SBI PO Mains: 20-20 GK Capsule Quiz

(National Park/Wildlife Sanctuary)

(Important Days and theme)
(Awards)
(Sports News)
(RBI and Money/Capital Market)
SBI PO Mains: 20-20 GK Capsule Quiz (National Park/Wildlife Sanctuary)
Question 1. Where is the Great Himalayan National Park situated?
Answer. Himachal Pradesh
Question 2. Where is the Nandini Wild Life Sanctuary situated?
Answer. J&K
Question 3. Where is Jhajjar Bacholi Wild life sanctuary located?
Answer. Punjab
Question 4. Where is Sultanpur National Park situated?
Answer. Haryana
Question 5. Where is Chandraprabha Wild Life Sanctuary sitauted?
Answer. UP
Question 6. Where is Kanger Valley National Park sitauted?
Answer. Chattisgarh
Question 7. Where is Rajiv Gandhi National Park situated?
Answer. Andhra Pradesh
Question 8. Where is Nellapattu Wild Life Sanctuary situated?
Answer. Andhra Pradesh
Question 9. Where is Manas National Park situated?
Answer. Assam
Question 10. Where is Porbandar Lake Wild life Sanctuary situated?
Answer. Gujarat
Question 11. Where is Bannerghatta National Park situated?
Answer. Karnataka
Question 12. Where is Neyyar Wild Life Sanctuary situated?
Answer. Kerala
Question 13. Where is Periyar Wild Life Sanctuary situated?
Answer. Kerala
Question 14. Where is Panna National Park situated?
Answer. MP
Question 15. Where is Great Indian Bustard Wild Life Sanctuary situated?
Answer. Maharashtra

Question 16. Where is Baisipalli Wild Life Sanctuary situated?

Answer. Odisha
Question 17. Where is Darrah National Park situated?
Answer. Rajashtan
Question 18. Where is Khangchendzonga National Park situated?
Answer. Sikkim
Question 19. Where is Mudumalai Wild Life Sanctuary situated?
Answer. Tamil Nadu
Question 20. Where is Clouded Leopard National Park situated?
Answer. Tripura
SBI PO Mains: 20-20 GK Capsule Quiz (Important Days and theme)
1. World Telecommunication and Information Society Day is celebrated every
year on 17th May. What was the theme of 2016?
Answer: ICT entrepreneurship for social impact
2. World Migratory Bird Day is being celebrated every year on 10th May.
What was the theme of 2016?
Answer: Stop the Illegal Killing, Taking and Trade of Migratory Birds
3. The National Technology Day was celebrated on?
Answer: 11th May
4. The Day of Remembrance for all Victims of Chemical Warfare is celebrated
on?
Answer: 29th April
5. World Day for Safety and Health at Work is celebrated on 28th April. What
was the theme of 2016?
Answer: Workplace Stress: a collective challenge
6. The World Book and Copyright Day is celebrated on?
Answer: 23rd April
7. World Water Day is an annual event celebrated on?
Answer: March 22
8. World Heritage Day is celebrated every year on 18th April. What was the
the theme of 2016?
Answer: The Heritage of Sport
9. World Consumer Rights Day (WCRD) is an awareness day, which is
observed on..........?
Answer: March 15
10. World Homoeopathy Day is celebrated on ________ April.
Answer: 10th
11. International Day of Mine Awareness and Assistance is celebrated every
year on?
Answer: 4th April

