GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE MCQs FOR IBPS EXAMS

1.    Former Union Home Secretary G.K. Pillai was appointed as the Chairman of which of the following stock exchanges on November 1, 2013?
     1) MCX-SX   
2) NSE    
3) BSE      
     4) USE          
5) CSE            

 2.    Reshma died in Lahore on November 3, 2013. She was a legendary Pakistani?
     1) Politician      
 2) Author  
     3) Painter            
 4) Singer      
     5) Social worker                

 3.    Fed Cup is the team competition in women’s tennis. Which country won the 2013 Fed Cup in November 2013?
     1) Italy         
2) Russia   
     3) Australia      
4) Serbia
     5) Czech Republic     

 4.    Gujarat Chief Minister Naren- dra Modi laid the foundation for the world’s tallest memorial of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel on October 31, 2013. It is called?
     1) Statue of Integrity
     2) Statue of Honesty
     3) Statue of Unity
     4) Statue of Equality 
     5) Statue of Prosperity 

 5.    Who became the first Indian to reach the quarter-finals of the world squash championships in Manchester on October 31, 2013?
     1) Harinder Pal Sandhu
     2) Saurav Ghosal   
     3)  Mahesh Mangaonkar
     4) Ravi Dixit     
5) Ramit Tandon 
             
 6.    Indian men’s team qualified for the 2014 Hockey World Cup. The 2014 Men’s Hockey World Cup will be held from May 31 to June 15 in?
     1) Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
     2) Sydney (Australia)        
     3) Buenos Aires (Argentina)
     4) The Hague (Netherlands)        
     5) Barcelona (Spain)

 7.    What is India’s rank in the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business Report for 2014?
     1) 134       
2) 189       
3) 147
     4) 139       
5) 145  

 8.    Identify the mismatched pair?
     1) Bank Rate – 8.75%
     2) Repo Rate – 7.75%          
 3) Reverse Repo Rate – 6.5% 
     4) CRR – 4% 
     5) SLR – 23%      

 9.    Which of the following agencies has requested for granting its Director ex-officio powers of Secretary, Government of India?
     1) RAW       
2) IB    
3) CBI
      4) CRPF      
5) BSF       

 10.    Who will take on the current world champion Viswanathan Anand in the world chess championship to be held from 9 to 28 November 2013 in Chennai?
     1) Boris Gelfand (Israel)
     2) Vladimir Kramnik (Russia)
     3) Garry Kasparov (Russia)
     4) Magnus Carlsen (Norway)
     5) None of these

 11.    Which is the first state to introduce e-GPF or electronic-GPF?
     1) Gujarat     
2) Rajasthan
     3) Punjab    
4) West Bengal
     5) Arunachal Pradesh         

 12.    Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission (FSL RC) headed by Justice B.N. Srikrishna recommended constitution of a unified financial sector regulator. The commission recommended the unification of which of the following under a single regulator?
     1) SEBI, FMC and NABARD   
     2) SEBI, FMC and PFRDA  
     3) SEBI, FMC and TRAI
     4) SEBI, PFRDA and TRAI 
     5) SEBI, PFRDA, IRDA &FMC

 13.    Videocon Industries and Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) have reported a huge natural gas discovery in?
     1) Mongolia       
2) Mozambique   
     3) Kazakhstan      
4) Libya
     5) None of these

 14.    Which Indian businessman was regarded as takeover king as he acquired many firms?
     1) Nusli Wadia
     2) Dhirubhai Ambani
     3) JRD Tata    
4) R.P. Goenka
     5) None of these

 15.    Which state hosted the 27th North-East Games in April 2013?
     1) Manipur     
2) Assam
     3) Mizoram      
4) Nagaland
     5) Arunachal Pradesh

 16.    North Eastern Electric Power Corporation (NEEPCO) was recently granted?
     1) Maharatna status
     2) Navaratna status
     3) Miniratna Category-1 status  
     4) Miniratna Category-2 status      
     5) None of these

