Current Affairs Quiz for SBI Associates Clerk 2015 – Set 1





1. SEBI
allowed 123 entities to set up AIFs. What does AIF stands for?

(a) Additional
Investment Fund
(b)
Alternative Industrial Fund
(c)
Alternative Investment Fund
(d)
Additional Investment Fund
(e)
Alternative Infrastructure Fund
2. Future
Group tied up with which Bank to set up a Co-branded Credit Card named “Style-Up”?
(a) Axis
Bank
(b) Canara
Bank
(c) HSBC
Bank
(d) HDFC
Bank
(e) State
Bank of India
3. Union
Government constituted high level committee under the chairmanship of Ashok
Lahiri for what purpose?
(a) To
Examine NRI Banking Activity
(b) To Reevaluate
and report Black Money
(c) To
examine and report the sick Industries
(d) To
interact with trade and industry on capital related issues
(e) To
interact with trade and industry on tax related issues
4.  RBI issued guidelines to set up TReDs trading
platform for MSME. What does TReDs stands for?
(a) Trade
e-Discount System
(b) Trade
Receivables Deficit System
(c) Trading
Receivables and Discounting System
(d) Trade
Receivables Discounting System
(e) Trade
Reevaluating Discounting System
5. As per
RBI guidelines, What is the Minimum Paid-Up Capital for setting up TReDs?
(a) Rs. 100
Crore
(b) Rs. 75
Crore
(c) Rs. 50
Crore
(d) Rs. 35
Crore
(e) Rs. 25
Crore
6. Which is
an example of Prepaid Payment Instruments?
(a) Magnetic
Stripe Cards
(b) Smart
Cards
(c) Mobile
Wallets
(d) Paper
Vouchers
(e) All of
these
7. Subhramanian
Committee recently suggested –
(a)
Relaunching of Kisan Vikas Patra
(b) Extension
of Pre-2005 Notes Last Date of Submission
(c)
Creation of Postal Bank of India
(d) Increment
of FDI in Insurance to 49%
(e) All of
the above
8.
Recently, RBI increased business hours of RTGS from ____ to 12 hours.
(a) 7 Hours
30 Minutes
(b) 10
Hours
(c) 10
Hours 30 Minutes
(d) 7 Hours
(e) 8 Hours
30 Minutes
9. RBI imposed
fines on ICICI Bank and Bank of Baroda for violating KYC and AML Norms. ICICI Bank
was fined 5 million rupees. How much fine was imposed on Bank of Baroda?
(a) Rs.5
Million
(b) Rs.7
Million
(c) Rs.1
Million
(d) Rs.2.5
Million
(e) Rs.3.5
Million
10. RBI
licensed which organization to operate as an NBFC?
(a) Forbes
Credit India
(b) BMW
Financial Services
(c) TransUnion
(d) Fitch
Group India
(e) Ford
Credit India
11. Who was
the chief guest of International Film Festival of India?
(a)
Rajnikanth
(b) Wong
Kar-wai
(c) Pranab
Mukherjee
(d) Amitabh
Bachchan
(e)
Narendra Modi
12. Along
with Frieda Pinto, which Bollywood actress launched the “Girl Rising” campaign?
(a)
Priyanka Chopra
(b) Vidya
Balan
(c)
Jacqueline Fernandez
(d) Deepika
Padukone
(e) Anushka
Sharma
13. International
Anti-Corruption Day is celebrated on ____.
(a) 12
November
(b) 12 December
(c) 10
December
(d) 9 December
(e) 18 December
14. RC
Laloo Committee is constituted by Meghalaya State Government to –
(a) speed
up the process of getting the Garo Language included in the 8th
Schedule of Constitution.
(b) speed
up the process of getting the Khasi Language included in the 8th
Schedule of Constitution.
(c) recommend
the Garo Language to be included in the 8th Schedule of Constitution.
(d) recommend
the Khasi Language to be included in the 8th Schedule of Constitution.
(e) recommend
both the Garo & Khasi Language to be included in the 8th
Schedule of Constitution.
15. Andhra
Pradesh signed a MoU with which country for the development of its capital?
(a)
Malaysia
(b) China
(c) Singapore
(d) Japan
(e)
South Korea
16. Union
Government decriminalized Attempt to Suicide by removing which Section of
Indian Penal Code?
(a) 307
(b) 309
(c) 380
(d) 389
(e) None of
these
17. Which
Indian Personality was awarded Swiss Ambassador’s Award?
(a) Ratan
Tata
(b) Azim
Premji
(c)
Narendra Modi
(d) Amitabh
Bachchan
(e) Kailash
Satyarthi
18. As per
US based think tank, IntelCenter, what is the rank of Pakistan in Country
Threat Index?
(a) 2nd
(b) 3rd
(c) 5th
(d) 12th
(e) 8th
19. International
Fund for Agricultural Development is headquartered in _______.
(a) Rome, Italy
(b) Berlin,
Germany
(c)
Brisbane, Australia
(d) Vienna,
Austria
(e)
Montreal, Canada
20. As per
World Wide Web’s The Web Index 2014, What is India’s rank?
(a) 8th
(b) 42nd
(c) 58th
(d) 48th
(e) 62nd
21. Khurram
Khan is related to which sport?
(a)
Football
(b) Hockey
(c) Snooker
(d) Golf
(e) None of
these
22. Miu
Hirano and Mima Ito became the youngest Table Tennis Champion. Which do they
belong?
(a) South
Korea
(b) Indonesia
(c)
Malaysia
(d) Japan
(e) China
23. Steeve
Guénot was banned on doping charges. Which sport and country does he represent?
(a) Weightlifting,
Italy
(b) Wrestling,
Serbia
(c) Boxing,
Russia
(d)
Wrestling, France
(e)
Weightlifting, France
24. 2016
Summer Paralympics will be held in Brazil. What is the name of the Mascot?
(a) Tim
(b) Vinicious
(c) Tom
(d) Voeraux
(e) Pico
25. Shiva
Keshavan is related to which sport?
(a) Curling
(b) Rowing
(c) Snooker
(d) Luge
(e) Fencing

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