SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 19 September 2024, Shift 3 · General Awareness · Question 15 of 99

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Bhakti Pradeep Kulkarni is associated with ________.

(a)cricket
(b)kabaddi
(c)chess
(d)badminton

Answer

Why

Correct — C. Bhakti Pradeep Kulkarni is an Indian chess player from Goa.

She holds FIDE's Woman Grandmaster title and later added the International Master title, and she has won the national women's premier championship.

Her whole record is in board play, which is what option (c) names.

Why the others are wrong

(a)
cricket — The titles that follow her name, WGM and IM, are awarded by FIDE, the world chess federation, and exist in no other sport. Cricket issues nothing of the kind, so the tag alone rules the option out.
(b)
kabaddi — Kabaddi ranks its players through team leagues and national squads, not through individual world-federation titles. Kulkarni's results are individual tournament finishes on a chessboard.
(d)
badminton — Indian badminton players are ranked by the BWF. Kulkarni's standing is a FIDE Elo rating instead, which is the currency of chess alone.

Concept

Name-to-sport items are decided by one recognisable tag attached to the person, not by reasoning.

For chess that tag is a FIDE title — Grandmaster, International Master, Woman Grandmaster, Woman International Master — or an Elo rating. No other sport issues them.

Bhakti Kulkarni, from Goa, holds the Woman Grandmaster title, later earned the International Master title, and has won the national women's premier championship.

The stem gives a name and nothing else, so there is nothing to reason from: you either recognise it or you leave it. Revise sports names grouped by sport, so that a name arrives already tagged.

Key facts

Bhakti Kulkarni is a chess player from Goa who holds the Woman Grandmaster and International Master titles.
FIDE titles such as GM, IM, WGM and WIM belong to chess alone and need both norms and a rating threshold.
SSC's own paper keys S. Vijayalakshmi as India's first woman Grandmaster in chess, at 23 Sep 2024, 16:00, GA Q10 — the title meant is FIDE's Woman Grandmaster (WGM), which she took in 2001.
Koneru Humpy, in 2002, was the first Indian woman to earn the unrestricted Grandmaster title, which Vijayalakshmi never held.

Study next

Indian chess: FIDE title holders and how Grandmaster norms are earnedArjuna Award and Khel Ratna winners from chessRecent Indian medallists grouped by sport for name recall

Common traps

Guessing badminton or cricket because the name sounds vaguely familiar from elsewhere
Recalling only the surname Kulkarni and matching it to a different sportsperson

Chess reaches General Awareness both as player identification and as rulebook trivia. Players are asked at 24 Sep 2024, 12:30, GA Q11 (Sankalp Gupta, keyed chess) and at 23 Sep 2024, 16:00, GA Q10, while 19 Sep 2024, 12:30, GA Q12 asks which piece may move only to the empty square straight ahead.

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