Daily Current Affairs Quiz : 18 July 2018
1. The International Monetary Fund, in its World Economic Outlook forecast, has pegged India’s GDP growth in 2019 at
1) 7.3 per cent
2) 7.5 per cent
3) 7.9 per cent
4) 8.1 per cent
5) 8.3 per cent
2. The Barak Valley, named after the Barak river, is situated in which of the following states?
1) Odisha
2) Jharkhand
3) Assam
4) Sikkim
5) Uttarakhand
3. Who among the following recently became the richest man in modern history with a net worth of $150 bn?
1) Bill Gates
2) Warren Buffett
3) Mark Zuckerberg
4) Jeff Bezos
5) Tim Cook
4. _______ has topped the 2018 ‘Soft Power 30’ index which is a list of 30 countries.
1) UK
2) US
3) France
4) Germany
5) China
5. Who among the following topped the Forbes’ 20th annual Celebrity 100 ranking of the world’s highest-paid celebrities?
1) Dwayne Johnson
2) Kylie Jenner
3) George Clooney
4) Judy Sheindlin
5) Floyd Mayweather
6. The 8th India-Oman Joint Commission Meeting was held recently in the capital of Oman which is
1) Muscat
2) Manama
3) Baku
4) Bogota
5) Riyadh
7. The new book “Lethal White” has been authored by who among the following under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith?
1) Kazuo Ishiguro
2) Salman Rushdie
3) Stephen King
4) Margaret Atwood
5) JK Rowling
8. Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar recently launched the ‘Paudhagiri’ campaign in which of the following states?
1) Madhya Pradesh
2) Uttarakhand
3) Assam
4) Haryana
5) Punjab
9. _______ has launched a Rs 40-cr remotely operable miscroscope, claimed to be the world’s first of its kind, that would enable precise view of atoms of a material.
1) IIT Delhi
2) IIT Madras
3) IIT Madras
4) IIT Kanpur
5) IIT Bhubaneswar
10. The Union Minister for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Dharmendra Pradhan recently laid the foundation stone of country’s first skill training institute at Barang in the state of
1) Bihar
2) Odisha
3) Uttar Pradesh
4) Maharashtra
5) Madhya Pradesh
Answers:
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 1
- 5
- 1
- 5
- 4
- 3
- 2
