Weekly Current Affairs Revision Notes: August 12-18, 2019
Here is the one liner version of current affairs quizzes of GKToday during August 12-18, 2019.
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1. Which Indian wrestler won gold in the 65kg category at 2019 Tbilisi Grand Prix Wrestling tournament?
Answer: Bajrang Punia
2. Which Indian sportsperson has won the men’s title at the 2019 Hyderabad Open badminton championship?
Answer: Sourabh Verma
3. Which Indian Armed force has launched "Mission Reach Out" in Jammu?
Answer: Indian Army
4. Which Indian journalist has won the 2019 Prem Bhatia Award for political reporting?
Answer: Rajdeep Sardesai
5. Who is set to be the first woman president of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA)?
Answer: Chandrima Shaha
6. India's first health-focused credit card has been launched by which bank?
Answer: RBL Bank
7. Which museum has become the most visited museum in the Asian sub-continent?
Answer: Virasat-e-Khalsa
8. Reliance Jio has partnered with which tech company to offer cloud infra for businesses?
Answer: Microsoft
9. What is the theme of the 2019 edition of International Youth Day (IYD)?
Answer: Transforming education
10. Which cricket board has launched transgender and gender diverse policy?
Answer: Australia
11. Aishwarya Pissay, who has become the first Indian to claim a world title in motorsports, is from which city?
Answer: Bengaluru
12. Which state has become the first state in India to implement the National Policy on Biofuels?
Answer: Rajasthan
13. Holmberg 15A, which is in news recently, is associated to which field?
Answer: Black Hole
14. Which state government has created world record by planting 22-cr saplings in a day?
Answer: Uttar Pradesh
15. The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has reduced the minimum period of Child Care Leave (CCL) from 15 days to ________?
Answer: 5
16. Who is slated to be felicitated with the 2019 Charlie Chaplin Award by the British Academy's Los Angeles branch?
Answer: Steve Coogan
17. Who is the author of the book ‘Sridevi: Girl Woman Superstar?
Answer: Satyarth Nayak
18. The patriotic song ‘Watan’, which has been produced by Doordarshan, is sung by which singer?
Answer: Javed Ali
19. Which airline is set to become the first Indian airline to fly over the North Pole?
Answer: Air India
20. Newly-Discovered Kajin Sara Lake is located in which country?
Answer: Nepal
21. Which union ministry has launched Swaccha Survakshan Grameen?
Answer: Ministry of Jal Shakti
22. The famous ‘Panchamirtham’ of Palani temple has recently got GI tag. The temple is located in which state?
Answer: Tamil Nadu
23. The researchers at which IIT have developed low-cost blood test device?
Answer: IIT Kharagpur
24. Who has become the first Indian chef to receive French honour?
Answer: Priyam Chatterjee
25. Which organisation has launched a special drive code named ‘Operation Number Plate’?
Answer: RPF
26. Who has been elected as the new President of Guatemala?
Answer: Alejandro Giammattei
27. As per Pradhan Mantri Kisan Maan-Dhan Yojana (PM-KMY), a monthly pension of how much amount will be provided to eligible farmers on attaining the age of 60?
Answer: Rs 3000
28. On which date, the 2019 edition of World Elephant Day (WED) is observed recently?
Answer: August 12
29. On which date, the 2019 edition of World Organ Donation Day (WODD) is observed recently?
Answer: August 13
30. Who is the head of high level committee on CSR, which recommended CSR expenditure to be made tax deductible expenditure?
Answer: Injeti Srinivas
31. The researchers at which IIT have developed bone substitutes from eggshells?
Answer: IIT Hyderabad
32. The researchers at which IIT have developed industrial and field robot ‘GraspMan’?
Answer: IIT Madras
33. Who has become the first Indian to win gold at the World Junior Wrestling Championships after 18 years?
Answer: Deepak Punia
34. Which state has got award at the World Education Summit-2019?
Answer: Rajasthan
35. VB Chandrasekhar, who passed away recently, was associated to which sports?
Answer: Cricket
36. Which former Indian athlete has been appointed as a member of the Athletes Commission of the Asian Athletics Association (AAA)?
Answer: PT Usha
37. Which state government has launched a programme for student entrepreneurs “E Step”?
Answer: Karnataka
38. India’s first private Space Science Museum has opened in which city?
Answer: Hyderabad
39. Advait Bhartia, who recently climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, is from which city?
Answer: Pune
40. Who is the author of the book "Kashmir's Untold Story: Declassified"?
Answer: Iqbal Chand Malhotra
41. The National Tribal Festival “Aadi Mahotsav” has started in which region?
Answer: Ladakh
42. Rizia Rahman, who passed away recently, was the renowned novelist of which country?
Answer: Bangladesh
43. Which state government has decided to set up Atal Bihari Vajpayee residential schools for children of labourers?
Answer: Uttar Pradesh
44. Which state government has rolled out the Grama and Ward Volunteer system ?
Answer: Andhra Pradesh
45. Who has been awarded Tamil Nadu government’s Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Award?
Answer: Kailasavadivoo Sivan
46. Madan Mani Dixit, the veteran Litterateur & Journalist has passed away. He was from which country?
Answer: Nepal
47. Jyske Bank, which has launched world’s first negative interest rate mortgage, is associated to which country?
Answer: Denmark
48. India’s first National Essential Diagnostics List (NEDL) has finalized by which organisation?
Answer: ICMR
49. SUPRA Scheme, which is in news recently, is associated to which field?
Answer: Science & Technology
50. Which union ministry has launched the 5th edition of Swachh Survekshan 2020 (SS 2020)?
Answer: Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
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