BUSINESS AWARENESS: (17 tests)

1.Which French impressionist painter is the inspiration for the latest range of shirts from
Louis Philippe?

Vinci Mondrian
Monet Van Gogh

2.Which famous personality is generally considered the world's first known billionaire?
Benjamin Franklin George Washington
John D. Rockefeller Paul Getty

3.Which celebrity endorser is common to the following products : American Express

cards, Buick cars, Nike sports goods, Wheaties breakfast ?
Oprah Winfrey Michael Jordan
Jerry Seinfield Tiger Woods

4. Considered the world's oldest chemicals company, it was founded in 1758 and merged
with Ciba a few decades ago, and recently merged with another pharmaceutical company
to form Novartis. Name the company.
Roche Geigy
Hoeschst Sandoz

5. The production of oil has spawned a lot of wealth for many countries as well as
businessmen. Which country is the world's largest producer of oil?
Saudi Arabia Russia
USA Kuwait

6.Name the world's single largest factory - a manufacturing unit within a physically
enclosed space?
Volkswagen in Wolfsburg General Motors in Detroit
Boeing in Washington LG in Seoul

7.What is common to the following companies: FedEx, Delta Airlines, Merck?

All had offices affected in the WTC attacks All have fired Andersen as their
auditors
Have more than 10 % Indian executives Have applied for setting up 100
% operations in India recently

8.Who has authored the latest business best-seller *Big Brands, Big Trouble?
Al Ries Patricia Seybold
Jack Trout David Aaker

9.Which famous American invented the bifocal lens in the late 1700s; an invention which
revolutionized the optics market?
Thomas Alva Edison Benjamin Franklin
Lou Gerstner Andy Grove

10.Which famous pair of brothers were the first to fit a motor vehicle with tyres with
inner tubes in 1885; a name today synonymous with automobile tyres?
Michelin Thomas Allwyn
Dunlop Goodyear

1 Monet
2 Rockfeller
3 tiger woods
4 Giegy
5 Saudi Arabia
6 Boeing in Washington
7 all fired Anderson as Auditors
8 Jack Trout
9 Benjamin Franklin
10 Goodyear

1.Which company recently announced a $54.2 billion quarterly loss - the highest ever
quarterly loss in corporate history?

Ford Motors General Motors

AOL Time Warner AT&T

2.Which company is planning a foray into the branded snacks market in India with the
launch of its international brand 'Cheez-It'?
Kellogs Heinz
Proctor & Gamble HLL

3.In recognition of what aspect of business is the Malcolm Baldridge Award presented?
Quality Advertising excellence
HR practices Business ethics

4. Which famous company owns Royal Enfield motors, manufacturers of Enfield Bullet
motorcycles in India?
Eicher Mahindra&Mahindra
Escorts TVS

5. Which famous Bollywood actress has started a business venture of marketing high-
priced candles under the label, The Faraway Tree?
Rekha Sushmita sen
Moonmoon Sen Dimple Kapadia
6.Which famous company is credited to have developed the concept of nylon bristles for
toothbrushes in 1938?
3M Colgate
Ciba-Gigey Dupont

7.Which famous watch brand was launched in 1983 by hanging a 500-ft-long sign in the
shape of a watch in Frankfurt?
Swatch Longines
Casio Rolex

8.What famous company was set up in July 1968 as NM Electronics in Silicon Valley,
named after its two famous founders?
Intel Microsoft
Apple Sun Microsystems

9.Which famous brand is owned by a little known Acme Clothing?

Polo John Sculley
Provouge ColorPlus

10.Which company is known as Big Blue?

IBM Bluetooth Inc
Pepsi Reliance

1 AOL Time Warner

2 Kellogs
3 Adevrtising Excellence
4 Eicher
5 Dimple Kapdia
6 Dupont
7 Swatch
8 Intel
9 Provouge
10 IBM

1.Beyond the Last Blue Mountain is the biography on which famous Indian business
personality?

Bharat Ram Aditya Birla

M.S.Oberoi J.R.D. Tata

2.Which company was founded in 1972 as GM Korea _ a 50:50 tie-up between Shinjin
Motors and General Motors, US _ and took its new name in 1983?
Daewwo Motors Kawasaki
Mazda Hyundai

3.Which famous car sub-brand has a horse as its logo?

