Quiz 47 | General knowledge for Bank Probationary Officers Exam Questions

1.In which of these is the island nation of Maldives located?

A. Bay of Bengal
B. Indian Ocean
C. Arabian Ocean



2.How many times does the digit 1 appear from 0 to 100?

A. 21
B. 42
C. 39



3.The Big Dipper, a pattern of seven stars, is part of the constellation...

A. Canis Major
B. Orion
C. Ursa Major



4.What is the equivalent of “chaar anna” after India decimalised its currency?

A. 50 paise
B. 25 paise
C. 75 paise



5.On standard playing dice what number is directly opposite one?

A. 4
B. 2
C. 6



6.What is the Japanese art of folding paper into decorative objects called?

A. Jujitsu
B. Kamikaze
C. Origami



7.The Battle of Gettysburg, described as the turning point in the American Civil War, took place in which American state?

A. Virginia
B. Pennsylvania
C. South Carolina



8.In which jail did Pandit Nehru write The Discovery of India?

A. Port Blair
B. Naini
C. Ahmednagar



9.Bhaskara II’s work Lilavati is a treatise on which subject?

A. Mathematics
B. Religion
C. Family life



10.Which musician’s autobiography is Raga Mala?

A. Pandit Ravi Shankar
B. Kishori Amonkar
C. Ustad Amjad Ali Khan



11.What is a triangle with no equal sides called?

A. Rectangle
B. Scalene
C. Trapezium



12.What was the nationality of Roald Amundsen, the first person to reach the South Pole?

A. Norwegian
B. Finnish
C. British



13.The Little Mermaid sits on a rock in the harbor of which European capital city?

A. London
B. Copenhagen
C. Oslo



14.In 1884, William Le Baron Jenney built the world’s first skyscraper. In which city was it erected?

A. New York
B. Paris
C. Chicago



15.How many spikes are there in the Statue of Liberty crown?

A. 12
B. 7
C. 6



16.Who was the first English writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature?

A. Charles Dickens
B. Agatha Christie
C. Rudyard Kipling



17.Who is the supreme god in Germanic mythology?

A. Siegfried
B. Odin
C. Wotan



18.How many balls are used in a game of English billiards?

A. 12
B. 3
C. 7



19.Which serving vice-president of the United States killed a former US treasury secretary in a pistol duel?

A. George Clinton
B. Aaron Burr
C. Theodore Roosevelt



20.How many basic types of taste are identified by the human tongue?

A. 16
B. 12
C. 5



21.Which sea links the Asian mainland and Japan?

A. South China Sea
B. Timor Sea
C. Sea of Japan



22.Which famous author also wrote under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott?

A. Rebecca West
B. Virginia Woolf
C. Agatha Christie



23.Who was the first European to sail to the southern tip of Africa?

A. Ferdinand Magellan
B. Marco Polo
C. Bartolomeu Diaz



24.Who patented the first multishot(more than two shots) gun, the Defence Gun, the earliest ancestor of the machine gun?

A. Hiram Maxim
B. Richard J. Gatling
C. James Puckle



25.What is measured using a sphygmomanometer?

A. Skull size
B. Blood pressure
C. Humidity