General Awareness questions for Bank Clerk Exam

Here distributing some general awareness question for bank exam specially for clerk lets practice us for good in Exam. All the best

1. Who retained the top spot on Forbes' fourth annual ranking of "The World's Most Powerful People", which was released in December 2012?

(A) Barack Obama

(B) Angela Merkel

(C) Vladimir Putin

(D) Bill Gates (E) David Cameron

2. Who will be honored with a lifetime achievement Grammy award in Los Angeles on February 10, 2013?

(A) A.R.Rehman

(B) Pandit Ravi Shankar

(C) Norah Jones

(D) Pandit Vishwamohan Bhatt

(E) Ustad Zakir Hussain

3. Rakesh Mohan, former Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India, has taken charge as Executive Director on the board of?

(A) World Bank (B) ADB

(C) IMF (D) OECD (E) WTO

4. Which of the following full forms is not correct?

(A) ECS - Electronic Clearing Service

(B) TPF - Trade Policy Forum

(C) CCEA-Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs

(D) LAF - Liquidity Adjustment Facility

(E) FTA - Full Trade Agreement

5. Which one of the following statements is not true with regard to Malala Yousafzai?

(A) Malala Yousafzai is a teenage education activist in the Swat district of Pakistan.

(B) She won Pakistan's first National Youth Peace Prize in 2011. It was subsequently renamed the National Malala Peace Prize in her honor.

(C) On October 9, 2012 she was shot by Taliban gunmen and is being treated in hospital in Birmingham, UK.

(D) UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon declared November 10 as Malala Day.

(E) She won the 2012 Right Livelihood Award.

6. Ahmed Nazif was sentenced to three years in prison for corruption in September 2012. He was the Prime Minister of which of the following countries from 2004 to 2011?

(A) Syria (B) Yemen

(C) Egypt (D) Libya

(E) Lebanon

7. Who received the US Congressi-onal Gold Medal on September 19, 2012?

(A) Dalai Lama (B) Angela Merkel

(C) Gordon Brown

(D) Aung San Suu Kyi

(E) Dilma Rousseff

8. Which film was given the prestigious Golden Lion Award for the best film at the 69th Venice Film Festival on September 8, 2012?

(A) Pieta (B) The Master

(C) Fill the Void (D) The Artist

(E) None of these

9. The United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has appo-inted who among the following as its International Goodwill Ambassador?

(A) Aamir Khan (B) Aishwarya Rai

(C) Priyanka Chopra

(D) Shah Rukh Khan

(E) Vidya Balan

10. Who has become the first woman to command the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner which landed in New Delhi in September 2012?

(A) Alka Shukla

(B) M.P. Shumathi

(C) Nivedita Bhasin

(D) Saudamini Deshmukh

(E) None of these

11. Forbes released the list of 400 richest Americans recently. Bill Gates remained at the top position for the 19th consecutive year. Who is at second position?

(A) Steve Ballmer

(B) Warren Buffet (C) Paul Allen

(D) Jeff Bezos (E) Larry Ellison

12. Paul McCartney has been awarded France's highest public award, the French Legion of Honor, for his services to music. He belongs to?

(A) USA (B) Canada

(C) Australia (D) England

(E) Argentina

13. Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Prize is named after the founder Direc-tor General of?

(A) IISC (B) BARC

(C) CSIR (D) ISI

(E) IARI

14. Which of the following topped the QS World University Ranki-ngs released in September 2012?

(A) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

(B) University of Cambridge, UK

(C) Harvard University, USA

(D) University of Oxford, UK

(E) Yale University, USA

15. Which team won the Irani Cup Cricket in Bangalore in September 2012?

(A) Rest of India (B) Rajasthan

(C) Karnataka (D) Hyderabad

(E) Mumbai

16. The Super Fight League (SFL) is promoted by IPL team Rajasthan Royals' co-owner Raj Kundra and Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt. Who is the brand ambassador of SFL?

(A) Devendro Singh

(B) Vijender Singh

(C) MC Mary Kom

(D) Vikas Krishnan

(E) None of these

17. The Ig Nobel Prizes are a parody of the Nobel Prizes and given each year for ten unusual or trivial achievements in scientific research. They are given in?

(A) Sweden (B) Norway

(C) Philippines (D) USA (E) UK

18. Which of the following countries is not a member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)?

(A) China (B) Russia

(C) India (D) Kyrgyzstan

(E) Uzbekistan

19. Which of the following is a private bank in India?

(A) UCO Bank (B) IDBI Bank

(C) United Bank of India

(D) HDFC Bank

(E) Syndicate Bank

20. 'Touch Down' is a term used in the game of?

