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Important General Knowledge Questions GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUESTIONS 2014 IMPORTANT GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUESTIONS ALL THE BEST… SHINE SCHOOL OF BANKING Page 1 GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUESTIONS 2014 IMPORTANT BANKING AND GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUESTIONS ASKED IN PREVIOUS EXAMS 1. 18th SAARC summit held in – Kathmandu (Nepal) 2. Currency of Italy – Euro 3. World Habitat Day – October 6. 4. Face to face video communication in which bank – IndusInd Bank 5. Minimum RTGS Transfer Amount – 2 Lakhs 6. 18th SAARC summit held in – Kathmandu (Nepal) 7. Austria Currency -Euro 8. Prakash Nanjappa related to – Shooting(India) 9. Which International passenger Airline crashed down – Malaysian Airline 10. Work of Banking Ombudsman – Solving customer complaints 11. Sania Mirza is aappointed as brand ambassador of which state – Telangana 12. Cauvery wildlife sanctuary located in – Karnataka 13. Where is SHIGMO festival celebrated – Goa 14. Ebola first discovered in which country – Democratic Republic of the Congo 15. Capital of Bhutan – Timbhu. 16. which author was awarded with Padma award recently – Ruskin Bond. 17. India and Brazil agreement 2014 – Trade and Investment flows 18. Rural population as per 2011 census – 68.84%. 19. Children under 10 cannot hold which account – Current account 20. External affairs minister – Sushma Swaraj 21. PLR is also known as – Base Rate 22. Gagan Narang is related to which sports - Shooting SHINE SCHOOL OF BANKING Page 2 GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUESTIONS 2014 23. World AIDS Day- 1st December 24. What is BBPS Full form – Bharat Bill Payment System 25. Commodity market regulator – Forward Markets Commission 26. Comedian Pran kumar sharma who died recently is a creator of – Chacha Chaudhury. 27. Current CRR – 4%. 28. Road development minister? – Nitin Gadkari 1. Largest Producing Country for Coffee? Brazil 2. Who won Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration 2013?- M.S. Swaminathan 3. World Diabetes day?- 14 November 4. Who was the Miss Universe 2013?- María Gabriela Isler from Venezuela 5. Which country hosted the 23rd CHOGM summit 2013?- Sri Lanka in Colombo 6. Full form SLR?- Statutory Liquidity ratio 7. Name the Indian who scored double century against Australia recently?- Rohit Sharma 8. Nagarjuna Sagar Dam is located in which state?- Andhra Pradesh 9. Name the play back singer who got Bharat Ratna?- Lata mangeskar in 2001 10. Indian Grand Prix winner 2013?- Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull) 11. Magnetic ink character recognition (MICR) in cheque has how many character?- 9 digit 12.Who is the author of 'Casual Vacancy' ?- J.K Rowling 13. Sergey Bubka is related with which sports?- Pole Vaulter 14. At which place Indian Grand Prix was held?- Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh 15. Which organization working for welfare of women? 16. ATM operated by non banking entities?- White Label ATM 17. National Old Age Pension Scheme (NOAPS), National Widow Pension Scheme (NWPS), 18. National Disability Pension Scheme (NDPS) and National Family Benefit Scheme (NFBS) named after? Indira Gandhi 19. Which product improves credit flow in agriculture? Special Agricultural Credit Plan SHINE SCHOOL OF BANKING Page 3 GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUESTIONS 2014 20. When you pay EMI for loans after some months: the interest and principal increases or decreases 21. Converting physical share into electronic form? Demat Account 22. Which of the following is not a negotiable instrument? 23. A banknote of which portions missing or which is composed of more than two pieces is known as? Mutilated Note 24. NPCI 24x7 related? Remittance Processing Services 25. Vodafone and ICICI launched unique mobile transfer called? M Pesa 26. Banking Companies (Nomination) Rule 1985 related question 27. SKOPJE is a birthplace of which famous personality?- Mother Teresa 28.Purchasing a commodity or security in one market for immediate sale in another market is known as? Arbitrage 29. Banking Ombudsman is a scheme by RBI for? bank and its customers 30. RTGS minimum transaction: The minimum amount to be remitted through RTGS is 2 lakh. There is no upper ceiling for RTGS transactions 31. Pension given to those people who are suffered from Muzaffarnagar riots come under which scheme – The pension, which would be anywhere between Rs 400 and Rs 500, would be given under the Rani Laxmi Bai Pension Scheme. 