Rolls Royce Ford Mustang
Jaguar Audi

4. Which famous company owns Royal Enfield motors, manufacturers of Enfield Bullet
motorcycles in India?
Eicher Mahindra&Mahindra
Escorts TVS

5. Which famous Bollywood actress has started a business venture of marketing high-
priced candles under the label, The Faraway Tree?
Rekha Sushmita sen
Moonmoon Sen Dimple Kapadia

6.Which famous company is credited to have developed the concept of nylon bristles for
toothbrushes in 1938?
3M Colgate
Ciba-Gigey Dupont

7.Which famous watch brand was launched in 1983 by hanging a 500-ft-long sign in the
shape of a watch in Frankfurt?
Swatch Longines
Casio Rolex

8.What famous company was set up in July 1968 as NM Electronics in Silicon Valley,
named after its two famous founders?
Intel Microsoft
Apple Sun Microsystems

9.Which famous executive is supposed to have joined a leading company after this well-
known offer was made to him: `Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugar
water or come with me and change the world?'
Lee Iacocca, Coca Cola to Chrysler John Sculley, Pepsi to Apple
Lou Gerstner, RJR Nabisco to IBM Andy Grove, Fairchild to Intel

10.What famous company owns the fragrance brands Faberge, Impulse, Elizabeth Arden
and Karl Lagerfeld?
P&G Revlon
Unilever L'Oreal

1 M.S.Oberoi
2 Daewoo Motors
3 ford Mustang
4 Eicher
5 Dimple Kapdia
6 Dupont
7 Swatch
8 Intel
9 Jhon Sculley,Pepsi to Apple
10 UniLever

1.Which famous company was co-founded in 1936 by oil majors Texaco and Chevron in
order to expand operations in the Asia- Pacific region?

Caltex Aramco
British Petroleum Castrol

2.If Frito Lay offered Tazos, who offered Amazzos?

Uncle Chips Mattel
Funskool Pepsi

3.What, according to its baseline, is ``Used by men. Enjoyed by Women''?

Kohinoor Condoms Axe Deoderent
kamsutra Condoms Jockey Undergarments

4.Which among the following is the costliest Crockery brand?

Corelle Borosil
Prestige Hitkari

5. What was first introduced by John McLaughlin, a chemist from Toronto, in 1904 after
he greatly improved upon the colour and flavour of existing root beers?
Pepsi 7-Up
Gatorade Canada Dry

6.Which product ad was in the limelight for winning a silver at Cannes'?

Fevicol M-Seal
Dairy Milk Home Trade

7.Which category or brand name among the following is derived because of the miserly
nature of the people of the country?
Scotch Tape Danish Pastry
Swiss Knife Irish Coffee

8.Which famous business house owns Kamsutra Condoms?

Singhanias Dhoots
Ambanis Ruias

9.Shiv Nadar is a name famous in which field?''

Space aircrafts Entertainment
Advertising IT

10.whith which company would u associate Jerry Yang?

SAP Google.com
Amazon.com Yahoo.com

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1 Caltex
2 Uncle Chips
3 Axe Deoderent
4 Corelle
5 Canada Dry
6 Fevicol(the Truck one)
7 Scoth Tape
8 Singhanias(J.K.Chem)
9 IT (HCL Technologies)
10 Yahoo.com

1.He was a successful investment banker at D.E. Shaw & Co, until he jumped into the
world of Internet seeing its rising popularity, and has made it really big in the 1990s.
Name him.
Jeff Bezos - Amazon.com Scott McNealy - Sun
Microsystems
Linus Torvalds - Linux Sabeer Bhatia - Hotmail

2.The prancing horse is a symbol of Ferrari. Which brand used the symbol of a raging
bull?
Lambhorghini Ferrari, before it switched
to the horse
Lotus Bugatti

3.In the logo of which Indian bank would you find the picture of a dog? (The logo does
not exist in that form now, even though the dog logo is associated with this brand)
Bank Of India Syndicate Bank
Bank of Baroda Dena Bank
4. Which brand used the famous ad line `Probably the only long-term relationship
Marilyn ever enjoyed'?
Lee jeans Pepsi Cola
Levi's jeans Hamlet cigars

5. Which was the first paint factory to be set up in India, as early as 1902 near Calcutta
Berger paints Asian paints
Jenson&Nicholson Shalimar Paints

6.With which famous brand would you associate the icon of `Striding Man'?
Prudential Insurance Marks & Spencer
Midland Bank Johnny Walker whisky

7.Which category or brand name among the following is derived because of the miserly
nature of the people of the country?
Scotch Tape Danish Pastry
Swiss Knife Irish Coffee