 17.    ‘Not for Turning’ written by Robin Harris is the biography of?
     1) Winston Churchill   
     2) Tony Blair    
3) David Cameron   
     4) Margaret Thatcher
     5) Gordon Brown

 18.    Indian American economist Raj Chetty won the prestigious John Bates Clark medal 2013, often referred to as the ?
     1) Baby Nobel
     2) America’s Nobel
     3) Asia’s Nobel
     4) Alternative Nobel
     5) None of these

 19.    Industrialist Ram Prasad Goenka, founder of the RPG Group, passed away recently. Which of the following companies does not belong to RPG Group?
     1) CEAT Tyres
     2) KEC International    
     3) Zensar Technologies
     4) Harrisons Malayalam
     5) MRF Tyres

 20.    Who has been appointed as the Vice-Chairman of the Inter- national Chamber of Com- merce (ICC)?
     1) Mukesh Ambani
     2) S.Gopalakrishnan  
     3) Sunil Bharti Mittal
     4) Azim Premji
     5) Ratan Tata 

 21.    The Supreme Court has rejected the plea of which of the following pharmaceutical companies to patent the updated version of cancer drug called Glivec?
     1) Pfizer      
2) Roche  
3) Sanofi 
     4) Novartis  
5) Abbott

 22.    The 2014 Asia Cup cricket tournament will be hosted by which of the following countries between February 24 and March 7?
     1) India       
2) Pakistan
     3) Sri Lanka         
4) Bangladesh
     5) Malaysia    

 23.    Mukundara Hills is the third tiger reserve in?
     1) Rajasthan   
 2) Karnataka
     3) Uttar Pradesh   
 4) Jharkhand   
     5) Madhya Pradesh

 24.    Which country’s scientists created the world’s lightest substance-carbon aerogel?
     1) India       
2) USA     
3) China 
     4) France    
5) Belgium 

 25.    As per a report released by the World Bank, which country is the largest recipient of remittances in the world, receiving $69.35 billion in 2012?
     1) India            
2) China  
     3) Philippines    
 4) Mexico
     5) Nigeria

 26.    The customers by investing in the Tax Saver Deposit Account Scheme in a bank would get benefit under?
     1) Sales Tax    
2) Customs Duty  
      3) Income Tax  
4) Excise Duty  
     5) None of these  

 27.    Chinua Achebe, a Nigerian novelist, died in 2013. He won which of the following awards in 2007?
     1) Nobel Prize in Literature
     2) Man Booker
           International Prize
      3) Man Booker Prize
     4) Pulitzer Prize
      5) Ondaatje Prize

 28.    Which country will support building up of renewable energy in India by providing soft loans of up to $1.3 billion for a six-year period starting next year?
     1) Germany     
2) UK     
3) USA
     4) France        
5) Japan

 29.    Who is the author of the book ‘The First Woman President of India, Reinventing Leadership, Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil’?
     1) Shobha De   
     2) Sunaina Singh
     3) Sudha Murty
     4) Rashmi Bansal   
            5) None

 30.    The Goldman Prize is given in the field of?
     1) Education       
2) Cinema
     3) Environment 
4) Literature 
     5) Journalism

 31.    Who has been appointed Chairman of the All India Football Federation’s technical committee?
     1) Praful Patel     
2) Subrata Dutta    
     3) Inder Singh
     4) Bhaichung Bhutia
     5) None of these

 32.    Who won the 2013 India Open Super series badminton championship men’s singles title in New Delhi?
     1) Lee ChongWei (Malaysia )
     2) Kenichi Tago (Japan)
     3) Liu Xiao long (China)
     4) Qui Zihan (China) 
     5) None of these 

 33.    Ratchanok Inthanon won the women’s singles title at the 2013 India Open Super series badminton championship in New Delhi. She belongs to?
     1) Vietnam      
2) Thailand
     3) Myanmar    
4) Malaysia 
     5) Singapore

 34.    Census 2011 data released in April 2013 revealed that the number of farmers in India had fallen by how many millions over the last one decade?
     1) 10 million      
2) 15 million
     3) 9 million       
4) 6 million  
     5) 11 million 

