General Awareness Questions for RBI Grade B 2017

This is the high time to pace up your preparations for Upcoming RBI Grade B. Subjects like Aptitude, Reasoning, and English are important for the preparation of your exams but the subject the really comes in your way as a big challenge is General Awareness. As you know General Awareness is the very important section in the RBI Grade B. 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. Saraswat Bank, the largest lender in the co-operative space has appointed ______________ as its Managing Director (MD), recently.

(a) Shikha Pandey

(b) Kavitha Chander

(c) Laxmi Sadhana

(d) Smita Sandhane

(e) Sushma Nandan

Q2. National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) has recently approved 26 projects worth Rs 2,154.28 crore under the Centre’s ‘Namami Gange’ programme. Who is the cabinet minister for water resources, river development and Ganga rejuvenation?

(a) Shasikala

(b) Uma Bharti

(c) Mamta Bannerjee

(d) Nitin Gadkari

(e) Rajnath Singh

Q3. Name the Formula One racer who defeated four-time Formula One World Champion to lift his fifth title at the Chinese Grand Prix.

(a) Nick Roseburg

(b) Sebastian Vettel

(c) Lewis Hamilton

(d) Michael Schumacher

(e) Valtteri Bottas

Q4. India has signed a joint declaration with Russia to promote innovation and the R&D ecosystem between the two countries. What is the Capital and currency of Russia?

(a) Muscat, Russian Dinar

(b) Moscow, Russian Ruble

(c) Marina, Dollar

(d) Saint Petersburg, Russian Pound

(e) Barnaul, Russian Bits

Q5. Cash kept in the currency chest is owned by-

(a) Currency Chest branch bank

(b) State Bank of India

(c) Central Government

(d) Reserve Bank of India

(e) Finance Ministry

Q6. When more than one bank is allowing credit facilities to one party in coordination with each other under a formal arrangement, the arrangement is generally known as___________

(a) Consortium

(b) Syndication

(c) Multiple Banking

(d) Participation

(e) None of the given options is true

Q7. What is the minimum amount of deposit into/withdrawal from currency chest?

(a) Rs.5,00,000

(b) Rs.1,50,000

(c) Rs.2,00,000

(d) Rs.3,00,000

(e) Rs.1,00,000

Q8. R&D Institute of which one of the following company filed the maximum number of patent applications in the IT sector in 2015-16, according to Indian Patent Office survey?

(a) Samsung

(b) WIPRO

(c) TCS

(d) Google

(e) Microsoft

Q9. World Homeopathy Day is observed globally on ___________.

(a) 15 April

(b) 13 April

(c) 17 March

(d) 10 April

(e) 16 March

Q10. Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh launched the website and app named ____________, to facilitate the monetary contribution to the kin of soldier personnel killed in action.

(a) Veer Jawan Of India

(b) Amar Jawan

(c) Bharat Ke Veer

(d) We Respect Them

(e) Shaheedo ko Salam

Q11. Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation has recently launched 352 projects in 53 cities in 17 States across the country to build 2,03,851 affordable houses. Who is the Union Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation in India?

(a) Kalraj Mishra

(b) M Venkaiah Naidu

(c) Ramdas Athawale

(d) Hansraj Gangaram Ahir

(e) Prakash Javadekar

Q12. Who is the governor of Karnataka? 

(a) V.P. Singh Badnore

(b) Vajubhai Vala

(c) Chennamaneni Vidyasagar Rao

(d) S. C. Jamir

(e) V. Shanmuganthan

Q13. Who is current Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Minister in Narendra Modi government? 

(a) Ananthkumar

(b) Kalraj Mishra

(c) Anant Geete

(d) Ravi Shankar Prasad

(e) Ramvilas Paswan

Q14. Capital of Denmark is- 

(a) Tbilisi

(b) Copenhagen

(c) Conakry

(d) Djibouti

(e) Roseau

Q15. What is the maximum period for which a term deposit can be normally opened?

(a) 8 years

(b) 7 years

(c) 9 years

(d) 10 years

(e) 12 years

General Awareness Questions for RBI Grade B 2017 (Solutions)