General Awareness Quiz for SBI PO 2015 – Set 5



Hello and welcome to ExamPundit. Here is another set of General Awareness Quiz for SBI PO 2015 focusing on Banking Awareness and Current Affairs.




1. On May 18, 2015, Tripura
State government decided to lift Armed Forces Special Power Act (AFSPA). It was implemented in which year?
(a) 1997
(b) 1998
(c) 1993
(d) 1999
(e) 1996

2. Microsoft recently
announced to open India’s first Digital Experience Centre at which city?
(a) Ahmedabad
(b) Hyderabad
(c) Bengaluru
(d) Varanasi
(e) None of these
3. Hike in Service
Tax to 14 percent became operational on 1st of June, 2015.
Previously the Service Tax was
_______ per cent.
(a) 12.25
(b) 12.24
(c) 12.32
(d) 12.36
(e) 12.26

4. Name the newly appointed
Director of Satish Dhawan Space Centre.
(a) Philipose G Pynumootil
(b) P. Kunhikrishnan
(c) K Sivan
(d) M.Y.S. Prasad
(e) None of them
5. Which of the
following is a kind of non-banking financial Institutions?
(a) Equipment leasing company
(b) Hire purchase company
(c) Loan company
(d) Investment company
(e) All of the above
6. Ameenah
Gurib-Fakim was recently in news for being the First Woman President of her
country. Which country does she
belong?
(a) Malaysia
(b) Seychelles
(c) Singapore
(d) Maldives
(e) None of them
7. Former Indian
Cricketers were recently inducted into the BCCI’s Cricket Advisory Committee.
Who among the following was NOT
inducted?
(a) Sourav Ganguly
(b) Sachin Tendulkar
(c) Rahul Dravid
(d) VVS Laxman
(e) None of them

8. Which of the
following training establishment is not run by Reserve Bank of India?
(a) Banker’s Training College, Bombay  
(b) College of Agricultural Banking , Pune
(c) NIBM
(d) All of the above
(e) None of the above
9. China – Confucius
in the Shadows is authored by –
(a) Prof Bhim Singh
(b) Neel Mukherjee
(c) Amrita Shah
(d) Raghav Bahl
(e) Poonam Surie
10. What do you know
about the approved assets?
(a) Bill of exchange and promissory notes payable in India
which are eligible for Purchase by RBI
(b) Foreign securities and Govt. of India rupees securities
of any maturity
(c) Gold coin and bullion and rupees coin
(d) All of the above
(e) None of the above
11. What do you know
about commercial papers is?
(a) Fully secured instruments
(b) Unreserved money market instruments
(c) Partly secured papers
(d) All of the above
(e) None of the above
12. Recently, RBI
released Draft Guidelines on NSFR. What does “R” define in NSFR?
(a) Rate
(b) Ratio
(c) Reserve
(d) Requirement
(e) None of these

13. Which state
received the Krishi Karman Award 2013-14 for Rice Production?
(a) Chhattisgarh
(b) West Bengal
(c) Madhya Pradesh
(d) Bihar
(e) Uttar Pradesh

14. There are various
sources which are issued the capital in the market. The primary issuers of
capital market securities include
which one of the following?
(a) The central government
(b) The local government
(c) Corporations
(d) All (a), (b) and (c)
(e) Only (b) and (c)

15. Name the Indian
origin teacher who recently won ‘University of Oxford Inspirational Teacher
Award’.
(a) Gautam Banerjee
(b) Gurnimrat Sidhu
(c) Anurradha Prasad
(d) Priti Patel
(e) Ranjit Singh Baxi

16. Who received the Indian
Cricketer of the Year award in CEAT Cricket Awards 2015?
(a) Bhubaneswar Kumar
(b) Shikhar Dhawan
(c) Ravichandran Ashwin
(d) Ajinkya Rahane
(e) Rohit Sharma
17. Commercial Papers
issued for a period
(a) 7 days
(b) 46 days
(c) 7 days to one year
(d) One year to 180 days
(e) 180 days to 364 days

18. Ljubljana is the capital
of which country?
(a) Andorra
(b) Slovenia
(c) Macedonia
(d) Rwanda
(e) Chad

19. V. Shanmuganathan
is the Governor of Which state/UT?
(a) Himachal Pradesh
(b) Dadra and Nagar Haveli
(c) Meghalaya
(d) Puducherry
(e) Arunachal Pradesh

20. What is the
currency of Luxembourg?
(a) Hryvnia
(b) Franc
(c) Krone
(d) Rubel
(e) Euro



 


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