Wednesday, May 14, 2014

GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE MCQs FOR SBI PROBATIONARY OFFICERS EXAM

1. Which of the following countries/ organizations banned the import of Alphonso mangoes from India after authorities found consignments infested with fruit flies?
1) Australia
2) USA
3) New Zealand
4) ASEAN
5) European Union

2. Thomas Cup and Uber Cup badminton tournaments will be held from May 18-25, 2014 in?
1) Mumbai
2) New Delhi
3) Pune
4) Bangalore
5) Hyderabad

3. As per a report published by Freedom House, an NGO, on May 1, 2014 what is India's rank in press freedom?
1) 57
2) 67
3) 78
4) 76
5) 68

4. Who became the new Chief Executive Officer of Nokia on May 1, 2014?
1) Rakesh Kapur
2) Shantanu Narayan
3) Anshu Jain
4) Rajeev Suri
5) Sunil Kaushal

5. Ashok Vemuri, an Indian- American business executive is the current Chief Executive Officer of?
1) Infosys
2) Wipro
3) Cognizant Technology Solutions
4) Tata Consultancy Services
5) iGATE Corporation

6. Which of the following Bollywood actors has been conferred with the 'Pride of the Nation' award for his role in Madras Cafe?
1) Salman Khan
2) Ajay Devgan
3) Farhan Akhtar
4) John Abraham
5) Aamir Khan

7. Which of the following is the capital city of Ukraine?
1) Ashgabat
2) Dushanbe
3) Vaduz
4) Crimea
5) Kiev

8. Green Revolution in India began in the?
1) 1960s
2) 1970s
3) 1980s
4) 1990s
5) 1950s

9. Thomas Bach is the President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). He belongs to?
1) Belgium
2) Spain
3) Germany
4) Switzerland
5) Netherlands

10. Who was appointed as the Chairman of the Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB) in 2013?
1) Justice K. N. Basha
2) Justice P.C. Pant
3) Justice T. Nandakumar Singh
4) Justice Swatantar Kumar
5) None of these

11. Intellectual Property Appellate Board has its headquarters at?
1) Mumbai
2) New Delhi
3) Kolkata
4) Chennai
5) Ahmadabad

12. Which one of the following world leaders never won the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development?
1) Sheikh Hasina
2) Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
3) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
4) Angela Merkel
5) Dilma Roussef

13. Malala Yousafzai was given the International Children's Peace Prize 2013. The prize is an initiative of the Kids Rights Foundation, an organization based in?
1) New York, USA
2) London, UK
3) Stockholm, Sweden
4) Amsterdam, Netherlands
5) Oslo, Norway

14. Identify the mismatched pair?
PLAYER                      -                 SPORT
1) Chekrovolu Swuro     -               Archery
2) Gagan Jeet Bhullar      -                 Golf
3) Neha Rathi                  -              Wrestling
4) Dharmender Dalal       -                Wrestling
5) Mouma Das               -                 Shooting

15. Shaheen 2 is the name of the joint exercise between the air forces of Pakistan and?
1) USA
2) China
3) Iran
4) Afghanistan
5) None of these

16. The second ADMM (ASEAN Defense Ministers' Meeting) Plus was held in 2013 in?
1) India
2) Malaysia
3) Brunei
4) Indonesia
5) Philippines

17. Which city will host the 9th G20 Summit in November 2014?
1) Istanbul
2) London
3) Seoul
4) Brisbane
5) New Delhi

18. RIKEN is the largest research institute in?
1) China
2) Russia
3) Sweden
4) Norway
5) Japan

19. The Central Bank of Japan is?
1) The Senshu Bank
2) The Master Trust Bank of Japan
3) Mizuho Bank
4) Fuji Bank
5) Bank of Japan

20. The Social Security Agreement between India and which of the following countries will benefit 40 thousand persons of Indian origin in Quebec province?
1) Canada
2) Luxembourg
3) Netherlands
4) Malaysia
5) Belgium

21. Ahimsa Messenger program, an initiative to curb violence against women, was launched on August 31, 2013 in?
1) Kolkata
2) New Delhi
3) Mumbai
4) Rae Bareli
5) Amethi

22. Ahimsa Messenger program is implemented through?
1) Anganwadi centres
2) Panchayati Raj Institutions
3) Sabla Girls
4) Both 1and 2
5) All 1, 2 and 3

23. Ahimsa Messenger is an initiative of the Union Ministry of?
1) Home Affairs
2) Health and Family Welfare
3) Social Justice and Empowerment
4) Information and Broadcasting
5) None of these

24. Bio360 is the first Life Sciences Park in which of the following states?
1) Kerala
2) Tamil Nadu
3) Andhra Pradesh
4) Gujarat
5) Karnataka

25. An expert committee appointed to examine the current monetary policy framework of the Reserve Bank of India was headed by?
1) Anand Sinha
2) Bimal Jalan
3) Usha Thorat
4) Urjit Patel
5) Arvind Maaram

26. Federal Bank has launched the electronic version of conventional passbook called FedBook. Federal Bank is a?
1) Regional Rural Bank
2) Public Sector bank
3) Nationalized Bank
4) New Generation Private Bank
5) Old Private Bank

27. The Central Government has set up the National Institute of Solar Energy (NISE) in?
1) Kangra
2) Kathua
3) Gurgaon
4) Leh
5) Udhampur

28. Which of the following games will be added in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil?
1) Rugby Sevens
2) Golf
3) Squash
4) Both 1 and 2
5) All 1, 2 and 3

29. Tokyo will host the 2020 Summer Olympic Games. It had previously hosted the Games in?
1) 1952
2) 1956
3) 1968
4) 1960
5) 1964

30. The government has set up a panel to assess the status of Scheduled Tribes (STs) with an aim of ensuring their uplift, particularly in socio-economic, health and education fields. The committee is headed by?
1) Virginius Xaxa
2) Aruna Roy
3) Narendra Jadhav
4) Ashis Mondal
5) Pramod Tandon

31. Which is the only state in India that has increased its forest cover in the past two decades?
1) Assam
2) Sikkim
3) Manipur
4) Meghalaya
5) Tripura

32. Pakyong Airport is under construction in?
1) West Bengal
2) Sikkim
3) Assam
4) Meghalaya
5) Tripura

33. The Ambassador of Conscience Award is the most prestigious human rights award given by the?
1) European Parliament
2) Amnesty International
3) Red Cross
4) United Nations Organization
5) UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

34. Who was/ were presented the Ambassador of Conscience Award for 2013?
1) Malala Yousafzai
2) Harry Belafonte
3) Peter Gabriel
4) Both 1 and 2
5) All 1, 2 and 3

35. Which of the following Indian- Americans is the current Dean of Harvard Business School?
1) Vijay P. Singh
2) Kapil Parakh
3) Nitin Nohria
4) Adam Habib
5) None of these

36. Who has been reappointed as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Jammu and Kashmir Bank for a three-year period?
1) Mushtaq Ahmad
2) Parvez Ahmad
3) Abdul Hamid Banday
4) Meera Jamwal
5) Surjeet Singh

37. A Street in Winnipeg has been named after Mahatma Gandhi. Winnipeg is a city in?
1) Russia
2) UK
3) Canada
4) South Africa
5) Germany

38. Which country will host the 2015 edition of the SAFF (South Asian Football Federation) championship?
1) Nepal
2) Maldives
3) Afghanistan
4) India
5) Bangladesh

ANSWERS:

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