2019 SBI PO GENERAL AWARENESS---BSC APRIL 2019 GA
ANSWERS GIVEN IN BOLD LETTERS.
TEST-I: GENERAL/ECONOMY/BANKING AWARENESS
1. The
govt has launched Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Mandhan (PMSYM) scheme to provide
unorganized workers with an assured monthly pension (after 60 years of age) of
1)
2000 2)
3000 3)
4000 4)
5000 5)
6000
2. Which
country has topped the 2019 Bloomberg Innovation Index? India’s raking is 54th.
1) Singapore 2) Sweden
3) Israel 4) South Korea 5) Germany
3. Saina
Nehwal won the women’s singles title of the 2019 Indonesia Masters badminton
tournament. Who won the men’s singles?
1) Kento
Momota 2) Sameer Verma 3) Rasmus Gemke 4) Viktor Axelsen
5) Anders Antonsen
4. The
budget presented by a govt in the final year of its tenure, is usually called
a/an
1) Short
Budget 2) Advance Budget 3) Interim
Budget 4) Account Budget
5)
Temporary Budget
5. Yes
Bank has announced that it has received approval from the RBI to appoint
Ravneet Singh Gill as the next Managing Director and CEO of the bank. Gill has
been heading
1) Federal
Bank 2) Deutsche Bank India 3) HSBC
Bank India 4) Bank of America
5) IndusInd
Bank
6. Vani
Kapoor is associated with which of the following games? She has become the
first Indian to grab Australian LPGA card.
1) Squash 2) Snooker
3) Badminton 4) Golf 5) Shooting
7. Who
among the following won the women’s singles title of the 2019 Australian Open
tennis tournament?
1) Naomi Osaka 2) Angelique Kerber 3) Simona Halep 4) Maria Sharapova
5)
Serena Williams
8. Who
among the following has NOT been conferred Padma Vibhushan in 2019?
1) Teejan
Bai (Chhattisgarh) 2) Ismail Omar
Guelleh (Djibouti)
3) Anilkumar
Manibhai Naik (Maharashtra) 4) Balwant
Moreshwar Purandare (Maharashtra)
5) None of these
9. Which
state govt has decided to form a ‘State Tiger Protection Force’ to save the
tiger population in the State?
1) Gujarat 2) Madhya Pradesh 3) West Bengal 4) Bihar
5) Telangana
10. In
the Interim Budget for 2019-20, the allocation for Mahatma Gandhi National
Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme is about
1)
40,000 cr 2)
45,000 cr 3)
50,000 cr 4)
55,000 cr 5)
60,000 cr
11. The
Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari inaugurated 5.1km long “Atal Setu”
across river Mandovi in which city recently?
1) Panaji 2) Pune
3) Nasik 4) Aurangabad 5) Jaipur
12. Which
of the following is the lone Indian brand in the list of Top 100 most valuable
global brands, according to the Brand Finance Global 500, 2019 report?
1) Reliance 2) Airtel
3) Tata 4) SBI
5) HDFC
13. Pakul
Dul Hydro Electric Project is situated which of the following states?
1) Assam 2) Andhra Pradesh 3) Uttarakhand 4) Himachal Pradesh 5)
Jammu & Kashmir
14. The
funds used by a compay/govt to acquire, maintain or upgrade physical assets
such as property, new infrastructural projects or buying new equipment, are
termed as
1) debt 2) assignment 3) consolidated fund 4) capital
expenditure 5) revenue expenditure
15. In
the Interim Budget for 2019-20, the fiscal deficit of year 2019-20 has been
pegged at what per cent of GDP?
1) 2.4% 2) 2.8%
3) 3.4% 4) 3.6%
5) 4.4%
16. Who
among the following has been appointed as the new Director of the Central
Bureau of Investigation (CBI)?
1) Rakesh
Asthana 2) M Nageshwara Rao 3) Gupteshwar Pandey 4) Rishi
Kumar Shukla
5)
Amulya Patnaik
17. A
dam collapse at an iron ore mine in Minas Gerais state of which country killed
several people recently?
