General Awareness Quiz for Bank Mains Exams 2023-25th October

Q1. Which company signed a MoU with IndiaAI – Digital India Corporation to establish a world-class national AI Innovation Platform (AIIP) for India?

(a) Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
(b) IBM (International Business Machines Corporation)
(c) Google
(d) Microsoft

(e) Infosys

Q2. National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has partnered with which company to introduce the option of Equated Monthly Instalments (EMI) on RuPay credit cards?

(a) Amazon Pay
(b) PhonePe
(c) Paytm
(d) BharatePe
(e) Google Pay

Q3. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) initiated a pilot program for the wholesale segment, namely ‘Digital Rupee – Wholesale,’ of its Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) in the interbank call money market. Which of the following banks is not a part of this program?

(a) State Bank of India
(b) Union Bank of India
(c) Yes Bank
(d) Kotak Mahindra Bank
(e) Axis Bank

Q4. Iranian women’s protest movement and __________ won the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought 2023 (Sakharov Prize), the European Union’s (EU) top human rights prize. What will Fit into the Blank?

(a) Mahsa Amini
(b) Niloofar Hamedi
(c) Elaheh Mohammadi

(d) Zeenat Islam
(e) None of the above

Q5. World Osteoporosis Day (WOD) is a global awareness campaign annually observed across the globe to highlight the importance of Osteoporosis and to raise global awareness of the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of Osteoporosis. What is the theme of WOD 2023?

(a) ‘Build Better Bones’
(b) ‘Building Best Bones’
(c) ‘Breaking Barriers’
(d) “Prevention and Management of Osteoarthritis”
(e) None of the above

Q6.  Who inaugurated the 17 Kilometer (Km) priority section of the Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) Corridor at Sahibabad RapidX Station in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh (UP)?

(a) Narendra Modi
(b) Piyush Goyal
(c) Amit Shah
(d) Nirmala Sitharaman
(e) None of the above

Q7. The Security Exercise Prasthan 2023 was carried out by Commodore Rajneesh Sharma Naval Officer-in-Charge (NOIC), under the aegis of Eastern Naval Command, Indian Navy, in which state this exercise was carried out?

(a) Gujarat
(b) Andhra Pradesh
(c) Karnataka
(d) Tamil Nadu
(e) Kolkata

Q8. The Fintech Association for Consumer Empowerment (FACE) has partnered with which company to take down illegal digital lending apps on Play Store in India?

(a) Apple
(b) Google
(c) Microsoft
(d) Amazon
(e) IBM

Q9. Which Bank has developed ‘XpressWay,’ a digital banking platform that offers a range of financial products and services, providing customers with a fast and convenient banking experience?

(a) IDBI Bank
(b) HDFC Bank
(c) Axis Bank
(d) ICICI Bank
(e) Kotak Mahindra Bank

Q10. Which State’s Village of India was named in the 3rd edition of the Best Tourism Villages 2023 list released by the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)?

(a) Rajasthan
(b) Gujarat
(c) Bihar
(d) Uttar Pradesh
(e)Jharkhand

Solutions

S1. Ans.(b)
Sol. (International Business Machines Corporation) IBM and IndiaAI – Digital India Corporation collaborate to establish a world-class national AI Innovation Platform (AIIP) for India.
Details-
To promote India’s scientific, economic, and human capital development in AI technology, the platform will focus on AI skilling, ecosystem development, and integrating sophisticated foundation models and generative AI capabilities.
About IndiaAI:
IndiaAI under the Digital India Corporation (DIC) is a knowledge portal, research organization, and an ecosystem-building initiative.

S2. Ans.(a)
Sol. Amazon Pay partnered with the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has introduced the option of Equated Monthly Instalments (EMI) on RuPay credit cards.
Details-
The launch of the EMI facility on RuPay credit cards will grant customers enhanced access to credit.
No Cost EMI facility is funded by participating sellers and brands.
No Cost EMI payment option enables customers who make purchases on Amazon.in by paying into equal installments over the course
of the EMI tenure. There are no additional charges, such as interest, processing fees, or hidden costs.

S3. Ans.(e)
Sol. Axis Bank is not a part of the pilot program initiated by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
Details-
State Bank of India (SBI), Bank of Baroda (BoB), Union Bank of India (UBI), HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Yes Bank, IDFC First Bank and HSBC were part of the wholesale CBDC in government securities pilot program.

 S4. Ans.(a)
Sol. Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament named Jina Mahsa Amini and the Iranian women protest movement as the winners of the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought 2023 (Sakharov Prize), the European Union’s (EU) top human rights prize.

S5. Ans.(a)
Sol. The theme of the 2023 WOD Campaign is ‘Build Better Bones’.
Details-
This day serves as a platform to encourage people to take action to maintain strong and healthy bones throughout their lives.
With this theme, IOF highlights the crucial role of a bone-healthy lifestyle in ensuring a fracture-free future and promoting mobility.
The WOD campaign is a global initiative supported by the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) member societies worldwide to drive action on behalf of bone health and fracture prevention.

S6. Ans.(a)

Sol. Prime Minister (PM), Narendra Modi inaugurated the 17 Kilometer (Km) priority section of the Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) Corridor at Sahibabad RapidX Station in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh (UP).
Details-
It is being developed at a cost of more than Rs 30,000 crore and aims to reduce the travel time between Delhi and Meerut to less than an hour.
S7. Ans.(b)
Sol. The Security Exercise Prasthan 2023 was carried out by Commodore Rajneesh Sharma Naval Officer-in-Charge (NOIC), Andhra Pradesh under the aegis of Eastern Naval Command, Indian Navy (IN) in Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh (AP).

S8. Ans.(b)
Sol. Google has partnered with the Fintech Association for Consumer Empowerment (FACE) to take down illegal digital lending apps on the Play Store in India.
Details-
Under this partnership, FACE will supply Google with market intelligence to identify and take action against non-compliant predatory personal loan apps in India that are non-compliant with Play Store’s policies.
This collaboration supports Google’s safety initiative, DigiKavach, aimed at protecting people from online financial scams.

S9. Ans.(b)
Sol. HDFC Bank has developed ‘XpressWay,’ a digital banking platform that offers a range of financial products and services, providing customers with a fast and convenient banking experience.

S10. Ans.(b)
Sol. The Dhordo village in the Kutch district of Gujarat, India named in the 3rd edition of the Best Tourism Villages 2023 list released by the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO).