General Awareness Quiz - SBI PO 2015

Q. : 1   India has appointed who among the following as the chief of the BRICS Bank or the New Development Bank?

1) KV Kamath

2) Kaushik Basu

3) Arvind Subramanian

4) Raghuram Rajan

5) YV Reddy

Q. : 2   As informed by the govt to the Lok Sabha, it will award how many kilometers of highways for the year 2015-16 to meet the construction target of 30 km of roads per day during the next two years?

1) 10,000 km

2) 8,000 km

3) 7,000 km

4) 4,000 km

5) None of these

Q. : 3   The RBI has asked all PSBs and the leading private and foreign banks to engage chief customer service officer (CCSO) or internal ombudsman. The RBI introduced the banking ombudsman scheme in

1) 1991

2) 1995

3) 1999

4) 2001

5) 2009

Q. : 4   Economist Alexandre Lamfalussy died on 9 May. He was one of the founding fathers of the

1) Asian Development Bank

2) World Economic Forum

3) European single currency euro

4) General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

5) None of these

Q. : 5   The HDFC has made it to world's top-10 list of consumer finance firms compiled by Forbes’ magazine. The list is topped by

1) Franshion Properties

2) Hua Nan Financial

3) CITI Group

4) Mastercard

5) American Express

Q. : 6   Shashi Kapoor was presented Dada Saheb Phalke award for 2014 on 10 May. Who was the winner of the coveted award for 2013?

1) Shammi Kapoor

2) Pran

3) Soumitra Chatterjee

4) Gulzar

5) Dilip Kumar

Q. : 7   Name the Indian tech billionaire who has been ranked as Asia's wealthiest entrepreneur under the age of 40, according to the Wealth-X list released on 11 May.

1) Kunal Bahl

2) Sachin Bansal

3) Rishi Sunak

4) Arun Pudur

5) None of these

Q. : 8   The Indian-origin Priti Patel got Cabinet rank in the new govt in which of the following countries recently?

1) Canada

2) UK

3) Norway

4) Spain

5) None of these

Q. : 9   Indian hockey team defeated which of the following teams 4-0 in a 4-match series on 9 May in Bhubaneshwar?

1) Japan

2) Malaysia

3) South Korea

4) Pakistan

5) None of these

Q. : 10   Who won the Spanish Grand Prix F1 championship on 10 May?

1) Kimi Raikkonen

2) Valtteri Bottas

3) Sebastian Vettel

4) Lewis Hamilton

5) Nico Rosberg

Answer:- 

1. (1) KV Kamath
2. (1) 10,000 km
3. (2) 1995
4. (3) European single currency euro
5. (5) American Express
6. (4) Gulzar
7. (4) Arun Pudur
8. (2) UK
9. (1) Japan
10. (5) Nico Rosberg