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GENERAL AWARENESS
1. Ibrahim Boubacar Keita was elected the President of which of the following African coun tries in August 2013? (He will take office on September 19, 2013)
1) Algeria 2) Niger
3) Burkina Faso 4) Mali
5) Senegal
2. Who won the 200-metre sprint at the World Athletics Cham pionships in Moscow on Au gust 17, 2013?
1) Warren Weir
2) Usain Bolt
3) Curtis Mitchell
4) Tyson Gay
5) Yohan Blake
3. The 15,000th branch of which of the following banks was inau gurated in Sooranam, Tamil Nadu on August 17, 2013?
1) Punjab National Bank
2) ICICI Bank
3) State Bank of India
4) Indian Bank
5) Indian Overseas Bank
4. Who was appointed the Dire ctor General of Central Reser ve Police Force (CRPF) on Au gust 17, 2013? (He succee ded Pranay Sahay)
1) R.K.Singh 2) Alok Joshi
3) Ranjit Sinha 4) Dilip Trivedi
5) Vijay Kumar
5. Who among the following Arjuna award winners is a Squash player?
1) P.V. Sindhu
2) Kavita Chahal
3) Rupesh Shah
4) Dharmendra Dalal
5) Joshna Chinappa
6. Subramanian Swamy's Janata Party was merged with which of the following political parties in August 2013?
1) Congress
2) Janata Dal (Secular)
3) Bharatiya Janata Party
4) Janata Dal (United)
5) Samajwadi Party
7. What does NDTL mean?
1) New Demand and Tenure Lia bilities
2) Net Demand and Time Liabi lities
3) National Deposits and Total Liquidity
4) New Deposits and Term Liquidity
5) None of these
8. Which of the following terms is used in Banking?
1) Epicenter 2) Gravity
3) Latitude 4) Longitude
5) None of these
9. Fiscal Policy is concerned with?
1) Export and Import
2) Education
3) Population control
4) Public revenue and expenditure
5) None of these
10. Foreign exchange reserves of India are kept in the custody of?
1) IBRD 2) IMF
3) SBI
4) Government treasury
5) RBI
11. Which of the following terms is not used in Banking?
1) Holding company
2) Post dated cheque
3) Credit
4) Time deposit
5) Centripetal force
12. The Score of My Life' is written by?
1) Pandit Ravi Shankar
2) Zubin Mehta
3) Javed Akhtar
4) APJ Abdul Kalam
5) None of these
13. Anshu Jain is associated with which of the following foreign banks?
1) RBS 2) Deutsche Bank
3) HSBC 4) Barclays
5) Bank of America
14. The National Science Day is celebrated in honour of?
1) J.C.Bose
2) S.Ramanujan
3) H.J.Bhabha
4) C.V.Raman
5) S. Chandrasekhar
15. Which of the following is not a cash crop?
1) Jute 2) Cashew nut
3) Rubber 4) Cotton
5) Wheat
16. Which of the following books is not written by Indira Goswami?
1) The Man from Chinnamasta
2) Pages Stained with Blood
3) The Moth Eaten Howdah of a Tusker
4) An Unfinished Autobiography
5) Rudali
17. Harare is the capital of?
1) Zambia 2) Yemen 3) Congo 4) South Sudan
5) Zimbabwe
18. Galvanometer is an instrument to measure?
1) Relative density of liquids
2) Electric currents
3) Pressure of gases
4) Distances
5) None of these
19. In a current account the with drawals can be made?
1) Once a day
2) Once a week
3) Once a month
4) As many times as needed
5) None of these
20. A short term government secu rity paper is called?
1) Share
2) Debenture
3) Mutual Fund
4) Treasury bill
5) None of these
21. WTO basically promotes?
1) Tourism
2) Global peace
3) Unilateral trade
4) Multilateral trade
5) Disarmament
22. CDS stands for?
1) Credit Demand Swap
2) Collateral Default Swap
3) Credit Default Swap
4) Collateral Demand Swap
5) None of these
23. The headquarters of International Olympic Committee is at?
1) Los Angeles 2) New York
3) Moscow 4) Lausanne
5) Paris
24. Which of the following terms is used in the game of Hockey?
1) Volley 2) Bull'seye 3) Trump 4) Serve
5) Centre forward
25. Which of the following is not a pharmaceutical company?
1) Intas 2) Novartis
3) Roche
4) Hindustan Unilever Limited
5) Glaxo SmithKline
26. Which of the following commi ssions is formed to guard agai nst predatory and collusive behavior of the business organi zations?
1) Knowledge Commission
2) Finance Commission
3) Administrative Reforms
Commission
4) Competition Commission
5) Labour Commission
27. Two Leaves is the symbol of which of the following political parties?
1) SP 2) BSP
3) DMK 4) AIADMK
5) JD (U)
28. When too much of money is chasing too few goods, the situ ation is called?
1) Recession 2) Depression
3) Inflation 4) Deflation
5) Stagflation
29. Which of the following sche mes provides social security cover to the people working in the unorganized sector?
1) Raj Lakshmi
2) Kuteer Jyothi
3) Swavalamban
4) Antyodaya 5) None of these
30. Who is the Chairman of Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS)?
1) Pratip Chaudhuri
2) Arun Kaul 3) T.M. Bhasin
4) K.R. Kamath 5) M.Narendra
31. Which of the following abbre viations and their full forms is not matched correctly?
1) LAF ---Liquidity Adjustment Facility
2) SWIFT --- Society for World wide Interbank Financial Tele communication
3) AFSPA---Armed Forces Super Powers Act
4) MDG---Millennium Develo pment Goals
5) MAT--Minimum Alternate Tax
32. The foreign trade policy in India is announced by the?
1) RBI
2) Ministry of Finance
3) Ministry of Commerce
4) Planning Commission
5) Ministry of External Affairs
33. Who is the author of the book 'Building Social Business'?
1) Amartya Sen
2) Muhammad Yunus
3) Paul Krugman
4) Alvin Roth
5) None of these
34. Which of the following agen cies/organizations plays a major role to control inflation in a country?
1) Central Bank of the country
2) Stock markets of the country
3) Planning Commission
4) Both 1 and 2
5) All 1, 2 and 3
35. NPAs in commercial banks means?
1) Bank deposits which are not invested
2) Capital assets not in use
3) Loans in which interest or principal amount is not recovered
4) Low interest rate loans
5) High interest rate loans
KEY
1) 4 2) 2 3) 3 4) 4 5) 5
6) 3 7) 2 8) 5 9) 4 10) 5
11) 5 12) 2 13) 2 14) 4 15) 5
16) 5 17) 5 18) 2 19) 4 20) 4
21) 4 22) 3 23) 4 24) 5 25) 4
26) 4 27) 4 28) 3 29) 3 30) 4
31) 3 32) 3 33) 2 34) 1 35) 3
