GENERAL/ECONOMY/BANKING AWARENESS--SBI PO MAIN//clerks EXPECTED QUESTIONS

GENERAL/ECONOMY/BANKING AWARENESS

1. President Ram Nath Kovind was conferred ‘Condor de Los Andes en el Grado de Gran Collar’ during his visit to which country? It is the highest State honour of that country.

1) Chile   2) Latvia   3) Peru   4) Bolivia   5) Cuba

2. Who among the following has been conferred the 28th Vyas Samman 2018 awarded by the KK Birla Foundation?

1) Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari   2) Mamta Kalia   3) Leeladhar Jagudi   4) Mahabaleshwar Sail

5) Sitanshu Yashaschandra

3. India won 368 medals at the 2019 Special Olympics World Summer Games, which were held recently in

1) Doha, Qatar   2) Riyadh, Saudi Arabia   3) Manama, Bahrain   4) Abu Dhabi, UAE

5) Damascus, Syria

4. RBI's monetary policy committee (MPC), led by Governor Shaktikanta Das, on 4 Apr announced the first-monthly rate review of financial year 2019-20. Now, the repurchase rate stands at

1) 5.75 per cent    2) 6 per cent   3) 6.25 per cent    4) 6.50 per cent   5) 6.75 per cent

5. The RBI, in the first bi-monthly rate view of FY20, forecast GDP growth between 6.8 per cent and 7.1 per cent in the first half of the fiscal and at ______ in the second half.

1) 6.9 per cent to 7.2 per cent    2) 7 per cent to 7.3 per cent    3) 7.1 per cent to 7.3 per cent

4) 7.2 per cent to 7.3 per cent   5) 7.3 per cent to 7.4 per cent

6. Which of the following countries recently renamed its capital A      to honour former President Nursultan Nazarbayev?

1) Uzbekistan   2) Kyrgyzstan   3) Kazakhistan   4) Tajikistan   5) Turkmenistan

7. Which of the following countries launched the world's first fully fledged superfast 50 mobile networks recently?

1) China   2) Japan   3) Germany   4) South Korea   5) France

8. Who among the following has been awarded the prestigious Bodley Medal, the highest honour bestowed by the University of Oxford's world-famous Bodleian Libraries?

1) Arvind Panagariya   2) Oliver Hart   3) Amartya Sen    4) Jean Tirole    5) Jagdish Bhagwati

9. India's manufacturing activity slowed to a six-month low in Mar as orders and output expanded at a weak pace. The Nikkei India Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) for Mar stood at

1) 51.4   2) 52.6   3) 53.8   4) 54.2   5) 55.4

10. Bank of Baroda (BoB) has become the second largest state-owned lender after merging Dena Bank and Vijaya Bank into itself. The consolidated entity has a combined business of about

1)  11 lakh cr   2)  12 lakh cr   3)  13 lakh cr   4)  14 lakh cr   5)  15 lakh cr

11. Pramod Sawant was sworn in as 11th Chief Minister of which of the following states recently? He was the former Speaker of the state legislative assembly.

1) Chhatisgarh   2) Goa   3) Tripura   4) Karnataka   5) Tamil Nadu

12. What is India's ranking on the World Press Freedom Index 2019 which is topped by Norway?

1) 155th   2) 149th   3) 140th    4) 135th    5)128th

13. Tashigang, a small village at an altitude of 15,256 feet, is now the highest polling station in the world. This polling station is located in which of the following stats?

1) Meghalaya   2) Arunachal Pradesh   3) Uttarakhand    4) Himachal Pradesh

5) Jammu & Kashmir

14. The RBI has asked banks to disclose bad loan divergences in their financial statements if the additional provisioning exceeds ______ of profit before provision and contingencies.

1) 5 per cent   2) 10 per cent    3) 15 per cent   4) 20 per cent   5) 25 per cent

15. The five-member committee appointed by the RBI to further deepen digital payments and enhance financial inclusion through Fintech, is headed by

1) K Gopalakrishnan   2) Amitabh Kant   3) Nandan Nilekani   4) Salil Parekh   5) Azim Premji

16. Which country recently introduced harsh new sharia laws that make adultery and homsexuality punishable? Bandar Seri Begawan is its capital.

1) Indonesia   2) Malaysia    3) Brunei   4) Libya   5) Yemen

17. According to the Global MPI 2018 Report prepared by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, India has reduced its poverty rate drastically in 10 years from 55% to

1) 45%   2) 33%   3) 28%   4) 25%   5) 22%

18. The Indian Navy's Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Training Facility (NBCTF) was inaugurated at INS Shivaji in Lonavala in which state recently?

1) Maharashtra   2) Gujarat   3) Tamil Nadu    4) Andhra Pradesh    5) Kerala

19. The RBI has slapped a penalty of 2cr on which bank for non-compliance of regulatory directions with regard to SWIFT operations? It resulted into a massive 14,000-cr fraud at the bank.

1) SBI   2) Axis Bank   3) IDBI Bank   4) PNB   5) ICICI Bank

20. _______ has been set up as an apex development bank by the govt with a mandate for facilitating credit flow for promotion and development of agriculture, cottage and village industries.

1) EXIM Bank   2) NHB   3) DICGC  4) NABARD   5) SIDBI

21. Which of the following cities has introduced the world's first wireless electric car charging stations for electric taxis?

