Q 01/05

Which champion wrestler who beat Lou Thesz in 1968 played Hanuman in Ramanand Sagar's TV Ramayan?

A) Dara Singh

B) Satpal Singh

C) Chandgi Ram

D) Kartar Singh

Answer · why

A) Dara Singh

Dara Singh. The television role was a reprise: he had first played the monkey god in the 1976 film Bajrangbali, eight years after taking the world tit...

Q 02/05

Which Pakistani president told Milkha Singh 'you didn't run today, you flew', coining the name Flying Sikh?

A) Yahya Khan

B) Ayub Khan

C) Zia-ul-Haq

D) Pervez Musharraf

Answer · why

B) Ayub Khan

Ayub Khan. Milkha had at first refused to race in Pakistan, where his parents were killed during Partition, and went only after Prime Minister Nehru p...

Q 03/05

Ajay Devgn plays which coach in Maidaan, a 2024 biopic about India's 1962 Asian Games football gold?

A) P. K. Banerjee

B) Jarnail Singh Dhillon

C) Syed Abdul Rahim

D) Sailen Manna

Answer · why

C) Syed Abdul Rahim

Syed Abdul Rahim. He died of cancer the following June, and Indian football faded so quickly afterwards that one of his players said he 'took Indian f...

Q 04/05

Dangal dramatised which wrestler's 2010 Commonwealth gold in Delhi, India's first by a woman in the sport?

A) Babita Kumari

B) Vinesh Phogat

C) Ritu Phogat

D) Geeta Phogat

Answer · why

D) Geeta Phogat

Geeta Phogat. Her younger sister Babita, the film's other daughter, won a silver of her own in a lighter weight class at the same Delhi Games.

Q 05/05

Whose name did India's highest sports award carry before it was renamed after Dhyan Chand in 2021?

A) Jawaharlal Nehru

B) Indira Gandhi

C) Rajiv Gandhi

D) Lal Bahadur Shastri

Answer · why

C) Rajiv Gandhi

Rajiv Gandhi's name came off the Khel Ratna in August 2021, the day after India's men won their first Olympic hockey medal since 1980.