General Awareness for IBPS Clerk III: 2013

1.    Jayprakash Narayna is the author of which among the following book?

(1) Why Socialism

(2) Indian Leaders

(3) India Divided

(4) True Nation

(5) None of these

2.    The Year 2013 marks the 50^thYears of Establishment of Diplomatic Ties between India and Peru. Which among the following is the capital of Peru?

(1) Bogota                         (2) Lima

(3) La Paz                         (4) Caracas

(5) None of these

3.    Recently NASA’s space craft has detected chemical “propylene” on ___?

(1) Moon

(2) Saturn

(3) Titan

(4) Mars

(5) None of these

4.    Name the book which has won the 2013 US National Book Award in fiction?

(1) The Good Lord Bird

(2) The Lowland

(3) Bleeding Edge

(4) Garden of the Mist

(5) None of these

5.    Each depositor of the bank is insured upto a maximum of ___ by Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation (DICGC)?

(1) Rs 5 lakh

(2) Rs 3 lakh

(3) Rs 2 lakh

(4) Rs 1 lakh

(5) None of these

6.    Hand in Hand is a joint military exercise b/w India and ___?

(1) China

(2) USA
(3) Sri Lanka

(4) Singapore

(5) France

7.    Banks usually collect penal rate of interest on ____ for the premature withdrawal of fixed deposits?

(1) Principal

(2) Rate of interest

(3) Minimum Deposit account

(4) Maturity Amount

(5) All of the above

8.    Which among the following accounts fetch the highest rate of interest?

(1) Savings Deposit

(2) Recurring deposit

(3) Fixed deposit

(4) Current account deposit

(5) Both 1 & 4

9.    Direct Taxes Code (DTC) is intended to be introduced in the monsoon session of
Parliament. DTC seeks to replace?
1) Indian Contract Act
2) Indirect Tax Act
3) Income-Tax Act
5) Banking Regulation Act
6) None of the above

10.  As per the new rule of New Pension Scheme (NPS), if a subscriber exists after age of 60 years, how much portion of the pension he/she must invest to purchase an annuity policy?

(1) 40

(2) 20

(3) 18

(4) 100

(5) 75

Answers:

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