General Awareness Questions for NICL AO Mains 2017

This is the high time to pace up your preparations for Upcoming NICL AO Mains. Subjects like Aptitude, Reasoning, and English are important for the preparation of your exams but the subject the reality comes in your way as a big challenge is General Awareness. As you know General Awareness is the very important section in the NICL AO. So we are here to provide you very handy Quiz on General Awareness that will cover Current Affairs, Static Awareness, and Banking Awareness topics. Attempt the quiz with your best effort and try to score as much as you can.

Q1. According to a new World Bank report, India’s gross domestic product is expected to spike to 7.2% in the 2017-18 financial year. What was the title of this report?
(a) Globalized Report
(b) Globalization Backlash
(c) Globalized Backbone
(d) Global Backlash Report
(e) None of the given option is true

Q2. Human Resource and Development Minister Prakash Javadekar launched portal and mobile app for higher education named RUSA in New Delhi. What does ‘S’ stand for in RUSA?
(a) Sarvshiksha
(b) Sanskriti
(c) Shiksha
(d) Sukriti
(e) Sukanya

Q3. Punjab National Bank has recently celebrated its Foundation Day and has launched three new products for its customers. PNB was founded in __________.
(a) 1855
(b) 1935
(c) 1956
(d) 1910
(e) 1895

Q4. The International Day for Monuments and Sites is observed globally on __________.
(a) 18 April
(b) 16 April
(c) 19 April
(d) 21 April
(e) 23 April

Q5. Central Government has notified in the Official Gazette ___________ CPI inflation as the target for the period from August 5, 2016 to March 31, 2021 with the upper tolerance limit of 6 per cent and the lower tolerance limit of 2 per cent.
(a) 4 percent
(b) 3 percent
(c) 5 percent
(d) 2 percent
(e) None of the above

Q6. What is the full form of CPI?
(a) Customer Price Index
(b) Consumer Price Index
(c) Consumer Product Index
(d) Consumer Price Indian
(e) Custom Price Index

Q7. What is the focus & Priorities of IBA?
(a) The Government of India on policy related issues
(b) Industry unions on wage negotiations and improving industrial relations
(c) Foreign counterparts to widen the horizon and perspectives
(d) Members to encourage inter-bank co-operation and co-ordination
(e) All of the above

Q8. Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu recently launched India’s First Train with Glass Ceiling, LED Lights and rotable Seats in the Coaches named ____________.
(a) Indica
(b) Specialized
(c) Mardome
(d) Vistadome
(e) None of the given option is true

Q9. Sebastian Vettel won the Bahrain Grand Prix 2017 recently by defeating Lewis Hamilton. Sebastian Vettel belongs to ___________.
(a) Spain
(b) Germany
(c) USA
(d) France
(e) England

Q10. Rodrigo Duterte has recently won Time magazine’s readers’ poll of the 100 most influential people in the world. He is the President of ___________.
(a) Uganda
(b) Rwanda
(c) Oman
(d) Mongolia
(e) Philippine

Q11. Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) has recently commissioned two units of 270 MW at Rattan India Nasik Power Ltd’s, Maharashtra. BHEL is headquartered in ________.
(a) Bengaluru
(b) Mysore
(c) New Delhi
(d) Mumbai
(e) Varanasi

Q12. National Teachers Day is observed every year on- 
(a) 5th September
(b) 15th September
(c) 20th September
(d) 25th September
(e) 10th September

Q13. The headquarters of UNESCO is in-  
(a) New York
(b) The Hague
(c) Paris
(d) Moscow
(e) Geneva

Q14. Name the Player who has recently bagged both the singles and doubles crown in Badminton championship at the Pembangunan Jaya Raya Junior Grand Prix in Jakarta.
(a) P V Sindhu
(b) Saina Nehwal
(c) Dinkha Subroto
(d) Gayatri Pullela
(e) None of the above option is true

Q15. ISRO has signed a memorandum of understanding with which of the following company to help develop low-cost lithium ion batteries for electric vehicles?
(a) BHEL
(b) GAIL
(c) SAIL
(d) DRDO
(e) BEML

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