(A) Hockey (B) Cricket

(C) American Football

(D) Golf (E) Ice Hockey

 

Answers KEY

1)A 2)B 3)C 4)E 5) E 6) C 7) D 8) A 9) B 10) C 11) B 12) D 13) C 14) A 15) A 16) C 17) D 18) C 19) D 20) C

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Must Read 15 General awareness Questions for IBPS Clerk Exam

Institute of Banking Personnel Selection(IBPS ) announced exam dates for clerk dates are 15 December ,16 December,22 December & 23 December 2012. so here providing some general awareness questions for IBPS bank exam  of clerk .might check your practice test for solved question. 

1. Who became Miss World 2012?
(a) Denise Perrier
(b) Yu Wenxia
(c) Marita Lindah
(d) Azra Akin

2.The sensitive index of National stock Exchange of India is popularly known as
(a) SENSEX
(b) CRIS
(c) CSE
(d) MCX
(e) Nifty

3.Which Country won the most number of Gold Medals in the first Olympic Games?
(a) United States
(b) Germany
(c) Greece
(d) Australia

4.Who Officially opened the first Olympic games ?
(a) Prince Andrew
(b) Constantine I
(c) Otto
(d) King George I

5. The Union Railway Budget 2012-13 was presented in the Lok Sabha on 14 March 2012 by Union Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi. Which of the following facts related to the budget are not true?
1. The total union budget outlay for 2012-13 stood at Rs 60100 crore.
2. The fares were raised in the budget. The fares were raised 5 paise per km for suburban and ordinary second class. Fares for mail express second class was raised by only 2 paise per km
3. Union Railway budget 2012-13 proposed to allocate about Rs 4410 crore to capacity augmentation works
4. The Union railway proposed to electrify 6500 route kilometers during the 12th Plan period. This would include electrification of Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla line and hence provide pollution free traction to the pristine Kashmir Valley.
(a) 3 & 5
(b) Only 4
(c) Only 2
(d) 3 & 4

6.Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on 4 May 2012 raised the interest rate ceiling on NRI deposits in foreign currencies by up to what percent?
(a) 1%
(b) 2.5%
(c) 3.3%
(d) 3%

7. Which of the following public sector bank has appointed Madhukant Girdharlal Sanghvi as its new Chairman
(a) Bank of Baroda
(b) Allahabad Bank
(c) State Bank of Maharashtra
(d) Syndicate Bank

8. Which of the following banks filed a criminal complaint against Sterling Biotech, and its six directors, for allegedly defaulting on repayments on credit facilities provided by the public sector lender?
(a) State Bank of Travancore
(b) State Bank of Mysore
(c) State Bank of Patiala
(d) State Bank of Indore

9. Which PSU lender called off its plans to set up a joint venture with Visa Inc and Elavon Inc to enter the merchant acquiring business over differences on sharing technology?
(a) Union Bank
(b) State Bank of India
(c) Syndicate Bank
(d) Corp Bank

10. Who is the author of the novel ‘The White Tiger’?
(a) Paul Krugman
(b) Arvind Adiga
(c) Jhumpa Lahiri
(d) Steve Waugh

11.Which book is not written by Chetan Bhagat?
(a) A House for Mr. Biswas
(b) The 3 Mistakes of my life
(c) 5 Point Someone
(d) A Bend in the River

12. Who won the Miss India Earth Title in Pantaloon Femina Miss India 2012?
(a) Vanya Mishra
(b) Rochelle Maria
(c) Prachi Mishra
(d) Gargi Gupta

13.  The Country which has accepted UN peace plan to end violence in the Country is:
(a) Iraq
(b) Jordan
(c) Syria
(d) Yeman

14.  Name the person who was appointed as the new chairman of the High Level Committee on
Financing Infrastructure on 16 July 2012.
(a) Deepak Parekh
(b) Adi Godrej
(c) KP Singh
(d) None of these

15.  The Appointment Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) on 16 July 2012 decided to appoint Arun
Mishra as the Chief of Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA). Name the personwho was
replaced by him to the top post?
(a) EK Bharatbhushan
(b) Syed Nasim Ahmad Zaidi
(c) Rahul Khullar
(d) None of the above

Answers :

1.B 2. A 3. A 4.D 5.C 6.D 7.D 8.B  9.C 10.B 11. D 12. C 13. C 14. A 15. A

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expected general awareness question for IBPS clerk exam 2012

IBPS released exam admit cards with exam dates and venue. then how you preparing goes. here providing most asking general awareness question for IBPS clerk online exam,while take a minute to practice here .All the best

top 18 general awareness Questions for Practice

1. 'UDAAN' is a special industry initiative of the Centre aimed at imparting skills to youth from Jammu and Kashmir to help them with their careers. Which is the first public sector under-taking to implement UDAAN?
(A) NTPC (B) BHEL
(C) NMDC (D) ONGC (E) SAIL