 35.    Which is the first city in South Asia to come up with a Heat Action Plan (HAP)?
     1) Hyderabad      
2) Chennai
     3) Bangalore     
4) Ahmedabad  
     5) Coimbatore

 36.    Which of the following is the capital of Cuba?
     1) San Jose     
2) Kingston
     3) Havana     
4) Vaduz
     5) Vienna 

 37.    April 5 is celebrated as the?
     1) National Girl Child Day 
     2) National Maritime Day
     3) National Science Day 
     4) National Voters Day
     5) None of these

 38.    Which film won the Golden Globe Award 2013 in the Best Motion Picture-Drama category?
     1) Argo      
 2) Django Unchained
     3) Life of Pi     
4) Lincoln    
     5) Zero Dark Thirty

 39.    Ward Cunningham is an American computer programmer who developed the?
     1) First Wiki   
            2) Java language
     3) C language  
     4) World Wide Web  
           5) None

 40.    ‘Catch me if you can’ is a Hollywood movie made on the life of Frank Abagnale, who was a famous/ an infamous?
     1) Sprinter     
 2) Lawyer  
     3) Swimmer     
4) Impostor      
     5) Boxer 

ANSWERS:

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

GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE MCQs FOR ALL BANK EXAMS

1.    The Ministry of Petroleum and Gas constituted a panel to advice on Pricing Methodology for Diesel, Domestic LPG and PDS Kerosene which submitted its report on October 30, 2013. The panel was headed by?
     1) Kirit Parikh    
     2) P.K. Singh
     3) Deepak Parekh
     4) R.K. Singh     
    5) Vijay Kelkar
 2.    Mukesh Ambani topped the Forbes India rich list for the sixth consecutive year in October 2013. Who is the second richest Indian?
     1) Azim Premji
     2) Lakshmi Mittal
     3) Shiv Nadar     
     4) Adi Godrej
     5) Sunil Mittal
 3.    P.S. Raghavan, a secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs, has been appointed as India's next ambassador to?
     1) USA     
      2) China
     3) Russia     
    4) France
     5) Germany
 4.    Who will be the next Indian Air Force Chief?
     1) P.V. Naik     
     2) S.P. Tyagi
     3) N.C. Suri    
     4) Arup Raha
     5) None of these
 5.    The Vice President Hamid Ansari launched INCHAM, the Indian Chamber of Commerce in which of the following countries in October 2013?
     1) Kazakhstan     
     2) China
     3) Russia     
     4) Peru
     5) Brazil
 6.    RBI in its second-quarter review of monetary policy on October 29, 2013 raised the repo rate by how many basis points?
     1) 25 basis points
     2) 50 basis points
     3) 75 basis points
     4) 100 basis points
     5) None of these
 7.    The President Pranab Mukherjee presented the Lal Bahadur Shas-tri National Award for Excellence in Public Administration, Academics and Management on October 1, 2013 to?
     1) Rajendra Achyut Badwe
     2) Tessy Thomas    
     3) Sunil Mittal
     4) M.S. Swaminathan
     5) D.R. Mehta
 8.    The Reserve Bank of India on October 29, 2013 reduced the marginal standing facility (MSF) rate. What is the present MSF rate?
     1) 10.25%    
    2) 8.75%
     3) 9.5%    
     4) 9%
     5) None of these
 9.    The Reserve Bank of India reduced the growth forecast for the current fiscal to what per cent from 5.5 per cent projected earlier?
     1) 5.25 per cent    
     2) 4.75 per cent
     3) 5 per cent     
     4) 4.5 per cent
     5) None of these
 10.    Dilip Shanghvi is the third richest person in India, according to the Forbes magazine. He is the founder of?
     1) Essar Group
     2) Vedanta Resources
     3) Sun Pharmaceutical Industries
     4) Shapoorji Pallonji Group
     5) Wipro
 11.    Olafur Ragnar Grimsson visited India recently. He is the President of?
     1) Ireland     
     2) Norway
     3) Iceland     
     4) Austria
     5) Finland
 12.    The Finance Minister P. Chidam-baram has inaugurated the 100th overseas office of which of the following public sector banks at Dubai International Finance Centre (DIFC)?
     1) State Bank of India
     2) State Bank of Hyderabad
     3) Indian Overseas Bank
     4) Bank of Baroda
     5) Bank of India
 13.    The United Nations General Assembly declared 2013 as the?
     1)    International Year of Biodiversity
     2)    International Year of Water Cooperation
     3)    International Year of Youth
     4)    International Year of Forests
     5)    International Year of Cooperatives
 14.    Indian Cinema completed 100 years on which of the following days in 2013?
     1) March 3    
     2) April 3
     3) May 3    
    4) June 3
     5) February 3
 15.    V.S. Rama Devi passed away in April 2013. She was the only woman to occupy the post of?
     1)    Attorney General
     2)    Comptroller and Auditor General
     3)    Chief Information Commissioner
     4)    Home Secretary
     5)    Chief Election Commissioner

GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE MCQs FOR IBPS EXAMS

1.Who was appointed as the goodwill ambassador for South  Korea in October 2013?
     1) Shah Rukh Khan
     2) Aamir Khan            
     3) Amitabh Bachchan               
     4) Aishwarya Rai            
     5) None of these 
            
 2 .Rajiv Takru is?
     1) Finance Secretary   
     2) Financial Services Secretary   
     3) Revenue Secretary             
     4) Defense Secretary      
     5) Foreign Secretary
                
 3.  State Bank of India will get how many crores of rupees for capital infusion this financial year?
     1) Rs 1800cr     
2) Rs 1000cr                  
     3) Rs 2000cr     
4) Rs 700cr       
     5) Rs 500cr
             
 4.     Playback singer Manna Dey passed away on October 24, 2013. The Government of India honored him with the        Dada Saheb Phalke Award in?
     1) 2005    
2) 2011
     3) 2009    
4) 2007
     5) 2010  

 5.     India signed the Border Defen- se Co-operation Agreement (BDCA) with which of the following countries in October 2013?
     1) Bhutan     
2) Bangladesh   
     3)  Pakistan     
4) Myanmar             
     5) China
                  
 6.     Festival of India was inaugu- rated on October 26, 2013 in Lima, the capital of?
     1) Cuba     
2) Chile         
     3) Peru      
4) Bolivia         
     5) Ecuador 

 7. Who became Formula One’s youngest four-times world champion on October 27, 2013?
     1) Felipe Massa
     2) Lewis Hamilton
     3) Kimi Raikkonen  
     4) Sebastian Vettel          
     5) Fernando Alonso

 8.     Fortune magazine compiled a list for most powerful business women in the United States in October 2013.The list is topped by Ginni Rometty, the Chief Executive Officer of?
     1) IBM     
     2) PepsiCo
     3) DuPont   
     4) Lockheed Martin   
     5) Yahoo

 9.     The 23rd Commonwealth Hea- ds of Government Meeting (CHOGM) will be held in which of the following coun-tries from 15 to 17 November 2013?
     1) Australia    
2) England    
     3) India        
4) Sri Lanka    
     5) New Zealand

 10.    Who was crowned Miss America on September 15, 2013 in Atlantic City, New Jersey? 
     1) Indira Talwani  
     2) Nina Davuluri      
     3) Renu Khator     
     4) Anju Bhargava    
     5) None of these

 11.    Which businessman’s debut book is ‘How Not to Make Money’?
     1) Anil Ambani  
     2) Raj Kundra    
     3) Vijay Mallya   
     4)  R. Thyagarajan   
     5) G.Mallikarjun Rao 
         
 12.    Sachin Tendulkar is the 16th player to reach a grand total of 50,000 runs in all forms of senior cricket. With  67,057 runs who heads this list?
     1) Graham Gooch (England)   
     2) Graeme Hick (England)   
     3) Jack Hobbs (England)
     4)  Viv Richards (West Indies)
     5) Don Bradman (Australia)

