General Awareness Quiz for Bank Mains Exams 2023-8th March

Q1. In which state, the ‘Dhanu Yatra’ festival, the largest open-air theatre festival was celebrated after a gap of two years?

(a) Maharashtra
(b) Odisha
(c) Jharkhand
(d) Bihar
(e) Chhattisgarh

Q2.Which state government has announced the ‘Nilgiri Tahr Project’, India’s first-of-its-kind initiative aimed at restoring the state animal’s original habitat and stabilizing its population?

(a) Kerala
(b) Karnataka
(c) Tamil Nadu
(d) Telangana
(e) Maharashtra

Q3.In which state has the Union Minister of Roads Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari inaugurated the country’s second longest cable-stayed eight-lane Zuari Bridge?

(a) Maharashtra
(b) Goa
(c) Chhattisgarh
(d) Tamil Nadu(e) Telangana

Q4.The Uttar Pradesh government has appointed ____________ as the new Noida Police chief, making her the first woman officer to head a Police Commissionerate in the state.

(a) Laxmi Singh
(b) Santhi Kumari
(c) Maithili Thakur
(d) Cindy Hook
(e) Sushmita Shukla

Q5.Indigenously developed payment application BHIM (Bharat Interface for Money) celebrated its sixth anniversary. A user can send up to ____________ per transaction.

(a) Rs. 10,000
(b) Rs. 20,000
(c) Rs. 50,000
(d) Rs. 1,00,000
(e) Rs. 2,00,000

Q6.According to the report issued on the Performance of Information Commission (ICs) in India for 2021-22 by Satark Nagrik Sangathan, the State Information Commission of which state has the lowest performance of responsiveness under the RTI Act concerned, with only up to 14% of the information sought?

(a) Kerala
(b) Madhya Pradesh
(c) Bihar
(d) Jharkhand
(e) Tamil Nadu

Q7.Which state police’s anti-drug & illicit liquor campaign ‘Nijaat’ has been selected by the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) for the ‘Leadership in Crime Prevention’ award in the institutional category?

(a) Uttar Pradesh
(b) Madhya Pradesh
(c) Chhattisgarh
(d) Uttarakhand
(e) Himachal Pradesh

Q8.According to India’s first underwater metro service, the Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation (KMRC), the East-West Metro Corridor project, is expected to be completed by _____________.

(a) June 2023
(b) January 2024
(c) December 2023
(d) December 2024
(e) June 2024

Q9.Who has been elevated as Managing Director and CEO of Indian Overseas Bank with effect from January 1, 2023?

(a) Ajay Kumar Srivastava
(b) Clare Lombardelli
(c) Ravi Kumar
(d) Vikas Purohit
(e) Anurag Kumar

Q10.Who has claimed India’s first-ever silver medal from the World blitz chess championship that concluded in Almaty, Kazakhstan?

(a) Gukesh D
(b) Pranav V
(c) Koneru Humpy
(d) Sethuraman
(e) None of these

Solutions

S1. Ans. (b)
Sol. The ‘Dhanu Yatra’ festival is celebrated at Bargarh in Odisha.
Details:

• The vibrant Dhanu Yatra is associated with the culture of Odisha.
• The Dhanu Yatra was started after the harvesting season of the year 1947-48, just after the independence of India as a reflection of the joyous atmosphere in the society for the end of British misrule.
• Since then it is performed every year at the end of the harvesting of paddy, the major crop of the locality.

Odisha Static Facts:

• Capital: Bhubaneshwar
• Chief Minister: Naveen Patnaik
• Governor: Ganeshi Lal
• National Parks: Bhitarkanika National Park, Simplipal National Park
• Folk Dance: Dalkhai

S2. Ans. (c)
Sol. Tamil Nadu Government has announced the ‘Nilgiri Tahr Project’, India’s first-of-its-kind initiative aimed at restoring the state animal’s original habitat and stabilizing its population.

Details:

• The ‘Nilgiri Tahr Project’ is a five-year program with a budget of Rs 25.14 crore.
• The presence of Nilgiri Tahr has been confirmed in a total of 123 habitat fragments ranging in area from 0.04 sq km to 161.69 sq km.
• The species has become locally extinct in around 14% of its traditional habitat in the past few decades.

Tamil Nadu Static Facts:

• Chief Minister: M K Stalin
• Governor: R N Ravi
• Capital: Chennai
• National Parks: Guindy, Gulf of Mannar Marine, Anamalai, Mudumalai, Mukurthi National Parks
• Wildlife Sanctuaries: Kalakad, Sathyamangalam Vallanadu Wildlife Sanctuaries

S3. Ans. (b)
Sol. Union Minister of Roads Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari has inaugurated the country’s second longest cable-stayed eight-lane Zuari Bridge in Goa.