2. Who replaced Amar Pratap Singh as the CBI Director on November 30, 2012?
(A) S.C.Sinha (B) Ranjit Sinha
(C) Sanjeev Tripathi
(D) Syed Asif Ibrahim
(E) Nehchal Sandhu

3. Francois du Plessis scored a century on his Test debut in November 2012. He plays for?
(A) Australia (B) England
(C) South Africa (D) New Zealand
(E) West Indies

4. Miss Universe 2012 pageant will be held on December 19, 2012 in which of the following cities?
(A) Manila (Philippines)
(B) Las Vegas (USA)
(C) Beijing (China)
(D) London (UK)
(E) Nicosia (Cyprus)

5. Le Luong Minh has been appointed ASEAN Secretary General for the next 5-year term. He is the Deputy Foreign Minister of? (He will take office on January 1, 201(C)
(A) Vietnam (B) Cambodia
(C) Thailand (D) Laos
(E) Philippines

6. The Government of India will implement the direct cash transfer scheme in how many districts from January 1, 2013?
(A) 200 (B) 66 (C) 51 (D) 74 (E) 100

7. Which country has terminated a contract given by the previous government to GMR Group for developing Ibrahim Nasir International Airport (INIA) at its capital city?
(A) Indonesia (B) Pakistan
(C) Afghanistan (D) Maldives
(E) Iran

8. Joseph Murray of USA died on November 26, 2012. In 1954 he performed the first successful human? (He was awarded the 1990 Nobel Prize in Medicine)
(A) Liver transplant
(B) Heart transplant
(C) Kidney transplant
(D) Bone-marrow transplant
(E) Pancreas transplant

9. Stockholm Water Prize re
cognizes outstanding achieve-ments in water related activities. The 2012 prize was awarded to the International Water Manage-ment Institute (IWMI), a non- profit research organization with headquarters in?
(A) Colombo (Sri Lanka)
(B) Tehran (Iran)
(C) Jakarta (Indonesia)
(D) Jerusalem (Israel)
(E) Cairo (Egypt)

10. Which of the following banks acquired Centurion Bank of Punjab in 2008?
(A) ICICI Bank (B) HDFC Bank (C) Axis Bank (D) OBC (E) IDBI Bank
11. Which of the following is not the name of a foreign bank?
(A) HSBC (B) BNP Paribas
(C) Barclays
(D) JP Morgan Chase
(E) Cathay Pacific

12. Which of the following terms is not related to banking?
(A) Overdraft (B) SME Finance
(C) Drawing power (D) Equinox
(E) Sanctioning authority

13. Which country will maintain a
military base in Kant in Kyrgyzstan for 15 years starting 2017?
(A) Russia (B) USA (C) China (D) UK (E) France

14. Kelkar Committee cautioned that in absence of corrective measures, the fiscal deficit of the government could shoot up to what per cent of the GDP in the current financial year?(The budget estimate of fiscal deficit is 5.1 per cent)
(A) 6.1 (B) 5.5 (C) 6.5 (D) 7.5 (E) 6.7

15. RBI carries out open market operations (OMO), which means?
(A) Issuance of different types of bonds
(B) Sale or purchase of government securities
(C) Auction of gold
(D) Issue of currency notes
(E) None of these

16. Which of the following statements is not correct?
(A) The objective of Financial Inclusion is connecting every Indian to the country's banking system.
(B) RRBs have limited area of operation and have access to refinance from NABARD.
(C) Money laundering refers to conversion of illegally obtained money into accountable money.
(D) SARFAESI Act was launched to facilitate banks in recovery of bad loans.
(E) One who is not earning regularly cannot open an account in any bank in India.

17. "Sub-prime" refers to?
(A) Lending done by banks at rates below PLR
(B) Lending to the people who are high value customers
(C) Lending to those who are not regular customers of a bank
(D) Lending done by banks to customers not meeting with normally required credit appraisal standards
(E) None of these

18. Inflation in India is measured on which of the following indexes/ indicators?
(A) Consumer Price Index
(B) Gross Domestic Product
(C) Gross National Product
(D) Cost of Living Index
(E) Wholesale Price Index

Answers

1)A 2) B 3) C 4) B 5) A 6) C 7) D 8) C 9) A 10) B 11) E 12) D 13) A 14) A 15) B 16) E 17) D 18) E

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General awareness for IBPS Clerk Online Exam 2012

Welcome back. This Blog sponsoring Online practice mock test for General awareness section for IBPS Clerk Online exam 2012-2013 and most expected general awareness questions .lets hone to practice mock test.

