Sunday, July 6, 2014

GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE MCQs FOR SBI EXAM 2014

1. Who has the sole right to mint coins in India?
1) RBI
2) MMTC
3) Government of India
4) SBI
5) Department of Post

2. Whose signature appears on coins?
1) President of India
2) RBI Governor
3) Finance Secretary
4) RBI Deputy Governor
5) Coins do not bear the signature

3. Government of India withdrawn coins of denomination of 25 paise and below from circulation with effect from ..............
1) 30 July 2012
2) 30 June 2011
3) 30 June 2012
4) 30 June 2010
5) 1 June 2013

4. As per the Indian Coinage Act, Government of India can mint the Coins up to the denomination value of ............
1) 1000
2) 500
3) 250
4) 150
5) 10000

5. Whether all banks accept coins in India though mint by government of India?
1) accept by asking the customer give the undertaking
2) never accept
3) Yes, accept
4) Accept, tell the customer that the bank return any time
5) Accept at the lower value

6. Which rupee coin has largest circulation in India?
1) 2
2) 5
3) 1
4) 10
5) 25 NP

7. ......... committee suggested for the high denomination of Coins in Indian Circulation?
1) C. Rangarajan
2) Bimal Jalan
3) Tarapore
4) Chandulal
5) Malegam

8. Which denomination coin issued to commemorate on the occasion of 150 years of 'Kuka movement'?
1) Rs.10
2) Rs.20
3) Rs.5
4) Rs.100
5) None

9. Commemorative Coin of Rs. 20 and a circulation coin of Rs.5 issued by Finance Minister on 11 Nov 2013, to mark the culmination of the 125th Birth Anniversary of ........
1) Swami Vivekananda
2) Bankim Chandra Chaterji
3) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
4) Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya
5) None

10. Maximum punishment for melting or destruction of coins would be increased from 5 years to ......... years of imprisonment?
1) 4
2) 9
3) 7
4) 10
5) 16

11. ICICI Prudential Life Insurance and Standard Chartered Bank entered into bank assurance partnership on 2 July 2014. Standard Chartered Bank has base in ........
1) Canada
2) France
3) Japan
4) UK
5) Netherlands

12. Which panel has proposed a new class of securities, 'Bharat Depository Receipts (BhDRs)', for foreign firms to raise money in India on 26 June 2014?
1) Ranga Rajan
2) Subramaniam
3) M.S. Sahoo
4) Kedarnath
5) None

13. To absorb excess rupee liquidity, RBI conducted open OMO to sell Rs. 2,255 crore of government bonds between 2 June to 6 June 2014.OMO stands for ............
1) One Market Operations
2) Open Mark Operations
3) Original Market Operations
4) Open Minute Operations
5) Open Market Operations

14. Which bank has been awarded the ‘‘Platinum SKOCH Inclusion & Deepening Award 2014’’ in the area of ‘‘Access to Financial Services’’
1) Indian Bank
2) OBC
3) Bank of India
4) SBI
5) None

15. India asked which nation to invest in the country's infrastructure, including 100 smart cities and high-speed bullet trains?
1) China
2) USA
3) Germany
4) Japan
5) Switzerland

16. For the July -September quarter 2014, kept the lending rate ceiling for micro finance companies at ...........
1) 27.75%
2) 18.75%
3) 21.50%
4) 12.50%
5) None

17. To disseminate information relating to suspect financial transactions, FIU was established by Government
of India. FIU stands for .............
1) First Intelligence Unit
2) Full Intelligence Unit
3) Financial Investigation Unit
4) Final Intelligence Unit
5) Financial Intelligence Unit

18. FIU was established in ..............
1) 2004
2) 2014
3) 2005
4) 2008
5) 2009

19. FIU send its reports directly to Economic Intelligence Council (EIC). EIC headed by .......
1) Finance Minister
2) RBI Governor
3) President of India
4) Economic Advisor to Prime Minister
5) Chairman, Planning Commission

20. Which of the following scheme relates to health?
1) Bharath Nirman
2) Annapurna
3) ASHA
4) Swadhara
5) JNNURM

21. India's first kerosene-free city is ............
1) Hyderabad
2) Manipur
3) Raipur
4) Delhi
5) None

22. 'Gauravi', the India’s first One-Stop Crisis Centre (OSCC) to help women opened in ........
1) New Delhi
2) Bhopal
3) Chennai
4) Bangalore
5) Pune

23. In the connection of which case, the execution of death sentence of LeT terrorist Mohd Arif (Ashfaq) was stayed by Supreme court on 28 April 2014?
1) Mumbai Serial blast case 1993
2) Parliament attack case 2001
3) Hyderabad Bomb blast case 2007
4) Red fort attack case 2000
5) None

24. India ratified the Additional Protocol with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on 22 June 2014 . IAEA was established in ..............
1) 1981
2) 1990
3) 2000
4) 1957
5) None

