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3.What is the name of social networking site created by Google along with Nike
which is tagetted at the foot-ball lovers?
9. Identify this person who shot to fame shortly after uploading a controversial video
Answers::
4.These are the Leap Years doodles in 2004 and 2008. The frog jump represents the leap year.
5.It is the cynical term given to the sensor on a few keywords, that are prescribed by Chinese
Government.
7. Ram Shriram.
8.He has created the present day Google logo.
9.Hubert Chang. He uploaded a video in which he claimed that he is also one of the co-
founders of Google.
10.Youtube.
11.Knol is an on line webpedia that has the experts views on various topics. Knol is considered
the Google's answer to ever growing popularity of Wikipedia.
12. This explains the concept of "Page Rank" which is the back bone for Google's functioning.
5. Her childhood name is Manikarnika, how do we better know this freedom fighter?
Ans. Jhansi Laxmibhai
3. Which iconic Indian biscut brand do you associate Ramesh Chauhan with?
Ans. Parle-G.
5. Give me the name of this product (This is something which is preferred by sports stars)
Ans. Gatorade
1. Identify the Company and also state the founders of the company
Ans. Apple Records, Founded by Beatles. Tricky one its not Steve Jobs!
2. In 1980, Sir Ernest Harrison chairman of Racal Electronics plc' the UK's
largest maker of military radio technology, agreed a deal with Lord Weinstock
of General Electric Company plc to allow Racal to access some of GEC's
tactical battlefield radio technology. Inception of which compay was his?
Ans. Vodafone
3. Connect the logos of His Master's Voice, HMV, RCA, Victor, RCA Victor
and JVC.
Ans. Nipper. This dog is the model for painting titled His Late Master's Voice
that later became identified with all the companies mentioned above.
5. This company is privately owned by Bill Gates, who founded the company
in 1989 under the name Interactive Home Systems. One major reason for
starting the company was Gates's belief that people would someday decorate
their homes with a revolving display of digital artwork using digital frames. The
present name of the company is Latin for "wicker basket", which at the time
referred to the company's emerging view of itself as a receptacle or
storehouse for visual media. What is this company?
Ans. Corbis
Ans. BBC
5. Which term first coined in the book by Jay Conrad Levinson, revolutionized the idea
of marketing to the eternity?
Ans. Guerrilla marketing
2. The name of this business organization comes from "Little Nest". What is
the company?
Ans. Nestle
5. This word literally translates to a "round object" or "round coin". During the
Qing Dynasty, this was a round and silver coin. What are we referring to?
Ans. Yuan, the Chinese ever under valued currency!!
2. The paper still uses ink dot drawings called hedcuts, introduced in 1979
and originally created by Kevin Sprouls,in addition to photographs, a method
of illustration considered to be a consistent visual signature of the paper.
Which paper are we talking about?
Ans. Wall Street Journal
3. This business tool was was developed in 1970s and inaugurated in 1978 by
Arnold Mitchell at SRI International. What are we talking about?
Ans. VALS Segmentation. Stands for Values, Attitudes and Lifestyles is a
psychographic segmentation tool.
4. In the year 1854, six private banking firms in Basel, Switzerland pooled
their resources to form the Bankverein, a consortium that acted as an
underwriting syndicate for its member banks. What came up as a result?
Ans. UBS Commonly called as the Swiss Bank
5. X is a brand of toothpaste with a wintergreen flavor. It was formerly owned
by Unilever but, since 2003, by Church and Dwight in USA. It has also got a
high pop cultural refences such as
Now what is X?
Ans. Peopsodent
3. Expand DLF
Ans. Delhi Land and Finance Limited
Ans. TNT
4. What Web 2.0 based document sharing site was created by Trip Adler?
Ans. Scribd
Ans. "Ponds Extract" used this portrait of the Marie of Romania by Philip de
László (Marie Alexandra Victoria, previously Princess Marie of Edinburgh).
