General Awareness Quiz for SO/IPPB/PGDBF (Based on IBPS PO Pattern)

1. Rodrigo Duterte, who recently announced to have decided to accept an arms deal being offered by China under concessional terms, is the present President of

1) Thailand

2) Taiwan

3) Philippines

4) Vietnam

5) Cambodia

2. President Pranab Mukherjee flagged off the ‘100 Million for 100 Million’ campaign recently which was organized by

1) Bill Gates

2) NR Narayana Murthy

3) Azim Premji

4) Ratan Tata

5) Kailash Satyarthi

3. A nationwide toll-free helpline number ‘14444’ will be launched shortly to educate people and provide support related to

1) startups

2) women’s education

3) child abuse

4) cashless mode of transactions

5) cleanliness drive

4. The RBI has directed the banks to upload the KYC data pertaining to new individual accounts opened on or after ______, with Central KYC Records Registry.

1) Dec 31, 2016

2) Jan 01, 2017

3) Mar 31, 2017

4) Apr 01, 2017

5) Jun 01, 2017

5. In a significant development, India and Vietnam signed a civil nuclear cooperation agreement and three other agreements recently. The currency of Vietnam is

1) Dong

2) Lek

3) Shekel

4) Baht

5) Pound

6. Virat Kohli has become the first Indian to score three double hundreds in a year in 2016. He has scored a double ton against which of the following teams in 2016?

1) New Zealand

2) West Indies

3) England

4) All the above

5) Only 2) and 3)

7. The committee formed by Finance Ministry to boost Digital Payment system in India submitted its report recently. The Committee was headed by

1) Ratan P Watal

2) Arvind Subramanian

3) Arvind Mayaram

4) Rajiv Mehrishi

5) Hasmukh Adhia

8. Rajendra Kumar was appointed as the new Member of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) recently. Who is the present Chairman of CBDT?

1) TS Vijayan

2) Upendra Kumar Sinha

3) Y Venugopal Reddy

4) Sushil Chandra

5) Kaushal Srivastava

9. Viola Desmond, a black civil rights leader, will soon become the first woman to appear on a banknote in

1) UK

2) US

3) Canada

4) France

5) Italy

10. The 28th State Information Ministers Conference (SIMCON), 2016 held recently in New Delhi was chaired by the Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting

1) Narendra Singh Tomar

2) Ravi Shankar Prasad

3) DV Sadananda Gowda

4) Arun Jaitley

5) Venkaiah Naidu

Answers:

1. 3
2. 5
3. 4
4. 2
5. 1
6. 4
7. 1
8. 4
9. 3
10. 5