Important General Awareness Questions for IBPS PO / SBI PO 2017

Q1. Former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has passed away recently. Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was the former president of which country?
(a) Iran
(b) UAE
(c) Pakistan
(d) Saudi Arabia
(e) None of the given options is true

Q2. EPFO has made Aadhaar Card mandatory for its about 50 lakh pensioners and around four crore subscribers. EPFO stands for?
(a) Employees' Product Fund Organisation
(b) Employees' Provident Financial Organisation
(c) Employees' Permanent Fund Organisation
(d) Essentials' Provident Fund Organisation
(e) Employees' Provident Fund Organisation

Q3. Reigning Olympic and world 800m champion and world record holder, David Rudisha is the International Event Ambassador for the 14th Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon to be held on January 15 2017. David Rudisha belong to which country?
(a) South Africa
(b) Kenya
(c) Jamaica
(d) Uganda
(e) None of the given options is true

Q4. The Bank of India (BOI) has reduced its interest rates on retail loans, including home and vehicle loan recently. The bank earlier reduced its minimum lending rates or marginal cost of funds based lending rates (MCLR) by up to 90 basis points. Where is the headquarter of BOI?
(a) Bengaluru
(b) Gurugram
(c) Chennai
(d) Mumbai
(e) Kolkata

Q5. As per the existing policy, the Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) of scheduled banks is fixed at a certain percentage of their NDTL. What is full form of NDTL?
(a) New Demand and Tenure Liabilities
(b) Net Demand and Time Liabilities
(c) National Deposits and Total Liquidity
(d) Net Duration and Total Liquidity
(e) New Deposits and Term Liquidity

Q6. Which of the following rates signals the RBI’s long-term outlook on interest rates?
(a) Repo rate
(b) Reverse repo rate
(c) Bank rate
(d) SLR
(e) CRR

Q7. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is the space agency of the Indian government. ISRO headquarter is located in?
(a) New Delhi
(b) Chennai
(c) Mumbai
(d) Bengaluru
(e) Hyderabad

Q8. The International Day of Older Persons is observed on?
(a) 02nd October
(b) 24th October
(c) 16th October
(d) 31st October
(e) 01st October

Q9. Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza won the 2017 Brisbane International women's doubles title recently with her partner
(a) Barbora Strycova 
(b) Elena Vesnina
(c) Bethanie Mattek-Sands 
(d) Ekaterina Makarova 
(e) None of the given options is true

Q10. The Pravasi Bhartiya Divas (PBD) is an annual event organised by the Ministry of External Affairs. It is being organised since-
(a) 2001 
(b) 2003
(c) 2004 
(d) 2005
(e) 2006


ANSWERS :

1. a
2. e
3. b
4. d
5. b
6. c
7. d
8. e
9. c
10.b

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