General awareness Questions for
GIC/RBI/IBPS PO/CLERK CWE III
SET:-05
Q.1 To check the spiraling gold
imports, which is putting huge pressure on the current account deficit, the
govt has hiked the import duty on gold from existing 6% to 1)
7 % 2) 8 % 3) 9 % 4) 10 % 5) None of
these
Q.2 India and which of the following countries have been agreed to hold their first ever bilateral naval exercise in 2015 and make it a regular feature in coming years? 1) Japan 2) Singapore 3) Australia 4) US 5) None of these
Q.3 Which of the following automobile companies in India has launched a small car named Vibe recently?
1) General Motor 2) Mahindra and Mahindra 3) Renault 4) Nissan 5) None of these
Q.4 The Financial Stability and Development Council (FSDC), the apex body of the financial sector regulators in India, is led by 1) The governor of RBI 2) The Finance Minister 3) The Prime Minister 4) The Law Minister 5) None of these
Q.5 Name the athlete who has set a new meet record in the men’s long jump event (jumping 8m) in the National Inter-State Athletics meet in New Delhi recently? 1) Arshad Khan 2) Prem Kumar 3) Ankit Sharma 4) Neeraj Kumar 5) None of these
Q.6 Name the world’s largest online retail company which has entered the Indian e-commerce space recently. 1) ebay 2) Amazon 3) Staples Inc 4) Walmart 5) None of these
Q.7 The term ICAAP is used in the context of which of the following? 1) Risk Management 2) Dealing with Public Companies 3) Capital Adequacy Ratio 4) Right to Information Act 5) None of these
Q.8 Which of the following type of contract is ‘interest rate swap’? 1) Trade Contract 2) Loan Contract 3) Financial Contract 4) Risk Contract 5) None of these
Q.9 What is the expanded form of the term FRBM Act?
1) Financial Responsibility and Budget Management Act 2) Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act
3) Forward Responsibility and Budget Management Act 4) Financial Restrictions and Budget Management Act
5) None of these
Q.10 The US president Barack Obama has appointing who among the following as his national security adviser recently? 1) Susan Rice 2) Tom Donilon 3) Paul Ryan 4) Colin Powell 5) None of these
Q. 11 Which of the following
is NOT a type of Broadband internet connection? 1) Cable 2) DSL 3) Dial-up
4) Satellite 5) None of
these
Q 12 in making a field this property show that it
Cannot be left blank 1) Numeric 2)
Required 3) Calculated
4) Validated 5) None of
these
Q. 13 There are viruses
that are triggered by the Passage of time or on a certain date 1) Boot-sector
viruses
2) Macro viruses 3) Time
bombs 4) Worms 5) None of these
Q. 14 The internet is 1) A
large network of networks 2) An
internal communication system for a Business 3) A communication system for the
Indian Government 4) All of the above 5)
None of the above
Q. 15 The main system board
of a computer is called the……… 1) Integrated circuit 2) Motherboard 3) Processor 4) Microchip 5) None of these
Q.16 Kim Jong-un, who has
been in news in recent time, is 1) the leader of opposition in South Korea 2)
the deputy party secretary of Chinese Communist Party 3) the supreme leader of
North Korea 4) the defence minister of North Korea 5)none
Q.17 In which of the
following countries terrorist group al-Qaida has captured a part of the country
& has built an elaborate network of tunnels, trenches, shafts &
ramparts? An international military intervention by United Nations in the
country is expected. 1) Afghanistan 2) Iraq 3) Kenya 4) Mali 5)none
Q.18 The Nanavati
Commission has been granted extension of six months till June 30,2013. The term
of Reference (TOR) of the commission appointed by the Gujarat government in
2002 is
1) to inquire in to facts
that led to burning of the S-6 coach of Sabarmati Express.
2) to inquire in to the
incidents of violence that took place after the train burning.
3) to figure out the role
foreign forces in the 2002 riots.
