SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 13 September 2024, Shift 1 · General Awareness · Question 3 of 100

Text as printed on a candidate's response sheet for this shift; answer per SSC's tentative key as marked on that sheet. Solution last reviewed 10 September 2026.

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Match the sports in List I with the sportsperson in List II who were in news for their sports achievement in 2022: LIST I- Sports | LIST II-Sports man A Lakshya Sen | i Boxing B Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa | ii Badminton C Nikhat Zareen | iii Shooting D Rudrankksh Patil | iv Chess

(a)A-i, B-iv, C-ii, D-iii
(b)A-ii, B-iv, C-i, D-iii
(c)A-iv, B-ii, C-i, D-iii
(d)A-iii, B-iv, C-i, D-ii

Answer

Why

Correct — B. The image holds four sportspersons in List I and four sports in List II, so read each name across to the discipline it belongs to.

A. Lakshya Sen — badminton (ii)
B. Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa — chess (iv)
C. Nikhat Zareen — boxing (i)
D. Rudrankksh Patil — shooting (iii)

That reads A-ii, B-iv, C-i, D-iii, which is option (b).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
A-i, B-iv, C-ii, D-iii — This puts Lakshya Sen in boxing and Nikhat Zareen in badminton. The two are simply swapped: Sen is the badminton player and Zareen the boxer.
(c)
A-iv, B-ii, C-i, D-iii — Here Lakshya Sen is sent to chess and Praggnanandhaa to badminton. Praggnanandhaa is the chess grandmaster, so A and B have been interchanged.
(d)
A-iii, B-iv, C-i, D-ii — Only A and D move in this set: Lakshya Sen is put in shooting and Rudrankksh Patil in badminton. Patil is the rifle shooter.

Concept

This is a name-to-discipline matching item built entirely from 2022 sporting news, so one secure pair unlocks the rest by elimination.

Lakshya Sen took the men's singles badminton gold at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. Nikhat Zareen won gold at the 2022 IBA Women's World Boxing Championships in Istanbul.

Rudrankksh Patil won the men's 10 m air rifle gold at the 2022 ISSF World Championship in Cairo, and R Praggnanandhaa spent 2022 beating elite opposition in online rapid chess, including Magnus Carlsen.

The columns are labelled the other way round from what they hold — the image heads List I 'Sports' and List II 'Sports man' while List I in fact carries the people. Match on the contents, and note the paper's own spelling, Rudrankksh Patil.

Key facts

Lakshya Sen won the men's singles badminton gold at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
Nikhat Zareen won gold at the 2022 IBA Women's World Boxing Championships in Istanbul.
R Praggnanandhaa is a chess grandmaster who beat Magnus Carlsen in online rapid play in 2022.
Rudrankksh Patil won the men's 10 m air rifle gold at the 2022 ISSF World Championship.

Study next

Indian medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in BirminghamIndian world champions in shooting and boxing since 2022Indian chess grandmasters and their major results

Common traps

Reading the column headings instead of the column contents, which are reversed here
Mixing up the two 2022 world-title winners, Zareen in boxing and Patil in shooting

This item pairs each athlete with a discipline four times over. The same pairing comes as a single stem for chess on 19 Sep 2024, 16:00, GA Q.15 (Bhakti Pradeep Kulkarni) and for hockey on 25 Sep 2024, 12:30, GA Q.4 (Jaipal Singh Munda).

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