 13.    Which of the following is a major indicator of the state of the economy of a country?
     1) Rate of inflation  
     2) Number of banks   
     3) Stock of food grains
     4) Rate of GDP growth  
     5) Literacy rate 
     
 14.    Demat Accounts are?
     1) Accounts which are zero balance accounts
     2) Accounts which are opened to facilitate repayment of a loan taken from the bank  
     3) Accounts in which shares of various companies are traded in electronic form
     4) Accounts which are operated through internet banking facility
     5) None of these 

 15.    Sakhalin oil fields are in?
     1) Myanmar          
2) China
     3)  South Korea  
4) Russia
     5) Vietnam
  
 16. The International Film Festival of India (IFFI) is held annually in?
     1) Macau     
2) Hyderabad
     3) Goa       
4) Mumbai      
     5) Kolkata    

 17.    ‘Business@ the Speed of Thought’ is written by?
     1) Steve Jobs   
     2) Bill Gates   
     3) Nandan Nilekani   
     4) N.R. Narayan Murty
     5) Mark Zuckerburg
    
 18. The government normally does not announce the minimum support price for?
     1) Wheat  
2) Paddy  
3) Pulses    
 4) Jowar             
5) Mango

 19.    Which of the following statements about Raghuram Rajan is not correct?
     1)    Raghuram Rajan is the 23rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India. He succeeded Duvvuri Subbarao on Septem ber 4, 2013.  
     2)    He worked as the Chief Economic Advisor.      
     3)    He was awarded the fifth Deutsche Bank Prize for Financial Economics 2013.
     4)    He authored “Saving Capita- lism from the Capitalists” and “Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still  Threaten the World Economy”.
     5)    He was the Chief Economist at the World Bank from Octo- ber 2003 to December 2006.  

 20.    ‘The Style Diary of A Bolly- wood Diva’ is written by?
     1) Sri Devi
     2) Madhuri Dixit  
     3) Katrina Kaif
     4) Kareena Kapoor  
     5) Deepika Padukone      

 21.   The International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced in April 2013 that it has recog- nized which of the  following governments after a 22-year gap in relations with the coun- try?
     1) Myanmar      
2) Somalia
     3) North Korea  
4) Ethiopia   
     5) Vietnam

 22.    Which of the following territo- ries held a referendum in March 2013 in which 99.8 per- cent people voted in favor of remaining a British Over seas Territory?
     1) Falkland Islands
     2) Bermuda        
     3) Gibraltar     
     4) Cayman Islands  
     5) British Virgin Islands  

 23.    Margaret Thatcher passed away recently. She was the first woman to become the Prime Minister of?
     1) Argentina
     2) Canada    
     3) United Kingdom    
     4) Australia       
     5) None of these   

 24.    Who was re-elected as the President of Italy in April 2013?
     1) Romano Prodi
     2) Mario Monti
     3) Enrico Letta   
     4) Giorgio Napolitano    
     5) Silvio Berlusconi

 25.    Countries and their Presidents are given below. Identify the mismatched pair?
     1) Venezuela –– Nicolas Maduro
     2) Kenya –– Uhuru Kenyatta     
     3) Ecuador –– Rafael Correa
     4) Iran –– Hassan Rouhani  
     5) Israel –– Benjamin Netanyahu 
    
 26. Devanand Konwar was sworn in as the Governor of which of the following states in March 2013?
     1) West Bengal   
2) Tripura   
      3) Assam           
4) Meghalaya  
     5) Jharkhand

 27. Who has been appointed as the President of International Cha- mber of Commerce (ICC) India?
     1) Som Mittal             
2) R. Chandrasekhar
     3) Ranjan Bharti Mittal
     4) Naina Lal Kidwai               
5) None of these    

 28.    The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) is the largest and the most representative business organization
        in the world. Its headquarters is in?
     1) Paris     
2) Geneva
     3) Berne      
4) Rome
     5) Dubai  

