General Awareness Quiz for Bank PO
November 14, 2011
1. Name the person who gave the following statement “For next fifty years let Mother India be the only god to be worshipped by Indians”
a) Iswarchand Vidyasagar
b) Raja Rammohan Roy
c) Dayanand saraswati
d) Swami Vivekanand
2. The newspaper Kesari to promote nationalism was brought out by which of the following leaders
a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
b) Lalalajpat Rai
c) Mahatma Gandhi
d) Subhash Chandra Bose
3. When was the battle of Buxar fought
a) 1763
b) 1764
c) 1765
d) 1774
4. “The Audacity of hope” is written by
a) Nandan Nilkani
b) Nikolas Sarkozi
c) Barak Obama
d) Salmaan Rushdie
5. The retirement age of a High Court Judge in India is
a) 60
b) 65
c) 62
d) 58
6. By which amendment to the constitution of India the voting age was lowered down from 21 years to 18 years.
a) Sixty First Amendment
b) Fifty Second Amendment
c) Fourty Third Amendment
d) Fourty fourth Amendment
7. Hunter commission on education was appointed during the period of
a) Lord Dufferin
b) Lord Lytton
c) Lord Curzon
d) Lord Ripon
8. The first Indian minister to visit the Indian Research station at Antarctica was
a) Jaswant Singh
b) P. Chidambaram
c) Pranab Mukharjee
d) kapil Sibbal
9. “All Bodo Students Union” is a militant organization active in which of the following state
a) Orissa
b) Assam
c) Andhra Pradesh
d) Manipur
10. Which of the following is not a Central Government tax?
a) Land Revenue
b) Corporation Tax
c) Income Tax
d) Customs Duty
11. Who of the following owns the Ashok Leyland
a) Tatas
b) Hindujas
c) Birlas
d) None of these
12. Which of the following Indian states is the largest producer of cotton
a) Punjab
b) Madhya Pradesh
c) Maharashtra
d) Uttar Pradesh
13. Who was the First chief Justice of India
a) M. Patanjali Shastri
b) H. J. Kania
c) S.R. Das
d) B. K. Mukharjee
14. Who was the First Chief Election Commisioner of India
a) S.L. Shakdhar
b) S.P. Sen Verma
c) K.V.K. Sundaram
d) Sukumar Sen
15. Which is the largest Cashew nut producer in India
a) Andhra Pradesh
b) Karnataka
c) Tamil Nadu
d) Kerala
16. The winners of mixed doubles for Australian open 2009 are
a) Mahesh Bhupati & Sania Mirza
b) carly Gullickson & Travis Parrot
c) Liezel Huber & Bob Bryan
d) Mark Knowles and Anna lena
17. The Indian Navy Day is observed on
a) 5 June
b) 22 April
c) 4 December
d) 3 May
18. ‘Nine lives:In Search of the Sacred in Modern India” is written by
a) Willain Dalrymple
b) Margaret Atwood
c) Lorrie Moore
d) Subroto Bagchi
19. The first ASEAN Summit was held in
a) Singapore 2007
b) Bali 1976
c) Manila 1987
d) Bangkok 1995
20. The Fifteenth ASEAN summit from October 23 to October 25 was held in
a) Vientiane
b) Thailand
c) Kuala lumpur
d) Phillipines
Answer Keys:
1) d. 2.) a. 3) b. 4.) c. 5) c. 6) a. 7) d. 8] d. 9) b. 10) a.11) b. 12) c. 13) b. 14) d. 15) d. 16) a. 17) c. 18) a. 19) b. 20) b.