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11 2012 3GENERAL AWARENESS

(WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO BANKING INDUSTRY)

1. Major producer of mulberry silk in India is

A) Jammu and Kashmir B) Jharkhand C) Karnataka D) Assam E) Himachal Pradesh2. We come across the term PPP in financial news nowadays. What does PPP represent?A) Personal Per capita Power B) Private Public Partnership C) Per capita

Potential for Purchases3. Many times we read the term ECB; in newspapers. What is the full form of ECB?A) Essential Commercial Banking B) European Credit Borrowing C) External Credit for

BusinessD) External Commercial Borrowing E) None of these4. What is meant by financial inclusion?A) Making available banking services at an affordable costB) Opening savings accounts in rural areas without any depositC) Opening any type of account without introductionD) Distributing money through rural branchesE) Distributing wages through bank accounts5. Which of these countries is the largest producer of milk and milk products in the world?A) USA B) China C) India D) New Zealand E) None of these6. Which of the following is the most important rabi crop of India?A) Rice B) Millet C) Sugarcane D) Groundnut E) Mustard7. Who is the reg7ulatory authority for insurance business in India?A) RBI B) IRDP C) SEBI D) NABARD E)

IRDA8. What is money laundering?A) Conversion of assets into cashB) Conversion of illegally obtained money into accountable moneyC) Conversion of cash into gold. D) Conversion of gold into cash E) None of these9. Golden revolution refers to the development of which of the following agricultural products?

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A) Oilseeds B) Pulses C) Horticultural products D) Cereals E) Fodder10. Which programme was launched by Government of India to improve irrigation facilities in

rural India?A) Annapurna Scheme B) National Social Assistance ProgrammeC) Integrated Rural Development Programme D) Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar YojanaE) National Watershed Development Programme11. Montek Singh Ahluwalia is holding which of the following positions at present?A) Chairman of Planning Commission B) Governor of RBI C) Secretary of UNOD) Economic Advisor to Prime Minister E) Dy Chairman of Planning Commission12. Bird flu is a disease which affects and spreads through A) Cattle B) Sheep C) Prawn D) Silkworm E) Poultry13. Which country won the Davis Cup tennis tournament 2011 held in December 2011?A) Argentina B) USA C) Australia D) Japan E) Spain14. Who among the following cricketers recently became the 10

thbatsman to score 10000 runs in

Test cricket?A) Mahela Jayawardene B) Vijay Zol C) Yuvraj Singh D) younis Khan E)

Umar Akmal15. The Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) Summit took place in December 2011

inA) Tokyo B) Moscow C) New Delhi D) Paris E) Perth16. Who represented India in 12

thConsecutive Annual India-Russia Summit held in December

2011?A) Smt Pratibha Patil B) Dr Manmohan Singh C) Sonia Gandhi D) SM

KrishnaE) None of these

17. Which of the following currencies is used in Britain?A) Pound B) Dollar C) Euro D) Franc E) Pesso18. Which of the following cups/trophies is associated with the game of Football?A) Grand Prix B) Rangaswami Cup C) Wimbledon Trophy D) Fifa Cup E)

Ranji Trophy

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19. The head office of the Bank of Maharashtra is located in which of the following cities?A) Kolkata B) New Delhi C) Pune D0 Ahmedabad E) Mumbai20. Which country hosted the summit of SAARC nations in the year 2011?A) India B) Bangladesh C) Nepal D) Maldives E) Pakistan

21. Which of the following terms is not used in the field of Economics?A) Balance of Trade B) Break Even Point C) Plasma D) Fiscal Deficit

E) Capital Account Convertibility22. Carbon credit is concerned with which one of these internationally sensitive issues?A) Deforestation B) Contract farming C) Rural infrastructure D) Diamond tradingE) Protection of environment23. Which of the following terms is used in the game of Cricket?A) Half Nelson B) Love C) Back Hand Drive D) Penalty Stroke E) Clean

Bowled24. India recently signed a Currency Swap Agreement with which of the following countries?A) USA B) Pakistan C) Japan D) Germany E) Australia25. What is the full form of the term ASBA?A) Allotment Supported by Blocked Amount B) Application Supported by Bank AmountC) Allotment Supported by Bank Account D) Application Supported by Blocked

AmountE) Allotment and Social Bank9ing Amount26. Dipika Pallikal, who won an international tournament recently in Hong Kong is a A) Golf Player B) Badminton Player C) Squash player D) Swimmer E) Table

Tennis Player27. The tern Deficit Financing means the Government borrows money from theA) IMF B) Local bodies C) RBI D) Large corporate E)Public at large28. Regional Rural BanksA) have limited area of operation and access to refinance from NABARD.B) are required to lend only to weaker sections. C) are mandated to do only narrow banking.D) can only extend agricultural loans. E) have unrestricted area of operation.

