General Awareness Quiz

1. Name the Indian American woman who has been honoured as one of the Champions of Change by the White House of the US.

1) Sunita Viswanath 

2) Indra Nooyi 

3) Sunita Williams 

4) Renu Khator 

5) Geeta Menon

2. The Haryana govt has appointed who among the following as its brand ambassador for the ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ campaign to promote the cause of the girl child?

1) Kareena Kapoor   

2) Parineeti Chopra 

3) Deepika Padukone 

4) Priyanka Chopra 

5) Madhuri Dixit

3. The Union govt’s Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) has approved a proposal to set up the country’s first defence industrial park at Ottappalam in

1) Tamil Nadu 

2) Kerala 

3) Karnataka 

4) West Bengal 

5) Gujarat

4. Who among the following has been appointed as the new Director of National Book Trust?

1) MA Sikandar 

2) Uddipana Goswami 

3) Rita Chowdhury 

4) Arupa Kalita Patangia 

5) Anuradha Sharma Pujari

5. The RBI signed a special currency swap agreement, recently, with the central bank of which of the following countries that will allow the latter to draw up to $1.1 bn for a maximum period of six months?

1) Afghanistan 

2) Bangladesh 

3) Myanmar 

4) Sri Lanka

5) Maldives

6. India has signed a pact with the World Bank, recently, for $250-mn financial assistance for the Disaster Recovery Project of

1) Odisha 

2) Tamil Nadu 

3) Andaman and Nicobar 

4) Andhra Pradesh 

5) Lakshadweep

7. RBI launched Inflation Indexed Bonds (IIBs) to stop away investors from gold to paper-based savings instruments. What is the maturity period these bonds?

(1) 5 years                        

(2) 10 years

(3) 6 years                        

(4) 7 years

(5) None of these                        

   

8. RBI Provides--------for meeting day-to-day receipt and expenditure mismatch to both Central and State Governments

1) Treasury bills                  

2) Ways and Means advance 

3) Date and securities       

4) All the above 

5) None of these                           

9.  The maximum number of withdrawals permitted in a savings account, half yearly is__?

(1) 90   

(2) 60 

(3) 50   

(4) 110

(5) None of these   

10. The Capital Account Convertibility of the Indian rupee refers to:

(1) That the Indian rupee can be exchanged for the US dollar for international trade in goods and service

(2) That the Indian rupee can be exchanged for any major currency for the purpose of trading financial assets

(3) That the Indian rupee can be exchanged by the authorized dealer for travel purpose

(4) That the Indian rupee can be exchanged for any major currency for the purpose of trade in goods and services

(5) None of the above

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