This is one of the first instances of usage of Royal Blood portraits/photos for
business.
Credits:
2. Four brothers Hirsz, Aaron, Szmul, Itzhak who have migrated from Poland to the Land of
Opportunities have founded something that changed the entertainment sector. What have
they formed?
Ans. The Warner Brothers
4. Which off-screen "Rambo" connects the following 'Harken Energy, Spectrum 7 Energy
Corp., Arbusto?
Ans. George Bush Jr. All these were the business ventures of Dubia.
5.X, a person required a basic vehicle capable of transporting two adults and three children
at 100 km/h (62 mph). The car 'Y' would be available to citizens through a savings scheme
at 990 Reichsmark, about the price of a small motorcycle. Whos X and whats Y?
Ans. X - Hitler
Y - Volkswagen
Ans. Thunderbird
4.Connect these "Bellagio, Mirage, MGM Grand, Monte Carlo, New York New
York, Stratosphere, Treasure Island, Venetian". Clue: Their infulence on
business terminology is endless.
Ans. Casinos of Las Vegas
5. The standard dimensions of this product is always 85.60 × 53.98 with and
an aspect ratio of 1.586. These are among the widely used products and often
the one carried on person. What are we talking about?
Ans. credit Cards
2. The lesser known founders of this social networking site are Eduardo Saverin, Dustin
Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. The website's membership was initially limited to Harvard
students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and
Stanford University. What is the SN site we are talkning about?
Ans. Facebook
3. Which Arts and Crafts company has roped in Deepika Padukone as a Brand
Ambassodor?
Ans. Kalanjali
4. The most notable product lines from this companies include GeForce series for gaming,
Quadro series for computer-aided design, Tegra for mobile devices. What company is it?
Ans. Nvidia
5. Largely due to declining sales, in 2006, who sold his company for $1.6 billion, or $16.80 a
share, to Apax Partners, a private investment company?
Ans. Tommy Hilfiger
3. Which Hardware Giant has developed an Active Management Six Sigma System called
the Green Sigma?
Ans. IBM
5. Following World War II t became common to see veterans wearing their uniform trousers
with this new clothing covering the torso as casual clothing, and the product became even
more popular after Marlon Brando wore one in 'A Streetcar Named Desire'. What is this
'new' clothing line we are referring to?
Ans. T-Shirts
2. Y is a wearable gestural interface device that augments the physical world with digital
information and lets people use natural hand gestures to interact with that information. It
was developed by X, a PhD student in the Fluid Interfaces Group at the MIT Media Lab.
The current prototype costs 350$, the software would be made available on Open Source.
What technology(Y) are we talking about and who is this Dr.X?
Ans. Sixth Sense and the whizkid Pranav Mistry. We know that the question was easy, but
went on with it
3. The initial URL of this company was akebono.stanford.edu/___ . What is the company?
Ans. Yahoo. The initial URL (Web Site Address read) akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo, before
they shifted to the present URL.
4. One of the names considered for the company included "Moore Noyce", after the
founders. The name, however, was a homophone for "More Noise", an ill-suited name,
since "Noise" in electronics is usually very undesirable and typically associated with bad
interference. What company is talked here?
Ans. Intel
3. He was the creator and lead developer of Gmail. He developed the original
prototype of Google AdSense as part of his work on Gmail. He also suggested
the company's now-famous motto "Don't be evil" in a 2000 meeting on
company values. He worked at Intel first and later became the 23rd employee
at Google. Who is that person that we are talking about?
Ans. Paul Buchheit
5. In 1968, X founded X Ltd., a coat shop in the York Hotel in New York City,
with $10,000. In 1969, he, who was later described as "the supreme master of
minimalism," appeared on the cover of Vogue magazine. What/Who are we
talking about?
Ans. Calvin Klein
4. Cobalt and Electra are the flavors of gums launched by Wrigley's. What was the occasion
of entertainment value that they took advantage of to launch them?