8.What famous company was founded in 1964 by a MIT professor as a result of his
disappointment when he went shopping for a stereo system and found big differences
between the specifications and the audio quality of a live performance?
Bose Audio Sony
K.L.Inc Panasonic

9.Which company has an Advertisement ``If you're over the middle of the Pacific, you
want to be in the middle of four engines.''
Boeing Airbus
KLM US Airways

10.He was the star salesman at Oracle under Larry Ellison for their database software
until he quit in 1990 to set up his own firm. His company, which carries his name, is
today the world leader in CRM (Customer Relationship Management) software. Name
him?
John Baan Sanjiv Sindhu
Thomas Siebel Vinod

1 Jeff Bezos-Amazon.com
2 Lambhorghini
3 Syndicate Bank
4 Lee Jeans
5 Shalimar Paints
6 Jhony Walker Whisky
7 Scoth Tape
8 Bose Audio(Dr Amar Bose)
9 Airbus
10 Thomas Siebel

1. When he founded his company in 1939 along with his partner Dain in San Francisco's
Bay Area, he effectively created the trend, which led to the creation of Silicon Valley
decades later. He was the CEO of his company till 1978 and died of natural causes in
2001. Who are we talking about here?
William Hewitt Thomas Wharton
Charles Babbage Nthese

2. In January 2002, 12 countries in Europe will shift from their national currency to the
Euro. Which of the following countries is not planning to shift to the Euro in the new
year ?
Finland Greece
Spain UK

3.Which famous MNC is known for its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) which has
been behind many technology inventions in the world, including laser printing, ethernet
and GUI?
Hewlett Packard Xerox
IBM Oracle

4. About three years ago he was hailed as the symbol of India's managerial talent when he
became the CEO of Standard Chartered Plc. Recently, he resigned from his post
reportedly due to a boardroom culture clash. Who is he?
Rana Talwar Rajat Gupta
Mike Khanna Mukesh Pant

5. Jean Martin Folz, a relatively unknown corporate executive has been rated as the
Businessman of the Year by Forbes magazine. Which organisation does he head?
Volkswagaon Daimler
Ford Mototrs Peugeot

6.Which Indian business group owns a controlling stake in Eveready Industries, the
makers of the Eveready brand of batteries?
Hindujas Rahejas
Goenkas Khaitans

7. Which company is the world's largest food retailer with a sales turnover of close to $60
billion in 2000?
Tesco Kroger
Carrefour Sainsbury

8. Which Indian has been conferred the award of Businessman of the Year for 2001 by
Business India magazine in its annual rating?
Karsanbhai Patel Dhirubhai Ambani
Dr Anaji Reddy N.R.Narayan Murthy

9.In which current business best-seller would you encounter Sniffy and Scurry the rats,
and Hem and Haw the humans?
What they dont teach you at Wharton Who moved my Cheese
Emotional Intelligence Big Brands , Big Trouble

10. Which company owns and promotes the soap brand Margo, now extended to other
skin-care products?
Henkel Spic HLL
Godrej Soaps Wipro

Q.No Result Correct Answers

1 Williams Hewiit
2 UK
3 Xerox
4 Rana talwar
5 Peugeot
6 Khetans
7 Carrefour
8 dr Anji Reddy
9 Who moved my cheesae
10 Wipro

1.In which year did Coca-Cola decide to change its formulation, only to return to the
original formulation after a huge furore in the market?
1985 1982
1990 1987

2.Henry Ford revolutionised the car market with the first mass- produced car, the Ford
Model T. In which year was it launched?
1914 1910
1912 1908

3.Which company owns the beer brands Haywards 2000, Hi-Five and Lal Toofan?
McDowell Shaw Wallace
United Breweries Mohan Mekins

4. Which is the new Tamil movie channel recently launched by the Sun TV network?
K TV Kolly TV
Usha TV Vijay TV

5. Which company owns the footwear brand - Stryde?

Hindustan Lev Bata
Woodla Tata International

6.In which famous series of ads would you encounter the model Ava Mukherjee?
Hamam Promise
Dhara Ayurvedic Concepts

7.Lotus, Tivoli and WebSphere are software brands of which famous computer company?
Lotus Inc Nowell
IBM Microsoft

8.The software company I-flex Solutions was originally a division of which famous
financial services company?
ABN Amro Standard Chartard
Citigroup Merryl Lynch

9.Which motivational speaker has been consistently high on the list of best-selling non-
fiction books in India with his book You can Win?
Spencer Jhonson Shiv Khera
Aridham Choud Deepak Chopra

