General Awareness Quiz for IBPS, SBI and other Bank Exams - 29
1. Which bank has launched 'Work from Home'
facility for employees?
a) Reserve Bank of India
b) State Bank of India
c) Bank of Baroda
d) NABARD
2. 'Al-Nagah-II' is a joint military exercise
between India and
a) Iran
b) Iraq
c) Oman
d) Saudi Arabia
3. Name the Indian institute has been ranked in
best ten in the Times Higher Education's Best Small Universities in the World
2017.
a) University of Kota
b) Indian Institute of Science
c) Jawaharlal Nehru University
d) All India Institutes of Medical
Sciences
4. Name the web-based platform launched by
Karnataka, showcased government's performance and achievements to the citizens.
a) Parachhaaee
b) Pratibimba
c) Pratiroop
d) Prakshepan
5. As per the recent legal tender, the Reserve
Bank of India has put a penalty of .............. for refusing to exchange
soiled notes.
a) Rs.10,000
b) Rs.15,000
c) Rs.20,000
d) Rs.25,000
6. In recent times, it has been discovered that
the oldest fossil on Earth in rocks has been obtained from.
a) Quebec
b) Montreal
c) Toronto
d) Ottawa
7. Which of the following is the world's oldest
serving aircraft carrier, has been decommissioned recently?
a) INS Viraat
b) INS Jalashwa
c) INS Vikrant
d) INS Vikramaditya
8. Who has been presented with the 30th Moortidevi
award by Bharatiya Jnanpith organization?
a) M P Veerendra Kumar
b) M. J. Akbar
c) Javed Anand
d) Vikram Chandra
9. Every year the World Wildlife Day is observed
on.
a) March 1
b) March 3
c) March 5
d) March 6
10. A Petrochemical Complex of ONGC Petro
Additions Limited has been dedicated to India by the Prime Minister Narendra
Modi at.
a) Chanchvel
b) Bhersam
c) Dahej
d) Bhensali
11. Union Cabinet has approved the signing of
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between India and the United Nations Entity
of Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women). Under this MoU,
which ministry will be working with UN-Women to promote participation of women
in Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs)?
a) Ministry of Human Resource
Development
b) Ministry of Panchayati Raj (MoPR)
c) Ministry of Rural Development
d) Ministry of Women and Child
Development
12. Name the Lok Sabha Speaker passed away in
March, 2017 due to prolonged illness.
a) Rabi Ray
b) P. A. Sangma
c) Shivraj Patil
d) Somnath Chatterjee
13. As per the World Health Organization (WHO),
how many children are killed every year due to polluted environment?
a) 1.7 million
b) 1.9 million
c) 2.0 million
d) 2.1 million
14. Name the Delhi University professor sentenced
to life for Maoist links.
a) GN Saibaba
b) Somanathan Rohini
c) Sinha Uday Bhanu
d) Singh Ram
15. In which city the Union Ministry has conducted
the two day International Yoga Day festival?
a) New Delhi
b) Bengaluru
c) Chennai
d) Pune
Explanations:
1. Country's largest lender State Bank
of India has launched a new facility to enable its employees to work from home.
2. Armies
of India and Oman will conduct their second joint exercise 'Al-Nagah-II 2017'
from March 6th at Bakloh in Himachal Pradesh.
3. IISc
has been ranked eighth at the Times Higher Education's 'Best Small Universities
in the World 2017'.
4. Karnataka
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has launched a comprehensive web-based platform showcasing
the government's performance and achievements to the citizens. It will serve as
a tool to improve efficiency in governance and allow citizens to track
government's progress.
5. According
to the RBI circular, if any bank branch refuses to exchange soiled notes from
any member of the public, the bank has to pay a penalty of Rs.10,000.
6. A
team of scientists say they have discovered the oldest fossils on Earth in
rocks from Quebec. Dating techniques suggest the rocks are at least 3.8 bn
years old, and might even be 4.3 bn years old.
7. The
world's oldest aircraft carrier in active service, INS Viraat, has been
decommissioned on 2017, March 6th in Mumbai after serving the Indian Navy for
nearly 30 years.
8. Eminent
Malayalam author and journalist M P Veerendra Kumar presented the 30th
Moortidevi award by Bharatiya Jnanpith organization.
9. On
20th December 2013, at its 68th session, the United Nations General Assembly
(UNGA) decided to proclaim 3rd March, the day of the adoption of the Convention
on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES),
as World Wildlife Day, which was proposed by Thailand, to celebrate and raise
awareness of the world's wild fauna and flora.
10. Prime
Minister Narendra Modi has announced to dedicate the nation a Petrochemical
Complex of ONGC Petro Additions Limited at Dahej, Gujrat.
11. Union
Cabinet has approved the signing of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between
India and the United Nations Entity of Gender Equality and the Empowerment of
Women (UN-Women). Under this MoU, Union Ministry of Panchayati Raj (MoPR) and
UN-Women will work in collaboration with each other to promote participation of
women in Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs).
12. Eminent
socialist leader, former Union Minister and former Speaker of Lok Sabha Rabi
Ray passed away after a prolonged illness, while undergoing treatment at the SCB
Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack.
13. More
than 1 in 4 deaths of children under 5 years of age are attributable to
unhealthy environments. Every year, environmental risks - such as indoor and
outdoor air pollution, second-hand smoke, unsafe water, lack of sanitation, and
inadequate hygiene - take the lives of 1.7 million children under 5 years, say
two new WHO reports.
14. Delhi
University professor GN Saibaba has been given life sentence by a court in
Maharashtra's Gadchiroli for his links with the Maoists. The court has also
found JNU student Hem Mishra and four others guilty of waging war against the
country and supporting the ideology of the banned organisation, CPI (Maoist).
15. The
Union Govt has organized a two day International Yoga Day fest in New Delhi.
More than 3500 participants including eminent yoga gurus, yoga masters,
scholars and policy makers will participate in it.
