GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE MCQs FOR IBPS PO EXAM

1. The Reserve Bank of India increased the Bank Rate on July 15, 2013. What is the present Bank Rate? 
1) 8.25%
2) 9.25%
3) 10.25%
4) 9% 
5) 10%

2. Which State/Union Territory has been ranked first amongst 35 States and Union Territories with regard to Financial Inclusion, according to a recent CRISIL report?
1) Puducherry 
2) Chandigarh 
3) Kerala
4) Tamil Nadu 
5) Andhra Pradesh

3. The 2013 FIFA Under-20 World Cup was held in Turkey in June-July 2013. Which country won the tournament for the first time? 
1) France 
2) Uruguay 
3) Ghana 
4) Iraq 
5) Turkey 

4. Hemant Soren became the Chief Minister of which of the following states on July13, 2013?
1) Bihar
 2) Chhattisgarh 
3) Uttarakhand 
4) Jharkhand 
5) Madhya Pradesh

5. Who has been appointed as the Chairperson of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR)?
1) Girija Vyas 
2) Sudha Sharma 
3)Kushal Singh
4) Krishna Tirat
5) Aruna Roy

6. Who was honored with the National Lata Mangeshkar Award in May 2013? (This award is instituted by the Madhya Pradesh government) 
1) A.R. Rehman 
2) Hariharan 
3) Shreya Ghoshal 
4) Shaan 
5) None of these 

7. Books and Authors are given. Identify the mismatched pair?
1) In Custody ---Anita Desai 
2) Sea of Poppies---Amitav Ghosh 
3) The Argumentative Indian ---Amartya Sen 
4) Unaccustomed Earth---Jhumpa Lahiri 
5) River of Smoke---V.S. Naipaul

8. Ethanol as a viable bio-fuel can be obtained from?
1) Paddy 
2) Potato 
3) Sugarcane 
4) Wheat
5) Tobacco 

9. Who among the following Padma Shri winners is not a sportsperson?
1) Yogeshwar Dutt 
2) Girish Nagarajegowda 
3) Dingko Singh 
4) Premlata Agrawal 
5) Vandana Luthra

10. Other than Venezuela, which one among the following from South America is a member of OPEC? 
1) Argentina 
2) Brazil 
3) Ecuador 
4) Bolivia 
5) Chile

11. KB Kookmin Bank is based in?
1) Japan 
2) South Korea
3) China
4) Malaysia 
5) Singapore

12. Crystal Award is given by?
1) APEC
2) IBRD 
3) WHO 
4) WEF 
5) WTO 

13. Which one of the following was the earliest event to take place?
1) Establishment of LIC 
2) Nationalization of SBI 
3) Enactment of Banking Regulation Act 
4) Introduction of First Five Year Plan 
5) Nationalization of SBI Associate Banks 

14. Who is the Chairman of the National Water Resources Council?
1) Prime Minister
2) Minister of Water Resources 
3) Minister of Environment and Forests 
4) Minister of Science and Technology 
5) None of these

15. Which of the following is not a pharmaceutical company?
1) Chevron 
2) Piramal India 
3) Pfizer
4) Zydus Cadila 
5) Sanofi-Aventis 

16. Who among the following is a football player?
1) Fernando Alonso 
2) Kimi Raikkonen 
3) Lewis Hamilton 
4) Sebastian Vettel 
5) Fernando Torres 

17. Organizations and their Headquarters are given below. Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
1) ADB---Manila 
2) World Bank -Washington 
3) APEC---Singapore 
4) ASEAN---Bangkok 
5) WTO---Geneva 

18. The founder of World Economic Forum?
1) Robert Zoellick 
2) Paul Krugman 
3) Pascal Lamy 
4) John Galbraith 
5) Klaus Schwab 

19. The 10 non-permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) are elected by the General Assembly for a term of?
1) 1 year 
2) 2 years 
3) 3 years
4) 4 years 
5) 5 years

20. Which one of the following Car makers does not belong to Japan? 
1) Toyota 
2) Honda 
3) Nissan 
4) Suzuki
5) Hyundai 

21. Identify the mismatched pair?
1) Bank Rate---10.25% 
2) Repo Rate---7.25% 
3) Reverse Repo Rate---6.25% 
4) CRR---4.25%
5) SLR---23% 

22. Who among the following was conferred with the Padma Vibhushan Award this year?
1) Late Rajesh Khanna 
2) Vijay Kumar Saraswat 
3) Gayatri Spivak 
4) Raghunath Mohapatra 
5) Abdul Rashid Khan 

23. The General Anti Avoidance Rules (GAAR) will come into force from?
1) April 1, 2014
2) April 1, 2015 
3) April 1, 2016
4) April 1, 2017 
5) April 1, 2018 

24. 'An Angel in the Cockpit' is written by?
1) Vijay Mallya
2) Vijaypat Singhania 
3) Kiran Bedi 
4) Ratan Tata 
5) None of these 

25. The small borrowers in rural areas still prefer to take informal route for their credit needs. Which of the following is the informal route of credit?
1) Credit cards 
2) Debit cards 
3) RRBs 
4) Commercial banks 
5) Money lenders 

Answers
1) 3 2) 1 3) 1 4) 4 5) 3 6) 2 7) 5 8) 3 9) 5 10) 3
11) 2 12) 4 13) 3 14) 1 15) 1 16) 5 17) 4 18) 5 19) 2 20) 5
21) 4 22) 4 23) 3 24) 2 25) 5