IBPS Clerk Main: General & Financial Awareness

Practice Set-01
Test: General/FinancialAwareness

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1. Vijay Prasad Dimri has been appointed president of 36th International Geological Congress
(IGC) to be hosted in 2020 by
1) Pakistan 2) Nepal 3) Bangladesh 4) India 5) All of these
2. Which of the following terms is NOT used in the field of banking and finance?
1) SWIFT 2) CAMELS 3) IMPS 4) CHAPS 5) None of these
3. Which of the following financial institutions fosters international monetary and financial
cooperation and serves as a bank for central banks?

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1) BIS 2) IBRD 3) World Bank 4) IMF 5) Federal Reserve
4. A commercial paper can be issued for maturities of a minimum of how many days from the date
of issue?
1) 07 days 2) 15 days 3) 30 days 4) 60 days 5) 90 days
5. 2. The National Press Day is observed every year on
1) 01 Nov 2) 06 Nov 3) 16 Nov 4) 26 Nov 5) 30 Nov
6. The venue of the 48th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) is
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1) Mumbai 2) New Delhi 3) Bengaluru 4) Goa 5) Hyderabad
7. The Govt of India recently launched Bharat-22 Exchange Traded Fund which is managed by
1) ICICI Prudential MF 2) Axis MF 3) SBI Magnum MF
4) Franklin India MF 5) ABN AMRO MF
8. Which of the following is the capital city of Philippines?
1) Bangkok 2) Manila 3) Hanoi 4) Bandar Seri Begawan 5) Naypyidaw
9. The wholesale price index (WPI)-based inflation remained at what per cent in Oct 2017?
1) 2.63 per cent 2) 3.61 per cent 3) 3.59 per cent
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4) 3.95 per cent 5) 4.12 per cent

10. The theme of the 37th India International Trade Fair (IITF) celebrated the programme
1) Digital India 2) Skill India 3) Make In India
4) Swachh Bharat Abhiyan 5) Startup India: Stand Up India
11. Which of the following gulf countries recently approved yoga as a sports activity?
1) Saudi Arabia2) Iran 3) Iraq 4) Kuwait 5) Bahrain
12. Dalveer Bhandari of India contested Christopher Greenwood of which country to be elected as
a judge to the International Court of Justice (ICJ)?
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1) US 2) France 3) UK 4) Germany 5) Norway

13. The secretariat of the International Energy Agency (IEA) is located in
1) London 2) Geneva 3) Basel 4) New York 5) Paris
14. The financial year of the RBI ends on
1) Mar 31 2) Jun 30 3) Sep 30 4) Oct 31 5) Dec 31
15. What is the full form of the term FPI?
1) Foreign Priority Investor 2) Foreign Participatory Investor
3) Foreign Progressive Investor 4) Foreign Portfolio Investor
5) None of these
16. Pt Deen Dayal Upadhayay Vigyan Gram Sankul Pariyojana was launched recently in

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 1) Jharkhand 2) Goa 3) Manipur 4) Uttarakhand 5) Rajasthan
17. The Asian Development Bank has sanctioned a USD 300-mn loan facility for carrying forward
fiscal reforms in
1) West Bengal 2) Karnataka 3) Tamil Nadu

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4) Kerala 5) Gujarat
18. India has received its first 12000 HP locomotive. The locomotive is supplied by Alstom which is
a multinational company from
1) US 2) Switzerland 3) France 4) Singapore 5) Spain
19. _________ is India’s most trusted and most popular bank according to a survey conducted by
Brand Finance.
1) HDFC Bank 2) Bank of Baroda 3) ICICI Bank
4) Central Bank of India 5) State Bank of India

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20. Balraj Joshi has been appointed as the new chairman and managing director (CMD) of
1) NHPC 2) NTPC 3) NPCI 4) GAIL 5) SAIL
21. The nationwide health campaign themed ‘Nurturing the Nurturer’ is aimed at sensitising women
about the
1) benefits of breastfeeding 2) use of contraceptives 3) early screening for cancer
4) vaccination of children 5) institutional deliveries
22. Bixby is the name of an artificial intelligence-based assistant which is developed by
1) Apple 2) HTC 3) LG 4) Panasonic 5) Samsung
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23. Which bank has launched a bond index series in partnership with global index provider FTSE
100?
1) HDFC Bank 2) SBI 3) ICICI Bank
4) PNB 5) Kotak Mahindra Bank
24. The First LPG Panchayat facilitating interaction between women beneficiaries of the Ujjawala
Yojana and the oil companies was held recently in
1) Jaipur 2) Bhopal 3) Varanasi 4) Gandhinagar 5) Patna
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25. Who among the following Indian bowlers has not taken a hat-trick so far?
1) Chetan Sharma 2) Kapil Dev 3) Kuldeep Yadav
4) Anil Kumble 5) None of these
26. Which of the following companies received shareholders’ approval to convert its legal status to
a private company recently?
1) Tata Sons 2) RIL 3) Bharti Enterprises
4) Adani Group 5) Aditya Birla Group
27. PM Narendra Modi flagged off which of the following trains to connect Varanasi with Gujarat’s
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Surat and Vadodara recently?

