{"id":2902,"date":"2026-04-23T08:22:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T02:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/?p=2902"},"modified":"2026-04-23T08:22:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T02:52:36","slug":"consider-the-following-statements-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/upsc\/prelims\/consider-the-following-statements-22","title":{"rendered":"Consider the following statements:\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I. In the finals of the 45th Chess Olympiad held in 2024, Gukesh Dommaraju became the&nbsp;<strong>world\u2019s youngest winner<\/strong>&nbsp;after defeating the Russian player Ian Nepomniachtchi.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">II. Abhimanyu Mishra, an American chess player, holds the record of becoming world\u2019s youngest ever Grandmaster.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which of the statements given above is\/are&nbsp;<strong>correct?&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list mcq\">\n<li>I only\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>II only\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Both I and II\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Neither I nor II\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Answer: (b) II only&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Chess Olympiad is a biennial event in which teams representing nations of the world compete. International Chess Federation (FIDE) organises the tournament and selects the host nation. The 45th FIDE Chess Olympiad was held in Budapest, Hungary.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>D Gukesh\u00a0<strong>won his second individual gold medal<\/strong>\u00a0in a row at the 45th Chess Olympiad.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Indian Grandmaster D Gukesh, at 18, became the\u00a0<strong>youngest world chess champion by defeating Ding Liren in the 2024\u00a0<\/strong>FIDE World Chess Championship held in Singapore.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Abhimanyu Mishra,\u00a0<\/strong>a U.S. player of Indian origin,<strong>\u00a0is the youngest GrandMaster in history,\u00a0at 12 years, four months and 25 days<\/strong>. He obliterated the long-standing record held by Sergey Karjakin, who was 12 years and seven months old when he attained the title.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Knowledge Base:<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>India clinched their\u00a0<strong>first-ever gold medal at the 45th Chess Olympiad<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>India\u2019s men and women won the gold\u00a0<\/strong>at the Chess Olympiad in Budapest.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Indian\u00a0<strong>men\u2019s team defeated Slovenia\u00a0<\/strong>with a score of 3.5-0.5 in the 11th and final round of the 45th Chess Olympiad.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Simultaneously, the Indian\u00a0<strong>women\u2019s team dominated Azerbaijan<\/strong>, securing victory with a 3.5-0.5 margin.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I. In the finals of the 45th Chess Olympiad held in 2024, Gukesh Dommaraju became the&nbsp;world\u2019s youngest winner&nbsp;after defeating the Russian player Ian Nepomniachtchi.&nbsp;&nbsp; II. Abhimanyu Mishra, an American chess player, holds the record of becoming world\u2019s youngest ever Grandmaster.&nbsp;&nbsp; Which of the statements given above is\/are&nbsp;correct?&nbsp;&nbsp; Answer: (b) II only&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[47],"years":[63],"class_list":["post-2902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prelims","category-upsc","tag-international-relations","years-63"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":3,"label":"Prelims"},{"value":1,"label":"UPSC"}],"post_tag":[{"value":47,"label":"International Relations"}],"years":[{"value":63,"label":"2025"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"LotusArise","author_link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/author\/team-lotusarise"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":3,"name":"Prelims","slug":"prelims","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":1,"count":1251,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":1251,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Prelims","category_nicename":"prelims","category_parent":1},{"term_id":1,"name":"UPSC","slug":"upsc","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1269,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":1269,"category_description":"","cat_name":"UPSC","category_nicename":"upsc","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":47,"name":"International Relations","slug":"international-relations","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":47,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":79,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2902"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=2902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}