Ans. Release of Movie New Moon
5. Bhaskar Kode and Anjanee Kumar Lohatia are the CEOs of which Indian Company?
Ans. India Infoline
1. Identify the logo.. This happens to be logo of the company that is incidentally endorsed
by Sir Richard Branson
Ans. Samsonite
5. Which company cameup with the X86 series of microprocessors, the processors found in
most of the PCs?
Ans. Intel
2. The first products of this company are Heroin and Aspirin. The company is today one of
the respected pharma companies on planet. Identify this company
Ans. Bayer
3.What neologism coined by Niall Ferguson and Moritz Schularick describing the symbiotic
relationship between China and the United States, with incidental reference to the
legendary chimera?
Ans. Chimerica
5. Connect Shahid Kappor, Anushka Sharma Yashraj Films in the terms of Brand
Endorsements?
Ans. Vaseline Fairness Range of Products
1. In the dedication to which literary figure is the following doodle created?
3. Which business planned to raise over $18bn from its stock market flotation
in the USA, making it the biggest flotation in history?
Ans. Visa
4.In 1976, she took a job with WJZ-TV as news co-anchor. Today she stands
as one of the richest person in entertaiment sector. Who is this person?
Ans. Oprah Winfrey
5. Which company is behind the creation of FB games like the FarmVille, Mafia
Wars, PetVille?
Ans. Zynga
2. What fast food chain do we seen in the 1997 Bruce Willis' blockbuster 'The
Fifth Element'?
Ans. Mac Donald's.
4. Founded by David Gold in 1982, most of the products are only 99 Cents.
What is the name of this retail chain whose NYSE ticker is NDN?
Ans. 99 Cents Only Stores.
1. Identify this legendary businessman, who is often not given credit for his
contributions to India
Ans. Walchand Hirachand
2. Which search engine is the market leader in the Russian Search Engine
Market with about 50% of the total traffic?
Ans. Yandex
2. Which retailer derives its name from the acronym of Dutch Phrase 'Door
Eendrachtig Samenwerken Profiteren Allen Regelmatig' ?
Ans. SPAR
4. "It is the duty of people like us to stay in our own country and build up
outstanding schools of research such as some other countries are fortunate to
possess". This is the vision statement of which research institute? (Hint: Not a
really serious business quiz question. Give it a shot though)
Ans. TIFR. Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.
5. We do not intend to make it hard but, is the world's largest oilfield services
corporation with operations in approximately 80 countries?
Ans. Schlumberger
1.Identify the logo of this file hosting site
Ans. Scribd
2. This company's original store was located between two funeral parlours,
which created a great controversy. The company later went to become a
phenomenon in beauty industy. What is this British Company?
Ans. Body Shop
3. Which airline, in the news, has the tag line ‘simply priceless’?
Ans. Air india express
1. Identify the person in the picture and his contribution to the modern day world
Ans. Ed Roberts, the father of PC
2. What company was founded due to the discovery of Charles Macintosh about the
solublity of Rubber in Benzene?
Ans. Michelin
4. This hospitality chain newbie is based on the 'Smart Basics' Concept. The first of the
chain was established in Bangalore. How do we better know this Hotel Chain now?
Ans. Ginger Hotels
5. In 1972, the Indian government bought the Milanese factory and the rights to this brand
name, creating Scooters India Limited. What brand did the Indian Government buy?
Ans. Lambretta
2. Founded initially by the Matsuda Jyujiro, under the name of Toyo Cork Kogyo Co, then
further transformed to Toyo Kogyo Co. Which company are we takling about?
Ans. Mazda
3. What brand is created by Swede Lars Olsson Smith, that is not only known for its
products but also the consistent ad campaigns that it carries?
Ans. Absolut Vodka
5. What was the antibiotic that was carried by the soldiers of Allied Forces during the
Normandy Landings?
