Friday, June 07, 2013

General awareness Questions for GIC/RBI/IBPS PO/CLERK CWE III SET:-03


Q.1 Europe has retained the Ryder Cup after beating the U.S. 14.5-13.5. This cup is associated with
1) Golf 2) Tennis 3) Badminton 4) Football 5)  None

Q.2 Name the Canada only Olympic title winner in women’s figure skating and who died recently.
1) Dick Button 2) Barbara Ann Scott 3) Katarina Witt 4) Oleg Protopopov 5) Sergei Grinkov

Q.3 Which team has regained the Federation Cup after a season, outclassing Dempo SC 3-2 in the final?
1) Mohun Bagan 2) Mohammdan Sportings 3) East Bengal 4) Chirag United 5)  None

Q.4 Name the country in which a police officer has invoked Section 295-A of the penal code to register a blasphemy case against Muslims who vandalized a Hindu temple during the rioting against the anti-Islam film Innocence of Muslims. 1) Britain 2) America 3) India         4) Pakistan 5)  None

Q.5 In which Pakistani city, officials have finally given in to a long-standing demand of peace activists regarding the renaming of Shadman Chowk after revolutionary freedom fighter Bhagat Singh. 1) Karachi      2)Lahore 3) Islamabad 4) Peshawar 5)  None

Q.6 The Internet has established its role as a powerful economic force multiplier with a new study projecting that its contribution to India’s GDP will explode to $100 billion (Rs. 5 lakh crore) by ________ from $30 billion (Rs.1.5 lakh crore) at present. 1) 2013 2) 2015 3) 2017 4) 2020 5)  None

Q.7 Which state government will submit a letter to the Prime Minister-led Cauvery River Authority to act swiftly on its request to withhold the September 19 order that directed the State to release 9,000 cusecs of water a day to Tamil Nadu until October 15? 1) Pudduchery 2) Kerala 3) Andhra Pradesh   4) Karnataka 5) None of these

Q.8 Name the state whose Assembly Speaker D. Jayakumar resigned from the post on 29 September. The development comes exactly a month before the Diamond Jubilee celebration of the Assembly.
1) Tamil Nadu   2) Kerala 3) Andhra Pradesh     4) Karnataka 5)  None

Q.9 Al-Qaeda-linked Shabab fighters are associated with 1) Ethiopia 2) Somalia 3) Tanzania 4) Mali 5)  None

Q.10 Durand cup is associated with 1) Golf          2) Tennis 3) Badminton               4) Football 5) None of these

Q.11 Name the person who led the controversial operation Blue Star to flush out territorial from the Golden Temple in Amritsar in 1984 and was stabled near a hotel in Central London on September 30. 1) Lt. Gen (Rtd) KS Brar 2) Lt. Gen (Rtd) AS Vaidy 3) Lt. Gen (Rtd) ZU Shah 4) Lt. Gen (Rtd) MA Zaki 5) None of these

Q.12 Name the British Marxist historian who had profound influence on the Indian Left and who died recently.
1) Christopher Hill          2) EP Thompson 3) Eric Hobsbawm      4) CLR James 5)  None

Q.13 Name the person who has been reelected as President on the World Squash Federation on Sep 30 at Stockholm. 1) VK Malhotra 2) N Ramachandran 3) Ajay Chautala 4) Jahangir Khan 5) None of these

Q.14 Famous Indian player Sunil Chhetri is associated with 1) Boxing    2) Athletics 3) Football 4) Hockey 5)  None

Q.15 Which among the followings has won the Subroto Cup (Football ) recently? 1) Dynamo Kyiv (Ukraine) 2) MSP HS School (Kerala) 3) Little Angel School (Manipur)             4) Esthqlal High School (Kabul) 5) None of these

Q.16 Which among report has said that by 2050, 1 out of 5 Indian will be elderly? 1) World Bank 2)UN population Fund 3) UN Development Programme 4) Asian Development Bank 5) None of these