 29.    Satyagraha, a Hindi film is dir-ected by?
     1) Siddarth Roy Kapur
     2) Sujay Ghosh
     3) Farhan Akhtar
     4) Prakash Jha
     5) Karan Johar

 30.    Mukhyamantri Yuva Swaro zgar Yojana aims to provide loans through banks to youth to set up their    own industries or business. Which state government has launched this scheme?
     1) Gujarat     2) Chhattisgarh  
     3) Himachal Pradesh   
      4) Uttar Pradesh  
     5) Madhya Pradesh    

 31.    Rural Infrastructure Develop ment Fund (RIDF) was instituted by which of the following financial                institutions  with the sole objective of giving low-cost fund support to state governments?
     1) RBI     2) EXIM Bank     
     3) IDBI Bank     
     4) NABARD
     5) IFCI

 32.    The Weekly Iron and Folic Acid Supplementation (WIFS) for adolescents has been laun- ched to tackle?
     1) Anemia  
     2) Night Blindness
     3) Scurvy
     4) Rickets
     5) Osteoporosis   

 33.    The headquarters of which of the following nationalized banks is not in Kolkata?
     1) Allahabad Bank  
     2) UCO Bank    
     3) United Bank of India  
     4) Oriental Bank of Commerce
     5) All are in Kolkata

 34.    Which state government has demanded that the Gojjri language be included in the eighth                          schedule of the  Indian constitution, thereby giving it the status of an official language?
     1) Nagaland   
     2) Assam
     3) Jammu &Kashmir   
     4) Rajasthan   
     5) Andhra Pradesh

 35. ‘Sneha Sparsh’ (Caring Touch) is a special healthcare initiative to extend financial help for super specialty  treatment of complica ted diseases for children below 12 years. This scheme was launched by?
     1) Assam      
2) Punjab
     3) Haryana    
4) Gujarat  
     5) Uttar Pradesh

 36.    ‘Amma Hastam’, a scheme launched by the Andhra Pradesh government is related to?
     1) Employment    
     2) Literacy
     3) Healthcare  
     4) Food security    
     5) Women empowerment  

 37. SBI General Insurance is a joint venture between the State Bank of India and?
     1) Insurance Australia Group
     2) AMP Limited
     3) CGU Insurance
     4) American International Group  
     5) Zurich Insurance Services

 38. SEBI has ordered Saradha Realty India to close all its collective schemes and refund the money collected from  investors. Saradha Realty India is based in?
     1) Mumbai       
     2) New Delhi
     3) Kolkata     
     4) Hyderabad     
     5) Bangalore

 39.    Which is the first exchange to offer a separate trading plat  form for debts?
     1) NSE     
     2) BSE  
     3) MCX-SX     
      4) CSE
     5) None of these

 40. Sarajevo is the capital of?
     1) Croatia       
     2) Kosovo    
     3) Serbia   
     4) Bosnia Herzegovina       
     5) Montenegro  

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

GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE QUESTIONS

1.    Maximum number of Public Sector Bank Headquarters are located in which State of India?
     a) Maharashtra    
     b) Karnataka
     c) West Bengal    
     d) Tamil Nadu
     e) None of the above

 2.    Recently Govt. permitted ECBs (External Commercial Borrowings) in which of the Foreign Currencies?
     a) Peso
     b) Chinese Yuan (Renminbi)
     c) Dinar    
     d) Riyal
     e) Ringitt

 3.    E-Cheque is defined in which Act?
     a)    Negotiable Instrument Act 1881
     b) Banking Regulation Act 1949
     c) RBI Act 1935
     d) Companies Act 2013
     e) None of the above

 4.    India's longest BRTS(Bus Rapid Transport System)  corridor whi-ch is 24 Km long is located in?
     a) Chandigarh    
     b) Delhi
     c) Bhopal    
    d) Mumbai
     e) Kolkata

