Current Affairs

NATIONAL
1. On Sep 16, British Pakistani boxer______ became the first boxer with type-one diabetes to win a
professional fight.
(a) Mahmood Khan (b) Atif Khan (c) Jamal Khattak (d) Muhammad Ali
2. The topic of the short story that won Zahra Hussain the first prize in an essay competition
organized by the British Royal Commonwealth Society, was ______.
(a) An Odd Company (b) Our Common World (c) Hues of Red (d) Inheritance
3. On ______, the ‘UK-Pakistan Justice and Accountability Partnership’, which would work towards
repatriation of illicit finances, recovery of stolen assets and putting a check on money laundering,
was launched.
(a) Sep 16 (b) Sep 17 (c) Sep 18 (d) Sep 20
4. On Sep 17, PTI’s Ali Muhammad Khan took oath as minister of state for______.
(a) Parliamentary Affairs
(b) Defence Production (c) Interior (d) Finance
5. On Sep 17, ____ won the 3rd national ranking snooker championship.
(a) Saeed Ali (b) Asif Toba (c) Rehman Khan (d) Babar Masih
6. Finance Minister Asad Umar presented a supplementary budget of the PTI government on ______.
7. On Sep 19, ______ removed former finance minister Ishaq Dar from the chairmanship of the BoG
of the University of Health Sciences, Lahore.
(a) Governor Punjab (b) Supreme Court (c) President (d) LHC
8. On Sep 19, Punjab and ______ agreed on joint initiatives for the awareness and cure of diabetes
in Punjab.
(a) Denmark (b) Sweden (c) Latvia (d) China
9. On Sep 19, ______ suspended the sentences given to Mian Nawaz Sharif, Maryam Nawaz and
Capt Safdar.
(a) LHC (b) Supreme Court (c) SHC (d) IHC
10. On Sep 20, Pakistan was once again elected as a member of BoG of the International Atomic
Energy Agency (IAEA) for ______ time.
(a) 18th (b) 19th (c) 20th (d) 24th
NATIONAL
1. On Aug 16, PPP’s Syed Murad Ali Shah and PTI’s ____were elected as the chief ministers of Sindh
and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, respectively.
(a) Mahmood Khan (b) Atif Khan (c) Jamal Khattak (d) Shahram Tarakai
2. The current National Assembly is ______ in the country’s history.
(a) 14th (b) 15th (c) 16th (d) 18th
3. On Aug 17, PTI’s Imran Khan was elected as the country’s ______ Prime Minister.
(a) 18th (b) 20th (c) 22nd (d) 29th
4. On Aug 17, the air exercise of Pakistan Air Force named ______ concluded at Air Warfare School,
Mushaf, in Sargodha.
(a) Shaheen VI (b) Saffron Bandit (c) High Mark (d) Red Flag
5. On Aug 19, Jam Mir Kamal Khan, the grandson of Jam Ghulam Qadir, the last Jam of _____ was
sworn in as the 16th Chief Minister of Balochistan.
(a) Kalat (b) Kharan (c) Lasbela (d) Makran
6. Khan Mir Ahmad Yar Khan, the maternal grandfather of the incumbent CM Balochistan, was the
last Khan of ______.
(a) Lasbela (b) Kharan (c) Kalat (d) Makran
7. On Aug 19, Pakistan football team got its first victory in Asian Games after 44 years when they
defeated ______.
(a) Nepal (b) India (c) Sri Lanka (d) Bhutan
8. On Aug 19, PTI’s Usman Buzdar was elected as chief minister of Punjab by the ______ Punjab
Assembly.
(a) 16th (b) 17th (c) 18th (d) 19th
9. Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman Najam Sethi resigned on ______.
(a) Aug 16 (b) Aug 17 (c) Aug 19 (d) Aug 20
10. The current commander of Pak Army’s 10 Corps (Rawalpindi) is ______.
(a) Lt Gen Nadeem Raza (b) Lt Gen Shahid Baig Mirza (c) Lt Gen Bilal Akbar (d) Lt Gen Naeem Ashraf
11. The incumbent Chairman of Heavy Industries Taxila is ______.
(a) Lt Gen Naeem Ashraf (b) Lt Gen Abdullah Dogar (c) Lt Gen Shahid Baig Mirza (d) Lt Gen Humayun
Aziz
12. The Heavy Industries Taxila, one of the largest defence products manufacturer and a military
industrial complex, was established in ______.
(a) 1971 (b) 1977 (c) 1985 (d) 1992
National
1. The government launched the National Disaster Risk Management Fund (NDRMF) on ______.
(a) July 16 (b) July 17 (c) July 18 (d) July 19
2. On July 17, Engr Dr Tahir Masood took the charge of Managing Director/President of ______.
(a) PNRA (b) NESPAK (c) PEMRA (d) NEPRA
3. Pakistan has been ranked ______ out of 86 countries on the Inclusive Internet Index of the
Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).
(a) 57th (b) 64th (c) 68th (d) 79th
4. The Ishkoman valley is in ______.
(a) Punjab (b) Gilgit-Baltistan (c) Balochistan (d) KP
5. Zainab Bibi, the tallest woman declared by the Guinness Book of World Records in ___ died on
July 19.
(a) 1997 (b) 2001 (c) 2003 (d) 2007
6. On July 22, Afghanistan and Pakistan held inaugural meetings of the five Working Groups under
the Afghanistan and Pakistan Action Plan for Peace and Solidarity in ______.
(a) Dushanbe (b) Islamabad (c) Ankara (d) Kabul
7. On July 25, ______ general elections in Pakistan were held.
(a) 11th (b) 12th (c) 14th (d) 35th
8. The 1,320MW coal-fired Hubco Power Plant is located in ______.
(a) Punjab (b) Balochistan (c) Sindh (d) KP
9. On July 28, Pakistan’s ______ won the Annapurna Corporate Invitational International Badminton
Tournament that was played in Kathmandu.
(a) Palwasha Khan (b) Rizwana Azeem (c) Aliya Shahzadi (d) Mahnoor Shahzad
10. The 6,080-metre Manglesser Peak is located in the Shimshal valley of the ______ mountain
range.
(a) Hindu Kush (b) Koh-i-Suleman (c) Karakoram (d) Kirthar
11. The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) activated its three-year $4.5-billion oil financing facility for
Pakistan on ______.
12. On Aug 01, _____ was unanimously elected as the president of the Pakistan Squash Federation.
(a) Mujahid Anwar Khan (b) Qamar Zaman Khan (c) Amir Nawaz (d) Sohail Aman
1. On June 18, the World Justice Project listed Pakistan ______ in its evaluation of the country’s
civil justice.
(a)107th (b)110th (c) 112th (d) 113th
2. As per the Small Arms Survey 2018, Pakistan is on ______ position on the list of 25 countries in
which civilian should firearms.
(a)Second (b)Fourth (c) Eighth (d) Twelfth
3. On June 20, ______ was appointed the Attorney General for Pakistan.
(a) Khuram Khosa (b) Farogh Naseem (c) Khalid Jawed (d) Ashtar Ausaf Ali
4. Renowned satirist Mushtaq Ahmed Yousufi passed away on ______.
(a) June16 (b) June 20 (c) June 22 (d) June 24
5. On June 22, ______ became the first ever female DG of the Lahore Development Authority (LDA).
(a)Ayesha Hamid (b) Zunera Akmal (c) Amna Imran Khan (d) Ayesha Mumtaz
6. On June 22, the government removed chairperson of the BISP ____.
(a)Ayesha Pasha (b)Envar Baig (c) Kishmala Tariq (d) Marvi Memon
7. On June 22, Ali Jehangir Siddiqui, Pakistan’s ______ ambassador to the US, presented his
credentials to President Donald Trump.
(a)28th (b)33rd (c) 36th (d) 39th
8. On June 22, former chief justice of ______ Raja Khurshid Kiani died.
(a)Lahore High Court (b)AJK Supreme Court (c) Federal Shariat Court (d) Peshawar High Court
9. As per a report presented before the Supreme Court of Pakistan, during the FY2016-17 a
staggering amount of ______, was transferred abroad through banking channels.
(a)US$10.436 bn (b) US$12.235bn (c) US$13.939bn (d) US$15.253bn
10. Pakistan has been ranked ______ out of 113 countries in the 2017-18 edition of the Rule of Law
Index issued by World Justice Project (WJP).
(a)98 (b)102 (c) 105 (d) 112
11. On June 23, the banned TTP confirmed the death of its chief Mullah Fazlullah in a US drone
attack in______.
(a)N. Waziristan (b)S. Waziristan (c) Chaman (d) Kunar
12. On June 23, the TTP appointed ______ its new chief.
(a) Mufti Hazrat (b) Noor Wali (c) Khan Said (d) Hazrat Wali
13. University of ______ is the first public sector university from Pakistan to join China’s Belt and
Road (South-South Cooperation Agricultural Education, Science & Technology Innovation League).
(a) Gujrat (b) Sahiwal (c) Balochistan (d) Sargodha
14. On June 26, ______ was appointed the new chairperson of the FBR.
(a) Rukhsana Yasmeen (b) Tariq Pasha (c) Saleem Bajwa (d) Abdul Lateef
15. On June 26, ______ was sworn-in as the first-ever visually impaired judge of Pakistan.
(a) Zubair Sabir (b) Yawar Ali (c) Sana Afzal (d) Yousaf Saleem
16. National Security Adviser (NSA) Lt. Gen (retd) Nasser Khan Janjua resigned on ______.
(a) June 24 (b) June 26 (d) June 27 (d) June 30
17. Karkey Karadeniz Elektrik Uretim is a Rental Power company of ______.
(a) China (b) Turkey (c) Malaysia (d) Sweden
18. On June 28, Justice Waqar Ahmad Seth took oath as the chief justice of the ______ High Court.
(a) Balochistan (b) Peshawar (c) Sindh (d) Lahore
19. On June 28, Muhammad Saleem was appointed the Chairman ______ for four years.
(a) Irsa (b) Pemra (c) Nepra (d) Wapda
20. The FATF officially notified Pakistan on its ‘Grey List’ on _____.
(a) June 29 (b) June 30 (c) July 02 (d) July 04
21. On June 29, Dr Muhammad Suleman Khan was made national coordinator of______.
(a) PNRA (b) FIA (c) Nacta (d) IB
22. On June 29, Ihsan Ghani was made the Director General of ______.
(a) FIA (b) Nacta (c) IB (d) Nadra
23. On June 30, the Tax Amnesty Scheme was extended till ______.
(a) 31 July (b) 31 Aug (c) 30 Sep (d) 31 Dec
24. On July 04, the Supreme Court ordered immediate construction of two dams – Bhasha and
______.
(a) Manda (b) Sabakzai (c) Mohmand (d) Nai Gaj
25. On July 07, Pakistan was ranked ______ in the list of 25 most powerful countries in the world.
(a) 22 (b) 23 (c) 24 (d) 25
26. On July 08, the United Nations appointed______, a British-Pakistani legal scholar, as UN Special
Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Iran.
(a) Fakhar Sultan (b) Javaid Rehman (c) Safdar Shahzad (d) Saleem Shah
27. On July 09, surgeons at the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases of ______ implanted
the Left Ventricular Assist Device, commonly known as a ‘mechanical pump’.
(a) Sukkur (b) Multan (c) Lahore (d) Karachi
28. On ______, Awami National Party senior leader and provincial assembly candidate for PK-78
Haroon Bilour was killed in a suicide attack.
(a) June 08 (b) June 10 (c) June 11 (d) June 12
29. On July 12, an unprecedented meeting of heads of intelligence agencies from Russia, China and
Iran was held in ______.
(a) Shanghai (b) Tehran (c) Islamabad (d) Moscow
30. Former premier Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz were arrested on ______.
31. On July 14, Nooh Dastagir Butt became the ______ youngster from the country to ever win a
gold medal at the International Weightlifting Federation 2018 World Junior Championships.
(a) First (b) Second (c) Third (d) Fourth
32. Former senior diplomat Mahdi Masud, who passed away on June 19, topped the CSS
examination of ______.
(a) 1952 (b) 1954 (c) 1955 (d) 1956
33. Pakistan has launched two satellites—the Pakistan Remote Sensing Satellite-1 and Pakistan
Technology Evaluation Satellite-1A—that would operate at an altitude of 640 km and______,
respectively.
(a) 610 km (b) 680 km (c) 696 km (d) 790 km
34. ______ is the new Head of Mission and Chief Military Observer for UN Military Observer Group
in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP).
(a) Antony K. Luce (b) Stephanie T. Williams (c) Jose Eladio Alcain (d) Per Gustaf Lodin
35. Pakistan signed as a Member State of International Organization for Migration in ______.
(a) 1992 (b) 1994 (c) 1996 (d) 1998
1. On June 17, ______ launched a Glonass – M positioning satellite by using a Soyuz-2.1b carrier
rocket.
(a) Russia (b) China (c) Japan (d) United States
2. On June 17, ______ and Macedonia signed a historic preliminary agreement to rename the latter
as the Republic of North Macedonia.
(a) Bulgaria (b) Greece (c) Denmark (d) Romania
3. SIPRI, an international institute dedicated to research into conflict, armaments, arms control and
disarmament, is based in ______.
(a) Södermanland (b) Solna (c) Stockholm (d) Skane
4. World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought (WDCD) is observed every year on ______.
5. President Trump ordered the establishment of a sixth branch of the military to clear the way for
American dominance of space on ______.
6. On June 19, England broke their own all-time record for the highest total ever scored in a men’s
ODI when they posted 481 for 6 against ______.
(a) India (b) Pakistan (c) Sri Lanka (d) Australia
7. On June 19, the ______ announced to withdraw from the UN Human Rights Council.
(a) Hungary (b) USA (c) Palestine (d) Thailand
8. The Blue Samurai is the national football team of ______.
(a) Japan (b) Sweden (c) Egypt (d) Belgium
9. On June 20, Indian President Ram Nath Kovind approved the imposition of Governor’s Rule in
______.
(a) Haryana (b) Jammu & Kashmir (c) Delhi (d) Jharkhand
10. The Secretariat of the SAARC Development Fund is located in _____.
(a) Kirstjen Nielsen (b) Dhaka (c) Thimphu (d) Colombo
11. On June 20, ______ parliament adopted a controversial package of laws penalising NGOs that
help migrants.
(a) Norway’s (b) Hungary’s (c) France’s (d) Iceland’s
12. Tadawul is the stock exchange of ______.
(a) Saudi Arabia (b) Kuwait (c) UAE (d) Qatar
13. The G7 country that has recently legalised recreational use of marijuana nationwide is ______.
(a) UK (b) France (c) Germany (d) Canada
14. Researchers at the University of ______ in the US have developed the world’s smallest computer
“Michigan Micro Mote”.
(a) Texas Austin (b) Pennsylvania (c) Michigan (d) Washington
15. On June 22, ______ and Nepal agreed to build a railway connecting Tibet with Kathmandu.
(a) Japan (b) India (c) Bhutan (d) China
16. Kim Jong-pil, who passed away on June 23, was a former premier of ____.
(a) South Korea (b) Japan (c) North Korea (d) Mongolia
17. Saudi women drove their cars publically for the first time on ______.
18. The first Chief Justice of the USA was John Jay whereas 17th and the current CJ is ______.
(a) Earl Warren (b) Warren Burger (c) John Roberts (d) William Rehnquist
19. On June 27, ______ brought a case against the UAE at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in
The Hague.
(a) Qatar (b) Saudi Arabia (c) Kuwait (d) Syria
20. On June 28, Dr Ahmed Abdulla Didi was appointed the new Chief Justice of ______.
(a) Indonesia (b) Bangladesh (c) Maldives (d) Malaysia
21. On June 29, António Manuel de Carvalho Ferreira Vitorino of ______ was elected as the
International Organization for Migration’s next DG.
(a) Brazil’s (b) Argentina’s (c) Mexico’s (d) Portugal’s
22. On June 30, the 42nd session of UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee (WHC) meeting was held
in Manama, the capital of ______.
(a) Qatar (b) Bahrain (c) Algeria (d) Panama
23. The first-ever UN International Day of Parliamentarism was celebrated on ______.
(a) June 28 (b) June 30 (c) July 01 (d) July 04
24. On July 01, the 5th Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership intersessional ministerial
meeting was held in ______.
(a) New Delhi (b) Bangkok (c) Jakarta (d) Tokyo
25. On July 02, ______ was elected as the new President of Colombia.
(a) Ivan Duque Marquez (b) Juan Manuel Santos (c) Enrique Gil Botero (d) Gustavo Petro
26. On July 02, ______ ended direct aid to the Palestinian Authority.
(a) USA (b) Turkey (c) Australia (d) UAE
27. The record for highest individual score in T20 International is held by Aaron Finch of ______
(a) West Indies (b) Australia (c) South Africa (d) England
28. On July 09, British Foreign Secretary ______ resigned.
(a) Boris Johnson (b) David Davis (c) William Hag (d) Sajid Javid
29. On July 09, Ethiopia and ______ declared that the ‘state of war between the two countries has
ended’.
(a) Nigeria (b) Eritrea (c) Somalia (d) Kenya
30. On ______, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was sworn in for his second term as head of state
of Turkey.
31. On July 09, Samsung Electronics opened the world’s biggest mobile phone manufacturing plant
in ______.
(a) Noida (b) Mumbai (c) Ludhiana (d) Varanasi
32. On ______, the UNSC adopted Resolution 2427 which is aimed at further crystallizing the
protection of children in armed conflicts.
33. On July 10, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appointed General Hulusi Akar the ______
minister of Turkey.
(a) Industries (b) Finance (c) Education (d) Defence
34. Turkey has the second largest force in Nato after the ______ which has almost 1.5 million.
(a) Germany (b) United States (c) Greece (d) France
35. On July 12, ______ scientists performed the first-ever 3-D, colour X-ray on a human.
(a) England’s (b) Australia’s (c) South Africa’s (d) New Zealand’s
36. The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, is located in ______.
(a) Helsinki (b) Geneva (c) Hamburg (d) Seoul
37. Binali Yildirim was the last Prime Minister of ______.
(a) Turkey (b) Ghana (c) Libya (d) Tunisia
38. A meeting of NATO Heads of State and Government was held on July 11-12 in ______.
(a) Toronto (b) Brussels (c) New York (d) Paris
39. On July 13, ______ took the seat vacated by United States at the UN Human Rights Council.
(a) Iceland (b) South Africa (c) Norway (d) New Zealand
40. On July 14, ______ won the 2018 women singles’ Wimbledon tennis tournament.
(a) Anca Barna (b) Cilly Aussem (c) Annika Beck (d) Angelique Kerber
41. On July 15, ______ tennis star Novak Djokovic claimed a fourth Wimbledon title as he beat South
African Kevin Anderson.
