GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE QUESTIONS FOR SBI CLERK 1. Which of the following public sector companies was conferred the coveted Navratna status on 2014 June 24? 1) Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilizers Limited 2) National Hydropower Corporation Limited 3) Mazagaon Dock Limited 4) Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited 5) Engineers India Limited 2. Which of the following organizations released World Investment Report 2014 recently? 1) WTO 2) UNCTAD 3) WEF 4) World Bank 5) IMF 3. According to the World Investment Report 2014, which country has retained its top position as the worlds most attractive investment destination? 1) China 2) USA 3) Indonesia 4) India 5) Saudi Arabia 4. Who has been confirmed as the first Chairman of the International Cricket Council (ICC) on 2014 June 26? 1) Najam Sethi 2) Giles Clarke 3) Alan Isaac 4) N. Srinivasan 5) David Morgan 5. Which Bollywood actor will be honored with the Legion of France, one of the highest civilian awards of France? 1) Salman Khan 2) Hrithik Roshan 3) Aamir Khan 4) Akshay Kumar 5) Shah Rukh Khan 6. FIFA banned Luis Saurez for nine international matches after he was seen biting Italys Giorgio Chiellini in a World Cup match in June 2014. Luis Saurez is a football player from? 1) Switzerland 2) Honduras 3) Uruguay 4) Mexico 5) Argentina 7. Identify the mismatched pair? 1) Arvind Mayaram - Finance Secretary 2) Shaktikanta Das - Revenue Secretary 3) R.P. Wattal - Expenditure Secretary 4) Ravi Mathur - Disinvestment Secretary 5) G.S. Sandhu - Economic Affairs Secretary 8. Who was named as the winner of the 2014 PEN Pinter Prize on 2014 June 20? 1) Jhumpa Lahiri 2) Arundhati Roy 3) Jeet Thayil 4) Salman Rushdie 5) Rahul Bhattacharya 9. The Expert Committee to Revise and Strengthen the Monetary Policy Framework was headed by? 1) Anand Sinha 2) Urjit Patel 3) T.M. Bhasin 4) H.R. Khan 5) Bimal Jalan 10. Nachiket Mor committee suggested setting up of specialized banks to cater to low-income households to ensure that all citizens above the age of 18 years have bank accounts by? 1) 2015 January 1 2) 2016 January 1 3) 2015 April 1 4) 2016 April 1 5) 2015 August 15 11. Which of the following signed an agreement with the Export Import Bank of Korea for infrastructure finance in January 2014? 1) IIFCL 2) IFCI 3) IDFC 4) NABARD 5) SIDBI 12. The 800 MW Tawang hydroelectric project is coming up in? 1) Sikkim 2) Meghalaya 3) Assam 4) Tripura 5) Arunachal Pradesh 13. The Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram is a health program for? 1) Infants 2) Old people 3) Adolescents 4) Women 5) Children below 10 years 14. Which of the following became the first insurer in India to launch an all-women branch in Pune in January 2014? 1) ICICI Lombard 2) Future Generali 3) Tata AIG General 4) Bajaj Allianz 5) Aegon Religare 15. Who won the Chennai Open tennis tournament in January 2014? 1) Johan Brunstrom 2) Mate Pavic 3) Frederik Nielsen 4) Edouard Roger Vaselin 5) Stanislas Wawrinka 16. Which country won their first Hopman Cup tennis title in Perth, Australia on January 4, 2014? 1) France 2) Poland 3) Australia 4) USA 5) Switzerland 17. Which of the following is an annual world mixed team tennis championships? 1) Davis cup 2) Fed cup 3) Hopman cup 4) Wimbledon 5) None of these 18. Who won the womens singles title in the Syed Modi International India Grand Prix Gold Badminton Championship in Lucknow on 2014 January 26? 1) Saina Nehwal 2) P.V. Sindhu 3) Jia Yi Fan 4) Chen Qingchen 5) Juliane Schenk 19. Which country won the Hockey World League final in New Delhi in January 2014? 