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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

Q4741.Indian States & UTsAsked in: RRB Group D · 27 Sept 2022, Shift 1Medium

Which is the second official language of Telangana?

  1. A.Urdu
  2. B.Tulu
  3. C.Hindi
  4. D.English
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Correct answer: A. Urdu

Telugu is the first official language of Telangana and Urdu is the second. The place of Urdu goes back to the Hyderabad state of the Nizams, where it was the language of administration and education, and a large Urdu speaking population still lives in Hyderabad and the surrounding districts.

Q4742.Indian States & UTsAsked in: Uttar Pradesh · 27 June, 2023, Shift 2Medium

What is the State Bird of Telangana ?

  1. A.Son Chiraiya (Great Indian Bustard)
  2. B.Doodhraj (Asian Paradise Flycatcher)
  3. C.Palapitta (Indian Roller)
  4. D.Hill Myna
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Correct answer: C. Palapitta (Indian Roller)

Telangana adopted the Indian roller, known in Telugu as palapitta, as its state bird soon after the state was formed in 2014.

Q4745.Indian States & UTsAsked in: Bihar · 11 May, 2025Easy

The capital of Telangana is

  1. A.Kawarati
  2. B.Amravati
  3. C.Hyderabad
  4. D.Dispur
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Correct answer: C. Hyderabad

When Telangana was created on 2 June 2014 under the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014, Hyderabad became its capital, and the Act further provided that the city would serve as the common capital of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh for a period of not more than ten years.

Q4746.Static GKHard

The name of the BrahMos missile is formed from:

  1. A.An acronym of Brahmastra and Mosaic
  2. B.The names of two rivers, the Brahmaputra and the Moskva
  3. C.The names of its two designers
  4. D.An acronym of Brahma Modular System
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Correct answer: B. The names of two rivers, the Brahmaputra and the Moskva

BrahMos is a supersonic cruise missile built by BrahMos Aerospace, a joint venture of India's Defence Research and Development Organisation and Russia's NPO Mashinostroyeniya, and its name joins the Brahmaputra of India with the Moskva of Russia, the river that runs through Moscow.

Q4748.Static GKEasy

In the address of a website, HTTP stands for:

  1. A.HyperText Transfer Protocol
  2. B.HyperText Transmission Program
  3. C.High Transfer Text Protocol
  4. D.Hyperlink Text Transfer Process
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Correct answer: A. HyperText Transfer Protocol

HTTP is the set of rules by which a browser asks a web server for a page and the server sends it back; HTTPS is the same protocol carried over an encrypted connection, which is why banking sites use it.

Q4749.Static GKMedium

OPEC is the abbreviation for:

  1. A.Organization of Petroleum Enriched Countries
  2. B.Oil Producing and Exporting Commission
  3. C.Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
  4. D.Oil Price and Economic Council
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Correct answer: C. Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries

OPEC was founded at the Baghdad Conference of 1960 by Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela, and its secretariat has been at Vienna in Austria since 1965.

Q4750.Static GKEasy

SONAR, used to measure the depth of the sea, stands for:

  1. A.Sound Navigation and Ranging
  2. B.Sonic Navigation and Reflection
  3. C.Sound Analysis and Recording
  4. D.Submarine Observation and Ranging
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Correct answer: A. Sound Navigation and Ranging

Sonar sends a pulse of sound into the water and times the echo returning from the sea bed, a shoal of fish or a submarine; since the speed of sound in sea water is roughly 1,500 metres a second, the time gives the distance.

Q4751.Static GKHard

NavIC, the operational name of the IRNSS, stands for:

  1. A.National Vehicle Information Centre
  2. B.Navigation with Indian Constellation
  3. C.Navigational Indian Coordinates
  4. D.Navigation and Internet Connectivity
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Correct answer: B. Navigation with Indian Constellation

NavIC is the name given to the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System, or IRNSS, built by ISRO to give position fixes over India and a region around it, independent of the American GPS.

