Business quiz and current affairs

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 One of the following liquor brands is not

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

 Marlboro Cigarette is owned by

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

 One of the following is not an Insurance

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

 What does the letters XP stand for in the

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

 Which country is the company Nestle head

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

 Which multinational packaged food company

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

 Which companies chips power more than 60%

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

 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

 Which family owns the Hero group of

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

 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

 Be the first to know is the baseline of which

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

 Which bathing soap advertises with the

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

 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

 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

 In which year did Mahatma Gandhi launch The

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

 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

 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

 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

 Which company owns the famous cigarette

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

 What is the name of the instrument used to

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

 Royal Stag brand of Whisky is owned by

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

 Who invented Parachute?

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

 Which of the following countries fought the

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

 Dr. Pepper is a famous brand of:

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

 Mr. Shiv Nadar is the Chairman of which of the

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

 Lloyds is a world leader in which of the

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

 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

 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

 Which group owns Crompton Greaves?

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

 Kenwood corporation is a(an) ____________

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

 Cartier, Piaget, Omega and Rado are all

brands of: (1) Cameras (2) Suits (3) Watches (4) Pens

 Mars, the fourth planet from the sun, is

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

 When there is many buyer and one sellers in a

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

 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

 Name the worlds largest television network

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

 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

 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

 Which country accounts for the highest

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

 Who was the first Indian Governor-General of

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

 How long did the Kurushektra war last?

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