General Awareness Questions for IBPS RRB PO and Clerk 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. The Centre and Asian Development Bank (ADB) has signed a ______________ million dollar loan for improving connectivity as well as transport efficiency and safety on State Highways of Rajasthan. 

(a) 1500 million dollar

(b) 535 million dollar

(c) 1000 million dollar

(d) 1200 million dollar

(e) 220 million dollar

Q2. The indigenously developed QRSAM short-range missile, which has a capability of engaging multiple targets was successfully test-fired from a test range along the Odisha coast. What is the meaning of “SAM” in QRSAM? 

(a) Symbol-to-Air Missile 

(b) Surface-to-Air Mission 

(c) Surface-to-Agency Missile 

(d) Surface-to-Air Missile

(e) None of the given options is true

Q3. Aadhaar architect Nandan Nilekani and Helion Venture’s Sanjeev Aggarwal have launched an investment fund called Fundamentum with a corpus of _________ to back start-ups looking for growth capital.

(a) $1500 million

(b) $2000 million

(c) $100 million

(d) $500 million

(e) $1000 million

Q4. Who is the present president of the Asian Development Bank (ADB)?

(a) Jin Liqun

(b) Takehiko Nakao

(c) Lin Quinan

(d) Jim Yong Kim

(e) Haruhiko Kuroda

Q5. PFRDA is responsible for the appointment of which of the following agency?

(a) Pension Fund Managers

(b) Custodian

(c) NPS Trustee Bank

(d) Central Record Keeping Agency (CRA)

(e) All of the above

Q6. Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) is authorized by?

(a) GOI

(b) RBI

(c) Ministry of Commerce

(d) Ministry of Finance

(e) SEBI

Q7. The headquarters of Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) is-

(a) Mumbai

(b) Hyderabad

(c) New Delhi

(d) Bangalore

(e) Kolkata 

Q8. The Financial Stability Board (FSB), an international body for the global financial system, has placed _______ in the league of countries that are ‘compliant or largely compliant’ on the implementation of priority area reforms.

(a) Canada

(b) Japan

(c) India

(d) China 

(e) Germany

Q9. Which among the following Nort-Eastern state has been declared as “disturbed area” for six more months under the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA), which empowers security forces to conduct operations anywhere without any prior notice recently (first week of July 2017)?

(a) Assam

(b) Manipur

(c) Mizoram

(d) Sikkim

(e) Nagaland

Q10. ___________ is an annual Buffalo Race held traditionally under the sponsorship of local landlords and households, in coastal Karnataka, India.

(a) Kambala

(b) Jallikattu

(c) Somayarth

(d) Karsaam

(e) None of the given options is true

Q11. In which among the following year, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) was established as the successor to the Financial Stability Forum (FSF)?

(a) 1945

(b) 1982

(c) 1991

(d) 2009

(e) 1956

Q12. The Headquarters of International Court of Justice is located in- 

(a) Paris (France) 

(b) Geneva (Switzerland) 

(c) New York (USA) 

(d) The Hague (Netherlands)

(e) Sydney (Australia) 

Q13. Which state gives the Nandi Award?

(a) Kerala 

(b) Tamil Nadu

(c) Karnataka 

(d) Andhra Pradesh

(e) Maharashtra

Q14. In India, 8th October is celebrated as?

(a) Air Force Day

(b) Navy Day

(c) Armed Forces Day

(d) Rededication Day 

(e) AIDS day

Q15. Which of the following is an investment strategy in which a fund invests in other types of funds?

(a) Bond

(b) Securities

(c) Stock

(d) Funds of Fund

(e) None of the given options is true

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