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. Union Cabinet has recently given its approval for signing and ratifying, an agreement between India and Tajikistan on Cooperation and Mutual Assistance in Customs Matters. The currency of Tajikistan is ___________.

(a) Tajikistani Dinar

(b) Tajikistani Kuba

(c) Tajikistani Bako

(d) Tajikistani Somoni

(e) Tajikistani Yemen

Q2. India’s first Aquatic Rainbow Technology Park, an ultra-modern exclusive facility for ornamental fish equipped with multi-species hatchery and live feed culture units, will become operational in which of the following Indian city?

(a) Bengaluru

(b) Chennai

(c) Thiruvananthapuram

(d) Amravati

(e) Hyderabad

Q3. The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has recently given its approval for construction of how many units of India’s indigenous Pressurized Heavy Water Reactors (PHWR)?

(a) 6

(b) 7

(c) 8

(d) 9

(e) 10

Q4. Which of the following state government has recently hosted the 14th Goods & Services Tax (GST) Council meeting?

(a) Telangana

(b) Uttarakhand

(c) Jammu and Kashmir

(d) Andhra Pradesh

(e) Assam

Q5. 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)

Q6. The foreign shareholding in the small finance bank would be as per the FDI policy for _______________ as amended from time to time.

(a) Private Sector Banks 

(b) Public Sector Banks 

(c) Foreign Sector Banks 

(d) Regional Rural Banks

(e) All of the above

Q7. The promoter’s minimum initial contribution to the paid-up equity capital of such small finance bank shall at least be ———?

(a) 50 per cent

(b) 40 per cent

(c) 60 per cent

(d) 30 per cent

(e) 20 per cent

Q8. Which of the following state Legislature passed a Bill to appoint Olympics silver medalist P V Sindhu as a Group-1 officer in the government, by amending the State Public Services Act?

(a) Telangana

(b) Andhra Pradesh

(c) Maharashtra

(d) Madhya Pradesh

(e) Kerala

Q9. Which of the following company has recently (May 2017) received the final nod from the Reserve Bank of India and is set to launch its Payments Bank?

(a) Airtel

(b) FinoPay

(c) India Post Payment Bank

(d) Paytm

(e) Aditya Birla Group

Q10. Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment has recently inaugurated the “15th National Meeting of the State Commissioners for Persons with Disabilities (PwD)” to review Implementation of the Persons with Disabilities Act-1995. Name the Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment.

(a) Thaawarchand Gehlot

(b) Dharmendra Pradhan

(c) Ravi Shankar Prasad

(d) Birender Singh

(e) Anant Geete

Q11. Veteran personality Reema Lagoo passed away recently. She was famous ___________.

(a) Classical Dancer

(b) Classical Singer

(c) Actress

(d) Sitar Player

(e) Politician

Q12. Gugga dance is the folk dance of which of the following state?

(a) Odisha

(b) Andhra Pradesh

(c) Haryana

(d) Gujarat

(e) Goa

Q13. Bargi Dam is in which of the following state? 

(a) Karnataka

(b) West Bengal

(c) Madhya Pradesh

(d) Maharashtra

(e) Uttarakhand

Q14. Who is the Chief Minister of Kerala? 

(a) Shivraj Singh Chouhan

(b) Vijaybhai R. Rupani

(c) Okram Ibobi Singh

(d) Laxmikant Parsekar

(e) Pinarayi Vijayan

Q15. Small Finance Banks will be required to extend ________ of its ANBC to the sectors eligible for classification as priority sector lending (PSL) by the Reserve Bank.

(a) 55%

(b) 35%

(c) 75%

(d) 50%

(e) 10%

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