Current Affairs MCQ 19th July 2018

Q1. Rita Bhaduri passed away recently. She was _____________.
(a) Politician
(b) Lyricist
(c) Singer
(d) Actor
(e) Poet

S1. Ans.(d)

Q2. Name the Union Minister who co-chaired 8th session of India-Oman Joint Commission Meeting (JCM) in Muscat, Oman.
(a) Sushma Swaraj
(b) Suresh Prabhu
(c) Dharmendra Pradhan
(d) Piyush Goyal
(e) Nirmala Sitharaman

S2. Ans.(b)

Q3. Which of the following state government has launched the ‘Paudhagiri’ campaign with an aim to increase the green cover across the state?
(a) Uttar Pradesh
(b) Jharkhand
(c) Haryana
(d) Uttarakhand
(e) Madhya Pradesh

S3. Ans.(c)

Q4. India has been elected new President of Asian Tug of War Federation. India’s Gautam Kaul won the prestigious post in the Federations’ Executive Committee elections. The elections were held in ______________.
(a) Jharsa
(b) Thimpu
(c) New Delhi
(d) Kathmandu
(e) Mumbai

S4. Ans.(d)

Q5. With an aim of upgrading quality of education, research, hospital care facilities in the national AYUSH institutions throughout the country and develop them as light house institutions, All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA) organized two days Conference of Heads of AYUSH National Institutes in ____________.
(a) Bhopal
(b) Jaipur
(c) New Delhi
(d) Indore
(e) Guwahati

S5. Ans.(c)

Q6. A team comprising experts from the Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur and the University of Oxford has been selected for an award for exceptional research-led innovation to mitigate arsenic poisoning in the ____________ delta in India.
(a) Ganga-Yamuna
(b) Ganga-Brahmaputra
(c) Yamuna-Brahmaputra
(d) Ganga-Krishna
(e) None of the given options is true

S6. Ans.(b)

Q7. One of the country’s first Defence incubators will come up in Hyderabad, which is India’s missile development centre and fast emerging the hub for aerospace industries. The incubator will be funded through which of the following scheme?
(a) Make in India Scheme
(b) POSHAN Scheme
(c) NDEX Scheme
(d) iDEX scheme
(e) None of the given schemes are true

S7. Ans.(d)

Q8. Name the Wrestler who won gold at the Spanish Grand Prix in Madrid, conceding just one point in five bouts en route to the title victory in the women’s 50kg freestyle category.
(a) Babita Phogat
(b) Vinesh Phogat
(c) Sakshi Malik
(d) Heena Chanu
(e) Vasudha Dogra

S8. Ans.(b)

Q9. JK Rowling will come out with the fourth novel titled ___________ in the series about the exploits of private investigator Cormoran Strike in September 2018.
(a) The Silkworm
(b) Career of Evil
(c) The Cuckoo’s Calling
(d) Lethal White
(e) The Knowledge of Ice

S9. Ans.(d)

Q10. Honda’s Marc Marquez cruised to his ninth consecutive German Grand Prix victory to extend his MotoGP lead. He is from which of the following country?
(a) Russia
(b) France
(c) Spain
(d) Indonesia
(e) India

S10. Ans.(c)

Preeti Singh