BANKING RELATED GENERAL AWARENESS -- 11 2012 3
11 2012 3
GENERAL AWARENESS
(WITH
SPECIAL REFERENCE TO BANKING INDUSTRY)
1. Major producer of mulberry silk in India is
A) Jammu and
Kashmir B) Jharkhand C) Karnataka D)
Assam E) Himachal Pradesh
2. We come
across the term ‘PPP’ in financial news nowadays. What does ‘PPP’ represent?
A) Personal Per
capita Power B) Private Public Partnership C) Per capita Potential for
Purchases
3. Many times we
read the term ‘ECB; in newspapers. What is the full form of ‘ECB’?
A) Essential
Commercial Banking B) European Credit
Borrowing C) External Credit for
Business
D) External
Commercial Borrowing E) None of these
4. What is meant
by financial inclusion?
A) Making
available banking services at an affordable cost
B) Opening
savings accounts in rural areas without any deposit
C) Opening any
type of account without introduction
D) Distributing money
through rural branches
E) Distributing
wages through bank accounts
5. Which of
these countries is the largest producer of milk and milk products in the world?
A) USA B) China C) India D)
New Zealand E) None of these
6. Which of the
following is the most important rabi crop of India?
A) Rice B) Millet C) Sugarcane D)
Groundnut E)
Mustard
7. Who is the
reg7ulatory authority for insurance business in India?
A) RBI B) IRDP C) SEBI
D) NABARD E) IRDA
8. What is money
laundering?
A) Conversion of
assets into cash
B) Conversion of
illegally obtained money into accountable money
C) Conversion of
cash into gold. D) Conversion of
gold into cash E) None of these
9. Golden
revolution refers to the development of which of the following agricultural
products?
A) Oilseeds B)
Pulses C) Horticultural products D) Cereals E) Fodder
10. Which
programme was launched by Government of India to improve irrigation facilities
in rural India?
A) Annapurna
Scheme B) National Social
Assistance Programme
C) Integrated
Rural Development Programme D)
Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana
E) National
Watershed Development Programme
11. Montek Singh
Ahluwalia is holding which of the following positions at present?
A) Chairman of
Planning Commission B) Governor
of RBI C) Secretary of UNO
D) Economic
Advisor to Prime Minister E) Dy
Chairman of Planning Commission
12. Bird flu is
a disease which affects and spreads through
A) Cattle B) Sheep C) Prawn D)
Silkworm E) Poultry
13. Which
country won the Davis Cup tennis tournament 2011 held in December 2011?
A) Argentina B) USA C)
Australia D) Japan E) Spain
14. Who among
the following cricketers recently became the 10th batsman to score
10000 runs in Test cricket?
A) Mahela
Jayawardene B) Vijay Zol C) Yuvraj Singh D) younis Khan E)
Umar Akmal
15. The Collective
Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) Summit
took place in December 2011 in
A) Tokyo B) Moscow C) New Delhi D) Paris E) Perth
16. Who
represented India in 12th Consecutive Annual India-Russia Summit
held in December 2011?
A) Smt Pratibha
Patil B) Dr Manmohan Singh C) Sonia Gandhi D) SM Krishna
E) None of these
17. Which of the
following currencies is used in Britain?
A) Pound B) Dollar C) Euro D)
Franc E) Pesso
18. Which of the
following cups/trophies is associated with the game of Football?
A) Grand Prix B) Rangaswami Cup C) Wimbledon Trophy D) Fifa Cup E)
Ranji Trophy
19. The head
office of the Bank of Maharashtra is located in which of the following cities?
A) Kolkata B) New Delhi C) Pune D0 Ahmedabad E) Mumbai
20. Which
country hosted the summit of SAARC nations in the year 2011?
A) India B) Bangladesh C)
Nepal D) Maldives E) Pakistan
21. Which of the
following terms is not used in the field of Economics?
A) Balance of
Trade B) Break Even Point C) Plasma D)
Fiscal Deficit
E) Capital
Account Convertibility
22. “Carbon
credit” is concerned with which one of these internationally sensitive issues?
A) Deforestation
B) Contract farming C) Rural infrastructure D) Diamond trading
E) Protection of
environment
23. Which of the
following terms is used in the game of Cricket?
A) Half Nelson B) Love C) Back Hand Drive D)
Penalty Stroke E) Clean Bowled
24. India
recently signed a Currency Swap Agreement with which of the following
countries?
A) USA B) Pakistan C) Japan D)
Germany E) Australia
25. What is the
full form of the term ASBA?