10.Which business or media group has a majority stake in the financial daily Business
Standard?
Reliance Bombay Dying
Kotak Mahindra Goenkas(HT)

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Detailed Analysis
Q.No Result Correct Answers
1 1985
2 1908
3 Shaw Wallace
4 K-TV
5 Tata International
6 Ayurvedic Concepts
7 IBM
8 CitiGroup
9 Shiv Khera
10 Kotak Mahindra
1. Which famous industrialist was recently awarded the Padma Bhushan?
Keshub Mahindra N.R.Narayan Murthy
Azim Premji None of these

2. Which Business house has a majority stake in Mudra Advertising .

Tata Nirma
Reliance WPP

3.What famous car brand, originally from the former Czechoslovakia, was notorious for
its shoddiness and lack of style until taken over by Volkswagen in the 1990s?
Skoda Mustang
Rovers Ferrari

4. Which company derives its logo from decorative oriental sea shells ?
Shell Pearl Inc
Microsoft Intel

5. What animal would you find in the tailwing of the Qantas aircrafts ?
Tiger Lion
Horse Kangaroo

6.He was the chairman of General Motors for close to 20 years in the 1940s and 1950s.
His name adorns one of the most prestigious management schools in the world. Who is
he?
Bil Harword James Stanford
Thomas Wharton Alfred Sloan

7. Name the famous brand of tissue owned by P&G. This brand is famous for its
advertising icon Mr Whipple, once polled as the third `most recognised man' in the US in
the 1970s.
MR X Florina
Charmin None Of these

8. Identify the odd one out: Old Spice, Pringles, Elizabeth Arden, Tide, Oil of Olay,
Camay.
Camay Oil Of Olay
Elizabeth Arden Pringles

9.One of the world's largest retailers, this company with a dominant presence in the US
recently announced that it was applying for bankruptcy. Name the company.
Wal-Mart K-Mart
Macy's Selfridges
10. Which cellular phone manufacturer has recently set up a new division, under the
name Vertu, which will market super-premium cell-phones adorned with gold and
platinum at prices over $20,000?
Nokia Ericsson
Siemens Motorola

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Q.No Result Correct Answers

1 Keshub Mahindra
2 Reliance
3 Skoda
4 Shell
5 Kangaroo
6 Alfred Sloan
7 Charmin
8 Elizabeth Arden
9 K-Mart
10 Nokia

1. Who is the largest producer of steel in the world ?

Pohang Iron & steel Nippon Iron & steel
Ispat International None of these

2. _______ is the world largest vehicle maker .

Ford Motors Volkswagen
General Motors None of these
3.Gold rates are decided in the city of _____
Washington New York
London Singapore

4. Who first coined the " Industrial Revolution " ?

Arnold Tonybee Lenin
James Buckner Lincoln

5. Which Bank is called as mother of all world Banks ?

Bank of America Bank of Hong Kong
World Bank Bank of England

6.Which corporate giant has its headquarters in Virginia House in Calcutta ?

Britannia Industries Kirloskar Cummins
Dunlop Tyres ITC India

7. Who is the father of " lateral thinking " in the the world of management ?
Geniichi Taguchi Peter Drucker
Edward de Bono Imao

8. " Chaebols " are big corporations in

Japan Indonesia
South China

9.Which American business leader turned Chrysler Corporation around in the 80's ?
Ron De Luca Hans Matthias
Lee lacocca Lou Gestner

10. Name the richest Indian in Great Britain ?

L.N. Mittal Shrichand Hinduja
Lord Meghnad Desa Lord Swaraj Paul

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Q.No Result Correct Answers

1 Pohang Iron & steel
2 General Motors
3 London
4 Arnold Tonybee
5 Bank of England
6 ITC India
7 Edward De Bono
8 South Korea
9 Lee Iacocca
10 L.N.Mittal

1.Which is the largest fresh Water Lake in India?

Dal lake Chilka lake
Wular lake Nal lake

2. Which is the southern most tip of India?

Kanyakumari Rameshwaram
Indira Point Kovalam

3. Which Sikh Guru was born in Patna?

Guru Govind Singh Guru Arjun Singh
Guru Angad Guru Govind Singh

4. Who guided Chandragupta Maurya to become the ruler of the Magadha?

Dhanananda Banabhatta
Kautilya None of these

5. In which state is the Silent Valley located?

Assam Kerala
Jammu & Kashmir Rajeev Gandhi - Benazir Bhutto

6. What is the first date of the national calendar?

1st January 1st April
1st July None of these

7. In which general election was the ballot paper introduced in India?

1956 1962
1969 1977

8.Which book did Greek ambassador Megasthenes write?

