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. India and South Korea have signed an Inter-governmental Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for Defence Industry cooperation between their shipbuilding yards. What is the capital of South Korea?

(a) Beijing

(b) Seoul

(c) Pyongyang

(d) Bangkok

(e) Tokyo

Q2. Which among the following insurance company has become the first re-insurer to open an office at India’s first International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) at Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City)?

(a) Oriental Insurance Company Limited 

(b) National Insurance Company Limited 

(c) United India Insurance Company

(d) The New India Assurance Company Limited 

(e) General Insurance Corporation of India

Q3. Minister of Law and Justice Ravi Shankar Prasad has inaugurated welfare initiatives of the Department of Justice. These initiatives are-

(a) Pro-bono legal services

(b) Tele-law service-

(c) Nyaya Mitra Project

(d) All of the above

(e) None of the given options is true

Q4. The Reserve Bank of India has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on “Supervisory Cooperation and Exchange of Supervisory Information” with Bank of Guyana. Who is governor of Bank of Guyana?

(a) Dr Gobind N Ganga

(b) Dr Juan Edghill

(c) Dr Leslie Glen

(d) Dr Donald Ramotar

(e) Dr Ashni Singh

Q5. A centralised database with Online connectivity to branches and Internet as well as ATM Network which has been adopted by almost all major banks of our country is known as_________

(a) Investment Baking

(b) Mobile Banking

(c) Specialised Banking

(d) Core Banking Solution

(e) None of the given options is true

Q6. Which of the following is the purpose of introducing “Know Your Customer” norms by the banks?

(a) Identifying people who do not pay Income Tax

(b) To bring more and more people under the banking net

(c) To ensure that the money deposited in banks has come from genuine sources

(d) All of the Above

(e) None of the given options is true

Q7. Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India (SPMCIL) Limited was incorporated under the Companies Act, 1956 with its corporate office at-

(a) Mumbai

(b) Kolkata

(c) Bangalore

(d) New Delhi

(e) Nasik

Q8. The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) conducted its first-ever mock exercise on forest fire in ___________ to help improve the preparedness and response mechanism in the event of a forest fire.

(a) Madhya Pradesh

(b) Punjab

(c) Uttarakhand

(d) Rajasthan

(e) Kerala

Q9. AU Financiers India, a non-banking finance company (NBFC), has converted itself into a small finance bank by the name AU Small Finance Bank. Who is the chairman of board of AU Small Finance Bank?

(a) Mannil Venugopalan

(b) Vipul Reddy

(c) Utkarsh Kumar

(d) Varsha R Rama

(e) None of the given options is true

Q10. Which company has won the prestigious Golden Peacock Award 2017 in the category of Innovative Product/Service for pioneering a cashless township transformation model?

(a) Maharashtra Industries Directory

(b) Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers & Chemicals Ltd (GNFC)

(c) Organic Fertilizers Kerala

(d) Rajasthan Handloom & Handicraft Industries

(e) None of the given options is true

Q11. Which among the following countries has successfully launched its first unmanned cargo spacecraft named Tianzhou-1?

(a) North Korea

(b) Japan

(c) China

(d) Russia

(e) Singapore

Q12. The most popular festival in Tamil Nadu is:

(a) Gudipadwa  

(b) Onam 

(c) Bihu 

(d) Pongal

(e) Makar sakranti

Q13. Human Rights Day is observed on- 

(a) 10th March 

(b) 10th July 

(c) 10th September 

(d) 10th December

(e) 10th June

Q14. The headquarters of Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is located in-

(a) Kabul

(b) Riyadh 

(c) Kuwait City 

(d) Abu Dhabi 

(e) Vienna

Q15. Security Paper Mill (SPM) was formally inaugurated and dedicated to the nation on the 9th March, __________ by the then Deputy Prime Minister, Shri Morarji Desai.

(a) 1956

(b) 1968

(c) 1949

(d) 1962

(e) 1971

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