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| General Awareness Quiz |
Dear Readers,
Welcome to Mentor for Bank Exams. Here I am
presenting the General Awareness
questions which are helpful for the upcoming IBPS Exams.
1. Which of the
following banks has announced the deployment of ‘Software Robotics’ in over 200
business processes across various functions of the bank?
a) SBI
b) HDFC Bank
c) Axis Bank
d) ICICI Bank
e) Federal Bank
2. Jayant
Purushottam Gokhale has been appointed as director of which of the following
banks?
a) Punjab National Bank
b) Syndicate Bank
c) Bank of Baroda
d) Bank of India
e) None of these
3. Who among the
following is the present Union Minister for Drinking Water and Sanitation,
Rural Development and Panchayati Raj?
a) Ananth Kumar
b) J P Nadda
c) Prakash Javadekar
d) Radha Mohan Singh
e) Narendra Singh Tomar
4. Which of the
following has become the first state in the country to roll out the “Twitter
Seva” project with the launch of 122 Twitter handles in one go in the state
capital?
a) Uttar Pradesh
b) Rajasthan
c) Punjab
d) Andhra Pradesh
e) Kerala
5. YES Bank
recently deferred its $1-billion equity raising plan. The bank was trying to
raise money through QIP which means _______
a) Quantitative Institutional
Placement
b) Qualitative Institutional
Placement
c) Quintessential Institutional
Placement
d) Qualified Institutional
Placement
e) None of these
6. Who among the
following has been appointed part-time Chairman of the Unique Identification
Authority of India (UIDAI)?
a) Anand Deshpande
b) Rajesh Jain
c) J Satyanarayana
d) Kris Gopalakrishna
e) Sam Pitroda
7. Subroto Cup is
associated with which of the following games?
a) Hockey
b) Football
c) Cricket
d) Badminton
e) Tennis
8. The Union Govt
has approved Rs 450 cr for five states under the Swadesh Darshan scheme. Which
of the following states in NOT among these five states?
a) Madhya Pradesh
b) Uttar Pradesh
c) Sikkim
d) Tamil Nadu
e) None of these
9. The
International Literacy Day is observed every year on ________
a) 02 Sep
b) 04 Sep
c) 06 Sep
d) 08 Sep
e) 10 Sep
10. Author Stuart Blackburn’s
book titled “Into the Hidden Valley” has won the MM Bennetts Award for
Historical Fiction 2016 in the UK. The book is based on Apatani tribe which is
found in the state of ____
a) Arunachal Pradesh
b) Himachal Pradesh
c) Madhya Pradesh
d) Uttar Pradesh
e) Andhra Pradesh
11. Now the minors
of which age above can open Savings bank accounts ?
a) 8 years
b) 10 years
c) 12 years
d) 14 years
e) 9 years
12. The budget for
2016-17 proposes 1 per cent service charge on purchase of luxury cars over Rs
10 lakh and in-cash purchase of goods and services over _______
a) Rs.50000
b) Rs.75000
c) Rs.1 Lakh
d) Rs.1.5 Lakh
e) Rs.2 Lakh
13. An additional
exemption of Rs 50,000 has been proposed in the Union Budget for 2016-17 for
housing loans up to Rs 35 lakh, provided cost of house is not above--
a) Rs.40 lakhs
b) Rs.45 Lakhs
c) Rs.50 Lakhs
d) Rs.60 Lakhs
e) Rs.75 Lakhs
14. The currency
of Italy is
a) Peso
b) Yen
c) Dollar
d) Euro
e) Lira
15. Kampala is the
Capital city of
a) Uganda
b) Kenya
c) Egypt
d) Libya
e) Greece
16. Whose prior
written permission is necessary for any takeover or acquisition or control of
an NBFC (Non-Banking Finance Company) ?
a) SEBI
b) Ministry of Finance
c) NABARD
d) SBI
e) RBI
17. SWIFT allows
member financial organization / banks worldwide to exchange information amongst
each other in which form ?
a) Physically
b) Electronically
c) Via Telephones
d) All of these
e) ATM
18. ECS Stands for
?
a) Electrical Clearing System
b) Electronic Core System
c) Electronic Clearing Signal
d) End Clearing System
e) Electronic Clearing System
19. Which of the
following certainly is an effort in the direction of Financial Inclusion ?
a) Internet banking
b) Anywhere Banking
c) No – frills Accounts
d) Foreign Currency Accounts
e) All the above
20. "India's
International Bank" is the tagline of which of the following banks ?
a) Syndicate Bank
b) State Bank of India
c) Punjab National Bank
d) Bank of Baroda
e) None of these
Answers:
1)d 2)b 3)e
4)a 5)d 6)c
7)b 8)e 9)d
10)a 11)b 12)e
13)c 14)d 15)a
16)e 17)b 18)e
19)c 20)d
