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SBI Special
General Awareness
 
 
 1.    Which one of the following banks was included in the Second Schedule to the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 on May 21, 2014?
     1) Axis Bank    2) Yes Bank
     3) IndusInd Bank
     4) Bharatiya Mahila Bank
     5) None of these
 
 2.    Anandiben Patel took charge as the first woman Chief Minister of which of the following States on May 22, 2014?
     1) Maharashtra       2) Gujarat
     3) Rajasthan       4) Goa
     5) Chhattisgarh
 
 3.    The Reserve Bank of India, for the benefit of the persons with disabilities, instructed that banks should make all new ATMs installed from which of the following dates as talking ATMs with Braille keypads?
     1) June1, 2014      2) July 1, 2014
     3) August 15, 2014
     4) January 1, 2015
     5) April 1, 2015
 
 4.    Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg was honored with the first-ever Genesis Prize on May 22, 2014. The $1 million Genesis Prize is given by which of the following countries?
     1) USA    2) Germany   3) Israel    4) UK      5) Canada
 
 5.    Who took over as the new Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) on May 22, 2014? (He succeeded Sushma Singh)
     1) Syed Asif Ibrahim
     2) Vijai Sharma
     3) Sharat Sabharwal
     4) Basant Seth     5) Rajiv Mathur
 
 6.    SIMBEX-14 was started off the Andaman and Nicobar Islands on May 22, 2014. It is an annual joint naval exercise conducted by India and?
     1) Saudi Arabia 2) Spain
     3) Singapore     4) Sri Lanka
     5) South Africa
 
 7.    Pakistan's teenage education activist Malala Yousafzai did not win which of the following Prizes/Awards in 2013?
     1) Sakharov Prize
     2)    Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Award
     3) Clinton Global Citizen Award
     4) Anna Politkovskaya Award
     5) South-South Award
 
 8.    G-4 countries are pushing for the inclusion of more countries in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). Which one of the following countries is not a G-4 country?
     1) Brazil   2) Germany  3) Japan
     4) India    5) Italy
 
 9.    The Finance Commission submits its report to the?
     1) Lok Sabha
     2) Finance Minister
     3) President
     4) Prime Minister
     5) Planning Commission
 
 10.    Who is/are the winners of the Clinton Global Citizens Awards for the year 2013?
     1) Malala Yousafzai
     2) Bunker Roy
     3) Rafiq Kathwari
     4) Both 1 and 2
     5) All 1, 2 and 3
 
 11.    Which one of the following Rajiv Khel Ratna Award winners is not a Shooter?
     1) Anjali Bhagwat
     2) Anju Bobby George
     3) Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
     4) Manavjit Singh Sandhu
     5) Gagan Narang
 
 12.    The Karera Wildlife Sanctuary is situated in the Shivpuri district of?
     1) Uttarakhand     2) Maharashtra
     3) Gujarat     4) Uttar Pradesh
     5) Madhya Pradesh
 
 13.    Which Indian social activist founded the Barefoot College in the village of Tilonia in Rajasthan in 1972?
     1) Medha Patkar
     2) Ramesh Agarwal
     3) Sandeep Pandey
     4) Bunker Roy     5) None of these
 
 14.    The P5+1 is a group of six world powers which joined the diplomatic efforts with Iran with regard to its nuclear program. Which country does 1 refer to in P5+1?
     1) India     2) Brazil
     3) Canada     4) South Africa
     5) Germany
 
 15.    The Reserve Bank of India became a State-owned institution in?
     1) 1934    2) 1935   3) 1949     4) 1950    5) 1947
 
 16.    According to the first Global Slavery Index published in October 2013, which country has the highest proportion of slaves in the world?
     1) Mauritania     2) Haiti     
     3) Pakistan     4) India
     5) Nepal
 
 17.    The United States will use Mihail Kogalniceanu (MK) Air Base for Afghan pull out. MK Air Base is in?
     1) Kyrgyzstan     2) Romania
     3) Russia     4) Ukraine
     5) Moldova
 
 18.    The Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR) should be maintained in the form of?
     1) Cash     2) Gold
 3)    Government approved securities
     4) Any of the above
     5) None of the above
 
 19.    Which of the following can be called a demand liability?
 1)    Deposit maintained in savings account
 2)    Deposit maintained in current account
     3) Fixed deposit for six months
     4) Both 1 and 2
     5) All 1, 2 and 3
 
 20.    Mulatu Teshome has been the President of which of the following African countries since October 7, 2013?
     1) Somalia     2) Liberia
     3) Gambia     4) Ethiopia
     5) Zambia
 
 21.    Ruchira Kamboj has been appointed as the Permanent Representative of India to?
     1) UNICEF     2) UNEP
     3) UNESCO    4) WHO
     5) FAO
 
