Saturday, September 13, 2014

GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE MCQs FOR ALL BANK EXAMS

1. ICICI has recently launched its mobile banking service called mobile money with which of the following public service providers?
1) Vodafone
2) Aircel
3) Airtel
4) Tata Docomo
5) None of these

2. GDP growth in 2014-15 is estimated at ______ per cent year-on-year.
1) 5.4 - 5.9
2) 5.6 - 5.9
3) 5.4- 5.6
4) 4.5 -4.9
5) 4.6 -4.9

3. Development of new airports in ____ cities will be launched for implementation through Airport Authority of India or PPPs.
1) Tier I and Tier II
2) Tier II and Tier III
3) Tier I and Tier III
4) Tier I and Tier IV
5) Tier I and Tier V

4. The security which is a claim on the government and is a secured financial instrument guarantees certainty of both capital and interest is called?
1) Gilt-Edged Security
2) Call Money
3) Treasury Bills
4) Certificate of Deposits
5) All of these

5. Income Tax Deduction limit under Section 80-C raised to _______ .
1) Rs 1.5 lakh
2) Rs 1.6 lakh
3) Rs 1.7 lakh
4) Rs 2.5 lakh
5) Rs 2.6 lakh

6. Who is appointed as 41st Chief Justice of India?
1) Dr. Harsh Kumar Bhanwala
2) Rajendra Mal Lodha
3) S.K.Roy
4) J. M. Shanti Sundharam
5) Shashikanth Sharma

7. Govt. proposes to launch ___ programme to ensure broad band connectivity at village level.
1) Digital India
2) Satellite India
3) Broadband India
4) Smart India
5) New India

8. Who is the Leader of the Opposition of Rajya Sabha?
1) Gulam Nabi Azad
2) Sonia Gandhi
3) Rahul Gandhi
4) Ambica Soni
5) None of the above

9. Who is the author of the book "Gandhi before India"?
1) Ravindranath Tagore
2) Ramchandra Guha
3) A.P.J Abdul kalam
4) Pele
5) Sunaina Singh

10. The Euro is not used in which of the following countries?
1) Germany
2) Italy
3) France
4) Norway
5) None of these

11. Who won the Indian Premier League (IPL) - 2014 ?
1) Rajasthan royals
2) Punjab kings
3) Chennai super kings
4) Kolkata Knight Riders
5) Sun rises

12. Which of the following relationship is incorrect in case of Locker facility:
1) Lessor- Lessee
2) Landlord-Tenant
3) Bailor-Bailee
4) Licensor- Licencee
5) None of these

13. Largest shareholder (in percentage shareholding) of a nationalized bank is ____
1) RBI
2) NABARD
3) LIC
4) Govt. of India
5) IBA

14. RBI recently issued draft guidelines for implementation (BBPS) of an "any time -any where" bill payment system. What does BBPS stands for:
1) Barath Bill Payment Serves
2) Barath Bill Payment System
3) Barathiya Bill Payment system
4) British Bill payment System
5) None of these

15. Most important small scale industry of India is ___
1) Agarbatti
2) Paper industry
3) Handloom
4) All the above
5) None of these

16. Project Namaskar launched by which bank as a part of financial inclusion __
1) PNB
2) BOI
3) BOB
4) SBI
5) None of these

17. SEBI on 19th March 2014 inaugurated its local office at?
1) Pune
2) Shimla
3) Ranchi
4) Bhopal
5) Delhi

18. Madhya Pradesh Government's financial inclusion model is ____
1) Vihari
2) Samriddhi
3) Paripurna
4) Akhshara
5) None of these

19. Which bank opened CSP (Customer Service Point) to extend financial inclusion targeting urban poor?
1) Andhra bank
2) SBI
3) SBH
4) Canara bank
5) Corporation bank

20. RBI pays interest on CRR balances of banks at _____.
1) Bank Rate
2) Repo Rate
3) Bank Rate minus 2%
4) Zero %
5) 5%

21. Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR) can be maintained in the following ways?
1) Cash
2) Gold
3) Unencumbered approved securities
4) All of these
5) None of the above