Ans. Pencillin
Ans. Peter Chou, the CEO of HTC and the product that is so obvious is the Google Nexus
One
2. Brijmohan along with his elder brothers Dayanand, Satyanand and his younger brother
Om Prakash came to India to start a business of supplying components to manufacturers of
bycycles. How do we know the company today?
Ans. Hero Motors
3. This entrepreneur started Microcomp to sell teledigital calculators in the Indian market.
under the brand name "Televista ". Identify him
Ans. Shiv Nadar
1. Identify
Ans. Uday Kotak. He is the vice-chairman and managing director of Kotak
Mahindra Bank
2. What was founded in 1894 in Zlin by a person with name Tomas( This
product is more popular in India that in the country that it was founded.
Ans. Bata
Ans. HP Slate
2. Brand Tura, a Nigerian Soap brand now belongs to the stable of which
Indian Conglomerate?
Ans. Godrej
5. Which business man has a joint venture with Walt Disnesy called MEN, to
which he lends his name?
Ans. Lalit Modi
2. The Hollerith Corporation changed its name to something iconic in the future.
What is it?
Ans. IBM
Ans. Etisalat
Ans. Renault
Ans. IBM
2. What was founded in December 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschke,
who established the company after leaving Xerox PARC in order to develop and sell
the Post Script page description language?
Ans. Adobe
4. What is the company that Coke bought and later sold to Sony in 1982?
Ans. Columbia Pictures. Companies do crazy things of this magnitude too!!!
5. Fill in the statement with a brand 'Come to where the flavor is...come to _______
Country'
Ans. Marlboro
2. What is the name of the Mobile that is launched by Google?
Ans. Nexus One. It is expected to eat away the business space of Windows
Mobiles.
4. Which Business Personality authored the book Back from the Brink: Coping with
Stress?
Ans. Nick Leeson
5. In 2008, from which Business Organization did Indonesia pull itself out as it
became net importer of petrol?
Ans. OPEC
1.
3. Which motor company gets its name from the Zorastrian God Ahura Mazda?
Ans. Mazda Motor Company
2. Which is the most expensive domain name to be auctioned on the net till date?
Ans. Business.com for $8 mln [4.3 m pounds]
Ans: He is Prahalad
Kakkar. He is also the founder-director of Director for Genesis Film Production, one
of India’s leading production houses, established in 1977
4. In 2009 who was named the world's most influential business thinker on The
Thinkers 50 List, published by The Times
Ans: C K Prahalad
5. Burn is the new energy drink launched in India by which Soft Drink Company?
Ans: Coca Cola
2. 1. Identify the creator of recipe for one of the greatest brands on the planet
3.
4.
Ans. This person is John Pemberton. The creator of Coca Cola. Coke entered its
booming period after it got into the hands of Asa Candler.
2. .In 1997, who won the Sveriges Riksbank prize in economic sciences in memory
of Alfred Nobel.?
Ans. The Nobel Prize of 1997, was awarded to Robert C. Merton and Myron S.
Scholes. They got it for Black–Scholes model. The fundamental insight of Black–
Scholes PDE is that the option is implicitly priced if the stock is traded.
4.Which country's currency was known as Drachma, which in Greek means 'to
grasp'?
Ans. Well this is a sitter question. Drachma was the currency of Greece 1 January
2002, when it was replaced by Euro.
1. Identify
4. Which minister recently suggested that the CEO pay package should be
capped?
Ans. Salman Kurshid
1 . The Ad campaign of which company is this. Also identify the social cause that is taken
up by the company.
Ans.
2. Which two friennds, Off screen as well as onscreen own the eyeware retail outlet chain
'Shades'?
Ans. Sunil Shetty and Sanjay Dutt
5. Name the inventor of world's first safety elevator, whose name is synonymous with that
category?
Ans. Elisha Graves Otis
2. Arthur Andersen is an Accounting Firm which has been dissolved following their
involvement in which scandal?
