SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 18 September 2024, Shift 2 · General Awareness · Question 15 of 99

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Raja Bhalindra Singh trophy is associated with which of the following national sports events?

(a)National Games
(b)Khelo India University Games
(c)Khelo India Youth Games
(d)Khelo India Winter Games

Answer

Why

Correct — A. The Raja Bhalindra Singh Trophy belongs to the National Games, where it goes to the best-performing state of the meet.

The trophy is named for Raja Bhalindra Singh, a former president of the Indian Olympic Association, and the National Games are the IOA's own multi-sport event.

So the award sits with the IOA's meet, not with the Khelo India competitions the sports ministry runs. That trophy-to-organiser pairing is option (a).

Why the others are wrong

(b)
Khelo India University Games — The Khelo India University Games are a sports-ministry competition for college and university athletes, run separately from the Indian Olympic Association meet this trophy belongs to.
(c)
Khelo India Youth Games — The Khelo India Youth Games are an age-group competition for school and junior athletes, a talent-identification platform rather than the senior national championship this trophy belongs to.
(d)
Khelo India Winter Games — The Khelo India Winter Games are the winter-sport edition of the same ministry programme, held in the snow states. The Raja Bhalindra Singh Trophy is not one of its awards.

Concept

Two separate ladders of national competition are easy to merge, and this question lives on the seam.

The National Games are the senior, state-versus-state championship held under the Indian Olympic Association, with a host state for each edition; the Raja Bhalindra Singh Trophy is its overall-champion award.

The Khelo India games — Youth, University and Winter — are a Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports scheme aimed at spotting and funding young talent.

Raja Bhalindra Singh was a member of the International Olympic Committee from India as well as an IOA president, which is why a national multi-sport trophy carries his name.

Key facts

The Raja Bhalindra Singh Trophy is given to the best-performing state at the National Games.
Raja Bhalindra Singh served as president of the Indian Olympic Association and was an IOC member from India.
The National Games are conducted under the Indian Olympic Association, with a different host state each edition.
The 36th National Games were held in Gujarat in 2022.

Study next

Host states and years of recent National Games editionsThe three Khelo India games and the ministry that runs themNational sports awards: Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna, Arjuna and Dronacharya

Common traps

Assuming any national multi-sport event must be a Khelo India event.
Attaching an Indian Olympic Association trophy to a government scheme.

Sports questions here are mostly one-line pairings — trophy to event, mascot to edition, host to year.

Also asked 26 Sep 2024, 12:30, GA Q1 (six swimming golds at the 36th National Games), 17 Sep 2024, 12:30, GA Q3 (mascot of the Khelo India University Games 2022) and 18 Sep 2024, 16:00, GA Q22 (host state of the third Khelo India University Games).

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