Thursday, February 26, 2015

General Awareness Quiz - Part I

1. India financial system comprises of ...........
1) Scheduled commercial banks
2) Non-banking financial institutions
3) Urban cooperative banks
4) All of these
5) None of these


2. The "Channapatna toys" are a particular form of wooden toys that are manufactured in which state?
1) Andhra Pradesh
2) Karnataka
3) Maharashtra
4) Kerala
5) Uttar Pradesh

3. Headquarters of SIDBI is located at ..........
1) Varanasi
2) Lucknow
3) New Delhi
4) Kolkata
5) Mumbai

4. The number of Foreign Banks operating in India are ...........
1) 20
2) 25
3) 28
4) 32
5) 35

5. Which of the following is an example of financial assets?
1) National Saving Certificates
2) Infrastructure bonds
3) Indira Vikas
4) Krishi Vikas
5) All of these

6. Who among the following has won the prestigious DSC Prize for Literature, one of the South Asia's top literary awards?
1) Amrita Lahiri
2) Jhumpa Lahiri
3) Aravind Adiga
4) Amitav Ghosh
5) None of these

7. Which of the following banks has launched banking service on Twitter which allows customers to transfer money using the social networking site, recently?
1) ICICI Bank
2) HDFC Bank
3) Axis Bank
4) Both 2 and 3
5) None of these

8. The Present Marginal Standing Facility (MSF) rate is ...............
1) 8.75%
2) 8.00%
3) 7.75%
4) 8.50%
5) None of these

9. ICC Twenty 20 World Cup 2016 will be held at .............
1) West Indies
2) Sri Lanka
3) Bangladesh
4) India
5) Australia

10. Axis Bank board reappointed ............. as the bank's managing director and chief executive officer (MD and CEO) for a three-year period
1) Shikha Sharma
2) Arundhathi Bhattacharya
3) Usha Anantha Subramanyam
4) Vijayalakshmi R Iyer
5) None

11. The Rara Lake is the biggest lake of ...........
1) Nepal
2) Sri Lanka
3) India
4) China
5) None of these

12. Co operative Bank in India has ....... system.
1) Two − tier system
2) Three − tier system
3) Four − tier system
4) Five − tier system
5) None of these

13. Which of the following bodies promoted Securities Trading Corporation of India Limited (STCI) jointly with the public sector banks?
1) SEBI
2) ICICI Limited
3) IDBI Limited
4) RBI
5) IRDA

14. On 19th January 2015 Reserve Bank of India asked banks to notify the Base Rate or the minimum lending rate, at least once in every .... months based on the cost of funds.
1) Three
2) Four
3) Five
4) Six
5) None of these

15. All venture Capital funds must be register with .................
1) RBI
2) SEBI
3) Registrar of Companies
4) Either 1 or 2
5) None of these

16. According to latest tiger census report (2015), which among the following states has recorded highest number of tigers?
1) Telangana
2) Tamilnadu
3) Andhra Pradesh
4) Kerala
5) Karnataka

17. The Pancheshwar Multipurpose Project (PMP) is a bi-nation hydropower project between .............
1) India & Bhutan
2) India & Bangladesh
3) India & Nepal
4) India & Australia
5) None of these

18. The National Financial Switch, the largest shared automated teller machines in India, is run by .............
1) Reserve Bank of India
2) Finance Ministry
3) National Payments Corporation of India
4) Only 1 and 2
5) None of these

19. To celebrate the power of voters, the Election Commission of India has been organizing "Matdata Mahotsava" in which city?
1) Hyderabad
2) New Delhi
3) Kolkata
4) Mumbai
5) Both 2 and 3

20. India's first and only container trans-shipment terminal is in .............
1) Hyderabad
2) Mangalore
3) Ananthapuram
4) Vallarpadam
5) None of these




ANSWERS:
1-4
2-2
3-2
4-4
5-2
6-2
7-1
8-1
9-4
10-1
11-1
12-2
13-4
14-1
15-2
16-5
17-3
18-3
19-2
20-4

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