General Awareness
1. Which bank
replaces Bank of India (BOI) as the trustee bank for the National Pension System
(NPS) from 1 July 2013?
1) SBI 2) ICICI 3) Axis Bank
4) Union Bank of India 5) Indian Bank
2. On 5 June 2013,
RBI Governor said FSDC should act only as a coordinator between financial
regulators for ensuring financial sector
stability. What is FSDC?
1) Foreign Stability and Development Council
2) First Stability and Development Council
3) Financial Stability and Drought Council
4) Financial Securities and Development Council
5) Financial Stability and Development Council
3. ECS stands for
....
1) Electrical Clearing Service
2) Effective Clearing System
3) Effluent Clearing System
4) Entire Clearing System
5) Electronic Clearing Service
4. On 24 January
2013, the RBI revised premature deposit rules of .....
1) small savings accounts
2) small value fixed deposit accounts
3) big size savings accounts
4) dollar savings accounts
5) large value fixed deposit accounts
5. The new rules of large value fixed deposit accounts include
.......
1) bank can fix the differential interest rates on large
size term deposits
2) here large value fixed deposit means above 1 crore
3) for the large value fixed deposits banks should
discourage the pre-mature withdrawals
4) if bank allow the pre mature withdrawals, it should
intimate to the account holder of penal charges
5) All of above
6.As per the data
released by Central Statistical Organisation (CSO) on 31 May 2013, the growth
rate of GDP of Indian economy in 2012-13 was ....
1) 5% 2) 6.5% 3) 9.5%
4) 10.1% 5) 4.5%
7. Which stock
exchange launched the country's first dedicated debt trading platform on 13 May
2013?
1) BSE 2) MCX-SX 3) NSE 4) KSE 5) USE
8. Oriental Life
Insurance company was the first life insurance company established in India in
1881 at .......
1) Mumbai 2) Pune
3) Hyderabad 4) Aurangabad
5) Calcutta
9. Which committee
recommended the pricing of natural gas by a complex methodology of arriving at
an average of international gas hub prices?
1) Chaturvedi 2) C.P. Joshi
3) Rangarajan 4) Y.V. Reddy
5) Kirit Parekh
10. ....... is the
India's first corporatised port, that has recently launched an issue of taxfree
bonds to raise up to Rs.1,000 crore?
1) Paradip, Odisha 2) Kandla, Gujarat
3) Kakinada, AP 4) Ennore,Tamilnadu
5) Krishnapatnam, AP
12. 2013 Templeton
Prize declared to Desmond Tutu of .....
1) USA 2) South
Africa
3) Canada 4) India
5) Chile
13. On the eve of its
50 years of establishment, the African Union concluded the summit on 27 May
2013. It was held at ...
1) Durban 2) Nairobi
3) Lusaka 4) Cape Town
5) Addis Ababa
14. 5th ICC
(Indian Chamber of Commerce) banking summit concluded on 19th May 2013 at
......
1) New Delhi 2) Mumbai
3) Pune 4) Hyderabad
5) Kolkata
15. Junk bonds means
...
1) Bonds issued by chit funds having the face of Rs.10,000
and above.
2) Bonds issued by American companies in India in the form of
American Dollars.
3) Debt securities of companies bearing no risk and highly
safe to buy.
4) Certificates issued by government to raise the capital.
5) Debt securities of companies bearing a considerable
degree of risk.
16. Barabati stadium
is in Cuttack, Moin-UlHaq stadium is in Patna, Chinnaswamy stadium is in
Bangalore, Green Park stadium is in Kanpur, where is the Chidambaram stadium?
1) Hyderabad 2) Chennai
3) Delhi 4) Rameswaram
5) Kochi
17. ....... is an
Indian completed the solo nonstop trip across the world in a sail boat under
the title Sagar Parikrama-II mission.
1) Abhinav Bhindra 2)
Akash Chaturvedy
3) Raghunath Vora 4)
Abhilash Tomy
5) Avinash Trivedi
18. RBI announced the
annual monetary policystatement on 3 May 2013. What was the economic growth
rate proposed for the current fiscal of 2013-14 as per the statement?