 22.    The Indian Newspaper Society (INS) is an organization that plays a major role in protecting and promoting the freedom of press in India. It was founded in 1939 with headquarters in?
     1) Mumbai     2) New Delhi
     3) Kolkata     4) Chennai
     5) Jaipur
 
 23.    Which of the following award/prizes is popularly called the Jewish Nobel Prize?
     1) Pritzker prize     2) Abel Prize
     3) Templeton Prize
     4) Goldman Environmental Prize
     5) Genesis Prize
 
 24.    The first national Yash Chopra Memorial Award was presented to which of the following film personalities in October 2013?
     1) Amitabh Bachchan
     2) Gulzar     3) Lata Mangeshkar
     4) A.R. Rehman  5) Tanuja
 
 25.    The University of British Columbia's Faculty of Law awarded the inaugural Allard Prize for International Integrity to which of the following Indians in September 2013?
     1) Kiran Bedi     2) Medha Patkar
     3) Arvind Kejriwal
     4) Anna Hazare
     5) Chandi Prasad Bhat
 
 26.    Who won the International Press Institute (IPI) India Award for Excellence in Journalism in October 2013?
     1) Rajdeep Sardesai
     2) Karan Thapar
     3) Sagarika Ghose
      4) Fareed Zakaria
     5) Prannoy Roy
 
 27.    Global Competitiveness Report (GCR) is an annual report published by the?
     1) World Bank     2) IMF
      3) WTO              4) WEF
      5) None of these
 
 28.    Which of the following is an inter-school football tournament in India?
     1) Subroto Cup
     2) Santosh Trophy
     3) Durand Cup
     4) B.C. Roy Trophy
     5) Rovers Cup
 
 29.    Who won the prestigious Velo d'Or award in 2013?
     1) Nairo Quintana
     2) Chris Froome
     3) Alberto Contador
     4) Bradley Wiggins
     5) Philippe Gilbert
 
 30.    Who among the following is not a Golf player?
     1) Ryan Moore    2) Scott Hend
     3) Anirban Lahiri
      4) Adam Scott     
     5) Fernando Alonso
 
 31.    Who is the Chairman of the Railway Board?
     1) Alok Johri
     2) Subodh Kumar Jain
     3) A.K. Mittal
     4) Arunendra Kumar
     5) None of these
 
 32.    Subhash Goswami is the Director General of the?
     1) Border Security Force
     2) National Security Guard
     3) Indo-Tibetan Border Police
     4) Central Industrial Security Force
     5) None of these
 
 33.    India has resumed military assistance to which of the following countries in October 2013, after nine years of suspension?
     1) Nepal     2) Bangladesh
     3) Sri Lanka     4) Pakistan
     5) Burma
 
 34.    Who is the co-author of the book 'I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban'?
     1) Graham Phillips
     2) Christina Lamb
     3) John Kay     4) Felicity Green
     5) David Astor
 
 35.    Which of the following have been named as the new 'hope spots' by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)?
     1) Andaman & Nicobar Islands
     2) Lakshadweep
     3) Dadra & Nagar Haveli
     4) Both 1 and 2
     5) All 1, 2 and 3
 
 36.    The Supreme Court directed the Centre and State governments to provide what percent job reservations to disabled persons in their departments, companies and PSUs?
     1) One     2) Two
     3) Three     4) Four
     5) None of these
 
 37.    The World Health Organization (WHO) has approved SA14-14-2, a new cheaper vaccine against Japanese Encephalitis made in?
     1) India     2) China
     3) USA     4) Russia
     5) Japan
 
 38.    Which of the following refers to a loan with a low interest rate?
     1) Hot Money 2) Call Money
     3) Dear Money 4) Cheap Money
     5) None of these
 
 39.    With regard to Banking in India, which one of the following events took place in 1975?
     1) Establishment of NABARD
 2)    Second phase of Nationalization of Banks
 3)    Nationalization of SBI
 4)    Establishment of the first Regional Rural Bank
 5)    Merger of New Bank of India with Punjab National Bank
 
 40.    NPCDCS program does not aim at preventing and controlling which one of the following diseases?
     1) Cancer      2) Diabetes
     3) Cardiovascular diseases
     4) Stroke     5) Polio
 
 
 KEY
 1) 4    2) 2    3) 2    4) 3
 5) 5    6) 3    7) 5    8) 5
 9) 3    10) 4    11) 2    12) 5
 13) 4    14) 5    15) 3    16) 1
 17) 2    18) 4    19) 4    20) 4
 21) 3    22) 2    23) 5    24) 3
 25) 4    26) 2    27) 4    28) 1
 29) 2    30) 5    31) 4    32) 3
 33) 1     34) 2    35) 4    36) 3
 37) 2    38) 4    39) 4    40) 5