State Bank Of India Examination : State Bank Of India Examination

State Bank Of India Examination
Probationary Officer General Awareness Questions

Q.1.On 7th May 2008, Agni-I was test-fired. It was

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

Q.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

Q.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

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

• Bhutan
• Nepal
• Zimbabwe
• Italy

Q.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

Q.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

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

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

Q.8.Who received Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2007

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Discovery
• Endeavour
• Columbia
• None of the above

Q.12.Jules Verne is European

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

Q.13.India's National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme has prepared the country's first

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

Q.14.˜The World Is What It Is is the biography of

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

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

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

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

• Romania
• Morocco
• Pakistan
• Indonesia

Q.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

Q.18.Tata purchased Jaguar and Rover from

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

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

• U.S.A.
• China
• Japan
• Germany

Q.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

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

• 8%
• 8·5%
• 9%
• 8·9%

Q.22.The Spritzer Architecture Prize has been won by

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

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

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

Q.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

Q.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

Q.26.The winner of Bahrain Grand Prix is

• Lewis Hamilton
• Kartikeyan
• Felipe Massa
• Robert Kubica

Q.27.The winner of Miss India Earth 2008 is

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

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

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

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

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

Q.30.Leftism in India, 1917-1947 is a book written by

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

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

• Argentina
• Chile
• Mexico
• Brazil

Q.32.GJM stands for

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

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

• Italy
• Spain
• Zimbabwe
• Nepal

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

• SCs
• STs
• OBC
• Minorities OBC

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

• Chittorgarh
• Bhavnagar
• Kolkata
• Karaikal

Q.36.Salwa Judum is

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

Q.37.When was Nepal declared a Secular Nation

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

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

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

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

• Alzhumer
• Schizophrenia
• Parkinsons disease
• None of the above

Q.40.When did the Olympic torch relay begin ?

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

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