was held at London in 1926.
• Hiroji Satoh of Japan won the 1952 men's singles using a sponge-covered bat.

Common traps

• Assuming one edition per year from 1926 onwards, when 1927 was skipped and the war years 1940-46 carry no championship at all.
• Reading the four options as years rather than as edition numbers.

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