1. 'Mujhe Dena Aur Prem' is a Hindi book written by?
[A] Salman Rushdie
[B] Taslima Nasreen
[C] Gulzar
[D] Gulab Kothari
[E] None of these

2. Which of the following islands announced the creation of the world's largest marine park, covering about 1.1 million square kilometers of the South Pacific Ocean in August 2012?
[A] Baker Island
[B] Bouvet Island
[C] Cook Islands
[D] Solomon Islands
[E] American Samoa

3. Which two countries released a joint stamp depicting the highest and the lowest places on earth-Mount Everest and the Dead Sea-in September 2012?
[A] India and Jordan
[B] Nepal and Jordan
[C] China and Israel
[D] Nepal and Israel
[E] Nepal and Syria

4. Which of the following towers was renamed the Elizabeth Tower in recognition of the Queen's 60 year reign in September 2012?
[A] Eiffel Tower
[B] Canton Tower
[C] Big Ben Clock Tower
[D] CN Tower
[E] KL Tower

5. The Hindu Marriage Registrat-ion Bill 2012 aims to provide le-gal and social protection to me-mbers of the Hindu community. Which country's parliament pas-sed this bill in September 2012?
[A] UK [B] Pakistan
[C] Maldives
[D] Bangladesh
[E] Afghanistan

6. Which country has decided to shut down the Manas Air Base used by the USA? (The base was opened in December 2001 to support US military operations in the ongoing war in Afghanistan)
[A] Ukraine
[B] Kyrgyzstan
[C] Kazakhstan
[D] Azerbaijan
[E] Uzbekistan

7. Who was appointed as Chairm-an of the Forward Markets Co-mmission (FMC) on September 24, 2012? (FMC is the commodity markets regulator)
[A] M.Mathisekaran
[B] Ramesh Abhishek
[C] R.Dharmarajan
[D] Rahul Khullar
[E] None of these

8. Antony Jenkins was appointed Chief Executive of which of the following banking giants on August 30, 2012?
[A] Barclays
[B] BNP Paribas
[C] Citi bank
[D] Royal Bank of Scotland
[E] None of these

9. Who has signed up a Rs 40 crore deal with Rhiti Sports Manage-ment Company, making her India's highest paid sportsperson outside Cricket?
[A] Sania Mirza
[B] Mary Kom
[C] Deepika Pallikal
[D] Saina Nehwal
[E] Deepika Kumari

10. Karnataka won the Buchi Babu Trophy after beating Kerala in September 2012. Buchi Babu Trophy is related to?
[A] Hockey
[B] Tennis
[C] Cricket
[D] Badminton
[E] Archery

11. India is ranked 169 in the FIFA football rankings. Which country is ranked world number one?
[A] Spain
[B] Germany
[C] England
[D] Brazil
[E] Uruguay

12. Which of the following teams won the Coromandel King All India Moin-ud-Dowla Gold Cup invitation cricket tournament at Rajiv Gandhi stadium in Hyderabad in September 2012?
[A] Tamil Nadu
[B] Delhi
[C] Goa
[D] Kerala
[E] Hyderabad

13. Who among the following Indian golfers clinched his third Asian Tour title at the Yeangder Tournament Players Champion-ship in Taipei, Taiwan on September 17, 2012?
[A] Himmat Rai
[B] Anirban Lahiri
[C] Gaganjeet Bhullar
[D] Chiragh Kumar
[E] Jyothi Randhawa

14. The Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council (PMEAC) in its 'Economic Outlook for 2012-13' report released in August 2012 had projected the Indian economy to grow at?
[A] 5.5%
[B] 8.2%
[C] 6.7%
[D] 8.5%
[E] 7.5%

15. Hadia Tajik was appointed Minister of Culture of which of the following countries in September 2012? (She is the first Muslim and youngest Minister ever in that country's political history)
[A] Norway
[B] Denmark
[C] Sweden
[D] Indonesia
[E] UK

16. K.S.Sudarshan passed away on September 15, 2012. He was former?
[A] Union Cabinet Minister
[B] Supreme Court Judge
[C] Civil Servant
[D] Chief of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
[E] Chief Minister of Karnataka

17. Emomali Rahmon visited India in September 2012. He is the President of?
[A] Kazakhstan
[B] Tajikistan
[C] Kyrgyzstan
[D] Uzbekistan
[E] Azerbaijan

18. Daniel Vasella will be gifting his entire personal collection of Indian sculptures and other art work to Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sanghral-aya. He is the Chairman of which of the following pharmaceutical groups?
[A] Pfizer
[B] Merck& Co.
[C] Novartis
[D] Sanofi-Aventis
[E] GlaxoSmithKline

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