NASA Space Apps challenge 2018,QS India University Rankings 2019,Indian Sports: Conversations and Reflections

1.Which University conducts NASA Space Apps challenge 2018?

University of Calicut Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya Dayananda Sagar University Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University

2.What is the rank of India out of 50 valuable national brands released by Brand Finance?

9 15 28 35

3.Which Indian intitute tops in the "QS India University Rankings 2019"?

Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai Indian Institute of Technology, Bengaluru

4.Which union Minister will receive the prestigious Carnot Prize from the Ivy League University of Pennsylvania?

Dharmendra Pradhan Nirmala Sitharaman Piyush Goyal Nitin Gadkari

5.Who of the following is the author of the book "Indian Sports: Conversations and Reflections"?

Harsha Bhogle Sanjay Manjrekar Rameez Raja Vijayan Bala

National Swachh Survekshan Grameen 2018,Global Skills Park

1. Sandeep Bakhshi as managing director and chief executive officer for which of the following?

Andra Bank Citi Bank Bank Of Baroda ICICI Bank

2.Which state was ranked as the best State based on the National Swachh Survekshan Grameen 2018?

Telangana Uttar Pradesh Haryana Rajasthan

3.The new President of Hockey India (HI) is;

Mohd Mushtaque Ahmad Gyanendro Ningombam Asima Ali, Bhola Nath Singh Rajinder Singh

4.Asian Development Bank approved a Loan amount of $150 million for this country to establish a Global Skills Park.

Indonesia India Thailand Hong Kong

5.World Animal Day is celebrated on;

30th September 1st October 4th October 3rd October

Dronacharya Award,World Ozone Day,Space Technology Incubation Centre

1.Name the Boxer who has been nominated for the Dronacharya Award for 2018 in Boxing.

Omkar Yadav Subedar Chenanda Achaiah Kuttappa Premkumar Ram Niwas

2.Who released the draft India Cooling Action Plan on 24th World Ozone Day?

Shri Harsh Vardhan Shri Narendra Modi Smt Smriti Irani Shri Vijay Kumar Singh

3.India has launched Green Agriculture project along with which international organisation to bring transformative change in the farm sector?

UNESCO UNODC ILO FAO

4.Recently, India and __________ signed the revised Air Services Agreement.

Turkey Egypt Morocco Israel

5. ISRO's first Space Technology Incubation Centre was inagurated in which state?

Tripura Manipur West Bengal Uttarakhand

US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF),Akash Surface to Air Missile (SAM) systems

1. ISRO, Department of Space and this ministry agreed to set up an Integrated Control Room For Emergency Response.

Ministry of Human Resource Development Ministry Of Defence Ministry of Home Affairs Ministry of Civil Aviation

2.World Bank approves Country Partnership Framework for this country recently.

India Cuba Finland Mexico

3.Name the former foreign secretory of India who joined the board of the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF).

Ravi Shastri S S Jaishankar Ramji Tandon Maninder Singh

4.Who gave an approval the Akash Surface to Air Missile (SAM) systems for the Army?

IDAS BSF DRDO DAC

5.D Purandeswari was appointed an independent director of this Airline recently.

Air India Indigo SpiceJet Jet Airways

Asian Games,plastic pollution,GST helpline

1.P V Sindhu won __________ medal in badminton at Asian Games.

Gold Silver Bronze None of the above

2. Neeraj Chopra wins at __________ medal in Javelin with a distance of 88.06m sat the Asian Games.

Gold Silver Bronze None of the above

3.Who became the first Indian to win an individual medal in the equestrian event at the 2018 Asian Games?

Akash Malik Rakesh Kumar Dutee Chand Fouaad Mirza

4. Tamil Nadu has launched a campaign to highlight the impact of plastic pollution. Who has been appointed the brand ambassador of the project?

Rajinikanth Kamal Hassan Vivek Vijay

5.Who introduced the GST helpline for customers?

BIS NAA NIC TRAI

Current Affairs Quiz 2018

1.Who receives lifetime achievement award at Seatrade 30th Anniversary?

Charles Scharf Ravi Mehrotra Ashish Chemburkar Paul Hermelin

2. __________ and GMB sign MOU for improving working conditions in the ship recycling yards at Alang.

Institute for Human Development Directorate General Factory Advice Service & Labour Institutes V.V.Giri National Labour Institute National Institute of Labour Economics Research and Development

3.Who won the gold in the junior men's rapid fire pistol at 28th Meeting of Shooting Hopes international championship?

