General Awareness Questions for IBPS RRB Mains 2017

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 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. The minimum paid-up equity capital for small finance banks shall be———-

(a) Rs. 100 crore

(b) Rs. 200 crore

(c) Rs. 300 crore

(d) Rs. 400 crore

(e) Rs. 500 crore  

Q7. Reserve Bank of India has granted the in-principle licence for small finance banks. The in-principle approval granted by RBI will be valid for a period of ________ months.

(a) 24 months

(b) 10 months

(c) 18 months

(d) 50 months

(e) 12 months

Q8. Which of the following young driver has created history by becoming the first Indian driver to win a GP3 race?

(a) Kabir Khan

(b) Arjun Maini

(c) Ishant Rajveer

(d) Kamal Kumar Saha

(e) Parvar Rajan

Q9. ___________ is a kind of cyber-attack that involves hackers taking control of a computer system and blocking access to it until a certain amount of money is paid.

(a) Network  

(b) Worm 

(c) Pirated Software 

(d) Ransomware

(e) Encryption

Q10. In a survey conducted during March and April 2017, FICCI predicted India’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth. What does ‘CC’ mean in FICCI?

(a) Chambers of Conclusion

(b) Chambers of Committee

(c) Chambers of Commerce

(d) Chambers of Conference

(e) Chambers of Constitution

Q11. Teams of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the United States and the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) have come up together to inspect the excavation being carried out at an archaeological site in which of the following Indian states?

(a) Bihar

(b) Odisha

(c) Uttarakhand

(d) Haryana

(e) Madhya Pradesh

Q12. Headquarter of Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is in which of the following city? 

(a) Colombo, Sri Lanka

(b) Vienna, Austria

(c) Washington, D.C., USA

(d) The Hague, Netherlands

(e) Geneva, Switzerland

Q13. What is the Currency of Comoros? 

(a) Maluti

(b) Franc

(c) Kuna

(d) Ruble

(e) Lilangeni

Q14. South Button Island National Park is situated in which of the following Indian state/UT? 

(a) Lakshadweep

(b) Assam

(c) Gujarat

(d) Andaman and Nicobar

(e) Jharkhand

Q15. Where is the headquarter of AU Small Finance Bank?

(a) Jalandhar, Punjab

(b) Ahmedabad, Gujarat

(c) Guwahati, Assam

(d) Bengaluru, Karnataka

(e) Jaipur, Rajasthan

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