General Awareness MCQs for SBI / RRB Mains 2018: 21 August

General Awareness MCQs for SBI / RRB Mains 2018: 21 August

1. The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has launched Unified Payments Interface (UPI) 2.0, which allows customers to link what type of their account to UPI?

1) loan account
2) NRE account
3) NRO account
4) overdraft account
5) All the above

2. Which India’s fastest growing payments platform has recently announced entering into a partnership with IRCTC to facilitate convenient, fast and secure payments?

1) Paytm
2) PhonePe
3) Freecharge
4) Mobikwik
5) Ola Money

3. The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) recently launched Unified Payments Interface (UPI) 2.0. The first version of the UPI was launched in 

1) Apr 2017
2) Mar 2015
3) Mar 2016
4) Apr 2015
5) Apr 2016

4. According to Mid-Year FY19 Outlook of India Ratings & Research (Ind-Ra) rating agency, India’s growth has been revised to what percent for 2018-19 (FY19)?

1) 7.1%
2) 7.2%
3) 7.3%
4) 7.4%
5) 7.5%

5. Which union ministry has proposed to declare 2019 as ‘International Year of Millets’ in UNFAO?

1) Ministry of Agriculture
2) Ministry of Home Affairs
3) Ministry of Urban Development
4) Ministry of Rural Development
5) Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

6. Which one of the following has been ranked as the most patriotic brand in financial sector as per survey conducted by UK-based online market research and data analytics firm YouGov?

1) HDFC
2) LIC
3) IDBI
4) Axis
5) SBI

7. Bharti Axa Life Insurance has entered into an alliance with which Payments bank to offer the ‘Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana’ (PMJJBY), a government-backed life insurance scheme?

1) India Post Payments Bank
2) Airtel Payments Bank
3) Paytm Payments Bank
4) Fino Payments Bank
5) Jio Payments Bank

8. Who is the present Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare?

1) Jagat Prakash Nadda
2) Jual Oram
3) Thawar Chand Gehlot
4) Radha Mohan Singh
5) Chaudhary Birender Singh

9. What does ‘M’ stand for in the term ‘MSP’?

1) Minimum
2) Minute
3) Market
4) Marginalised
5) Mega

10. The product (PMJJBY) provided by Bharti Axa Life Insurance offers life insurance cover of what amount for a nominal premium of Rs 330 per annum? 

1) Rs 50 thousand
2) Rs 1 lakh
3) Rs 2 lakh
4) Rs 4 lakh
5) Rs 5 lakh

11. Soul singer Aretha Franklin has passed away recently. She hailed from which country?

1) US
2) India
3) Russia
4) China
5) Japan

12. Nihal Sarin at the age of 14 has become the 53rd Grandmaster of India and the 12th youngest grandmaster in chess history after attaining his third and final GM-norm in the Abu Dhabi Masters 2018. He hails from which Indian states?

1) Karnataka
2) Tamil Nadu
3) Odisha
4) Bihar
5) Kerala

Answers:

1. 4
2. 2
3. 5
4. 4
5. 1
6. 5
7. 2
8. 4
9. 1
10. 3
11. 1
12. 5