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SBI GK Questions 2026

The static part of the awareness test in SBI exams is banking and economy knowledge, which is why the PO Mains test is named General Awareness/ Economy/ Banking Knowledge and the Clerk Mains test General/ Financial Awareness. The sample questions in the Bank's booklet ask which institution introduced Know Your Customer norms, which sector drives State incomes, who led Operation Flood and what monetary policy is concerned with, and the real papers follow that line. The topics that recur are the RBI and its functions, monetary policy tools such as the repo rate, CRR and SLR, types of banks and accounts, NPAs, priority sector lending, KYC and anti-money-laundering rules, payment systems like UPI, NEFT and RTGS, banking terms and abbreviations, financial regulators such as SEBI, IRDAI and PFRDA, development institutions such as NABARD and SIDBI, the Union Budget and the Economic Survey, GDP, inflation and national income, and government schemes for financial inclusion, insurance and pensions. A few questions ask plain static GK: headquarters and heads, currencies and capitals, and dates in banking history. 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. Read a topic, then solve its quiz and the SBI previous-year questions on this site to see what you retained.

SBI GK Questions with Answers

Q401.Computer AwarenessMedium

Alphabet Inc., the holding company of Google, was created in which year?

  1. A.2010
  2. B.2013
  3. C.2015
  4. D.2018
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Correct answer: C. 2015

Google reorganised its businesses in 2015 and placed them under a new holding company named Alphabet Inc. Google continued as the subsidiary running search, advertising, Android, Chrome, Maps and YouTube, while separate ventures such as the self-driving car company and the life sciences company were made direct subsidiaries of Alphabet.

Q402.Computer AwarenessMedium

The semiconductor company Intel was founded in 1968 by

  1. A.Jensen Huang and Curtis Priem
  2. B.John Warnock and Charles Geschke
  3. C.Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore
  4. D.Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner
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Correct answer: C. Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore

Robert Noyce, one of the inventors of the integrated circuit, and Gordon Moore, who gave the observation known as Moore's law that the number of transistors on a chip doubles about every two years, left an earlier firm and founded Intel in 1968.

Q404.Computer AwarenessHard

Wipro was registered in 1945 under which original name?

  1. A.Western India Vegetable Products Limited
  2. B.Hindustan Computers Limited
  3. C.Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company
  4. D.Western India Petroleum Products Limited
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Correct answer: A. Western India Vegetable Products Limited

The company was registered in 1945 by M. H. Hasham Premji and made vanaspati cooking oil and laundry soap at Amalner in Maharashtra.

Q405.Computer AwarenessMedium

Infosys was founded in 1981 in which city?

  1. A.Bengaluru
  2. B.Pune
  3. C.Mumbai
  4. D.Hyderabad
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Correct answer: B. Pune

Infosys was started in 1981 at Pune by N. R. Narayana Murthy together with six colleagues, among them Nandan Nilekani, S. Gopalakrishnan, S. D. Shibulal, K. Dinesh, N. S. Raghavan and Ashok Arora, with a very small amount of borrowed capital.

Q406.Computer AwarenessEasy

Google was founded by which pair of students at Stanford University?

  1. A.Bill Gates and Paul Allen
  2. B.Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak
  3. C.Larry Page and Sergey Brin
  4. D.Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore
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Correct answer: C. Larry Page and Sergey Brin

Larry Page and Sergey Brin were research students at Stanford University when they built a search engine that ranked pages by the links pointing to them, and they registered Google as a company in 1998.

Q407.Computer AwarenessEasy

The headquarters of Microsoft Corporation is located at

  1. A.Cupertino, California
  2. B.Redmond, Washington
  3. C.Armonk, New York
  4. D.Seattle, Washington
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Correct answer: B. Redmond, Washington

Microsoft was founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen at Albuquerque in New Mexico, moved to the Seattle area in 1979 and has had its main campus at Redmond in Washington state ever since.

Q409.Indian EconomyAsked in: CDS · CDS-II 2022, GKEasy

The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) has revised the base year index of Eight Core Industries having a combined weight of about 40.27 percent in the Index of Industrial Production. Which one of the following is not one of the Eight Core Industries ?

  1. A.Coal
  2. B.Refinery products
  3. C.Rubber products
  4. D.Cement
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Correct answer: C. Rubber products

Rubber products are not among the Eight Core Industries tracked by the Index of Eight Core Industries.

Q410.Indian EconomyAsked in: CDS · CDS-II 2022, GKEasy

Which one of the following statements about Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs) is not correct ?