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29. Ms Christine Lagarde is holding which of the following positions at present?A) Chief of Asian Development Bank B) Chief of International Monetary FundC) Chancellor of Germany D) Chief of Morgan Stanley E) Chief of World Bank

30. What is the present reverse REPO rate?

A) 7.5% B) 8.5% C) 8% D) 6.5% E) None of these31. General Assembly elections were held in which of the following North East states in January

2012?A) Assam B) Meghalaya C) Arunachal Pradesh D) Manipur E) Tripura32. What is the full form of the term FDI?A) Foreign Direct Investment B) Foreign Diverse Investment C) Fixed deposit

InvestmentD) Floating Deposit Investment E) Financial Derivatives in India33. The erstwhile UTI Bank is presently known asA) ING Vysya Bank B) Yes Bank C) Indusind Bank D) Axis Bank E) IDBI Bank34. Which of the following telecom giants recently won its case against the Income Tax

Department?A) Bharti Airtel B) Vodafone C) Idea Cellular D) Reliance CommunicationsE) Tata telecom35. Which of the following countries recently attained the status of worlds sixth largest

economy?A) Russia B) Japan C) China D) India E) Brazil36. Which of the following countries decided to withdraw from Kyoto Protocol?A) Canada B) Russia C) India D) USA E) China37. Which of the following is NOT a Banking or Finance Company?A) Barclay B) Lufthansa C) BNP Paribas D) American Express E) HSBC38. India and Russia were having some differences over which of the following nuclear power

plants?A) Kaiga B) Kudankulam C) Rawatbhata D) Narora E) None of these39. Excise duty is a tax levied on which of the following?

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A) Production of goods B) Purchase of goods C) Export of goodsD) Sale of goods E) Movement of goods beyond municipal limits40. India and Pakistan started fresh talks on conventional CBM was the news in all major

newspapers. What does the letter M denote in the term CBM as used above?

A) Money B) Mechanism C) Modalities D) Measures E) Memorial41. Which of the following is the unit of electrical current?A) Bar B) Calorie C) Ampere D) Decibel E) Angstrom42. Global Meet on Emerging Economies was organized in December 2011 inA) New Delhi B) Dhaka C) Islamabad D) Kathmandu E)

Capetown43. Which of the following awards is given to the coaches of sportspersons?A) Kalidas Samman B) Dronacharya Award C) Arjuna AwardD) Dada Saheb Phalke Award E) Saraswati Samman44. Which of the following countries recently agreed to sell Uranium to India?A) Australia B) USA C) Iran D) Germany E) Bangladesh45. Which of the following schemes launched by the Government of India is aimed at developing

rural infrastructure?A) MNREGA B) ASHA C) Bharat Nirman D) Operation Flood E) Operation

Black board46.Who among the following is a famous Sportsperson?A) Dhanush B) Saina Nahwal C) Charles Correa D) Ajit Singh E) Kim JongUn47. Speed of a ship is expressed in A) Kilometer B) Horsepower C) Ohm D) Knot E) Coulomb

48. USA and some other European countries recently imposed fresh sanctions on which of thefollowing countries as they are not in favour of its nuclear advancement?A) Iraq B) Pakistan C) India D) Iran E) Kuwait

49. Who among the following has written the book Dr Zhivago?A) Pearl S Buck B) HG Wells C) Saul Bellow D) Emile Zola

E) Boris Pasternak

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50. Yoshihiko Noda was on a visit to India recently. He is the present Prime Minister ofA) Myanmar B) South Korea C) North Korea D) Japan E) None of these

ANSWERS11 2012 31.C 2.B 3.D 4.A 5.C 6.E 7.E 8.B 9.C 10.E

11.E 12.E 13.E 14.A 15.B 16.B 17.A 18.D 19.C 20.D

21.C 22.E 23.E 24.C 25.D 26.C 27.C 28.A 29.B 30.E31.D 32.A 33.D 34.B 35.E 36.A 37.B 38.B 39.A 40.D41.C 42.A 43.B 44.A 45.C 46.B 47.D 48.D 49.E 50.D