25. IAEA headquarters located at .............
1) New York
2) Geneva
3) Washington
4) Vienna
5) None

26. Head of IAEA is .............
1) Irina Bokova
2) Ban Ki Moon
3) Yukiya Amano
4) Anthony Lake
5) None

27. KK Mehrotra heads the committee appointed on 20 June 2014 to inquire into the incident of gas leakage in Bhilai Steel Plant in ..........
1) Chhattisgarh
2) Jharkhand
3) UP
4) Haryana
5) Tamil nadu

28. The central government extended the deadline for implementing National Food Security Act by ............
1) 6 months
2) 12 months
3) 9 months
4) 24 months
5) 3 months

29. Chief Ministers combination given. Locate the wrong option?
1) Assam-Tarun Gogoi
2) Haryana-Bhupinder Singh Hooda
3) Jharkhand-Raman Singh
4) Manipur-Ibobi Singh
5) Meghalaya-Mukul Sangma

30. USA named a mountain in .......... as Mt. Sinha to honour an eminent Indian-American scientist, Akhouri Sinha on 30 June 2014?
1) Antarctica
2) Himalayas
3) Scandinavian Mountains
4) Arctic Circle
5) None

31. Dakshin Gangotri is the first scientific base station of India situated in ..........
1) Alph mountains
2) Ural Mountains
3) Andes Mountains
4) Antarctica
5) None

32. On 15 June 2014, Juan Manuel Santos again elected as the president of .............
1) South Africa
2) Zimbabwe
3) South Sudan
4) Brazil
5) Colombia

33. Columbia capital is Bogota and its currency is ........
1) Real
2) Lira
3) Peso
4) Dollar
5) Pound

34. Which Indian-origin judge appointed as the eighth Attorney-General of Singapore?
1) Dalwari Bhandari
2) Kala Vatsava
3) V.K. Rajah
4) Santosh kumar Agarwal
5) None

35. Theekkadal Katanhu Thirumadhuram is the novel written by Malayalam writer C. Radhakrishnan. He recently selected for the .............
1) Jnanpith Award
2) Saraswathi samman
3) Vyas Samman
4) kalidas Samman
5) Moorthidevi Award

36. Moorthi devi award given by .............
1) UNO
2) Noble foundation
3) Bharatiya Jnanpith foundation
4) Government of Odisha
5) None

37. 'Bankerupt' written by ................
1) Raghuram Rajan
2) Ravi Subramaniam
3) D. Subba Rao
4) Manmohan Singh
5) None

38. 'Development as Freedom' written by ........
1) Swaminathan M S
2) Montek Singh Ahluwalia
3) Ashok Gulati
4) Amartya Sen
5) None

39. 'Industrial Relations in India: Shifting Paradigms' written by ................
1) Sarad Pawar
2) Chaturvedi T
3) R.C. Chandrasekahar
4) Abhijith Sen
5) None

40. 'National Doctors' day celebrated on.......
1) 1 June
2) 1 April
3) 1 May
4) 1 July
5) None

41. 'National Doctors' day celebrated in the memory of ..........
1) Susrutha Birthday
2) Charaka Birthday
3) Dhanwanthari Birthday
4) B.C. Roy Birth day
5) None

42. B.C. Roy received which highest award in 1961?
1) Padmasri
2) Bharat Ratna
3) Padma Bhushan
4) Padma Vibhushan
5) None

43. On 27 June 2014, Union Ministry of Commerce and Industry upgraded the NIC- 1987 to NIC-2008 to make it more industrial friendly. NIC stands for ...........
1) National Indo Classification
2) Ninth Industrial Classification
3) National Industrial Consortium
4) National Industrial Competition
5) National Industrial Classification

44. DBFOT stands for ........... ?
1) Design, Build, Finance, Originate and Transfer
2) Drive, Build, Finance, Operate and Transfer
3) Design, Boot, Finance, Operate and Transfer
4) Design, Build, Finance, Operate and Transfer
5) None

45. Mandovi river is in the state of .............
1) AP
2) Tamil nadu
3) Goa
4) UP
5) Rajasthan

46. Which state Assembly session held at Gairsain in Chamoli from 9 June to 11 June 2014? This is the first time the session held out side of the capital.
1) Jharkhand
2) Chhattisgarh
3) Uttarakhand
4) Bihar
5) AP

47. United Nations and IOC on 28 April 2014 signed a historic agreement, recently, with the objectives of using the power of sports to promote peace and economic development across the world. In this context , IOC means ............
1) International Olympic Committee
2) Indian Olympic Committee
3) International Olympic Collegiums
4) International Olympic Consortium
5) None

48. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) was established in ..............
1) 1902
2) 1884
3) 1972
4) 1814
5) 1894

ANSWERS:
1-3, 2-5, 3-2, 4-1, 5-3, 6-3, 7-3, 8-3, 9-3, 10-3
11-4, 12-3, 13-5, 14-3, 15-4, 16-1, 17-5, 18-1, 19-1, 20-3
21-4, 22-2, 23-4, 24-4, 25-4, 26-3, 27-1, 28-5, 29-3, 30-1
31-4, 32-5, 33-3, 34-3, 35-5, 36-3, 37-2, 38-4, 39-4, 40-4
41-4, 42-2, 43-5, 44-4, 45-3, 46-3, 47-1, 48-5