Q1. Uttar Pradesh cabinet has approved the construction of an International theme park at………….?
(a) Ayodhya
(b) Pratapgarh
(c) Meerut
(d) Varanasi
(e) Allahabad
Q2. Which among the following countries has successfully launched a spacecraft carrying two astronauts, in its longest-ever manned space mission, who would later join its experimental space lab orbiting the Earth as the country moved a step closer to establish its permanent space station by 2022?
(a) Germany
(b) France
(c) Russia
(d) China
(e) USA
Q3. Name the Indian boxer, who has outpunched Australia’s Ben Kite to retain the World Boxing Championships (WBC) welterweight Asia title in New Delhi.
(a) Vikas Krishan Yadav
(b) Neeraj Goyat
(c) Shiva Thapa
(d) Devendro Singh
(e) Mohammed Ali Qamar
Q4. Name the country, which has commissioned its largest, most expensive and technologically advanced destroyer, Zumwalt recently?
(a) China
(b) Germany
(c) USA
(d) UAE
(e) Japan
Q5. The first Regional Rural Bank in India was sponsored by Syndicate Bank on 2 October 1975. What is the name of that bank and where is it located at?
(a) Kashmir Bank at Jammu in Jammu and Kashmir
(b) Chikmagalur Gramin Bank in Chikmagalur in Karnataka
(c) Pallavan Gramin Bank in Tamilnadu
(d) Lucknow KGH Gramin Bank in Uttar Pradesh
(e) Prathama Grammen bank at Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh
Q6. Libya, officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south, and Algeria and Tunisia to the west. Where is the capital of Libya?
(a) Cairo
(b) Tripoli
(c) Havana
(d) Damascus
(e) None of the above
Q7. ___________ is a specified minimum fraction of the total deposits of customers, which commercial banks have to hold as reserves either in cash or as deposits with the central bank.
(a) MSF
(b) Bank Rate
(c) SLR
(d) Repo Rate
(e) CRR
Q8. Which among the following Indian organisation has announced their support to small and medium enterprises in Sri Lanka during a delegation-level visit to Colombo last week?
(a) Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
(b) National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD)
(c) Small Industries Development Bank of india (SIDBI)
(d) Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI
(e) Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)
Q9. The BRICS Bank or the New Development Bank will ramp up lending to $2.5 billion in 2017. The present chairman of NDB is-
(a) DJ Pandian
(b) Jin Liqun
(c) Aditya Puri
(d) KV Kamath
(e) Deepak Parekh
Q10. The 08th BRICS summit was held in Goa from 15th to 16th October 2016. The theme for the summit was…………….?
(a) Nations Condemns Terrorism in All its Forms and Stressed
(b) Building Responsive, Inclusive and Collective Solutions
(c) International Terrorism, Especially the Islamic State
(d) Need for Adaptation of Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism
(e) None of the above
Q11. We read about MCLR regularly in News papers (finance/banking section) and Andhra Bank has announced a reduction of 10 basis points in its one year MCLR from 9.55 per cent to 9.45 per recently. What does MCLR stands for?
(a) Marginal Cost of Funds Based Lending Rate
(b) Management Cost of Funds Based Lease Rate
(c) Marginal Council of Funds Based Lending Repo
(d) Marginal Cost of Follow Bank Lending Rate
(e) Money C of Funds Based Land Rate
Q12. World Cancer Day unites the world’s population in the fight against cancer. World Cancer Day is celebrated on?
(a) February 14th
(b) February 12th
(c) January 12th
(d) February 04th
(e) March 08th
Q13. Vijaya Bank is a medium-sized Public Sector Bank with presence across India. It is one of the nationalised banks in India. Where are the headquarters of Vijaya Bank?
(a) Mumbai
(b) New Delhi
(c) Bengaluru
(d) Kolkata
(e) Pune
Q14. “Green Signals: Ecology, Growth and Democracy in India” has been written by?
(a) Pranab Mukherjee
(b) Narendra Modi
(c) P Chidambaram
(d) Jairam Ramesh
(e) None of the above
Q15. GAAR, a controversial system that seeks to empower taxmen to clampdown on deals and income suspected to have been structured to avoid paying taxes. GAAR stands for?
(a) General Anti Avoidance Rules
(b) General Anti Avoidance Region
(c) Global Anti Avoidance Rules
(d) General Anti Agreement Rules
(e) None of the above
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