1) Netherlands 2) New Zealand 3) England 4) Australia 5) Belgium 20. Nikhat Zareen of India won a gold medal in an international tournament in which of the following sports in January 2014? 1) Chess 2) Table Tennis 3) Tennis 4) Boxing 5) Archery 21. India won the 2014 Under-19 Asia Cup Cricket in January 2014. Who is the captain of the winning team? 1) Ankush Bains 2) Akhil Herwadkar 3) Sanju Samson 4) Chama Milind 5) Vijay Zol 22. Sanil Shetty and Ankita Das are the national champions in? 1) Squash 2) Chess 3) Golf 4) Table Tennis 5) Archery 23. Which of the following credit rating agencies has launched a financial inclusion index? 1) ICRA 2) CIBIL 3) CRISIL 4) CARE 5) Fitch 24. As per the Reserve Bank of India new norms, now non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) can give a loan up to what percent of the gold value against the previous limit of 60 per cent? 1) 65% 2) 70% 3) 80% 4) 75% 5) 100% 25. Which of the following private banks became the first to open a branch in China in January 2014? 1) ICICI Bank 2) HDFC Bank 3) Yes Bank 4) Federal Bank 5) Axis Bank 26. Arun Tiwari is the Chairman and Managing Director of? 1) Bank of Baroda 2) Andhra Bank 3) Allahabad Bank 4) Union Bank of India 5) None of these 27. The Lokmanya Tilak National Award for Excellence in Journalism was conferred on which of the following media persons on 2014 January 4? 1) Mammen Mathew 2) Shekar Gupta 3) Prabhu Chawla 4) Prannoy Roy 5) Siddartha Varadarajan 28. The BCIM corridor will run from Kunming in China to which of the following Indian cities? 1) Agartala 2) Shillong 3) Kolkata 4) Itanagar 5) Dispur 29. National Education Day is celebrated on? 1) November 9 2) November 11 3) November 17 4) November 19 5) November 13 30. Who took over as the Chief Executive Officer of the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) in January 2014? 1) Dilip Modi 2) Rajendra Pawar 3) Rakesh Kumar 4) C.N. Nataraj 5) None of these 31. Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) has set up a committee to look into having 100% foreign direct investment (FDI) in insurance intermediaries and Third Party Administrators (TPAs). The committee is headed by? 1) Suresh Mathur 2) Rakesh Bajaj 3) Nimisha Srivastava 4) Mukesh Sharma 5) T.S. Naik 32. Who won the 12th Parsvanath Grand Masters International Chess tournament in New Delhi on January 16, 2014? 1) Abhijit Gupta 2) Deepan Chakravarthy 3) Surya Shekhar Ganguly 4) P. Harikrishna 5) Sahaj Grover 33. Mehdi Jomaa assumed office as the Prime Minister of which of the following countries on January 29, 2014? 1) South Africa 2) Libya 3) Tunisia 4) Ethiopia 5) Niger 34. The World Health Organization has declared Peshawar as the worlds largest reservoir of Polio. Peshawar is in? 1) Bangladesh 2) Afghanistan 3) Iran 4) Pakistan 5) Nigeria 35. The United Nations Organization and its partners have launched No Lost Generation initiative to save the children of? 1) Libya 2) Yemen 3) Jordan 4) Lebanon 5) Syria 36. Park Geun-hye visited India in January 2014. She is the President of? 1) Vietnam 2) North Korea 3) South Korea 4) Philippines 5) Cambodia 37. The foundation stone of 2,800 MW nuclear power plant has been laid at Gorakhpur village in Fatehabad district of? 1) Uttar Pradesh 2) Haryana 3) Uttarakhand 4) Himachal Pradesh 5) Jharkhand ANSWERS: 1) 5 2) 2 3) 1 4) 4 5) 5 6) 3 7) 5 8) 4 9) 2 10) 2 11) 1 12) 5 13) 3 14) 4 15) 5 16) 1 17) 3 18) 1 19) 1 20) 4 21) 5 22) 4 23) 3 24) 4 25) 5 26) 4 27) 1 28) 3 29) 2 30) 3 31) 1 32) 1 33) 3 34) 4 35) 5 36) 3 37) 2
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