Sankalp Gupta is associated with which of the following events?

Correct — B. Sankalp Gupta is an Indian chess Grandmaster, so chess is the event he is associated with.

The stem gives nothing but the name — no event, no year, no medal — so this is pure recall. The way to build that recall is by list: keep a running name-to-sport list of Indian players who make the sports pages.

Chess is the list he belongs to, which is option (b).

Why the others are wrong

• (a)
  Boxing — Boxing is the wrong file. The title attached to his name is a chess title, not a ring record.
• (c)
  Wrestling — Wrestling does not claim him either. Grandmaster here is the FIDE chess title, earned by norms and rating.
• (d)
  Badminton — Badminton ranks its players on a tour circuit. The norm-and-rating route that produced Gupta's title belongs to chess.

The Grandmaster title is awarded by FIDE, the world chess federation, and it is earned rather than won: three GM norms in qualifying tournaments plus a peak rating of 2500.

India's list of Grandmasters has grown quickly since Viswanathan Anand became the first in 1988, which is why SSC can keep drawing fresh names for this one-line question.

Key facts

• Sankalp Gupta is an Indian chess Grandmaster.
• The Grandmaster title is awarded by FIDE and needs three GM norms plus a 2500 rating.
• Viswanathan Anand became India's first Grandmaster in 1988.

Common traps

• Guessing from the sound of a name instead of building a name-to-sport list.
• Assuming an unfamiliar name is a wrestler or boxer because those options come first.

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