General Awareness Questions for NICL AO Mains 2017

This is the high time to pace up your preparations for Upcoming NICL AO 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 NICL AO. 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. The government has appointed retired Supreme Court judge ___________ as the next chairman of Telecom Disputes Settlement & Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT). 

(a) M. Patanjali Sastri

(b) Vikramajit Sen

(c) Shiva Kirti Singh

(d) Balbir Singh Chauhan

(e) Ram Prakash Sethi

Q2. For the first time since Nagaland officially gained recognition as a state, a state Police Officer Atu Zumvu has been awarded one of the nations’ military honour, ‘Shaurya Chakra’. Nagaland attained statehood in which year? 

(a) 1965

(b) 1955

(c) 1971

(d) 1963

(e) 1975

Q3. Prime Minister Narendra Modi released a book authored by Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan in New Delhi, recently. The book is titled as __________.

(a) Matopadesh

(b) Bhagyashree

(c) Matoshree

(d) Preranadayini

(e) Hanswahini

Q4. The government has recently set up an ‘Inter-Ministerial Committee’ to monitor the regional air connectivity scheme named _________.

(a) UDAY

(b) UDAAN

(c) UJJWALA

(d) UNNATI

(e) UDAN

Q5. FSDC was set up by the Government as the apex level forum in-

(a) September 2002

(b) January 2016

(c) March 2012

(d) July 2005

(e) December 2010

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. Carme Chacon, the first female defence minister has passed away recently. She was from-

(a) Germany

(b) Spain

(c) France

(d) Nigeria

(e) UK

Q12. Radha Mohan Singh is a member of 16th Lok Sabha (2014-2019) and is holding the post of Minister of Agriculture in current NDA government. Which constituency does he represent?

(a) Varanasi,UP

(b) Patna, Bihar

(c) Barodara, Gujarat

(d) Purvi Champaran, Bihar

(e) Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh

Q13. The Tehri Dam is the highest dam in India and is the tenth tallest dam in the world, located at?

(a) Uttrakhand

(b) Kerala

(c) Karnataka

(d) Telangana

(e) Maharashtra

Q14. International Mother Language day is celebrated on _________________.

(a) February 04

(b) February 13

(c) February 21

(d) February 28

(e) February 14

Q15. An account for which a bank acts as an uninterested third party is termed as?

(a) Savings Account

(b) Current Account

(c) Reserve Account

(d) Escrow Account

(e) Fixed Account

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