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Banking GK Questions 2026

The static part of banking awareness is mostly banking and the economy; history and geography get a smaller share than in SSC exams. The test names say so: General/Economy/Banking Awareness including RBI circulars in IBPS PO, General Awareness/ Economy/ Banking Knowledge in SBI PO, and General/Financial Awareness in the clerk exams. Questions keep returning to the RBI and its functions, monetary policy tools such as the repo rate, CRR and SLR, types of banks and accounts, NPAs, KYC, priority sector lending, payment systems such as UPI, NEFT and RTGS, regulators such as SEBI, IRDAI and PFRDA, development institutions such as NABARD and SIDBI, the Budget and the Economic Survey. RBI Grade B and NABARD Grade A go further, with full papers on Economic and Social Issues, and NABARD on Agriculture and Rural Development: agronomy, irrigation, animal husbandry, climate change and rural development schemes. Some static GK still appears: headquarters and heads of banks, currencies and capitals, and important days. This page gathers GK24's topic-wise GK notes for banking exams, in English and Hindi, in short facts and tables. Read one topic at a sitting, then take its topic quiz to see what you remember.

Banking GK Questions with Answers

Q3024.Art & CultureMedium

Which Chinese pilgrim studied at Nalanda under the teacher Silabhadra during the reign of Harshavardhana?

  1. A.Faxian
  2. B.Xuanzang
  3. C.Yijing
  4. D.Song Yun
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Correct answer: B. Xuanzang

The correct answer is B, Xuanzang, who travelled overland through Central Asia in the seventh century, spent years in India in the reign of Harshavardhana, studied at the monastery of Nalanda under Silabhadra, and carried manuscripts back to China, where he translated them and left the fullest foreign account of…

Q3026.Art & CultureMedium

The Sanskrit work that travelled west and became known in Arabic as Kalila wa Dimna is

  1. A.The Panchatantra
  2. B.The Arthashastra
  3. C.The Natyashastra
  4. D.The Ashtadhyayi
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Correct answer: A. The Panchatantra

It was translated into Pahlavi in the Persian empire and from that version into Arabic as Kalila wa Dimna, the two names being those of the jackals of the stories, and from Arabic it passed into Persian, Syriac, Hebrew, Greek and Latin and then into the languages of Europe.

Q3027.Art & CultureMedium

The fourth Buddhist council, after which Mahayana Buddhism spread along the Silk Route into Central Asia, was convened by

  1. A.Ashoka
  2. B.Kalashoka
  3. C.Kanishka
  4. D.Ajatashatru
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Correct answer: C. Kanishka

The correct answer is C, Kanishka, the Kushan ruler who called the fourth Buddhist council in Kashmir and under whose empire, stretching from the Gangetic plain into Central Asia, Mahayana Buddhism and the Gandhara and Mathura styles of sculpture travelled up the trade routes to Khotan, Kucha and Dunhuang.

Q3028.Art & CultureHard

Which Indian monk is traditionally held to have carried the meditation school of Buddhism to China, where it became Chan and later Zen in Japan?

  1. A.Atisha
  2. B.Bodhidharma
  3. C.Kumarajiva
  4. D.Silabhadra
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Correct answer: B. Bodhidharma

The correct answer is B, Bodhidharma, remembered in tradition as a prince of the Pallava country in south India who travelled to China and taught a path resting on meditation rather than on scripture; the school he founded is Chan in Chinese and Zen in Japanese, and legend attaches him…

Q3031.Art & CultureEasy

Whom did Emperor Ashoka send to Sri Lanka to spread Buddhism?

  1. A.Bodhidharma and Bodhisena
  2. B.Mahendra, called Mahinda, and later Sanghamitra
  3. C.Shantarakshita and Padmasambhava
  4. D.Faxian and Xuanzang
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Correct answer: B. Mahendra, called Mahinda, and later Sanghamitra

Ashoka sent his son Mahendra, known in the Pali chronicles as Mahinda, to Sri Lanka, where the king of the island received the teaching, and afterwards the nun Sanghamitra came with a branch of the Bodhi tree, which was planted at Anuradhapura.

Q3033.Art & CultureMedium

Borobudur, the great terraced monument of central Java, was built under which dynasty and belongs to which religion?

  1. A.The Sailendra dynasty; Buddhism
  2. B.The Majapahit dynasty; Islam
  3. C.The Sailendra dynasty; Jainism
  4. D.The Pala dynasty; Hinduism
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Correct answer: A. The Sailendra dynasty; Buddhism

Borobudur was built in the eighth and ninth centuries by the Sailendra rulers of Java as a Buddhist monument in the form of a stepped pyramid whose galleries carry carved panels of the life and teaching of the Buddha, with seated Buddha images in open stupas on the upper terraces.

Q3034.Art & CultureMedium

The temple of Angkor Wat was built by which ruler, and to which deity was it originally dedicated?

  1. A.Jayavarman VII, dedicated to the Buddha
  2. B.Suryavarman II, dedicated to Vishnu
  3. C.Rajendra Chola I, dedicated to Shiva
  4. D.Kaundinya, dedicated to Brahma
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Correct answer: B. Suryavarman II, dedicated to Vishnu

The Khmer king Suryavarman II raised Angkor Wat in the twelfth century in what is now Cambodia as a temple of Vishnu, and its scale makes it the largest Vishnu temple in the world; the building later came to be used as a Buddhist shrine and now appears on the…

Q3037.Static GKMedium

The motto Yogakshemam Vahamyaham, meaning your welfare is our responsibility, belongs to:

  1. A.Reserve Bank of India
  2. B.Life Insurance Corporation of India
  3. C.National Insurance Company
  4. D.Employees' Provident Fund Organisation
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Correct answer: B. Life Insurance Corporation of India

LIC, created by an Act of Parliament in 1956 when life insurance in India was nationalised, carries the Sanskrit motto Yogakshemam Vahamyaham, taken from the Bhagavad Gita and usually rendered as your welfare is our responsibility.

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