SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 12 September 2024, Shift 2 · General Intelligence and Reasoning · Question 20 of 100

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Select the word-pair that best represents a similar relationship to the one expressed in the pair of words given below. (The words must be considered as meaningful English words and must NOT be related to each other based on the number of letters/number of consonants/vowels in the word) Duleep Trophy : Cricket

(a)Burdwan Trophy : Polo
(b)Agha Khan Cup : Hockey
(c)Dhyan Chand Trophy : Badminton
(d)Durand Cup : Cricket

Answer

Why

Correct — B. The pair is a tournament and the sport actually played for it.

Rule: trophy : the game it belongs to.

The Duleep Trophy is India's domestic first-class cricket tournament, run by the BCCI and named after Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji.

The Agha Khan Cup is a long-running all-India field hockey tournament, so it repeats the relationship in exactly the same direction — option (b).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
Burdwan Trophy : Polo — The Burdwan Trophy is a weightlifting trophy, not a polo one, so the pair names a sport the trophy has nothing to do with.
(c)
Dhyan Chand Trophy : Badminton — Dhyan Chand is a hockey name — Major Dhyan Chand was India's greatest hockey player — so tying that trophy to badminton breaks the link.
(d)
Durand Cup : Cricket — The Durand Cup is football, among the oldest football tournaments in Asia. Cricket is the right sport for the question's own pair, not for this trophy.

Concept

A word-pair analogy resting entirely on sports general knowledge. The relationship itself is trivial once you name it: a trophy and the sport contested for it.

The work is recall, and the bracketed instruction rules out every shortcut — you may not match on letter counts or on vowels, only on meaning.

Note that option (d) reuses the question's own sport, cricket. That is the standard trap in this format: the sport is right, the trophy is not.

Three of the four options pair an Indian trophy with the wrong sport, so the question is decided by knowing what each trophy is played for rather than by any reasoning step.

Key facts

The Duleep Trophy is a BCCI domestic first-class cricket tournament, named after Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji.
The Agha Khan Cup is an all-India field hockey tournament.
The Durand Cup is a football tournament and one of the oldest in Asia.
The Burdwan Trophy is associated with weightlifting.

Study next

Indian domestic cricket trophies and what each one is forHockey and football trophies contested in IndiaWord-pair analogies where one option reuses the question's own second term

Common traps

Picking option (d) because it says cricket, which is the sport in the question.
Assuming a trophy named after a person belongs to that person's sport without checking the pairing offered.
Matching on the word Trophy or Cup rather than on the sport.

SSC prints the standard rider that the words must be treated as meaningful English and not matched on letter or vowel counts, which is a warning that the link is factual rather than structural.

The same sports recall is tested directly in the General Awareness block of this 12 Sep 2024, 12:30 paper at Q.9, which asks which player is connected with table tennis.

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