General Awareness Questions for Indian Bank PO Mains 2017

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Q1. Who has taken charge as the Chief of Army Staff?

(a) General Bipin Rawat

(b) General VK Singh

(c) General Himanshu Reddy

(d) General Dalbir Singh Suhag

(e) General Bikram Prasad

Q2. Which among the following state government has sanctioned disbursement of two crore rupees for the district-level sports complexes for which Sports training department of every district will be disbursing the funds?

(a) Maharashtra

(b) Gujarat

(c) Kerala

(d) West Bengal

(e) Uttar Pradesh

Q3. Which of the following Public Sector Banks (PSBs) has tied up with online classifieds portal magicbricks.com, to conduct joint marketing activities and help rejuvenate the real estate sector?

(a) Punjab National Bank

(b) State Bank of India

(c) Indian Overseas Bank

(d) Central Bank of India

(e) Bank of Baroda

Q4. An Indian-origin Saudi-based entrepreneur Shaikh Rafik Mohammed, who hails from Kerala has been appointed Major General of _______________, a rare military position occupied by an Indian in the Central Asian country. 

(a) Afghanistan

(b) Maldives

(c) Kyrgyzstan 

(d) Uzbekistan

(e) Tajikistan

Q5. In the capital market, the term arbitrage is used with reference to?

(a) Purchase of securities to cover the sale 

(b) Sale of securities to reduce the loss on purchase 

(c) Simultaneous purchase and sale of securities to make profits from price

(d) All of the above

(e) None of the given options is true 

Q6. Federal Reserve System is the Central Bank of-

(a) Britain 

(b) USA

(c) Japan 

(d) Canada

(e) None of the given options is true 

Q7. World Population day is an annual event observed on which of the following day every year that seeks to raise awareness of global population issues. The event was established by the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme in 1989?

(a) July 01

(b) July 19

(c) July 30

(d) June 12

(e) July 11

Q8. NEER is the unadjusted weighted average value of a country’s currency relative to all major currencies being traded within an index or pool of currencies. NEER stands for?

(a) Nominal Effective Exchange Rate

(b) Nominal Effective Essential Rate

(c) Nominal Electronic Exchange Rate

(d) Nominal Effective Exchange Ratio

(e) None of the given options is true 

Q9. ________________ an Indian- origin British professor of chemistry and DNA expert at Cambridge University has received a Knighthood along with Olympic stars Andy Murray and Mo Farah among others by Queen Elizabeth II for their contributions.

(a) Ramakrishnan Rao

(b) Shankar Balasubramanian

(c) Pradeep Kumar Malhotra

(d) Krishana Sahai

(e) None of the given options is true 

Q10. Which state has emerged as the India’s first fully organic state in 2016 by converting around 75,000 hectares of agricultural land into sustainable cultivation?

(a) Sikkim

(b) Assam

(c) Tripura

(d) Meghalaya

(e) Kerala

Q11. Many Banks have adopted/launched “Core Banking Solution (CBS)”. Core Banking Solution is……….?

(a) A marketing strategy adopted by the Banks 

(b) A new type of ATM useful for rural population 

(c) A delivery channel for quick and fast delivery 

(d) A new product launched to help senior citizens only as they are not able to visit branches/ATMs frequently

(e) None of the given options is true 

Q12. Many times we read about Future Trading in newspapers. What is Future Trading?

(a) It is nothing but a trade between any two stock exchanges wherein it is decided to purchase the stocks of each other at a fixed price throughout the year 

(b) It is an agreement between two parties to buy and sell an underlying asset in the future at a predetermined price 

(c) It is agreement between Stock Exchanges that they will not trade the stocks of each other under any circumstances in future or for a given period of time 

(d) All of the above

(e) None of the given options is true 

Q13. The Durand Tournament was started at Shimla in the yr 1888 by Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, who was then the Foreign Secretary to Govt. of India. Durand Cup related to which game?

(a) Cricket

(b) Tennis

(c) Football

(d) Chess

(e) Hockey

Q14. The 4,620MW Mundra Thermal Power Station is located in the Kutch district of which of the following state and is currently the second biggest operating thermal power plant in India?

(a) Gujarat

(b) Rajasthan

(c) Maharashtra

(d) Uttar Pradesh

(e) Tamil Nadu

Q15. Where is the headquartered of Asian Development Bank (ADB)?

(a) New Delhi, India

(b) Beijing, China

(c) Tokyo, Japan

(d) Manila, Philippines

(e) None of the given options is true