Wednesday, July 9, 2014

GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE QUESTIONS FOR ALL BANK EXAMS

1. On 1 July 2014, which committee submitted the report on Data and InformationManagement in RBI?
1) Anand Sinha 
2) H.R. Khan
3) Arundhathi Bhattacharya
4) Rakesh Mohan 
5) D.K. Mohanty

2. Who headed the advisory group submitted a report to RBI on ‘Estimates of Productivity Growth for the Indian Economy’ on 11 June 2014?
1) K.R. Kamath 
2) Varada Raja Guptha
3) B.N. Goldar 
4) Sambamurthy
5) K.U.B. Rao

3. A ‘Working Group on Resolution Regime for Financial Institutions’ set up by RBI submitted the recommendations on 2 May 2014. It is headed by......
1) Anand Sinha 
2) Aditya Puri
3) B. Mahapatra 
4) Prakash Bakshi
5) None

4. Dr. Anil Kumar Sharma committee submitted a report to RBI on 22 April 2014 relating to ‘Enabling PKI in Payment System Applications’. PKI stands for.......
1) Payment of King size Instruments
2) Pull and Kill Information
3) Priority Key Infrastructure
4) Public Key Infrastructure
5) None

5. ‘Working Group on Pricing of Credit’ submitted a report to RBI on 10 April 2014. It is headed by.....
1) Smt. Shikha Sharma 
2) K.K. Vohra
3) Anand Sinha 
4) K.C. Chakrabarty
5) None

6. ........Committee submitted a report to Recommend Data Format for Furnishing of Credit Information to Credit Information Companies on 22 March 2014.
1) Narasimham 
2) M.V. Nair
3) Aditya Puri 
4) M. Damodaran
5) None

7. Which panel suggested to set-up specialized banks to cater to the low income households on 7 January 2014?
1) R. Gandhi 
2) Parthasarathy
3) Nachiket Mor 
4) Vijay Bhaskar
5) None

8. Internal group to review the guidelines relating to commercial paper headed by.....
1) R. Gandhi 
2) Raghuram Rajan
3) Shyamala Gopinath 
4) Y.V. Reddy
5) None

9. Saraf committee relates to......
1) Use of human resources in banks
2) Recruitment of minorities in banks
3) Auditing of foreign banks
4) Technology issues in banking
5) None

10. The high level committee to review Lead Bank Scheme headed by......
1) Kalanidhi 
2) Urjith Patel
3) Nachiket Mor 
4) G. Srinivasan
5) Usha Thorat

11. Working group on Benchmark Prime Lending Rate committee headed by.....
1) C. Ranga Rajan 
2) Y.H. Malegam
3) Deepak Mohanty 
4) Rakesh Mohan
5) None

12. By mid June 2014, the bank deposits grew by ...... percent year - on - year to Rs.9,00,894 crore
1) 18.25 
2) 13.91 
3) 11.45
4) 19.25 
5) 21.35

13. CER was established to prevent frauds in loan cases involving multiple lending from
different banks on the same immovable property. CER means.......
1) Central Electronic Recognition
2) Central Ethics Registry
3) Central Electronic Registry
4) Central Election Registry
5) Central Entry Registry

14. Union Government granted Navarathna status to EIL and NBCC on 24 June 2014. NBCC stands for.......
1) National Buildings Construction Corporation
2) National Buildings Consolidate Corporation
3) National Buildings Construction Co-operation
4) National Bulldozer Construction Corporation
5) None

15. National Buildings Construction Corporation (NBCC) was established in......
1) 1951 
2) 1964 
3) 2000
4) 1960 
5) 1991

16. NBCC head office located at.....
1) Mumbai 
2) Bangalore
3) Hyderabad 
4) New Delhi
5) Chennai

17. To set up industrial parks, share hydrological information during Brahmaputra floods and impart training to public officials which nation and India made agreement on 30
June 2014?
1) USA 
2) Canada 
3) Pakistan
4) New Zealand 
5) China

18. Union Minister of Commerce and Industry (Independent Charge) is......
1) Nirmala Sitharaman
2) General VK Singh
3) Dharmendra Pradhan
4) Prakash Javadekar 
5) None

19. Horticulutre crop is.....
1) Wheat 
2) Rice 
3) Mango
4) Bajara 
5) All of above

20. First transgenic crop of India is......
1) Bt. Cotton 
2) Bt. Brinjal
3) Bt. Paddy 
4) Bt. Papaya
5) None

21. In the insurance terminology, the word ‘ULIP’ used. ULIP stands for.....
1) Universal Linked Insurance Plan
2) Union Linked Insurance Plan
3) Unit Loan Insurance Plan
4) Unit Linked Insurance Plan
5) None

22. On 2 July 2014, Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approved the inclusion of which commodities under the purview of stock holding limits under the Essential Commodities Act 1955?
1) Onion and paddy
2) Cabbage and potato
3) Onion and chilli
4) Sugar cane and potato
5) Onion and potato

23. CCEA headed by......
1) Commerce minister 
2) Finance minister
3) Prime minister 
4) President of India
5) None

24. Men's Hockey World Cup 2014 winner......
1) Belgium 
2) England
3) Australia 
4) Netherlands 
5) Argentina

25. Men' Hockey World Cup 2014 venue is.....
1) Australia 
2) India 
3) Netherlands
4) Pakistan 
5) Argentina

26. Women's Hockey World Cup 2014 winner...
1) New Zealand 
2) USA
3) Netherlands 
4) Australia
5) Argentina

27. In 2018, the Hockey World Cup host by.....
1) Australia 
2) Germany 
3) Malaysia
4) India 
5) None of above

28. Which of the following term not related to
basket ball?
1) air ball 
2) ball hog
3) boundary line 
4) chucker
5) double dribble

29. As on 1 July 2014, who became World Number 1 pistol shooter in the men's 10 m air pistol
category?
1) Jitu Rai
2) Abhinav Bindra
3) Jaspal Rana
4) Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
5) Samresh Jung

30. To Track Alien' life, who plans to build ATLAST (Advanced Technology Large
Aperture Space Telescope)?
1) Russia 
2) EU 
3) Israel
4) France 
5) USA

31. India ranked eighth in the list of ten countries in terms of digital governance as per the study of Accenture. Which nation ranked first?
1) USA 
2) UK 
3) China
4) Singapore 
5) Australia

32. M.K.Narayanan resigned as the governor of...
1) AP 
2) Karnataka 
3) West Bengal
4) Odisha 
5) Jammu and Kashmir

33. Jean-Claude Juncker was named as the next President of.......
1) WTO 
2) WEF 
3) NATO
4) World bank 
5) European Commission

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. Singapore currency......
1) Pound 
2) Rupee 
3) Franc
4) Dollar 
5) Peso

36. Tejinder Virdee, known for his work for the Large Hadron Collider conferred with an
honorary knighthood by.....
1) USA 
2) UK 
3) Russia
4) Spain 
5) Britain

37. Sudarsan Pattnaik has won the People's Choice Prize for his work "Save Tree, Save the Future" at the World Cup of Sand Sculpting-2014 held in the Atlantic City of the USA on 28 Jun 2014. He is a famous.....
1) Canvas painter 
2) Music player
3) Reality show player 
4) Sand artist
5) None

38. Sudarsan Pattnaik belongs to......
1) Delhi 
2) Tamilnadu 
3) Assom
4) Odisha 
5) Meghalaya

39. John XXIII and .......were declared as saints of the Roman Catholic Church on 27 April 2014 by Pope Francis at Vatican City.
1) Mother Teresa 
2) Nelson Mandela
3) Tomas Halik 
4) Sister Niveditha
5) John Paul II

40. Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna is the highest award in.......
1) Literature 
2) Dance
3) Sports 
4) Technology
5) Information Technology

41. Recipient of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Ranjan Sodhi is a.....
1) Kabaddi player 
2) Football player
3) Shooter 
4) Cricket player
5) None

42. Passport Seva Divas is.....
1) 24 June 
2) 27 June 
3) 1 July
4) 15 June 
5) None

43. Passport Seva Divas celebrates on every 24th June, because.....
1) Passport Act in 1967 came in to effect on 24 June.
2) All citizens of India must get passport by 24 June 2015.
3) On 24th June, 1950 Nehru got first passport.
4) On 24th June every year all passport holders must renew their passports.
5) None

44. International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking observed on......
1) 28 Jan 
2) 28 Feb 
3) 28 May
4) 26 June 
5) 26 Dec

45. Which city will be the World Book Capital (WBC) for 2016 in recognition of its promoting the publishing and bookselling industries as said by UNESCO on 26 June 2014?
1) Canberra (Australia) 
2) Rome (Italy)
3) Warsaw (Poland)
4) Berlin (Germany) 
5) None

46. Poland capital is Warsaw and Poland currency is.......
1) Zloty 
2) Forint 
3) Lev
4) Koruna 
5) Euro

47. 11th century step well Rani-ki-Vav has been approved for placement on the World Heritage site list by UNESCO. Rani-ki-Vav is in..
1) Gujarat 
2) MP 
3) UP
4) Bihar 
5) Tamilnadu

48. European Union temporarily banned the import of which of the following items from
India recently?
1) Alphonso mangoes 
2) Snake gourd
3) Bitter gourd 
4) 1 & 2 only
5) All of above

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