1. Who has been appointed as the new general secretary of the ALL India Congress Committee(AICC)?
Ummen Chandy, former Chief Minister of Kerala.
2. Which country has voted by a landslide to legalise abortion in its sixth referendum on the issue?
Ireland.
3. Which team won the 11th IPL title defeating Sun Risers Hyderabad in the final by eight wickets?
Chennai Super Kings.
4. Who won the Man of the Match in the final of the IPL-2018?
Shane Watson (Chennai Super Kings). He scored unbeaten 117 runs from 57 balls.
5. The fourth man to walk on the moon who passed away on May 26,2018?
Alan Bean.
Alan was an American naval officer and naval aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut. He was selected to become an astronaut by NASA in 1963 as part of Astronaut Group 3.Bean stepped onto the lunar surface preceded by Pete Conrad, the mission commander of their Apollo 12 flight, in November 1969, four months after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first lunar explorers.
6. Gangster who is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of journalist in June 2011?
Chhota Rajan.
7. Which film won the Palme d’Or top prize at the Cannes Film Festival-2018?
Shoplifters.
The film is directed by Hirokazu Kore-Eda.
8. Malaysian reformist who was granted a full pardon and freed on May 16, 2018?
Anwar Ibrahim.
9. What is the name given to the newest frog found in a small industrial region in coastal Karnataka?
Microhyla Kodial.
10. Who has been appointed as the new coach of Indian Men’s Hockey Team?
Harendra Singh.
11. Indian pugilist who has been conferred with the WBC Asia Boxer of the Year-2018 Award ?
Neeraj Goyat .
12. Who won the FWA Footballer of the Year (2018) award after his incredible debut season at Liverpool?
Mohamed Sala.
13. Which club won the F.A.Cup 2018 defeating Manchester United by 1-0 ?
Chelsea.
14. Which country won the Asian Women Hockey Championship defeating India in the final?
South Korea.
15. Who won the Italian Open Women’s Tennis Title 2018 defeating Simona Halep In the final?
Elina Svitolina.
16. US retailer on May 9, 2018y acquired a 77 per cent stake in Flipkart for about $16 billion in its biggest acquisition till date. Name that US retailer?
Wallmart.Inc.
17. Who is Malaysia’s first Sikh Minister?
Gobind Singh Deo.
An Indian-origin Sikh politician in Malaysia, Deo, has become a cabinet minister, the first member of the minority community in the country's history to be appointed as a minister.
18. American Novelist whose novel American Pastoral won a Pulitzer in 1998 but who was best-known for the controversial and explicit 1969 “Portnoy's Complain”, passed away on May
Philip Roth
19. South African Cricketer who has announced his retirement from international cricket, four days after his IPL franchise Royal Challengers Bangalore exited the 11th season of the lucrative Twenty20 league?
A.B. De Villiers.
He has represented South Africa in 114 Tests, 228 ODIs and 78 T20 Internationals. He is South Africa's fourth most successful Test batsman with 8765 runs at 50.66, second-highest run-getter in ODIs with 9577 at 53.50 and second in T20Is with 1672 at 26.12. He scored 22 Test centuries and 25 in ODIs, with a best of 79* in T20Is.
20. Who won the Italian Open Men’s Tennis Title 2018 defeating Alexander Zverev (Germany) In the final?
Rafael Nadal.
21. Who has been named as Australia's new head coach, replacing Darren Lehmann, who resigned in the wake of the ball-tampering scandal?
Justin Langer
22. Who is confirmed as the winner of the 2017-18 European Golden Shoe after smashing 34 goals for Barcelona in their Liga-winning campaign?
Lionel Messi.
23. Parliament of which European country passed a law on May 30, 2018 banning burqa, the Islamic full face veil, in Public spaces?
Denmark.
24. The United States has recently renamed its strategically important Pacific Command (PACOM). What is the new name given to PACOM?
U.S. Indo Pacific Command.
25. The Vedanta Group’s Copper smelter plant in Tamil Nadu which was sealed on May 28, 2018 after the Tamil Nadu Environment and Forests Department issued government order for its permanent Closure. What is the name of that plant?
Sterlite Copper.
The decision to close down that factory comes against the backdrop of the killing of 13 persons in police firing at an anti Sterlite rally.
26. Former Chief Justice of Pakistan who is appointed as the caretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan until a general election on July 25, 2018?
Nasir-ul-Mulk.
27. Who won the CEAT International Cricketer of the year (2018) award?
Virat Kohli(India).
28. Indian Botanist who becomes the first Indian to win the prestigious Linnean Medal in Botany from the Linnean Society of London?
Kamaljit S.Bawa.
29. Which club won the French Cup-2018?
PSG.
30. Which country become the NATO’s first Latin American “Global Partner”?
Colombia.
31. Which countries signed 15 strategic pacts one to boost defence cooperation and called for freedom of navigation in the strategic Indo-Pacific region on May 30, 2018?
India and Indonesia.
32. NASA has recently announced to send a small helicopter to a planet for planetary exploration which is scheduled to be launched in July 2020. Which is that planet?
Mars.
NASA currently has two cars roaming Mars-the Opportunity and Curiosity Rovers.
33. Which Indian has been ranked among the top 10 most powerful people in the World by Forbes ?
Narendra Modi.
Modi ranks 9th on the Forbes 2018 list of the World’s Most Powerful. Chinese President Xi Jinping ranked first and Russian President Vladimir Putin ranked second.