General Awareness Questions for NICL AO Mains 2017

Dear Readers,

This is the high time to pace up your preparations for Upcoming NICL AO Mains. Subjects like Aptitude, Reasoning, and English are important for the preparation of your exams but the subject the reality comes in your way as a big challenge is General Awareness. As you know General Awareness is the very important section in the NICL AO. So we are here to provide you very handy Quiz on General Awareness that will cover Current Affairs, Static Awareness, and Banking Awareness topics. Attempt the quiz with your best effort and try to score as much as you can.

Q1. Name the public lender that surpassed oil exploration major ONGC to become most valued public sector undertaking (PSU) stock in terms of market capitalization (m-cap) in intra-day trade.
(a) BHEL
(b) SBI
(c) HPCL
(d) IOCL
(e) BOB

Q2. World hemophilia day is observed globally on ___________.
(a) 18 April
(b) 15 April
(c) 21 April
(d) 17 April
(e) 20 April

Q3. In 2017, the theme of International Day for Monuments and Sites is _____________.
(a) Protect our culture
(b) Cultural Heritage & Sustainable Tourism
(c) The Heritage of Sports
(d) Heritage for Future
(e) None of the above themes are true

Q4. Which of the following Internet giants has launched an app aggregating food delivery and home services in India named Areo?
(a) Amazon
(b) ebay
(c) Google
(d) Facebook
(e) Google

Q5. _______ is a deposit account provided by a bank or other financial institutions for individuals to save money and earn the modest interest for that money held in the account.
(a) Fixed Deposit Account
(b) Savings Bank Account
(c) Recurring Account
(d) Current Account
(e) None of the given options is true

Q6. Which among the following bank is the first bank to launch the Mudra Card based on the RuPay platform?
(a) SBI
(b) Corporation Bank
(c) Vijaya Bank
(d) PNB
(e) HDFC Bank

Q7. ______________ in partnership with Visa launched India’s first co-branded e-commerce credit card
(a) Flipkart and ICICI Bank
(b) Snapdeal and ICICI Bank
(c) Flipkart and HDFC Bank
(d) Snapdeal and HDFC Bank
(e) Flipkart and Axis Bank

Q8. The Data centre of which bank has achieved the distinction of becoming the country's first Platinum rated project under IGBC (Indian Green Building Council) Green Data Centre Rating System?
(a) Karnataka
(b) Axis Bank
(c) Bank of Baroda
(d) ICICI Bank
(e) State Bank of India

Q9. In which among the following state government and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) has signed an agreement for the Rs 43,129 crore Barmer refinery in the presence of Union Minister of state for petroleum and natural gas Dharmendra Pradhan?
(a) Rajasthan
(b) Haryana
(c) Bihar
(d) West Bengal
(e) Gujarat

Q10. Uttar Pradesh government has changed the name of Gorakhpur and Agra Airports as well as the name of the department of welfare of the differently abled. The Gorakhpur Airforce Station has been renamed as _______________ after the founder of the Nath monastic movement.
(a) Madan Mohan Airport
(b) Lal Bahadur Shastri Airport
(c) Mahayogi Goraknath Airport
(d) Adityanath Airport
(e) None of the given options is true

Q11. Expanding its digital presence, markets regulator SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India) has launched its revamped website having several user-friendly features and compatible with all desktop and mobile devices. Who is present chairman of SEBI?
(a) Yaduvendra Mathur
(b) TS Vijayan
(c) Urjit Patel
(d) UK Sinha
(e) Ajay Tyagi

Q12. The World Environment Day observed on-
(a) 15th June
(b) 5th June
(c) 10th October
(d) 8th March
(e) 25th June

Q13. The International Criminal Police Organisation (INTERPOL) has its headquarters at
(a) London
(b) Paris
(c) Bonn
(d) Montreal
(e) Lyon

Q14. National Environmental Engineering Research Institute is located at-
(a) Pune
(b) Delhi
(c) Mumbai
(d) Chennai
(e) Nagpur

Q15. ____________ is a product to provide a person with an opportunity to build up saving through regular monthly deposits of fixed sum over a period of time.
(a) Fixed Deposit Account
(b) Savings Bank Account
(c) Recurring Deposit Account
(d) Current Account
(e) None of the given options is true

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