The Republic In light of India
Indica History of India

9.Which is the oldest mountain range in India?

The Himalayas The Aravallies
The Vindhya The Satpura

10. In which state is India’s premier space launch center Shriharikota located?
Karnataka Andhra Pradesh
Kerala Tamilnadu

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Q.No Result Correct Answers

1 WULAR LAKE
2 Indira Point
3 Guru Govin Singh
4 Kautilya
5 Kerala
6 1st April
7 1962
8 Indica
9 The Arravallis
10 Andhra Pradesh

1 MIRA, the technology that offers wireless internet connections, has been launched by:
Sun Microsystem
Intel
Wipro
Microsoft

2 A foreign bank can now take up to a____per cent stake in private banks:
74
49
26
100

3 IRCON has recently completed a 31.5 km long railway project in:

Singapore
Malaysia
Thailand
Bhutan

4 Name the organisation which became the first institutional promotion of Indian
Chamber in Kazakhstan:
FICCI
Phd C of C
CII
Assocham

5 The hardest substances available on earth is

Platinum
Coal
Diamond
Gold

6 Which gas is used for preparation of soda water ?

Ammonia
Carbon dioxide
Hydrogen
Nitric oxide

7 Nuclear fission is caused by the impact of

proton
electron
neutron
None of these

8 Atom bomb is based on the principle of

nuclear fusion
nuclear fission
Both (a) & (b) above
None of these

9 Atoms are composed of

electrons only
protons only
electrons and protons
electrons and nuclei

10 Glass is made of the mixture of

quartz and mica
sand and salt
sand and silicates
none of these
ANSWERS

1 MIRA, the technology that offers wireless internet connections, has been launched by:

Correct Answer Microsoft

2 A foreign bank can now take up to a____per cent stake in private banks:

Correct Answer 49

3 IRCON has recently completed a 31.5 km long railway project in:

Correct Answer Malaysia

4 Name the organisation which became the first institutional promotion of Indian
Chamber in Kazakhstan:

Correct Answer CII

5 The hardest substances available on earth is

Correct Answer Diamond

6 Which gas is used for preparation of soda water ?

Correct Answer Carbon dioxide

7 Nuclear fission is caused by the impact of

Correct Answer neutron

8 Atom bomb is based on the principle of

Correct Answer nuclear fission

9 Atoms are composed of

Correct Answer electrons and nuclei

10 Glass is made of the mixture of

Correct Answer sand and silicates

1 Modern Forensic scientists are using a most recently developed tool namely:
NMR imaging
Enzymology
DNA Finger Printing
Ultra Sound

2 Ronald is a clown promoting which company?

Mc Donalds
Seamens
Golden Feng
Bagpiper

3 In Mumbai and Delhi the MTNL has launched its wireless in Local Loop Service.
Name it:
Trump
Ace
Garuda
WLL Trump

4 The role of the Spiderman has been enacted by ___ in the movie Spiderman:
Tobey Maguire
Kirsten Dust
Tom Kindley
None of these

5 Kaj, Ato and Nik were the official mascot of:

Jules Rimet Cup 2002
World Cup Cricket 2002
National Swimming Championship 2002
Sydney Olympics
6 The first jackpot winner of India's online lottery competition:
Harshwardhan Nawathe
Nilesh Taware
Karminder Soni
all the three

7 First nonbanking finance company to be registered with RBI as bank is:

Sahara
Kotak Mahindra
Golden Forest
none of these

8 Digital music download has been launched by indiatimes and ___ a Singapore-based
company.
Sound buzz
Bombay dreams
Weber music
Jazz music

9 World Ayurveda Congress is scheduled in November 2002 at ___ in India.

Chennai
Kochi
Bangalore
Silchar

10 Who among the following has authored the book 'Being Digital'?
Prof Michael Dertouzos
Nicholas Negroponte
P.G. Garoolia
Adrian Lamo