Anish Bhanwala Anhad Jawanda Matej Rampula Adarsh Singh

4.Who inagurated the state-run power giant National Thermal Power Corporation Limited (NTPC) 250 MW Solar Power Plant in Mandsaur?

Shri Arun Jaitley Shri Narendra Modi Shri Shivraj Singh Chauhan Smt Sushma Swaraj

5.Dr. TCA Raghavan was appointed as the Director General of this department

ACCA ICSI CIMA ICWA

Civil Service Exam – General Studies 2019

1. Recently, CBIC launched an app to verify if the person collecting GST from the consumer is eligible to collect it or not. The name of the app is;

GST Verify GST Check GST Collect GST Value

2.Which telecom operator unveils the internet telephony service 'Wings'?

BSNL Vodafone Airtel Reliance Jio

3.Who bagged the bronze medal in the 2018 IWF Junior World Weightlifting Championships at Tashkent?

Punam Yadav Sanjita Chanu Jhili Dalabehera Ragala Venkat Rahul

4.Who won the first prize of National Human Rights Commission's logo design contest?

Prashant Mishra Aayushi Garg Bansi Lal Ketki Dharm Priya Singh

5.The Indian Railways is planning to launch a tourist train, it was named as

Dakshin Express Flying Rani Sri Ramayana Express Tungabhadra Express

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC),Healthcare Access and Quality (HAQ) index

1.India received the 1st cargo of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) crude oil for its __________ Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

Kohlapur Ahmedabad Mangalore Surat

2.Anubrata Biswas was appointed as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer for which financial service?

Bajaj Capital Limited Airtel Payments Bank Birla Global Finance Limited LIC Finance Limited

3.India's first national sports university will come up in which state?

Bihar Gujarat Manipur Sikkim

4.Who was named as the most popular athlete in the world recently?

Lionel Messi Cristiano Ronaldo Rafael Nadal Saina Nehwal

5.India's rank in terms of Healthcare Access and Quality (HAQ) index, as per latest study by Lancet.

102 150 132 145

Solid waste management,Bhushan Steel Ltd,panic buttons

1. Which city is selectedas India's best city in solid waste management?

Kolkata Hyderabad Mangaluru Chennai

2. An International Day for Living Together in Peace is observed on ____________.

17th May 16th May 18th May 15th May

3.Which company acquired Bhushan Steel Ltd recently?

Jindal Steel ITC Reliance Industries Tata Steel

4.Name the NASA spacecraft which is about the size of a loaf of bread and has developed the first global map of ice clouds?

IceCube IcePod Cloudrop TinyCloud

5.Which railway zone has planned to install 'panic buttons' in its railway coaches?

Northen Railway Southern Railway North Eastern Railway Konkan Railways

World Robot Conference,2018 Women Economic Forum,UN Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2018

1.This country will host the 2018 World Robot Conference.

China Russia USA Taiwan

2.Delhi Jal Board (DJB) approves how much amount budget for 2018-19?

Rs. 5137 cr Rs. 4391 Cr Rs. 4200 Cr Rs. 5200 Cr

3.Name the person who has been conferred for 'Excellent Woman of Excellence' award in 2018 Women Economic Forum.

Aisha Amjad Nisha Bhalla Eliza Reid Tunyogi Henriett

4.Which of the following is the fastest growing subregion's of the Asia-Pacific, as per the report of 'UN Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2018'?

South Asia South-West Asia South-East Asia Oceania

5.Who of the following has been sworn in as the new Costa Rican President?

Luis Guillermo Solis Otton Solis Laura Chinchilla Carlos Alvarado

Cannes Festival ,business optimism index,Integrated Control & Command Centre

1. The 71st Cannes Festival is to be held in which country?

Malaysia France Singapore Cambodia

2.Nikol Pashinyan was elected as new prime minister of ___________.

Kazakhstan Turkey Armenia Georgia

3. India ranks __________________position in the business optimism index for the first quarter of 2018.

10th 8th 6th 3rd

4.Which state has launched the country's first Integrated Control & Command Centre for all its smart cities?

Manipur Himachala Pradesh Sikkim Madhya Pradesh

5.Manish Misra has been appointed as the Chief Innovation Officer (CIO) of this company's India business.