Q.17 Which state govt has roped in Indian Air Force (IAF) airlift rhino? 1) J&K                 2) Assam 3) Meghalaya 4) Arunachal Pradesh 5) None of these

Q.18 The finance minister P Chidambaram on Oct 1 unveiled a 12-point revival package for the 1) Telecom sector 2) capital market 3) Insurance sector 4) Pension fund schemes 5) None of these

Q.19 Name the govt appointed commission to review financial sector legislation and which has recommended sweeping in all regulators except RBI under a unified Financial Agency. 1) Justice Srikrishna Commission
2) C Rangarajan Commission 3) Kelkar Committee        4) Deepak Parekh Committee 5) None of these

Q.20 Name the country in which a draft budget presented to the parliament forecasts a sixth straight year of recession in 2013 with a 3.8% contraction and a public deficit of 4.2% of GDP. 1) Greece 2) Ireland 3) Spain 4) Portugal 5)  None

Q.21 Name the BJP leader who has filed a criminal delamation case against senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh in Delhi count on Oct 1 for accusing him of having business links with BJP MP Ajay Sancheti, who allegedly made Rs 500 cr in coal block allocation. 1) Arun Jaitely               2) Nitin Gadkari 3) Rajiv Pratap Rudy 4) VK Malhotra 5)  None

Q.22 Name the scheme launched by the J&K govt for school drop-outs with the intent of making youths with no college education employable. 1) Hidayat 2) Himayat 3) Riyayat 4) Hamdard 5) None of these

Q.23 Name the Union minister who triggered a controversy on Oct 2 saying wives lose charm over time
1) Digvijay Singh 2) Sriparaksh Jaiswal 3) Kaip Sibal 4) Mukul Roy 5)  None

Q.24 In which of the following countries a gummen wearing military attires raided university hostels killing 46 student in a deadly Independence Day measure? 1) Ghana                2) Yemen 3) Sudan         4) Syria 5) Nigeria

Q.25 Name the Georgian President who conceded defeat in the parliamentary election. 1) Mikheil Saakashvili 2) Bidzina Ivanishvili 3) GP Peterson 4) Mark P Becker 5)  None

Q.26 Name the head of the committee constitute by the PM on funding of infrastructure sector, the requirement of which has been estimated at close to $1 trillion during the 12th Plan period? 1) Deepak Parekh Committee 2) Justice Srikrishna Commission 3) C Rangarajan Commission          4) Kelkar Committee 5)  None

Q.27 Which of the following statement is not true about RBI? 1) Central Bank of India 2) Issue monetary and credit policy 3) Issue Fiscal Policy 4) Bankers Bank 5)  None

Q.28 Which among the following is not financial term? 1) Fiscal Defecit 2) Budget Defecit 3) Revenue Defecit 4) Trust Defecit 5) Primary Defecit         

Q.29 Which among the following state government has recently introduce a bill to protect a TIGERS ?
1) Arunachal Pradesh    2) West Bengal 3) Bihar               4) Rajasthan 5)  None

Q.30 Altamas Kabir selected as ………. Th Chief justice of India. 1) 38th                2) 40th 3) 39th 4) 41th 5) None of these.                

Q.31 Japanese Prime Minister----------- appointed as finance minister on Monday a senior lawmaker who worked with him on a plan to raise the sales tax, in a cabinet reshuffle aimed at boosting his ruling party's chances in an election expected in months 1) Taro aso 2) Naoto kan 3) Yoshihiko Noda 4) Yukio Hatoyama 5) None of these

Q.32 The Government will provide interest subvention of -----% per annum to Public Sector Banks (PSBs) in respect of short-term production credit up to Rs 3 lakh during the year 2012-13 1) 5           2) 10 3) 2 4) 3 5) 4

Q.33 Who appointed the West Bengal Chief Secretary ? 1) Samar Ghosh             2) Sanjay Mitra 3) Sri subash biswas 4) S.K thade 5)  None

