General Awareness Questions for IBPS Clerk Mains 2017

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Current Affairs and General Awareness Questions

General Awareness is a very important section in the banking exams so pace up your preparation with G.K. Questions and Answers. 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 General Awareness quiz with your best effort and try to score as much as you can.

Q1. Name the state government for which India and the World Bank signed a $200 million Loan Agreement for the state’s Agribusiness and Rural Transformation Project.

(a) Tamil Nadu

(b) Meghalaya

(c) Assam

(d) Tripura

(e) Karnataka

Q2. Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni was recently on the 2-day visit to India. Who was the last Italian Prime Minister to visit India in February 2007?

(a) Matteo Renzi

(b) Romano Prodi

(c) Enrico Letta

(d) Silvio Berlusconi

(e) Giuliano Amato

Q3. The 17th edition of FIFA U-17 World Cup took place for the first time in India. The official ball for Under-17 football World Cup is called _____________.

(a) Sukrot

(b) Nabrato

(c) Protol

(d) Manora

(e) Krasava

Q4. Name the country that has recently announced that women in the country will now be able to attend sports events in stadiums starting from 2018.

(a) UAE

(b) Azerbaijan

(c) Qatar

(d) Saudi Arabia

(e) Nigeria

Q5. Name the Private sector, which has committed Rs 156 crore to fund first Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) to be constructed at Varanasi under Hybrid Annuity-PPP Model recently.

(a) ICICI Bank

(b) HDFC Bank

(c) Axis Bank

(d) Yes Bank

(e) Kotak Mahindra Bank

Q6. What is the ranking of India in recently released World Bank’s report of ‘ease of doing business’?

(a) 97th

(b) 76th

(c) 66th

(d) 100th

(e) 105th

Q7. Name the country that has topped the list of seven countries in the new tuberculosis (TB) cases worldwide in 2016, according to a new report by the World Health Organization.

(a) Indonesia

(b) India

(c) China

(d) Pakistan

(e) Nigeria

Q8. India and Tunisia agreed to jointly combat terrorism and extremism while ramping up cooperation in the field of security. What is the capital of Tunisia?

(a) Baku

(b) Tanjia

(c) Tunis

(d) Rova

(e) Samania

Q9. The government has recently set up a ministerial panel to consider and oversee mergers among the country’s 21 state-run banks. The panel will be headed by ________________.

(a) Piyush Goyal

(b) Nirmala Sitharaman

(c) Rajnath Singh

(d) Arun Jaitley

(e) Rajiv Kumar

Q10. ___________ is an electronic fund transfer system that operates on a Deferred Net Settlement (DNS) basis which settles transactions in batches.

(a) NEFT

(b) RTGS

(c) NPCI

(d) BBPS

(e) IMPS

Q11. By what percent, country’s largest lender State Bank of India (SBI) slashed benchmark lending rate across maturities?

(a) 0.10%

(b) 0.04%

(c) 0.05%

(d) 0.07%

(e) 0.09%

Q12. ‘World AIDS Day’ is observed on- 

(a) 01st January 

(b) 01st April 

(c) 01st September 

(d) 01st December

(e) 01st November

Q13. The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was replaced by-

(a) North American Free Trade Association

(b) South Asian Free Trade

(c) World Trade Organisation

(d) Free Trade Organisation

(e) None of the given options is true

Q14. The leaning temple of Huma is dedicated to which Hindu God?

(a) Shiva

(b) Rama

(c) Krishna 

(d) Hanuman

(e) Durga

Q15. Name the state that is safest for girls, according to a newly-formed Gender Vulnerability Index (GVI) by NGO Plan India.

(a) Kerala

(b) Mizoram

(c) Goa

(d) Assam

(e) Maharashtra

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