2018 was declared the third International year of the Reef by the International Coral Reef.....
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1. C
2018 was declared the third International year of the Reef by the International Coral Reef Initiative which aims to help protect the underground ecosystem of coral reefs globally.
2016 was designated the International Year of Pulses by the United Nations, and was also the International Year of Global Understanding; 2017 was the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development; while 2019 will be the International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements, as per the U.N.
2. D
2018 started on a Monday and ends on a Monday. Common years tend to start and end on the same day.
3. B
Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua are reportedly the first monkey clones created through somatic cell nuclear transfer, the same technique that produced Dolly the sheep in 1996. They were born in December 2017 at the Institute of Neuroscience of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai; scientists reported the news in January this year.
4. A
China’s government approved a constitutional change that removes term limits for its leaders, making Xi Jinping the president for life.
5. B
The yellow vests movement happened in France this year and led to the country’s worst civil unrest in decades. The yellow vests were chosen as a symbol because all French motorists are required by law to have high-visibility vests in their vehicles when driving, which meant these reflective vests were widely available and recognisable.
Motivated by rising prices, protestors took to the streets to demand changes, such as lower fuel taxes. The protests mainly involved marches, but some morphed into major riots.
Eventually, protesters with similar grievances began using the yellow vest symbol in other parts of Europe and the Middle East.
6. D
Imran Khan’s third wife, Bushra Bibi, has three daughters and two sons from her first marriage. She was married to Khawar Maneka before Imran Khan; they divorced in 2017.
7. D
“I been movin' calm, don't start no trouble with me
Tryna keep it peaceful is a struggle for me”
Canadian rapper Drake’s ‘God’s Plan’ broke first-day streaming records on both Apple Music and Spotify, and topped the charts in 14 countries. The song has also received several Grammy nominations and was among the most successful tracks of the year.
8. A
Ed Sheeran’s continuing Divide tour (which started in 2017 in support of his album ÷, the best-selling album worldwide of last year), was the most successful tour of 2018 and made $429 million this year alone. It also set the all-time records for the highest-grossing solo tour and highest year-end gross ever.
9. B
Cake was selected as the Pakistani entry for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 91st Academy Awards which will be held next year. The film was written and directed by Asim Abbasi and stars Sanam Saeed, Aamina Sheikh, and Adnan Malik.
10. D
“Horrendous! Destroyed a great classic - why oh why did Coke Studio allow such a massacre of this classic song?” Shireen Mazari wrote on Twitter about the much maligned cover.
11. A
Soohorang, a white tiger, was the official mascot of the 2018 Winter Olympics. The mascot’s name is a portmanteau of “Sooho”, the Korean word for “protection”, and “Rang” which is derived from the Korean word for “tiger”.
Asiatic black bear Bandabi was the mascot of the 2018 Winter Paralympics; Eurasian wolf Zabivaka was the official mascot of the 2018 FIFA World Cup; while Vinicius had been the mascot of the 2016 Summer Olympics.
12. C
More than 50 percent of the world's population are now using the Internet according to the U.N.’s International Telecommunication Union.
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