  1. A.NBFCs cannot accept demand deposits.
  2. B.NBFCs cannot give loans.
  3. C.NBFCs cannot issue cheques drawn on themselves.
  4. D.NBFCs cannot offer deposit insurance facility of Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation.
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Correct answer: B. NBFCs cannot give loans.

This statement is false, because lending and advancing loans is the main business of most NBFCs. A Non-Banking Financial Company is a company registered under the Companies Act whose principal business is loans and advances, buying shares and securities, leasing, hire-purchase, insurance or chit funds.

Q412.InternationalMedium

Which bilateral mechanism’s outcomes were reviewed during the Finance Minister’s talks with the Singapore leadership?

  1. A.2nd India-Singapore Ministerial Roundtable
  2. B.3rd India-Singapore Ministerial Roundtable
  3. C.4th India-Singapore Ministerial Roundtable
  4. D.6th India-Singapore Ministerial Roundtable
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Correct answer: C. 4th India-Singapore Ministerial Roundtable

The engagements in Singapore gave the two sides an opportunity to review progress in advancing the outcomes of that roundtable and to explore avenues for deepening the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between India and Singapore.

Q414.InternationalEasy

Who is the President of Singapore, on whom the Union Finance Minister called during her October 2026 visit?

  1. A.Lawrence Wong
  2. B.Tharman Shanmugaratnam
  3. C.Gan Kim Yong
  4. D.Vivian Balakrishnan
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Correct answer: B. Tharman Shanmugaratnam

Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman called on him during her visit from 8 to 11 October 2026 and also attended a luncheon he hosted along with the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund.

Q415.Indian EconomyAsked in: UPSC Civil Services · CSE Prelims 2021, GS Paper IHard

With reference to India, consider the following statements: 1. Retail investors through demat account can invest in 'Treasury Bills' and 'Government of India Debt Bonds' in primary market. 2. The 'Negotiated Dealing System-Order Matching' is a government securities trading platform of the Reserve Bank of India. 3. The 'Central Depository Services Ltd.' is jointly promoted by the Reserve Bank of India and the Bombay Stock Exchange. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

  1. A.1 only
  2. B.1 and 2
  3. C.3 only
  4. D.2 and 3
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Correct answer: B. 1 and 2

Retail investors can bid for government securities in primary auctions, and NDS-OM is the RBI's trading platform for them, but CDSL was not promoted by the RBI.

Q416.Indian EconomyAsked in: UPSC Civil Services · CSE Prelims 2017, GS Paper IEasy

Which of the following statements is/are correct regarding the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC)? 1. It decides the RBI's benchmark interest rates. 2. It is a 12-member body including the Governor of RBI and is reconstituted every year. 3. It functions under the chairmanship of the Union Finance Minister. Select the correct answer using the code given below:

  1. A.1 only
  2. B.1 and 2 only
  3. C.3 only
  4. D.2 and 3 only
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Correct answer: A. 1 only

The MPC fixes the policy repo rate, the RBI's benchmark rate, but it has six members and is chaired by the RBI Governor.

Q418.Banking & Financial AwarenessAsked in: UPSC Civil Services · CSE Prelims 2018, GS Paper IEasy

Which one of the following best describes the term "Merchant Discount Rate" sometimes seen in news ?

  1. A.The incentive given by a bank to a merchant for accepting payments through debit cards pertaining to that bank.
  2. B.The amount paid back by banks to their customers when they use debit cards for financial transactions for purchasing goods or services.
  3. C.The charge to a merchant by a bank for accepting payments from his customers through the bank's debit cards.
  4. D.The incentive given by the Government to merchants for promoting digital payments by their customers through Point of Sale (PoS) machines and debit cards.
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Correct answer: C. The charge to a merchant by a bank for accepting payments from his customers through the bank's debit cards.

The Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) is the fee a bank charges a merchant for processing payments the merchant receives from customers by card.

Q420.Banking & Financial AwarenessHard

India's own secure financial messaging backbone, used for RTGS, NEFT and inland letters of credit, is:

  1. A.The Structured Financial Messaging System
  2. B.The National Automated Clearing House
  3. C.The Cheque Truncation System
  4. D.The Centralised Payment System
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Correct answer: A. The Structured Financial Messaging System

Developed by the Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology at Hyderabad and built on the INFINET network of the banking sector, it carries the secure, standardised messages behind the Reserve Bank's Real Time Gross Settlement and National Electronic Funds Transfer, and is also used for inland letters of…