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1. In which year was the Indian Olympic Association
formed?
Answer: 1927
2. India participated for the first time in ......... Olympics?
Answer: 1900, Paris
3. Who represented India at the 1900 Paris Olympics?
Answer: Norman Pritchard
4. How many gold medals Indian Hockey Team has won in
the Olympic Game so far?
Answer: Eight
5. The total number of medals won by the Hockey team for
India at the Olympic Games is .........?
Answer: 11 (Gold-8, Silver-1, Bronze-2)
6. In which year Indian Hockey team won the first gold
medal in the Olympics?
Answer: 1928, Amsterdam
7. Indian Hockey team won the Olympics gold for the last
time in .........?
Answer: 1980, Moscow
8. In which Olympics Indian Hockey Team won the Silver
medal?
Answer: 1960, Rome
9. Who was independent India’s first individual Olympic
medalist?
Answer: K D Jadhav
10. K D Jadhav won the freestyle wrestling bronze medal at
the ......... Olympic Games?
Answer: 1952, Helsinki
11. Which Indian wrestler was widely known as ‘Pocket
Dynamo’?
Answer: K D Jadhav
12. Who was independent India’s second individual
Olympic medalist?
Answer: Leander Paes (Tennis)
13. In which Olympics Leander Paes won the bronze
medal?
Answer: 1996, Atlanta
14. Who is the first Indian to compete at Six Olympic
Games?
Answer: Leander Paes
15. Who is the first Indian woman to win an Olympic
medal?
Answer: Karnam Malleswari
16. Karnam Malleswari won bronze medal at the Sydney
Olympics of 2000 in .........?
Answer: Weightlifting
17. Who was independent India’s first individual Olympic
Silver medalist?
Answer: Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
18. At the 2004 Athens Olympics, RS Rathore won silver
medal in which item?
Answer: Double Trap (Shooting)
19. Who is India’s first individual Olympic gold medalist?
Answer: Abhinav Bindra
20. Abhinav Bindra won Olympic gold medal in the 10 m Air
Rifle event at which Olympics?
Answer: 2008, Beijing
21. What is the total number of medals India won at the
2008 Beijing Olympics?
Answer: Three (Gold-1, Bronze-2)
22. Who were the Bronze medalists for India at the 2008
Beijing Olympics?
Answer: Vijendar Singh (Boxing), Sushil Kumar (Wrestling)
23. Who is the first Indian to win two consecutive Olympic
medals in the individual item?
Answer: Sushil Kumar (Wrestling)
24. At which Olympic Games India has won maximum
number of medals?
Answer: 2012, London (6 medals)
25. Who were the silver medalists for India at the 2012
London Olympics?
Answer: Vijay Kumar (Shooting), Sushil Kumar (Shooting)