 5.    What are ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds) in india?
     a)    Mutual Funds traded like a Stock, on an Exchange
     b)    Govt. Bond Funds traded on Stock Exchanges
     c)    Employee Provident Funds traded on Stock Exchanges
     d)    Pension Funds of Pvt. Sector Employees traded on Stock Exchanges
     e) None of the above

 6.    What is the 'NWS 2013-14'  recently launched by NABARD (National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development)?
     a) NABARD Weavers' Scheme
     b) NABARD Women's Scheme
     c)    NABARD Water resources development Scheme
     d)    NABARD Warehousing Scheme
     e)    None of the above

 7.    Who gives License to a Foreign Bank to operate in India?
     a) Reserve Bank of India
     b) Ministry of Finance, Govt. of India
     c)    Planning Commission of India
     d)    Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India
     e) None of the above

 8.    Recently Govt. of India decided to infuse Rs. 14000 Crores into Public Sector Banks in order to boost their Capital Adequacy Ratio and to meet the Credit requirements. Which of the following Banks is getting maximum share of this?
     a) Central Bank of India
     b) Dena Bank
     c) Syndicate Bank
     d) Indian Overseas Bank
     e) State Bank of India

 9.    What is a 'Commercial Paper'?
     a)    An unsecured, Short term Debt Instrument issued by any Individual
     b)    e-Stamp paper used for all legal transactions
     c)    An unsecured, Short term Debt Instrument issued by a Corporate
     d)    An unsecured, Short term Debt Instrument issued by Govt. of India
     e) None of the above

 10.    Which is the Oldest Public Sector Bank in India'?
     a) Central Bank of India
     b) Allahabad Bank
     c) Canara Bank
     d) Bank of India
     e) None of the above

 11.    Who won the Nobel Prize for Economics announced in October 2013?
     a) Eugene Fama
     b) Lars Peter Hansen
     c) Robert Shiller    
     d) Ben Bernanke
     e) 'a', 'b'&'c' of the above

 12.    As per RBI guidelines, how many free ATM withdrawals per month can be done at the other Bank ATMs using a Card issued by your         Bank?
     a) 10        
      b) 3     
      c) 5
     d) 8        
     e) Unlimited
 13.    Which Country is the World's largest Economy in GDP terms?
     a) United States of America
     b) China    
     c) United Kingdom
     d) Germany
     e) None of the above

 14.    Which of the following is NOT true regarding National Agricul-ture Insurance Scheme (NAIS) launched by Govt. of India?
     a)    It covers  both food crops and commercial crops
     b)    Premium subsidy is shared equally by both the State govt. and the Central Govt.
     c)    It covers Horticulture
     d)    It is also known as Rashtriya Krishi Bima Yojana (RKBY)
     e) None of the above

 15.    As per RBI guidelines, an Account can be opened with a bank in the name of a Minor  along with his/her parent as a Joint Account holder provided the Age of the Minor is?
     a) Above 5 years
     b) Above 10 years
     c) Above 8 years
     d) Above 12 years
     e) No Minimum age prescribed

 16.    After 'Facebook' which online Social Networking service provider is going public by offering its shares through an IPO (Initial Public Offering) in the month of November 2013?
     a) Twitter    
     b) Linkedin
     c) Gtalk    
    d) WhatsApp
     e) None of the above

 17.    Who prescribes the norms and guidelines to Banks in India for Classification of Assets in order to identify Non Performing Assets (NPAs)?
     a)    IBA (Indian Banks' Associ-ation)
     b) World Bank    
     c) Govt. of India
     d) Reserve Bank of India
     e) None of the above

 18.    IBA (Indian Banks' Association) is an Association of Banks operating in India.  Find the wrong statement about IBA?
     a)    Foreign Banks operating India cannot be members of IBA
     b)    Urban Co-operative banks are members of IBA
     c)    Both Public and Private Sector Banks are members of IBA
     d)    Any Bank, Corporation, Society carrying on banking business can be a member of IBA
     e)    There are 2 classes of members- Ordinary & Associate

