General Knowledge – General Awareness Quiz 1st August 2013 Questions and Answers:::
1. Q. Expand the term FRBM
(A) Financial Responsibility and Business Management
(B) Fiscal Responsibility and Business Management
(C) Financial Responsibility and Budget Management
(D) Fiscal Responsibility and Budget management
(E) None of these
Answer- (D) Fiscal Responsibility and Budget management
2. Q. One of the objectives of KYC (Know Your Customer) norms is
(A) to give boost to bank deposits
(B) to safeguard banks advances
(C) to monitor transactions of suspicious nature
(D) to help income tax authorities to collect income tax.
(E) None of the above
Answer- (B) to safeguard banks advances
3. Q. Reserve Bank of India, in regard to RTGS, has decided that
(A) RTGS would be accessible to all retail customers
(B) there would be no floor ceiling for routing transactions through RTGS
(C) settlement of transactions of the clearing corporation of India and the stock market would be conducted through RTGS.
(D) All of the above
(E) None of the above
Answer - (D) All of the above
4. Q. Who can invest in a Commercial Paper ?
(A) Individuals
(B) Banking Companies
(C) Corporate bodies registered or incorporated in India and unincorporated bodies, Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) and Foreign Institutional Investors (Fill)s
(D) All of the above
(E) None of the above
Answer- (D) All of the above
5. Q. Which of the following does not come under the category of Development Banks ?
(A) Industrial Development Bank of India
(B) Small Industries Development Bank of India
(C) Industrial Investment Bank of India
(D) State Finance Corporation
(E) Export-Import Bank
Answer- (E) Export-Import Bank
6. Q. Scheduled Bank is a bank which is
(A) Nationalised
(B) Not nationalised
(C) Based in a foreign country
(D) Included in the Second Schedule of RBI
(E) None of these
Answer- (D) Included in the Second Schedule of RBI
7. Q. The branding line of Bank of Baroda is ___
(A) International Bank of India
(B) India’s international Bank
(C) India’s Multinational Bank
(D) World’s local Bank
(E) None of these
Answer- (B) India’s international Bank
8. Q. As reported in same newspapers / magazines, some banks have decided to install Biometric ATMs so that fraudulent withdrawals can be prevented. Bio-metric ATMs will be able to do so as it also checks
(A) Signatures of the card holders
(B) Finger prints of the card holders
(C) Skin colour of the card holders
(A) Only (A)
(B) Only (B)
(C) Only (C)
(D) Both (B) & (C)
(E) All of the above
Answer- (B) Only (B)
9. Q. Certificates of Deposits can be issued for a minimum period of
(A) 1 Year
(B) 6 months
(C) 4 months
(D) 3 months
(E) 45 days
Answer- (D) 3 months
10. Q. SEBI, on August 16,2012 has made it mandatory that all listed companies must have minimum ……. public shareholdings by June 2013.
(A) 25%
(B) 30%
(C) 20%
(D) 10%
(E) None of these
Answer- (A) 25%
11. Q. Which of the following diseases usually spreads through milk?
(A) Plague
(B) Poliomyelitis
(C) Typhoid
(D) Diphtheria
(E) None of these
Answer- (C) Typhoid
12. Q. Which of the following state has recently launched ‘Rashtriya Arogya Nidhi’?
(A) Andhra Pradesh
(B) Arunachal Pradesh
(C) Assam
(D) Uttar Pradesh
(E) None of these
Answer- (B) Arunachal Pradesh
13. Q. Which of the following sport persons recently having Lieutenant Colenel honorary status in Indian Army ?
(A) Sachin Tendulkar & Abhinav Bindra
(B) Kapil Dev and Verendra Sehwag
(C) MS Dhoni and Abhinav Bindra
(D) Rahul Dravid and Sushil Kumar
(E) None of these
Answer- (C) MS Dhoni and Abhinav Bindra
14. Q. ‘No-frills’ account allows you to open bank account?
(A) with zero balance
(B) with minimum balance amount of Rs. 1000
(C) with very low minimum balance
(D) Either ( or (
(E) None of the above
Answer- (A) with zero balance
15. Q. USA recently launched the world fastest computer under the name of ?
(A) Blue Jean-L
(B) K
(C) Sagar220
(D) Swift
(E) Sequoia
Answer- (E) Sequoia
16. Q. Khulande Francis recently won the 2012 Raman Megsaysay award. Which of the following sector he won the above award ?
(A) Public service
(B) Community leadership
(C) Journalism & Literature
(D) Social service
(E) None of these
Answer- (D) Social service
17. Q. Which of the following is a power generating company?
(A) Reliance
(B) Hindalco
(C) Tisco
(D) HPCL
(E) Cipla
Answer- (D) HPCL
18. Q. Which of the following are the highest and the lowest ranked countries respectively in the Global Peace Index of the Sydney-based Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) released in June 2012?
(A) New Zealand, Iraq
(B) Iceland, Somalia
(C) Japan, Afghanistan
(D) Austria, Sudan
(E) None of these
Answer- (B) Iceland, Somalia
19. Q. Smallest & Largest planets of solar system are respectively:
(A) Mercury & Uranus
(B) Neptune & Jupiter
(C) Mars & Saturn
(D) Mercury & Jupiter
(E) None of these
Answer- (D) Mercury & Jupiter
20. Q. Which of the following disease is not caused by a bacteria?
(A) AIDS
(B) Diphtheria
(C) Cholera
(D) Whooping cough
(E) None of these
Answer- (A) AIDS
21. Q. Who is the author of the book ‘Development as Freedom’?
(A) YVReddy
(B) Manmohan Singh
(C) APJAbdulKalam
(D) AmartyaSen
(E) None of these
Answer- (A) YVReddy
22. Q. Who has been appointed as the new International Goodwill Ambassador for UN AIDS ?
(A) Priyanka Chopra
(B) Kareena Kapoor
(C) Aishwarya Rai
(D) Anushka Sharma
(E) None of these
Answer- (C) Aishwarya Rai
23. Q. Who is the Sri Lankan batsman got the Hatrick in the ICC award ?
(A) Mahela Jayawardene
(B) Kumar Sangakkara
(C) Tilakaratne Dilshan
(D) Sanath Jayasuriya
(E) None of these
Answer- (B) Kumar Sangakkara
24. Q. What is India’s rank on financial literacy among 28 countries in the 2012 edition of Visa Global Financial Literacy Barometer survey ?
(A) 23rd
(B) 24th
(C) 25th
(D) 26
(E) None of these
Answer- (A) 23rd
25. Q. How many times has Brazil won the World Cup Football Championship ?
(A) Four times
(B) Twice
(C) Five times
(D) Once
(E) None of these
Answer- (C) Five times
26. Q. Which of the following Central Ministries launched the ‘Campaign Clean India’in July 2012 ?
(A) Ministry of Tourism
(B) Ministry of Home Affairs
(C) Ministry of Urban Development
(D) Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
(E) None of these
Answer- (A) Ministry of Tourism
27. Q. Who discovered the germ of malaria ?
(A) Lamarck
(B) G.J. Mendel
(C) DeVries
(D) Ronald Boss
(E) None of these
Answer- (D) Ronald Boss
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