(a) Serbian (b) Czech (c) Swedish (d) Croatian
42. On July 15, France won the World Cup for the ______ time.
(a) First (b) Second (b) Third (d) Fourth
43. The theme for the 2018 World Population Day (WPD) was ______.
(a) Family planning – Say what you need (b) Family Planning – Call for people (c) Family Planning – Save
Earth (d) Family planning is a human right
44. As per a recent report, ______ tops the list of the countries with highest military expenditure per
capita.
(a) Saudi Arabia (b) USA (c) Finland (d) Qatar
45. The International Day of Cooperatives (IDC) is observed every year on first ______ of July.
(a) Monday (b) Tuesday (c) Friday (d) Saturday
1. The current chairman of Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) is ______.

(a)Husain Lawai (b) Sohail Abid (c) Asad Baig (d) Shamshad Ali
2. On May 16, the Exchange of Data Information (EDI) between Pakistan and ______ operationalized.
(a)USA (b) China (c) Turkey (d) Germany
3. On May 16, Salman Badeni, the Balochistan chief of the proscribed Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, was killed
in Killi Almas area of______.
(a)Punjab (b) Sindh (c) Balochistan (d) KP
4. The Orange Line Metro Train (OLMT) was inaugurated by CM Punjab Shahbaz Sharif on ______.
(a)May15 (b) May16 (c) May 17 (d) May 18
5. Total length of the Orange Line Metro Train (OLMT) route is ______.
(a)25.4kms (b) 26.8kms (c) 27.1 kms (d) 29.4 kms
6. On May 18, National Assembly approved a ______ budget for the year 2018-19.
(a)Rs4.247tn (b)Rs4.958tn (c) Rs 5.133tn (d) Rs 5.247tn
7. On May 19, the ______ Police appointed Zobia Musarrat the first lady Muharrar in KP police.
(a)Kohat (b) Peshawar (c) Charsadda (d) Shangla
8. On May 20, Karachi’s Archbishop Joseph Coutts became only the ______ Pakistani archbishop
to be elevated to the position of Cardinal.
(a)First (b)Second (c) Third (d) Fourth
9. Cardinal Joseph Cordeiro, the first Pakistani appointed to this position, was elevated in ______.
(a) 1967 (b) 1978 (c) 1987 (d) 1994
10. On May 21, Pakistan beat ______ in the final of the 2nd Kathmandu Int’l Taekwondo
Championship.
(a) China (b) Nepal (c) India (d) China
11. Pakistan’s former Olympian Raja M. Fazil passed away on ______.
(a) May 18 (b) May 21 (c) May 25 (d) May 27
12. On ______, the National Assembly passed a constitutional amendment seeking the merger of
FATA with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
13. Dawar Khan Kundi, the only MNA who voted against the 31st Amendment, was from ______.
(a) JUI-F (b) ANP (c) PML-N (d) PTI
14. On May 24, Pakistan and ______ agreed to extend the currency swap agreement for another
three years, and double its size.
(a) China (b) Malaysia (c) Norway (d) Sweden
15. Pakistanis are the ______ most common non-British nationality in the United Kingdom.
(a) Fourth (b) Sixth (d) Eighth (d) Eleventh
16. Renowned novelist, Mazhar Kaleem MA, who died on May 26, was famous for his novels of
______.
(a) Imran Series (b) Jasoosi Dunya (c) Inspector Jamshed Series (d) None of these
16. The President announces the election date in consultation with ECP under section ______ of
the Elections Act, 2017.
(a) 17 (5) (b) 45 (2) (c) 57 (1) (d) 184 (3)
17. KP provincial assembly passed the Constitution (Twenty-Fifth Amendment) Bill 2018 on ______.
18. The Spy Chronicles has been co-authored by former Director General ISI Asad Durrani and
______ former chief of India’s RAW.
(a) Arvind Dave (b) Anil Dhasmana (c) Vikram Sood (d) A.S. Dulat
19. On May 28, _____ was appointed the chairperson of the Higher Education Commission.
(a) Nasira Jabeen (b) Tariq Banuri (c) Qibla Ayaz (d) Niaz Akhtar
20. On May 29, Saleem Baig was appointed the chairman of ______ for four years.
(a) PEMRA (b) HEC (c) NEPRA (d) SECP
21. Pakistan’s first-ever National Food Security Policy was announced on ______.
22. On May 29, a World Justice Project report revealed that people in Singapore feel the safest, while
people in _____ feel the least secure.
(a) Afghanistan (b) India (c) Pakistan (d) Sri Lanka
23. The current chairman of Pakistan International Airline is ___.
(a) Zafar Khan (b) Irfan Elahi (c) Azam Jabbar (d) Asim Suleiman
24. On ____, the federal government launched a new channel named PTV Parliament.
25. On June 01, Pakistan Navy purchased two multirole Type 054A frigates from ______.
(a) China (b) France (c) Germany (d) USA
26. On _____, International Institute of White Collar Crime Investigation was inaugurated at Lahore
Garrison University.
27. On June 02, the Judicial Commission recommended the elevation of PHC Chief Justice ______
to the Supreme Court.
(a) Waqar A. Seth (b) Anwar Kasi (c) Qaiser Rashid (d) Yahya Afridi
28. On June 05, a ______-member caretaker cabinet took the oath to run the day-to-day affairs of
the interim government.
(a) 4 (b) 6 (c) 8 (d) 10
29. On June 07, noted British-Pakistani author ______ was awarded UK’s prestigious Women’s Prize
for Fiction 2018.
(a) Nadya A.R. (b) Umera Ahmad (c) Kamila Shamsie (d) Aliya Bukhari
30. On June 07, the ______ allowed physically-challenged candidates to apply for all the 12
occupational groups of civil service.
(a) FPSC (b) PPSC (c) SPSC (d) BPSC
31. The Global Slavery Index 2018 has ranked Pakistan ______ out of 167 countries.
(a) Second (b) Fourth (c) Fifth (d) Sixth
32. On June 11, the ______ unit of Tarbela 4th Extension Hydropower Project started generation of
electricity.
33. On June 13, Pakistan completed a clean sweep of their two-match Twenty20 series against
______.
(a) England (b) Australia (c) Sri Lanka (d) Scotland
34. Chilim Jusht or Joshi festival is held in Bamburet valley of ______.
(a) Peshawar (b) Ziarat (c) Chitral (d) Quetta
35. The current Foreign Secretary of Pakistan is ______.
(a) Tehmina Janjua (b) Aizaz Chaudhary (c) Nafees Zakaria (d) Dr M. Faisal
36. The Sindhi Language Authority has selected ______ best authors of 2017 in different genres.
(a) Eight (b) Ten (c) Twelve (d) Fifteen
1. On May 16, ______ 1966 World Cup winning defender Ray Wilson died.
(a) England’s (b) Portugal’s (c) Spain’s (d) Brazil’s
2. On May 17, the EU-Western Balkans summit took place in Sofia, the capital of______.
(a) Greece (b) Bulgaria (c) Poland (d) Romania
3. On May 17, an extraordinary meeting of the foreign ministers of Arab League countries was held
in ___.
(a) Abu Dhabi (b) Riyadh (c) Cairo (d) Jeddah
4. On May 17, ______ won the Europa League for the third time.
(a) Lokomotiv (b) Arsenal (c) Marseille (d) Atletico Madrid
5. On May 18, an extraordinary summit of the leaders of the OIC member states was held in ______.
(a) Ankara (b) Cairo (c) Marrakech (d) Istanbul
6. Havana is the capital of ______.
(a) Croatia (b) Cuba (c) Senegal (d) Chile
7. On May 20, Koo Bon-moo, the chairman of______, passed away.
(a) Samsung (b) Daewoo (c) LG Group (d) Huwaei
8. On May 20, an Indian diplomat ______ was jailed for three years on charges of passing state
secrets to Pakistan’s intelligence services.
(a) Madhuri Gupta (b) Sidharth Sharma (c) Manohar Jha (d) Ashish Kailash
9. On May 21, ______ was declared to be elected as the President of Venezuela.
(a) Henri Falcon (b) Nicolas Maduro (c) Javier Bertucci (d) Henri Falcón
10. On May 21, ______ was sworn in as the director of the CIA, becoming the first woman ever to
lead the agency.
(a) Kirstjen Nielsen (b) Elaine Chao (c) Gina Haspel (d) Sarah Sanders
11. On May 21, former US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama entered into an
agreement to produce films and series with ______.
(a) Fox Group (b) Netflix (c) Walt Disney (d) HBO
12. On May 23, Philip Roth, a dominant force in____ literature in the latter half of the 20th century,
died.
(a) American (b) British (c) German (d) Spanish
13. On May 24, North Korea dismantled its nuclear test site, ______ facility in the country’s
northeast.
(a) Fangataufa (b) Amchitka (c) Reggane (d) Punggye-ri
14. The ‘People’s Climate Case’ has been brought against the EU by ten families from Europe, Kenya
and ____.
(a) Mauritius (b) Morocco (c) Fiji (d) Naurau
15. On May 30, Indonesia and ______ pledged to step up defence and maritime cooperation, with
plans to develop a strategic Indonesian naval port in the Indian Ocean.
(a) Japan (b) China (c) Malaysia (d) India
16. On May 30, ______-based Universal Peace Federation (UPF) nominated AJK President Sardar
Masood Khan Ambassador of Peace.
(a) Japan (b) Austria (c) Norway (d) Australia
17. On May 31, the ______, world’s largest known freshwater pearl, was sold in the Netherlands.
(a) Catherine (b) Sander (c) Batavia (d) Sleeping Lion
18. On May 31, the Pentagon announced the renaming of its oldest and the largest military
command, US Pacific Command, or PACOM, as the ______ Command.
(a) Pacification (b) Trump (b) William II (c) Indo-Pacific
19. On May 31, ______ banned the wearing of face veils in public, joining France and other European
countries in outlawing the burqa and the niqab.
(a) Denmark (b) Spain (c) Sweden (d) Australia
20. South West Asian Football Federation (SWAFF) was launched, on May 31, by ______ West Asian
and South Asian countries.
(a) 10 (b) 12 (c) 14 (d) 21
21. On June 01, ______ parliament ousted Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and replaced him with
Pedro Sanchez.
(a) Greece’s (b) Poland’s (c) Tunisia’s (d) Spain’s
22. On June 03, India test-fired a surface-to-surface nuclear capable intercontinental ballistic missile
____.
(a) Prithvi III (b) Agni-V (c) Nirbhay II (d) Agni-VII
23. On June 06, ______ was revealed as the best country in the world for excellent service.
(a) Iceland (b) New Zealand (c) Finland (d) Netherlands
24. On June 06, the UN General Assembly elected ______ Foreign Minister Maria Fernanda Espinosa
Garces as its next president.
(a) Brazil’s (b) Belgium’s (c) Ecuador’s (d) Norway’s
25. On June 08, the Golden Pen of Freedom Award 2018 was conferred on Maria Ressa of news site
______.
(a) Yahoo (b) Alexa (c) AOL (d) Rappler
26. On June 08, the UNGA elected Indonesia, Germany, Belgium, ______ and the Dominican
Republic as nonpermanent UNSC members for a 2-year term.
(a) Pakistan (b) Nigeria (c) South Africa (d) UAE
27. On June 08, President Xi Jinping gave China’s first Friendship Medal to______.
(a) Ashraf Ghani (b) Vladimir Putin (c) Narendra Modi (d) Mamnoon Husain
28. The 18th Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Council Heads of State Meeting was held in______,
China.
(a) Shandong (b) Shanghai (c) Qingdao (d) Beijing
29. On June 09, ______ women team posted the highest score in ODI when they made 490-4 against
Ireland.
(a) South Africa’s (b) New Zealand’s (c) India’s (d) Australia’s
30. On June 10, ______ defeated India to win the Asia Cup 2018, their maiden major title.
(a) Pakistan (b) Sri Lanka (c) Bangladesh (d) Afghanistan
31. On June 10, ______ won his 11th French Open title.
(a) Rafael Nadal (b) Novak Djokovic (c) Lleyton Hewitt (d) Andy Murray
32. On June 12, US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un held a historic
summit at the Singaporean island of ______.
(a) Sandy (b) Pulau Berkas (c) Sentosa (d) Pulau Ubin
33. After a historic agreement between ______ and Macedonia, the latter’s name has been changed
to the Republic of Northern Macedonia.
(a) Bulgaria (b) Albania (c) Estonia (d) Greece
34. Veteran Kashmiri journalist Shujaat Bukhari, who was shot dead on June 14, was the editor of
Srinagar-based newspaper ______.
(a) New Kashmir (b) Rising Kashmir (c) Kashmir Times (d) Greater Kashmir
35. On June 14, ______ cricketer Amelia Kerr shattered a world batting record in women’s ODI
cricket with a blistering 232 not out against Ireland.
(a) England’s (b) Australia’s (c) South Africa’s (d) New Zealand’s
36. On June 14, ______ became the newest team to join the club of test-playing nations.
(a) Ireland (b) Afghanistan (c) Nepal (d) Scotland
37. ______ won the best film award “Palme d’Or” at 2018 Cannes Festival.
(a) Shoplifters (b) Ayka (c) Cold War (d) Dogman
38. ______ won the 2018 Italian Open tennis tournament.
(a) Roger Federer (b) Rafael Nadal (c) Andy Murray (d) Grigor Dimitrov
39. ______ was awarded the 2018 European Golden Shoe.
(a) Lionel Messi (b) Mo Salah (c) Cristiano Ronaldo (d) Robert Lewandowski
40. The prestigious 2018 Man Booker International Prize for fiction 2018 has been awarded to
______.
(a) Ahmed Badawi (b) Han Kang (c) Virginie Des (d) Olga Tokarczuk
41. _____ is set to host the 2018 Global Wind Summit in September 2018.
(a) Germany (b) France (c) Australia (d) India
42. The first official World Bicycle Day was observed on ______
43. The host nation for the 43rd World Environment Day event was ______.
(a) Belgium (b) Norway (c) South Korea (d) India
44. US, Canada and ______ will host the 23rd FIFA World Cup 2026.
(a)Mexico (b) Brazil (c) Spain (d) Vietnam
1. On Apr 16, the UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, declared Pakistan the world’s largest host of
refugees with their number reaching ______.
(a) 1.25 million (b) 1.45 million (c) 2.32 million (d) 3.29 million
2. The current Prime Minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir is ______.
(a) Raja Farooq Haider Khan (b) Raja Muhammad Naseer Khan (c) Yaseen Gulshan (d) Ahmed Raza
Qadri
3. On Apr 16, the government launched savings certificates for ____.
(a) Teachers (b) Pensioners (c) Special people (d) Businessmen
4. On April 16, ______ government approved the province’s first-ever agriculture and youth policies.
(a) Sindh (b) Punjab (c) Balochistan (d) KP
5. On Apr 16, , the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) issued its annual report the “State
of Human Rights in 2017” that was dedicated to ______.
(a) Madeeha Gohar (b) Asma Jehangir (c) IA Rehman (d) Malala Yousafzai
6. On Apr 16, the Judicial Commission of Pakistan approved the elevation of Justice Munib Akhtar
of _____ High Court as a judge of the Supreme Court.
(a) Lahore (b) Peshawar (c) Balochistan (d) Sindh
7. On April 18, China and Pakistan Media Forum was held in ______.
(a) Shanghai (b) Beijing (c) Islamabad (d) Karachi
8. On Apr 19, ______ Pakistani peacekeepers who laid down their lives for global peace and security
were honoured with the UN medal.
(a) Seven (b) Eight (c) Nine (d) Eleven
9. On Apr 20, the government received the Commonwealth Government Award for Women’s ______
Empowerment.
(a) Economic (b) Social (c) Political (d) Financial
10. On Apr 20, the ______ government decided to provide District Management Group training to
new officers of provincial civil services.
(a) KP (b) Balochistan (c) Punjab (d) Sindh
11. ______ led the Pakistani delegation that participated in the IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings
2018.
(a) Waqar Ahmed (b) Younas Dhaga (c) Ahsan Khalid (d) Miftah Ismail
12. On Apr 22, the HEC appointed ______ permanent Director General for its Quality Assurance
Division.
(a) Uzma Qureshi (b) Farmanullah Anjum (c) Saadia Abbasi (d) Alia Zaidi
13. On Apr 22, Nimroz Khan, former vice-president of the _____, died.
(a) JUI-F (b) ANP (c) PML-N (d) PTI
14. On Apr 22, _____ retained the Mohenjo-Daro by winning the 17th Sindh Games.
(a) Larkana (b) Hyderabad (c) Karachi (d) Sukkur
15. On Apr 23, a moot of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
(SCO) was held in ______.
(a) Islamabad (b) Karachi (d) Shanghai (d) Beijing
16. The CCI formally approved the National Water Policy on ______.
(a) Apr 18 (b) Apr 20 (c) Apr 24 (d) Apr 26
16. Ajoka Theatre was founded by noted playwright and actor ______.
(a) Alia Gohar (b) Faryal Gohar (c) Savera Ali (d) Madeeha Gohar
17. During FY 2017-18, Pakistan’s economy grew at ______.
(a) 5.2 percent (b) 5.8 percent (c) 6.8 percent (d) 6.2 percent
18. Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif was disqualified for not disclosing his salary drawn from a ______
company.
(a) Saudi (b) Chinese (c) Qatari (d) UAE
19. The current PML-N government presented its sixth budget on ______.
20. On Apr 27, Marriyum Aurangzeb, Tariq Fazal Chaudhry and ______ were given the status of
federal ministers.
(a) Laila Khan (b) Anusha Rehman (c) Talal Chaudhry (d) Daniyal Aziz
21. The first-ever Science Festival for schoolchildren in Gwadar district was held on ______.
22. On Apr 30, Pakistan became the hottest place on earth when the temperature crossed 50 degrees
Celsius in ______.
(a) Multan (b) Nawabshah (c) Sibbi (d) Larkana
23. The Islamabad International Airport, Pakistan’s largest and the first greenfield airport, was
inaugurated on ______.
(a) Apr 28 (b) Apr 30 (c) May 01 (d) May 03
24. On May 02, National Human Development Report (NHDR) – Unleashing the Potential of a Young
Pakistan was released by ______.
(a) Ministry of Youth Affairs (b) Ministry of Finance (c) Ministry of Education (d) UNDP
25. On May 03, the resolution calling for renaming the Physics department of QAU Islamabad after
Abu al Fatah Abdul Rehman Al-Khazini was presented by ______.
(a) Maiza Hameed (b) Captain (R) Safdar (c) Marvi Memion (d) Laila Khan
26. On May 05, Noor Fatima, an Assistant Professor at IIUI won the prestigious Martin Luther King
Junior Award, becoming the ______ South Asian woman to receive this honour.
27. On May 05, the ______ annual Judicial Conference, organised by the Law and Justice
Commission of Pakistan, was held in Islamabad.
