General Awareness Questions for IBPS RRB PO and Clerk 2017

Dear Readers,

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. Who has been assumed charge as Managing Director & CEO of Union Bank of India?

(a) Melwyn Rego

(b) Rajkiran Rai G

(c) Rakesh Sethi

(d) Sunil Mehta

(e) None of the given options is true

Q2. Which among the following countries has lifted their maiden Confederation Cup Football title?

(a) USA

(b) France

(c) Argentina

(d) Canada

(e) Germany

Q3. Which state has sets record with plantation of 6 crores saplings in the day?

(a) Assam

(b) Gujarat

(c) Madhya Pradesh

(d) West Bengal

(e) Uttarakhand

Q4. Which among the following University has announced exemption of fees for its transgender students of all programmes? 

(a) Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU)

(b) Aligarh Muslim University (AMU)

(c) Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU)

(d) University of Delhi (DU)

(e) Jamia Millia Islamia University (JMIU)

Q5. Loan and Advances of a bank come under which of the following category?

(a) Assets

(b) Liabilities

(c) Deposits

(d) All of the Above

(e) None of the given options is true

Q6. RBI sold its stake in NABARD to the Government of India, which now holds _____ stake.

(a) Approx 65%

(b) Approx 70%

(c) Approx 95%

(d) Approx 99%

(e) Approx 24%

Q7. Which of the following is not available to depositors of NBFCs?

(a) Deposit Insurance facility

(b) Acquisition of shares

(c) Loans and Advances

(d) All of the Above

(e) None of the given options is true

Q8. FINO Payments Bank has commenced operations as a payments bank with effect from 30th June 2017 according to the Reserve Bank of India. FINO Payments Bank based in-

(a) Varanasi

(b) Chennai

(c) Bengaluru

(d) Mumbai

(e) Jaipur

Q9. Who has became Serbia’s first female prime minister and the first openly gay premier in the Balkans, where homophobia remains widespread?

(a) Mohammed bin Salman

(b) Vladimir Ivanovich Voronkov 

(c) Klaus Iohannis

(d) Theresa May

(e) Ana Brnabic

Q10. Union Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Rajeev Pratap Rudy and MP Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has laid the foundation stone of the country’s biggest Global Skill Park in ___________.

(a) Ujjain

(b) Gwalior

(c) Indore 

(d) Bhopal

(e) Jabalpur

Q11. The Prime Minister Narendra Modi has released a photo book titled “President Pranab Mukherjee ________ at an event in Rashtrapati Bhawan.

(a) A Gentleman

(b) A Warrior

(c) A Statesman

(d) A Veteran

(e) None of the given options is true

Q12. Whose cremation site has been named as “Shakti Sthal”?  

(a) Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel 

(b) Lal Bahadur Shastri 

(c) Indira Gandhi

(d) Rajiv Gandhi 

(e) Mahatma Gandhi

Q13. Where is the capital of Serbia?

(a) Juba

(b) Belgrade

(c) Kampala

(d) Jakarta

(e) Nairobi

Q14. The Headquarters of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) is located at?   

(a) Paris (France)

(b) Geneva (Switzerland) 

(c) New York (USA) 

(d) Bangkok (Thailand) 

(e) Sydney (Australia)

Q15. NBFCs include ______

(a) loan company

(b) investment company

(c) asset finance company

(d) All of the Above

(e) None of the given options is true

You may also like to Read: