General Awareness Questions for IBPS RRB PO and Clerk 2017

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Current Affairs and General Awareness Questions

This is the high time to pace up your preparations for Upcoming IBPS RRB PO and Clerk 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 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. Name the scientist from IIT-Hyderabad who has been awarded with the prestigious Indian National Science Academy (INSA) medal in the Young Scientist category for 2017.

(a) Manoj Kumar Sundar

(b) Vinay Sehgal

(c) Aravind Kumar Rengan

(d) Ashok Benegal

(e) Randhir Bashir

Q2. What is the theme of the International Day of Families 2017?

(a) Stand tall for your Family

(b) The Cosmopolitan World

(c) Families, education and well-being

(d) Make a new Family, The World

(e) None of the given themes is true

Q3. Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the ‘Narmada Seva Mission’ for the conservation of the crucial river, which is a lifeline of Madhya Pradesh. The Narmada River originates from _____________.

(a) Aravalli Hills

(b) Shivalik Hills

(c) Anamalai Hills

(d) Maikal hills

(e) Biligiriranga Hills

Q4. Former Chief Minister S Ramaswamy died recently after a brief illness. He was former CM of _______________.

(a) Sikkim

(b) Manipur

(c) Puducherry

(d) Meghalaya

(e) Tripura

Q5. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has granted “in-principle” approval to the ________  applicants to set up small finance banks under the “Guidelines for Licensing of Small Finance Banks?

(a) 11

(b) 12

(c) 13

(d) 10

(e) 15

Q6. Which among the following rates is not the policy rate of RBI?

(a) Repo Rate

(b) Reverse Repo Rate

(c) Bank Rate

(d) Marginal Standing Facility Rate

(e) Cash Reserve Ratio

Q7. The Banking Ombudsman is a senior official appointed by…………..?

(a) Indian Government

(b) President of India

(c) Chief Justice of India

(d) Reserve Bank of India

(e) Finance Ministry

Q8. The expanded Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) between India and which country has come into effect recently according to which both the countries have offered to lower or eliminate duties on a number of items traded with each other?

(a) Palestine

(b) UK

(c) Chile

(d) USA

(e) China

Q9. Name the newly-elected Prime Minister of France.

(a) Emmanuel Macron

(b) Bernard Cazeneuve

(c) Manuel Valls

(d) Jean-Marc Ayrault

(e) Edouard Philippe

Q10. In a survey conducted during March and April 2017, FICCI predicted India’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth will be around ________ for fiscal 2017-18.

(a) 7.0

(b) 7.1

(c) 7.3

(d) 7.4%

(e) 7.5

Q11. Which of the following Indian Wrestler defeated Lee Seung-chul of Korea to win the gold medal in themen’s 65 kg freestyle category at the Asian Wrestling Championship 2017?

(a) Sushil Kumar

(b) Yogeshwar Dutt

(c) Bajrang Punia

(d) Sakshi Malik

(e) Narsingh Yadav

Q12. Which of the following Indian state was on bottom most position in the list of recently released Public Affairs Index (PAI) 2017 in governance?

(a) West Bengal

(b) Chhattisgarh

(c) Odisha

(d) Bihar

(e) Madhya Pradesh

Q13. Which of the following Indian state hosted the first outreach program of the Ministry of External Affairs ‘Videsh Sampark’ to engage the State governments in creating awareness about various programmes of the Ministry?

(a) Kerala

(b) Karnataka

(c) West Bengal

(d) Assam

(e) Telangana

Q14. Who is the current governor of Kerala?

(a) ESL Narsimhan

(b) P R Rangasami

(c) Rameshwar Thakur

(d) Palanisamy Sathasivam

(e) Sushil Kumar Shinde

Q15. Silent Valley National Park is situated in which of the following Indian state? 

(a) Tamil Nadu

(b) Kerala

(c) West Bengal

(d) Assam

(e) Meghalaya

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