Details:

• The Zuari Bridge is a bridge between North Goa and South Goa, India.
• The 640-meter-long bridge and the 13.20 km roads on both sides have been built in 3 phases.
• The Zuari Bridge work began in June 2016.

Goa Static Facts:

• Capital: Panaji
• Chief Minister: Pramod Sawant
• Governor: S Sreedharan Pillai
• National Parks: Mollem National Park

S4. Ans. (a)
Sol. The Uttar Pradesh government has appointed IPS officer Laxmi Singh as the new Noida Police chief, making her the first woman officer to head a Police Commissionerate in the state.

Uttar Pradesh Static Facts:

• Capital: Lucknow
• Chief Minister: Yogi Aditya Nath
• Governor: Anandi Ben Patel
• National Parks: Dudhwa National Park
• Folk Dances: Braj Raslila, Charkula, Kathak
• Wildlife Sanctuaries: Kishanpur Sanctuary, Hastinapur Sanctuary, Nawabganj Bird Sanctuary etc.

Details Related to Options:

• Santhi Kumari First Woman Chief Secretary of Telangana
• Maithili Thakur Election Commissioner appointed as Bihar’s State Icon
• Cindy Hook CEO of the 2032 Olympic Organising Committee
• Sushmita Shukla VP & COO of Federal Bank

S5. Ans. (d)
Sol. A user can send up to Rs 1,00,000 per transaction and a maximum of Rs 1,00,000 per day for one bank account. This limit is available per bank account linked on BHIM.

Details:

• Indigenously developed payment application BHIM celebrated its sixth anniversary.
• BHIM App was launched on 30th December 2016 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
• BHIM stands for Bharat Interface for Money.
• It is a biometric payment systems app using the Aadhar platform and is based on a Unified Payment Interface (UPI) to facilitate e-payment directly through the bank.

S6. Ans. (e)
Sol. The State Information Commission of Tamil Nadu has the lowest performance of responsiveness under the RTI Act concerned, with only up to 14% of the information sought.

Details:

• Maharashtra was second-lowest with sharing only 23% of the information asked for.
• The report was issued on the Performance of Information Commission (ICs) in India for 2021-22 by Satark Nagrik Sangathan.
• Only 10 ICs provided the full information in response to the RTI applications filed as part of this assessment.
• These included Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Jharkhand, and the north-eastern states of Tripura, Nagaland, and

S7. Ans. (c)
Sol. International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), the US-based international organisation has selected the anti-drug & illicit liquor campaign ‘Nijaat’ of Chhattisgarh police for the ‘Leadership in Crime Prevention’ award in the institutional category.

Details:

• The prestigious IACP 2022 Award has selected the de-addiction drive ‘Nijaat’, which was executed following the directive by chief minister Bhupesh Baghel to act tough against drug peddlers, and bootleggers and check to smuggling of drugs.

International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Static Facts:

• Founded: 1893
• Headquarters: Alexandria, Virginia, United States

S8. Ans. (c)
Sol. India’s first underwater metro service, The Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation (KMRC) said that the East-West Metro Corridor project is expected to be completed by December 2023.

Details:

• With this, another feather is being added to the crown of Kolkata Metro, the first metro railway in the country.
• Kolkata Metro, which started its journey in 1984, is being expanded to cover the whole city and its outskirts.
• The underwater metro, which will be running through the Hoogly river will connect the twin cities of Howrah and Kolkata.

Metro Rail system in India :

• The first metro in India; Kolkata Metro started its operation 24 October 1984 between Dum Dam to Tollygunge. It was started with the help of the Soviet Union.
• Largest metro rail in operation in India: Delhi Metro (390.14 km: Source DMRC as on 7 March 2022). It started operation on 24 December 2002.
• Smallest Metro: Ahmedabad metro, 6 km
• The metro rail systems in operation in India are in the cities of Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, Gurugram, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kanpur, Kolkata, Kochi Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, Noida, and Pune. (total 15 cities)

S9. Ans. (a)
Sol. Ajay Kumar Srivastava has been elevated as Managing Director and CEO of Indian Overseas Bank with effect from January 1, 2023 from his current posting as executive director.

Indian Overseas Bank Static Facts:

• Founded: 1937
• Headquarters:               Chennai, Ahmedabad

Details Related to Options:

• Clare Lombardelli Chief Economist at Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
• Ravi Kumar CEO of IT giant Cognizant
• Vikas Purohit New Global Business Head of Meta in India
• Anurag Kumar CMD of Electronics Corporation of India Limited

S10. Ans. (c)
Sol. Former World rapid champion Koneru Humpy produced a superlative performance to claim India’s first-ever silver medal from the World blitz chess championship that concluded in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Details:

Humpy defeated China’s Zhongyi Tan to win Silver in the 17th and final round.