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General Knowledge Quiz for Banking entrance exams

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This quiz consists of actual questions from
various Banking entrance exams held during the last few years. Leave your
answers/ responses in the comments section below and soon we’ll let you know
the correct answers!

1. Odisha recently renamed which of its islands as
Abdul Kalam Island?

(1) Nalabana Island

(2) Parikud Island

(3) Kaijai Island

(4) Wheeler Island

(5) Hukitola Island

2. Which of the following Hindi writers recently
decided to return the Sahitya Akademi award in protest against the murder of
scholar M. M. Kalburgi?

(1) Kashinath Singh

(2) Mridula Garg

(3) Ramesh Chandra Shah

(4) Uday Prakash

(5) Kailash Vajpeyi

3. The international conclave Samvad – the Global
Hindu Buddhist Initiative on Conflict Avoidance and Environment Consciousness
was held in ____.

(1) Colombo

(2) Katmandu

(3) Manila

(4) New Delhi

(5) Phnom Penh

4. Which of the following photographers brought
to light the tragedy of war and internal conflict with the photograph of a dead
Syrian boy washed ashore off the coast of Turkey?

(1) Evgenity Maloltka

(2) Sergei Grits

(3) Nilufer Demir    

(4) Santi Palacios

(5) Jerome Delay

5. Which of the following Indian shooters
clinched silver at the 2015 ISSF Rifle and Pistol World Cup Finals?

(1) Sushama Rana

(2) Shweta Chaudhary

(3) Saroja Jhuthu

(4) Anjali Bhagwat

(5) Apurvi chandela

6. Wilfred de Souza, who recently passed away, was the
former Chief Minister of which of the following states?

(1) Karnataka

(2) Assam                               

(3) Goa

(4) Rajasthan

(5) West Bengal

7.  Which of the
following days is marked as International Literacy Day?

(1) 11th September

(2) 10th September   

(3) 9th September

(4) 8th September

(5) 7th September

8. India has sought help from which of the following
countries to pin down Pakistan’s role in terror activities?

(1) Afghanistan

(2) China

(3) Russia

(4) Srilanka

(5) Bangladesh

9. Which of the following states recently launched
a comprehensive frame-work called e-Pragati to implement e-governance?

(1) Himachal pradesh

(2) Andhra pradesh

(3) Gujarat

(4) Bihar

(5) Odisha

10. The Union Cabinet recently hiked the dearness
allowance for government employees and pensioners by _______ percent.

(1) 7% 

(2) 6%

(3) 5%

(4) 5%

(5) 3%

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Answers

1(4)   2(4)     3(4)   
4(3)    5(5)     6(3)   
7(4)     8(3)      9(2)     10(2)