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 played Hanuman in the 1987–88 Ramayan two decades after his 1968 world title win in Bombay, and the role became the most recognised of his ...

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 made the remark after Milkha beat Pakistani sprinter Khaliq in a 1960 race, the same year the runner finished an agonising fourth in the Rom...

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 coached India to that 1962 gold in Jakarta, beating South Korea before a crowd of 100,000, and died the following year.

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 beat Australia's Emily Bensted for that gold, and Dangal cast Fatima Sana Shaikh as her opposite Aamir Khan as father Mahavir.

Q 05/05

In 2021 India renamed its top sports award after Dhyan Chand; whose name had it carried since 1991?

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 on 6 August 2021, the day after India's men's hockey team won Olympic bronze in Tokyo.