(a) Fifth (b) Seventh (c) Eighth (d) Eleventh
28. ______ and Pakistan have signed $200 million cooperation agreement to execute Phase III of
UAEPAP.
(a) UAE (b) China (c) Afghanistan (d) Turkey
29. On May 06, Federal Areas defeated ______ by 5 wickets and retained their Cool & Cool presents
Pepsi Pakistan Cup title.
(a) KP (b) Punjab (c) PIA (d) Sindh
30. On May 07, ______ was made the 40th chief of the Intelligence Bureau, the civilian spy agency
of the country.
(a) Aftab Sultan Cheema (b) Dr Mohammad Suleman Khan (c) Syed Ziaullah Shah(d) Munib Akhtar Sial
31. Justice (R) Mehta Kalash Nath Kohli is the current chairman of ______ Public Service
Commission.
(a) Punjab (b) Sindh (c) Balochistan (d) KP
32. On May 07, the Punjab government revived 20 percent public sector job quota for 3 divisions of
south Punjab – Multan, Bahawalpur and DG Khan – besides the districts of Bhakkar and ______.
(a) Kamalia (b) Mianwali (c) Rajanpur (d) Layyah
33. On May 08, the SCP suspended the notification of Senator-elect ______ for his failure to appear
in court despite repeated summons.
(a) Saadia Abbasi (b) Ishaq Dar (c) Ch. Sarwar (d) Nehal Hashmi
34. On May 08, Daraz Group, Pakistan’s leading online retailer announced its complete acquisition
by ______ Group.
(a) BidPay (b) In-Q-Tel (c) NexTag (d) Alibaba
35. On May 10, the COAS Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa was ranked the ______ most powerful person in
the world.
(a) 68th (b) 70th (c) 74th (d) 75th
36. On May 11, _____ won the first Pakistan Super Kabaddi League.
(a) Peshawar Haiders (b) Multan Sikandars (c) Gujrat Warriors (d) Faisalabad Sherdils
37. On May 12, the government appointed ______ the Chairman SECP.
(a) Shaukat Hussain (b) Murad Ali (c) Ghazanfar Ali (d) Zafar Alvi
38. On ______, Rao Tehsin Ali Khan was appointed DG Radio Pakistan.
39. On May 15, Brig (Retd) Khalid Sajjad Khokhar was re-elected as the president ______ for a
second term.
(a) PHF (b) PCB (c) PKL (d) PSB
40. Arif Nawaz Khan is the incumbent Inspector General of Police ______.
(a) Sindh (b) Punjab (c) Balochistan (d) KP
1. ______ countries participated in Joint Gulf Shield-1 military drill held in Saudi Arabia’s Jubail city.
(a) 18 (b) 20 (c) 24 (d) 26
2. On Apr 16, _______ was appointed a Commonwealth Youth Ambassador.
(a) Prince Charles (b) Prince Harry (c) Meghan Markle (d) Prince Williams
3. Former US first lady Barbara Bush, who died on Apr 17, was the wife of the 41st US president,
George H.W. Bush, and mother of the______, George W. Bush.
(a) 42nd (b) 43rd (c) 44th (d) 45th
4. On Apr 18, President Erdogan of Turkey called snap elections in his country to be held on ______.
5. On Apr 18, Saudi Arabia launched its first commercial movie theatre with screening of the movie
______.
(a) X-Men (b) Black Panther (c) Deadpool 2 (d) Avatar
6. Sooronbai Jeenbekov is the current president of ______.
(a) Ukraine (b) Solvakia (c) Kyrgyzstan (d) Azerbaijan
7. Moroni is the capital of ______.
(a) South Sudan (b) Chad (c) Comoros (d) Senegal
8. On Apr 19, Iran, Iraq, Syria and ______ held a meeting of military and security officials in Baghdad.
(a) Russia (b) China (c) France (d) Germany
9. On Apr 19, Miguel Diaz-Canel was elected as the new president of ______.
(a) Brazil (b) Cuba (c) Argentina (d) Venezuela
10. On Apr 19, the Commonwealth Summit kicked off in ______.
(a) Dublin (b) Canberra (c) London (d) Toronto
11. On Apr 19, the king of Swaziland announced that his country had changed its name to ______.
(a) Rhodes (b) eSwatini (c) Comoron (d) Swazica
12. North and South Korea opened a hotline between their leaders on ____.
13. Blue House is the official residence of the President of ______.
(a) North Korea (b) South Korea (c) Thailand (d) Mongolia
14. On Apr 20, an Indian court acquitted ______ who was sentenced to 28 years in jail in 2012 over
the killing of 97 Muslims in the worst massacre during Gujarat riots.
(a) Narendra Modi (b) Maya Kodnani (c) Nirmala Panday (d) Nanavati Mehta
15. On Apr 21, India’s cabinet approved the death penalty for rapists of girls below ______ of age.
(a) 10 years (b) 12 years (c) 14 years (d) 16 years
16. On Apr 21, Indian veteran Rahil Gangjee won the Panasonic Open that was held in ___.
(a) Japan (b) China (c) Nepal (d) Australia
17. On Apr 21, ______ centre-left Social Democrats elected Andrea Nahles as the first woman leader
of the 155-year-old party.
(a) Germany’s (b) France’s (c) Sweden’s (d) Norway’s
18. On Apr 23, Mario Abdo Benitez was elected the president of ______.
(a) Vietnam (b) Paraguay (b) Brazil (c) Peru
19. On Apr 23, ______ world champion Marc Marquez won his 6th MotoGP Grand Prix of the
Americas.
(a) German (b) Spanish (c) British (d) Australian
20. Covering an area of roughly 1,249,000 sq km, the East China Sea is a part of the ______ Ocean.
(a) Pacific (b) Indian (c) Arctic (d) Atlantic
21. On Apr 25, the United Nations launched a project to support youth-driven initiatives in education,
science, culture and the media in Jordan, Libya, Morocco and ______.
(a) Tajikistan (b) Afghanistan (c) Tunisia (d) Pakistan
22. On Mar 28, ______ signed the largest arms procurement deal in its history, with the United
States.
(a) UAE (b) Kuwait (c) Poland (d) Malaysia
23. On Apr 26, the ICC announced that all its 104-member nations – both men and women’s team –
will be granted ______ status.
(a) Test (b) T20I (c) ODI (d) T10I
24. On Apr 26, former CIA director ___ was approved as secretary of state.
(a) Gina Haspel (b) Gary Cohn (c) Mike Pompeo (d) Joe Hagin
25. A historic summit between the leaders of North and South Korea was held on ______.
26. The world’s only handwritten newspaper is ______.
(a) Nawa-i-Islam (b) The Musalman (c) Islami Akhbar (d) The Muslim
27. Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil and gas company by revenue, is based in ______.
(a) Riyadh (b) Jeddah (c) Dhahran (d) Makkah
28. On Apr 29, Rafael Nadal won his ______ career clay-court title.
(a) 55th (b) 58th (c) 60th (d) 64th
29. On Apr 30, Japan and its top trade partner in the Middle East, ___, signed an investment
protection agreement.
(a) Qatar (b) Saudi Arabia (c) UAE (d) Iraq
30. The world’s oldest known spider that died in Australia on Apr 30, was named ______.
(a) Number 16 (b) Sudan (c) Bluey (d) Tuatara
31. On Apr 30, British Prime Minister Theresa May appointed Sajid Javid the Britain’s ______.
(a) Interior Minister (b) Foreign Minister (c) Justice Minister (d) Finance Minister
32. On May 01, Liverpool’s ______ forward Mohamed Salah was voted Footballer of the Year by the
Football Writers’ Association (FWA).
(a) Saudi (b) Iraqi (c) Egyptian (d) Jordanian
33. On May 02, ______, the data firm embroiled in a scandal for handling Facebook user data ceased
operations.
(a) SCL Elections (b) Cambridge Analytica (c) Oxford Observers (d) Electobooks
34. A per a WHO report, released on May 02, ______ is home to the world’s 14 most polluted cities.
(a) Pakistan (b) China (c) India (d) Japan
35. On May 05, Nasa launched its latest Mars lander, called ______.
(a) InSight (b) Tess (c) RedFace (d) Challenger
36. The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2018 was held in ______.
(a) Canberra (b) Montreal (c) London (d) Zurich
37. On ______, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin was sworn in for a new term that will see him in
office until 2024.
38. On ______, President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the Iran Nuclear Deal.
39. On May 10, ______ was sworn in as the world’s oldest elected leader.
(a) Kim Yong-nam (b) Beji Caid Essebsi (c) Mahathir Mohamad (d) Najib Razak
40. On May 10, a 104-year-old Australian scientist ______ committed assisted suicide in Switzerland.
(a) Carol O’Neill (b) David Goodall (c) David William (d) F. G. Gregory
41. On May 11, ______ Supreme Court ousted its chief justice, Maria Lourdes Sereno.
(a) Cambodian (b) Thai (c) The Philippine (d) Austrian
42. On May 14, Kevin O’Brien scored ______ first hundred in Test Cricket.
(a) Ireland’s (b) Zimbabwe’s (c) Jamaica’s (d) Hong Kong’s
1. WWF-Pakistan was formed in ______ and it has its headquarters in Lahore.
(a) 1968 (b) 1970 (c) 1985 (d) 1988
2. On Mar 17, ______ was installed as new colonel commandant of the Frontier Force (FF) Regiment.
(a) Lt. Gen Aamer Riaz (b) Lt. Gen Ghayur Mahmood (c) Lt. Gen Asim Bajwqa (d) Lt. Gen Bashir Raza
3. On Mar 18, Federal Minister for Interior, Planning Development and Reform Prof. Ahsan Iqbal
inaugurated University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences Lahore’s _____ sub campus.
(a) Narowal (b) Vehari (c) Sargodha (d) Sialkot
4. Khan Bahadur Chaudhary Mushtaq Ahmad Para-Veterinary School is located in ______.
(a) Narowal (b) Vehari (c) Sargodha (d) Sialkot
5. On Mar 18, Punjab government and Pakistan Air Force signed an agreement to establish a cadet
college at ______.
(a) Layyah (b) Fort Munro (c) Multan (d) Bahawalpur
6. On Mar 19, Air Chief Marshal Mujahid Anwar Khan took over Pakistan Air Force as its ______
chief.
(a) 18th (b) 22nd (c) 24th (d) 32nd
7. On Mar 20, ______ was appointed the president of Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal.
(a) Sirajul Haq (b) Fazlur Rehman (c) Samiul Haq (d) Liaquat Baloch
8. On Mar 20, ______ clinched the 4th Inter-Provincial Games with 139 medals scoring 3235 points.
(a) Punjab (b) Balochistan (c) Sindh (d) KP
9. On Mar 21, _____ won the three-day Bolan Jeep Rally.
(a) Jaffar Magsi (b) Nadir Magsi (c) Asjad Ali (d) Roni Patel
10. The Nauroz festival is observed in Gilgit-Baltistan every year on ______.
(a) Mar 18 (b) Mar 21 (c) Mar 24 (d) Mar 26
11. On ______, the Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (Suparco) inked
a deal to acquire communication satellite PakSat Multi Satellite (PakSat-MM1).
12. The Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (Suparco) is headquartered
in _____.
(a) Lahore (b) Karachi (c) Quetta (d) Islamabad
13. On Mar 22, Senator ______ of the PPP became the first woman to get the office of the opposition
leader in the Senate in its 45-year history.
(a) Rukhsana Shah (b) Sherry Rehman (c) Keshoo Bai (d) Sassui Palijo
14. The Senate of Pakistan was constituted in ______.
(a) 1956 (b) 1962 (c) 1973 (d) 1985
15. The Punjab Tianjin University of Technical Education is in______.
(a) Rawalpindi (b) Faisalabad (c) Lahore (d) Multan
16. The Earth Hour 2018 was observed on ______.
17. On Mar 25, the final of Pakistan Super League was played at ______.
(a) Lahore (b) Karachi (c) Hyderabad (d) Sharjah
18. ______ won the Pakistan Super League 2018 title.
(a) Multan Sultans (b) Quetta Gladiators (c) Peshawar Zalmi (d) Islamabad United
19. Pakistan’s first transgender news anchor Marvia Malik has been hired by ______.
(a) Express News (b) ARY News (c) Kohinoor (d) Channel 7
20. On Mar 26, Prime Minister Abbasi reconstituted the 13-member Economic Advisory Council
(EAC) with ______ as its Chairman.
(a) Sima Kamil (b) Shaukat Tarin (c) Ali Cheema (d) Shahid Kardar
21. ______ individuals from Pakistan featured on Forbes magazine’s annual ’30 Under 30′ Asia list
for 2018.
(a) 7 (b) 9 (c) 11 (d) 14
22. On Mar 28, ___ smashed the fastest T20I fifty from Pakistan woman team.
(a) Bsmah Maroof (b) Javeria Khan (c) Sidra Ameen (d) Sana Mir
23. On Mar 28, the cabinet approved signing of extradition treaties with ______ and Saudi Arabia for
transfer of sentenced or convicted individuals.
(a) UK (b) Switzerland (c) China (d) Malaysia
24. On Mar 29, Pakistan conducted another successful test fire of indigenous developed Submarine
Launched Cruise Missile (SLCM) Babur III that has a range of______.
(a) 325 kms (b) 370 kms (c) 400 kms (d) 450 kms
25. The current president of All Pakistan Newspaper Society is ______.
(a) Sarmad Ali (b) Hameed Haroon (c) Bilal Mehmood (d) Kazi Asad Abid
26. ____ won Pakistan its first medal at the Commonwealth Games 2018.
(a) Talha Talib (b) Nooh Butt (c) M. Inam Butt (d) Inamullah
27. The government unveiled another ‘one-time’ amnesty scheme on ______.
28. On Apr 06, PIA introduced a new livery and added a portrait of the ______ on its aircraft.
(a) Markhor (b) Blind Dolphin (c) Cheetah (d) Eagle
29. On Apr 09, Pakistan’s weightlifter ______ smashed a record at the Commonwealth Games 2018
by registering the highest-ever weight by a junior in the +105kg event.
(a) Nooh Butt (b) Talha Talib (c) M. Inam Butt (d) Inamullah
30. Cricket’s Asia Cup 2018 has been moved from India to ______.
(a) Sri Lanka (b) UAE (c) Australia (d) England
31. On Apr 13, ______, the last serving member of the National Assembly who signed 1973
Constitution, bade farewell to politics.
(a) M. Gohar Shah (b) Qari Mohammad Yousif (c) Nazeer Sultan(d) Muhammad Shahbaz Babar
32. On Apr 13, the Supreme Court shut the doors of parliament permanently on the politicians
disqualified under Article ______ of the Constitution by ruling that such ineligibility is for life.
(a) 62(1)(a) (b) 62(1)(f) (c) 63(1)(c) (d) 63(1)(g)
33. The Neelum-Jhelum hydropower project is located in ______.
(a) Punjab (b) AJK (c) Gilgit-Baltistan (d) KP
34. The Senate approved a bill seeking to extend jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and the
Peshawar High Court to Fata on ______.
35. On Apr 15, Pakistan finished overall at the ______ spot in the 21st Commonwealth Games.
(a) 24th (b) 29th (c) 37th (d) 47th
International
1. On Mar 16, ______ took back control of the Grand Mosque by terminating Saudi Arabia’s lease of
the building with immediate effect.
(a) Norway (b) Germany (c) Belgium (d) Russia
2. On Mar 16, foreign ministers of Iran, Russia and ______ held talks on Syria in Astana, the capital
city of Kazakhstan.
(a) Afghanistan (b) Turkey (c) China (d) Kazakhstan
3. On Mar 17, Phan Van Khai, a former Prime Minister of ______ died.
(a) Thailand (b) Vietnam (c) Malaysia (d) Sri Lanka
4. On Mar 17, FIFA lifted its three-decade ban on ______ hosting international football.
(a) Iraq (b) Russia (c) Saudi Arabia (d) Iran
5. On Mar 17, China’s parliament unanimously elevated ______ to the vice presidency.
(a) Zhao Hongzhu (b) Wang Qishan (c) Li Yuanchao (d) Zhao Leji
6. On Mar 17, Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, the president of ______ and Africa’s only female head of state,
resigned.
(a) Chad (b) Senegal (c) Mauritius (d) Somalia
7. ______ has the world’s greatest freshwater reserves.
(a) Australia (b) Belgium (c) Brazil (d) France
8. On Mar 18, the 8th World Water Forum opened in ______.
(a) Brasilia (b) Canberra (c) Vienna (d) Geneva
9. On Mar 19, China appointed General Wei Fenghe as the country’s new ______ minister.
(a) Finance (b) Defence (c) Internal (d) Foreign
10. On Mar 20, a ______ mathematician Robert Langlands won the prestigious Abel Prize.
(a) German (b) French (c) Canadian (d) Finnish
11. The Abel Prize was established by the Norwegian government in ______ on the occasion of the
200th birthday of Niels Henrik Abel.
(a) 2000 (b) 2002 (c) 2004 (d) 2006
12. On Mar 20, ______, the last male northern white rhino, died in Kenya.
(a) Mamba (b) Trush (c) Sudan (d) Kenyatta
13. “Cultural Schizophrenia: Islamic Societies Confronting the West” has been written by ______.
(a) Bijan Abdolkarimi (b) Dariush Shayegan (c) Dariush Ashoori (d) Ahmad Fardid
14. The 2018 World Poetry Day (WPD) was observed on ______.
15. The theme of 2018 International Day of Happiness was ______.
(a) Happiness (b) Happy Heroes (c) Happy Planet (d) Share Happiness
16. The World Water Day (WWD) is observed every year on ______.
(a) 22 March (b) 24 March (c) 26 March (d) 28 March
17. On Mar 23, the United States formally approved weapons sales to ______ totalling more than $1
billion.
(a) Saudi Arabia (b) Qatar (c) South Korea (d) Iraq
18. On Mar 23, President Donald Trump named ______ as his new National Security Adviser.
(a) Bernie Gunther (b) John Bolton (c) H.R. McMaster (d) John Dowd
19. On Mar 24, Martin Vizcarra was sworn in as ______ new president.
(a) Azerbaijan’s (b) Peru’s (c) Bolivia’s (d) Hungary’s
20. On Mar 25, ______ and India signed 101 agreements during the visit of a trade promotion group
to India.
(a) China (b) Qatar (c) Afghanistan (d) Norway
21. The 2-day Tashkent Conference on Afghanistan was held in the capital of ______.
(a) Tajikistan (b) Kazakhstan (c) Uzbekistan (d) Azerbaijan
22. On Mar 28, ______ signed the largest arms procurement deal in its history, with the United
States.
(a) UAE (b) Kuwait (c) Poland (d) Malaysia
23. On Mar 28, Win Myint was elected the president of ______.
(a) Mauritius (b) Myanmar (c) Cuba (d) Libya
24. On Mar 31, scientists discovered ______, a previously undetected feature of the human anatomy
– that could be the largest organ of the human body.