1 Modern Forensic scientists are using a most recently developed tool namely:
Correct Answer DNA Finger Printing

2 Ronald is a clown promoting which company?

Correct Answer Mc Donalds

3 In Mumbai and Delhi the MTNL has launched its wireless in Local Loop Service.
Name it:

Correct Answer Garuda

4 The role of the Spiderman has been enacted by ___ in the movie Spiderman:

Correct Answer Tobey Maguire

5 Kaj, Ato and Nik were the official mascot of:

Correct Answer Jules Rimet Cup 2002

6 The first jackpot winner of India's online lottery competition:

Correct Answer Nilesh Taware

7 First nonbanking finance company to be registered with RBI as bank is:

Correct Answer Kotak Mahindra

8 Digital music download has been launched by indiatimes and ___ a Singapore-based
company.

Correct Answer Sound buzz

9 World Ayurveda Congress is scheduled in November 2002 at ___ in India.

Correct Answer Kochi

10 Who among the following has authored the book 'Being Digital'?
Correct Answer Nicholas Negroponte

1 Movies is a short form of _______

Motion Pictures
Motion Vision
Motion view
None of these

2 Who is nicknamed Thorpedo ?

Ian Thorpe
Graham Thorpe
James Thorpe
None of these

3 “ I got it gratis” means

I got it free
I got it gradually
I got it great
None of these

4 One of the most memorable advertising lines in the history of advertising, ‘Be all that
you can be’ is expected to be changed soon with of the change of the ad agency.
US Army
Microsoft
CIA
US Government

5 Which famous retail store was founded in 1969 to retail only blue jeans (and nothing
else) by Donald Fisher, inspired by his personal bitter experience in buying jeans ?
The Gap
Banana Republic
Wal-Mart
Wrangler Town
6 Which leading corporate executive is known for his books, High Output Management
and Only the Paranoid Survive ?
Jack Welch
Lou Gerstner
Andy Grove
Sergio Zyman

7 One of the early pioneers of the mail order business, it was founded in 1893 in Chicago
and produced the first of the large-scale catalogues in 1895 consisting of 532 pages.
Name this pioneering retailer synonymous with large-scale retail formats and catalogues?
Gap
Sears, Roebuck & Co
Marks & Spencers
Wal-Mart

8 Which company has got the government approval for launch of its anti-impotence drug
Coverta in India, its version of Pfizer’s Viagra?
Cadila
Dabur
Ranbaxy
Wockhardt

9 TV channel HBO stands for

High Band Organiser
High Band Output
Hollywood Box Office
Home Box Office

10 TV channel ' E -TV ' stands for

Enna Television
Ek Televisio
Ennandu Television
None of these

ANSWERS
1 Movies is a short form of _______

Correct Answer Motion Pictures

2 Who is nicknamed Thorpedo ?

Correct Answer Ian Thorpe

3 “ I got it gratis” means

Correct Answer I got it free

4 One of the most memorable advertising lines in the history of advertising, ‘Be all that
you can be’ is expected to be changed soon with of the change of the ad agency.

Correct Answer US Army

5 Which famous retail store was founded in 1969 to retail only blue jeans (and nothing
else) by Donald Fisher, inspired by his personal bitter experience in buying jeans ?

Correct Answer The Gap

6 Which leading corporate executive is known for his books, High Output Management
and Only the Paranoid Survive ?

Correct Answer Andy Grove

7 One of the early pioneers of the mail order business, it was founded in 1893 in Chicago
and produced the first of the large-scale catalogues in 1895 consisting of 532 pages.
Name this pioneering retailer synonymous with large-scale retail formats and catalogues?

Correct Answer Sears, Roebuck & Co

8 Which company has got the government approval for launch of its anti-impotence drug
Coverta in India, its version of Pfizer’s Viagra?

Correct Answer Ranbaxy

9 TV channel HBO stands for

Correct Answer Home Box Office

10 TV channel ' E -TV ' stands for

Correct Answer Ennandu Television

1 Ashoka's Dhamma can be best described as:

Modified form of Brahmanism
A socio-ethical code of conduct
Propagation of Bhakti
Modified form of Dharmasastra

2 Who was the founder of the City of Agra?

Mohammad Tughlaq
Alauddin Khilji
Sikandar Lodhi
Ibrahim Lodhi

3 After the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte, Peace Treaty was signed at:
Versailles
Berlin
Vienna
Paris

4 Which of the following States was NOT annexed under the Doctrine of Lapse?
Satara
Jhansi
Awadh
Nagpur

5 Which of the following Indian States is broadly as large as the European nation-
Greece?
Tamil Nadu
Orissa
Bihar
Assam

6 Water from an artesian well flows up automatically due to:

heavy rainfall in region
volcanic activity
hydrostatic pressure
geothermal energy