4) Both 1 & 2 5) All 1 ,2&3
Q.19 What is India’s
current ranking in the World Intellectual Property Indicators 2012 released by
the World
Intellectual Property
Organisation (WIPO)? 1)1st 2)3rd 3)6th 4)7th 5)9th
Q.20 The eight core sector
industries, crudeoil, petroleum refinery products, natural gas, fertilisers,
coal, electricity, cement & finished steel, havea weight of _____ in the
overall Index of Industrial Production (IIP) at present. 1) 33.5% 2) 37.9 % 3)
46.6% 4)51.2% 5)67.8%
Q.21 who among the
following archers has won men’s recurve summit clash at the Sahara-33rd
senior National
Archery championship that
concluded in Chennai recently? 1) Mangal Singh Champia 2) Tarun deep Rai 3)
Pawan Xalxo 4) Kapil 5) Rajat Chauhan
Q.22 The President of India
Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated the 4th World Telugu Conference at
which of the
Following places in Andhra
Pradesh recently? 1) Tirupati 2) Hyderabad 3) Visakhapatnam 4) Warangal 5)
Chittoor
Q.23 Who among the
following has reclaimed the Luge Asian Championship for the second successive
time?
1)Yann Fricheteau 2)
Hidenari Kanayama 3) Sanjay Bangar 4) Shiva Keshavan 5)none
Q.24 Which among the
following comes/come under the category of Asset Reconstruction Company(ARC)
Functioning in India?
1)ARCIL 2)CRISIL 3)CIBIL 4)RARC 5)Only 1 & 4
Q.25 Hockey India League
(HIL) has signed a multi-year title sponsorship deal with the two-wheeler
manufacturer 1) Honda Motor cycle & Scooter India (P) Ltd 2) Hero Moto Corp
3) TVS Motor Company 4) Suzuki Motorcycle India (P) Ltd 5) None
Q.26 “The written document
issued by an insurance company to a policy owner which represents the insurance
Contract between the
insurance company & the policy owner” is called` 1) Endorsement 2) Policy
3) Prescription 4) Beneficiary note 5) none
Q.27 The US Congress has passed the bill to avoid
the so-called fiscal cliff. What the bill is all about?
1) It is a measure that
sought to maintain tax cuts for most Americans but increase tax rates on the
wealthy.
2) It allows the nation to
avoid the severe austerity measures that were slated to take effect in the New
year.
3) It will dramatically
shrink the government’s soaring national debt & address the nagging problem
of persistent unemployment. 4) Only 1 & 2 5) Only1&3
Q.28 The Sudanese President
Omaral-Bashir & his South Sudanese counterpart Salva Kiirare set to hold a
Summit meeting in Addis
Ababa recently. Addis Ababa is the capital city of 1)Ethiopian 2)Zaire 3)Zambia
4)Tanzania 5)Mozambic
Q.29 Kachin Independence Organization
(KIO), an armed rebel group, is active in which of the following countries? It
had recently captured an army base & the army used helicopters to get their
camp back. 1)Bangladesh 2)Myanmar 3)Sudan 4)Mali 5)none
Q.30 CACP is a key advisory
body to the Centre on farm prices. CACP stands for 1) Commission forAggregate
Costs & Prices 2) Commission for Agriculture Costs & Prices 3) Central
Agency for Costs & Prices 4) Commission for Agriculture Costs &
Procureme 5)none
Q. 31. Recently The Central Information Commission
(CIC) in a landmark judgment held that all political parties are answerable
under the Right to Information Act? Who among the following is the Chief
Information Commissioner of India? (1) Raghunath Sharma (2)
Satyanad Mishra (3) M L Sharma (4) Annapurna Dixit
(5) None of these
Q. 32. Recently first all women police station
opens in which among the following state/Union Territory?