22. The Rate at which the domestic currency can be converted into foreign currency and vice-versa is known as the
1) Domestic Rate
2) Exchange rate
3) Bank rate
4) Fixed rte
5) None of these

23. Which credit card company has tied up the Railways to issue a credit cum loyalty card?
1) ICICI Cards
2) SBI Cards
3) ABN Amro Cards
4) Citibank
5) SBH cards

24. Who has won the 2014 Templeton Prize?
1) Dalai Lama
2) Desmond Tutu
3) Tomas Halik
4) Aung San Su Kyi
5) None of these

25. Which Indian shooter clinched a silver medal at the ISSF World Cup in Fort Benning, USA in March 2014?
1) Chain Singh
2) Pooja Ghatkar
3) Rahi Sarnobat
4) Heena Sidhu
5) None of these

26. Abdel Fattah el-Sisi became the President of which of the following countries in June 2014?
1) Yemen
2) Egypt
3) Iran
4) Libya
5) Syria

27. "The Substance and The Shadow" is the autobiography of which of the following actors?
1) Dev Anand
2) Rajesh Khanna
3) Dilip Kumar
4) Dharmendra
5) Aamir Khan

28. Bor Wildlife Sanctuary has been notified as the 47th Tiger Reserve of India. It is in?
1) Maharashtra
2) Odisha
3) Assam
4) Gujarat
5) Madhya Pradesh

29. Which team won the Deodhar Trophy Cricket recently in Visakhapatnam?
1) West Zone
2) North Zone
3) South Zone
4) Central Zone
5) East Zone

30. Which of the following countries honored Shah Rukh Khan with Officer of the Legion of Honor recently?
1) Germany
2) France
3) South Korea
4) Italy
5) UK

31. Rani-Ki-Vav, an 11th century step well was accorded the UNESCO World Heritage Site status. It is in?
1) Rajasthan
2) Madhya Pradesh
3) Gujarat
4) Uttar Pradesh
5) Haryana

32. Who won the gold medal in the World Rapid Chess championship in Dubai in June 2014?
1) Magnus Carlsen
2) Viswanathan Anand
3) Fabiano Caruana
4) Hikaru Nakamura
5) None of these

33. Who visited China in June 2014 to attend the events to mark the 60th anniversary of Panchsheel agreement?
1) Pranab Mukherjee
2) Hamid Ansari
3) Narendra Modi
4) Sushma Swaraj
5) Arun Jaitley

34. Who is the Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution?
1) Anantha Kumar
2) Anant Geete
3) Ramvilas Paswan
4) Radha Mohan Singh
5) Jual Oram

35. Who has been appointed as the Governor of Gujarat?
1) Kesri Nath Tripathi
2) Om Prakash Kohli
3) Balram Das Tandon
4) Padmanabha Acharya
5) Ram Naik

36. Which city hosted the 6th BRICS Summit in July 2014?
1) Durban
2) Rio de Janeiro
3) Moscow
4) Fortaleza
5) Cape Town

37. Nay Pyi Taw is the capital of which of the following countries?
1) Bangladesh
2) Vietnam
3) Cambodia
4) Laos
5) Myanmar

38. Nadine Gordimer of South Africa passed away in July 2014. She was a winner of Nobel Prize in which of the following fields?
1) Physics
2) Peace
3) Literature
4) Chemistry
5) Economics

39. Which of the following became the 1000th site to be included in the UNESCO World Heritage Site List in June 2014?
1) Iguazu National Park, Argentina
2) Great Barrier Reef, Australia
3) Ruins of Loropeni, Burkina Faso
4) Preah Vihear Temple, Cambodia
5) Okavango Delta, Botswana

40. Petra Kvitova defeated which of the following players in the final to win the 2014 Wimbledon women's singles tennis title?
1) Serena Williams
2) Venus Williams
3) Eugenie Bouchard
4) Maria Sharapova
5) Li Na

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