IBPS GK Questions 2026

Intel released the 4004 in 1971, putting a complete central processing unit on a single chip for the first time and beginning the fourth generation of computers along with the age of the personal computer.

The Scottish mathematician John Napier published his work on logarithms in 1614, which turned multiplication into addition, and he then devised a set of numbered rods, Napier’s bones, with which products could be read off mechanically.

ENIAC, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, was completed in 1946 at the University of Pennsylvania by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly and used some eighteen thousand vacuum tubes; it was a first generation machine, filled a large room and consumed a great deal of power.

Ada Lovelace, the daughter of Lord Byron, worked with Charles Babbage on the Analytical Engine, and the notes she published in 1843 include a step by step sequence for computing Bernoulli numbers on it, which is recognised as the first computer program; a programming language, Ada, is named after her.

The French mathematician Blaise Pascal built the Pascaline in 1642 to help his father with tax calculations; it worked with toothed wheels and could add and subtract, and the programming language Pascal is named in his honour.

Babbage designed the Difference Engine in 1822 and then the Analytical Engine, a general purpose mechanical computer with a store for numbers, a mill for arithmetic, punched card input and printed output, which is the plan of a modern computer drawn a century before one could be built; for that…

The IBM System/360, announced in 1964, was built around integrated circuits, and the integrated circuit is exactly what defines the third generation of computers; the series is also remembered for introducing a single compatible family of machines of different sizes.

The generations of computers are named for the switching device they use, and the second generation, running from the late 1950s into the early 1960s, replaced the bulky vacuum tube with the transistor, which had been invented at Bell Laboratories in 1947.

The World Development Report is the Bank's annual study, each edition devoted to one theme of development such as jobs, water, migration or the use of data, and the Bank also publishes the Global Economic Prospects.

TRIPS is one of the agreements that came out of the Uruguay Round and is administered by the WTO; it lays down minimum standards for patents, copyright, trademarks and geographical indications, and it is enforceable through the WTO dispute settlement system, which is what makes it different from earlier treaties.

It is composed of the trade ministers of all member countries, meets at least once every two years and may take decisions on any matter covered by the WTO agreements; the first conference was held at Singapore in 1996 and the one at Doha in 2001 launched the Doha Development…

The Special Drawing Right, created by the IMF in 1969 as a supplementary reserve asset, takes its value from a basket of five currencies only: the US dollar, the euro, the Chinese renminbi, the Japanese yen and the pound sterling.

The correct answer is C, the IDA, the International Development Association, founded in 1960 to lend to the poorest countries on concessional terms, that is interest free credits and grants with long repayment periods, which is why it is called the soft loan window of the World Bank.

The World Economic Outlook is the IMF's survey of the world economy, carrying growth, inflation and current account projections for its member countries, and the Fund also publishes the Global Financial Stability Report and the Fiscal Monitor.

GATT was signed in 1947 by twenty three countries, India among them, and came into force on 1 January 1948 as a treaty with a small secretariat rather than a full organisation.

The WTO works from Geneva, where the GATT secretariat had been housed before it, and its head carries the title Director-General.

The IMF has its headquarters in Washington DC in the United States, and the World Bank Group stands across the street from it in the same city, which is why both are often described together as the Washington institutions.

In July 1944 delegates of forty four allied nations, including India, met at Bretton Woods in New Hampshire in the United States and agreed to create the International Monetary Fund for monetary cooperation and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development for reconstruction lending, which is why the two are…

The World Trade Organization came into being on 1 January 1995 as the successor to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, and India, which had been a party to GATT since 1948, became a member of the WTO on that very first day, which makes it a founding member.

Parliament passed it under Article 327 to govern the conduct of elections: the qualifications and disqualifications of candidates, the nomination and the security deposit, corrupt practices such as bribery and undue influence, electoral offences, the filling of casual vacancies by by-election and the trial of election petitions by the High…