Q.

1- Which city has named the world's best city for students according to QS
Best Student Cities Ranking?
Ans- London
i) London has named the world's best city for students for the 2nd
consecutive year, beating Tokyo and Melbourne that came 2nd and 3rd,
respectively
ii) QS World University Rankings
iii) QS: Quacquarelli Symonds Limited
Q. 2- Which country announced one-month free visa on arrival to foreign
nationals from nearly 50 nations?
Ans- Sri Lanka
i) Efforts to revive its tourism industry
ii) Easter Terror attack >> 21 April 2019 >> 263 people killed
Q. 3- __________ and the US tested Arrow-3 Anti-Ballistic Missile System
Ans- Isreal
Q. 4- What is the national sport of Japan?
Ans- Sumo
i) Sumo wrestling is
considered Japan's national
sport.
ii) Emperor: Naruhito
iii) Capital: Tokyo
iv) Currency: Japanese yen
Q. 5- Which city hosted the 52nd ASEAN Foreign Ministers' meeting?
Ans- Bangkok (Capital of Thailand)
i) July 29 and August 3, 2019
ii) Estt. August 6, 1967
iii) ASEAN: Association of SouthEast Asian Nations
iv) Headquarters: Jakarta, Indonesia
v) Member: 10
Q. 6- The study of Insects is called-------?
Ans- Entomology
Q. 7- Who was the first president of UN?
Ans- Paul-Henri Spaak
i) Foreign Minister of Belgium
ii) Current President: María Fernanda Espinosa (Ecuador
iii) Next: Tijjani Muhammad-Band (Nigerian
iv) Headquarters: New York,
v) Founded: 1945
Q. 8- Which country has officially withdrawn from Intermediate-Range
Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF)?
Ans- USA
i) (INF) Treaty between Russia & US
ii) US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in
1987
iii) The treaty banned both countries from deploying land-launched
cruise missiles in the 500- to 5,500-km range
iv) The reasons for withdrawal: Trump and Obama administrations
have repeatedly alleged that Russia was violating the treaty by fielding a
ground-based cruise missile
Q. 9- What is the currency of China?
Ans- Yuan
Q. 10- This country has officially labeled China a "currency manipulator"?
Ans- USA
i) a sharp fall in the value of the Chinese yuan against the dollar.
ii) to gain " competitive advantage" in trade
Q. 11- Who is the president of Brazil?.
Ans- Jair Bolsonaro
Q. 12- ______is also known as the land of Thousand Lakes?
Ans- Finland
i) Lakes And Rivers account for around 10 percent of the country's land
ii) Capital: Helsinki
iii) North European country
Q. 13- Which continent has the maximum number of countries?
Ans- Africa
i) 54 countries followed by Asia with 43* countries,
ii) Europe with 47* countries,
iii) North America with 23 countries,
iv) Australia plus Oceania* with 14 countries,
v) South America with 12 countries and
vi) Antarctica with no country.
Q. 14- When is the World Wide Web Day celebrated
Ans- 1st August
Q. 15- Bangladesh signs uranium supply deal with?
Ans- Russia
i) The deal was signed in Dhaka between the Bangladesh Atomic Energy
Commission (BEAC) and Russian Nuclear Fuel Supply Company (TVEL)
ii) Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PEAC)
Q. 16- The continent in the world without a desert is
Ans- Europe
i) To qualify as a desert, an area must receive fewer than 10 inches of
annual rainfall.
Q. 17- Name of the former External Affairs Minister of India who passed away
recently?
Ans- Sushma Siraj
i) First women chief minister of Delhi
ii) August 6, 2019
Q. 18- Where the headquarters of United Nations agency (UNIDO) is located?
Ans- Viena (Capital of Austria)
i) UNIDO: UN Industrial Development Organization
Q. 19- Nobel laureate Toni Morrison has passed away. She was from which
country?
Ans- United States
i) The first African-American woman to win a Nobel Prize in Literature
Q. 20- According to UNCTAD's port liner shipping connectivity index, which port
has been ranked as the best connecting port in the world?
Ans- Shangai Port (China
i) UNCTAD: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
Q. 21- Alejandro Giammattei has been elected as new president of?
Ans- Guatemala
i) Country in Central America
ii) Capital: Guatemala City
Q. 22- Which of the following is the world's most profitable company?
Ans- Aramco
i) Saudi Aramco
ii) world's biggest oil producer company
Q. 23- Hiroshima Day is observed on
Ans- 6 August
i) On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29
bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the
Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city
and immediately killed about 100,000 people; tens of thousands more
would later die of radiation exposure
ii) 2nd bomb on 9 Aug 1945: Nagasaki
Q. 24- What is the name of the new operating system that Huawei has
launched?
Ans- Harmony OS
i) operating system will be called the HongmengOS, known in English as
the HarmonyOS.
Q. 25- South Korea has decided to remove which of the following countries
from Preferred Trade List?
Ans- Japan
Q. 26- Which country's women's cricket team created world record for most
consecutive wins?
Ans- Thailand
i) A world record by winning 17th successive T20 international match
and surpassed the record held by Australian Women (16 victories)
Q. 27- Which country is set to ban ivory sales by 2021?
Ans- Singapore
i) To tighten its campaign against illegal wildlife trade
Q. 28- Which sport is excluded from the Commonwealth Games (CWG) 2022?
Ans- Shooting
i) Commonwealth Games Chief Louise Martin
ii) Old name: British Empire Games
iii) Member countries: 53
iv) First event: 1930
v) First multi sports event
vi) After 04 years
vii) Last event: 2018 (Australia
Q. 29- Which country's Women cricket team has made history by posting the
highest T20 Internationals score made by a team?
Ans- Ireland (Dublin)
i) Scored 213-4 from 20 overs.
Q. 30- Name the chairman senate against voting was made for no-confidence
motion?
Ans- Sadiq Sanjrani
i) on 01 Aug 2019
ii) Dy Chairman Senate: Saleem Mandviwalla
iii) Required votes for the motion: 53
iv) Votes casted in favor of the motion: 50
Q. 31- Which provincial government of Pakistan put ban on plastic bags?
Ans- Sindh Government
i) Ban will be implement: 01 Oct 2019
ii) CM: Murad Ali Shah
Q. 32- When did Pakistan observed black day across the country in the protest
against India?
Ans- 15th Aug 2019