A) Allotment
Supported by Blocked Amount B)
Application Supported by Bank Amount
C) Allotment
Supported by Bank Account D)
Application Supported by Blocked Amount
E) Allotment and
Social Bank9ing Amount
26. Dipika
Pallikal, who won an international tournament recently in Hong Kong is a
A) Golf Player B) Badminton Player C) Squash player D) Swimmer E) Table
Tennis Player
27. The tern
“Deficit Financing” means the Government borrows money from the
A) IMF B) Local bodies C) RBI D) Large corporate E) Public at large
28. Regional
Rural Banks
A) have limited
area of operation and access to refinance from NABARD.
B) are required
to lend only to weaker sections. C)
are mandated to do only narrow banking.
D) can only
extend agricultural loans. E)
have unrestricted area of operation.
29. Ms Christine
Lagarde is holding which of the following positions at present?
A) Chief of
Asian Development Bank B) Chief
of International Monetary Fund
C) Chancellor of
Germany D) Chief of Morgan Stanley E) Chief of World Bank
30. What is the
present reverse REPO rate?
A) 7.5% B) 8.5% C) 8% D)
6.5% E) None of these
31. General Assembly
elections were held in which of the following North East states in January
2012?
A) Assam B) Meghalaya C) Arunachal Pradesh D) Manipur E) Tripura
32. What is the
full form of the term FDI?
A) Foreign
Direct Investment B) Foreign
Diverse Investment C) Fixed
deposit Investment
D) Floating
Deposit Investment E) Financial Derivatives in India
33. The
erstwhile UTI Bank is presently known as
A) ING Vysya
Bank B) Yes Bank C) Indusind Bank D) Axis
Bank E) IDBI Bank
34. Which of the
following telecom giants recently won its case against the Income Tax
Department?
A) Bharti Airtel
B) Vodafone C) Idea Cellular D) Reliance Communications
E) Tata telecom
35. Which of the
following countries recently attained the status of world’s sixth largest
economy?
A) Russia B) Japan C)
China D) India E) Brazil
36. Which of the
following countries decided to withdraw from Kyoto Protocol?
A) Canada B) Russia C)
India D) USA E) China
37. Which of the
following is NOT a Banking or Finance Company?
A) Barclay B) Lufthansa C) BNP Paribas D)
American Express E) HSBC
38. India and
Russia were having some differences over which of the following nuclear power
plants?
A) Kaiga B) Kudankulam C) Rawatbhata D)
Narora E) None of these
39. Excise duty
is a tax levied on which of the following?
A) Production of
goods B) Purchase of goods C) Export of goods
D) Sale of goods
E) Movement of goods
beyond municipal limits
40. “India and
Pakistan started fresh talks on conventional CBM” was the news in all major
newspapers. What does the letter ‘M’ denote in the term ‘CBM’ as used above?
A) Money B) Mechanism C) Modalities D)
Measures E) Memorial
41. Which of the
following is the unit of electrical current?
A) Bar B) Calorie C) Ampere D) Decibel
E) Angstrom
42. Global Meet
on Emerging Economies was organized in December 2011 in
A) New Delhi B) Dhaka C) Islamabad D) Kathmandu E)
Capetown
43. Which of the
following awards is given to the coaches of sportspersons?
A) Kalidas
Samman B) Dronacharya Award C) Arjuna Award
D) Dada Saheb
Phalke Award E) Saraswati Samman
44. Which of the
following countries recently agreed to sell Uranium to India?
A) Australia B)
USA C) Iran D) Germany E) Bangladesh
45. Which of the
following schemes launched by the Government of India is aimed at developing
rural infrastructure?
A) MNREGA B) ASHA C)
Bharat Nirman D) Operation Flood E) Operation Black board
46.Who among the
following is a famous Sportsperson?
A) Dhanush B) Saina Nahwal C) Charles Correa D)
Ajit Singh E) Kim Jong –Un
47. Speed of a
ship is expressed in
A) Kilometer B)
Horsepower C) Ohm D) Knot E)
Coulomb
48. USA and some
other European countries recently imposed fresh sanctions on which of the
following countries as they are not in favour of its nuclear advancement?
A) Iraq B)
Pakistan C) India D) Iran E) Kuwait
49. Who among
the following has written the book Dr Zhivago?
A) Pearl S Buck B) HG Wells C) Saul
Bellow D) Emile
Zola E) Boris Pasternak
50. Yoshihiko
Noda was on a visit to India recently. He is the present Prime Minister of
A) Myanmar B)
South Korea C) North Korea D) Japan E) None of these
ANSWERS – 11 2012
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1.C 2.B 3.D 4.A 5.C 6.E 7.E 8.B 9.C 10.E
11.E 12.E 13.E 14.A 15.B 16.B 17.A 18.D 19.C 20.D
21.C 22.E 23.E 24.C 25.D 26.C 27.C 28.A 29.B 30.E
31.D 32.A 33.D 34.B 35.E 36.A 37.B 38.B 39.A 40.D
41.C 42.A 43.B 44.A 45.C
46.B 47.D 48.D 49.E 50.D
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