Ans. Enron Scandal
3. Which Indian Tech company presently in news is a Joint venture between BT and M&M?
Ans. Tech Mahindra
4. The Journal first published in 1889, featured the Jones 'Average', the first of several
indexes of stock and bond prices on the New York Stock Exchange. How do we know that
today?
Ans. Wall Street Journal
5. The world's first university-based executive education was created in 1931 at MIT under
the sponsorship which stalwart of GM?
Ans. Alfred P. Sloan
3. This watch company is noted for its use of scratch-proof materials, a field in
which it is considered a pioneer. It is also the most affected brands due to
counterfeiting. Identify the brand.
Ans. Rado
4. Which company has adopted the Union Jack after the British Airways have
dropped during its privitization?
Ans. Virgin Atlantic Airways
2. Which fashion house uses the famous photogarph of Marlyn Monroe as an core
advertising device even today?
Ans. Chanel
3. Which compny has the NYSE ticker as F?
Ans. Ford Motor Company
2. Which company has come up with the Baby & Kids Range of products
under the name Mom n Me?
Ans. Mahindra & Mahindra
Ans. Lux
4. For which brand did Sachin and Amitabh Bacchan endorse together for the first time?
Ans. Pepsi
5. Who is the brand ambassidor of Cinthol Soap?
Ans. Hrithik Roshan
2. Who is the CEO of Yes bank that has completed its 5th Aniversary recently?
Ans. Rana Kapoor
5. How long did Coca Cola take to relaunch its Original Coke after the New Coke Debacle?
Ans. 3 months
2. What is the brand name so popular in India that it is used as generic name
for bottled water?
Ans. Bisleri
3. Which company was the recently barred from the MoU with Andhra
Pradesh government to construct the prestigious Hyderabad Metro Rail
Project?
Ans. Maytas, the sister company of the defamed satyam computers.
4. What special relavance does the year 2010 hold in the Indian Banking sector?
Ans. It marks the total liberalization of the Indian Banking, ie the Foreign Players can also
enter and operate without the redtape.
5. What is the name of the tiny Creatures with long bulged noses that we find as a Gmail
Extension?
Ans. Zoozimps
4. What is the name of the new search engine from Microsoft called as?
Ans. Bing
4. What is the name of the new search engine from Microsoft called as?
Ans. Bing
5. Who is the IT guru who resides on the MIT campus in a student room?
Ans. Richard Stallman
3. Which FMCG major has made its way into the snacks market with the
brand Hippo?
Ans. Parle Agro
Ans. Videocon
2. A book named “Father &Son Co.”. Father Watson sr., son is Watson jr.
Which company does it refer to?
Ans. IBM
2.Which vehicle took its name from the fact that it was made to be used for general
purposes?
Ans. Jeep (GP)
1. Identify the business tycoon. See the pic properly for the clues
2. The name of the company he established, when he was only 17 years old, is made up of
the first letters of his name, the first letter of the name of the farm he grew up on, and the
first letter of the name of his home village.
Ans: Ingvar Kamprad of IKEA retail furniture chain.
3. Which popular car audio system company's name when translated into German means
'blue point'?
Ans. Blaupunkt
Ans. Roshni Nadar, the daughter of Shiv Nadar of HCL Computers. She is all set to become
the new executive Director and CEO of HCL .
2. Which brand name is derived from the word 'polar' suggesting coolness?
Ans. Polo
3. Breaking away from tradition, this women's perfume brand had a man's name. The ad
created a furore in the late '60s featuring a lady patting a man's backside. Name the brand.
Ans. Charlie from Revlon
4. What is the name of Ingham and Luft's model and theory which deals with hidden and
open areas of knowledge about a person?
Ans. The Johari Window
5. What are illiquid stocks that do not follow SEBI rules called?
Ans. Z stocks
2. By what name is the building 'Phiroze Jeejebhoy Towers' better known as?
Ans. Bombay Stock Exchange, BSE Building.
