MCQ 451

യൂണിവേഴ്സിറ്റി അസിസ്റ്റന്റ് exam -  ആനുകാലിക ചോദ്യങ്ങൾ

◼ International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in
Conflict observed on June 19.

◼Russia's Yuri Gazinskiy scored the opening goal of the 2018
World Cup.

◼Indian Army is observing year 2018 as “Year of Disabled
Soldiers in Line of Duty” to honour soldiers who have been
disabled in line of duty.

◼ The mascot of 2018 FIFA World Cup is Zabivaka, a wolf.

◼ The meaning of the name Zabivaka is ‘Goalscorer’.

◼ Ivan Duque elected new President of Colombia.

◼ Men's national association football teams affiliated to FIFA
are 211.

◼ A total of twelve stadiums in eleven Russian cities have
been built and renovated for the FIFA World Cup.

◼ Sustainable Gastronomy Day observed on June 18

◼The World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
(WDCDD) is observed every year on June 17 across to
world to promote public awareness of international efforts
to combat desertification.

◼ The first World Cup Football to be held in Eastern Europe
is 2018 World Cup.

◼The International Day of Family Remittances (IDFR) is ob-
served every year on 16 June.

◼ India’s IT major Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) became
first listed company in India to close day’s trade with mar-
ket capitalisation (m cap) of over Rs. 7 lakh crore (over
$103 billion).

◼ The opening ceremony of 2018 FIFA World Cup took place
on 14 June 2018, at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow

◼The opening match of 2018 FIFA World Cup was played
between Russia and Saudi Arabia.

◼ The World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD) is ob-
served every year on June 15 .

◼ Maharashtra government has signed Memorandum of Un-
derstanding (MoU) with Quebec province of Canada to in-
crease economic cooperation and welfare of tribal com-
munity in the state.

◼ The world's first of its kind and state-of-the-art International
Centre for ‘Humanitarian Forensics’ (ICHF) was launched
at the Gujarat Forensic Sciences University in Gandhinagar.

◼ Mithali Raj on June 7, 2018 became the first Indian crick-
eter to score 2,000 runs in T20 Internationals. Mithali Raj is
the highest run-scorer in women's international cricket and
the only female cricketer to have surpassed the 6,000 run
mark in ODIs with 6373 runs from 194 ODIs.

◼ 44th G7 summit was held in La Malbaie, Quebec, Canada
in 2018 June.

◼The 106th Indian Science Congress will be held at Lovely
Professional University (LPU) in Jalandhar, Punjab from
January 3 to 7, 2019.

◼ World Blood Donor Day observed every year across the
world on June 14 to thank voluntary, unpaid blood donors
for their life-saving gifts of blood.