 19.    'Spot', 'Forward' & 'Swap' are the terms associated with?
     a) Trading in Commodities
     b) Trading in Foreign Exchange
     c) Trading in Stocks
     d) 'a'&'b' of the above
     e) 'a', 'b' &  'c' of the above

 20.    What are ADRs in financial terms?
     a) Allowed Deposit Receipts
     b) Asian Depository Receipts
     c)    American  Depository Receipts
     d)    All-in-one Depository Receipts
     e) None of the above

 21.    TDS(Tax Deducted at Source) is not done on the Interest Income from the following types of Deposits?
     a) Company Fixed Deposits
     b) Bank Recurring Deposits
     c) Bank Fixed Deposits
     d)    Bank NRO(Non-Resident Ordinary) Accounts
     e) None of the above

 22.    When there is a rise in prices of goods and services in an economy over a period of time, it is known as?
     a) Stagflation    
     b) Deflation
     c) Inflation    
    d) Reflation
     e) None of the above

 23.    What are 'Floating Rate Deposits' offered by Banks in India?
     a)    Deposits with changing Interest rates linked to respective Bank's Base Rate
     b)    Deposits with changing Interest rates linked to the Stock Exchange Index
     c)    Deposits with changing Interest rates linked to the Wholesale Price Index
     d)    Deposits with changing Interest rates linked to the Index of Industrial Production
     e)    None of the above

 24.    India's Foreign Exchange Reserves consist of?
     a) Foreign Currency    
     b) Gold
     c)    SDRs(Special Drawing Rights)&Reserve position in the IMF
     d) 'a' &'b' of the above
     e) 'a', 'b' & 'c' of the above

 25.    A 'Letter of Credit' is primarily used in?
     a) International Trade
     b)    Correspondence between two Banks in India
     c)    Correspondence between World Bank and Govt. of India
     d)    Correspondence between a Bank and Reserve Bank of India
     e) 'b' & 'd' of the above

 26.    Who is the Managing Director & CEO of ICICI Bank?
     a) K V Kamath
     b) Chanda Kochhar
     c) Raghuram Rajan
     d) Arundhathi Bhattacharya
     e) None of the above

 27.    BRICS is the acronym for an association of 5 major emerging national economies.  The 5 Countries are?
     a)    Britain, Russia, India, China & Sweden
     b)    Brazil, Russia, India, Canada & Sweden
     c)    Brazil, Russia, India, China & South Africa
     d)    Bangladesh, Russia, India, China & Sweden
     e)    Britain, Russia, India, Canada & Sweden

 28.    Which of the following pairs is NOT matched?
     a)    General Insurance - United India Insurance Co.
     b) Banking - State Bank of India
     c) Credit Ratings - CRISIL
     d) Life Insurance - LIC of India
     e) Telecom - Larsen & Toubro

 29.    Name the World's leading Marine Insurance Company?
     a) Lloyd's     
b) Citi Group
     c) Lehman Brothers
     d) JP Morgan Chase
     e) None of the above

 30.    Which Bank is the first to introduce 'Internet Banking' in India?
     a) Citi Bank    
b) HSBC
     c) ICICI Bank    
     d) Barclays
     e) None of the above

 31.    What is NOT true about ELSS (Equity Linked Savings Schemes) in India?
     a)    Investments in ELSS do not give Tax Benefit
     b)    ELSS Funds are invested in Indian Equity Market
     c)    ELSS have a minimum lock in period of 3 years
     d)    ELSS offer both 'Dividend' &  'Growth' options
     e) None of the above

 32.    What is the main Kharif crop in India?
     a) Wheat    
b) Rice
     c) Jowar    
d) Mustard
     e) None of the above
 
 Answers
1. a      2. b      3. a      4. c        5. a      6. d      7. a      8. e    9. c    10. b    
11. e    12. c    13. a    14. e    15. e    16. a   17. d    18. a    19. e    20. c    
21. b    22. c    23. a    24. e    25. a    26. b    27. c    28. e    29. a    30. c    31. a    32. b