(a) Brass (b) Pectora (c) Interstitium (d) Otic
25. On Apr 02, the Tiangong-1, a defunct Chinese space lab, plunged towards a watery grave in
the______.
(a) South Pacific (b) Arabian Sea (c) Atlantic (d) South China Sea
26. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, an anti-apartheid campaigner and second wife of the late Nelson
Mandela, passed away on ______.
27. The 114th meeting of the Permanent Indus Commission (PIC) between India and Pakistan was
held in ______.
(a) Lahore (b) Karachi (c) New Delhi (d) Mumbai
28. ______ has been elected the new President of Egypt.
(a)AbdelFattahel-Sisi (b)MoussaMostafa (c)AhmedShafikSisi (d) El-Sayyid el-Badawi
29. The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Mid-Term Ministerial Conference 2018 was held in Baku, the
capital of ______.
(a) Tajikistan (b) Kazakhstan (c) Azerbaijan (d) Uzbekistan
30. On Apr 04, Turkey, ______ and Iran held a summit in Ankara to achieving a “lasting ceasefire”
in Syria.
(a) Russia (b) India (c) Pakistan (d) China
31. On Apr 06, ______ disgraced former president Park Geun-hye was jailed for 24 years for
corruption.
(a) South Korea’s (b) Peru’s (c) Thailand’s (d) Brazil’s
32. The Boao Forum for Asia (BFA), often called Summer Davos, started at Boao on ______.
33. The joint military exercise “Desert Tiger 5” was held between UAE and ______.
(a) Pakistan (b) Malaysia (c) China (d) India
34. On Apr 09, the International Conference on Human Rights in South Asia started in______.
(a) Colombo (b) Kathmandu (c) Dhaka (d) Male
35. On Apr 11, ______ strongman Ilham Aliyev secured a fourth consecutive term in a snap election.
(a) Kazakhstan (b) Uzbekistan (c) Azerbaijan (d) Tajikistan
36. The world’s biggest oil company is ______.
(a) Sinopec (b) Saudi Aramco (c) PetroChina (d) Rosneft
37. On Apr 14, the United States, ______ and the United Kingdom launched a missile assault on the
Syrian regime.
(a) France (b) Germany (c) Japan (d) Australia
38. The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM 2018) was held in ______.
(a) Canberra (b) Montreal (c) London (d) Zurich
39. Dr Martin Luther King, Nobel Peace Prize-winner American leader, was assassinated on Apr 4,
______.
(a) 1961 (b) 1962 (c) 1968 (d) 1971
40. The first reusable manned spacecraft to travel into space was named ______.
(a) Calder (b) Walkers (c) Olsen (d) Columbia
1. The Paigham-i-Pakistan fatwa has been signed by ______ scholars.

(a) 1124 (b) 1,829 (c) 1915 (d) 2029
2. On Jan 17, ______ was appointed chairman of the Punjab Public Service Commission (PPSC) for
a period of three years.
(a) Mohsin Razi (b) Lt Gen (R) Maqsood Ahmad (c) Abdul Rauf (d) Syed Mubashar Raza
3. On Jan 17, the 11th Pak-Saudi joint-ministerial commission meeting was held in ______.
(a) Islamabad (b) Lahore (c) Riyadh (d) Makkah
4. On Jan 18, ______ was appointed the Executive Director to Asian Development Bank (ADB) for
three years.
(a) Tauqeer Shah (b) Shahid Mehmood (c) Fawad Hassan (d) Samiullah Mengal
5. On Jan 21, the Pak army acquired latest drone technology in form of a drone named ______ to
monitor CPEC, gas pipelines, sensitive installations, bridges, dams and borders.
(a) Khaled (b) Uqab (c) Falcon (d) Shaheen
6. Munir Ahmed Qureshi, a.k.a Munoo Bhai, passed away on ______.
(a) Jan 16 (b) Jan 17 (c) Jan 18 (d) Jan 19
7. Army Institute of Military History was opened by the COAS on ______.
8. On Jan 23, ______, the culprit behind the brutal rape and murder of seven-year-old Zainab, was
arrested.
(a) Fayyaz Ali (b) Imran Ali (c) Munir Ahmad (d) Shahzad Ali
9. On Jan 23, ______ was appointed the new prosecutor general of NAB.
(a) Syed Asghar Haider (b) Akram A. Sheikh (c) Kamran Murtaza (d) Deedar Hussain Shah
10. The Senate Museum, which traces the evolution, history and reorganisation of the upper house
of parliament, was inaugurated on _____.
11. On Jan 26, ______ President Joko Widodo addressed a joint sitting of the parliament of Pakistan.
(a) Indonesian (b) Malaysian (c) Algerian (d) Moroccan
12. On Jan 28, ______ became the first Pakistani Golfer to win the Qatar Open Golf title (2018).
(a) Hameed Ali (b) Sajjad Ahsan (c) Taqi Butt (d) Ahmed Baig
13. On Jan 29, the Sindh government appointed ______ the chairman of Sindh Higher Education
Commission
(a) Manzoor Wassan (b) Dr Asim Hussain (c) Saeed Ghani (d) Sharmila Faruqui
14. On Jan 31, the Supreme Court of Pakistan ordered immediate removal of the chairman of
Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) ______.
(a) Shaista Parvez Malik (b) Tariq Fazal Chaudhary (c) Siddiqul Farooq (d) Daniyal Aziz
15. PPP Senator Haji Saifullah Bangash died on ______.
(a) Feb 01 (b) Feb 02 (c) Feb 03 (d) Feb 04
16. On Feb 01, the Supreme Court convicted Senator Nehal Hashmi of contempt of court and sent
him to jail for ______.
(a) 15 Days (b) 21 Days (c) One month (d) Two months
17. Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani, who died on Feb 01, was Sindh minister for ____.
(a) Excise & Taxation (b) Education & Literacy (c) Planning and Development (d) Livestock & Fisheries
18. Sonmiani Firing Range is in ______.
(a) Sindh (b) KP (c) Balochistan (d) Gilgit-Baltistan
19. The FIFA World Cup trophy was brought to Lahore on ______.
20. The current FIFA World Cup trophy was introduced in ______.
(a) 1968 (b) 1970 (c) 1972 (d) 1974
21. Afghanistan-Pakistan Action Plan for Peace and Solidarity (APAPPS) is an initiative of ______.
(a) United States (b) Pakistan (c) China (d) Russia
22. On Feb 06, Pakistan and _____ signed Executive Programme of Cultural Agreement.
(a) Russia (b) China (c) Japan (d) Indonesia
23. The federal cabinet approved the promulgation of Costs of Litigation Act, 2017, on ______.
(a) Feb 04 (b) Feb 06 (c) Feb 0 8 (d) Feb 10
24. On Feb 06, the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly and Kashmir Council declared
Ahmadis non-Muslims through ______ Amendment to the Interim Constitution of AJK.
(a) 10th (b) 11th (c) 12th (d) 14th
25. On Feb 06, ______ scored 209 not out, the highest-ever score recorded in Pakistan’S domestic
cricket.
(a) Khalid Latif (b) Kamran Akmal (c) Sharjeel Khan (d) Abid Ali
26. On Feb 07, Justice Muhammad Yawar Ali was sworn in as the ______ chief justice of the Lahore
High Court.
(a) 36th (b) 42nd (c) 46th (d) 50th
27. Moxifloxacin Hydrochloride 400mg, the first-ever Pakistani drug accredited by WHO, has been
manufactured by ______.
(a) CCL Pharma (b) Getz Pharma (c) Roche (d) Macter
28. On Feb 08, King Abdullah II Ibn Al Hussein of ______ opened his two-day working visit to
Pakistan.
(a) Oman (b) Qatar (c) Kuwait (d) Jordan
29. ______ is the only Pakistani varsity in top 100 universities of Asia by Times Higher Education.
(a) LUMS, Lahore (b) COMSATS, Islamabad (c) QAU, Islamabad (d) NUST, Islamabad
30. On Feb 10, the ______ government unveiled its first labour policy
(a) Sindh (b) Baluchistan (c) Punjab (d) KP
31. Veteran television, radio, film and theatre artist Qazi Wajid died on ______.
32. On ______, Asma Jahangir, an iconic lawyer, activist and champion of human rights, passed
away.
33. On Feb 13, ‘Chiefs of Defence Conference’ was held in ______.
(a) Islamabad (b) Beijing (c) Kabul (d) Moscow
34. On Feb 15, the Islamabad High Court removed Additional District and Sessions Judge ______
for Acquitting Shoaib Sheikh, the CEO of Axact, in a fake degree case.
(a) Bashir Ahmad Memon (b) Pervaizul Qadir Memon (c) Abdul Qadir Junejo (d) Rehmnan Khan Tareen
35. Nuclear physicist Dr Ishfaq Ahmad, who passed away on Jan 18, was a former head of ______.
(a) Khan Research Laboratories (b) Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (c) Pakistan Institute of
Physics(d) Project-706
36. Quaid-e-Azam Solar Park is located in ______.
(a) Sahiwal (b) Lodhran (c) Multan (d) Bahawalpur
37. The Senate of Pakistan has ______ seats.
(a) 100 (b) 102 (c) 104 (d) 116
1. On Jan 16, Indian Premier Narendra Modi launched the construction of a $6.8 billion refinery in
______ state. (a) Delhi (b) UP (c) Rajasthan (d) Punjab
2. On Jan 17, Viorica Dancila was nominated as the first female premier of ______.
(a) Denmark (b) Romania (c) Hungary (d) Latvia
3. On Jan 17, ______ World Cup winner Ronaldinho formally confirmed his retirement from football.
(a) Argentina’s (b) Brazil’s (c) Germany’s (d) Portugal’s
4. On Jan 18, the British government appointed ______ a “minister for loneliness”.
(a) Tracey Crouch (b) Nigel Adams (c) Peter Aldous (d) Ann Coffey
5. Instagram, a popular Internet-based photo-sharing application and service, is owned by ______.
(a) Yahoo (b) Facebook (c) Google (d) Apple
6. On Jan 20, Turkey launched Operation ______, a new offensive to oust Kurdish militia from a
northern Syrian enclave.
(a) Euphrates (b) Inherent Resolve (c) Olive Branch (d) Shah Euphrates
7. On Jan 20, India defeated _____ to retain the Blind Cricket World Cup.
(a) Australia (b) England (c) Pakistan (d) Sri Lanka
8. On Jan 22, former football star George Weah was sworn in as president of ______.
(a) Liberia (b) Kenya (c) Senegal (d) Ethiopia
9. Oxfam, a confederation of 19 independent charitable organizations from around the world, is
headquartered in ______
(a) Chicago, USA (b) Oxford, UK (c) Bonn, Germany (d) Paris, France
10. On Jan 23, the US State Department designated Mohammad Emwazi, also known as ______ a
global terrorist.
(a) John Akomfrah (b) Tomas Abyu (c) Jihadi John (d) Amir Khattab
11. On Jan 24, ______ scientists cloned monkeys using the same technique that produced Dolly the
sheep.
(a) Indian (b) Chinese (c) American (d) German
12. ______, the world’s largest furniture retailer, was founded by Ingvar Kamprad who died on 27
Jan 2018, in 1943.
(a) Conforama (b) Mocka (c) Ikea (d) Starmark
13. With an elevation of 8,126 metres (26,660 ft), Nanga Parbat is the world’s ______ highest peak.
(a) Sixth (b) Ninth (c) Thirteenth (d) Fifteenth
14. On Jan 31, the US put the head of Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, ____, on its terror
blacklist.
(a) Khaled Mashal (b) Ismail Haniyeh (c) Marwan Issa (d) Tawfik Jaber
15. The theme of the 48th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum was ______.
(a) Fourth Industrial Revolution (b) Responsible Leadership(c) Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured
World (d) Together Create a United World
16. On Feb 01, ______ successfully launched 11 satellites from its Vostochny cosmodrome.
(a) Russia (b) Germany (c) Azerbaijan (d) India
17. On Feb 03, India beat Australia to win the ICC U-19 World Cup for a ______ time.
(a) Third (b) Fourth (c) Fifth (d) Sixth
18. The People’s Majlis is the parliament of ______.
(a) Tibet (b) Maldives (c) Sri Lanka (d) Myanmar
19. On Feb 03, Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain was appointed the new chief justice of ______.
(a) Bangladesh (b) Nigeria (c) Afghanistan (d) Maldives
20. On Feb 04, ____ became the first player from Bangladesh to score a century in both innings of
a Test.
(a) Abu Jayed (b) Taskin Ahmad (c) Mominul Haque (d) Imrul Kayes
21. Tawakkol Karman won the Nobel Peace Prize in ______.
(a) 2002 (b) 2008 (c) 2011 (d) 2014
22. On Feb 05, ______ airport was named the world’s busiest for international passengers in 2017.
(a) JFK (b) Dubai (c) Beijing (d) Hartsfield
23. On Feb 06, the Maldives’ Chief Justice ______ and another Supreme Court judge were arrested.
(a) Adam Abdullah (b) Abdulla Saeed (c) Ali Hameed (d) Abdulla Areef
24. As per the latest report published by World Steel Association, ______ was the world’s largest
producer of steel in 2017.
(a) Russia (b) USA (c) China (d) India
25. The world’s longest zip line has been launched by ______.
(a) UAE (b) Israel (c) India (d) China
26. The current Chairman of the US Federal Reserve is ______.
(a) Janet Yellen (b) Jerome H. Powell (c) Ben Bernanke (d) Randal Quarles
27. On Feb 06, ______ jockey Jorge Ricardo got his record-equalling 12,844th victory.
(a) Russian (b) American (c) Brazilian (d) Swedish
28. On Feb 07, Saudi Arabia granted approval to ______ to use its airspace to operate direct flights
from New Delhi to Tel Aviv.
(a) Air India (b) Gulf Airways (c) Kingfisher (d) Kuwait Airlines
29. The world’s most powerful rocket, SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, blasted off on its highly anticipated
maiden test flight on ______.
30. On Feb 08, ______ was readmitted to the Commonwealth.
(a) Gambia (b) Bhutan (c) Maldives (d) Sri Lanka
31. On Feb 09, the world’s first passenger drone named EHang 184 made its maiden public flight in
_____.
(a) China (b) USA (c) France (d) Japan
32. On Feb 09, the Competition Commission of India imposed a Rs1.358 billion fine on ______ for
“search bias” and abusing its “dominant position”.
(a) Yahoo (b) Bing (c) Google (d) AOL
33.On Feb 09, the ICC appointed ______, an Indian-American businesswoman and the current
Chairwoman and CEO of PepsiCo, its first female Independent Director.
(a) Anju Bhargava (b) Indra Nooyi (c) Shanti Das (d) Seema Verma
34. The theme of the World Radio Day 2018 was ______.
(a) Radio and Peace (b) Radio and Sports (c) Radio is You (d) Radio and World
35. The Pyeongchang Winter Olympics opened on ______.
(a)Feb06 (b)Feb08 (c) Feb 09 (d) Feb 12
36. On Feb 11, Gevvora, the world’s new tallest hotel, opened in ______.
(a)New York (b) Dubai (c) Makkah (d) Frankfurt
37. On Feb 15, Cyril Rama phosa was sworn in as the president of ______.
(a)South Africa (b )Poland (c) Ghana (d) Ethiopia
38. On Feb 15, K. P. Sharma Oli was sworn in as prime minister of ______.
(a)Maldives (b)Bhutan (c) Nepal (d) Chile
39. The world’s biggest air purifier has been built by ______.
(a)Saudi Arabia (b)Oman (c) China (d) UAE
40.The20th president of the United States was ______.
(a)James Madison (b)Ulysses S. Grant (c) Andrew Johnson (d) James Garfield
1. On Dec 17, ______ was the only Pakistani named in the top 11 powerful women of the world by
NYT.
(a) Malala Yousafzai (b) Maryam Nawaz (c) Gulalai Ismail (d) Sherry Rehman
2. On Dec 17, the ______ High Court ruled that forced abortion is a strong ground for dissolution of
marriage.
(a) Peshawar (b) Lahore (c) Balochistan (d) Sindh
3. On Dec 17, ______ government gave away Allama Iqbal literary awards and appreciation
certificates.
(a) Federal (b) Balochistan (c) Punjab (d) Sindh
4. The Laser Standard Class of competition of the Al Bareh Int’l Sailing Regatta 2017 was held in
_____.
(a) UAE (b) Bahrain (c) Qatar (d) Russia
5. On Dec 18, the appointment of ______ as Chairman PEMRA was declared illegal by the LHC.
(a) Pervez Rathore (b) Ansar Abbasi (c) Mushtaq Sukhera (d) Absar Alam
6. On Dec 18, Pakistani wrestlers grabbed 1 silver and 4 bronze medals in the Commonwealth
Wrestling Championship freestyle competitions, held in ______.
(a) London (b) Johannesburg (c) Dubai (d) Sydney
7. On Dec 19, Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa became the ______ COAS to give a briefing to the Senate
Committee of the Whole House.
8. According to speedtest.net, Pakistan ranked first with a _____ jump in mobile download speed.
(a) 49.8% (b) 50.2% (c) 52.9% (d) 56.2%
9. The 7th Ministerial Conference of the “Heart of Asia” – Istanbul Process was held in______,
Azerbaijan.
(a) Baku (b) Astara (c) Tartar (d) Shamkir
10. On Dec 21, the 10th edition of the International Urdu Conference started in ______.
(a) Islamabad (b) Quetta (c) Lahore (d) Karachi
11. The Ministry of Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony banned the Urdu translation of some
sacred Arabic words on ______.
(a) Dec 18 (b) Dec 22 (c) Dec 24 (d) Dec 28
12. The three-day Speakers Conference with speakers from Afghanistan, China, Iran, Pakistan,
Russia and Turkey was held in ______.
(a) Beijing (b) Tehran (c) Islamabad (d) Moscow
13. On Dec 23, Pakistan and ______ agreed on joint aerial monitoring of their border.
(a) Iran (b) India (c) Afghanistan (d) China
14. On ______, Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif inaugurated the Pakistan Kidney and Liver
Institute (PKLI) and Research Centre in Lahore.
15. Pakistan’s first and only female Pride of Performance Hafiza Qaria Rubina Khalid died on ______.
16. On Dec 25, the National Implementation Committee on Fata Reforms, chaired by ______,
endorsed the merger of tribal regions with KP.
(a) President (b) Finance Minister (c) Prime Minister (d) Interior Minister
17. On Dec 25, ______ regained the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy National Cricket Championship crown.
(a) Wapda (b) SNGPL (c) Habib Bank (d) PIA
18. On Dec 26, the CJP ordered all the unregistered _____ colleges throughout the country to
discontinue the admission process at once.
