State Bank Of India Probationary Officers Model Questions

State Bank Of India Probationary Officers
General Awareness Model Questions

1. On 07.05.2008, Agni-I was test-fired. It was—

• Ballistic Missile
• Surface to air missile
• Land to sea missile
• Air to air missile

2. Which of the following High Courts has recently quashed the merit list issued in 2006 and 2007 by the center and the UPSC—

• Bhopal High Court
• Rajasthan High Court
• Madras High Court
• Guwahati High Court

3. Recently the Acronym START came into News. START stands for—

• Strategic Association for Restructuring Trade
• Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
• System Tracking and Reprocessing Team
• None of the above

4. People’s Democratic Party emerged second largest party with 33·01% in elections held in—

• Bhutan
• Nepal
• Zimbabwe
• Italy

5. According to the World Conservation Union Report, the number of plant species in India listed as threatened is—

• 247 plant species
• 250 plant species
• 275 plant species
• 255 plant species

6. Which of the following states passed a Bill in March 2008, amending the Registration Act 1908 to prohibit foreigners from buying land in the state—

• Kerala
• Andhra Pradesh
• Goa
• Maharashtra

7. The renowned scientist John Wheeler who died in April 2008, was originally hailed from—

• Australia
• U.S.A.
• Finland
• Britain

8. Who received Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmanent and Development for 2007—

• Bill Gates
• Nelson Mandela
• Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• Arthur C. Clarke

9. The 2008 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize awarded to —

• Lydia Cacho Ribeiro
• Anna Politkovskaya
• May Chidiac
• U Win Tin

10. Which of the following Indian players has not completed 10,000 runs in Test cricket—

• Rahul Dravid
• Sachin Tendulkar
• Sunil Gavaskar
• Virendra Sehwag

11. On March 26, 2008, NASA’s space shuttle which returned safely to Earth after completing 16 day mission to International Space Station was—

• Discovery
• Endeavour
• Columbia
• None of the above

12. Jules Verne is Europe’s—

• Space shuttle
• Missile shield system
• Biggest spacecraft
• Mission to Antarctica

13. India’s National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme has prepared the country’s first—

• Dirrohoea map
• Malarial map
• Bird flu map
• Cancer map

14. ‘The World Is What It Is’ is the biography of—

• V. S. Naipal
• Khushwant Singh
• Amrita Preetam
• A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

15. According to a World Bank Report India got remittances in 2007 worth—

• $ 30 billion
• $ 35 billion
• $ 25 billion
• $ 27 billion

16. The Summit of NATO (NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY) was held in April in—

• Romania
• Morocco
• Pakistan
• Indonesia

17. According to latest WHO report the number of estimated TB cases found every year in India is—

• 2·2 million
• 1·9 million
• 1·5 million
• 1·7 million

18. Tata purchased Jaguar and Rover from—

• Hyundai
• Maruti Suzuki
• Ford Motor
• None of the above

19. According to a survey, the country which has the highest number of internet users is—

• U.S.A.
• China
• Japan
• Germany

20. Which country has won the Women's Asia Cup Cricket 2008 which was held in Colombo in the month of May 2008 ?

• Brisbane
• Melbourne
• Sydney
• Perth

21. According to Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council (EAC) headed by C. Rangrajan the economic growth rate for 2008-09 will remain at—

• 8%
• 8·5%
• 9%
• 8·9%

22. The Pritzkar Architecture Prize has been won by—

• Bill Gates Foundation
• William Harvey
• Jea Nouvel
• None of the above

23. Which of the following cricket players has been banned for violating the player’s code of conduct by PCB ?

• Danish Kaneria
• Shoaib Malik
• Mohammad Yousuf
• Shoaib Akhtar

24. The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme has now been extended to all 604 districts of the country with a total budget outlay of—

• 18000 crore
• 16000 crore
• 15000 crore
• 14000 crore

25. Inflation which soared above 7% in the month of April is measured by—

• Consumer Price Index
• Retail Price Index
• Whole Sale Price Index
• Industrial Price Index

26. The winner of Bahrain Grand Prix is—

• Lewis Hamilton
• Kartikeyan
• Felipe Massa
• Robert Kubica

27. The winner of Miss India Earth 2008 is—

• Tanvi Vyas
• Suman Kaur
• Rashmi Sehgal
• Rani Sharma

28. In face of rising prices, Central Government has decided to set strategic Reserve of foodgrains over and above buffer stock. The limit of the reserve is—

• 10 million tonnes
• 7 million tonnes
• 6 million tonnes
• 5 million tonnes

29. Which of following newspapers/magazines won six Pulitzer prizes—

• The New York Times
• The Times Magazine
• The Washington Post
• The Guardian

30. ‘Leftism in India, 1917-1947’ is a book written by—

• S. R. Chaudhuri
• K. Kanwar
• R. Nagaswamy
• Sudipto Chatterjee

31. Recently President Pratibha Patil visited three countries. Which of the following was not the part of her trip—

• Argentina
• Chile
• Mexico
• Brazil

32. GJM stands for—

• General Justice Movement
• Gorkha Janmukti Morcha
• Gorkhaland Janshakti Morcha
• Gorkha Janjagriti Morcha

33. The elections of which of the following countries were marred by controversy—

• Italy
• Spain
• Zimbabwe
• Nepal

34. Supreme Court has upheld the law enacted in 2006 providing 27% for candidates belonging to—

• SCs
• STs
• OBC
• Minorities OBC

35. At which of the following places have the remains of early human history been found in excavation—

• Chittorgarh
• Bhavnagar
• Kolkata
• Karaikal

36. ‘Salwa Judum’ is—

• Terrorist organization
• A branch of naxalite
• Name of a police force
• An anti naxalite movement

37. When was Nepal declared a Secular Nation—

• in 2005
• in 2007
• in 2008
• in 2006

38. The Director General of UN Food and Agriculture Organization of present is—

• Jacques Diouf
• Kundekeh K. Yumkella
• Jammel Al Hiyilan
• Michael Griffin

39. According to a research, stem cells from skin can treat—

• Alzhumer
• Schizophrenia
• Parkinson’s disease
• None of the above

40. When did the Olympic torch relay begin ?

• in 1950
• in 1952
• in 1953
• in 1963