IBPS CLERKS EXAM GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE MCQs

1) Expand FICCI ?
1. Federation of Industry Chambers and Commerce of India
2. Federation of Indian Chambers of Confederation and Industry
3. Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry
4. Federation of Industrial Chambers of Confederation of India
5. None of these

2) The Head quarters of United India Insurance Company Limited is located in
1. Mumbai
2. Kolkata
3. Pune
4. New Delhi
5. Chennai

3) In which of the following state, Institute of Rural Management, Anand is located?
1. Maharashtra
2. Punjab
3. Gujarat
4. Tamilnadu
5. Uttar Pradesh

4) Who was the first Indian to win Ramon-Magsaysay Award?
1. Mahamatma Gandhi
2. Nehru
3. Indira Gandhi
4. Vinobha Bhave
5. Guljarilal Nanda

5) Who was the first Indian to win Order of Australia Award?
1. Soli Sorabji
2. Kiran Bedi
3. Anna hazare
4. Kapil Dev
5. Dhyan Chand

6) The Head quarters of New India Assurance are located in?
1. Chennai
2. Chandigarh
3. Mumbai
4. Hyderabad
5. Bangalore

7) Who among the following won Man booker Prize twice?
1. Peter Carey
2. JM Coetzee
3. Hillary Mantel
4. Only 1 and 3
5. All the above got twice

8) In which year ICRISAT was founded?
1. 1971
2. 1972
3. 1973
4. 1974
5. 1975

9) India’s largest commercial real estate developer DLF is much in news recently. In which year it was founded?
1. 1946
2. 1947
3. 1948
4. 1949
5. 1950



10) In which of the following years Yash Raj Films was founded by Yash Chopra?
1. 1967
2. 1968
3. 1969
4. 1970
5. 1971

11) For which of the following book Sunil Gangopadhyaya won Sahitya Akademi Award?
1. Krittibas
2. Prathama Alo
3. Sei Somoy
4. Purbo-paschim
5. Atmaprakash (first Novel)

12) In which of the following news paper Jaspal Bhatti worked as a cartoonist?
1. The Tribune
2. Punjab Kesari
3. The Statesman
4. Deccan Herald
5. Times of India

13) Who among the following has been appointed as the CEO of the Bombay Stock Exchange?
1. Ranabir Sinha
2. Aman Khosla
3. Ashish Kumar Chauhan
4. Sunder Raman Chaudhury
5. None of the above

14) Indian Bollywood Actress Aish warya Roy has been recently conferred a civilian award by which of the following nation?
1. Australia
2. Canada
3.Britain
4. France
5. Sweden

15) Which of the following is true about Jodie Foster?
1. She is Holly wood Actress
2. She won Oscar award twice
3. She will receive a lifetime achieve ment award at the 2013 Golden globes Awards Function
4. She acted in 40 hollywood Films
5. All the above are true

16) Who among the following has assumed charge as Executive Director of the Board of the International Monetary Fund recently?
1. Kaushik Basu
2. Amartya Sen
3. Rakesh Mohan
4. Ramesh Gaekwad
5. Rangarajan

17) Veteran BJP leader Kailaspati Mishra has died recently. To which of the following two states, he was the Governor?
1. Gujarat, Maharashtra
2. Gujarat, Rajasthan
3. Maharashtra, Rajasthan
4. Maharashtra, Punjab
5. Haryana, Gujarat

18) Who among the following is the only Bollywood Actor named in the list of five best actors in Asia by an international magazine?
1. Anupam Kher
2. Nana Phatekar
3. Jockey Shoroff
4. Sharukh Khan
5. Ameer Khan

19) Who among the following has been awarded the Tata Literature Live first book award?
1. Aravind Adiga
2. Salman Rushde
3. Ruchir Sharma
4. Sudha Shah
5. Nilanjana Roy

20) Which of the following is true about Sharmila, a human right activist?
1. She is known as the Iron lady of Manipur
2. She has been on a hunger strike since the year 2000.
3. Demanding repeal of the Act that gives the Army the right to arrest suspected militants without arrest warrants and shoot anyone susp- ected of being a militant
4. She had started her hunger strike on November 2, 2000
5. All the above are true

21) Who among the following has been elected President of the India chapter of the International Adver-tising Association for 2012-13?
1. Prabhakar Hansle
2. Srinivasan Swamy
3. H.R. Machiraju
4. Anindam Roy
5. None of these

22) Vijaya Lakshmi has taken charge as Chairperson and Managing Director of which of the following Bank?
1. Indian Bank
2. Oriental Bank of Commerce
3. Bank of India
4. State Bank of India
5.Allahabad Bank


ANSWERS:

1-3; 2-5; 3-3; 4-4; 5-1;
6-3; 7-5; 8-2; 9-1; 10-4;
11-3; 12-1; 13-3; 14-4; 15-5;  16-3;
17-2; 18-1; 19-3; 20-5; 21-2; 22-3