General Awareness Questions for NABARD Prelims Exam 2017

This is the high time to pace up your preparations for Upcoming NABARD Prelims Exams. 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. Name the first person from the North-Eastern Region who took over as the New Controller General of Accounts (CGA), Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance.

(a) Anthony Lianzuala

(b) Anup Sisodia

(c) Mukul Ranjan

(d) Rupesh Nath Goel

(e) Abdur Kazir

Q2. Name the recipient of “USIBC Transformative Leadership Award” for 2016.

(a) Shankha Ghosh

(b) Upul Chaturvedi

(c) Suparna Samantha

(d) Jaya Bhattacharya

(e) Amitabh Kant

Q3. Name the current Union Human Resource Development Minister of India.

(a) Smriti Irani

(b) Kalraj Mishra

(c) Radha Mohan Singh

(d) Prakash Javadekar

(e) Thawar Chand Gehlot

Q4. The World Press Freedom Day is observed globally on _________

(a) 1st May

(b) 3rd May

(c) 30th April

(d) 2nd May

(e) 29th April

Q5. In it, a worldwide recognised identification code used at the time of international credit transfer between banks and also when there is an exchange of messages between banks.

(a) IFSC Code

(b) SWIFT Code

(c) NEFT Code

(d) BIS Code

(e) FCRA Code

Q6. In which of the following a credit facility is provided by the bank to an entity for a specific purpose, to be repayable after a short duration?

(a) Advances

(b) Loans

(c) Security

(d) Liabilities

(e) Goodwill

Q7. RRBs are working in all states of the country except _______.

(a) Sikkim

(b) Goa

(c) Andhra Pradesh

(d) Bihar 

(e) Both (a) and (b)

Q8. On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, UNESCO has co-organized the World Press Freedom Day’s main event and the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize Ceremony in _________________.

(a) Geneva, Switzerland

(b) New York, USA

(c) Jakarta, Indonesia

(d) Barcelona, Spain

(e) Saint John, Canada

Q9. Which of the following Indian state has recently become the first state to switch to the January-December financial year from the existing April-March cycle?

(a) Maharashtra

(b) Uttar Pradesh

(c) Odisha

(d) Tripura

(e) Madhya Pradesh

Q10. The World Press Freedom Day was observed recently by UNESCO. Who is the Director-General of UNESCO?

(a) Peter Thomson

(b) Ban Ki-moon

(c) Antonio Guterres

(d) Irina Bokova

(e) Juan Somavía

Q11. The Headquarters of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is in-

(a) Geneva 

(b) Paris 

(c) Brussels

(d) Washington

(e) Vienna

Q12. The symbol of Reserve Bank of India is- 

(a) Capital of Asokan Pillar 

(b) Kuber with a purse of money 

(c) Tiger before a Palm tree

(d) A dog sitting in a defensive state 

(e) None of the given options is true

Q13. Which organisation is made for empowering Micro, Small and Medium enterprises in India-?

(a) ECGC

(b) RBI

(c) RRB

(d) SIDBI

(e) NABARD

Q14. ‘Madhubani’, a style of folk paintings is popular in which of the following states in India?  (a) Bihar

(b) Madhya Pradesh 

(c) Uttar Pradesh 

(d) West Bengal 

(e) Haryana

Q15. In which among the following Indian cities, the Department of Commerce, Government of India has recently (May 2017) organised the 4th National Standards Conclave?

(a) Bengaluru

(b) New Delhi

(c) Mysore

(d) Chennai

(e) Chandigarh

General Awareness Questions for NABARD Prelims Exam 2017 (Solutions)

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