1) 5.9% 2) 6.5% 3)
5.7%
4) 7.5% 5) 10.5%
19. Recurring deposit
means ....
1) cash deposit every year and take rate of interest every
day.
2) deposit higher amounts with lesser availability of
withdrawals.
3) deposit cash every month and reap higher returns at
maturity.
4) regular deposits of money month wise and reap higher
money on 31st March of fiscal year.
5) None
20. Which Indian
stock-exchange launched 'Carbonex', the country's first carbon-based thematic
index which provides facility of assessing environment risks and opportunities
to the investor?
1) NSE 2) MCX-SX 3) BSE
4) KSE 5) HSE
21. The direct
transfer of cash subsidy on cooking gas was kick-started in how many districts
of the country on 1 June 2013?
1) 21 2) 43 3) 10 4) 81 5) 18
22. Bharat Nirman
Rajeev Gandhi Seva Kendras were established by which state to provide the civic
services to the people?
1) Delhi
2) Rajasthan
3) HP
4) AP
5) Goa
23. India First Life Insurance
Company Limited is the Insurance company promoted by Legal & General PLC
(headquarters at London), Andhra Bank and.....
1) SBI 2) TATA AIG 3) AVIVA
4) Bank of Baroda 5) Bank of India
24. From which
country India received highest inflow of foreign direct investments (FDI) during
2012-13?
1) Mauritius 2) China 3) USA
4) Russia 5) Japan
25. Roberto Azevedo
of Brazil was appointed as the head of ......
1) UNO 2) UNESCO
3) WTO 4)
UNICEF
5) IAEA
26. Shadow banking
means the involvement of financial intermediary in aiding credit creation
without regulatory oversight. As per the
report released by Switzerland-based Financial Stability Board (FSB) on 18 May 2013,
what is the total estimated size of shadow banking business in India?
1) over $100 billion 2) over $250 billion
3) over $500 million 4) over $670 billion
5) None
27. Which nation was
the largest recipient of remittances from the World Bank in 2012 as per the statement made on 20 April 2013?
1) China 2) Mexico
3) India 4)
Philippines
5) Malaysia
28. 'How to Get
Filthy Rich in Rising Asia' written by...
1) Y.V.Reddy 2) Prof.Chaman Lal
3) Mohsin Hamid 4) Hamid Ansari
5) None
29. AIF means ....
1) Alternative Investment Funds
2) Aerial Investment Funds
3) Accelerated Investment Funds
4) Area Investment Funds
5) None
30. Theme of Earth
Day 2013 is .....
1) Think, eat and save your earth
2) This is your earth, save it
3) Stop the erosion of earth
4) Water; water everywhere, if you save earth
5) Face of Climate change
31. On 19 April 2013,
the first returnable satellite Bion-M1 launched by ......
1) UK 2) USA 3) India
4) France 5) Russia
32. RBI buys and
sells the government securities in the open market. By buying the securities,
it increases the circulation of money and by selling it decreases the
circulation of money. This type of operations done by RBI is called ....
1) Open Market Observations
2) Open Market Auction
3) Open Market Operations
4) Open and Close Operations 5) None
33. By which date,
all Indian commercial banks to avail chip-based debit and credit cards for all
their customers who do international transactions?
1) 31 August 2013 2) 30 June 2013
3) 30 September 2013
4) 31 December 2013
5) 31 March 2014
34. Basic trainer
aircraft Pilatus, PC-7 Mk-II, was inducted in Indian Air Force. This aircraft
procured from ...
1) Canada 2) Switzerland
3) USA 4) Japan
5) Russia
35. The first Radio
Frequency Identification (RFID) technology was introduced on which highway to
enable the collection of Toll Tax electronically?
1) Amritsar - Ambala
2) Mumbai - Goa
3) Chennai - Kolkata
4) Varanasi - Kanyakumari
5) Delhi - Ahmadabad
36. Which Article in
the Constitution of India provides the power to President of India to commute
the punishments awarded by the Courts in India?
1) 54 2) 58 3) 72 4) 362 5) 365
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