GENERAL AWARENESS MCQs FOR BANK EXAMS

1. Which of the following countries is not a member of G-8?
1) Canada
2) Russia
3) Spain
4) France
5) Italy

2. Which of the following is a Public sector bank?
1) Dena
2) Karnataka
3) South Indian
4) Karur Vysya
5) IndusInd

3. Which of the following committees is associated with the microfinance institutions (MFIs)?
1) B.N. Srikrishna
2) Kirit Parikh
3) Rangarajan
4) Y.H. Malegam
5) Bimal Jalan

4. U.K.Sinha is the Chairman of which of the following regulators?
1) SEBI
2) IRDA
3) FMC
4) TRAI
5) AERA

5. Who became the first Indian author to win the Man Booker Prize in 1981?
1) Salman Rushdie
2) Arundhati Roy
3) Kiran Desai
4) Aravind Adiga
5) None


6. Which of the following cups is associated with Lawn Tennis?
1) Yonex Cup
2) Hopman Cup
3) Thomas Cup
4) Uber Cup
5) Tunku Abdul Rahman Cup

7. Which of the following international groups/organizations consists of only developing countries?
1) UNO
2) G8
3) G15
4) G20
5) OECD

8. The banking Ombudsman sche-me was formulated by the Reserve bank of India to provide an expeditious redressal grievan-ce mechanism to bank custom-ers. When did this scheme beco-me operational?
1) 1990
2) 1992
3) 1995
4) 1998
5) 1996

9. Which of the following is the pu-nchline of the Bank of Baroda?
1) With you all the way
2) Pure banking Nothing else
3) The Banker to every Indian
4) Nation banks on us
5) India's International Bank

10. Taufik Hidayat, Joachim Person, Lin Dan and Chetan Anand are the famous players associated with which of the following sports?
1) Tennis
2) Table Tennis
3) Badminton
4) Chess
5) Golf

11. The Lok Sabha passed a Bill recently to change the name of which of the following states?
1) Assam
2) Orissa
3) Uttarakhand
4) Karnataka
5) Andhra Pradesh

12. Ollanta Humala, who previously served as an army officer, beca-me the President of which of the following countries in July 2011?
1) Uganda
2) Peru
3) Mexico
4) South Africa
5) None of these

13. Ms. Pauline Nyiramasuhuko became the first-ever woman to be found guilty of genocide by an international tribunal. She was a former minister for women's em-powerment of which of the following countries?
1) Sudan
2) Algeria
3) Ethiopia
4) Rwanda
5) Uganda

14. Who was appointed the Central Vigilance Commissioner (CVC) in July 2011?
1) P.J. Thomas
2) Pradeep Kumar
3) Ajit Seth
4) Ajit Singh
5) None of these

15. What is the annual funding under the Member of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS) for the current fiscal (2011-12)?
1) Rs. 2 Crore
2) Rs. 3 Crore
3) Rs. 5 Crore
4) Rs. 4 Crore
5) None of these

16. Which country recently opened the world's longest sea bridge (36.48km) to traffic?
1) India
2) USA
3) China
4) Japan
5) Russia

17. Which Indian shuttler won the title at the Maldives International badminton challenge held in Male, Maldives in June 2011?
1) Saina Nehwal
2) P.C. Tulasi
3) P.V. Sindhu
4) Gutta Jwala
5) Ashwini Ponappa

18. Mayookha Johny of India won a gold medal at the 19th Asian athletics championships in Kobe, Japan in July 2011. In which spo-rting event did she win the gold medal?
1) High Jump
2) Pole Vault
3) Shot Put
4) Discus throw
5) Long Jump

19. The Karpoor Chandra Kulish International Award is given for excellence in which of the following fields?
1) Classical music
2) Print Journalism
3) Movies
4) Sports
5) None of these

20. Which Indian-origin student won the 2011 Scripps National Spel-ling Bee competition held in Maryland, USA?
1) Sameer Mishra
2) Kavya Shivshankar
3) Anamika Veeramani
4) Sukanya Roy
5) None of these

21. Naresh Goyal has been re-elected to the prestigious Board of Governors of the International Air Transport Association (IA-TA) from 2011 to 2013. He is the chairman of which of the following airlines?
1) SpiceJet
2) Kingfisher Airlines
3) IndiGo
4) Jet Airways
5) None of these

22. Broken Republic is a book about the Maoist guerrilla movement in the forests of central India. Who is the author?
1) Siddhartha Deb
2) Kiran Desai
3) Anita Desai
4) Arundhati Roy
5) None

23. Who was honoured with the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding for 2009 in May 2011?
1) Nelson Mandela
2) Aung San Suu Kyi
3) Angela Merkel
4) Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
5) None of these

24. Yingluck Shinawatra is the first woman Prime Minister of which of the following countries?
1) Myanmar
2) Thailand
3) Cambodia
4) Malaysia
5) Indonesia

25. Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) has launched its 'e-Kiosk', an automated cheque depositing system, recently. Where is the headquarters of the IOB?
1) Mumbai
2) Chennai
3) New Delhi
4) Kolkata
5) Pune

26. Which country has decided to phase out nuclear power by 2034 after the Japan disaster shook pu-blic confidence in the Industry?
1) France
2) USA
3) India
4) Switzerland
5) Pakistan

27. The Reserve Bank of India has directed banks to reimburse customers for amounts wrongfully debited from their accounts in failed ATM transactions within how many days of an account holder's complaint?
( With effect from July 1,2011)
1) 7
2) 10
3) 12
4) 15
5) 30

28. Who won the U.S. open golf championship in June 2011?
1) Tiger Woods
2) Graeme McDowell
3) Lucas Glover
4) Rory McIlory
5) None

29. Who became the Ambassador of India to the United States of America in August 2011?
1) Shiv Shankar Menon
2) Meera Shankar
3) Ranjan Mathai
4) Nirupama Rao
5) None

30. Sepp Blatter was re-elected as the President of which of the following sports governing bodies in May 2011?
1) ICC
2) FIFA
3) IAAF
4) FIH
5) None of these

31. The concessional rate of interest which is lower than the normal bank rate of interest is called?
1) Repo rate
2) Reverse repo rate.
3) Cash Reserve ratio
4) bank rate
5) base rate

32. Which scheme seeks to improve the conditions of the urban slum dwellers living below the poverty line that do not possess adequate shelter?
1) JNNURM
2) NREGP
3) VAMBAY
4) Bharat Nirman
5) None of these

33. Who is the author of the book 'My Country, My Life'?
1) Khushwant Singh
2) Jaswant Singh
3) Jawaharlal Nehru
4) L.K. Advani
5) None of these

34. Oscar awards are given annually in which of the following fields?
1) Literature
2) Science
3) Peace
4) Economics
5) Films

35. Which of the following institutions regulate the Unit Linked Insurance Plans (ULIPs)?
1) SEBI
2) LIC
3) RBI
4) IRDA
5) FMC

36. Which of the following banks' mascot is the DOLLe (dolphin)?
1) IndusInd
2) Syndicate
3) Andhra
4) Bank of India
5) State Bank of India

37. In which field is Pritzker Prize given?
1) Mathematics
2) Architecture
3) Medicine
4) Peace
5) None

38. Which of the following authors was given the Lost Man Booker Prize in 2010 for his book 'Troubles'? (He is also the author of the book 'The Siege of Krishnapur, that won the 1973 Booker Prize'.)
1) P.H. Newby
2) J. G. Farrell
3) V. S. Naipaul
4) William Golding
5) Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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