SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 25 September 2024, Shift 3 · General Awareness · Question 19 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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How many athletes were selected to represent India at the 1924 Paris Summer Olympics?

(a)10
(b)12
(c)8
(d)11

Answer

Why

Correct — C. SSC's key puts India's contingent for the 1924 Paris Olympics at 8, so option (c) is the mark to make.

The Games fall in a period when India's participation was small and privately organised — the 1920 Antwerp team travelled on private backing, and the Indian Olympic Association was formed only in 1927.

India won no medal at Paris in 1924. Read the dispute note below before quoting the figure of eight anywhere outside the exam.

Why the others are wrong

(a)
10 — Ten is a round-number guess. Nothing in the record of the 1924 entry lands on ten, and the figure SSC keys is eight.
(b)
12 — Twelve is not the keyed figure. SSC's key gives eight, and the standard databases give a number larger than twelve, so twelve matches neither — see the dispute note.
(d)
11 — Eleven invites a hockey or football XI as an anchor, but India's Olympic hockey debut came four years later, at Amsterdam in 1928.

Concept

India's pre-independence Olympic story runs through a few fixed markers.

1900 Paris: Norman Pritchard competed as India's lone representative and won two silver medals in athletics. 1920 Antwerp: India sent its first team, privately funded. 1924 Paris: the contingent SSC's key counts at eight. 1928 Amsterdam: the hockey team debuted and won gold.

Hold these as a short timeline rather than as loose facts, because SSC asks for the years and the numbers, not for the narrative.

Paris 1924 is asked because Paris hosted the Games again in 2024, a century later — the kind of anniversary the General Awareness section follows closely.

Key facts

SSC's key puts India's contingent at the 1924 Paris Olympics at 8 athletes.
Wikipedia's article on India at the 1924 Summer Olympics lists 13 competitors, seven in athletics and six in tennis.
India won no medal at the 1924 Paris Olympics.
The Indian Olympic Association was formed in 1927.
India's Olympic hockey debut came at Amsterdam in 1928, where the team won gold.

Study next

India at the 1900 Paris Olympics and Norman Pritchard's two silver medalsIndia's Olympic hockey record from 1928 onwardsThe formation and functions of the Indian Olympic Association

Common traps

Confusing the size of the 1924 contingent with that of the 1920 Antwerp team
Assuming India won a medal in 1924 because both 1900 and 1928 produced them

Early Indian Olympic history is asked as bare years and numbers. The founding year of the Indian Olympic Association is set on 13 Sep 2024, 12:30, GA Q.8, and India's hockey debut on 12 Sep 2024, 09:00, GA Q.20.

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