General Awareness With special reference to Banking Industry Practice Questions for Bank Exams 1. The 12th ASEAN-India Summit was held in? 1) New Delhi 2) Singapore 3) Bangkok 4) Manila 5) Nay Pyi Taw 2. Who won the Polly Umrigar Award for being Indias best international cricketer of the 2013-14 season? 1) Parvez Rasool 2) Bhuvneshwar Kumar 3) Virat Kohli 4) Suresh Raina 5) Ishant Sharma 3. The International Childrens Peace Prize 2014, an initiative of Kids Rights, has been won by? 1) Alexey 2) Andrew 3) Neha Gupta 4) Malala Yousafzai 5) None of these 4. Who won the 2014 Formula One World Championship? 1) Sebastian Vettel 2) Nico Rosberg 3) Fernando Alonso 4) Lewis Hamilton 5) Jenson Button 5. Who is the author of the book Capital in the Twenty-First Century? 1) Paul Krugman 2) Amartya Sen 3) Elinor Ostrom 4) Joseph Stiglitz 5) Thomas Piketty 6. Identify the mismatched pair? 1) NBFCs - Non-Banking Financial Companies 2) ECBs - External Commercial Borrowings 3) FCCBs - Foreign Currency Concession Bonds 4) DIPP -Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion 5) FDI - Foreign Direct Investment 7. Sarvada Vijay is a major field exercise conducted by the Army in May 2014 in? 1) Gujarat 2) Rajasthan 3) Punjab 4) Jammu & Kashmir 5) Haryana 8. Which Indian-American student won the 2014 National Geographic Bee contest? 1) Ansun Sujoe 2) Sriram Hathwar 3) Akhil Rekulapelli 4) Arvind Mahankali 5) Snigdha Nandipati 9. Which country has announced that it will make match-fixing a specific crime for the first time to ensure sport remains corruption- free? 1) India 2) Pakistan 3) Australia 4) New Zealand 5) England 10. Kamal Chawla is associated with? 1) Golf 2) Snooker 3) Chess 4) Kabaddi 5) Archery 11. The first cooperative bank in India to have its own RuPay ATM-cum-debit card is in? 1) Punjab 2) Andhra Pradesh 3) Himachal Pradesh 4) Rajasthan 5) Haryana 12. Who is the Chairman of a Committee that suggested customers should be given a free copy of their Credit Information Reports (CIRs)? 1) Anand Sinha 2) Aditya Puri 3) Arvind Mayaram 4) Damodaran 5) R.S. Gujral 13. At present the Reserve Bank of India has provision for how many deputy governors? 1) Two 2) Three 3) Four 4) Five 5) Six 14. Which company topped the Forbes annual list of the worlds 2000 largest and most powerful public companies? 1) ICBC 2) China Construction Bank 3) Agricultural Bank of China 4) Reliance Industries 5) State Bank of India 15. The Dhamra Port is a major newly developed port in? 1) Gujarat 2) Tamil Nadu 3) Maharashtra 4) Karnataka 5) Odisha 16. Which of the following companies has recently taken over Network 18 group? 1) STAR group 2) Reliance Industries Limited 3) Times of India group 4) Sahara group 5) None of these 17. Parbati hydro electricity project is located in? 1) Punjab 2) Haryana 3) Assam 4) Jammu & Kashmir 5) Himachal Pradesh 18. During the six years between 2004 and 2011, which State topped in creation of new jobs in the manufacturing sector? 1) West Bengal 2) Gujarat 3) Maharashtra 4) Odisha 5) Tamil Nadu 19. Bangladesh signed a deal with which of the following countries to set up a 1320-megawatt coal-based power plant in Moheshkhali? 1) India 2) USA 3) China 4) Russia 5) South Korea 20. Jacob Zuma was elected President of which of the following countries for a second term? 1) Ghana 2) Sudan 3) Ivory Coast 4) Uganda 5) South Africa 21. Ashraf Ghani is the? 1) President of Pakistan 2) Prime Minister of Pakistan 3) President of Afghanistan 4) Prime Minister of Afghanistan 5) President of Iran 22. CRR and SLR are the terms related to? 1) Capital market 2) Commodities market 3) Insurance 4) Mutual Funds 5) None of these 23. What does the letter L stands for in the term LAF? 1) Liquid 2) Least 3) Liability 4) Liquidity 5) Lowest 24. Union Budget is normally presented in the month of? 1) January 2) February 3) March 4) April 5) May 25. Who was recently appointed the Chief Justice of India? 1) Justice Rohinton Nariman 2) Justice N.V. Ramana 3) Justice H.L. Dattu 4) Justice P. Sathasivam 5) None of these 26. Which of the following Awards is given for excellence in literature? 1) Arjuna Award 2) Dronacharya Award 3) Dada Saheb Phalke award 4) Phalke Ratna Award 5) None of these 27. Which of the following provides insurance cover for bank deposits in India? 1) RBI 2) LIC 3) SBI 4) DICGC 5) Finance Ministry 28. Which of the following countries is a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council? 1) India 2) Brazil 3) China 4) Germany 5) Japan 29. Which of the following is the name of a currency of a country? 1) Ankara 2) Tunis 3) Lusaka 4) Kwacha 5) Peru 30. Which of the following is not the name of a country? 1) Tunisia 2) Togo 3) Tonga 4) Senegal 5) Bratislava 31. Fourteen private banks were nationalized in the year? 1) 1947 2) 1949 3) 1955 4) 1969 5) 1980 32. Insurance sector in India is regulated by? 1) LIC 2) SEBI 3) GIC 4) RBI 5) IRDA 33. Which of the following is not a private bank? 1) Karnataka Bank 2) Axis Bank 3) Dena Bank 4) Kotak Mahindra Bank 5) HDFC Bank 34. BIFR stands for? 1) Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction 2) Bureau for Industrial and Financial Rehabilitation 3) Board for Institutional Finance and Rehabilitation 4) Board for Investigation and Formal Reconstruction 5) None of these 35. Subhash Chandra Garg has been recently appointed Executive Director in? 1) IMF 2) World Bank 3) ADB 4) WTO 5) None of these 36. BPLR stands for? 1) Base Primary Lending Rate 2) Benchmark Prime Lending rate 3) Basic Priority Lending Rate 4) Below Poverty Line Rate 5) None of these 37. Recep Tayyip Erdogan was sworn in as the President of? 1) Iran 2) Iraq 3) Turkey 4) Vietnam 5) Cyprus 38. Who among the following is the new Governor of Rajasthan? 1) Ch. Vidyasagar Rao 2) Vajubhai Vala 3) Kalyan Singh 4) Mridula Sinha 5) None of these 39. Who is the winner of the 2014 Man Booker Prize? 1) Joshua Ferris 2) Karen Joy Fowler 3) Neel Mukherjee 4) Richard Flanagan 5) None of these 40. Jean Tirole won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Economics. He belongs to? 1) Sweden 2) Norway 3) USA 4) UK 5) France ANSWERS: 1) 5 2) 2 3) 3 4) 4 5) 5 6) 3 7) 2 8) 3 9) 4 10) 2 11) 3 12) 2 13) 3 14) 1 15) 5 16) 2 17) 5 18) 1 19) 3 20) 5 21) 3 22) 5 23) 4 24) 2 25) 3 26) 5 27) 4 28) 3 29) 4 30) 5 31) 4 32) 5 33) 3 34) 1 35) 2 36) 2 37) 3 38) 3 39) 4 40) 5
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