(a) Private (b) Law (c) Commerce (d) Medical
19. On Dec 26, the first China-Afghanistan-Pakistan Foreign Ministers’ Dialogue was held in______.
(a) Shanghai (b) Beijing (c) Islamabad (d) Kabul
20. On Dec 26, ______ was appointed the Minister of State for Finance.
(a) Miftah Ismail (b) Rana Afzal Khan (c) Haroon Akhtar (d) Bashir Virk
21. On Dec 26, the government appointed ______ as Adviser to the Prime Minister on Finance and
Economic Affairs
(a) Rana M. Afzal (b) Miftah Ismail (c) Haroon Akhtar (d) Bashir Kahlon
22. The Elections Act, 2017, which received Presidential assent on Dec 27, was passed by the NA
on Nov 16 and the Senate on ______.
23. The most iconic Urdu poet Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib was born on 27 Dec ______, in Agra
into a family descended from Aibak Turks.
(a) 1614 (b) 1617 (c) 1787 (d) 1797
24. On Dec 29, Indian authorities declared ______ ‘persona non grata’.
(a) Zahid Hamid (b) Khawaja Asif (c) Syed Manzoor Hussain Gillani (d) Sardar Masood Khan
25. Former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, Gen Khalid Shamim Wynne, died on
______.
(a) Dec 25 (b) Dec 30 (c) Jan 01 (d) Jan 04
26. On Jan 02, Pakistan became the largest recipient of _____ concessional loans in the world with
over $4 billion soft loan already approved for ongoing infrastructure projects.
(a) British (b) Japanese (c) American (d) Chinese
27. On Jan 03, Pakistan Navy test-fired Harbah cruise missile from ____.
(a) PNS Dehshat (b) PNS Azmat (c) PNS Himmat (d) PNS Alamgir
28. On ______, the Trump administration suspended its entire security assistance to Pakistan.
29. On Jan 04, ______, the Chief Economist of Pakistan, resigned.
(a) Jaffer Qamar (b) Dr Nadeem Javaid (c) Hassan Tariq (d) Nadeem Ahmad
30. On ______, eminent poet Rasa Chughtai and noted cooking expert Zubaida Tariq, aka Zubaida
Aapa, passed away.
31. Former chief of the PAF and the youngest person to head this prestigious force, Air Marshal
(Retd) Asghar Khan, passed away on ______.
32. On Jan 07, Associate Adviser at Wafaqi Mohtasib Syeda Viquar-un-Nisa Hashmi was appointed
the commissioner for ______ persons.
(a) Displaced (b) Transgender (c) Retired (d) Disabled
33. On Jan 07, the Indus canyon, a deep fissure having an area of 27,607 sq km, was declared the
______ marine protected area (MPA) in the country.
34. On Jan 08, the Peshawar High Court granted bail to______, chief of the banned Tehreek-i-Nifaz-
i-Shariat-i-Muhammadi (TNSM).
(a) Qari Noor Zaman (b) Mullah Fazlullah (c) Ehsanullah Ehsan (d) Maulana Sufi Mohammad
35. On Jan 09, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Revenue _____ was elevated to the status
of federal minister for revenue.
(a) Haroon Akhtar Khan (b) Miftah Ismail (c) Rana Afzal Khan (d) Talal Chaudhary
36. Chaudhry Mehmood Bashir Virk is the current federal Minister for ______.
(a) SAFRON (b) Finance (c) Law (d) Interior
37. On Jan 10, government nominated ______ as Pakistan’s candidate for the chairman International
Monetary and Financial Committee.
(a) Dr Ishrat Husain (b) Dr Nadeem Javaid (c) Dr Tauqeer Shah (d) Dr Ejaz Rehman
38. The gruesome murder of Zainab, which ignited protests throughout the country, happened on
______.
39. On Jan 13, Mir Abdul Quddus Bizenjo of ______ was elected the new chief minister of
Balochistan.
(a) PPP (b) JUI (F) (c) PkMAP (d) PML-Q
1. Oxford Dictionaries’ word of the year 2017 is ______.
(a) Milkshake Duck (b) Feminism (c) Youthquake (d) Complicit
2. On Dec 16, the World Health Organization declared ______ a polio-free country.
(a) Afghanistan (b) Gabon (c) Bangladesh (d) Nigeria
3. On Dec 16, Rahul Gandhi took over as the ______ president of the Indian National Congress.
(a) 75th (b) 87th (c) 99th (d) 117th
4. Indian National Congress was established on 28 December 1885, in Bombay (now Mumbai) and
its first president was ______.
(a) Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee (b) Romesh Chunder Dutt (c) Dadabhai Naoroji (d) Badruddin Tyabji
5. On Dec 17, India won their ______ straight ODI series after defeating Sri Lanka in the 3rd ODI.
(a) Sixth (b) Eighth (c) Ninth (d) Eleventh
6. On Dec 17, ______ won the FIFA Club World Cup.
(a) Chelsea (b) Corinthians (c) Real Madrid (d) Gremio
7. The theme of the 2017 International Migrants Day, which is observed every year on Dec 18, was
______.
(a) Together with Migration (b) Migration Boosts Economy (c) Safe Migration in a World on the Move (d)
Migrants contribute
8. As per the UN World Migration Report 2018, ______ has the largest diaspora population in the
world.
(a) India (b) Pakistan (c) China (d) Brazil
9. On Dec 18, Australia won back the Ashes after defeating England in the third Test played
in______.
(a) Canberra (b) Perth (c) Hobart (d) Sydney
10. On Dec 19, Dominique Mineur of ______ became the first woman ambassador to Saudi Arabia.
(a) Finland (b) Norway (c) Belgium (d) Sweden
11. On Dec 20, European Union’s top court ruled that ______ should be regulated like a taxi company
and not a technology service,
(a) Lyft (b) Uber (c) Robo-Taxi (d) TappCar
12. On Dec 21, ______ and Britain signed a new defence treaty.
(a) USA (b) Germany (c) Poland (d) France
13. The UNGA voted to repudiate US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as
the capital of Israel on ______.
14. On Dec 21, Nasa astronaut ______, the first person to fly freely and untethered in space, died.
(a) Buzz Aldrin (b) Bruce McCandless (c) Jeffrey Ashby (d) John M. Fabian
15. Record for the quickest century in T20Is is jointly held by David Miller of S. Africa and ______ of
India.
(a) MS Dhoni (b) Shikhar Dhawan (c) Rohit Sharma (d) Virat Kohli
16. On Dec 22, Britain announced to phase out the burgundy-coloured and return to ______
passports after leaving the EU in 2019.
(a) Blue (b) Black (c) Red (d) White
17. On Dec 23, Marwan El Shorbagy of ______ won Pakistan Open Men’s Squash Championship.
(a) Indonesia (b) Egypt (c) Kuwait (d) Malaysia
18. On Dec 24, China’s AG600, codenamed______, the world’s largest amphibious aircraft in
production, took to the skies for its maiden flight.
(a) Weserflung (b) Kunlong (c) Loening (d) Beriev
19. On Dec 25, _____ Airlines operated their first-ever flight within Africa staffed by an all-female
crew.
(a) Ethiopian (b) Nigerian (c) Kenyan (d) Algerian
20. The current US Ambassador to the United Nations is ______.
(a) Susan Rice (b) Samantha Power (c) Nikki Haley (d) Michele J. Sison
21. On Dec 28, ______ became the first-ever Sikh woman mayor of Northern California’s Yuba City.
(a) Jagmeet Singh (b) Preet Gill (c) Preet Didbal (d) Simran Jeet
22. On______, Lok Sabha, the powerful lower house of the Indian parliament, made the Triple Talaq
illegal.
23. Lok Sabha consists of ______ seats.
(a) 434 (b) 545 (c) 595 (d) 616
24. On Dec 29, a football superstar George Weah was elected as the president of______.
(a) Ghana (b) Zambia (c) Liberia (d) South Africa
25. After the USA, ______ has officially confirmed withdrawal from UNESCO.
(a) Israel (b) UAE (c) Russia (d) Saudi Arabia
26. On Jan 01, Israel indicted a 16-year-old Palestinian girl ______ on charges including assault.
(a) Noura Erakat (b) Ahed Tamimi (c) Bassem Eid (d) Raja Shehadeh
27. On Jan 01, UNESCO accepted the “bird language” of Black Sea villagers of ______ as an
endangered part of world heritage.
(a) Russia (b) UN (c) Turkey (d) USAID
28. On Jan 02, Mohamed Salah of ______ was named Arab Player of the Year for 2017.
(a) Egypt (b) Saudi Arabia (c) Bahrain (d) Kuwait
29. On Jan 03, ______ became the first country to make it illegal to pay men more than women.
(a) Kazakhstan (b) Mauritius (c) Iceland (d) Sweden
30. On Jan 05, Egypt’s international player ______ won the 2017 CAF African Player of the Year
award.
(a) Mohamed Salah (b) Ahmed Abed (c) Yosef Laben (d) Shadi Abu Dib
31. The world’s largest human genome research project has been launched by ______.
(a) China (b) USA (c) France (d) India
32. On Jan 03, Equatorial Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kuwait, the Netherlands, Peru and ______ became
the new non-permanent members of UNSC.
(a) Japan (b) Moldova (c) Poland (d) Georgia
33. On Jan 05, ______ John W. Young, who became the first person to fly in space six times, died.
(a) France’s (b) USA’s (c) Germany’s (d) Russia’s
34. “Lincoln in the Bardo” has been written by ______.
(a) Zadie Smith (b) George Saunders (c) Marie Claire (d) Junot Díaz
35. On Jan 07, ______, Australia’s largest city, recorded its hottest day since 1939.
(a) Perth (b) Melbourne (c) Sydney (d) Canberra
36. On Jan 07, ___ banned the teaching of English in primary schools.
(a) Bhutan (b) Iran (c) Maldives (d) North Korea
37. On Jan 08, Anna Mae Hays, who was named the first female general of the ______ military after
serving in three wars, died.
(a) US (b) Polish (c) French (d) German
38. On Jan 11, ____ granted citizenship to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
(a) Latvia (b) Venezuela (c) Ecuador (d) Chile
39. The current Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India is _____.
(a) J Chelameswar (b) Ranjan Gogoi (c) Dipak Misra (d) Kurien Joseph
40. On Jan 15, ______ and India signed nine agreements covering cooperation in cyber security,
space and oil and gas exploration.
(a) Russia (b) Nepal (C) Afghanistan (d) Israel
1. On Dec 17, ______ was the only Pakistani named in the top 11 powerful women of the world by
NYT.
(a) Malala Yousafzai (b) Maryam Nawaz (c) Gulalai Ismail (d) Sherry Rehman
2. On Dec 17, the ______ High Court ruled that forced abortion is a strong ground for dissolution of
marriage.
(a) Peshawar (b) Lahore (c) Balochistan (d) Sindh
3. On Dec 17, ______ government gave away Allama Iqbal literary awards and appreciation
certificates.
(a) Federal (b) Balochistan (c) Punjab (d) Sindh
4. The Laser Standard Class of competition of the Al Bareh Int’l Sailing Regatta 2017 was held in
_____.
(a) UAE (b) Bahrain (c) Qatar (d) Russia
5. On Dec 18, the appointment of ______ as Chairman PEMRA was declared illegal by the LHC.
(a) Pervez Rathore (b) Ansar Abbasi (c) Mushtaq Sukhera (d) Absar Alam
6. On Dec 18, Pakistani wrestlers grabbed 1 silver and 4 bronze medals in the Commonwealth
Wrestling Championship freestyle competitions, held in ______.
(a) London (b) Johannesburg (c) Dubai (d) Sydney
7. On Dec 19, Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa became the ______ COAS to give a briefing to the Senate
Committee of the Whole House.
8. According to speedtest.net, Pakistan ranked first with a _____ jump in mobile download speed.
(a) 49.8% (b) 50.2% (c) 52.9% (d) 56.2%
9. The 7th Ministerial Conference of the “Heart of Asia” – Istanbul Process was held in______,
Azerbaijan.
(a) Baku (b) Astara (c) Tartar (d) Shamkir
10. On Dec 21, the 10th edition of the International Urdu Conference started in ______.
(a) Islamabad (b) Quetta (c) Lahore (d) Karachi
11. The Ministry of Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony banned the Urdu translation of some
sacred Arabic words on ______.
12. The three-day Speakers Conference with speakers from Afghanistan, China, Iran, Pakistan,
Russia and Turkey was held in ______.
(a) Beijing (b) Tehran (c) Islamabad (d) Moscow
13. On Dec 23, Pakistan and ______ agreed on joint aerial monitoring of their border.
(a) Iran (b) India (c) Afghanistan (d) China
14. On ______, Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif inaugurated the Pakistan Kidney and Liver
Institute (PKLI) and Research Centre in Lahore.
15. Pakistan’s first and only female Pride of Performance Hafiza Qaria Rubina Khalid died on ______.
16. On Dec 25, the National Implementation Committee on Fata Reforms, chaired by ______,
endorsed the merger of tribal regions with KP.
(a) President (b) Finance Minister (c) Prime Minister (d) Interior Minister
17. On Dec 25, ______ regained the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy National Cricket Championship crown.
(a) Wapda (b) SNGPL (c) Habib Bank (d) PIA
18. On Dec 26, the CJP ordered all the unregistered _____ colleges throughout the country to
discontinue the admission process at once.
(a) Private (b) Law (c) Commerce (d) Medical
19. On Dec 26, the first China-Afghanistan-Pakistan Foreign Ministers’ Dialogue was held in______.
(a) Shanghai (b) Beijing (c) Islamabad (d) Kabul
20. On Dec 26, ______ was appointed the Minister of State for Finance.
(a) Miftah Ismail (b) Rana Afzal Khan (c) Haroon Akhtar (d) Bashir Virk
21. On Dec 26, the government appointed ______ as Adviser to the Prime Minister on Finance and
Economic Affairs
(a) Rana M. Afzal (b) Miftah Ismail (c) Haroon Akhtar (d) Bashir Kahlon
22. The Elections Act, 2017, which received Presidential assent on Dec 27, was passed by the NA
on Nov 16 and the Senate on ______.
23. The most iconic Urdu poet Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib was born on 27 Dec ______, in Agra
into a family descended from Aibak Turks.
(a) 1614 (b) 1617 (c) 1787 (d) 1797
24. On Dec 29, Indian authorities declared ______ ‘persona non grata’.
(a) Zahid Hamid (b) Khawaja Asif (c) Syed Manzoor Hussain Gillani (d) Sardar Masood Khan
25. Former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, Gen Khalid Shamim Wynne, died on
______.
(a) Dec 25 (b) Dec 30 (c) Jan 01 (d) Jan 04
26. On Jan 02, Pakistan became the largest recipient of _____ concessional loans in the world with
over $4 billion soft loan already approved for ongoing infrastructure projects.
(a) British (b) Japanese (c) American (d) Chinese
27. On Jan 03, Pakistan Navy test-fired Harbah cruise missile from ____.
(a) PNS Dehshat (b) PNS Azmat (c) PNS Himmat (d) PNS Alamgir
28. On ______, the Trump administration suspended its entire security assistance to Pakistan.
29. On Jan 04, ______, the Chief Economist of Pakistan, resigned.
(a) Jaffer Qamar (b) Dr Nadeem Javaid (c) Hassan Tariq (d) Nadeem Ahmad
30. On ______, eminent poet Rasa Chughtai and noted cooking expert Zubaida Tariq, aka Zubaida
Aapa, passed away.
31. Former chief of the PAF and the youngest person to head this prestigious force, Air Marshal
(Retd) Asghar Khan, passed away on ______.
32. On Jan 07, Associate Adviser at Wafaqi Mohtasib Syeda Viquar-un-Nisa Hashmi was appointed
the commissioner for ______ persons.
(a) Displaced (b) Transgender (c) Retired (d) Disabled
33. On Jan 07, the Indus canyon, a deep fissure having an area of 27,607 sq km, was declared the
______ marine protected area (MPA) in the country.
34. On Jan 08, the Peshawar High Court granted bail to______, chief of the banned Tehreek-i-Nifaz-
i-Shariat-i-Muhammadi (TNSM).
(a) Qari Noor Zaman (b) Mullah Fazlullah (c) Ehsanullah Ehsan (d) Maulana Sufi Mohammad
35. On Jan 09, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Revenue _____ was elevated to the status
of federal minister for revenue.
(a) Haroon Akhtar Khan (b) Miftah Ismail (c) Rana Afzal Khan (d) Talal Chaudhary
36. Chaudhry Mehmood Bashir Virk is the current federal Minister for ______.
(a) SAFRON (b) Finance (c) Law (d) Interior
37. On Jan 10, government nominated ______ as Pakistan’s candidate for the chairman International
Monetary and Financial Committee.
(a) Dr Ishrat Husain (b) Dr Nadeem Javaid (c) Dr Tauqeer Shah (d) Dr Ejaz Rehman
38. The gruesome murder of Zainab, which ignited protests throughout the country, happened on
______.
39. On Jan 13, Mir Abdul Quddus Bizenjo of ______ was elected the new chief minister of
Balochistan.
(a) PPP (b) JUI (F) ( c) PkMAP (d) PML-Q
1. Oxford Dictionaries’ word of the year 2017 is ______.
(a) Milkshake Duck (b) Feminism (c) Youthquake (d) Complicit
2. On Dec 16, the World Health Organization declared ______ a polio-free country.
(a) Afghanistan (b) Gabon (c) Bangladesh (d) Nigeria
3. On Dec 16, Rahul Gandhi took over as the ______ president of the Indian National Congress.
(a) 75th (b) 87th (c) 99th (d) 117th
4. Indian National Congress was established on 28 December 1885, in Bombay (now Mumbai) and
its first president was ______.
(a) Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee (b) Romesh Chunder Dutt (c) Dadabhai Naoroji (d) Badruddin Tyabji
5. On Dec 17, India won their ______ straight ODI series after defeating Sri Lanka in the 3rd ODI.
(a) Sixth (b) Eighth (c) Ninth (d) Eleventh
6. On Dec 17, ______ won the FIFA Club World Cup.
(a) Chelsea (b) Corinthians (c) Real Madrid (d) Gremio
7. The theme of the 2017 International Migrants Day, which is observed every year on Dec 18, was
______.
(a) Together with Migration (b) Migration Boosts Economy (c) Safe Migration in a World on the Move (d)
Migrants contribute
8. As per the UN World Migration Report 2018, ______ has the largest diaspora population in the
world.
(a) India (b) Pakistan (c) China (d) Brazil
9. On Dec 18, Australia won back the Ashes after defeating England in the third Test played
in______.
