SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 24 September 2024, Shift 2 · General Awareness · Question 16 of 100

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Rudrankksh Patil is associated with _________.

(a)wrestling
(b)shooting
(c)chess
(d)badminton

Answer

Why

Correct — B. Rudrankksh Patil is a rifle shooter, competing in the 10m air rifle. He won the men's 10m air rifle gold at the 2022 ISSF World Championship in Cairo, and that result carried an Olympic quota place for India.

A name-to-sport item gives you nothing to reason from. Either the name is on your list or it is not, so option (b) is a recall check rather than a puzzle.

Why the others are wrong

(a)
wrestling — Wrestling is not his discipline. Patil's record was made on a 10m range with an air rifle, not on the mat.
(c)
chess — Chess belongs to a different set of names. Sankalp Gupta is the chess player asked about at GA Q.11 of this same paper, and Patil is not a board player.
(d)
badminton — Badminton would place him among racket players. His event is an ISSF shooting discipline, governed and scheduled quite separately.

Concept

This is a name-to-discipline item: one name, four sports, and nothing else in the stem. There is no derivation available in the hall, so the return comes from maintaining a short list rather than from understanding the sport.

Shooting comes up because Indian shooters medal regularly at ISSF World Cups and World Championships, and each medal produces a datable headline a paper can quote. Rudrankksh Patil entered that list with his 2022 World Championship gold in Cairo.

The stem supplies no event, no year and no venue — only a name. If the name is unfamiliar there is nothing in the option set to work from, which is the argument for keeping a written list of recent Indian medallists.

Key facts

Rudrankksh Patil competes in the 10m air rifle.
He won gold in the men's 10m air rifle at the 2022 ISSF World Championship in Cairo.
That gold also secured a Paris 2024 Olympic quota place for India.
ISSF is the International Shooting Sport Federation, the world governing body for the sport.

Study next

Indian medallists at recent ISSF World Championships and World CupsOlympic quota places and why they belong to the country, not the athlete10m air rifle, 10m air pistol and trap: which Indian shoots which event

Common traps

Guessing from the surname, which places nothing.
Mixing up the 2022 ISSF World Championship in Cairo with a World Cup leg.
Reading a quota place as a berth reserved for the shooter who won it.

Shooting is asked from the medal-table side as well — 10 Sep 2024, 12:30, GA Q.19 asks how many medals India won at the ISSF World Cup 2022 in Cairo, and 19 Sep 2024, 09:00, GA Q.5 asks in which sport India won its first individual Olympic medal.

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