1998 General Studies, all questions

UPSC Prelims 1998 · General Studies

Question 7: International Relations and Current Affairs

Olympics 2000 is to be held in

aJohannesburg
bCape Town
cRome
dSydney

AnswerThe answer is (d).

The 2000 Summer Olympics were awarded to Sydney, Australia, in the IOC vote of 1993, where it narrowly beat Beijing. The Games were held there in September 2000, the second time Australia hosted after Melbourne in 1956. Rome hosted in 1960, and neither Johannesburg nor Cape Town has hosted an Olympics. Remember the sequence: Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000, Athens 2004.

Why each option is right or wrong
  • (a) Johannesburg has never hosted an Olympics.
  • (b) Cape Town has never hosted an Olympics.
  • (c) Rome hosted the 1960 Games, not 2000.
  • (d) Right: Sydney hosted the Games of 2000.

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