7 A coal mining area of the Damodar Valley is:

Korba
Sambhalpur
Singareni
Raniganj

8 Which racial group does the tribals of Andaman Islands resemble?

Negrito
Mongoloid
Alpinoid
Nordic

9 If a country 'devalued' its currency, it would be having

floating exchange rate system
fixed exchange rate system
exports would fall
dirty float

10 The crucial determinant of the size of the market is:

Monetary expansion
inducement for investment
Productivity
Savings

ANSWERS
1 Ashoka's Dhamma can be best described as:

Correct Answer A socio-ethical code of conduct

2 Who was the founder of the City of Agra?

Correct Answer Sikandar Lodhi

3 After the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte, Peace Treaty was signed at:

Correct Answer Versailles

4 Which of the following States was NOT annexed under the Doctrine of Lapse?

Correct Answer Nagpur

5 Which of the following Indian States is broadly as large as the European nation-
Greece?

Correct Answer Orissa

6 Water from an artesian well flows up automatically due to:

Correct Answer hydrostatic pressure

7 A coal mining area of the Damodar Valley is:

Correct Answer Raniganj

8 Which racial group does the tribals of Andaman Islands resemble?

Correct Answer Mongoloid

9 If a country 'devalued' its currency, it would be having

Correct Answer fixed exchange rate system

10 The crucial determinant of the size of the market is:

Correct Answer inducement for investment

1 Why did Indians decide to boycott the Simon Commission appointed to look into the
working of the reforms introduced under the Act of 1919? Because:
it intended to provide Communal representation to the untouc
it denied the Congress the right to nominate a Muslim as a r
it did not include any Indian as its member
it accorded greater representation to the Muslims than their numerical strength

2 Cotton is facing competition from sugarcane in the black soil areas of Maharashtra.
This is due to:
the declining yield of cotton in this region
a general change in the climate of this region
with expansion of irrigation it is more profitable to go for
the increasing demand for sugar and the rising price of sugar in the country

3 Ashok Leyland is owned by_____group:

Hinduja
Ambani
Godrej
Tata

4 Name India's first Euro 11 complete car:

Matiz
Santro
Ambassador
Indica

5 'The man of substance' is the promotional logo of which suiting shirting?

Raymond
Graviera
Van Huesan
Louise Phillipe
6 Mohan Bagan football tournament is promoted by:
Shaw Wallace
Mohan Meakens
McDowell
Seamars

7 Pick the wrong combination of Indian company and CEO:

M.S. Banga-HLL
Sunil Mittal-Bharti
S. Lal-Royal Enfield
A.M. Naik-Amul

8 The first MD of Konkan Railway Corporation under whom the Konkan Railway was
built, now heads the Delhi Metro Project:
B. Rajaram
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
K.K. Gokhale
E. Sreedharan

9 The subsidy per cylinder is Rs 90 after the rollback, so the subsidy given on LPG is:
26%
35%
30%
28%

10 India's first Cyber Cafe Coffee Day was opened in the year 1996 in:
Delhi
Bangalore
Mumbai
Kolkata

ANSWERS

1 Why did Indians decide to boycott the Simon Commission appointed to look into the
working of the reforms introduced under the Act of 1919? Because:
Correct Answer it did not include any Indian as its member

2 Cotton is facing competition from sugarcane in the black soil areas of Maharashtra.
This is due to:

Correct Answer with expansion of irrigation it is more profitable to go for

3 Ashok Leyland is owned by_____group:

Correct Answer Hinduja

4 Name India's first Euro 11 complete car:

Correct Answer Indica

5 'The man of substance' is the promotional logo of which suiting shirting?

Correct Answer Graviera

6 Mohan Bagan football tournament is promoted by:

Correct Answer McDowell

7 Pick the wrong combination of Indian company and CEO:

Correct Answer A.M. Naik-Amul

8 The first MD of Konkan Railway Corporation under whom the Konkan Railway was
built, now heads the Delhi Metro Project:

Correct Answer B. Rajaram

9 The subsidy per cylinder is Rs 90 after the rollback, so the subsidy given on LPG is:

Correct Answer 30%

10 India's first Cyber Cafe Coffee Day was opened in the year 1996 in:
Correct Answer Bangalore

1 Ashok Leyland is owned by_____group:

Hinduja
Ambani
Godrej
Tata

2 Name India's first Euro 11 complete car:

Matiz
Santro
Ambassador
Indica

3 'The man of substance' is the promotional logo of which suiting shirting?

