General Awareness Questions for Banking Exams

This is the high time to pace up your preparations for Upcoming IBPS Exams. 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 banking exams. 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. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) projected a marginally higher than expected growth for the world economy at _______ per cent in 2017.
(a) 4.5
(b) 3.6
(c) 3.5
(d) 3.2
(e) 4.2

Q2. Madhya Pradesh government has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with which Rail Corporation to supply 24 per cent of electricity generated from the Rewa ultra mega solar project.
(a) Lucknow Metro Rail Corporation
(b) Delhi Metro Rail Corporation
(c) Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation
(d) Karnataka Metro Rail Corporation
(e) Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation

Q3. TAL Manufacturing Solutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Motors has launched India’s first industrial-articulated robot and it goes by the name ___________.
(a) BRAVO
(b) CHARLIE
(c) TITAN
(d) BRABO
(e) None of the given option is true

Q4. The RBI permitted banks to invest up to _________ of the unit capital of a Real Estate Investment Trust (REITs) or Infrastructure Investment Trusts (InvITs).
(a) 20%
(b) 12%
(c) 15%
(d) 14%
(e) 10%

Q5. World’s first Bank Agnostic Instant Funds Transfer Platform using Facebook launched by-
(a) ICICI Bank
(b) Kotak Mahindra Bank
(c) Indusind Bank
(d) Central Bank
(e) HDFC Bank

Q6. _________ Account is opened by the investor while registering with an investment broker.
(a) Fixed Deposit Account
(b) Savings Bank Account
(c) Recurring Account
(d) Demat Account
(e) None of the given options is true

Q7. Which of the following bank launches India’s first Mobile ATM?
(a) HDFC Bank
(b) Axis Bank
(c) ICICI Bank
(d) SBI
(e) Bank of Baroda

Q8. The English translation of Perumal Murugan’s controversial ______ novel Maadhorubaagan has won the Sahitya Akademi’s Translation Prize 2016.
(a) Telugu
(b) Hindi
(c) Tamil
(d) Bengali
(e) Marathi

Q9. Name the person, who has become the first visually impaired Indian runner to complete the historic Boston Marathon.
(a) Sagar Baheti
(b) Naval Kulkarni
(c) Saumya Vashishtha
(d) Shankar Alam
(e) Noor Sheikh

Q10. Which country was hosted the 2017 BRICS Film Festival from June 23 to 27, 2017?
(a) South Africa
(b) Russia
(c) Brazil
(d) China
(e) India

Q11. National Civil Services Day is celebrated on _____________.
(a) 22 March
(b) 21 March
(c) 21 April
(d) 23 April
(e) 22 April

Q12. Who is current Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Minister in Narendra Modi government? 
(a) Ananth kumar
(b) Kalraj Mishra
(c) Anant Geete
(d) Ravi Shankar Prasad
(e) Ramvilas Paswan

Q13. Capital of Denmark is? 
(a) Tbilisi
(b) Copenhagen
(c) Conakry
(d) Djibouti
(e) Roseau

Q14. Indravati Dam is in which of the following state? 
(a) Karnataka
(b) Uttarakhand
(c) Kerala
(d) Maharashtra
(e) Odisha

Q15. World’s first Bitcoin ATM located in-
(a) US
(b) Brazil
(c) Canada
(d) UK
(e) Japan