3.One of the most effective and efficient forms of marketing is abbreviated to the initials
WOM; what is it?
Ans. Word Of Mouth
4.What are the four metaphorical terms used to describe products/services in Boston Matrix
model according to market share and market maturity?
Ans. Dog, Cash Cow, Problem Child and Star (or Rising Star)
5. Who is the first Asian to be appointed as Deputy Speaker of Lord House UK?
Ans. Lord Swaraj Paul
2. With a presence in 27 countries, the name of which company means 'three oceans?'
Ans: Sanyo
4.Born in Russia, he settled down in Geneva in the 1930s - his name is synonymous with
super-premium merchandise ranging from fine cigars, to expensive perfumes such as `Cool
Water' and `The Good Life'. Who are we talking about?
Ans. Zino Davidoff
5. `Sugar Free' is a leading brand of artificial sweetener in India. Which company owns the
brand? Ans. Cadila
2. What gained fame in the '50s when Marilyn Monroe announced that this was the only
thing she wore in bed?
Ans. Chanel No.5
3. .Which company has signed a deal with FOX for airing of Hindi and English versions of
many of the News Corp Channels in India?
Ans. Tata Sky
4. Which famous Russian tennis star is the sports brand ambassador of Canon?
Ans. Maria Sharapova
2. What was the first Indian luxury hotel established by the Tatas?
Ans. Watson Hotel
3. Rachel Weisz was the brand ambassodor for which luxury soap?
Ans. Lux
5.Sergey Brin and Larry Page are the founders of which giant?
Ans . Google
1. Identify this (In)famous co founder of a software company
Ans. Rama Raju the younger brother of the Satyam Ramalinga Raju
2. Which (Erstwhile) associate partner of TATA who appear on the T shirt of MAN U?
Ans. AIG
3. What term is coined by the economist Jayaram Ramesh to explain the economic
potential potential of India and China?
Ans. Chindia. (It is definitely not the Chindia that is an integral part of the Hyderabadi Hindi)
4. How do we know a company that called itself as 'Kwanon' when it was founded?
Ans. Canon
3. Max Keath in the world war of 1941 didn't have enough cola syrup so he came up with
another thing. What is it?
Ans. Fanta
5. Bikini Festival which introduced the concept of swimwear for the first time in 1980's as
having a specific purpose. What emerged from this Bikini festival?
Ans. Miss World Competition
2.`Mr Watson, come here, I want you' are famous words in the history of technology. Who
spoke these words, and what was their significance?
Ans. Graham Bell for these were the first words over telephone
3. In which business best-seller would you encounter Sniffy and Scurry the rats, and Hem
and Haw the humans?
Ans. Who Moved My Cheese
4. Which animal would you find in the logo of the famous apparel brand Lacoste?
Ans. Alligator
2. Whichcompany makes the mobile phone G1, the first ever mobile phone from Google?
Ans. Taiwanese Electronics Maker, HTC
3. Which company has launched premium canned foods under the brand Kitchens of India
starting with the soft launch of Dal Bukhara ?
Ans. ITC
4. Which world famous premium brand is characterised by its monogram with the stylised
letters, `L' and `V'?
Ans. Louis Vuitton
5. Which drug is the only approved antibiotic for the cure of anthrax attack?
Ans. Cipro
2. Which cellular company came up with the Ad Campaign "Walk While You Talk"?
Ans. Idea
Ans. Prometric, a US based comany is all set to create history by bagging the 40 Million
Deal for the Online CAT Exam.
4. Who is the record of flying the highest altitude on a Hot Air Baloon? "Think of the
'Complete Man' "
Ans. Vijaypat Singhania, the chairman of Raymond. Know more about this inspirational
figure
2. The letter "A" was added to the original name of this company to make it a palindrome.
What is the company?( Dic: Palindrome: A palindrome is a word or phrase which reads the
same in both directions)
Ans. Totota. It spells the same from both the sides.)
