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General Awareness Quiz for IBPS PO Mains 2016

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General Awareness section is of 40 marks and you’ll be given 20 minutes in IBPS PO Mains exam 2016, which are quite sufficient but don’t be tempted to take chances by compromising your accuracy and marking wrong answers. To prepare general awareness you can follow the quizzes we’ll be giving you in these 25 Days along with preparing from Capsules and Study Notes.  In these 25 Days you’ll get daily quizzes for Banking Awareness, Financial Awareness,Economics, Current Affairs and Static on Bankersadda which will help you practice daily and prepare General Awareness for IBPS PO Mains.


Q1. The Reserve bank of India (RBI) in third Bi-monthly Policy review (August, 2016), kept the key policy rates unchanged while maintaining an accommodative policy stance. RBI risks to the inflation target of ________ for March 2017 continue to be on the upside.
(a) 7 per cent
(b) 8 per cent
(c) 4 per cent
(d) 6 per cent
(e) 5 per cent

Q2. Name the former Arunachal Chief Minister, who was found dead at his residence in Itanagar?
(a) Jarbom Gamlin
(b) Dorjee Khandu
(c) Pema Khandu
(d) Kalikho Pul
(e) Nabam Tuki

Q3. The Wildlife Institute of India (WII) will house the India’s first repository on tigers, under its new Tiger Cell. It is based in?
(a) Bhopal
(b) New Delhi
(c) Dehradun
(d) Allahabad
(e) Pune
Q4. Name the person, who has reappointed as chairman, managing director, and chief executive for a period of five years of two-wheeler market leader Hero MotoCorp?
(a) Vikram Kasbekar
(b) Pawan Munjal
(c) Om Prakash Munjal
(d) Brijmohan Lall Munjal
(e) None of the above 
Q5. With which of the following co-operative Banks, Non-life insurer Reliance General Insurance Company Ltd. has announced a bancassurance tie-up?
(a) Shamrao Vithal Co-operative Bank
(b) Janata Sahakari Bank Ltd.
(c) New India Co-op. Bank Ltd.
(d) Bassein Catholic Co-op. Bank Ltd.
(e) Amanath Co-op. Bank Ltd.

Q6. Radha Mohan Singh is Minister of Agriculture in current NDA government andcurrently a member of the 16th Lok Sabha (2014-2019). His constituency is?
(a) Varanasi,UP
(b) Patna, Bihar
(c) Barodara, Gujarat
(d) Purvi Champaran, Bihar
(e) Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh
Q7. How much crore have been allocated for MGNREGA in 2016-17 by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley?
(a) Rs98,200 crore
(b) Rs67,700 crore
(c) Rs38,500 crore
(d) Rs15,800 crore
(e) None of the above
Q8. The “God of Small Things” is the debut novel.It is a story about the childhood experiences of fraternal twins whose lives are destroyed by the “Love Laws” that lay down “who should be loved, and how. Written by?
(a) Chetan Bhagat
(b) Amish Tripathi
(c) Pranab Mukherjee
(d) Arundhati Roy
(e) None of the above

Q9.  SARFAESI Act is an Indian law .It allows banks and other financial institution to auction residential or commercial properties to recover loans. In SARFAESI, F stands for?
(a) Follow
(b) Financial 
(c) Fill-up
(d) Forum
(e) Firstly
Q10. The Ramon Magsaysay Award is an annual award established to perpetuate former Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay.This award not given to which field?
(a) Government Service
(b) Public Service
(c) Community Leadership
(d) Journalism
(e) Medicine

Q11. CRAR, is the ratio of a bank’s capital to its risk. CRAR stand for?
(a) Currency to Risk (Weighted) Assets Ratio
(b) Capital to Risk (Weighted) Assets Ratio
(c) Country to Risk (Weighted) Assets Region
(d) Contract to Risk (Weighted) Asian Ratio
(e) None of the above

Q12. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was founded in Baghdad, Iraq, with the signing of an agreement in September 1960. Where is headquarter of OPEC?
(a) Vienna,Austria
(b) Tehran,Iran
(c) Riyadh,Saudi Arabia
(d) Tripoli,Libya
(e) Kuwait city,Kuwait

Q13. Which of the following countries warned China that ties were deteriorating over disputed East China Sea islets recently?
(a) Japan
(b) South Korea
(c) India
(d) Bhutan
(e) Nepal 

Q14. How much worth schemes has been annoucedTamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa announced in the energy sector, including setting up of a 2×1500 MVA sub-station in Virudhunagar to transmit power generated from a 1600 mw power plant coming up in Ramanathapuram?
(a) Rs 14325 crore
(b) Rs 4126 crore
(c) Rs 9500 crore 
(d) Rs 12700 crore
(e) Rs 20000 crore
Q15. India’s second largest mobile operator Vodafone has renewed its multi-million dollar agreement for IT infrastructure with tech giant ____________ for another five years.
(a) Facebook
(b) Microsoft
(c) IBM
(d) Google
(e) HP
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