Bankers adda General Awareness Questions
1. The Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi inaugurated the 240 Megawatt Uri II hydro power project on 2014 July 4 in which of the following States?
1) Sikkim 2) Assam 3) Gujarat 4) Himachal Pradesh 5) Jammu & Kashmir
2. Eduard Shevardnadze died on 2014 July 7. He was the former President of?
1) Russia 2) Georgia 3) Belarus 4) Ukraine 5) Estonia
3. B.V. Wanchoo resigned as the Governor of which of the following States after being questioned by the Central Bureau of Inve-stigation in the Augusta Westland chopper deal on July 4, 2014?
1) Karnataka 2) Gujarat 3) Goa 4) West Bengal 5) Uttar Pradesh
4. Who won the men's Wimbledon tennis singles title in July 2014?
1) Rafael Nadal (Spain) 2) Andy Murray (Great Britain)
3) Roger Federer (Switzerland) 4) Novak Djokovic (Serbia)
5) Milos Raonic (Canada)
5. Gonzalo Higuain represented which of the following countries in the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil?
1) Germany 2) Brazil 3) Chile 4) Costa Rica 5) Argentina
6. Petra Kvitova of the Czech Rep-ublic won her second Wimbledon singles title on July 5, 2014. She defeated which of the following tennis players in the Wimbledon women's singles final?
1) Simona Halep (Romania) 2) Agnieszka Radwanska (Poland) 3) Angelique Kerber (Germany) 4) Jelena Jankovic (Serbia) 5) Eugenie Bouchard (Canada)
7. Who was appointed the United Nations Goodwill Ambassador by UN Women, dedicated to gender equality and women's empowerment, in July 2014?
1) Ellie Goulding 2) Angelina Jolie 3) Aishwarya Rai 4) Emma Watson 5) Malala Yousafzai
8. Which of the following routes will get India's first bullet train?
1) Jaipur-Madurai 2) Mumbai-New Delhi 3) Mumbai-Ahmedabad 4) Mumbai-Gorakhpur 5) Nagpur-Pune
9. Which Committee advocated setting up of "Payment Banks" to provide payment services and deposit products to small businesses and low income households with a maximum balance of Rupees 50,000 per customer?
1) Vijay Kelkar 2) Urjit Patel 3) Nachiket Mor 4) C. Rangarajan 5) Raghuram Rajan
10. The theme of the 2014 World Economic Forum meeting is?
1) The Great Transformation: Shaping New Models
2) Resilient Dynamism
3) The Reshaping of the World: Consequences for Society, Politics and Business
4) Capitalizing Opportunity
5) Shaping World's Transformation
11. The 3rd Lusofonia Games were held in January 2014 in which of the following States?
1) Kerala 2) Tamil Nadu 3) Karnataka 4) Mizoram 5) Goa
12. The Lusofonia Games involves athletes coming from?
1) Spanish speaking countries 2) Portuguese speaking countries
3) German speaking countries 4) Italian speaking countries
5) English speaking countries
13. The 2014 Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching, a teaching award in the USA, was given to?
1) Meera Chandrasekhar 2) Renu Khator 3) Nitin Nohria 4) Rakesh Khurana 5) Vasdev Chanchlani
14. Atanu Das is associated with which of the following sports?
1) Table Tennis 2) Badminton 3) Archery 4) Golf 5) Chess
15. Who won the 2014 Marconi Prize for revolutionizing high-speed delivery of multimedia?
1) Vint Cerf 2) A.J. Paulraj 3) Larry Page 4) Martin Cooper 5) Tim Berners Lee
16. Which of the following prizes is also known as Tech Nobel?
1) Genesis Prize 2) Templeton Prize 3) Marconi Prize 4) Abel Prize 5) Pritzker Prize
17. President Pranab Mukherjee conferred which of the following gallantry awards on K. Prasad Babu on India's 65th Republic Day?
1) Mahaveer Chakra 2) Vir Chakra 3) Ashok Chakra 4) Kirti Chakra 5) Shaurya Chakra
18. With regard to taxation, expand the term TDS?
1) Tax Deposit Scheme 2) Tax Defaulted at Source 3) Tax Demanded at Source 4) Tax Deducted at Source 5) None of these
19. Which is the first bank in India to introduce e-KYC to open bank accounts?
1) Axis Bank 2) HDFC Bank 3) Federal Bank 4) ICICI Bank 5) Kotak Mahindra Bank
20. 'Follow Every Rainbow' is a book written by?
1) Shiv Khera 2) Amish Tripathi 3) Rashmi Bansal 4) Supriya David 5) Juliet Reynolds
Answers
1) 5
2) 2
3) 3
4) 4
5) 5
6) 5
7) 4
8) 3
9) 3
10) 3
11) 5
12) 2
13) 1
14) 3
15) 2
16) 3
17) 3
18) 4
19) 1
20) 3
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