3. Who is the Indian who started the world famous "Bose Sound Systems"?
Ans. Amar Bose
5. Expand UNEP
Ans: United Nations Environment Programme
2.Which Worlds largest motor vehicle company filed bankruptcy in june 1st,2009.
1.Who has won the 2009 UEFA Champions league Final defeating Manchester United?
Ans.FC Barcelona
2. The first retail outlet of Walmart in India a joint venture with Bharti Enterprises has
opened in which Indian city?
Ans. Amritsar.
1. Identify this famous management principle, which has of late entered even the pop
culture.
3.Amar Chitra Katha is all set to come up with a new hero from Indian Inc. Who's that?
Ans. Narayan Murthy
4.It’s the only private sector engineering and construction company to have got a license
from the Indian Government to build Warships very recently. Which company are we talking
about?
Ans. L&T
2. F1 driver Lewis Hamilton is one among the star line-up of brand endorsers for this brand
of watch. Which brand of watch are we talking about?
Ans. Tag Heuer
3. Lata Mangeshkar, Britney Spears, Liz Taylor and Shilpa Shetty – in a business sense
what is their connection?
Ans. Have perfumes named after them
4. For the coining of which term in Indian business in 1990s is Deepak Mohani credited?
Ans. Sensex
2. What is the largest continuous empire that ever existed in the world?
Ans. Mongol Empire that is created by Genghis Khan.
5. What is the company held by Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone Demi Moore
and Bruce Wills?
Ans. Planet Hollywood.
1. Identify the stalwart
Ans. GD Birla
4. With a presence in 27 countries, the name of which company means 'three oceans?'
Ans. Sanyo
2. What do you call a stock market trend that is neither bullish nor bearish?
Ans. Chicken market
3. Leela Chitnis was the first Bollywood diva to accomplish this in 1934. Later almost all the
top actresses of their era, Hema Malini, Sri Devi, Madhuri Dixit, Aishwarya Rai, etc.
accomplished the same feat. What trend did Leela Chitnis start?
Ans. Appeared in an ad for LUX beauty soap.
4. Regnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen were the first recipients of this prestigious award for
having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes in
1969. The funding of this award comes from the Swedish National Bank (Sveriges
Riksbank). What award are we talking about?
Ans. Nobel Prize for economics.
2. Who was the first minister for divestment under NDA government?
Ans: Arun Jaitley
4. Under which Indian prime minister were guidelines for the divestment process first laid
down?
Ans: Chandra Shekhar
1.Identify the famous Business man who created one of the biggest food chains in the
World?
Ans. Nokia
4.Which state in India was the first to receive a 'fiscal adjustment' loan from world bank?
Ans. Uttar Pradesh
2.. Which online matrimony site was founded by J. Murugavel, who himself found his wife
through the Internet
Ans. BharatMatrimony.com
3. What author survived a bullet to the throat while fighting in the Spanish Civil War?
4. Sickly and weak infants were left to die of exposure at the foot of Mt.Taygetus by which
famous warriors?.
Ans. Spartans
5.Which monument in south India was built to commemorate the great Plague?
Ans. Charminar
1.Identify the Ad Man
Ans. Nike
Ans. Shakespeare
4. Which Indian documentary from india won the Academy award for 2009?
5. The art form in which the artworks, objects are broken up, analyzed, and re-assembled in
an abstracted form — instead of being depicted as objects from one viewpoint, so as to
represent the subject in a greater context is called as?
Ans. Cubism
2.In Al Ries and Jack Trout’s book The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing, what’s the first law
about?
Ans. Leadership
3. Who wrote the crime novel "Ten Little Niggers"?
4. film called Miss India released the same year as Mother India. Who played the title role?
