July 2018 – CLATGyan Mock General Knowledge Set (Part 2)

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Here is the second set from the month of July 2018. The questions with the correct answer appear at the end of the quiz and more importantly, check the questions that went wrong for you.

This quiz has 41 questions altogether. Make sure you have set aside considerable amount of time to attempt them. There is no negative marking.

1. Who won the 2018 FIFA World Cup Football?





2. Who was selected for the 2018 Sangita Kalanidhi Award of Music Academy for her contribution to Carnatic music?





3. Which country became the Vice-Chair of Asia Pacific Region of the World Customs Organisation?





4. Which state government launched Paudhagiri campaign, a programme to increase green cover in the state?





5. Name the Swedish firm with which Bharat Electronics Ltd. has signed a MoU for jointly marketing L-Band 3D air surveillance radar.





7. _________ has commissioned remotely operable Local Electrode Atom Probe microscope, which is claimed to be the world's first remotely operable LEAP microscope.





7. What has the Elphinstone Road suburban railway station in Mumbai been renamed to?





8. With which IIT has the All India Institute of Ayurveda signed a MoU to enhance research in the filed of Ayurveda?





9. Who was re-appointed as the Chairman of the All India Council for Technical Education?





11. The Reserve Bank of India has issued Rs. 100 denomination banknotes in which colour?





11. Who was appointed as the Executive Director of National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People?





12. After which Indian state was one of the three new ages on geologic time scale of Holocene Epoch named?





13. Where was the first ever Centre for Climate Change of South East Asia launched by NABARD?





14. Which IIT has developed TreadWill, an online tool to help people cope with issues related to mental health?





15. Where was the Regional Rail Training Institute inaugurated by the Indian Railways?





16. Which state topped the list as the best-governed state in the country?





17. Who was the 68th signatory to the Framework Agreement of ISA?





18. In which country did Prime Minister Narendra Modi launch India-assisted emergency ambulance service?





19. Under the Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana, the Union Government has reduced minimum yearly deposit required to _____ from Rs. 1000 earlier.





20. In which year was the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act enforced in the state?





21. The Indian Air Force will participate for the first time in the multinational air exercise Pitch Black - 18 that will be hosted in?





22. Scientists have developed the world's fastest rotor which can spin at more than __________ per minute





23. Which State Government has launched the "Green Mahanadi Mission", a plantation drive under which 2 crore saplings will be planted?





24. What is India's rank in the global optimism index released as part of Grant Thornton's International Business Report?





25. What is India's rank as per the 2018 AT Kearney FDI Confidence Index?





26. Name the Indian who was awarded the 2018 Ramon Magsaysay Award for his courage and compassion in embracing India's mentally-afflicted destitute.





27. When is the Kargil Vijay Diwas celebrated to commemorate the success of Operation Vijay during the 1999 India-Pakistan Kargil War?





28. Which company unveiled two new Artificial Intelligence (AI) chips - Edge TPU and Cloud loT Edge - aimed at helping customers develop and deploy intelligent connected devices at scale?





29. Which State's assembly has unanimously passed a resolution to change the state's name in July 2018?





30. Where was a new strain of Ebola virus in bats discovered?





31. When is World Hepatitis Day observed every year?





32. World Meteorological Organization has designated which country as the nodal centre for developing customised model to issue advance warning of floods to Asian countries?





33. Who organized a programme on Ethics in Public Governance and launched Mission Satyanishtha?





34. Where was the country's first Mobile Open Exchange Zone inaugurated?





35. When is International Tiger Day aka Global Tiger Day celebrated?





37. With whom is India in talks with to procure National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System-II (NASAMS-II), an advanced air defence sysem at $1 billion to defend the NCR from aerial attacks?





37. When is the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons observed every year?





38. The Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, 2018 was passed by the Lok Sabha and it provides death penalty to those convicted of raping girls below the age of ___ years.





39. How many branches is the India Post Payments Bank expected to go live with in August 2018?





40. Which country was designated by the USA as Strategic Trade Authorisation-1 (STA-1) country that will allow it to buy highly advanced and cutting-edge sensitive technologies from America?





41. Name the shape that was newly identified by scientists while studying epithelial cells.









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