Sunday, July 12, 2015

GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE QUESTIONS FOR IBPS P.O. EXAM

1. Which of the following countries won the Copa America football tournament on July 4, 2015?
1) Argentina
2) Paraguay
3) Chile
4) Peru
5) Brazil

2. Nationwide Mobile Number Portability has been operational from?
1) July 1, 2015
2) July 3, 2015
3) July 5, 2015
4) July 7, 2015
5) None of these

3. As per the Socio Economic and Caste Census 2011 (SECC), what percent of the rural Indians are illiterates?
1) 32%
2) 44%
3) 36%
4) 40%
5) 41%

4. Who has been named the winner of the 2015 World Food Prize?
1) M.S. Swaminathan
2) Mahabub ul Haq
3) Muhammad Yunus
4) Fazle Hasan Abed
5) Sanjay Rajaram

5. Tony Tan Keng Yam visited India in February 2015. He is the President of?
1) South Korea
2) Vietnam
3) Cambodia
4) Laos
5) Singapore

6. National Rail Museum is located in?
1) Mumbai
2) Chennai
3) Kolkata
4) Secunderabad
5) New Delhi

7. The International Mountain Day is observed every year on?
1) December 11
2) October 11
3) November 11
4) September 11
5) August 11

8. Nickolay Mladenov was appointed as the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East peace process on February 5, 2015. He belongs to?
1) Russia
2) Bulgaria
3) Ukraine
4) Georgia
5) Serbia

9. Identify the mismatched pair? State Chief Minister
1) Jammu & Kashmir - Mufti Mohammed Sayeed
2) Bihar - Nitish Kumar
3) Odisha - Naveen Patnaik
4) Tripura - T.R. Zeliang
5) Sikkim - Pawan Chamling

10. Who is the deputy Chief Minister of Delhi?
1) Sandeep Kumar
2) Gopal Rai
3) Asim Ahmed Khan
4) Manish Sisodia
5) Somnath Bharti

11. The World Health Organization is headquartered in?
1) Austria
2) USA
3) UK
4) Italy
5) Switzerland

12. Which of the following statements is not correct?
1) Pranab Mukherjee is the author of "The Dramatic Decade: The Indira Gandhi Years"
2) BRICS Development Bank is now known as The New Development Bank
3) The chief regulator for the commodity futures market is Forward Markets Commission
4) Bharatiya Mahila Bank is a non-scheduled commercial bank
5) The 2018 Commonwealth Games will be held in Australia

13. Who was given the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award in January 2015?
1) Tanuja
2) Waheeda Rehman
3) Kamini Kaushal
4) Hema Malini
5)Jaya Bachchan

14. The Rapid Action Force (RAF) is a specialized wing of the?
1) CISF
2) BSF
3) CRPF
4) ITBP
5) NSG

15. Which is the second largest river in India after the river Ganga?
1) Brahmaputra
2) Godavari
3) Krishna
4) Indus
5) Yamuna

16. Ritu Rani is associated with which of the following sports?
1) Football
2) Cricket
3) Hockey
4) Boxing
5) Shooting

17. Michael Adams of England is associated with?
1) Billiards
2) Golf
3) Formula one
4) Chess
5) Boxing

18. Who is the author of the book "The Good, The Bad and The Ridiculous"?
1) Salman Rushdie
2) Khushwant Singh
3) V.S. Naipaul
4) Arvind Adiga
5) None of these

19. The currency of Oman is?
1) Omani Dollar
2) Omani Ruble
3) Omani Rial
4) Omani Pound
5) Omani Dinar

20. Buying or selling of securities by a person with access to privileged information with an objective of making an illegal gain is called?
1) Cross trading
2) Forward trading
3) Circular trading
4) Insider trading
5) None of these

21. Who was appointed the Director General of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in February 2015?
1) M.O. Garg
2) P.K. Kapil
3) D.M. Kale
4) I.M. Mishra
5) A.S. Basu

22. Rafi Ahmed Kidwai National Postal Academy is situated in?
1) Ghaziabad
2) Lucknow
3) Nagpur
4) Hyderabad
5) New Delhi

 23. Which of the following rivers crosses the equator twice?
1) Amazon
2) Congo
3) Volga
4) Nile
5) Danube

24. Which of the following pairs of countries and capital cities is not matched correctly?
1) Argentina – Buenos Aires
2) Colombia – Bogotá
3) Egypt – Cairo
4) Zimbabwe – Harare
5) Peru – Santiago

25. Which one of the following European Union countries has its own currency and has not switched over to Euro?
1) France
2) Germany
3) Italy
4) Spain
5) Sweden

26. Which country recently launched a new generation navigation satellite Glonass-K?
1) Japan
2) France
3) Russia
4) China
5) South Korea

27. Who was appointed by the President Barack Obama as a member of the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations in February 2015?
1) Indra Nooyi
2) Ajay Banga
3) Padmasree Warrior
4) Punit Renjen
5) None of these

28. Which one of the following countries does not have a female President at present?
1) Brazil
2) Argentina
3) Venezuela
4) Chile
5) Croatia

29. Sergio Mattarella assumed office as the President of which of the following countries on February 3, 2015?
1) Greece
2) Italy
3) Bulgaria
4) Slovenia
5) Spain

30. Who is the present Defense Secretary of the United States of America?
1) Chuck Hagel
2) Robert Gates
3) John Kerry
4) Ashton Carter
5) Leon Panetta

31. Which of the following films won the Best Picture award at the 87th Academy awards in February 2015?
1) Boyhood
2) Whiplash
3) Still Alice
4) Birdman
5) None of these

32. Bhalachandra Nemade was chosen for the Jnanpith Award 2014. He is an eminent writer in which of the following languages?
1) Kannada
2) Marathi
3) Sanskrit
4) Hindi
5) Bengali

33. The abbreviation "EPOS" stands for?
1) Electronic Purchase of Sale
2) Electronic Payment of Sale
3) Electronic Point of Sale
4) Electronic Price of Sale
5) None of these

34. Nikkei 225 is a stock market index of?
1) Shanghai stock exchange
 2) Tokyo stock exchange
3) New York stock exchange
4) Beijing stock exchange
5) None of these

35. Which country won the African Nations Cup football tournament on February 8, 2015?
1) Ghana
2) Cameroon
3) Senegal
4) South Africa
5) Ivory Coast

36. Who is the Deputy Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir?
1) Priya Sethi
2) Aasiya Naqqash
3) Mehbooba Mufti
4) Nirmal Singh
5) None of these

37. Dunya Maumoon visited India in February 2015. She is the Foreign Minister of?
1) Malaysia
2) Maldives
3) Afghanistan
4) Iraq
5) Iran

38. Who founded Prarthana Samaj in 1867?
1) Swami Vivekananda
2) Ramakrishna Paramahansa
3) Aatmaram Pandurang
4) Mahadev Govind Ranade
5) Dayananda Saraswati

39. Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy is in?
1) Mussorie
2) Darjeeling
3) Kolkata
4) Dehradun
5) Bhubaneswar


Answers 
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11) 5 12) 4 13) 3 14) 3 15) 2 16) 3 17) 4 18) 2 19) 3 20) 4
21) 1 22) 1 23) 2 24) 5 25) 5 26) 3 27) 2 28) 3 29) 2 30) 4
31) 4 32) 2 33) 3 34) 2 35) 5 36) 4 37) 2 38) 3 39) 4.