Panasonic Onida Sony Toshiba

Civil Service Exam – General Studies 2018

1.Who has been appointed to ICICI Bank's board as an Additional (Independent) Director?

Jatinder Bir Singh Rajeev Rishi Radhakrishnan Nair Ravi Krishan

2.Google.org has granted ____________ fund for teacher training and educational content creation in India.

$2.0 million $4.5 million $5.5 million $3.0 million

3.The 9th India Japan Energy Dialogue held in _____________.

Tokyo, Japan New Delhi, India Hyderabad, India Nagoya, Japan

4.'Go to Village' mission was launched in ____________.

Gujarat Sikkim Manipur Punjab

5.Which ministry has launched an online system for grant of security clearance to international conferences, seminars and workshops organised in India?

Ministry of External Affairs Ministry of Commerce and Industry Ministry of Communications Ministry of Power

Navigation Satellite IRNSS-1L,sbiINTOUCH,Illegal Migrants

1.Who Launched Navigation Satellite IRNSS-1L recently?

ISRO NASA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Space Studies Institute

2.Tejaswini Sawant has won silver medal in the finals of the women's __________ rifle prone at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.

45m 30m 50m 57m

3.Who won his first Commonwealth Games gold medal by defeating Wales' Kane Charig in 2018 Commonwealth Games?

Bajrang Punia Sushil Kumar Parveen Rana Narsingh Pancham Yadav

4.SBI has to set how many digital branches "sbiINTOUCH" across the country?

50 60 40 25

5. India, Uk, and this country have recently signed a MoU regarding the return of Illegal Migrants.

USA North Ireland Germany Canada

largest wind turbine generator (WTG),Mass Rapid Transport System (MRTS),multinational bank

1.Who inagurates the Asia-Pacific Regional Conference of IACP?

Shri Rajnath Singh Shri Surya Kumar Shri Suresh Prabhu Shri Prakash Javadekar

2.Which company announced the installation and commissioning of S128, claimed to be the largest wind turbine generator (WTG) in India?

Adani Power HAL Suzlon Energy Insolar Energy

3.Who named as FMSCI National MotorSports Person of the Year 2017?

Anindith Reddy Armaan Ebrahim K.D. Madan Aditya Patel

4.The first regional conference on 'Mass Rapid Transport System (MRTS) for Urban Areas was held in __________.

Pune Kolkata Lucknow Jaipur

5.Which multinational bank allows customers to check certain banking information through Facebook Messenger?

Citigroup HSBC Barclays Investment Bank Deutsche Bank

UPSC Civil Services Examination 2018

1.Which country offers $1 million aid to Tonga?

India Saudi Arabia Pakistan Indonesia

2.This state approves long-term linkage policy for bauxite.

Chhattisgarh Manipur Arunachala Pradesh Odisha

3.Who became the most successful athlete in Winter Olympics history by winning bronze medal in Pyeongchang, South Korea?

Marit Bjoergen Martin Johnsrud Sundby Jessica Diggins Kikkan Randall

4.India and this country's IDRC signed an MoU to usher the 'Programme Based Research Support' in addressing current and future global and local developmental challenges

Russia Canada Iran Israel

5.This organisation lowers interest rate to 8.55 pc for 2017-18.

RBI SIDBI EPFO Exim Bank

Current Affairs Quiz 2018

1.India ranks __________ in Terms of Forest Area.

5th 8th 3rd 9th

2.This state government formed a six-member revenue commission to revisit the existing land Acts to make them relevant with the changed land use situation.

Tamilnadu Gujarat Bihar Punjab

3.Which country to host the 8th edition of Theatre Olympics 2018?

Russia Brazil India China

4.This state won the Senior Women's National Football Championship for first time.

Odisha Manipur Tamilnadu Goa

5.Recently, which country unmanned Cargo Ship launched to Space Station?

Russia Japan France Brazil

General Studies 2018

1.Who has taken charge as the new Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) of the Indian Army?

J S Sandhu Anil Chauhan P S Jain A K Bhatt

2.Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates Global Investment summit in __________.

Bihar Assam Odisha Rajasthan

3.Which of the following is the name of the World's Biggest Health Plan?

Obamacare Aetna CVS Health ModiCare

4.Which of the following city will host the 2nd edition of Nobel Prize Series-India 2018?

Panaji Chandigarh New Delhi Kochi

5.How many rivers of Jammu & Kashmir is declared as 'Nat Waterways'?

2 4 7 5