General Awareness Questions for IBPS PO and IBPS RRB 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 player who became the first ever Indian sportsperson to win a gold medal at the Wushu World Championship.

(a) M. Gyandas

(b) Anjul Namdev

(c) M. Bidheswari Devi

(d) Pooja Kadian

(e) Sajan Lama

Q2. Name the newly appointed Prime Minister of Mongolia.

(a) Dendev Terbishdagva

(b) Chimed Saikhanbileg

(c) Ukhnaa Khurelsukh

(d) Luvsanvandan Bold

(e) Khishigdemberel Temuujin

Q3. Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit was sworn-in recently by ____________ at the Raj Bhavan in Chennai.

(a) Madras High Court Chief Justice

(b) President of India

(c) Vice-President of India

(d) CM of Tamil Nadu

(e) None of the given options is true

Q4. Private insurer Tata AIA Life has launched the ‘Eazy Connect’ chatbot that will extend online customer service to social media platforms. Who is the present CEO and MD of Tata AIA Life?

(a) Ranvijay Shekhawat

(b) Naveen Tahilyani

(c) Pradeep Singh

(d) Nitin Bhai

(e) Deepak Jajodia

Q5. 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

Q6. Where is the headquarter of AU Small Finance Bank?

(a) Jalandhar, Punjab

(b) Ahmedabad, Gujarat

(c) Guwahati, Assam

(d) Bengaluru, Karnataka

(e) Jaipur, Rajasthan

Q7. RBI was granted a licence to small Finance Banks for the commencement of banking business under Section ______ of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949.

(a) Section 38(3)

(b) Section 22(1)

(c) Section 47(4)

(d) Section 12(2)

(e) Section 27(5)

Q8. The chairman of _____________ Olympic Committee Carlos Arthur Nuzman has been recently arrested as part of a probe into alleged vote-buying to secure hosting of the Olympic Games 2016.

(a) USA’s

(b) France’s

(c) Brazil’s

(d) China’s

(e) Indonesia’s

Q9. Who is the world’s most followed leader on Twitter, according to the latest report by Twiplomacy, a Burson Marsteller research project?

(a) Narendra Modi

(b) Vladimir Putin

(c) Angela Markel

(d) Barack Obama

(e) Donald Trump

Q10. The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2017 to ________________.

(a) Global Change Peace and Securities

(b) International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons

(c) Frontier Pitts

(d) Total Mast Solutions Limited

(e) Townscape Products

Q11. Name the first Indian Journalist-activist who has been posthumously accorded with the prestigious Anna Politkovskaya Award.

(a) Santosh Kumar Ghosh

(b) Kanchan Gupta

(c) Gauri Lankesh

(d) Sucheta Dalal

(e) Teesta Setalvad

Q12. Moortidevi Award is given annually in which of the following fields?

(a) Literature

(b) Films

(c) Journalism

(d) Music

(e) Art

Q13. Who is the present Chief Minister of Assam? 

(a) Sarbananda Sonowal

(b) Vajubhai Vala

(c) Pawan Kumar Chamling

(d) Manik Sarkar

(e) Nara Chandrababu Naidu

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

(a) Madhya Pradesh

(b) Daman and Diu

(c) Odisha

(d) Uttar Pradesh

(e) Kerala 

Q15. The Wushu World Championship 2017 was held recently in _____________.

(a) Paris, France

(b) Moscow, Russia

(c) New York, USA

(d) Washington DC, USA

(e) Kazan, Russia

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