Who’s the first Indian to win an individual Olympics medal?” This was a question in one of those non-multiple-choice, objective-type entrance tests I once took. The answer is Norman Gilbert Pritchard (NGP)—two medals in athletics, representing (British) India, at the 1900 Paris Olympics. 

While I knew this answer, I did not write it. Assuming that given the poor quality of my examiners—they were from a second-rate news channel, scouting for sasta campus recruits—they might not know the answer themselves!