CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 17TH JULY
2019
1.
Which country is
set to host the 44th session of the World Heritage Committee in 2020?
A) Fuzhou, China
B) Tokyo, Japan
C) Moscow, Russia
D) Berlin, Germany
E) None of these
2.
Name the Bollywood
actor , who was conferred with an Honorary Degree, Doctor of Letters (honoris
causa) from Melbourne-based La Trobe University at the 10th edition of Indian
Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM).
A) Akshay Kumar
B) Shah Rukh Khan
C) Salman Khan
D) Amitabh Bachchan
E) None of these
3.
To which state
Acharya Devvrat was appointed as governor recently?
A) Gujarat
B) Bihar
C) Haryana
D) Jharkhand
E) None of these
4.
Name the India’s
ambitious mission, which has been called off due to a technical snag before its
scheduled launch.
A) Chandrayaan-1
B) Chandrayaan-2
C) Chandrayaan-3
D) Chandrayaan-4
E) None of these
5.
Which state has the
highest number of orchid species as per Botanical Survey of India (BSI)’s first
Comprehensive Census of Orchids of India?
A) Arunachal Pradesh
B) Tripura
C) West Bengal
D) Sikkim
E) None of these
6.
Where was the ICC
Men’s World Cup 2019 or 12th Cricket World Cup held?
A) Wales and Scotland
B) England and Wales
C) Northern Ireland and Scotland
D) Scotland and England
E) None of these
7.
Which country
lifted their first World Cup title beating New Zealand in ICC Men’s World Cup
2019 or 12th Cricket World Cup?
A) India
B) Sri Lanka
C) Australia
D) England
E) None of these
8.
Who was awarded
with the Man of the Match in ICC Men’s World Cup 2019 or 12th Cricket World
Cup?
A) Jos Buttler
B) Eoin Morgan
C) Ben Stokes
D) Jonny Bairstow
E) None of these
9.
Name the Indian
Cricketer, who was the highest run scorer of the tournament in ICC Men’s World
Cup 2019 or 12th Cricket World Cup.
A) Ravindra Jadeja
B) Rohit Sharma
C) Virat Kohli
D) MS Dhoni
E) None of these
10. Who took the record-shattering 27 wickets and became the
most wicket taker in ICC Men’s World Cup 2019 or 12th Cricket World Cup?
A) Alex Carey
B) Kane Richardson
C) Nathan Lyon
D) Mitchell Starc
E) None of these
11. Who was the first Romanian player to win Women’s Singles
title in 2019 Wimbledon Championships?
A) Xu Yifan
B) Simona Halep
C) Serena Williams
D) Gabriela Dabrowski
E) None of these
12. Name the Indian Sprinter, who won gold medal in women’s 200m
at Kladno Memorial Athletics Meet 2019 in Czech Republic.
A) V.K.Vismaya
B) Hima Das
C) Dutee Chand
D) Swapna Barman
E) None of these
13. Where was the XXII Tatyana Kolpakova international athletics
meet 2019 held recently?
A) Tashkent, Uzbekistan
B) Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan
C) Dushanbe, Tajikistan
D) Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
E) None of these
14. Who won the record sixth British Grand Prix at the
Silverstone Circuit in Silverstone, United Kingdom?
A) Lewis Hamilton
B) Charles Leclerc
C) Valtteri Bottas
D) Max Verstappen
E) None of these
15. Name the deceased computer scientist, who was credited with
inventing the computer password.
A) Luis von Ahn
B) Fernando J. Corbato
C) Evelyn Berezin
D) Bruce Arden
E) None of these
16. What was the theme of the World Youth Skills Day 2019?
A) Theme – “Improving the image of Technical and Vocational Education and
Training (TVET)”
B) Theme – “Skills for the Future of Work”
C) Theme – “Learning to learn for life and work”
D) Theme – “Skills Development to Improve Youth Employment”
E) None of these
17. Which state has become the first Indian state to get fund
through World Bank’s climate resilience program?
A) Tamil Nadu
B) Kerala
C) Andhra Pradesh
D) Odisha
E) None of these
18. Which former SC Judge of India has been appointed as an
International Judge of the Singapore International Commercial Court (SICC)?
A) Arjan Kumar Sikr
B) Adarsh Kumar Goel
C) Sanjay Kishan Kaul
D) Surinder Singh Nijjar
E) None of these
19. Which Indian
organisation has published the first comprehensive census of orchids of India
“Orchids of India : A Pictorial Guide”?
A) Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
B) National Centre for Cell Science
C) Zoological Survey of India
D) Botanical Survey of India
E) None of these
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