Friday, March 27, 2015

Banking & Current Affairs Quiz

1. Recently, South African cricketer AB de Villiers hit fastest century in just 31 balls. He did it against which country?

(a) England
(b) West Indies
(c) Sri Lanka
(d) Pakistan
(e) None of these
2. Which bank has started India's first contactless credit and debit card facility?
(a) SBI
(b) PNB
(c) HDFC Bank
(d) ICICI Bank
(e) None of these

3. What is the full form of CDSL?
(a) Central Depository Services Limited
(b) Cardinal Depository Services Limited
(c) Central Depository Securities Limited
(d) Central Deposit Securities Limited
(e) None

4. The Finance Bill 2015-16 envisages merging the Forward Market Commission with ___? 
(a) Reserve Bank of India 
(b) Securities and Exchange Bureau of India 
(c) Competition Commission of India 
(d) Finance Commission 
(e) NITI Ayog

5. Shanta Kumar Committee is related to
(a) Restructuring of BCCI
(b) Restructuring of Gurudwaras
(c) Restructuring of Prasar Bharti Board of india
(d) Restructuring of Food Corporation of India
(e) None of India

6. What does the acronym DICGC mean?
(a) District Industries Centre and Government College
(b) Department of Insurance in Central Govt. Company
(c) Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation
(d) Deputy Inspector & Commissioner General for Commodities Trading
(e) Deposit Industries and Credit Guarantee Company

7.  In which city the statue of Mahatma Gandhi made by British sculptor Philip Jackson was 
unveiled by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on 14th Mar - 15?
(a) New York
(b) Berlin
(c) Sydney
(d) Paris
(e) London

8. Who among the following has become the first Indian man to win Swiss Grand Prix title? 
(a) Ajay Jayaram 
(b) Chetan Anand 
(c) Kidambi Srikanth 
(d) P Kashyap
(e) None of These 

9. What is the full form of NIM?
(a) Net Interest Margin
(b) Net Involvement Margin
(c) Net Involution Margin
(d) National Income Margin
(e) None of These

10. Where is the Bank of International Settlement headquartered?
(a) Belgium
(b) France
(c) Germany
(d) Switzerland
(e) Italy

11. What is the full form of MTSS?
(a) Money Transfer Service Scheme
(b) Medium Transfer Service Scheme
(c) Moderate Transfer Service Scheme
(d) Money Transfer Service Strategy
(e) Minimum Transfer Service Scheme

12. By defeating which country, Indian women team has won the FIH Hockey World League Round 2? 
(a) Germany 
(b) Poland 
(c) Spain 
(d) Australia 
(e) New Zealand

13. Who has been appointed as the chairman of Railway Board?
(a) AK Mittal
(b) Sadoor Gopalakrishnan
(c) Rajat Tripathy
(d) Ranjit Biswal
(e) None of these

14. 102nd Indian Science Congress 2015 has been concluded at ____________ University.
(a) Banaras Hindu
(b) Jawaharlal Nehru
(c) Jaipur
(d) Mumbai
(e) None of these

15. What is the tagline of SBI?
(a) Pure Banking Nothing Else
(b) You can always bank on us
(c) Working for a better tomorrow
(d) Experience Next Generation Banking
(e) Hum Hai Na

ANSWERS
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b
2
d
3
a
4
b
5
d
6
c
7
e
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c
9
a
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d
11
a
12
b
13
a
14
d
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a