General Awareness Quiz for Bank Mains Exams 2023-18th March

Q1. The first foreign university to establish a campus in India will be Deakin University of Australia. Deaking University of Australia will establish its campus at which place in India?
(a) Maharashtra
(b) Karnataka
(c) West Bengal
(d) Gujarat
(e) None of the above

Q2. Mount Merapi, one of the world’s most active volcanoes, erupted, spewing out smoke and ash that covered villages near the crater. Mount Merapi is situated in which of the country?
(a) Indonesia
(b) Ethiopia
(c) Mexico
(d) Argentina
(e) None of the above

Q3. The Minister of State for Electronics & Information Technology addresses the 5th ASEAN-India Business summit. Where the 5th ASEAN-India Business Summit was took place?
(a) Manila, Philippines
(b) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
(c) Bali, Indonesia
(d) New Delhi, India
(e) None of the above

Q4. Who won season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix 2023?
(a) Sergio Perez
(b) Max Verstappen
(c) Fernando Alonso
(d) Lewis Hamilton
(e) None of the above

Q5. _____________inked the first ‘High Seas Treaty’ in a bid to protect the ocean bodies of the world that lie outside the national boundaries and form almost two-thirds of the world’s oceans.
(a) United Nations
(b) International Maritime Organisation
(c) World Trade Organisation
(d) International Congress of Metrology
(e) None of the above

Q6. Ram Chandra Paudel has been elected to serve as the new president of which of the following country?
(a) Sri Lanka
(b) Uzbekistan
(c) Male
(d) Nepal
(e) None of the above

Q7. Which nation has opened military service to women for the first time in 25 years?
(a) Sweden
(b) Colombia
(c) East Timor
(d) UAE
(e) None of the above

Q8. Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani has appointed Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani as the country’s new prime minister. Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani becomes Prime Minister of which country?
(a) Saudi Arabia
(b) Kuwait
(c) Qatar
(d) Iran
(e) None of the above

Q9. Which of the nation is all set to move its capital from Jakarta to Borneo over environmental issues such as being congested, sinking into seawater, and being prone to earthquakes?
(a) Indonesia
(b) Singapore
(c) Brazil
(d) Thailand
(e) None of the above

Q10. Which country becomes the first country to import CO2 and bury it undersea to prevent further warming of the atmosphere?
(a) USA
(b) Australia
(c) Switzerland
(d) Denmark
(e) None of the above

Solutions

S1. Ans(d)
Sol. The autonomous campus will be built in Gujarat International Financial Tec-City (GIFT) City.
S2. Ans (a)
Sol. Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano erupts, covering villages in ash.
S3. Ans(b)
Sol. The 5th Asean-India Business Summit took place on 6 March 2023 in Kuala Lumpur.
S4.Ans (b)
Sol. Max Verstappen won the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix from pole position, leading almost the entire race as he opened the defense of his back-to-back Formula One titles.
S5. Ans(a)
Sol. The United Nations(UN) inked the first ‘High Seas Treaty’ in a bid to protect the ocean bodies of the world that lie outside the national boundaries and form almost two-thirds of the world’s oceans.
S6. Ans(d)
Sol. Ram Chandra Paudel has been elected to serve as the new president of Nepal.
S7. Ans(b)
Sol. Colombia has opened military service to women for the first time in 25 years. A cohort of 1,296 women have been enlisted in Colombia’s Army in the month of February.
S8. Ans(c)
Sol. Qatar’s Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani has appointed Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani as the country’s new prime minister.
S9. Ans(a)
Sol. Indonesia is all set to move its capital from Jakarta to Borneo over environmental issues such as being congested, sinking into seawater, and being prone to earthquakes.
S10. Ans(d)
Sol. Denmark inaugurates a project to store carbon dioxide 1,800 metres beneath the North Sea, the first country in the world to bury CO2 imported from abroad.