Q4752.Static GKMedium

MGNREGA is the abbreviation of:

  1. A.Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Generation Act
  2. B.Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
  3. C.Mahatma Gandhi National Rozgar Expansion Guarantee Act
  4. D.Mahatma Gandhi Nagar Rural Employment Guarantee Agency
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Correct answer: B. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act

The Act was passed in 2005 as the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act and renamed after Mahatma Gandhi in 2009.

Q4753.Static GKEasy

RADAR, used to detect aircraft and measure rainfall, stands for:

  1. A.Radio Detection and Ranging
  2. B.Radial Direction and Range
  3. C.Radio Direction and Reflection
  4. D.Rapid Detection and Reporting
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Correct answer: A. Radio Detection and Ranging

Radar sends out radio waves and measures the echo that returns from an object, so the time taken gives the distance, or range, and the shift in frequency gives the speed by the Doppler effect.

Q4754.Static GKMedium

What does UNICEF stand for today?

  1. A.United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund
  2. B.United Nations Children's Fund
  3. C.United Nations Child Education Foundation
  4. D.Universal Nations Child Emergency Forum
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Correct answer: B. United Nations Children's Fund

The agency was created by the General Assembly in 1946 as the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, for children in countries ruined by the Second World War, and in 1953 it was made a permanent part of the United Nations and renamed the United Nations Children's Fund, keeping the…

Q4755.Static GKMedium

In banking, IFSC stands for:

  1. A.Indian Finance Settlement Code
  2. B.International Financial System Code
  3. C.Indian Financial System Code
  4. D.Indian Fund Settlement Centre
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Correct answer: C. Indian Financial System Code

The IFSC is an eleven-character alphanumeric code that identifies a particular bank branch in the electronic payment systems operated by the Reserve Bank of India, and it is required for NEFT and RTGS transfers.

Q4756.Static GKEasy

LASER is an acronym for which of the following?

  1. A.Light Absorption by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
  2. B.Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
  3. C.Linear Amplification of Standard Emitted Rays
  4. D.Light Analysis by Sequential Emission of Radiation
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Correct answer: B. Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation

A laser produces a narrow, coherent, single-wavelength beam by stimulated emission, in which an excited atom is made to release a photon identical to the one that strikes it.

Q4757.Static GKEasy

What does NITI in NITI Aayog stand for?

  1. A.National Institution for Transforming India
  2. B.New India Transformation Initiative
  3. C.National Integrated Technology Institute
  4. D.National Industrial Training Institute
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Correct answer: A. National Institution for Transforming India

NITI Aayog replaced the Planning Commission on 1 January 2015 and works as the policy think tank of the Government of India.

Q4758.Science & TechnologyAsked in: RRB ALP · 21 Jan 2019, Shift 3Easy

The source of light for optic fibre transmission is _______.

  1. A.ARC lamp
  2. B.LED
  3. C.mercury lamp
  4. D.incandescent lamp
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Correct answer: B. LED

The transmitter of an optical fibre link must be small enough to couple light into a core a few micrometres across, must switch on and off millions or billions of times a second, and must emit in a narrow band of wavelengths; a light-emitting diode meets these conditions, and for…

Q4759.Science & TechnologyAsked in: RRB ALP · 21 Jan 2019, Shift 3Medium

Which of the following is used as a receiver for fibre optic communication?

  1. A.LED
  2. B.IR diode
  3. C.Photo diode
  4. D.LDR
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Correct answer: C. Photo diode

At the receiving end of an optical fibre link the light pulses must be turned back into an electrical signal, and that is the work of a photodiode, a reverse-biased junction in which incident photons generate charge carriers and so a current proportional to the light falling on it; PIN…

Q4760.Science & TechnologyAsked in: RRB ALP · 21 Jan 2019, Shift 3Medium

Fibre cables used for "Fibre to Home" installations are _______.

  1. A.multimode graded
  2. B.multimode step
  3. C.multiaxis
  4. D.single mode
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Correct answer: D. single mode

A fibre-to-the-home connection runs from the operator's equipment to the subscriber's premises over a distance of kilometres, and for such runs single-mode fibre is used: its core is only a few micrometres wide, so light travels along one path, there is no spreading of the pulse from different paths arriving…

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