12. National Maritime Day is being celebrated on?

Answer: 5th April
13. Zero Discrimination Day is being celebrated on?
Answer: 1st March
14. World Wildlife Day is being celebrated every year on 3rd March. What
was the theme for this year 2016?
Answer: "The future of wildlife is in our hands
15. International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the
Transatlantic Slave Trade is observed annually on?
Answer: 25th March
16. International Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning Gross Human
Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims is observed on?
Answer: 24th March
17. The annual observance of World Telecommunication Day, which marks
the founding of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) on?
Answer: May 17
18. World Theatre Day is the creation of the International Theatre Institute
(ITI). It is celebrated annually on?
Answer: March 27
19. World Sparrow Day is celebrated on?
Answer: 20th March
20. World Meteorological Day (WMD) 2016 is being observed every year on
23rd March. What was the theme for this year 2016?
Answer: Hotter, Drier, Wetter. Face the Future.
SBI PO Mains: 20-20 GK Capsule Quiz (Awards)
Question 1. Who won the International Plant Nutrition Scholar Award?
Answer. IIT scholar K Ashok Kumar
Question 2. Who won the Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Prize,
largest prize for neuroscience in the world?
Answer. Three British scientists, Tim Bliss, Graham Collingridge and Richard
Morris
Question 3. Who won the Association for Computing Machinerys 2015 A.M.
Turing Award?
Answer. Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman.
Question 4. Who won the Innovation Award 2016 given by the Indian
Desalination Association (IDA), South Zone?
Answer. Prof. Sirshendu De
Question 5. Who won the 2016 Windham-Campbell Prize?
Answer. Columnist and author Jerry Pinto
Question 6. Who won the National Geographic Bee competition 2016?
Answer. A 12 year old, Indian American student Rishi Nair
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Question 7. Who has been recognised with the Japans second highest
national decoration i.e. The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star?
Answer. Renowned Indian music composer A. R. Rahman
Question 8. Who won the Harvard Business School Alumni Achievement
Award?
Answer. Mr. Sunil Bharti Mittal
Question 9. Who got the King Abdulaziz Sash honour by Saudi Arabia?
Answer. PM Narendra Modi
Question 10. Who won the 'Scholastic Asian Book Award' for her 32,000word manuscript rooted in "love of Indian history"?
Answer. Aditi Krishnakumar
Question 11. Who has been awarded with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award For
'Aligarh'?
Answer. Manoj Bajpayee
Question 12. Who came in Limca Book of Records for conducting the most
intensive household survey by a state?
Answer. Telangana Govt.
Question 13. Who won the Global Green Hero award?
Answer. Veteran singer Stevie Wonder
Question 14. Who got the Chevalier de la Legion dHonneur (Knight of the
Legion of Honour)?
Answer. Chairman and MD of Mahindra and Mahindra Group Anand G
Mahindra
Question 15. Who got the UKs prestigious Founders Award 2016?
Answer. Mother Teresa(posthumously)
Question 16. Who got the Legion dHonneur, Frances highest honour?
Answer. Mohammed bin Nayef
Question 17. Who won the 'Best Film Critic' award at the 63rd National Film
Awards, 2015?
Answer. Manipur's Meghachandra
Question 18. Who won the 2016 Nelson Mandela Award?
Answer. Tabassum Adnan
Question 19. Who won the Gold Medal At Moscow SAND Sculpture
Championship 2016?
Answer. Indian sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik
Question 20. Who won the Hridaynath Award?
Answer. Chess wizard Viswanathan Anand
SBI PO Mains: 20-20 GK Capsule Quiz (Sports News)
Question 1. Name the Indian Wrestler who won the Silver Medal in the Asian
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Olympic Qualification.
Answer. Hardeep Singh
Question 2. Name the Indian Shooter who 50m pistol gold at the ISSF World
Cup in Bangkok.
Answer. Jitu Rai
Question 3. Which Country has been allotted the Commonwealth Judo
Championships 2018?
Answer. India
Question 4. Who won the US Masters, the first Briton to do so since Nick
Faldo in 1996?
Answer. Danny Willett
Question 5. Which Country won the third edition of the Asian Kabaddi
Championship 2016 (Circle Style) by defeating India?
Answer. Pakistan
Question 6. Who won the world record in the woman's recurve event at the
Archery World Cup in Shanghai?
Answer. Indian Star archer Deepika Kumari
Question 7. Who won the gold medal at the 2016 Commonwealth Judo
Championship finals at Port Elizabeth in South Africa?
Answer. Garima Chaudhary
Question 8. Which Company has signed Shreya Sunder Iyer as its first
woman rider for the Indian National Rally championship?
Answer. TVS Racing
Question 9. Who won the 2016 World Championship title of Snooker?
Answer. Star snooker player Mark Selby
Question 10. Who became the first Indian athlete to win a gold medal in the
Asian 20 Kilometer (km) Race Walk Championships?
Answer. Gurmeet Singh
Question 11. Who has won the English Premier League title for the first time
in the club's 132 years history?
Answer. Leicester City
Question 12. Who has been named as Huawei global ambassador?
Answer. FC Barcelonas player Lionel Messi
Question 13. Name the Indian athlete who has created history by breaking
the national record in women's 3,000m steeplechase event in Diamond
League Meet in Shanghai.
Answer. Sudha Singh
Question 14. Name the Indian Wrestlers who have secured spots at the
upcoming Rio Olympics.
Answer. Ravinder Khatri and Babita Kumari
Question 15. Who won womens and mens singles titles of the 2016 Miami
Open?
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Answer. Victoria Azarenka of Belarusia and World No 1 Novak Djokovic of