(a) Canberra (b) Perth (c) Hobart (d) Sydney
10. On Dec 19, Dominique Mineur of ______ became the first woman ambassador to Saudi Arabia.
(a) Finland (b) Norway (c) Belgium (d) Sweden
11. On Dec 20, European Union’s top court ruled that ______ should be regulated like a taxi company
and not a technology service,
(a) Lyft (b) Uber (c) Robo-Taxi (d) TappCar
12. On Dec 21, ______ and Britain signed a new defence treaty.
(a) USA (b) Germany (c) Poland (d) France
13. The UNGA voted to repudiate US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as
the capital of Israel on ______.
14. On Dec 21, Nasa astronaut ______, the first person to fly freely and untethered in space, died.
(a) Buzz Aldrin (b) Bruce McCandless (c) Jeffrey Ashby (d) John M. Fabian
15. Record for the quickest century in T20Is is jointly held by David Miller of S. Africa and ______ of
India.
(a) MS Dhoni (b) Shikhar Dhawan (c) Rohit Sharma (d) Virat Kohli
16. On Dec 22, Britain announced to phase out the burgundy-coloured and return to ______
passports after leaving the EU in 2019.
(a) Blue (b) Black (c) Red (d) White
17. On Dec 23, Marwan El Shorbagy of ______ won Pakistan Open Men’s Squash Championship.
(a) Indonesia (b) Egypt (c) Kuwait (d) Malaysia
18. On Dec 24, China’s AG600, codenamed______, the world’s largest amphibious aircraft in
production, took to the skies for its maiden flight.
(a) Weserflung (b) Kunlong (c) Loening (d) Beriev
19. On Dec 25, _____ Airlines operated their first-ever flight within Africa staffed by an all-female
crew.
(a) Ethiopian (b) Nigerian (c) Kenyan (d) Algerian
20. The current US Ambassador to the United Nations is ______.
(a) Susan Rice (b) Samantha Power (c) Nikki Haley (d) Michele J. Sison
21. On Dec 28, ______ became the first-ever Sikh woman mayor of Northern California’s Yuba City.
(a) Jagmeet Singh (b) Preet Gill (c) Preet Didbal (d) Simran Jeet
22. On______, Lok Sabha, the powerful lower house of the Indian parliament, made the Triple Talaq
illegal.
23. Lok Sabha consists of ______ seats.
(a) 434 (b) 545 (c) 595 (d) 616
24. On Dec 29, a football superstar George Weah was elected as the president of______.
(a) Ghana (b) Zambia (c) Liberia (d) South Africa
25. After the USA, ______ has officially confirmed withdrawal from UNESCO.
(a) Israel (b) UAE (c) Russia (d) Saudi Arabia
26. On Jan 01, Israel indicted a 16-year-old Palestinian girl ______ on charges including assault.
(a) Noura Erakat (b) Ahed Tamimi (c) Bassem Eid (d) Raja Shehadeh
27. On Jan 01, UNESCO accepted the “bird language” of Black Sea villagers of ______ as an
endangered part of world heritage.
(a) Russia (b) UN (c) Turkey (d) USAID
28. On Jan 02, Mohamed Salah of ______ was named Arab Player of the Year for 2017.
(a) Egypt (b) Saudi Arabia (c) Bahrain (d) Kuwait
29. On Jan 03, ______ became the first country to make it illegal to pay men more than women.
(a) Kazakhstan (b) Mauritius (c) Iceland (d) Sweden
30. On Jan 05, Egypt’s international player ______ won the 2017 CAF African Player of the Year
award.
(a) Mohamed Salah (b) Ahmed Abed (c) Yosef Laben (d) Shadi Abu Dib
31. The world’s largest human genome research project has been launched by ______.
(a) China (b) USA (c) France (d) India
32. On Jan 03, Equatorial Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kuwait, the Netherlands, Peru and ______ became
the new non-permanent members of UNSC.
(a) Japan (b) Moldova (c) Poland (d) Georgia
33. On Jan 05, ______ John W. Young, who became the first person to fly in space six times, died.
(a) France’s (b) USA’s (c) Germany’s (d) Russia’s
34. “Lincoln in the Bardo” has been written by ______.
(a) Zadie Smith (b) George Saunders (c) Marie Claire (d) Junot Díaz
35. On Jan 07, ______, Australia’s largest city, recorded its hottest day since 1939.
(a) Perth (b) Melbourne (c) Sydney (d) Canberra
36. On Jan 07, ___ banned the teaching of English in primary schools.
(a) Bhutan (b) Iran (c) Maldives (d) North Korea
37. On Jan 08, Anna Mae Hays, who was named the first female general of the ______ military after
serving in three wars, died.
(a) US (b) Polish (c) French (d) German
38. On Jan 11, ____ granted citizenship to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
(a) Latvia (b) Venezuela (c) Ecuador (d) Chile
39. The current Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India is _____.
(a) J Chelameswar (b) Ranjan Gogoi (c) Dipak Misra (d) Kurien Joseph
40. On Jan 15, ______ and India signed nine agreements covering cooperation in cyber security,
space and oil and gas exploration.
(a) Russia (b) Nepal (C) Afghanistan (d) Israel
1. The National Assembly passed the 24th Constitution Amendment Bill, 2017, on ______.
(a) Nov 16 (b) Nov 17 (c) Nov 18 (d) Nov 20
2. On Nov 17, the UNGA passed a Pakistan-sponsored resolution on peoples’ right to self-
determination. It was co-sponsored by ______ countries.
(a) 65 (b) 75 (c) 100 (d) 107
3. The tragic incident of Baldia factory fire in Karachi happened in ______.
(a) 2010 (b) 2011 (c) 2012 (d) 2014
4. On Nov 17, the federal government appointed ______ the new chairman of the Board of
Investment
(a) Muhammad Ashraf Noor (b) Shabnam Chaudhri (c) Dr Miftah Ismail (d) Naeem Y. Zamindar
5. Pakistan won its first gold medal hockey in Asian Games in ______.
(a) 1954 (b) 1958 (c) 1962 (d) 1966
6. On Nov 20, the 8th Round of Strategic Dialogue between Pakistan and China was held in ______.
(a) Islamabad (b) Beijing (c) Lahore (d) Shanghai
7. On Nov 21, a British-Pakistani woman ______ became the first-ever Muslim and Asian woman to
be appointed as detective superintendent of the Scotland Yard.
(a) Shaheen Hashmat (b) Sajida Vandal (c) Shabnam Chaudhri (d) Shehla Qureshi
8. Pakistan’s incumbent Federal Minister for Finance is ______.
(a) Miftah Ismail (b) Ishaq Dar (c) Daniyal Aziz (d) Prime Minister
9. The Country Director United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Pakistan is ______.
(a) Ignacio Artaza (b) Neil Buhne (c) Vitalie Muntean (d) Naoko Takasu
10. On Nov 23, the Election Commission of Pakistan declared ______ the National Voters Day.
(a) Nov 23 (b) Nov 24 (c) Dec 06 (d) Dec 07
11. On Nov 24, the ______ High Court declared the sit-in at the Faizabad interchange an ‘anti-state
activity’ and ‘an act of terrorism’.
(a) Islamabad (b) Lahore (c) Sindh (d) Peshawar
12. On Nov 24, Kamran Akmal made a world-record opening partnership of 209 runs with ______ in
the National T20 Cup.
(a) Umar Akmal (b) Salman Butt (c) Babar Azam (d) Sarfraz Ahmad
13. On Nov 24, the Cabinet Secretariat re-designated Minister for Defence Production Rana Tanveer
as ______ minister “with immediate effect”, under an additional charge.
(a) Defence (b) Defence Production (c) Information and Broadcasting (d) Science and Technology
14. The current Chairman of Pakistan Advertisers Society (PAS) is ______,
(a) Kiran Aftab (b) Nooruzzaman (c) Saqib Zia (d) Salman Alvi
15. On Nov 26, the Australian government announced an AUD500,000 programme to train around
4,000 smallholder farmers from Sheikhupura and ______.
(a) Gujranwala (b) Faisalabad (c) Multan (d) Lahore
16. On Nov 27, Pakistan’s ______ clinched the title of the 29th Princess Cup Youth Scrabble
Tournament
(a) Hammad Hadi Khan (b) Moizullah Baig (c) Aatqa Khalid (d) Abdul Ahad
17. Protesters at the Faizabad interchange called off their countrywide protest on ______.
18. On Nov 27, Minister of State for ______ Mir Dostain Khan Domki tendered his resignation.
(a) Defence Production (b) Energy and Power (c) Science and Technology (d) Law and Parliamentary
Affairs
19. On Nov 28, the Peshawar High Court declared the appointment of ______ as chairman of National
Tariff Commission void and against the law.
(a) Mahir Masood (b) Abbas Raza (c) Sohail Altaf (d) Qasim M. Niaz
20. On Nov 28, Punjab government approved construction of Dadhocha Dam in ______.
(a) Rawalpindi (b) Mianwali (c) Faisalabad (d) Chiniot
21. Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah was called to the bar at Lincoln’s Inn on April 29, ______.
(a) 1894 (b) 1895 (c) 1896 (d) 1899
22. On Nov 28, the government appointed ______ the new chairman of the National Highway
Authority.
(a) Jahanzeb Khan (b) Pervaiz Junejo (c) Maroof Afzal (d) Jawwad Rafique Malik
23. On Nov 30, ______ were crowned champions of Brighto Paints presents Cool & Cool National
T20 Cup.
(a) Lahore Whites (b) Lahore Blues (c) Karachi Blues (d) FATA
24. On Nov 30, the PCB started a legal battle against the ______ for not honouring a bilateral cricket
series agreement.
(a) Cricket Australia (b) BCCI (c) Cricket Sri Lanka (d) BCB
25. A meeting of SCO Council of Heads of Government was recently held in ______.
(a) China (b) Russia (c) Kazakhstan (d) Pakistan
26. Pak-Saudi Special Forces joint counter-terrorism exercise 2017 was named ______.
(a) Thunder 2 (b) Al-Shihab (c) Barq 2 (d) Al-Shehab-2
27. On Dec 03, the longest underpass in Pakistan namely ______ was inaugurated.
(a) Beijing Underpass(b) Shanghai Underpass (c) China Underpass (d) Shahbaz Sharif Underpass
28. Major Harcharn Singh is the ______ Sikh major in the Pakistan Army.
29. With its first edition in 2009, the Sindhi Culture Day 2017 was observed on ——.
30. Pakistan’s ______ is the first Asian player to have completed 800 catches in the first-class
cricket.
(a) Sarfraz Ahmad (b) Kamran Akmal (c) Shoaib Malik (d) Fawad Alam
31. On Dec 04, ______ was appointed the Chairman Pakistan National Shipping Corporation (PNSC).
(a) Ali Salman (b) Tahir Ali (c) Raza Abidi (d) Rizwan Ahmed
32. The Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) is a partnership of ______ countries.
(a) 11 (b) 12 (c) 27 (d) 33
33. Pakistan Peoples Party was launched on November 30, 1967 in______.
(a) Karachi (b) Hyderabad (c) Rawalpindi (d) Lahore
34. The tragic incident of the killing of Minhaj-ul-Quran workers in Model Town, Lahore, took place
on ______.
(a) June 17, 2012 (b) June 17, 2013 (c) June 17, 2014 (d) June 17, 2015
35. On Dec 10, Pakistan thrashed ______ to clinch Gold Medal in Dubai Baseball Cup.
(a) India (b) Bangladesh (c) South Korea (d) China
36. The 28th meeting of Economic Cooperation Organisation Regional Planning Council was held
in ______.
(a) Ankara (b) Tehran (c) Islamabad (d) Istanbul
37. On Dec 12, the ______ Human Rights Prize was conferred on the Freedom Network, a Pakistani
civil liberties organization
(a) French (b) American (c) Australian (d) Canadian
1.India’s current president is ______.

(a) Venkaiah Naidu (b) Pratibha Patil (c) Pranab Mukherjee (d) Ram Nath Kovind
2. On Nov 17, ______, one of the most feared godfathers of the Sicilian Mafia, died.
(a) Toto Riina (b) Michele Greco (a) Luciano Leggio (d) Nicolo Rizzuto
3. On Nov 20, US President Donald Trump declared ______ a state sponsor of terrorism.
(a) Venezuela (b) Pakistan (c) North Korea (d) Mexico
4. On Nov 21, Robert Mugabe resigned as ______ president
(a) South Africa’s (b) Zimbabwe’s (c) Sudan’s (d) Somalia’s
5. Roshydromet is the meteorological service of ______.
(a) Italy (b) Ukraine (c) Russia (d) Belgium
6. Saad al-Hariri is the Prime Minister of ______.
(a) Lebanon (b) Iraq (c) Jordan (d) Syria
7. On Nov 22, the UN judges sentenced former Bosnian Serb commander____, dubbed ‘The Butcher
of Bosnia’, to life imprisonment.
(a) Milomir Stakic (b) Ratko Mladic (c) Zeljko Lelek (d) Predrag Banovic
8. On Nov 23, ______ and Myanmar agreed to start repatriating refugees within two months.
(a) Bhutan (b) India (c) Nepal (d) Bangladesh
9. A.H. Mahmood Ali is the Foreign Minister of ______.
(a) Bangladesh (b) India (c) Afghanistan (d) Nepal
10. Femicide is the killing of ______.
(a) Girl child (b) Mothers (c) Women (d) Sisters
11. On Nov 24, Lionel Messi of ______ won the European Golden Shoe award.
(a) Italy (b) Portugal (c) Brazil (d) Argentina
12. On Nov 24, armed attackers killed 235 worshippers in an attack on a mosque in Egypt’s ______
province.
(a) Alexandria (b) Sinai (c) Beheira (d) Aswan
13. On Nov 24, the 75-year-old Emmerson Mnangagwa, also known as the ______, was sworn in as
president of Zimbabwe
(a) Crocodile (b) Leopard (c) Falcon (d) Lion
14. On Nov 26, Iran and ______ signed a deal with Qatar aimed at boosting commercial ties.
(a) Kuwait (b) Turkey (c) Russia (d) Bahrain
15. The first meeting of a counter-terrorism alliance, the Islamic Military Counter Terrorism Coalition
(IMCTC) was held, in Saudi Arabia, on ______.
16. On Nov 27, Britain appointed ______ as its new permanent secretary to the United Nations.
(a) Mat Rycroft (b) Jonathan Allen (c) Robert Brown (d) Karen Pierce
17. On Nov 27, ______ Ravichandran Ashwin became the fastest bowler to reach 300 Test wickets.
(a) New Zealand’s (b) India’s (c) Sri Lanka’s (d) Bangladesh’s
18. On Nov 27, Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters of ______ won the Miss Universe 2017 crown.
(a) South Africa (b) Cuba (c) Cambodia (d) Jamaica
19. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is headquartered in ______.
(a) Caracas (b) Vienna (c) Moscow (d) Riyadh
20. Among the following, ______ is NOT an OPEC member state.
(a) Gabon (b) Indonesia (c) Russia (d) Ecuador
21. Iran inaugurated a $1 billion project to expand its southeastern Chabahar port on ______.
22. On ______, Yemen’s Houthi rebels killed their erstwhile ally Ali Abdullah Saleh, the country’s
former president and strongman.
23. On Dec 04, ______ Finance Minister Mario Centeno was elected as the new head of the
Eurogroup.
(a) Brazilian (b) Dutch (c) Mexican (d) Portuguese
24. On Dec 04, Mohamad Al Jounde, a teenage ______ refugee, won the annual International
Children’s Peace Prize.
(a) Ethiopian (b) Lebanese (c) Iraqi (d) Syrian
25. On Dec 05, former ______ King Michael I died.
(a) Moroccan (b) Romanian (c) Cambodian (d) Belgian
26. On Dec 05, the ______ formed a new military and economic committee with Saudi Arabia.
(a) Pakistan (b) Lebanon (c) UAE (d) Yemen
27. On Dec 06, the third UN Environment Assembly was held in ______.
(a) Bangkok (b) New York (c) Bonn (d) Nairobi
28. On ______, US President Donald Trump issued a proclamation recognising Jerusalem as Israel’s
capital.
29. On Dec 07, ______ signed a $1.3-billion deal with France to buy 12 French-built Rafale fighter
jets.
(a) Qatar (b) Kuwait (c) Saudi Arabia (d) Iran
30. ______ is the world’s third largest economy.
(a) EU (b) India (c) South Korea (d) Japan
31. On Dec 08, Cristiano Ronaldo of ______ won his fifth Ballon d’Or award.
(a) Brazil (b) Portugal (c) Germany (d) Argentina
32. The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo, Norway on ______.
33. On Dec 13, India’s ______ became the first batsman to hit three double centuries in One-day
Internationals.
(a) MS Dhoni (b) Rohit Sharma (c) Virat Kohli (d) Shikhar Dhawan
34. On Dec 14, Walt Disney Co. agreed to buy key film and television assets of 21st Century Fox, in
a ______ deal.
(a) $50.2 billion (b) $51.7 billion (c) $52.4 billion (d) $69.8 billion
35. ______ is the official emblem for Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games.
(a) Flight (b) Nature (c) Yoggl (d) Winter Dream
36. The European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD) is headquartered in ______.
(a) Geneva (b) London (c) Paris (d) Berlin
37. The Band-e Amir National Park is located in ______.
(a) Afghanistan (b) Pakistan (c) Israel (d) Iran
38. Uhuru Kenyatta is the current President of ______.
(a) Nigeria (b) Somalia (c) Kenya (d) Mozambique
39. Time magazine has named ______ Person of the Year for 2017.
(a) The Protesters (b) The Whistleblowers (c) The Dreamers (d) The Silence Breakers
40. ______ hosted the second UNWTO/UNESCO World Conference on Tourism and Culture.
(a) Australia (b) Switzerland (c) Germany (d) Oman
41. “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection,” a groundbreaking scientific work by
British naturalist Charles Darwin was published in ______.
(a) 1859 (b) 1864 (c) 1876 (d) 1898
42. The Empire State Building is located in ______.
(a)Chicago (b)Birmingham (c) London (d) New York City
1. On Oct 16, representatives of Pakistan, Afghanistan, China and the US met in ______, to
rejuvenate the Quadrilateral Coordination Group.
(a) Moscow (b) Muscat (c) Beijing (d) Islamabad
2. On Oct 16, ______ won a seat in the United Nations Human Rights Council for the Asia-Pacific
group.
(a) Qatar (b) Pakistan (c) India (d) China
3. On Oct 17, ______ became the first Pakistani to win the World Grand Masters title.
(a) Khalil Ahmad (b) Syed Ali Ahmad (c) Mahmood Lodhi (d) Zohaib Hassan
4. On ______, the federal cabinet decided to go ahead with delimitation of constituencies on the
basis of provisional census data.
(a) Oct 16 (b) Oct 18 (c) Oct 19 (d) Oct 20
5. As per data released by the ECP, there are ______ registered voters in the country.
(a) 87 million (b) 89 million (c) 94 million (d) 97 million
6. On ______, former prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, his daughter and son-in-law were indicted in the
London properties reference.