1) Humsafar Express 2) Mahamana Express 3) Shri Shakti AC Express
4) Duronto Express 5) Vallabh Express
28. Which of the following films is India’s official entry to the Best Foreign Film catgory at the
Oscars 2018?
1) Newton 2) Simran 3) Bahubali 2: The Conclusion
4) Hindi Medium 5) Dangal
29. The 6th Edition of the four-day international textile and apparel fair, ‘VASTRA’ was organized
in
1) Mumbai 2) Ahmedabad 3) Jaipur 4) Bhopal 5) Lucknow
30. Jake LaMotta passes away recently. He was a legendary
1) archer 2) weightlifter 3) wrestler 4) shooter 5) boxer

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 31. India is collaborating with which country to build Rooppur nuclear power plant in Bangladesh?
1) Japan 2) Russia 3) China 4) US 5) Australia
32. The International Day of Peace is observed across the world on
1) 02 Sep 2) 12 Sep 3) 11 Sep 4) 21 Sep 5) 30 Sep

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33. The Union Cabinet has approved the pact between India and which country on Scientific and
Technological Cooperation in the areas of science, technology, agriculture?
1) Ukraine 2) Belarus 3) Tajikistan 4) Jordan 5) Colombia
34. India’s first Global Tribal Entrepreneurship Summit was organised recently at Dantewada
district in
1) Jharkhand 2) Uttarakhand 3) Andhra Pradesh
4) Chhattisgarh 5) Telangana
35. _________ is a proposed nation in outer space that is free of the control of existing nations,

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and be recognized as a nation state.
1) Asgardia 2) Specia 3) NationX 4) My Space 5) New Nation
36. Ennore Port or Kamarajar Port is situated in
1) Vishakhapatnam 2) Kolkata 3) Kandla 4) Mumbai 5) Chennai
37. India’s CERT-In organized the Asia Pacific Computer Emergency Response Team (APCERT)
Conference recently in
1) Bengaluru 2) Hyderabad 3) Gurugram 4) New Delhi 5) Chennai
38. What is the currency of Slovenia?
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1) Rand 2) Real 3) Dollar 4) Pound 5) Euro
39. Sonai Rupai Wildlife Sanctuary is situated in the state of
1) Assam 2) Sikkim 3) Manipur 4) Tripura 5) Nagaland
40. The Bhimbetka rock shelters archaeological site is located in the state of
1) Rajasthan 2) Gujarat 3) Karnataka 4) Madhya Pradesh 5) Maharashtra
41. The govt has notified the Minimum Export Price (MEP) of onion at
1) $450 per tonne 2) $550 per tonne 3) $650 per tonne
4) $750 per tonne 5) $850 per tonne
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42. The RBI has allowed ARCs to have higher holding than the 26 per cent cap. Here, the term
ARC means
1) Acquisition and Reconstruction Company 2) Assured Reconstruction Company
3) Asset Reconstruction Company 4) Asset Reconciliation Company
5) None of these
43. The Centre will set up ‘Pradhan Mantri Mahila Shakti Kendras’ across 115 most backward
districts for facilitating
1) health 2) digital literacy 3) employment 4) skill development 5) All of these
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44. The ICFT UNESCO Gandhi Award was awarded to the movie “Kshitij - A Horizon” which is
a
1) Hindi film 2) Marathi film 3) Tamil film 4) Kannada film 5) Malayalam film
45. Every year 26 Nov is observed as the
1) National Journalism Day 2) Constitution Day 3) National Unity Day
4) World Pneumonia Day 5) World Diabetes Day
46. The Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs is headed by
1) Rajnath Singh 2) Arun Jaitley 3) Sushma Swaraj
4) Nirmala Sitharaman 5) Piyush Goyal
47. Emmerson Mnangagwa was sworn in recently as the new President of

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 1) Nigeria 2) Somalia 3) South Africa 4) Kenya 5) Zimbabwe
48. The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women is observed every year on
1) 05 Nov 2) 15 Nov 3) 25 Nov 4) 25 Nov 5) 30 Nov
49. The book No Room For Small Dreams has been authored by
1) Fiona Mozley 2) Benjamin Netanyahu 3) Mohsin Hamid

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4) Shimon Peres 5) Emily Fridlund
50. Shagun Chowdhary is associated with which of the following games? She was crowned
National Women’s champion recently.
1) Shooting 2) Boxing 3) Squash 4) Weightlifting 5) Wrestling

Answers:

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1. 5 2. 5 3. 2 4. 1 5. 3
6. 4 7. 1 8. 2 9. 3 10. 5
11. 1 12. 3 13. 5 14. 2 15. 4
16. 4 17. 1 18. 3 19. 5 20. 1
21. 3 22. 5 23. 2 24. 4 25. 4
26. 1 27. 2 28. 1 29. 3 30. 5
31. 2 32. 4 33. 2 34. 4 35. 1
36. 5 37. 4 38. 5 39. 1 40. 4
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41. 5 42. 3 43. 5 44. 2 45. 2
46. 1 47. 5 48. 3 49. 4 50. 1

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