32. Who directed the bollywood film Satyagraha: – Prakash Jha 33. The limit of Rajiv Gandhi Equity Savings Scheme (RGESS) hiked to: – Rs. 12 Lakh per year 34. Which is the rate that RBI changes in this 20 September: Bank Rate 35. Which of the following bank doesn’t have it’s head office in Kolkata – IOB 36. Which country becomes the 28th member of EU: – Croatia 37. When RBI wants to absorb liquidity from market increase reverse repo, decrease repo or increase crr: Increase Reverse REPO Rate 38. Committee on Gold – KUB Rao committee 39. Which book is not written by Chetan Bhagat – two people SHINE SCHOOL OF BANKING Page 4 GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUESTIONS 2014 40. Who becomes the first Indian-origin Miss America 2013 – Nina Davuluri 41. GDP Growth Forecast by CSO for 2013-14:- 5.3% 42. The name of the airline venture float by TATA and Singapore Airlines – Tata SIA Airlines Ltd 43. Which is the Most Important Stock Exchange in the World – NYSE/ Nasdaq 44. Which award given to Finance Minister P Chidambaram by – Business Reformer Award 45. Balance Sheet indicates what: company's assets 46. G20 Summit 2013 Venue — Saint Petersburg, Russia 47. Infosys launches new version of banking solution — Finacle11 48. R. Sodhi related to which sports: Shooting 49. MacMohan Line between which countries – India and China 50. Who developed rupee symbol – Udaya Kumar 51. Ceo of apple inc.: Timothy D. Cook 52. FCNR(B) interest rate: 53. REER full form: Real Effective Exchange Rate 54. Bhag Milka Bhag actor: Farhaan Akhtar 55. CEO of Women Bank: Usha Ananthasubramanian 56. Full form of EASIEST — Electronic Accounting System in Excise and Service Tax 57. ATM without the label of any bank: White label ATM 58. Capital of Lebanon: Beirut 59. Information technology Act in which year: Information Technology Act 2000 (also known as ITA-2000) 60. IFSC Code is needed in: Online or Net Banking Transaction 61. Who is the first Indian to win shooting completion in world championship –Rahi Sarnobat 62. 726 MW ONGC power project in which North-Eastern state — Tripura 63. Mandatory for companies to spend at least 2% of net profits on: CSR 64. If a NRI wants to deal in indian market ,he can do so by: (participatory notes) SHINE SCHOOL OF BANKING Page 5 GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUESTIONS 2014 65. Adjustments done by centarl bank of a country to control money is called: monetary policy 66. Who is the richest Indian in world 6 times continuously: Mukesh Ambani 67. International Women’s day: 8 March 68. GAAR: General Anti-Avoidance Rule 69. SAFTA: South Asian Free Trade Area 70. Zimbabwe President: Robert G.Muagabe 71. The process of making blackmoney white: (money laundering) 72. Hassan rouhani is the PM of: President of Iran 73. Wheat ,Bajra comes under : kharif crop 74. New Director General of CPRF – Dilip Trivedi 75. HC of WTO: Geneva 76. Import duty on gold – 15% 77. The only person to win both an Oscar and a Nobel prize was : George Bernard Shaw 78. Who is the only person to be honoured with both 'Bharat Ratna' and 'Nishan-e-Pakistan', the highest civilian awards of India and Pakistan respectively Morarji Desai 79. Who is also known as the Father of Indian Nuclear Science : Homi Jehangir Bhabha 80. Who was the first President of the Indian National Congress : W.C. Banerjee 81. Who was the first Indian to go into space : Rakesh Sharma 82. Who was the first person to reach the South Pole : Captain Roald Amundsen 83. Who Won the Nobel prize in both physics and chemistry : Marie curie 84. Edvige Antonia Albina Maino is the real name of which politician : Sonia Gandhi 85. An English chemist and physicist, after whom the SI unit of capacitance is named : Sir Michael Faraday 86. Which actor has been portrayed most on screen by other actors : Charlie Chaplain SHINE SCHOOL OF BANKING Page 6 GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUESTIONS 2014 1.Every year March 20 is celebrated as what day ? (A) World Sparrow Day (B) International Women’s Day (C) World Cuckoo Day (D) International Child Day (E) International Mother’s Day Ans : (A) 2. Invisible Export means export of– (A) Services (B) Prohibited goods (C) Restricted goods (D) Goods as per OGL list (E) Other than those given as options Ans : (A) 3. One of the famous Indian Sportsperson released his/her autobiography–’Playing to Win’ in November 2012. Name the sports-person correctly– (A) Saina Nehwal (B) Mary Kom (C) Yuvraj Singh (D) Sachin Tendulkar (E) Sushil Kumar Ans : (A) 4. The NRIs while investing in the equity of a company cannot buy more than prescribed percentage of the paid up capital of that company .What is the prescribed percentage ? (A) 2% (B) 3% (C) 4% (D) 5% (E) 6% Ans : (D) 5. Government as part of the recapitalisation plan, infused capital in State Bank of India recently. Indicate the approximate capital infusion– (A) Rs. 500 cr. (B) Rs. 1000 cr. (C) Rs. 1,500 cr. (D) Rs. 2,000 cr. (E) Rs. 3,000 cr. Ans : (E) 6. Prof. Muhammad Yunus, the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize 2006 is the exponent of which of the following concepts in the field of banking ? (A) Core Banking (B) Micro Credit (C) Retail Banking (D) Real Time Gross Settlement (E) Internet Banking Ans : (B) 7. Banks in India are required to maintain a portion of their demand and time liabilities with the Reserve Bank of India. This portion is called– (A) Statutory Liquidity Ratio (B) Cash Reserve Ratio (C) Bank Deposit (D) Reverse Repo (E) Government Securities Ans : (B) 8.
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