General Awareness Questions for NABARD Prelims Exam 2017

This is the high time to pace up your preparations for Upcoming NABARD Prelims 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. Which among the following two banks have launched co-branded credit cards for the customers recently?
(a) PNB and South Indian Bank
(b) SBI and Karnataka Bank
(c) ICICI and Indian Overseas Bank
(d) Axis Bank and Bank of Baroda
(e) Indian Bank and Bandhan Bank

Q2. Who has appointed as the new chairman of Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC)?
(a) Vanaja N. Sarna
(b) Swati Gupta
(c) Tanushree Pareek
(d) Upendra Tripathy
(e) T S Anantharaman

Q3. Which among the following countries has committed an ‘Official Development Assistance’ (ODA) of 371.345 billion yen (about Rs 21,590 crore) under 2016-2017 for various infrastructure projects, including the dedicated freight corridor in India?
(a) Malaysia
(b) Thailand
(c) South Korea
(d) Japan
(e) China

Q4. Kanha tiger reserve in Madhya Pradesh has become the first tiger reserve in India to officially introduce a mascot of its own. The Mascot has been named as……………..? 
(a) Bhoorsingh the Barasingha
(b) Shersingh the Sheraham
(c) Baghathakut the Bhaghwar
(d) Singham the Singhatam
(e) None of the given options is true

Q5. Under OLTAS, only a Single Copy Challan is used with a tear off portion for the Tax Payer. What does OLTAS stand for-
(a) On-line Tax Accounting Service
(b) On-line Tax Amounting System
(c) On-line Timing Accounting System
(d) On-line Tax Association Service
(e) On-line Tax Accounting System

Q6. Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had chaired the South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation (SASEC) Finance Ministers meeting in New Delhi. Name the country that has joined the SASEC program as its seventh member.
(a) Bangladesh
(b) Bhutan
(c) Myanmar
(d) Maldives
(e) Nepal

Q7. Name the Bank/Banks that sold Rs.1,800 crore Ballarpur Industries loans to Edelweiss Asset Reconstruction Company.
(a) ICICI Bank
(b) HDFC Bank
(c) Axis Bank
(d) Both (a) and (c)
(e) Both (b) and (c)

Q8. The WTO’s dispute settlement set up a panel to resolve the dispute between ___________ and India over imposition of safeguard import duty on iron and steel products.
(a) Japan
(b) Pakistan
(c) China
(d) Afghanistan
(e) Myanmar

Q9. The Total expenditure in Budget for 2017-18 has been placed at?
(a) Rs. 21.47 lakh crores
(b) Rs. 42.31 lakh crores
(c) Rs. 75.26 lakh crores
(d) Rs. 56.17 lakh crores
(e) Rs. 92.86 lakh crores

Q10. TEC, an acronym was announced by the Finance Minister marking the beginning of the annual budget for the next fiscal year. What is the full form of TEC?
(a) Transport, Energise, Comfort India
(b) Transfer, Energise, Clean India
(c) Transform, Essential, Clean India
(d) Transform, Energise, Capable India
(e) Transform, Energise, Clean India

Q11. Name the person who has been appointed as the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations Offices in Geneva, Switzerland.
(a) Sandeep Jajodia
(b) B P Kanugo
(c) Sumit Kumar Rao
(d) Amit Gupta
(e) Rajiv Kumar Chander

Q12. The Madhya Pradesh government has launched an app named ____________ to provide various municipal services online.
(a) MP i-Seva
(b) MP e-Safai
(c) MP i-Safai
(d) MP e-nagarpalika
(e) MP e-Cleaning

Q13. Which of the following Indian Universities has topped the list of country’s official higher education rankings, recently announced by the HRD Ministry?
(a) Banaras Hindu University
(b) Jawaharlal Nehru University
(c) IISc-Bengaluru
(d) Delhi University
(e) Aligarh University

Q14. Bandipur National Park, an 874-sq.-km forested reserve in the southern Indian state of-
(a) Kerala
(b) Tamil Nadu
(c) Karnataka
(d) Telangana
(e) Andhra Pradesh

Q15. Hillary Rodham Clinton is famous of which of the following field?
(a) Cinema
(b) Politics
(c) Sports
(d) Art & Culture
(e) None of the given options is true

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