General Awareness Questions for IBPS RRB Mains 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. Banking on the Government’s drive to promote cash-less economy, which of the following cash back portal has tied up with YES Bank to launch card-linked offers as part of its loyalty programme for both offline and online shoppers?
(a) Paytm.com
(b) Cashkaro.com
(c) Paisabazar.com
(d) Naptol.com
(e) Bookmyshow.com

Q2. India’s first International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) at GIFT City entered into an agreement with Gujarat National Law University (GNLU) to collaborate on efforts for Skill Development in the field of International Financial Services & Regulations. GIFT stands for-

(a) Gujarat Investment Finance-Trip

(b) Gujarat Import Fund-Transfer

(c) Gujarat Income Finance-Track

(d) Gujarat International Finance-Tec

(e) Gujarat Incumbent Finance-Tec

Q3. Which one of the following bank has become the first lender to classify Videocon Industries as a ‘bad loan’?

(a) Dena Bank

(b) Yes Bank

(c) IDBI Bank

(d) Syndicate Bank

(e) ICICI Bank

Q4. India and Russia has recently agreed to work closely in various sectors, including security, nuclear energy, and disaster management. Who is the Deputy Prime Minister of Russia?

(a) Dmitry Medvedev

(b) Dimitry Rogozin

(c) Olga Golodets

(d) Mikhail Abyzov

(e) Pavel Kolobkov

Q5. What was the Purpose of setting up Narasimhan Committee-2?

(a) Efficiency and productivity

(b) Banking reform process

(c) Export of IT sector

(d) Fiscal Reform process

(e) None of the given options is true

Q6. The largest bank Imperial bank was nationalized in 1955 and rechristened as State Bank of India on the recommendation of which committee?

(a) Rangarajan Committee

(b) Chelliah Committee

(c) Rekhi Committee

(d) Gorewala Committee

(e) None of the given options is true

Q7. Who monitors Priority Sector Lending (PSL) in commercial banks?

(a) Reserve Bank of India (RBI)

(b) Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI)

(c) National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD)

(d) Government of India (GOI)

(e) Finance Ministry (FM)

Q8. Microblogging platform Twitter has elevated ___________ as its Country Director for India.

(a) Sukal Singh Rawat

(b) Suvarna Raj

(c) Ram Sampath Sinha

(d) Taranjeet Singh

(e) Vikramjeet Solanki

Q9. The government of India has recently set up a high-level task force to compute timely data on employment in the country, a move that will go a long way to help government frame policies and take steps that can create jobs in the country. The task force has been created under the chairmanship of _____________.

(a) Narendra Modi

(b) Sushma Swaraj

(c) Arvind Panagariya

(d) Bandaru Dattatreya

(e) Narendra Singh Tomar

Q10. Markets regulator Securities and Exchange board of India (SEBI) allowed investors to buy mutual fund schemes for up to _____________ through digital wallets.

(a) Rs 10,000

(b) Rs 20,000

(c) Rs 30,000

(d) Rs 40,000

(e) Rs 50,000

Q11. India achieved a major technological breakthrough by successfully carrying out nuclear tests at Pokhran, Rajasthan. Technology Development Board, Ministry of Science and Technology has celebrated National Technology Day on _____________.

(a) 10th may

(b) 11th May

(c) 12th May

(d) 9th May

(e) 8th May

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

(a) Odisha

(b) Andhra Pradesh

(c) Chhattisgarh

(d) Gujarat

(e) Goa

Q13. Rihand dam is in which of the following state? 

(a) Karnataka

(b) West Bengal

(c) Uttar Pradesh

(d) Maharashtra

(e) Uttarakhand

Q14. Who is the Chief Minister of Karnataka? 

(a) Shivraj Singh Chouhan

(b) Vijaybhai R. Rupani

(c) Okram Ibobi Singh

(d) Laxmikant Parsekar

(e) Siddaramaiah

Q15. Lake Baikal, the world’s oldest and deepest freshwater lake is situated in which of the following country?

(a) Australia

(b) Sweden

(c) South Africa

(d) India

(e) Russia

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