7. On Oct 19, ______ was appointed the Inspector General Balochistan Police.
(a) Bashir Ahmad (b) Moazzam Jah Ansari (c) Raja Umar Khitab (d) Sardar Abdul Majeed
8. ______ represented Pakistan at the 9th summit of the D-8 held in Istanbul on Oct 20.
(a) President (b) Foreign Minister (c) Interior Minister (d) Prime Minister
9. On Oct 20, Prof. Shahida Hasnain of ______ was named co-laureate of the UNESCO Carlos J.
Finlay Prize 2017 for microbiology.
(a) PU (b) QAU (c) NUST (d) IBA
10. On Oct 20, ______ rated Pakistan in top five highest private participation investment (PPI)
countries.
(a) Moody’s (b) World Bank (c) IMF (d) ADB
11. Pakistan won the ____ medal in the 2017 Men’s Hockey Asia Cup.
(a) Gold (b) Silver (c) Bronze (d) Consolation
12. Justice (R) Hamid Ali Mirza, who died on Oct 23, served as the Chief Election Commissioner
from ______.
(a) 2003 to 2006 (b) 2006 to 2009 (c) 2009 to 2012 (d) 2013 to 2015
13. On ______, the Senate of Pakistan passed a bill to bring back the bar on those disqualified to
become a lawmaker from holding a party.
14. On Oct 24, US Secretary of State ______ reached Pakistan on an official visit.
(a) Mike Pence (b) James Mattis (c) Rex Tillerson (d) Steve Bannon
15. On Oct 26, Punjab Food Authority imposed a complete ban on use of ______ to ripen various
fruits and vegetables before time.
(a) Iodine (b) Acetylene (c) Ethylene (d) Calcium carbide
16. The current Director General of Punjab Food Authority (PFA) is ______.
(a) Anjum Sardar (b) Asif Bilal (c) Noor ul Amin Mengal (d) Syed Bilal Haider
17. “Perween Rahman: The Rebel Optimist” won the ______ prize for best documentary at the 11th
Istanbul International Architecture and Urban Films Festival.
(a) Second (b) Third (c) Fourth (d) Fifth
18. “Perween Rahman: The Rebel Optimist” has been directed by ______.
(a) Tahira Gulfaraz (b) Mahera Omar (c) Shoaib Mansoor (d) Maha Sharmeen
19. Oct 30, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime appointed ______ its National Goodwill
Ambassador.
(a) Mahira Khan (b) Shehzad Roy (c) Atif Aslam (d) Jawad Ahmad
20. On Oct 30, Lt. Gen. Nadeem Raza was installed as the ______ Colonel Commandant of the
Mujahid Force.
(a) First (b) Second (c) Sixth (d) Eighth
21. On Oct 31, ______ was elected President of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) for 2017-
18.
(a) Qamar Zaman Qureshi (b) Pir Kaleem Khurshid (c) Safdar Hussain Tarar (d) Muhammad Siddique
Alam
22. Gilgit-Baltistan celebrates its Independence Day on ______.
(a) Oct 28 (b) Oct 30 (c) Oct 31 (d) Nov 01
23. Pakistan has been ranked ______ in the World Bank’s ‘Ease of Doing Business 2018’ report.
(a) 121st (b) 130th (c) 147th (d) 158th
24. Dina Wadia, the daughter of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, passed away on ______.
(a) Oct 31 (b) Nov 01 (c) Nov 02 (d) Nov 04
25. The 2017 World Press Freedom Index has ranked Pakistan _____ out of 180 countries.
(a) 132nd (b) 139th (c) 144th (d) 146th
26. The 2017 World Press Freedom Index has been prepared by the_____ based Reporters Without
Borders.
(a) Rome (b) Geneva (c) Berlin (d) Paris
27. On Nov 03, ______ was appointed Chairman of the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII).
(a) Dr Abdul Hakeem (b) Raghib Hussain Naeemi (c) Dr Qibla Ayaz (d) Khursheed Nadeem
28. As per the law, the CII should have a minimum of 8 and maximum of ____ members, including
its chairman.
(a) Twelve (b) Fifteen (c) Eighteen (d) Twenty
29. On Nov 06, the SECP approved the appointment of ______ as managing director Pakistan Stock
Exchange.
(a) Gavin William (b) Richard Morin (c) Michael Fallon (d) Musharraf Cyan
30. Pakistan has been ranked ______ in the 2017 World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Gender
Gap index.
(a) 138th (b) 141st (c) 143rd (d) 144th
31. On Nov 11, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and Cricket ______ signed a five-year agreement to
play three T20 matches series on a reciprocal basis.
(a) Bangladesh (b) Australia (c) West Indies (d) Zimbabwe
32. Pakistani passport has got ______ position in the Global Passport Power Rank 2017.
(a) 78th (b) 91st (c) 75th (d) 66th
33. On Nov 13, Pakistani film ______ scooped the Best Foreign Film Award at the 11th annual
Alexandria Film Festival held in Virginia, USA.
(a) Moor (b) Dukhtar (c) Saawan (d) Mah-e-Mir
34. On Nov 13, President Mamnoon Hussain removed Finance Minister Ishaq Dar from the Council
of Common Interests and replaced him with ______.
(a) Zahid Hamid (b) Ahsan Iqbal (c) Riaz Pirzada (d) Khawaja Asif
35. On Nov 13, the Sindh Assembly passed a resolution to revive student unions in the province.
(a) Punjab (b) KP (c) Sindh (d) Balochistan
36. On Nov 14, Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi announced a 10-year development package
for ______.
(a) Sindh (b) KP (c) Balochistan (d) Gilgit-Baltistan
37. The 2018 Asian Cricket Council Emerging Nations Cup will be hosted by ______.
(a) Sri Lanka (b) India (c) Pakistan (d) Bangladesh
1. On Oct 16, India’s capital New Delhi and ______ capital Sao Paulo were declared the world’s worst
megacities for sexual violence against women.
(a) Chile’s (b) Mexico’s (c) Brazil’s (d) Portugal’s
2. “Change the Future of Migration. Invest in Food Security and Rural Development,” was the theme
of the ______ celebrated on Oct 16, 2017 .
(a) World Food Day (b) World Vegan Day (c) World Savings Day (d) United Nations Day
3. The International Day for the Eradication of Poverty falls on ______.
4. On Oct 18, Saudi airline ______ made the first commercial flight from Riyadh to Baghdad since
1990.
(a) Flynas (b) ASACO (c) Flyadeal (d) Mid East Jet
5. On Oct 18, India, ______ and South Africa signed the IBSA Trust Fund Agreement.
(a) Brazil (b) Bangladesh (c) Bulgaria (d) Belgium
6. The week-long 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China commenced at the Great
Hall of the People, in Beijing on ______.
7. The ninth summit of the Developing Eight Organisation for Economic Cooperation (D-8) was held
in ______.
(a) Kuala Lumpur (b) Jakarta (c) Istanbul (d) Islamabad
8. D-8 Member States include, ______, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan and
Turkey.
(a) Afghanistan (b) Azerbaijan (c) Bangladesh (d) Tajikistan
9. ______ won the 2017 Men’s Hockey Asia Cup tournament, held in Dhaka.
(a) Malaysia (b) India (c) Japan (d) S. Korea
10. On Oct 22, ______ Prime Minister Shinzo Abe swept to a resounding victory in a snap election.
(a) Australian (b) Japanese (c) Brazilian (d) Latvian
11. House of Representatives, the lower house of Japan’s National Diet consists of ______
members.
(a) 398 (b) 434 (c) 465 (d) 500
12. On ______, China’s president, Xi Jinping, was elevated to the pantheon of China’s most powerful
leaders as his name was enshrined in the Communist Party constitution alongside Chairman Mao.
13. Communist China’s founder Mao Zedong, the architect of its market reforms ______ and the
current Chinese President Xi Jinping have their names in the party constitution.
(a) Sudan (b) Deng Xiaoping (c) Jiang Zemin (d) Liu Shaoqi
14. On Oct 24, Russia used its veto power at the Security Council ______ time to block action
targeting Syria.
(a) Ninth (b) Twelfth (c) Fourteenth (d) Fifteenth
15. On Oct 26, Qatar signed a defence agreement with ______.
(a) China (b) Russia (c) Iran (d) USA
16. Setsuko Thurlow, an 85-year-old survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, will accept the
2017 Nobel Peace Prize with the ICAN on ______.
(a) Nov 30 (b) Dec 05 (c) Dec 10 (d) Dec 25
17. On Oct 27, ______ passport was declared the world’s most powerful.
(a) China’s (b) USA’s (c) Singapore’s (d) Canada’s
18. On Oct 27, ______ became the first ever nation to leave the International Criminal Court.
(a) Burundi (b) Gambia (c) Botswana (d) South Africa
19. The 14th South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation in Law Conference and 11th SAARC
Chief Justices Conference were held in ____.
(a) Islamabad (b) Dhaka (c) Colombo (d) New Delhi
20. On Oct 29, South Africa’s ______ smashed the fastest century in Twenty20 International Cricket.
(a) JP Duminy (b) Ab de Villiers (c) David Miller (d) Hashim Amla
21. ______ has been appointed Britain’s new defence secretary replacing Michael Fallon.
(a) Jeremy Hunt (b) Michael Gove (c) Sajid Javid (d) Gavin Williamson
22. On Nov 03, the 39th Unesco General Conference was held in______.
(a) London (b) Paris (c) Geneva (d) New York
23. On Nov 03, the US Senate confirmed ______ as the next US ambassador to India.
(a) David Hale (b) Kenneth Juster (c) Marcia Bernicat (d) John Bass
24. On Nov 04, the US launched a drone attack on IS fighters in ____, its first in this Horn of Africa
nation.
(a) Ethiopia (b) Djibouti (c) Somalia (d) Eritrea
25. On Nov 04, ______ passed legislation to punish anyone who disrespects the national anthem
with up to three years in prison.
(a) Afghanistan (b) Bangladesh (c) China (d) India
26. On Nov 04, Saad al-Hariri, the Prime Minister of ______ resigned.
(a) Kuwait (b) Lebanon (c) Qatar (d) Yemen
27. The Saudi Arabian government launched a sweeping anticorruption purge on ______.
(a) Oct 30 (b) Nov 01 (c) Nov 05 (d) Nov 08
28. On Nov 05, the ICIJ released 13.4 million files of offshore companies in an episode named ______
(a) Panama 2 (b) Paradise Papers (c) Tax Havens (d) Panama Plus
29. On______, Spain’s Constitutional Court ruled illegal the ousted Catalan parliament’s recent vote
to declare the region independent from Spain.
30. The Louvre Abu Dhabi opened on ______.
31. On Nov 08, the Geneva-based ILO closed its probe into alleged mistreatment of foreign workers
in World Cup 2022 host ______.
(a) Mexico (b) Venezuela (c) Qatar (d) Russia
32. The UK’s current Minister for International Development is ______.
(a) Priti Patel (b) Elizabeth Truss (c) Penny Mordaunt (d) Brandon Lewis
33. On Nov 09, ______ appointed first women to Shura Council.
(a) Kuwait (b) Qatar (c) Iran (d) Saudi Arabia
34. On Nov 11, Surendra Kumar Sinha, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of ______, tendered
his resignation.
(a) Nepal (b) Bangladesh (c) Myanmar (d) India
35. The 2017 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit was held in ______.
(a) Jakarta (b) New Delhi (c) Danang (d) Manila
36. On Nov 14, American group Mattel unveiled its first hijab-wearing Barbie doll in honour of US
fencer ___.
(a) Cécilia Berder (b) Ibtihaj Muhammad (c) Inés Boubakri (d) Zahra Lari
37. Zimbabwe’s military took control of the country on ______.
38. The winner of the 2017 Man Booker Prize is ______.
(a) Zadie Smith (b) Colin Thubron (c) George Saunders (d) Sebastian Barry
39. The 2017 UN Climate Change Conference was held in Bonn, ______.
(a) Australia (b) Switzerland (c) Germany (d) France
1. India-Pakistan secretary-level talks took place on Sep 14-15 in _____.

(a) Geneva (b) Washington (c) New Delhi (d) Islamabad
2. On Sep 17, PML-N candidate Begum Kulsoom Nawaz Sharif won by-election in ______
constituency.
(a) NA-117 (b) NA-120 (c) NA-124 (d) NA-125
3. Ms Rahat Faiq Jamali is the only woman in the current cabinet of ______ province.
(a) Punjab (b) Sindh (c) Balochistan (d) KP
4. Famous television actor Iftikhar Qaiser breathed his last on ______.
5. On Sep 18, British-Pakistani actor ______ made history by becoming the first male actor of Asian
descent to win an Emmy for acting.
(a) Tariq Ali (b) Saad Khan (c) Mishal Husain (d) Riz Ahmed
6. On Sep 18, the Bank of China became only the ______ Chinese bank allowed to operate in
Pakistan.
7. On Sep 19, the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) awarded $700
million to a ______ company, Karkey Karadeniz Elektrik Uretim AS, against Pakistan.
(a) Korean (b) Turkish (c) Canadian (d) Swedish
8. On ______, the Lahore High Court ordered the Punjab home secretary to make public Justice
Najafi’s report.
9. On Sep 21, the Senate suspended its Pakistan-______ friendship group for an indefinite period.
(a) Switzerland (b) USA (c) Turkey (d) Colombia
10. Google paid tribute to Malika-i-Tarannum Noor Jehan through its doodle on her birthday on
______.
11. On Sep 21, a bust of Nobel laureate Dr Abdus Salam was unveiled at IAEA headquarters in
______.
(a) Paris (b) Vienna (c) Rome (d) Geneva
12. The Senate passed the Election Bill, 2017, on ______.
13. Gazain Marri, who returned home after ending 18 years of self-exile on Sep 22, is the son of
______.
(a) Allah Bakhsh Marri (b) Khuda Bakhsh Marri (c) Humayun Khan Marri (d) Khair Bakhsh Marri
14. Current Federal Ombudsman Pakistan is ______.
(a) Amir Haider Khan (b) Zahid Hamid Khan (c) Syed Tahir Shahbaz (d) Ashraf Jahangir Qazi
15. On Sep 23, the federal government enforced Police Act 1861 and judicial system to Fata to give
policing powers to the ______ force in the region
(a) Rangers (b) FC (c) Army (d) Levies
16. On Sep 26, the 5th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games concluded in Ashgabat, the capital of
______.
(a) Kazakhstan (b) Tajikistan (c) Turkmenistan (d) Azerbaijan
17. Pakistan ended up with ______ position on the medals table of the 5th Asian Indoor and Martial
Arts Games.
(a) 21st (b) 26th (c) 34th (d) 39th
18. Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) was formed in ______.
(a) 1947 (b) 1948 (c) 1949 (d) 1956
19. Global Competitiveness Report (GCR) 2017 has ranked Pakistan ______ out of 138 countries.
(a) 98th (b) 115th (c) 129th (d) 145th
20. On Sep 28, ______, the young girl who hoisted up the Pakistani flag, in 1946, for the very first
time, died.
(a) Salma Mirani (b) Fatima Sughra (c) Fatima Bano (d) Zakia Jahanara
21. On Sep 28, former DG ISPR, Lt Gen Asim Saleem Bajwa, was appointed Commander ______.
(a) 111 Brigade (b) Southern Command (c) Northern Command (d) Balochistan Rangers
22. On Sep 28, two activists from India-held Kashmir, Parveena Ahangar and ______ won Norway’s
Rafto Prize for human rights
(a) Qazi Nisar (b) Khurram Parvez (c) Imroz Parvez (d) Yasin Malik
23. On Sep 29, the Punjab government and a Chinese company, signed a 1,263-megawatt gas power
project that will be established near ______.
(a) Gujrat (b) Faisalabad (c) Jhang (d) Attock
24. On Oct 01, World Boxing Council Silver flyweight champion M. Waseem defended his title
against his ______ opponent Carlos.
(a) Swedish (b) Finnish (c) Panamanian (d) Norwegian
25. According to the annual report of the Economic Freedom of the World 2017, Pakistan stands at
______ position out of 159 countries.
(a) 122nd (b) 127th (c) 129th (d) 139th
26. On Oct 05, Pakistan’s ______ and India’s Gauri Lankesh jointly won the annual Anna
Politkovskaya Award’.
(a) Asma Jahangir (b) Nighat Dad (c) Sidra Iqbal (d) Gulalai Ismail
27. Pakistan has been elected chair of global HR Standard on HR Metrics during ISO Standards
meeting in ____.
(a) Thailand (b) Malaysia (c) Indonesia (d) Russia
28. On Oct 07, the federal government appointed ______ as an ad-hoc judge at the ICJ for
Kulbhushan Jadhav case.
(a) Khalil-ur-Rehman Ramday (b) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry (c) Ashtar Ausaf Ali (d) Tassaduq Jillani
29. The new Chief of the Naval Staff, Admiral Zafar Mahmood Abbasi, was commissioned in the
navy in ______.
(a) 1977 (b) 1981 (c) 1983 (d) 1986
30. Pakistan’s ______ has been elected the president of Zurich-based FIATA.
(a) Sara Haider (b) Babar Badat (c) Kamran Khan (b) Salman Alvi
31. The Punjab government launched motorcycle ambulance service on___.
32. On Oct 11, FIFA suspended Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) whose current president is
______.
(a) Capt.(R) Safdar (b) Riaz Pirzada (c) Faisal Saleh Hayat (d) Maiza Hameed
33. The new Chairman of NAB, Justice (R) Javed Iqbal is the ______ head of the Bureau.
(a) 5th (b) 7th (c) 9th (d) 11th
34. On Oct 13, a postage stamp of ______ denomination was issued in honour of Maulana Mufti
Mahmood.
(a) Rs. 2 (b) Rs. 5 (c) Rs. 8 (d) Rs. 10
35. On Oct 13, the government appointed ______ as executive director of the Washington-based
World Bank for three years.
(a) Nasir Khosa (b) Dr Tauqeer Shah (c) Shahid A. Tarar (d) Kamran Rasool
1. Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park is located in ______.
(a) Ajman (b) Abu Dhabi (c) Dubai (d) Ras al-Khaimah
2. On Sep 16, an Egyptian court sentenced ousted president Mohammed Mursi to 25 years in prison
for spying for______.
(a) Qatar (b) Israel (c) Libya (d) Saudi Arabia
3. The International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer is observed every year on ______.
4. On Sep 17, Indian Premier Narendra Modi inaugurated Sardar Sarovar Dam on the River Narmada
in ______ state.
(a) Kerala (b) Gujarat (c) Punjab (d) Bihar
5. On Sep 17, Hamas agreed to dismantle the administration that runs Gaza and hand over the
control to the Palestinian unity government in an agreement brokered by ______.
