Tuesday, August 11, 2015

GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE QUESTIONS FOR ALL BANK EXAMS

1. The Centre will over the next four years infuse how many crore rupees into the state-owned banks?
1) Rs. 80,000 crore
2) Rs. 60,000 crore
3) Rs. 70,000 crore
4) Rs. 1,00,000 crore
5) None of these

2. Who was appointed Chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on July 27, 2015?
1) Sudheer Gupta
2) Ram Sevak Sharma
3) Pankaj Chandra
4) A.K. Kaushal
5) None of these

3. Clive Rice passed away on 28th July 2015. He was an international cricketer from?
1) Australia
2) New Zealand
3) South Africa
4) West Indies
5) England

4. Which city has been chosen to host the 2022 Winter Olympics?
1) Almaty
2) Turin
3) Vancouver
4) Beijing
5) Tokyo

5. K.M. Mani was appointed as the Chairman of the Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers on Goods and Services Tax (GST) in March 2015. He is the Finance Minister of?
1) Tamil Nadu
2) Odisha
3) Bihar
4) Gujarat
5) Kerala

6. Which of the following organizations has been selected for the 2014 Gandhi Peace Prize?
1) TERI
2) Bachpan Bachao Andolan
3) ISRO
4) DRDO
5) BARC

7. Who won the All England Badminton Championship for India?
1) P. Gopichand
2) Prakash Padukone
3) Saina Nehwal
4) Both 1 and 2
5) 1, 2 and 3

8. Which of the following teams won the Ranji Trophy cricket in March 2015?
1) Karnataka
2) Tamil Nadu
3) Kerala
4) Mumbai
5) Delhi

9. Which State government launched Bhagyashree scheme for girls on 8th March 2015?
1) Uttar Pradesh
2) Maharashtra
3) Karnataka
4) Goa
5) West Bengal

10. Hukam Singh passed away recently. He was the Chief Minister of?
1) Punjab
2) Rajasthan
3) Uttarakhand
4) Uttar Pradesh
5) Haryana

11. Ajaypal Singh Banga is the President and CEO of?
1) Deutsche Bank
2) Citibank
3) Google
4) Master Card
5) SoftBank

12. Benetton Group is a global fashion brand based in?
1) France
2) Italy
3) Spain
4) UK
5) USA

13. Who is the author of the book "2014: The Election that Changed India"?
1) Prannoy Roy
2) Vinod Mehta
3) Rajdeep Sardesai
4) Shekar Gupta
5) Yashwant Sinha

14. Which of the following is not a team name in the Indian Super League (ISL) football tournament?
1) Delhi Dynamos
2) Mumbai City
3) FC Goa
4) Kerala Blasters
5) North West United

15. Which one of the following countries is not a member of the European Union?
1) Austria
2) Estonia
3) Slovakia
4) Slovenia
5) Serbia

16. Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) consists of how many countries?
1) 27
2) 30
3) 33
4) 37
5) 38

17. Which of the following is not a Maharatna company?
1) BHEL
2) GAIL
3) NTPC
4) ONGC
5) BPCL

18. Euro 2016 football championship will be played in?
1) Poland
2) France
3) Ukraine
4) Spain
5) Germany

19. The 10th Aero India show was held in February 2015 in?
1) Bangalore
2) Hyderabad
3) Mumbai
4) New Delhi
5) Kochi

20. Sir Venkatraman Ramakrishnan has been named the President of Britain's prestigious Royal Society.
He won the Nobel Prize in 2009 in?
1) Physics
2) Chemistry
3) Medicine
4) Economics
5) Literature

21. David Hale has been appointed as US ambassador to?
1) India
2) Russia
3) China
4) Pakistan
5) Syria

22. Who took over as the new Director General of the Sports Authority of India (SAI) in March 2015?
1) Ajit Sharan
2) Injeti Srinivas
3) N.K. Sahoo
4) R.C. Lodha
5) None of these

23. The central bank of Canada is called the?
1) Reserve Bank of Canada
2) Federal Reserve of Canada
3) Bank of Canada
4) Royal Bank of Canada
5) None of these

24. The principal financial institution for the promotion, financing and development of the MSME
sector in India is?
1) NABARD
2) DICGC
3) SIDBI
4) EXIM Bank
5) RBI

25. Which of the following is not a regulatory authority?
1) RBI
2) FMC
3) IBA
4) SEBI
5) IRDA

26. Who made the highest individual score in cricket world cup history?
1) Rohit Sharma
2) Martin Guptill
3) Chris Gayle
4) Virender Sehwag
5) Sachin Tendulkar

27. Which bank has launched Chillr, a mobile app that allows users to instantly transfer money to any contact in their phonebook?
1) SBI
2) ICICI Bank
3) Axis Bank
4) SBH
5) HDFC Bank

28. Santiago is the capital of which of the following countries?
1) Paraguay
2) Poland
3) Austria
4) Chile
5) Suriname

29. Which of the following is the currency of Spain?
1) Krone
2) Lira
3) Euro
4) Rial
5) Ruble

30. Rajendra Pachauri stepped down as the Chairman of which of the following organizations following allegation of sexual harassment?
1) WEF
2) UNEP
3) WMO
4) IPCC
5) None of these

31. Who is the Union Cabinet Minister for Steel and Mines?
1) Narendra Singh Tomar
2) Ram Vilas Paswan
3) J.P. Nadda
4) Anant Kumar
5) Anant Geethe

32. TOPIX is a stock market index for the?
1) Toronto Stock Exchange
2) Tokyo Stock Exchange
3) Singapore Stock Exchange
4) Shanghai Stock Exchange
5) None of these

33. Zhao Xintong of China is a renowned player in which of the following sports?
1) Table Tennis
2) Badminton
3) Snooker
4) Archery
5) Shooting

34. The modified Direct Benefit Transfer of LPG (DBTL) scheme is renamed as?
1) PARAS
2) BADTA
3) PRAYAS
4) PAHAL
5) None of these

35. Salim Ali Bird Sanctuary is located in?
1) Goa
2) Karnataka
3) Madhya Pradesh
4) Assam
5) Gujarat

36. The National Energy Conservation Day is celebrated every year on?
1) October 14
2) November 14
3) December 14
4) November 24
5) October 24

37. Norman Gordon of South Africa died recently. He played?
1) Football
2) Cricket
3) Badminton
4) Rugby
5) Hockey

38. Which country conferred the highest military rank of field marshal to former Army Chief Sarath Fonseka?
1) Mauritius
2) Nepal
3) Bangladesh
4) Sri Lanka
5) Bhutan

39. Who is the official spokesperson of the Ministry of External affairs?
1) Mohan Kumar
2) Arun Kumar Singh
3) Sujatha Singh
4) Shiv Shankar Menon
5) Vikas Swarup

40. Benjamin Netanyahu is the current Prime Minister of?
1) Syria
2) Jordan
3) Lebanon
4) Israel
5) Libya

ANSWERS:
1) 3; 2) 2; 3) 3; 4) 4; 5) 5; 6) 3; 7) 4; 8) 1; 9) 2; 10) 5;
11) 4; 12) 2; 13) 3; 14) 5; 15) 5; 16) 3; 17) 5; 18) 2; 19) 1; 20) 2;
21) 4; 22) 2; 23) 3; 24) 3; 25) 3; 26) 2; 27) 5; 28) 4; 29) 3; 30) 4;
31) 1; 32) 2; 33) 3; 34) 4; 35) 1; 36) 3; 37) 2; 38) 4; 39) 5; 40) 4.