Raymond
Graviera
Van Huesan
Louise Phillipe

4 Mohan Bagan football tournament is promoted by:

Shaw Wallace
Mohan Meakens
McDowell
Seamars

5 Pick the wrong combination of Indian company and CEO:

M.S. Banga-HLL
Sunil Mittal-Bharti
S. Lal-Royal Enfield
A.M. Naik-Amul

6 The first MD of Konkan Railway Corporation under whom the Konkan Railway was
built, now heads the Delhi Metro Project:
B. Rajaram
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
K.K. Gokhale
E. Sreedharan

7 The subsidy per cylinder is Rs 90 after the rollback, so the subsidy given on LPG is:
26%
35%
30%
28%

8 India's first Cyber Cafe Coffee Day was opened in the year 1996 in:
Delhi
Bangalore
Mumbai
Kolkata

9 'You have the money. If only you had the time', is the baseline for:
SBI
PNB
City Bank
HDFC Bank

10 Which channel urges you to 'Profit from it'?

BBC
CNBC
CNN
DD and Sahara

ANSWERS

1 Ashok Leyland is owned by_____group:

Correct Answer Hinduja

2 Name India's first Euro 11 complete car:

Correct Answer Indica

3 'The man of substance' is the promotional logo of which suiting shirting?

Correct Answer Graviera

4 Mohan Bagan football tournament is promoted by:

Correct Answer McDowell

5 Pick the wrong combination of Indian company and CEO:

Correct Answer A.M. Naik-Amul

6 The first MD of Konkan Railway Corporation under whom the Konkan Railway was
built, now heads the Delhi Metro Project:

Correct Answer B. Rajaram

7 The subsidy per cylinder is Rs 90 after the rollback, so the subsidy given on LPG is:

Correct Answer 30%

8 India's first Cyber Cafe Coffee Day was opened in the year 1996 in:
Your Answer
Correct Answer Bangalore

9 'You have the money. If only you had the time', is the baseline for:

Correct Answer HDFC Bank

10 Which channel urges you to 'Profit from it'?

Correct Answer CNBC

Business Quiz 1
1. Which company/group started ESOPs?

2. Times of India carried a blank front Sunday page some years back for the first time in
its history? What was it for?

3. Every B-school student knows what is a PPO. But what is a PPO share?

4. What is five-finger discounting referred to in retailing?

5. The latest products in Insurance industry are KnR policies? What are they?

6. Everyone knows what e-mail is. What is we-mail?

7. What did the Bank of Sweden do to celebrate its centenary?

8. What is the origin of the word EPSON?

9. What does the word HITACHI mean in Japanese?

10. Which was the first U.S product to be produced and sold in the USSR?

11. If Coke is Big Red, which company is Big Red zero?

12. From October2001 all food companies must necessarily display what symbol in their
packaging?

13. Which company in its country of origin was called as Millicento?

14. What is FASHION COEFFICIENT?

15. Why is DENA bank so called?

16. What are James Bonds on Wall Street?

17. Which US company's headquarters is known as the ‘sweetest' place on earth’?

18. If ‘Thing Big’ is to IBM, ’Think Small’ is to which company?

19. Shyam Benegal’s movie ‘Manthan’ had a record of having more than a thousand
producers. Who were they?

20. What did Nestle do in 1938 on the request of the Brazilian Govt.?

21. For this world famous company, ‘Corporated Incorporated' and 'Limited Unlimited'
were names considered but not adopted. What was finally adopted?
22. Ongio is a consultancy firm. It is a JV between 2 public sector companies. Name
them.

23. Which company's logo is called the "spinning ectasy"?

24. Who owns a company called G.O.A.T?

*******************Answers to Business Quiz 1

Peninsular newspaper group

Ad for indya.com

Partly paid ordinary share

Shop lifting

Kidnap and Ransom policies

Joint Internet account

Launched the Nobel Prize in Economics

Son of Electronic Printer

Sun(Hi) + Rise(Tachi)

Pepsi Cola

Lucent

A brown dot indicating that the food in NON-VEG

Premier Padmini

Tanishq jewellery aimed at the youth

After its founder DEvkaran NAnjee

Bonds that will mature in 2007

Hersheys Chocolate Company

Volkswagen Beetle

Contributions from cooperative society of farmers who form AMUL

Invented Instant coffee

Microsoft

ONGC and IOCL

BMW

Mohd. Ali. 'Goat' stands for Greatest Of All Time