Ans. Ants
2.This young visualizer at the D.J.Keymer ad agency in Calcutta created several popular
ads for brands like ICI's anti malarial tablets. he later became world famous thanks to one of
his creations which was subsidized by the West Bengal Roads and Buildings Dept. on a
technicality. Name him.
3. What novel revolves around the tension between Britons and Indians in Chandrapore
when a doctor is put on trial for assault?
Ans. Democritus
Ans. Greece
2.His first name, which came to him by mistake, was an abbreviation of his intended name,
George, which was misread by hospital officials completing the birth certificate. He was
editor of the house magazine of the Cadillac Motor Co. He went on to form his own agency
and was in the habit of purchasing 100 shares of stock in every new client. Name this ad
guru.
Ans. Flintstones
4. Which film did United Insurance Company insure for Rs 11 lakh in 1998?
Ans. Taal
5. What does "Single undertaking principle" in WTO parlance signify?
Ans. FIAT
3. The 1991 novel "Scarlett" by Alexandra Ripley was a sequel to which other novel?
4. What connects Amitabh Bachchan’s character of Babban in Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag,
actress Kate Bosworth and actor Christopher Walken?
5. Which of the following treaties explicitly forbids private ownership of the Moon and other
celestial bodies?
Ans. Mitsubishi
Ans. Xanadu
4. Pankaj Kapur dubbed for Sir Ben Kingsley’s voice for the Hindi version of Richard
Attenborough’s Gandhi. But which character did he play in the film?
Ans. Prion
1.Identify the freedom fighter
2.Who's the only real life character to ever feature in a Tintin comic book ?
Ans.Al Capone
3. Which literary character has been played in over fifty films by actors including an Olympic
shot-putter, a U.S. footballer, a British naval officer and the son-in-law of the character's
creator?
Ans. Tarzan
4. Karan Johar is producing an animation version of Kuch Kuch Hota Hai with animals
replacing the characters. What is it called?
5. Deflection of objects moving along the surface of the Earth to the right of the direction of
travel in the Northern hemisphere and to the left of the direction of travel in the Southern
hemisphere is due to:
2. This corporate honcho cut his teeth in the hotel industry by managing Hotel Maurya
Sheraton in New Delhi. He was inducted into the board of ITC in 1984, taking charge of the
Welcomgroup. He pioneered the first private sector Degree Institute in Hotel Management-
WelcomGroup School of Hotel Administration, Manipal. Now he is the Chairman of a
leading Indian company. Name him.
4. In Sholay, Hema Malini’s character was Basanti. In which film was Amitabh’s taxi called
Basanti?
Ans.Khuddar
5. The word 'Marathon' for running 42.195 kilometers of distance comes from:
Ans. The name of the place where the first race of its kind began
Ans. Nasser
2. Citibank had one of its earliest International branches in an Indian city. It has been
operating in India since 1902. Name the city and by what name was it known earlier?
Ans. Calcutta. Citibank started as City Bank of New York. From 1962, it was known as First
National City Bank
3.When told he had to pay a large sum of money for a needed operation, who sighed, 'I
suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means?
4. Speech made by Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of the Republic of India to the
Indian Constituent Assembly, on the eve of India's independence, towards midnight on
August 14, 1947.Identify the speech
Ans. Tryst With Destiny
2.How does Amway, the global leader in direct selling derive its name?
Ans. Shorter version of “American Way”
4. Silk Air is the regional wing/ wholly owned subsidiary of which airline major?
Ans. Singapore Airlines
5. Work this out for the answer lies somewhere in the question. Larry Hillblom, Adrian
Dalsey, and Robert Lynn got together to form which company in 1969?
Ans. DHL
2. ST 500 Pathfinder, Airboss Mach 3, Night Vision – surprisingly, these are watches from
whom?
Ans. Victorinox
3. It started with the cover-up of a colleague's small error, and ended up with the crash of
Britain's oldest bank. The best-seller book The Rogue Trader is which author's own account
of his role in the ruin of the bank?
Ans. Nick Leeson