Serbia
Question 16. Name the Indian woman who created history by becoming the
first Indian woman gymnast to qualify for Olympics.
Answer. Indian artistic gymnast Dipa Karmakar
Question 17. Name the team who beat the Russian pair Ekaterina Makarova
and Elena Vesnina to claim the Italian open title 2016 in Tennis.
Answer. World No. 1 women's doubles team of Sania Mirza and Martina
Question 18. Who won the mens singles title at the Malaysia Open 2016?
Answer. Lee Chong Wei
Question 19. Who won the 2016 Formula 1 Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix?
Answer. Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg of Germany
Question 20. Name the Indias fourth highest ranked mens badminton
player who won the mens singles title at the 2016 Swiss Open in Basel,
Switzerland.
Answer. HS Prannoy
SBI PO Mains: 20-20 GK Capsule Quiz (RBI and Money/Capital Market)
1. Who issues the One rupee note?
Answer: Central Govt.
2. One rupee note is signed by _________ ?
Answer: Finance Secretary
3. Foreign exchange transactions under Foreign Exchange Management Act
(FEMA) is regulated by _______ ?
Answer: RBI
4. The Reserve Bank of India was established on April 1, 1935 in accordance
with the provisions of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934.Who is the first
Governor of RBI?
Answer: Osborne Smith
5. What is the Current Repo rate and Reverse Rep Rate respectively?
Answer: 6.50% and 6.00%
6. WHat is the Minimum age to open a bank account?
Answer: 10 years
7. Which rate is the short term borrowing rate at which RBI borrows money
from banks?
Answer: Reverse Repo Rate
8. Which committee decided that Banks can switch over to the base rate?
Answer: Deepak Mohanty committee
9. Government and it set up which Group in 1975. On the basis of this
committees recommendations, a Regional Rural Banks Ordinance was
promulgated in September 1975, which was replaced by the Regional Rural
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Banks Act 1976?

Answer: Narasimham Working Group
10. What is the maximum period for loan as per the scheme formulated by
National Housing Bank (NHB)?
Answer: 15 years
11. Financial markets for the buying and selling of long-term debt or equitybacked securities is called?
Answer: Capital Market
12. What is the period for Notice Money?
Answer: 2-14 days
13. SARFAESI Act is an Indian law .It allows banks and other financial
institution to auction residential or commercial properties to recover loans.
In SARFAESI, F stands for?
Answer: Financial
14. Which securities are zero coupon securities?
Answer: Treasury bills
15. What is the maximum tenure for Cash Management bills?
Answer. 91 days
16. Which Bank has reported the largest net loss of Rs. 5,367.14 cr. for 4th
quarter. This is the biggest quarterly loss?
Answer. Punjab National Bank
17. What is the maximum tenure for Dated securities?
Answer: 91 days
18. What we called bonds as issued for rupee-denominated borrowings by
Indian entities in overseas markets?
Answer: Masala Bonds
19. What is the minimum amount of investment in Inflation indexed bonds?
Answer. Rs. 10,000
20. Which market deals at Stock exchange?
Answer. Capital Market.