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 person who has recently become the youngest noble prize winner to address Canadian parliament.
(a) Kailash Satyarthi
(b) Aung San Suu Kyi
(c) Raoul Wallenberg
(d) Malala Yousafzai
(e) None of the given options is true

Q2. The first rail freight service ‘British goods’ has started recently from the UK to-
(a) Japan
(b) India
(c) France
(d) Spain
(e) China

Q3. Mukta Dutta Tomar has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to which country?
(a) Japan
(b) Germany
(c) Oman
(d) Georgia
(e) Nigeria

Q4. Which among the following cities, India’s first ever micro-drama festival, named “Thespis” was concluded?
(a) New Delhi
(b) Chandigarh
(c) Bengaluru
(d) Chennai
(e) Bareilly

Q5. A signed undertaking from one party containing a promise to pay a stated sum to a specified person or a company is known as ________
(a) Power of Attorney
(b) Promissory Note
(c) Purchasing Power Parity
(d) Plastic Notes
(e) None of the given options is true

Q6. CRAR stands for _________
(a) Capital to Risk-Weighted Assets Ratio
(b) Capital to Risk Assets Ratio
(c) Credit Rating-Weighted Assets Ratio
(d) Credit Rating Assets Ratio
(e) None of the given options is true

Q7. Which among the following are long term corporate bonds that are unsecured in nature?
(a) DCF
(b) Debentures
(c) Covenant
(d) CRAs
(e) Cheque

Q8. Name the novel authored by Colson Whitehead that has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, recently.
(a) The Underground Railroad
(b) Don Quixote
(c) The Odyssey by Homer
(d) In Search of Time
(e) The Divine Comedy

Q9. ESAF Small Finance Bank has launched a social deposit scheme called _____________ in Thrissur, Kerala.
(a) FinTech Subsidy Scheme
(b) Hrudaya Deposit scheme
(c) PowerTex Form Scheme
(d) Ujala Deposit Scheme
(e) Hardik Deposit Scheme

Q10. Name the mobile manufacturing company that has recently partnered with Airtel and BSNL to set up 5G internet speed in India to introduce a fast internet ecosystem in the country.
(a) Samsung
(b) Micromax
(c) Nokia
(d) Vivo
(e) Gionee

Q11. State-run gas company Gas Authority of India Ltd. (GAIL) has signed a time-swap deal with a trader company Gunvor to sell some of its US Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) as the Indian firm tries to ease the burden of its costly foreign LNG supplies. Gunvor is ______________ based company.
(a) Austria
(b) Switzerland
(c) Japan
(d) Australia
(e) Denmark

Q12. The Indian navy has successfully test-fired an anti-ship missile for the first time from an indigenously built ______________.
(a) Charlie class submarine
(b) Arihant class submarine
(c) Sindhughosh class submarine
(d) Kalvari class submarine
(e) Chakra class submarine

Q13. Name the district of Himachal Pradesh that has recently got approval to be its second capital.
(a) Shimla
(b) Solan
(c) Dharamshala
(d) Bilaspur
(e) Kullu

Q14. United India Insurance Company Limited (UIIC) was incorporated as a Company on 18th February 1938. General Insurance Business in India was nationalized in 1972. Where is the headquarter of UIIC?
(a) Kolkata
(b) New Delhi
(c) Mumbai
(d) Pune
(e) Chennai

Q15. NABARD was set up with an initial capital of 100 crore and to Promote sustainable and equitable agriculture and rural prosperity through effective credit support, related services, institution development and other innovative initiatives. Who is the present chairman of NABARD?
(a) UK Sinha
(b) RS Sharma
(c) Raghuram Rajan
(d) H K Bhanwala
(e) None of the given options is true

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