(1) New Delhi (2) Goa
(3) Andhra Pradesh (4) Rajasthan (5) Arunachal Pradesh
Q. 33. Recently Janez Jansa, has been convicted of
corruption and sentenced to two years in prison. He is a ____? (1) Former
President of Slovenia (2) Former Prime
Minister of Cuba (3) Former Prime
Minister of Italy (4) Former Prime Minister of Slovenia (5) Former President of
Italy
Q. 34. Recently Bangladesh Cricket Board has
suspended which among the following former captain of Bangladesh on match
fixing charges? (1) Habibul Bashar (2) Mohammad Ashraful (3) Shakib Al Hasan (4) Mushfiqur Rehman (5) None of these
Q. 35. According to United Nations Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO), how much percent of World GDP lost due to
malnutrition? (1) 4% (2) 6% (3) 5% (4) 7% (5) 10%
Q. 36. Recently Raghav Joneja is in news. He is
____? (1) Winner of the Scripps National Spelling Bee for the year 2013 (2) Winner of Junior Boxing Championship (3) Won Gold in Judo Championship (4) Youngest Indian to scale the Mount
Everest (5) None of these
Q. 37. Recently Rami Hamdallah became New Prime
Minister of ____? (1) Venezuela (2) Palestine (3) Italy
(4) Slovenia (5) None of these
Q. 38. India and which country decided to boost
defence ties and maritime security for growth and prosperity of Asia Pacific
and Indian Ocean regions?(1) Malaysia (2) Vietnam
(3) Japan (4) Australia (5) Myanmar
Q. 39. Recently which among the following pair has
won the French Open mixed doubles title 2013?
(1) Katarina Srebotnik and
Piet Norval (2) Frantisek Cermak and
Lucie Hradecka (3) Daniel Nestor and
Kristina Mladenovic (4) Nenad Zimonjić
and Katarina Srebotnik (5) None of these
Q. 40. Country's highest Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK)
will be set up at: (1) New Delhi (2)
Jammu & Kashmir
(3) Uttar Pradesh (4) Goa
(5) None of these
Q. 41 Which of the following
statements is/are not correct about National Population Register (NPR)?
1) It is a project of home
ministry. 2) It is a substitute for Aadhar (UID). 3) It collects identity
through three biometricsphotographs, fingerprints and iris impression. 4) All
the residents above five years of age have to
be enrolled mandatorily. 5) It
will be used for identification and providing target groups access to
government schemes and social sector benefits.
Q42. Name the player who became
the first bowler to take three hat-tricks in the Indian Premier League (IPL).
1) Yuvraj Singh 2) Rohit Sharma 3) Amit Mishra 4) Praveen Kumar 5) None of these
Q43 FirstRand Bank which opened
ATM in the nation’s largest slum Dharavi last month, is bank of the country
1) US 2) UK 3) India 4) South
Africa 5) Germany
Q44. Rohinton Nariman, who
resigned from his post recently, was the
1) Advocate General of Delhi 2) Solicitor General of India 3) Attorney
General of India 4) Assistant Solicitor General of India 5) None of these
Q45. For the first time since
2006, Spain crashed out of the first round of the Davis Cup recently. Which of
the
following countries has defeated
Spain in the world group tie? 1) Sweden 2) France 3) Canada 4) Japan 5) None of
these
Q46. Name the only women chief
election commissioner of India, who died on April 17 1) Rama Devi 2) Leela Seth3) Fathima Beevi
4) Anna Chandy5) None of these
Q47. “Damodaran Committee, which
submitted its report in 2011, is related to
1) Customer services in banks 2) Management of co-operative Sector 3) Reforms in the insurance sector 4)
Rejuvenation of higher education 5) None of these
Q48. Which of the following
retail venture, has entered into the Guinness World Records by opening a record
315 outlets across 10 states in the country, at one time 1) Reliance Q Shop 2)
Sahara Q Shop
3) Big Bazaar 4) SPAR 5) None of
these
Q49. Noted personality of
yesteryear, T K Ramamurthy died in Chennai on April 17 following brief illness.
He was a legendry 1) Film critic 2) Music composer 3) Lyricist 4) Singer 5)
Screen Writer
Q50. The famous 'Pooram'
festival, whose main attraction is a parade by caparisoned elephants, organisers
are in a fix over its successful conduct due to a ban on parading them in
daytime to protect them from heatwave, is a festival of 1) Tamil Nadu 2) Kerala
3) Andhra Pradesh 4) Odisha 5) None of these
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