Bangladesh Bank Important General Knowledge for Bank Recruitment Test (Part 3)

Bangladesh Bank Important General Knowledge for Bank Recruitment Test (Part 3)

 Important General Knowledge for Bank Recruitment Exams (Part 3) 

1) Head office of the World Health Organization (WHO) is located in Switzerland. 

2) Micronesia is a – Small Island situated in the Oceana area. 

3) The regulations related to intellectual property are known as – TRIPS. 

4) The language with the most native speaker Is – Mandarin Chinese. 

5) The first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics – Elinor Ostrom. 

6) The last member of SAARC is – Afghanistan. 

7) The smallest country in the world is – Vatican City. 

8) The capital of Bhutan is – Thimpu. 

9) First woman Prime Minister in the world – Shreemavo Bandarnaike. 

10) The name Tom Daschle relates to – Politics. 

11) Niagra Falls is located in – North America 

12) Plato was a citizen of – Greece 

13) The present president of the International Cricket Council is – Alan Isaac 

14) MOU stands for – Memorandum of Understanding. 

15) The American General who led the revolt against the British and declared American 

independence was- George Washington 

16) World Literacy day is observed on – 8th September. 

17) Wimbledon cup is associated with the game of – Lawn Tennis 

18) The current president of the Syrian National Council (SNC) is – Abdel Basset Sieda. 

19) The newly elected French President Francois Hollande belongs to – Socialist Party. 

20) The country that accounts for nearly one-third of the total teak production in the world is –

Myanmar. 

21) The name of the statesman who received the Nobel Prize for literary work is – Churchill. 

22) Present name of country Syam – Thailand 

23) The city of flowering trees – Harare 

24) The land of the midnight sun – Norway. 

25) Durban is a city of – South Africa 

26) The currency of Japan – Yen 

27) The number of members in the SAARC – 8 

28) ADB headquarter is located in – Manila 

29) The watchdog of international trade – WTO 

30) Reuters is a – News agency 

31) The birthplace of Hitler – Austria 

32) The writer of the book ‘Mother’- Maxim Gorky 

33) Plato was a citizen of –Greece 

34) The largest ocean in the world – Pacific 

35) The deepest lake in the world – Lake Baikal 

36) The largest planet in the solar system – Jupitar 

37) First atom bomb was dropped – 1945 

38) The national game of USA – Baseball 

39) The biggest island in the world –Greenland. 

40) The former name of the Srilanka – Ceylon 

41) Writer of ‘A Passage to India’ – E.M. Forster. 

42) SAARC was launched in -1985 

43) Ramon Magsaysay award is named after the former president of - Philippines. 

44) The ICC cricketer of the year 2011- Janathan trot. 

45) Albert Einstein was born in –Germany. 

46) Suva is the capital of – Fiji 

47) The Fourth estate means – the press 

48) Combodia was earlier known as – Kampuchea 

49) ‘Boston Tea Party’ is associated with the –American Independence. 

50) World’s longest tunnel is in – Japan. 

51) The currency of Indonesia is – Rupiah. 

52) Writer of ‘Glimpses of World’ – Jawaharlal Nehru. 

53) The capital city of the United Arab Emirates is – Abu Dhabi. 

54) The permanent secretariat of the SAARC is in – Katmundu. 

55) NATO is – A military organization. 

56) The largest continent of the world – Asia 

57) The host country of the next football world cup is 2014 – Brazil 

58) The first Arab woman to conquer the Everest – Suzane Al Habib 

59) The headquarter of the Arab League is in – Cairo, Egypt 

60) The father of ‘ Green Revolution’ – Norman Borlogue. 

61) Hong kong became the part of China in -1997 

62) The world Human Rights Day – December 10. 

63) The father of science fiction – Jules Verne 

64) Greenland belongs to – Denmark 

65) The current Prime Minister of Australia is – Julia Gillard. 

66) The largest desert in the world is – Shahara. 

67) The ‘Gurkhas’ are the original inhabitants of – Nepal 

68) The place known as the roof of the world is – Tibbet 

69) The author of the book ‘The Time Machine ‘ is – H.G. Wells. 

70) The second largest country in the world in the area – Canada 

71) Rickshaw was first introduced in – Japan 

72) NATO stands for – North Atlantic Treaty Organization 

73) The World Trade Organization (WTO) established in -1995 

74) The headquarter of the World Bank is in – Washington DC 

75) The smallest country in Asia in population – Maldives. 

76) The SAARC Secretariat is situated in – Kathmandu, Nepal 

77) The meaning of SAFTA is – South Asian Free Trade Area 

78) The meaning of SAPTA is – SAARC Preferential Trading Arrangement 

79) The first female head of the state in the Muslim world – Megawati Sukarnoputri. 

80) The world’s largest diamond-producing country is – Botswana. 

81) Submarine cable is the term used in – Information Technology. 

82) Andaman Island belongs to – India 

83) The number of the member states of the UN Security Council having veto power is -5 

84) Louvre Museum is in – France. 

85) Congress is the name of the parliament of the country –USA. 

86) Amnesty International was established in – London, in 1961 

87) Kofi Annan was the – General Secretary of the United Nations 7th 

88) 17the country to adopt the Euro as its currency –Estonia. 

89) The headquarter of IMF is in – Washington DC. 

90) Transparency International is based in – Barlin 

91) The winner of the 2012 Asia Cup cricket in – Pakistan. 

92) Amazon river is situated in – South America. 

93) OPEC is associated with the international trading of – Oil 

94) ‘Democracy is a government of the people, by the people, for the people’The statement is 

attributed to – Abraham Lincoln. 

95) UN Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women was 

signed in the year -1979 

96) ‘Puscus Award’ is related to the game of – Gootball. 

97) The capital of India is – New Delhni 

98) The headquarter of UN Women is located in – New York 

99) The Sahara desert is located in the continent of – Africa. 

100) The nation gave women the right to vote first – Newzealand.