Business quiz and current affairs

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y One of the following liquor brands is not owned by

United Breweries (1) Kalyani Black Label (2) Blue Riband (3) McDowells (4) Bagpiper

y Marlboro Cigarette is owned by

(1) ITC (2) Godfrey-Philips (3) Philip Morris (4) British American Tobacco

y One of the following is not an Insurance Company

(1) ICICI Prudential (2) HDFC Natwest (3) OM Kotak Mahindra (4) Birla Sun Life

y What does the letters XP stand for in the product

Microsoft XP? (1) Extended product (2) Extra Pampering (3) Experience (4) Entry level product

y Which country is the company Nestle head

quartered? (1) Sweden (2) Switzerland (3) The Netherlands (4) Luxemburg

y Which multinational packaged food company has

an equity stake in Britannia? (1) Danone (2) Heinz (3) Frito Lays (4) Schweppes

y Which companies chips power more than 60% of

the world's cell phones? (1) Nokia (2) Intel (3) Motorola (4) Texas Instruments

y Who is the famous author of the book What they

don't teach you at Harvard Business School? (1) Stephen R Covey (2) Mack McCormak (3) John Love (4) None of these

y Which family owns the Hero group of companies?

(1) Munjals (2) Mansingh (3) Firodias (4) Hindujas

y Hewlett Packard, the famous Computer company is

named after (1) Its promoters, Hewlett and Packard (2) The city in which they commenced their operation initially (3) The street in which their first office was located. (4) None of these

y Be the first to know is the baseline of which

company? (1) BBC (2) STAR News (3) CNBC (4) CNN

y Which bathing soap advertises with the baseline,

For total skincare since 1918 in India? (1) Camay (2) Mysore Sandal (3) Hamam (4) Lux

y Which one of the following partnership in the

domestic insurance sector is incorrect? (1) HDFC - Standard Life (2) Birla - Sun Life (3) Tata - Allianz (4) Max - New York Life

y What famous brand name is derived from a

combination of two words, which mean dead in French and one in German? (1) Dettol (2) Mortein (3) Martini (4) Ritter

y In which year did Mahatma Gandhi launch The

Dandi March? (1) 1924 (2) 1930 (3) 1941 (4) 1942

y What famous car brand, originally from the former

Czechoslovakia, was taken over by Volkswagen in the 1990s? (1) Skoda (2) Saab (3) Piaggio (4) Volvo

y Cash Reserve Ratio ( CRR) and Stautory Liquidity

Ratio (SLR ) are terms most closely related to which of the following industries/markets: (1) Stock Exchange (2) Banking (3) Mutual Fund (4) Income Tax

y Which famous CEO was featured in the

endorsement ad for Microsoft XP with the quote, When I saw Windows XP in action, I was amazed. How did Microsoft get hold of my wishlist?? (1) Ratan Tata (2) Azim Premji (3) N R Narayana Murthy (4) Arun Jain

y Which company owns the famous cigarette brands

Charminar and Charms? (1) Godfrey Philips (2) Philip Morris (3) ITC (4) VST Industries

y What is the name of the instrument used to measure

blood pressure? (1) Barometer (2) Hygrometer (3) Hydrometer (4) Sphygmomanometer

y Royal Stag brand of Whisky is owned by

(1) United Breweries (2) Shaw Wallace & Co (3) Seagram (4) Mohan Meakin

y Who invented Parachute?

(1) Leonardo da Vinci (2) Scanderberg (3) Sigismund (4) Van Gogh

y Which of the following countries fought the first of

the opium wars? (1) Russia - China (2) Britain - Indonesia (3) China - Britain (4) Japan - China

y Dr. Pepper is a famous brand of:

(1) Iced tea (2) Peppermint (3) Soft Drinks (4) None of these

y Mr. Shiv Nadar is the Chairman of which of the

following groups of companies? (1) Wipro (2) HCL (3) Aptech (4) None of these

y Lloyds is a world leader in which of the following

industries? (1) Garment (2) Insurance (3) Commodity Trading (4) Banking

y Jeffrey Immelt took over as the CEO from a legend

of which US corporate giant? (1) Oracle (2) Boeing (3) General Electric (4) Federal Express

y The management strategy with the acronym CRM

can be expanded as: (1) Concrete Relationship Management (2) Customer Relationship Management (3) Correct Relationship Management (4) Constructive Relationship Management

y Which group owns Crompton Greaves?

(1) Mittals (2) Ruias (3) Thapars (4) Ranas

y Kenwood corporation is a(an) ____________

company (1) Japanese (2) American (3) British (4) German

y Cartier, Piaget, Omega and Rado are all brands of:

(1) Cameras (2) Suits (3) Watches (4) Pens

y Mars, the fourth planet from the sun, is named after

the Roman god of: (1) Peace (2) War (3) Love (4) Marriages

y When there is many buyer and one sellers in a

market what is this situation called? (1) Monopoly (2) Monopsony (3) Monotony (4) Oligopoly

y Which famous CEO, currently applauded for

turning around the fortunes of a famous computer company, reportedly takes home a salary of $1 per year? (1) Steve Case (2) Steve Jobs (3) Larry Ellison (4) Jim Clark

y Name the worlds largest television network that is

beamed to over 210 countries? (1) MSNBC (2) STAR (3) CNN (4) BBC

y Which Indian business group holds the maximum

stake in the mobile cellular service provider Spice? (1) Aditya Birla group (2) Bharti group (3) Essar group (4) BK Modi group

y The worlds local bank is the tag line of which

bank (1) ABN Amro (2) Standard Chartered Bank (3) Hong Kong and Shangai Banking Corporation (4) Rabo Bank

y Which country accounts for the highest foreign

direct investments (inflows) into India? (1) US (2) Japan (3) Mauritius (4) Channel Islands

y Who was the first Indian Governor-General of

India? (1) Lord Mountbatten (2) Rajagopalachari (3) Rajendra Prasad (4) None of these

y How long did the Kurushektra war last?

(1) Fourteen years (2) 27 days (3) 13 months (4) 18 days