1) Indonesia 2) South Africa 3) Malaysia
4) Cambodia 5) Brazil
18. Veteran
politician George Fernandes passed away recently. He had served as the Union
Minister of
1) Defence 2) Railways
3) Communications 4) All the above 5) Only (1) and (2)
19. The
book titled Healted: How Cancer Gave Me A New Life has been authored by who
among the following?
1) Rishi
Kapoor 2) Manisha Koirala 3) Rakesh
Roshan 4) Emraan Hashmi 5) Sonali Bendre
20. The
GDP growth in the financial year 2017-18 remained at what per cent according to
the revised numbers of the Central Statistics Offices (CSO)?
1) 6.5
per cent 2) 6.7 per cent 3) 6.9 per cent 4) 7.2
per cent 5) 8.2 per cent
21. Who
among the following has become the first woman cricketer to play 200 ODIs?
1) Meg
Lanning 2) Smriti Mandhana 3) Heather Knight 4) Mithali
Raj
5)
Harmanpreet Kaur
22. The
International Solar Alliance (ISA) is the first treaty based international inter-governmental
organization headquartered in India. Its headquarters is situated in
1) New
Delhi 2) Noida 3) Mumbai
4) Bengaluru 5) Gurugram
23. The
Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI) is based in which city?
1) Mumbai 2) Chennai
3) Pune 4) New Delhi 5) Bengaluru
24. The
process of selling an asset for financial, social or political goals is termed
as
1) allotment 2) divestment 3) diversion 4) diversification 5) capitalisation
25. As
per the proposals of the Interim Budget for 2019-20, the standard tax deduction
for salaried persons has been raised from
40,000 to
1)
45,000 2)
50,000 3)
55,000 4)
60,000 5)
65,000
26. Which
of the following countries won the 2019 AFC Asian Cup football tournament in
Abu Dhabi recently?
1) Japan 2) Qatar 3) India
4) Malaysia 5) Pakistan
27. Which
of the following days is observed on 26th Jan every year?
1) World
Hindi Day 2) International Customs Day 3) Data Privacy Day
4) World
Braille Day 5) World Leprosy
Eradication Day
28. Aadhaar
cards are now valid travel documents for Indians under 15 and over 65
travelling to two nations. One of them is Nepal and the other is
1) Myanmar 2) Bangladesh 3) Maldives
4) Sri Lanka 5) Bhutan
29. Which
of the following types of budget is usually found in developing economies like
India?
1) Surplus
Budget 2) Deficit Budget 3) Balanced
Budget 4) Zero-based Budgeting
5)
Incremental Budget
30. P V
Bharathi has taken charge as the MD and CEO of the Corporation Bank. The bank
is headquartered in
1) Manipal 2) Kolkata
3) Mangalore 4) Chennai
5) Hyderabad
31. Sultan
Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah was elected as the new king in which of the following
countries recently?
1) Indonesia 2) Malaysia 3) Iran
4) Saudi Arabia 5) Yemen
32. Oxford
dictionaries declared which of the following words as the “Hindi word for the
year 2018” recently?
1) Aadhaar 2) Nari
Shakti 3) Jumla 4) Chaukidar 5) Ghotala
33. Which
state has bagged the Best State Award for its active participation in the
Swasth Bharat Yatra launched by FSSAI?
1) Kerala 2) Karnataka 3) Gujarat
4) Tamil Nadu 5) Rajasthan
34. Which
of the following is a state of financial distress in which someone
(individual/firm) is unable to pay their bills?
1) Stagnation 2) Recession 3) Incapacity 4) Depression 5)
Insolvency
35. Which
of the following involves intervention by the banking regulator (RBI) so that a
‘weak’ bank takes corrective measures to restore its financial health?
1) OMO 2) PCA 3) CAR
4) ALM 5) CDR
36. Sanjiv
Ranjan has been appointed as the India’s new ambassador to which of the
following countries?
