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. RBI has issued a new set of enabling provisions titled PCA which is used to resolve the problem of banks mounting non-performing assets (NPAs), or bad loans. What is the meaning of “C” in PCA?

(a) Connection

(b) Collaborative

(c) Corolla

(d) Connecters

(e) Corrective

Q2. The Income Tax department has launched the second phase of ‘OCM’ to investigate over 60,000 individuals with an aim to detect black money generation post demonetization, recently. What is the full form of ‘OCM’?

(a) Octavia Collection Money

(b) Oracle Connects Matter

(c) Operation Clean Money 

(d) Operation Clear Money

(e) Operate Clean Money

Q3. Name the Yojana under which Loans extended have crossed the target of Rs 1,80,000 crore during 2016-17.

(a) PMJJY

(b) PMAY

(c) PMJDY

(d) PMMY

(e) PMJBY

Q4. Name the City, in which PM Narendra Modi launched a cashless/less cash township model, developed by Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers and Chemicals Ltd (GNFC), recently.

(a) Delhi

(b) Meerut

(c) Kolkata

(d) Bengaluru

(e) Nagpur

Q5. The World Bank Group consists of how many organisations-

(a) One

(b) Two

(c) Three

(d) Four

(e) Five

Q6. The World Bank is like a cooperative, made up of ————— member countries. These member countries, or shareholders, are represented by a Board of Governors, who are the ultimate policymakers at the World Bank. 

(a) 189

(b) 193

(c) 159

(d) 173

(e) 187

Q7. Name the agency, Which is an agency to provide ‘soft-loans’ to developing countries?

(a) Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)

(b) Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) 

(c) Asian Development Bank (ADB)

(d) World Trade Organization (WTO)

(e) International Development Association (IDA)

Q8. Name the State which has signed an MoU with central govt for the ‘Power for All’ scheme across the state. The aim of this scheme is to ensure 24-hour quality power supply in the state by October 2018 and electric connection to every house and agriculture field by 2019. 

(a) Madhya Pradesh

(b) Jharkhand

(c) Uttar Pradesh

(d) Andhra Pradesh

(e) Bihar

Q9. Nepal and China have held the first-ever joint military exercise from 17 April 2017 with a special focus on combating terror and disaster management. Name the exercise?

(a) Sagarmanthan Friendship- 2017

(b) Sursagar Dosti- 2017

(c) Sagarmatha Mitrta- 2017

(d) Suryanmskar Darshan- 2017

(e) Sagarmatha Friendship- 2017

Q10. Name the Former J&K governor, who has passed away recently due to illness.

(a) Shiv Shankar Das

(b) Haji Yakub 

(c) Chandrababu Saxena

(d) Ashok Punetha

(e) Girish Chandra Saxena

Q11. Mukulita Vijayawargiya took charge as whole time Member of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) recently. The present chairman of IBBI is ___________.

(a) Devender Kumar Sikri

(b) U K Sinha

(c) Harsh Kumar Bhanwala

(d) N S Vishwanathan

(e) Madhusudan Sahoo

Q12. Every year 8th October is celebrated as which day in India?

(a) Air Force Day

(b) Navy Day

(c) Armed Forces Day

(d) Rededication Day 

(e) AIDS day

Q13. The Headquarters of International Court of Justice is located in- 

(a) Paris (France) 

(b) Geneva (Switzerland) 

(c) New York (USA) 

(d) The Hague (Netherlands)

(e) Sydney (Australia)

Q14. Kudremukh National Park is situated in which of the following Indian state? 

(a) Karnataka

(b) Kerala

(c) West Bengal

(d) Uttar Pradesh

(e) Meghalaya

Q15. On July 15th, 2014 at the sixth summit in Fortaleza, Brazil the member countries signed the Articles for the New Development Bank (NDB). What is the authorised capital of NDB?

(a) USD 200 billion

(b) USD 300 billion

(c) USD 500 billion

(d) USD 100 billion

(e) None of the given options is true

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