General Awareness Questions for Bank Exams - 7

General Awareness Questions for Bank Exams - 7

1. Who is the composer of National Anthem of India?

(a) Bankim Chandra Chatterji      (b) Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay

(c) Rabindranath Tagore               (d) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

Ans: (c)

2. The International Labour Organisation is headquartered at

(a) Washington                 (b) Paris              (c) Geneva          (d) Rome

Ans: (c)

3. To which field of literature is the ‘Booker Prize’ awarded every year?

(a) Philosophy                   (b) Autobiography           (c) Religion          (d) Fiction

Ans: (d)

4. SEZ in Indian EXIM policy expands to

(a) Special Export Zone                  (b) Special Excise Zone

(c) Special Economic Zone            (d) Special Ecological Zone

Ans: (c)

5. In which of the following years was the Indian rupee devalued for the first time?

(a) 1949                (b) 1955                (c) 1966                (d) 1974

Ans: (c)

6. Bush at War is a book authored by

(a) Mary N. Weaver.       (b) John Grisham.            (c) Jeffrey Archer.           (d) Bob Woodward.

Ans: (d)

7. Which of the following is a market research firm in India?

(a) SOTC               (b) ORG.MARG                                 (c) AT&T               (d) CRY

Ans: (b)

8. ‘Grand Vitara’ is a SUV from which car major?

(a) General Motors                         (b) Hyundai Motors

(c) Maruti Udyog Ltd.                     (d) Mahindra and Mahindra

Ans: (c)

9. Which of the following cities has got ISO-14001 certification for environment maintenance?

(a) Surat               (b) Pune              (c) Indore            (d) Jamshedpur

Ans: (a)

10. The marketing guru Shunu Sen, who died a couple of years’ back, was associated with

(a) Nestle.           (b) Brittania Industries.                 (c) Hindustan Lever Limited.

(d) Marico Industries.

Ans: (c)

11. Which of the following taxes has been reduced from 100% to 70% in 2003-04 budget?

(a) Service Tax                   (b) Entertainment Tax                   (c) Corporate Tax             (d) Sales Tax

Ans: (c)

12. Which of the following is country’s first Non-Banking Financial Corporation (NBFC) to have been converted into a bank and have also started its operations?

(a) ICICI                (b) IDBI                 (c) HDFC               (d) Kotak Mahindra Finance Ltd.

Ans: (c)

13. World’s fastest computer at present is

(a) ASCI Purple.                                (b) Deep Blue.                   (c) Param.           (d) Earth Simulator.

Ans: (a)

14. Identify the wrong pair.

Personality                                                         Year of winning Nobel Prize

(a) Rabindranath Tagore                                                   1913

(b) H. Khorana                                                                  1966

(c) S. Chandrashekhar                                                       1983

(d) C. V. Raman                                                                1930

Ans: (b)  (H. Khorana won the prize in 1968)

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15. The most famous movie of 75th Oscar Awards Chicago has been directed by

(a) Peter O’ Tool.             (b) Rob Marshall.             (c) Roman Polanski.        (d) Adrian Brandy.

Ans: (b)