General Awareness for IBPS Clerk III: 2013

1.    Recently which of the following country withdrew as host of the 2015 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM)?

(1) Malta

(2) Sri Lanka

(3) Mauritius

(4) India

(5) None of these

2.    Recently Magnus Calresn defeated Viswanathan Anand to become the youngest World Chess Championship. How many times Viswanathan Anand had won the world championship title?

(1) Three

(2) Four

(3) Six

(4) Five

(5) None of these

3.    Recently OPCW (Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons) won the Nobel Peace Prize 2013. The headquarter of OPCW located in __?

(1) Austria

(2) France

(3) Belgium

(4) Netherland

(5) None of these

4.    Recently which among the following banks awarded with ‘The Strongest Bank Balance Sheet in India’ by the Asian Banker Magazine?

(1) HDFC Bank

(2) ICICI Bank

(3) SBI Bank

(4) BOB

(5) Yes Bank

5.    Which of the following stock exchanges in India has launched the country’s first dedicated debt travelling platform ?

(1) NSE

(2) BSE
(3) MCX

(4) National Spot Exchange

(5) None of these

6.    World Diabetes Day observed on ___?

(1) 10 Nov

(2) 12 Oct

(3) 14 Nov

(4) 15 Oct

(5) None of these

7.    Recently India's first mission to Mars blasted off successfully. What is the name of Mars Orbiter Mission?

(1) Mangal

(2) Mangalyaan

(3) Mangalam

(4) Chandrayan

(5) None of these

8.    35^th National Games 2014 to be hosted by which among the following states?

(1) Goa

(2) Jharkhand

(3) Kerala

(4) Tami Nadu

(5) None of these

9.    Under the MGNREGA scheme, Inter-Net-enabled cell phones will soon be provided to 2.5 crore people.  The scheme will be funded by which among the following organizations:

(1) Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF).
(2) NABARD

(3) World Bank

(4) UNESCO

(5) Planning Commission

10.  In context with the Core Banking System, what does CORE stands for____?

(1) Centralized Online Records Exchange

(2) Centralized office Real -time Exchange

(3) Centralized online Real -time Exchange

(4) Central online Real -time Exchange

(5) None of these

Answers

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

Note:

1. (3) Malta to Host Next Commonwealth Summit in 2015. Before this, Malta hosted a Commonwealth Summit in 2005.

The decision was made at the retreat session of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) 2013 in Colombo, Sri Lanka after Mauritius withdrew as host of the 2015 Commonwealth summit as a result of its prime minister's boycott of the Colombo summit over Sri Lanka's human rights concerns.

2. (4) Anand had won the world championship title five times -- 2000, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012 -- but ironically was dethroned in his home town of Chennai. The world championship is a 12-game affair over 20 days and the first to reach 6.5 points wins the series. This is Carlsen's maiden title and he hails from Norway.

4. (5) YES BANK, India’s fourth largest private sector Bank, has been recognized with ‘The Strongest Bank Balance Sheet in India’ by the Asian Banker, Singapore.

YES BANK has received this international recognition based on a detailed and transparent scorecard that ranks banks across 6 key parameters which are -Scalability relative to domestic GDP, Balance Sheet Gowth, Prudent Risk Management, Profitability, Asset Quality and Liquidity.

5. (1) Leading bourse National Stock Exchange launched the country's first dedicated debt trading platform. The debt trading platform is expected to provide an opportunity to retail investors to invest in corporate bonds on a liquid and transparent exchange platform.

6. (3) World Diabetes Day observed on 14 November. The theme for 2009-13 is Education and Prevention.

7. (2) The Mars Orbiter Mission, known as "Mangalyaan" in India. The satellite is scheduled to reach the Mars orbit in September 2014 and is designed to circle the Red Planet in an elliptical orbit of 366 km X 80000 km.


8. (3) Great Hornbill, official mascot of the 35th National Games to be hosted by Kerala in February 2014, has been christened “Ammu”.