28 December 2016

General Awareness Questions for IBPS CLERK MAINS



1. Who of the following as president of FIFA for two decades transformed football’s governing body into a multibillion-dollar business died recently?
a) Peter Santsberg
b) Jack Ryan
c) Joao Havelange
d) None of these
2. Who of the following eminent Punjabi writer and novelist died recently?

a) Dalbir Singh
b) Sukhwinder Kalra
c) Dilip Mehra
d) Gurdial Singh
3. In which city India’s first BIO-CNG plant was inaugurated?
a) Hyderabad
b) Pune
c) Kolkata
d) Bengaluru
4. Which company inaugurated India’s facility to produce Nickel metal of LME grade from primary resource at Ghatsila in Jharkhand?
a) Steel Authority of India Limited
b) Hindustan Copper Limited
c) Rashtriya Ispat Nigam
d) Jindal Steel and Power
5. Who will head the National Committee on Trade Facilitation that was formed by the Union Government?
a) Union Cabinet Secretary
b) Union Commerce Secretary
c) Union Finance Secretary
d) Foreign Secretary
6. Which country launched the world's first quantum satellite named Quantum Experiments at Space Scaler (QUESS) satellite in August 2016?
a) Japan
b) United States
c) China
d) India
7. Which Bank launched the Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) based *99# Mobile Application for basic banking needs?
a) State Bank of India
b) Oriental Bank of Commerce
c) Bank of Baroda
d) Union Bank of India
8. Name the eminent poet and lyricist who passed away in August 2016 and penned a novel titled Silk City in Tamil?
a) T Balumahendra
b) S K Seeman
c) Velainu Vandhutta
d) Na Muthukumar
9. Who created a world record of 82.29m in women’s hammer throw to win gold at Rio Olympics?
a) Anita Wlodarczyk
b) Sophie Hitchon
c) Wenxiu Zhang
d) None of the above
10. Which state government recently launched a mobile application for its Kanyashree Prakalpa project?
a) Odisha
b) West Bengal
c) Madhya Pradesh
d) Maharashtra
11. Usain Bolt won gold in men’s 100-metre final at the Rio Olympics. He belongs to which country?
a) Anguilla
b) Barbados
c) Jamaica
d) Puerto Rico
12. Name the head of Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha who died recently.
a) Yogiji Maharaj
b) Shastriji Maharaj
c) Gunatitanand Swami
d) Pramukh Swami Maharaj
13. Who won gold in Men's omnium track cycling at Rio Olympics?
a) Elia Viviani
b) Mark Cavendish
c) Lasse Norman Hansen
d) Roger Kluge
14. Who of the following was first Speaker of Delhi Assembly, died recently?
a) Dilip Kumar
b) SP Sanghvi
c) Mayank Goel
d) Charti Lal Goel
15. Anita Wlodarczyk who created a world record of 82.29m in women’s hammer throw to win gold at Rio Olympics belongs to which country?
a) Denmark
b) Poland
c) Russia
d) Germany

16. National Academy of Indian Railways (NAIR) signed an MoU with which University to award MBA degrees to rail employees?
a) Pune University
b) Jawahar Lal Nehru University
c) Kanpur University
d) Maharaja Sayajirao University