Weekly Current Affairs Revision Notes: July 1-7, 2019

Here is the one liner version of current affairs quizzes of GKToday from July 1 to 7, 2019. This post is published every Monday beginning from July 1, 2019.
1. Veer Chotrani is associated to which sports?
Answer: Squash
2. Who is the current director of Intelligence Bureau (IB)?
Answer: Arvind Kumar
3. Which state government has launched free crop insurance scheme for farmers?
Answer: West Bengal
4. Abburi Chaya Devi, who passed away recently, was the famous fiction writer of which language?
Answer: Telugu
5. What is the theme of the 2019 edition of World Vitiligo Day (WVD)?
Answer: The Quality of Life of a Vitiligo Patient
6. Who is the new Managing Director of National Housing Bank (NHB)?
Answer: Sarada Kumar Hota
7. Mohammed Baji, who passed away recently, was the eminent freedom fighter of which state?
Answer: Odisha
8. What is the theme of the 13th National Statistics Day (NSD-2019)?
Answer: Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
9. Who has become the first IPS Officer to complete ‘Seventh Summit’ Challenge?
Answer: Aparna Kumar
10. Which Indian politician has authored the book titled ‘The New Delhi Conspiracy’?
Answer: Meenakshi Lekhi
11. Which state government has launched Dastak campaign against AES & JE disease?
Answer: Uttar Pradesh
12. Which city is hosting the first-ever ISA’s joint security exercise “ISALEX19”?
Answer: Abu Dhabi
13. STRIDE, which is in news recently, is associated to ?
Answer: To boost research culture
14. On which date, the 2019 edition of International Olympic Day (IOD) is observed?
Answer: June 23
15. The first-ever India International Cooperatives Trade Fair (IICTF) will be held in which city?
Answer: New Delhi
16. Which district administration of J&K has launched ‘Operation Khumaar’ to make 312 panchayats tobacco-free?
Answer: Rajouri
17. Santosh Rana, who passed away recently, was the veteran leader of which political party?
Answer: CPI (ML)
18. Who is the author of the book ‘A Prime Minister to Remember- Memories of a Military Chief’?
Answer: Sushil Kumar
19. The 21st Commonwealth Table Tennis Championship will be hosted by which state?
Answer: Odisha
20. India has inked Rs 200 crore defence deal with which country for ‘Strum Ataka’ anti-tank missile?
Answer: Russia
21. Which water conservation campaign has been launched by Central Government?
Answer: Jal Shakti Abhiyan
22. On which date, the 2019 edition of International Day of the Tropics is observed?
Answer: June 29
23. Which country has officially resumed commercial whaling?
Answer: Japan
24. Which butterfly species has been officially declared as state butterfly of Tamil Nadu?
Answer: Cirrochroa thais
25. Indo-French Joint Air Exercise “Garuda-V” has started in which site?
Answer: Mont-de-Marsan
26. Which Indian scientist has been selected as the Co-Investigator for NASA’s PUNCH mission?
Answer: Dipankar Banerjee
27. Dr. Jaya Arunachalam, veteran social activist has passed away. She was from which state?
Answer: Tamil Nadu
28. Which public sector bank has signed MoU with NIIF to boost capital availability for infrastructure projects?
Answer: SBI
29. Which Indian personality has been elected as a member of International Olympic Committee (IOC)?
Answer: Narinder Batra
30. Impressed tortoise, which is in news recently, is discovered in which state?
Answer: Arunachal Pradesh
31. The first UIDAI-run Aadhaar Seva Kendra (ASK) operational in which city?
Answer: Delhi & Vijayawada
32. Where is the headquarters of Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD) is located?
Answer: Hyderabad
33. Who is the author of the autobiography ‘Lessons Life Taught Me, Unknowingly”?
Answer: Anupam Kher
34. The 2nd edition of International Day of Parliamentarism (IDP-2019) was observed on which date?
Answer: June 30
35. Who has been elected new chairman of Microfinance Institutions Network (MFIN)?
Answer: Manoj Kumar Nambiar
36. Who is the head of the RBI committee to strengthen Core Investment Companies (CIC) framework?
Answer: Tapan Ray
37. What is the rank of the Indian passport at the 2019 Henley Passport Index?
Answer: 86th
38. Who is the head of the high-powered committee of Chief Ministers (CMs) to transform Indian agriculture?
Answer: Devendra Fadnavis
39. Babu Narayanan, who passed away recently, was the popular filmmaker of which regional cinema?
Answer: Malayalam
40. Ambati Rayudu, who recently retired from all forms of cricket, is from which state?
Answer: Andhra Pradesh
41. Dragonfly mission, which is in news to explore Saturn’s Moon Titan, is associated to which space agency?
Answer: NASA
42. Which state government has launched toll-free CM helpline 1076?
Answer: Uttar Pradesh
43. Which Indian sprinter has won gold in women’s 200 m at the Poznan Athletics Grand Prix in Poland?
Answer: Hima Das
44. The world’s largest burn and plastic surgery institute Institute has started functioning in which city?
Answer: Dhaka
45. Which international organisation has recently released its report ‘Working on a Warmer Planet”?
Answer: ILO
46. What is the theme of the 2019 edition of UN MSME Day?
Answer: Big Money For Small Business: Financing the SDGs
47. Which railway zone has commissioned the longest electrified tunnel in Indian Railways?
Answer: South Central Railway
48. Which Indian business leader will receive 2019 Global excellence awards from US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF)?
Answer: Ajay Banga
49. Who is the author of the book ‘Whispers of Time’?
Answer: Krishna Saksena
50. Where is the headquarters of National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj (NIRDPR)?
Answer: Hyderabad
51. The scientists of India and which country have identified a new gene linked to schizophrenia?
Answer: Australia
52. MOSAiC mission, which is in news recently, is a year-long expedition into which ocean?
Answer: Arctic ocean
53. Which city of Rajasthan has recently declared UNESCO World Heritage site?
Answer: Jaipur
54. The Government of India (GoI) has signed pact with which tech company for pilot study on using AI in Agriculture?
Answer: IBM
55. On which date, the 2019 edition of National Doctor’s Day (NDD) is celebrated in India?
Answer: July 1
56. Damnganga-Pinjal river inter-linking project, sometimes seen in news, is associated to which state?
Answer: Maharashtra
57. Ikram Ali Khil, who broke Sachin Tendulkar’s rare World Cup record, is from which country?
Answer: Afghanistan
58. Which state has topped the NITI Aayog’s 2019 AMFFR Index?
Answer: Maharashtra
59. The Athi Varadar festival has started in which state?
Answer: Tamil Nadu
60. Which ancient site of Iraq has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site?
Answer: Babylon

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