Sunday, February 15, 2015

GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE MCQs FOR ALL BANK EXAMS

1. Think - tank of Government of India that replaces Planning Commission of India is...
1) NITI Vakya
2) NITI Vajpayee
3) NITI Prasasthi
4) NITI Dharma
5) NITI Aayog

2. NITI Aayog stands for......
1) National Institution for Transition India
2) National Information for Transforming India
3) National Institution for Take India
4) National Institution for Transforming India
5) None

3. NITI Aayog come into effect from....
1) 1 April 2015
2) 1 April 2016
3) 1 March 2015
4) 1 January 2015
5) 25 Dec 2014

4. The NITI Aayog headed by....
1) President of India
2) Finance Minister
3) Minister for Planning
4) RBI Governor
5) Prime Minister

5. To reflect changes required in India's governance structures and provide a more active role for the state governments in achieving national objectives, NITI Aayog initiated. Its Vice Chairman appointed by .....
1) President of India
2) Vice President of India
3) Finance Minister
4) Home Minister
5) Prime Minister

6. Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog is...
1) Montek Singh Ahluwalia
2) Arvind Panagariya
3) Abhijith Sen
4) Amartya Sen
5) None

7. NITI Aayog has been tasked with a role of formulating policies and direction for the government and serving as a think-tank, which will have Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Present CEO is....
1) Arvind Mayaram
2) Rajiv Meharshi
3) Sudha Pillai
4) Sindhushree Khullar
5) None

8. NITI Aayog will have full time members. It will have how many part time members selected from leading universities research organizations and other relevant institutions in an exofficio capacity?
1) 4
2) 6
3) 8
4) 2
5) None

9. An Economist Bibek Debroy and V.K.Saraswat were appointed as full-time members of NITI Aayog. Who is V.K.Saraswat ?
1) former DRDO Chief
2) former ISRO Chairman
3) former Finance Secretary
4) former Defence Minister
5) None of above

10. Maximum of how many Ex-officio members selected from the Union Council of Ministers to be nominated by the Prime Minister in NITI Ayog?
1) 12
2) 7
3) 4
4) 10
5) None





11. Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu and ........... were made ex-officio members of NITI ayog.
1) Tribal Affaris Minister Jula Oram
2) Rural Development Minister Chaudary Birender Singh
3) Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh
4) External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj
5) None

12. Roads and National Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari, Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani and ...... were made Special invitees to the NITI Aayog?
1) Law and Justice Minister D. V. Sadananda Gowda
2) Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar
3) Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Thawar Chand Gehlot
4) Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation and Parliamentary Affairs Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu
5) None

13. Planning Commission was the centre-tostate one-way flow of policy, where as NITI Ayog is a genuine and continuing partnership of states. NITI Ayog depends on how many pillars of Effective governance?
1) 7
2) 5
3) 10
4) 8
5) 12

14. NITI Ayog will have .......... comprising the Chief Ministers of all the States and Lt. Governors of Union Territories.
1) Presidium
2) Co-ordination committee
3) General Committee
4) Governing Council
5) Administrative Council

15. Regional Councils will be formed to address specific issues and contingencies impacting more than one state or a region. They are headed by......
1) Governor of the state or Finance Minister of India
2) Chief Minister
3) Chairperson of the NITI Aayog or his nominee
4) President of India and Governor of state
5) None of above

16. Digital Village project launched by ....... in Akodara Village in Gujarat recently.
1)Yes Bank
2) RBI
3) Corporation Bank
4) ICICI Bank
5) SBI

17. On 19 January 2015, based on the cost of funds, RBI asked banks to review minimum lending rate for every .........
1) two months
2) four months
3) two months
4) six months
5) three months

18. On 19 January 2015, ICICI Bank introduced 'icicibankpay'. It is it's.........
1) face book handle
2) credit card
3) new financial intermediary
4) new CBS module
5) twitter service

19. In the list of the Top 50 Most Valued Global Banks (in terms of market capitalization) released by Bloomberg on 17 January 2015, which bank got first rank?
1) SBI
2) ICICI
3) BOB
4) HDFC
5) SBH