(a) Egypt (b) Iran (c) Jordan (d) Lebanon
6. On Sep 17, the world’s first smart police station was inaugurated in ____.
(a) China (b) Dubai (c) Poland (d) USA
7. On Sep 17, India appointed ______ as its new High Commissioner to Pakistan.
(a) Gautam Bambawale (b) Sharat Sabharwal (c) Ajay Bisaria (d) A.M. Gondane
8. On Sep 17, Lewis Hamilton of ______ won the Singapore Grand Prix.
(a) Russia (b) USA (c) UK (d) Germany
9. Stanislav Petrov, a Soviet military officer who is widely credited with helping prevent a nuclear
war with the United States, died on ______.
10. On Sep 20, ______ President Michel Temer was the first to sign the first treaty to ban nuclear
weapons.
(a) Australian (b) Japanese (c) Brazilian (d) Latvian
11. The United Nations International Day of Peace is observed every year on ______.
12. On Sep 23, Turkey granted one-year extension to mandate to use troops abroad in Syria and
______.
(a) Jordan (b) Iraq (c) Afghanistan (d) Qatar
13. Zannah Mustapha of ______ won the 2017 UN High Commission for Refugees Nansen Refugees
Award.
(a) Sudan (b) Nigeria (c) UAE (d) Saudi Arabia
14. On Sep 23, Iran tested a new medium-range missile, the Khoramshahr, having a range of _____.
(a) 2000km (b) 2500km (c) 3000km (d) 3500km
15. On Sep 24, German Chancellor Angela Merkel won a______ term.
(a) Third (b) Fourth (c) Fifth (d) Sixth
16. On Sep 25, the joint military exercise “DRUZBA 2017” started between Russia and ______.
(a) Saudi Arabia (b) China (c) Pakistan (d) India
17. On Sep 25, Trump administration added three new nations, Chad, North Korea and______ on its
travel ban list.
(a) Mexico (b) Sudan (c) Venezuela (d) Afghanistan
18. On Sep 26, Robert Bilott, an ______ environmental lawyer, won the 2017 Right Livelihood Award,
the Swedish human rights prize.
(a) American (b) German (c) Austrian (d) Australian
19. On Sep 26, Interpol opened its general assembly in ______.
(a) Shanghai (b) New Delhi (c) Beijing (d) Islamabad
20. On Sep 27, ______ was named the world’s top tourism destination.
(a) Geneva (b) Paris (c) Bangkok (d) Zurich
21. The World Tourism Day (WTD) is observed every year on ______.
22. Twitter is headquartered in ______.
(a) London (b) San Francisco (c) New Jersey (d) New York
23. The Kurdish independence referendum was held on ______.
24. On Sep 27, Interpol voted to include ______ and the Solomon Islands as its new members,
raising body’s membership to 192 countries.
(a) Israel (b) South Sudan (c) Palestine (d) Cambodia
25. On Sep 30, President Donald Trump’s health secretary ______ was forced out of the US
administration.
(a) Steve Bannon (b) James Mattis (c) Tom Price (d) Brian Schatz
26. Catalonia’s referendum for independence from Spain held on ___.
(a) Sep 30 (b) Oct 01 (c) Oct 03 (d) Oct 05
27. The International Day of Non-Violence is observed on ______.
(a) Sep 30 (b) Oct 01 (c) Oct 02 (d) Oct 03
28. The resort in Las Vegas where Stephen Craig Paddock, opened fire on Oct 02 killing at least 59
people, is named ______.
(a) Orchid Lounge (b) Mandalay Bay (c) Evening Call (d) Mix Lounge
29. The Taj Mahal is located in the Indian state of ______.
(a) Uttar Pradesh (b) Kerala (c) Maharashtra (d) Goa
30. The theme of the 2017 UN World Habitat Day was ______.
(a) Housing Policies: Affordable Homes(b) Housing & Climate Change Policies (c) Housing at the Centre
(d) Housing Public Spaces for All
31. On Oct 03, the US ordered the expulsion of 15 ______ diplomats.
(a) Mexican (b) Venezuelan (c) Cuban (d) Russian
32. On Oct 03, former president of ______ Jalal Talabani died.
(a) Iran (b) Afghanistan (c) Iraq (d) Bangladesh
33. On Oct 06, the US announced to end some of its economic and trade sanctions against ______.
(a) Iraq (b) Sudan (c) Iran (d) Russia
34. On Oct 09, the World Solar Challenge, an epic 3,000-km solar car race, got underway in ______.
(a) China (b) Australia (c) Turkey (d) Tajikistan
35. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has its headquarters in ______.
(a) Geneva (b) New York (c) Rome (d) Paris
36. The World Space Week (WSW), an international celebration of science & technology, and their
contribution to the betterment of the human condition, is celebrated on ______.
(a) October 02-08 (b) October 03-09 (c) October 04-10 (c) October 05-11
37. The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) is headquartered in______,
Switzerland.
(a) Zurich (b) Geneva (c) Bern (d) Lausanne
38. The International Day of the Girl Child is celebrated annually on ______.
(a) Oct 11 (b) Nov 18 (c) Dec 13 (d) Dec 31
39. WHO has establishment a global commission on non-communicable diseases to be chaired by
______.
(a) Hiroshi Nakajima (b) Margaret Chan (c) Dr Sania Nishtar (d) Shamshad Alam
40. On Oct 11, the world’s largest trade fair for books opened in ______.
(a) Canberra (b) Hamburg (c) Frankfurt (c) London
41. On Oct 13, Audrey Azoulay of ______, was elected the new Director-General Unesco.
(a) Hungary (b) Spain (c) Germany (d) France
42. ______ has launched a European satellite, the Sentinel-5P, dedicated to monitoring Earth’s
atmosphere.
(a) Serbia (b) UK (c) Germany (d) Russia
43. ICC has announced the long-awaited, 9-nation Test championship that will start in ______.
(a) 2017 (b) 2018 (c) 2019 (d) 2021
1. On Aug 16, Yaqoob Khan Nasar was nominated as the acting President of PML-N, the party which
came into being in ______.
(a) 1985 (b) 1990 (c) 1992 (d) 1993
2. On Aug 16, the US designated ______ a specially designated terrorist outfit.
(a) Harkat-ul-Ansar (b) Hizbul Mujahideen (c) Jaish-e-Mohammed (d) Tehrik-ul-Mujahideen
3. The 8-member Council of Common Interests (CCI) is headed by the ______.
(a) Finance Minister (b) President (c) Prime Minister (d) Speaker NA
4. On Aug 19, ______ removed Pakistan from its Calling Visa Country List after 13 years.
(a) China (b) Indonesia (c) Qatar (d) Malaysia
5. On Aug 21, the army announced an end to Operation Khyber IV that was carried out in ______
Valley.
(a) Bara (b) Tirah (c) Shawwal (d) Rajgal
6. The current Chairman Higher Education Commission is ______.
(a) Dr Ayub Ali (b) Dr Mukhtar Ahmed (c) Dr Javed iqbal (d) Shahid Siddiqui
7. ______ has issued the “Pakistan District Education Rankings 2017”.
(a) Alif Ailaan (b) SDPI (c) SPDC (d) PIDE
8. Arsenic in the groundwater of eastern Pakistan are more than ______ micrograms per litre, or
five times higher than the WHO’s guidelines.
(a) 25 (b) 35 (c) 40 (d) 50
9. Pakistan has, to date, won ______ hockey world cups.
(a) 4 (b) 3 (c) 5 (d) 2
10. The Compulsory Teaching of the Holy Quran Bill, 2017, was passed by the Senate on ______.
11. A World Justice Project survey has ranked Pakistan ______ among 113 countries.
(a) 84th (b) 106th (c) 98th (d) 114th
12. Pakistan’s ______ has been named among 30 remarkable professionals in “Asia 21 Young
Leaders”.
(a) Mohsin Mustafa (b) Marvi Memon (c) Sana Mir (d) Malala Yousafzai
13. The present Special Committee of the National Assembly on Kashmir was constituted on 19th
August _____.
(a) 1993 (b) 1997 (c) 2002 (d) 2008
14. Chairman of National Assembly’s Kashmir Committee is ______.
(a) Amir Haider Hoti (b) Zahid Hamid (c) Maulana Fazlur Rehman (d) Mian Javid Latif
15. The Quadrilateral Counter Terrorism Coordination Mechanism (QCCM) comprises China,
Pakistan, Afghanistan and ______.
(a) India (b) Russia (c) USA (d) Tajikistan
16. On Aug 27, Khalid A. Kharal, the former federal minister for ____, died.
(a) Defence (b) Interior (c) Information (d) Finance
17. According to the latest UNHCR report, _____ hosts the largest number of refugees in the world.
(a) Pakistan (b) Iran (c) Turkey (d) Kenya
18. On Aug 28, Pakistan emerged in ______ spot among top 10 investors in the Dubai real estate
sector.
(a) Second (b) Third (c) Fourth (d) Fifth
19. On Aug 30, Sharjeel Khan was banned for ______ years by PCB’s Anti-Corruption Tribunal.
(a) 4 (b) 5 (c) 7 (d) 10
20. The incumbent Director General FIA is ______.
(a) Ahmad Latif (b) Bashir Ahmed (c) M. Amlish (d) Fayyaz Ahmed
21. On Aug 30, ______ introduced, for Pakistanis, visa-on-arrival facility.
(a) Kuwait (b) Qatar (c) Finland (d) Slovakia
22. On Aug 31, two senior police officers AIG ______ and SSP Khurram Shahzad were sentenced to
17 years in prison in former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s assassination case.
(a) Ahmad Latif (b) Zafar Khan (c) Saud Aziz (d) Javed Iqbal
23. International Investment Position is a report published by the______.
(a) Finance Ministry (b) ADB (c) SBP (d) World Bank
24. As per the International Investment Position (IIP), the biggest foreign investor in Pakistan at the
end of 2015 was ______.
(a) China (b) Turkey (c) EU (d) USA
25. The 10-member Sindh Mental Health Authority (SMHA) is headed by its chairman ______.
(a) Murtaza Wahab (b) Karim Khuwaja (c) Dr Nasir Kamal (d) Saeed Ghani
26. As per the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2018, Pakistan’s only university
placed in Band 401-500 is ______.
(a) NUST (b) GCU (c) COMSATS (d) QAU
27. The current CEO of Pakistan International Airlines Corporation Limited is ______.
(a) Zia Qadir (b) Inam-ul-Haque (c) Dr Musharraf Rasool (d) Bilal Munir
28. The Basel Anti-Money Laundering Index has ranked Pakistan ____ among 146 countries in terms
of money laundering and terrorist financing.
(a) 34th (b) 36th (c) 44th (d) 46th
29. On Sep 07, HBL settled out of court with the NY’s Department of Financial Services by agreeing
to pay ______.
(a) $187 million (b) $225 million (c) $295 million (d) $355 million
30. On Sep 07, the Sindh High Court ruled that the IGP’s tenure could not “under any circumstances
be reduced to less than ______ years.”
(a) Two (b) Three (c) Four (b) Five
31. Pakistan’s fifth nuclear power plant (C-4) is located in ______.
(a) Peshawar (b) DG Khan (c) Chashma (d) Mirpur
32. The C-4 Nuclear Power Plant has a capacity of ______.
(a) 285MW (b) 335MW (c) 365MW (d) 435MW
33. As first step to FATA reforms, jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and ______ High Court would
be extended to the area.
(a) Peshawar (b) Lahore (c) Islamabad (d) Balochistan
34. ______ was the third biggest destination for Pakistan’s exports proceeds during FY 2016-17.
(a) UK (b) Spain (c) Germany (d) China
35. On Sep 11, British-Pakistani writer Mohsin Hamid was named in the shortlist of the 2017 Man
Booker Prize for his work ______.
(a) Discontent and Its Civilizations (b) The Reluctant Fundamentalist (c) Exit West (d) MothSmoke
36. The 363km-long Kachhi Canal, origniates from Taunsa Barrage in ______ district and ends in
Dera Bugti district.
(a) Muzaffargarh (b) Mianwali (c) Rajanpur (d) DG Khan
37. On Sep 14, _____ was appointed the chief secretary of KP province.
(a) Ghazanfar Khan (b) Tahira Yasmeen (c) M. Azam Khan (d) Kamran Rasool
38. The joint bilateral air force exercise “Shaheen VI” has started between Pakistan and ______.
(a) UAE (b) China (c) Russia (d) Saudi Arabia
1. The earth’s largest concentration of volcanoes has been found in ______.
(a) Indonesia (b) Iraq (c) Antarctica (d) Himalayas
2. International Criminal Court (ICC) is based in ______.
(a) The Hague (b) Paris (c) Geneva (d) Frankfurt
3. On Aug 17, ______ emerged as the most livable city in the world.
(a) Auckland (b) Melbourne (c) Vancouver (d) Vienna
4. On Aug 18, Donald Trump fired his far-right chief strategist______.
(a) Steve Bannon (b) Sebastian Gorka (c) Reince Priebus (d) Sean Spicer
5. Afghanistan celebrates its Independence Day on ______.
6. The Treaty of Rawalpindi, which granted Afghanistan full independence from Britain, was signed
in _____.
(a) 1909 (b) 1914 (c) 1919 (d) 1924
7. Jerry Lewis, who died on Aug 20, was an ______ entertainer.
(a) American (b) Italian (c) Austrian (d) Indian
8. The International Seabed Authority (ISA) is headquartered at ______.
(a) Moscow (b) New York (c) Jamaica (d) Rome
9. On ______, the United States people witnessed the first coast-to-coast total solar eclipse in a
century.
10. On ______, the US President Donald Trump announced his new strategy for South Asia and
Afghanistan.
11. US Navy’s Seventh Fleet is headquartered at Yokosuka in ______.
(a) Cambodia (b) Japan (c) The Philippines (d) Thailand
12. On Aug 23, ______ announced its Project Brainwave for deep learning acceleration platform for
real-time artificial intelligence (AI).
(a) Apple Inc. (b) Google (c) Microsoft (d) Yahoo!
13. International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition is observed on
______.
14. On Aug 24, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani signed a decree for the implementation of the
Compact agreement with the ______.
(a) USA (b) IMF (c) QCG (d) World Bank
15. On Aug 25, Trump administration imposed financial sanctions on ______.
(a) Iran (b) Venezuela (c) Mexico (d) North Korea
16. On Aug 25, Lee Jae-Yong, the heir to the ______ empire, was convicted and jailed for five years.
(a) Ali Baba (b) Huwaei (c) Samsung (d) Honda
17. On Aug 25, ______ was named UEFA’s Player of the Year.
(a) Lionel Messi (b) Gianluigi Buffon (c) Cristiano Ronaldo (d) Toni Kroos
18. On Aug 27, America’s Floyd Mayweather Jr. scored a 10th round technical knockout over Conor
McGregor of ______.
(a) Ireland (b) England (c) Austria (d) Australia
19. On Aug 28, French President Emmanuel Macron gave the country a First Dog named ______.
(a) Jules (b) Parfai (c) Nemo (d) Fille
20. On Aug 28, ______ imposed the world’s toughest law to reduce plastic pollution with the
violators risking imprisonment of up to four years or fines of $40,000.
(a) Saudi Arabia (b) Iceland (c) Kenya (d) Mauritius
21. On Aug 28, an Indian “godman”, Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, was sentenced to ______ in jail.
(a) 10 years (b) 15 years (c) 20 years (d) 25 years
22. On ______, India and China agreed to pull back their troops from Dokhlam.
23. On Aug 28, ______, Iran’s first foreign minister after the 1979 Islamic revolution died.
(a) Kamal Kharazi (b) Ebrahim Yazdi (c) Mehdi Bazarg (d) Karim Sanjabi
24. International Day against Nuclear Tests is observed on ______.
25. On Aug 29, ______ inaugurated a new internationally-controlled uranium fuel bank.
(a) Norway (b) Belarus (c) Kazakhstan (d) Sweden
26. ______ won 145 gold medals at the Southeast Asian Games to become overall champion for the
first time in 16 years.
(a) Thailand (b) Malaysia (c) Vietnam (d) Indonesia
27. On Sep 03, ______ became India’s first woman appointed as country’s defence minister.
(a) Harsimrat Kaur (b) Smriti Irani (c) Nirmala Sitharaman (d) Uma Bharati
28. The 9th BRICS Summit was held in ______, China.
(a) Tianjin (b) Xiamen (c) Chongqing (d) Beijing
29. On Sep 05, ______ inaugurated a new $7.4 billion Hamad Port along its Gulf coast.
(a) Qatar (b) UAE (c) Saudi Arabia (d) Kuwait
30. On Sep 05, President Trump ended an amnesty called DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals) effectuated under President ______.
(a) Obama (b) Bush (c) Clinton (d) Bush Sr.
31. On Sep 06, ______ became the oldest semi-finalist in US Open history at age 37.
(a) Serena Williams (b) Martina Hingis (c) Venus Williams (d) Maria Sharapova
32. The Great Khural is the parliament of ______.
(a) Singapore (b) Thailand (c) Mongolia (d) Cambodia
33. “Literacy in a Digital World” was the theme of the International Literacy Day 2017 which was
observed on ______.
34. On Sep 10, the first OIC Summit on Science & Technology opened in_____.
(a) Islamabad (b) Astana (c) Istanbul (d) Dushanbe
35. On Sep 10, ______ won the 2017 Men’s singles US Open Tennis tournament
(a) Stan Wawrinka (b) Novak Djokovic (c) Rafael Nadal (d) Kevin Anderson
36. World Suicide Prevention Day is observed on ______.
37. On Sep 13, International Olympic Committee named _____ and Los Angeles as hosts for the
2024 and 2028 Olympics.
(a) Hamburg (b) Paris (c) London (d) Vienna
38. In Kulbhushan Jadhav case before the ICJ, Pakistan will have to submit its counter memorial by
______,2017.
(a) Oct 13 (b) Nov 18 (c) Dec 13 (d) Dec 31
39. On Sep 13, Halimah Yacob became ______ first female president.
(a) Malaysia’s (b) Mauritius’s (c) Singapore’s (d) Hong Kong’
40. Apart from the Queen, whose portrait is on all UK currency, Jane Austen is the _____ woman to
feature on a modern-day British banknote.
41. On Sep 15, ______ was appointed the president of the World Economic Forum.
(a) Rev Anderson (b) Peter Hall (c) Borge Brende (d) Ghayas Zahid
42. International Day of Democracy is observed annually on ______.
43. The chief architect of the Chinese revolution, Chairman Mao Zedong, died at the age of 82 in
______.
(a) 1971 (b) 1973 (c) 1976 (d) 1989
44. The term ‘Ashes’, referring to the England-Australia Test series, was coined by the newspaper
__in 1882. (a) AusSports (b) Cricket Buzz (c) Whizz (d) The Sporting Times

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