1) Chile 2) Colombia 3) Peru
4) Kenya 5) Spain
37. Which
of the following novels, written in Kannada by Jayant Kaikini, won DSC Prize
for South Asian Literature 2018?
1) Harilal
& Sons 2) A State Of Freedom 3) Exit West
4) Miss
Laila Armed and Dangerous 5) No Presents Please
38. The
eight-member search panel formed to select members of anti-corruption ombudsman
Lokpal held its first meeting recently. The committee is headed by
1) Mukul
Rohatgi 2) Indu Malhotra 3) Dipak Misra 4) Ajay Manikrao Khanwilkar
5) Ranjana Prakash Desai
39. France,
Britain, Spain, Austria, Sweden and Denmark recently recognized Opposition
leader Juan Guaido as interim President of which country?
1) Cambodia 2) Venezuela 3) Colombia
4) Turkey 5) Panama
40. As
per the Interim Budget for 2019-20, individual taxpayers with annual income up
to what amount will get full tax rebate?
1)
3 lakh 2)
3.5 lakh 3)
4 lakh 4)
4.5 lakh 5)
5 lakh
41. Kuldip
Nayar was awarded Padma Bhushan posthumously in the field of
1) Science
& Engineering – Space 2) Medicine –
Affordable Healthcare 3) Social Work
4) Public
Affairs 5) Literature & Education
42. What
is India’s ranking on the “Corruption Perceptions Index 2018” topped by
Denmark? It is prepared by Transparency International.
1) 41st 2) 56th 3) 78th 4) 87th 5) 117th
43. Who
among the following was/were conferred the country’s highest civilian award
Ratna recently?
1) Bhupen
Hazarika 2) Nanaji Deshmukh 3) Pranab Mukherjee 4) All
the above
5) Only
(1) and (2)
44. The
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has its headquarters situated in
1) Shanghai 2) Tokyo
3) Beijing 4) Bangkok
5) Manila
45. The
RBI recently decided to take which of the following banks out of the Prompt
Corrective Action (PCA) framework?
1) Bank
of Maharashtra 2) Bank of India 3) Oriental Bank of Commerce 4) All
the above
5) Only
(1) and (3)
46. Mt
Kosciuszko is situated in which of the following countries?
1) Australia 2) Canada
3) Mexico 4) Indonesia 5) New Zealand
47. The
Korba Coalfield is located in Korba district in the Indian state of
1) Karnataka 2) Andhra Pradesh 3) Chhattisgarh 4) Jharkhand 5) Madhya Pradesh
48. Who
has become the fastest Indian bowler to claim 100 ODI wickets?
1) Ravichandran
Ashwin 2) Mohammed Shami 3) Umesh
Yadav 4) Jasprit Bumrah
5)
Ishant Sharma
49. Nazir
Ahmad Wani was awarded India’s highest peacetime gallantry honour recently by
President Ramnath Kovind. The award is
1) Ashoka Chakra 2) Shaurya Chakra 3) Vir Chakra 4) Kirti Chakra 5) Mahavir Chakra
50. Which
country successfully test-fired the short range surface-to-surface ballistic
missile ‘Nasr’ recently?
1) Iran 2) North Korea 3) Pakistan 4) Indonesia 5) Malaysia
ANSWERS
1.(2) 2.(4) 3.(5) 4.(3) 5.(2) 6.(4) 7.(1) 8.(5) 9.(5) 10.(5)
11.(1) 12.(3) 13.(5) 14.(4) 15.(3) 16.(4) 17.(5) 18.(4) 19.(2) 20.(4)
21.(4) 22.(5) 23.(3) 24.(2) 25.(2) 26.(2) 27.(2) 28.(5) 29.(2) 30.(3)
31.(2) 32.(2) 33.(4) 34.(5) 35.(2) 36.(2) 37.(5) 38.(5) 39.(2) 40.(5)
41.(5) 42.(3) 43.(4) 44.(3) 45.(4) 46.(1) 47.(3) 48.(2) 49.(1) 50.(3)
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