General Awareness : Sample Questions For Various Examinations

General Awareness Sample Questions

IAS/PSC/Banking Exams

Q.1. What do you understand by Community Development programmes ?

• Villages participation in the programme
• A movement to promote better living for the whole community
• A movement to promote better living for the whole community with the assistance of local Government
• A movement designed to promote better living for the whole community with the active participation and on the initiative of the community
• None of these

Q.2. In which one of the following activities percentage share of cooperative sector is the highest ?

• Agricultural Credit disbursement
• Sugar production
• Wheat procurement
• Fertilizer distribution
• Handlooms

Q.3. What is a Panchayati Raj ?

• It is a community development programme
• It is a cooperative movement
• It is a scheme of self governance
• It is an exercise in decentralization of administrative authority
• It is an out dated system, not followed now

Q.4. Which one of the following is the updated base 7 for Wholesale Price Index (WPI) ?

• 2002-2003
• 2003-2004
• 2004-2005
• 2005-2006
• 2006-2007

Q.5. What is a Green Index ?

• It measures nation’s wealth according to GNP per capita
• It measures nation’s wealth according to GDP per captia
• It measures nation’s wealth according to provisions of control on Green house gases
• It measures nation’s wealth in terms of coverage of forest area
• None of these

Q.6. In which one of the following city, 2012 Olympics are proposed to be held ?

• Frankfurt
• London
• Tokyo
• Washington
• Dubai

Q.6. In which one of the following states, Rosa Power Plant is located ?

• U.P.
• M.P.
• Orissa
• Haryana
• Punjab

Q.8. Which one of the following is present Saving Bank Interest Rate (in percentage terms) ?

• 3.0
• 3.5
• 4.0
• 4.5
• 5.0

Q.9. For calculation of poverty line in rural area, which one of the following calories consumption per day per person has been stipulated by Planning Commission?

• 2000
• 2100
• 2400
• 2500
• None of these

Q.10. Who is Julian Assange ?

• Founder, Google
• Founder, Rediffmail
• Nominee, Nobel Prize for Literature 2010
• Founder, WikiLeaks
• None of these

Q.11. For which one of the following States, interloculators’ panel has been appointed by the Centre ?

• Manipur
• Arunachal Pradesh
• Assanm
• Nagaland (F) J&K
• None of these

Q.12. Expand the term BCBS.

• Bank’s Committee on Banking Supervision
• Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
• Bank’s Commission on Banking Supervision
• Basel Commission on Banking Supervision
• None of these

Q.13. By which one of the following years, Government proposes to introduce IFRS norms?

• April 2011
• October 2011
• April 2012
• October 2012
• None of these

Q.14. As per World Development Report 2009, if the poverty is measured by the international poverty line standard of below a dollar a day, approximately what per cent of people will be living in India below poverty line ?

• 25.0
• 27.5
• 34.5
• 58.5
• 10.5

Q.15. Who is Kaushik Basu ?

• Dy. Governor, RBI
• Member Planning Commission
• Chairman, Prime Ministers’ Economic Advisory Council
• Chief Economic Advisor
• Secretary-General FICCI

Q.16. In a Poverty Pyramid index, which one of the following segments of population face highest poverty risk ?

• Formal wage employment
• Informal Self Employment : Employers
• Regular Informal Wage employment
• Informal Self Employment own account
• Casual Informal Wage Employment and domestic work

Q.17. Which one of the following is a Self Employment Programme for Educated Unemployed Youth ?

• Prime Minister’s Rozgar Yojana
• Swaran Jayanti Sahakari Rozgar Yojana
• National Social Assistance Programme
• Swaran Jayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana
• None of these

Q.18. In which one of the following States, Sariska Tiger Reserve is located ?

• M. P.
• Gujarat
• Rajasthan
• West Bengal
• Orissa

Q.19. Who is Mohammed Yunus ?

• Finance Minister, Bangladesh
• Founder, Grameen Bank
• Nobel Laureate for peace
• Foreign Minister, Pakistan
• Founder Micro Finance Institutions in India

Q.20. Which one of the following is the primary source of energy in India ?

• Hydel Power
• Natural Gas
• Coal
• Naptha
• Non-conventional energy

Q.21. At which one of the following rate, the Central Bank lends to banks against government securities ?

• Repo Rate
• Reverse Repo Rate
• Bank Rate
• SLR
• CRR

Q.22. Which one of the following is not a member of BASIC ?

• India
• China
• South Africa
• Brazil
• Indonesia

Q.23. Which one of the following Corporate Groups has argued in Supreme Court that leaks of Radia Tapes has affected its reputation ?

• RIL
• Jindal Steels
• Bajaj Group
• Adani Group
• Tata Group

Q.24. Yuan currency belongs to which one of the following countries ?

• Japan
• Thailand
• South Korea
• China
• Vietnam

Q.25. Aung San Sau Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize Winner belongs to which one of the following countries?

• China
• North Korea
• South Korea
• Japan
• Myanmar