20. Union Government on 19 January 2015 prohibited imports of all kind of mobile handsets with fake or duplicate IMEI. IMEI stands for ..........
1) International Mobile Equipment Identity
2) Indian Mobile Equipment Identity
3) Internal Mobile Equipment Identity
4) Interest Mobile Equipment Identity
5) None

21. Madan Mohan Malviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching launched by PM on
25 December 2014 at ......
1) New Delhi
2) Allahabad
3) Varanasi
4) Gwalior
5) Jammu

22. International borders dividing the nations given. Pick the wrong combination.
1) India and China - McMahon Line
2) India and Pakistan - Radcliffe Line
3) India and Sri Lanka - Palk Strait and Gulf of Mannar
4) India and Bangladesh - Durand Line
5) None

23. Baba Ramdev was appointed as the ambassador of ........
1) Uttarakhand
2) Haryana
3) Tamilnadu
4) AP
5) Telangana

24. Due to decrease in oil prices and fall of demand for gold, the Trade deficit in December 2014 narrowed to .......
1) 7.25 billion dollars
2) 11.20 billion US dollars
3) 7.50 billion US dollars
4) 9.43 billion US dollars
5) None

25. In 'AEBAS', 'B' stands for......
1) Benefit
2) Branded
3) Bombay
4) Biometric
5) Bi-monthly

26. DeitY stands for .....
1) Department of electrical & information technology
2) Department of electronics & information trade
3) Division of electronics & information technology
4) Department of electronics & information technology
5) None

27. GIAN is a short term teaching programme under which scholars abroad will be invited to teach in India. GIAN stands for....
1) Global Invite of Academic Network
2) Global Initiative of Academic Network
3) Grand Initiative of Academic Network
4) Global Initiative of Academic Nation
5) None

28. Jal Kranti Varsh is.....
1) 2014-15
2) 2020-21
3) 2013-14
4) 2017-18
5) 2015-16

29. Which software service provider declared to spend over Rs.1,500 crore to fund innovations in software and services in India?
1) TCS
2) Tech Mahindra
3) Infosys
4) Wipro
5) HCL

30. e-voting allowed recently for.....
1) Illeterates
2) Old age people
3) Physically handicapped persons
4) Soft ware professionals
5) NRIs

31. First woman IPS officer is ......
1) Kiran Bedi
2) Bachendri Pal
3) Sarojini Naidu
4) Sucheta Kripalani
5) Isha Basant Joshi

32. First Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) - powered train would run between Rewari - Rohtak. Rewari - Rohtak are in.....
1) Haryana
2) Jammu Kashmir
3) Kerala
4) UP
5) Tamilnadu

33. Republic day 2015 guest is.......
1) Putin
2) Shianzo Abe
3) Obama
4) Xi Jinping
5) Nawaz Sharif

34. Armed forces for the first time will have allwomen marching contingent in the Republic Day parade. Modi named it as ......
1) Naari Shakti
2) Stree Bheri
3) Narri Nichay
4) Nirbhaya Patham
5) None

35. First USA President to visit India twice in office is ....
1) Barack Obama
2) Bill Clinton
3) Geroge Bush
4) Dwight Eisenhower
5) John Fitzgerald Kennedy

36. The Red Sari, the book on Sonia Gandhi written by .......
1) Avinash Kumar
2) Pranab Mukarjee
3) Javier Moro
4) Maneka Gandhi
5) None

37. The new President of Tunisia is?
1) Abdelaziz Bouteflika
2) Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
3) Mulatu Teshome
4) Uhuru Kenyatta
5) Beji Caid Essebsi

38. Tunisia Capital?
1) Algiers
2) Cairo
3) Addis Ababa
4) Nairobi
5) Tunis

39. The currency of Tunisia is?
1) Dollar
2) Pound
3) Birr
4) Shilling
5) Dinar

ANSWERS:
1-5, 2-4, 3-4, 4-5, 5-5, 6-2, 7-4, 8-2, 9-1, 10-3
11-3, 12-3, 13-1, 14-4, 15-3, 16-4, 17-5, 18-5, 19-4, 20-1
21-3, 22-4, 23-2, 24-4, 25-4, 26-4, 27-2, 28-5, 29-3, 30-5
31-1, 32-1, 33-3, 34-1, 35-1, 36-3, 37-5, 38-5, 39-5