1) Tokyo   2) New York   3) Oslo   4) Stockholm   5) Shanghai

22. The growth in global trade volumes is likely to slow down to 2.6 per cent in 2019 as per the World Trade Organisation (WTO). The present Director-General of WTO is

1) David Malpass   2) Jim Young Kim   3) Tedros Adhanom    4) Jerome Powell

5) Roberto Azevedo

23. India successfully test-fired a sophisticated anti-satellite missile recently and destroyed a live satellite flying in low-Earth orbit. The project was named

1) Mission Saksham    2) Mission Shakti   3) Mission Shaurya   4) Mission Upagrah

5) Mission Sandhan

24. In a bid to further improve the cash position of banks, RBI has tweaked LCR norms. Here, the term LCR means

1) Liability Coverage Ratio   2) Liquidity Cushion Ratio   3) Liability Convergence Ratio

4) Longevity Coverage Ratio   5) Liquidity Coverage Ratio

25. According to the Asia Development Bank (ADB), India is set to grow at what per cent in the current fiscal (2019-20) on strengthening consumption?

1) 7 per cent   2) 7.2 percent   3) 7.4 per cent   4) 7.5 per cent    5) 7.6 per cent

26. India's deepest shaft cave was discovered recently as Krem Um Ladaw, which is situated in the state of

1) Nagaland   2) Meghalaya   3) Manipur   4) Assam    5) Tripura

27. The Goods and Services Tax (GST) collection in Mar 2019 was the highest since the new indirect tax system took effect on 1 Jul 2017. The GST collections for Mar 2019 was

1) 1.02 lakh cr   2) 1.06 lakh cr   3) 1.09 lakh cr   4) 1.13 lakh cr   5) 1.16 lakh cr

28. India and which country have signed an agreement for exchange of country-by-country (CbC) report? It will benefit subsidiaries of firms based in the latter country in taxation-related matters.

1) UK   2) France   3) China   4) Japan    5) US

29. The govt infused what amount in Bank of Baroda ahead of merger of two other public sector lenders with it?

1)  2,500 cr   2)  2,904 cr   3)  3,521 cr   4)  4,084 cr    5)  5,042 cr

30. The Regional Rural Banks were owned by the Central Govt, the State Govt and the Sponsor Bank. The RRBs are sponsored by which of the following banks?

1) Public Sector Banks   2) Private Sector Banks    3) Small Finance Banks   4) Foreign Banks

5) Co-operative Banks

31. Which of the following days is observed on 24 Mar every year?

1) World AIDS Day   2) World Malaria Day   3) World Cancer Day

4) World Tuberculosis Day   5) Word Heart Day

32. Justice (Retd) DK Jain has been appointed BCCI's ad hoc Ethics Officer. The three-member Committee of Administrators (COA) that runs BCCI is headed by

1) Vinod Rai   2) Ravi Thodge   3) Vikram Limaye   4) Ramachandra Guha   5) Diana Edulji

33. Which country has conferred on Prime Minister Narendra Modi the prestigious Zayed Medal, the highest decoration awarded to kings, presidents and heads of state?

1) Iran   2) Iraq   3) UAE   4) Qatar    5) Saudi Arabia

34. Through the process of Know Your Customer (KYC) the banks obtain information about which of the following of the customers?

1) Educational qualification   2) Family details   3) Criminal records    4) Identity and address

5) All of these

35.Who among the following is the present Managing Director & CEO of IDBI Bank? The RBI has categorised it as a private sector bank for regulatory purposes.

1) KP Nair   2) Rakesh Sharma  3) GM Yadwadkar   4) Pankaj Jain   5) Sudhir Shyam

36. The marginal standing facility (MSF) is a window for banks to borrow from the RBI in an emergency situation when inter-bank liquidity dries up completely. Current MSF rate is

1) 6.25 per cent    2) 6.50 per cent   3) 6.75 per cent   4) 7 per cent   5) 7.25 per cent

37. Which country has become the first 'Group of Seven' nation to join China's ambitious Belt and Road initiative? Giuseppe Conte is its present Prime Minister.

1) France   2) Canada   3) Italy   4) Germany    5) Japan

38. Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve is located in Chandrapur district of which of the following states?

1) Odisha   2) Jharkhand   3) Madhya Pradesh   4) Rajasthan   5) Maharashtra

39. India and which country held the joint military exercise Mitra Shakti VI recently?

1) Bangladesh   2) Bhutan   3) Myanmar   4) Sri Lanka   5) Maldives

40. Kalapakkam Nuclear Power Plant is situated in which of the following states?

1) Himachal Pradesh   2) Assam   3) Karnataka   4) Kerala   5) Tamil Nadu

Answers

1.(4)    2.(3)    3.(4)    4.(2)    5.(5)    6.(3)    7.(4)    8.(3)    9.(2)    10.(5)

11.(2)  12.(3)  13.(4)  14.(2)  15.(3)  16.(3)  17.(3)  18.(1)  19.(4)  20.(4)

21.(3)  22.(5)  23.(2)  24.(5)  25.(2)  26.(2)  27.(2)  28.(5)  29.(5)  30.(1)

31.(4)  32.(1)  33.(3)  34.(4)  35.(2)  36.(1)  37.(3)  38.(5)  39.(4)  40.(5)