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IBPS GK Questions 2026

Static GK in IBPS exams means banking awareness first. The awareness tests of PO, Clerk and RRB Mains name banking, economy, financial and digital awareness, and the questions that return every year are about the RBI and its functions, the monetary policy tools (repo, SDF, MSF, CRR, SLR), types of banks and accounts, NPAs, Basel norms, priority sector lending, payment systems such as UPI, NEFT, RTGS and IMPS, deposit insurance, financial inclusion schemes, and the regulators SEBI, IRDAI and PFRDA and institutions such as NABARD and SIDBI. Headquarters and taglines of banks, capitals and currencies, national parks, dams and important days appear too, though with a smaller share than in SSC. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes for banking exams, written as short facts and tables so that a topic can be revised in one sitting, with the terms and abbreviations that IBPS papers use. Read a topic, then solve its previous-year questions and quiz on this site to check what you retained, and come back to the notes for the facts you missed.

IBPS GK Questions with Answers

Q6201.Awards & HonoursMedium

Jhumpa Lahiri won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2000 for which work?

  1. A.The Namesake
  2. B.Unaccustomed Earth
  3. C.Interpreter of Maladies
  4. D.The Lowland
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Correct answer: C. Interpreter of Maladies

The collection of nine short stories, most of them about Indians and Indian Americans living between two countries, was Jhumpa Lahiri's first book and won her the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2000, an unusual honour for a debut collection of stories.

Q6203.Awards & HonoursMedium

The Bhasha Samman, instituted in 1996, is given by which organisation?

  1. A.Bharatiya Jnanpith
  2. B.Sahitya Akademi
  3. C.Lalit Kala Akademi
  4. D.K. K. Birla Foundation
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Correct answer: B. Sahitya Akademi

The Akademi gives its annual award in the twenty-four languages it recognises, and it instituted the Bhasha Samman in 1996 to honour writers and scholars working in languages outside that list, as well as those who contribute to classical and medieval literature.

Q6204.Awards & HonoursMedium

Which book became the first work written in an Indian language to win the International Booker Prize?

  1. A.Tomb of Sand, from Ret Samadhi by Geetanjali Shree
  2. B.Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq
  3. C.The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
  4. D.Godaan by Premchand
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Correct answer: A. Tomb of Sand, from Ret Samadhi by Geetanjali Shree

The International Booker Prize honours a book translated into English, and the award is shared between the author and the translator.

Q6205.Awards & HonoursEasy

Arundhati Roy won the Booker Prize in 1997 for which novel?

  1. A.The Inheritance of Loss
  2. B.The God of Small Things
  3. C.Midnight's Children
  4. D.The White Tiger
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Correct answer: B. The God of Small Things

Arundhati Roy's first novel, set in Ayemenem in Kerala and built around a pair of twins, won the Booker Prize in 1997, and she was the first Indian woman and the first writer living in India to win it.

Q6207.Awards & HonoursHard

The Moortidevi Award is given by which organisation?

  1. A.Sahitya Akademi
  2. B.Bharatiya Jnanpith
  3. C.K. K. Birla Foundation
  4. D.Government of Madhya Pradesh
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Correct answer: B. Bharatiya Jnanpith

The trust that gives the Jnanpith Award instituted the Moortidevi Award in 1983 for a creative work that carries the spirit of Indian philosophy and culture, and the work may be in any of the languages of the Eighth Schedule or in English.

Q6209.Awards & HonoursMedium

The Saraswati Samman is given by which of the following organisations?

  1. A.Sahitya Akademi
  2. B.Bharatiya Jnanpith
  3. C.K. K. Birla Foundation
  4. D.Ministry of Culture
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Correct answer: C. K. K. Birla Foundation

The foundation instituted the Saraswati Samman in 1991 for an outstanding literary work in any of the languages listed in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution, published in the previous ten years, and the award carries the largest cash prize of any Indian literary honour.

Q6210.Awards & HonoursAsked in: SSC CHSL · 13 April 2021, Shift 3Medium

Who among the following was awarded the 55th Jnanpith Award?

  1. A.Amitav Ghosh
  2. B.Raghuveer Chaudhari
  3. C.Chandrashekhara Kambara
  4. D.Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri
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Correct answer: D. Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri

The Malayalam poet, known simply as Akkitham, received the 55th Jnanpith Award, given for the year 2019. The Jnanpith is instituted by Bharatiya Jnanpith and is regarded as the highest literary award in India.

Q6212.Sports GKHard

Which of the following statements about the national game of India is correct?

  1. A.Hockey was declared the national game in 1928
  2. B.Cricket was declared the national game in 1983
  3. C.India has not declared any sport as its national game
  4. D.Kabaddi was declared the national game in 1950
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Correct answer: C. India has not declared any sport as its national game

The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports has made it clear that the Government of India has not declared any sport to be the national game of the country.