Q.34 Who appointed as the chief economic advisor to the Indian government ? 1) Raghuram G. Rajan 2) Dr. M Govinda Rao 3) Dr. Saumitra Chaudhury              4) Dr. Vijay Shankar Vyas 5) none of these

Q.35 The 12th meeting of the India-Russia Inter-Governmental Commission on Military Technical Cooperation (IRIGC-MTC) will be held on 1) 09 Oct 2012 2) 10 Oct 2012 3) 5 Oct 2012            4) 06 Oct 2012 5) None of these

Q.36 Syed Nasim Ahmad Zaidi and H S Brahma are 1) Election Commissioners 2) election advisor 3) economic adviser 4) Authors 5)  None

Q.37 Name the Venezuelan company with which Reliance Industries Limited has recently signed a 15 year heavy crude oil supply deal. 1) Salamander Energy         2) Petroleos de Venezuela 3) Naftha Industrija Srbije 4) Compania Espanola de Petroleos 5)  None

Q.38 Future Venture and Elephant Capital backed Amar Chitra Katha which is a house hold name telling folk, historical and heritage tales on the comic format, is all set to release its first 3D animation movie titled
1) Naache Din Din-Bal Ganesh 2) Bal Pandavas 3) Gods of Indian mythology 4) Sons of Ram – Heroes will rise 5)  None

Q.39 Who has taken charge as the chairperson and managing director of Allahabad Bank with effect from October 1? 1) Shubhalakshmi Panse 2) JP Dua 3) Keki M Mistry         4) Srinivasa Ranganhas 5) Renu Sud Karnad

Q.40 Banks and financial institutions, which have cumulative non-performing assets (NPAs) worth Rs 1.25 lakh crore as on March 2012 are seeking help from dedicated portals for resolving the issue. One such portal is NPAsource.com. Name the group which floated this portal last year. 1) CRISIL Ltd         2) Atishya Group 3) Onicra 4) ICRA 5) CARE    

Q.41 Name the India’s heaviest (3.4 tonne) communication satellite till date which was placed in the geo-synchronous orbit about 36000 km above the earth is third and final orbit raising manoeuvre. 1) GSAT - 10
2) GSAT - 8 3) GSAT - 12 4) GSAT - 7 5) GSAT - 6            

Q.42 Which of the following refers to bank rate? 1) the rate at which a bank lends to its prime borrowers 2) the maximum rate for deposit which a bank can pay 3) the rate at which banks rediscount bills with RBI           4) the rate at which RBI lends to banks for short term period 5) the rate of interest charged by RBI on interbank transactions  

Q.43 RBI’s monetary policy is not targeted to 1) strengthen economic growth 2) make the credit flow in desired direction 3) bring the inflationary pressure under control              4) ensure social justice 5) None of these

Q.44 Open market operation of RBI refers to 1) selling of shares in open market             2) auctioning the foreign exchange 3) trading in securities 4) trading in gold 5) allowing banks to borrow directly from open market

Q.45 What population on an average does a bank branch serve at present? 1) 8500 2) 10800 3) 12900                4) 25200 5)  None

Q.46 The daily processing of corrections to customer accounts best exemplifies the processing mode of:
1) Batch processing 2) Real-time processing 3) Interactive processing   4) Multi processing 5) All of the above.                
Q.47 A character is represented in EBCDIC by 1) one bit 2) four bits 3) eight bits 4) sixteen bits 5) None of the above   

Q.48 Which is the computer memory that does not forget? 1) ROM 2) RAM 3) PROM 4) All of the above 5) None of the above   

Q.49 The most common binary code in use today is the 8 bit ASCII code. What do the letters ASCII stand for?
1) American Standard Code for International Interchange           2) American Standard Code for Information Interchange 3) American Standard Code for Intelligence interchange   4) American Scientific Code for Information Interchange 5) None of the above      
Q.50 A computer derives its basic strength from 1) Speed 2) Accuracy 3) Memory 4) all of the above 5) None of the above                


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