Business Quiz -1(Answers)

Q 1. PM Modi inaugurated the longest rail – road bridge in India called Bogibeel bridge on Dec 25 2018 .
Over which river is this bridge ?
Ans. Brahmaputra
Q 2. Who has acquired the controlling stake in the Max healthcare chain of hospitals that will make the
combined entity the largest hospital chain in North India ?
Ans. Radiant healthcare through KKR
Q 3. Which retail group has launched its Retail 3.0 strategy that combines digital and bricks and mortar
and calls it the TATHASTHU model ?
Ans. Future Group
Q 4. In the recently released big budget Kannada and other language Film KGF , what does G stand for ?
Ans. Gold …KGF stands for Kolar Gold Fields
Q5. Name this 83 year old brand that represents the handloom weavers of Tamil Nadu. It has seen a
remarkable turnaround under a new leadership in the last 4 years.
Ans. Co-optex
Q6. As per a recent report from the delivery service Swiggy’s which dish was the most ordered item by
IndiAns in the last one year ?
Ans. Chicken Biryani
Q7. SEBI has announced that they will soon come out with a ‘sandbox’ policy. What is a ‘sandbox’ ?
Ans. The Sandbox policy will allow companies to test products in a closed environment, a particular
geography or among a set of users, before they are allowed roll out commercially meeting all regulations.
Q8. Which 2 Public Sector banks are investors in the Life Insurance co. Star Union Daichi ?
Ans. Bank of India and Union Bank of India
Q9. Who has been appointed as the new CFO of Infosys from March 2019 ?
Ans. Nilanjan Roy
Q 10. Which company merged with KPIT and now will be demerged into two separate companies from
January 2019 ?
Ans. BirlaSoft
Q 11. What service is provided by the startup VOGO in which Ola has invested ?
Ans. Scooters sharing/ rentals
Q 12. Why is India’s drug regulator conducting raids on Johnson and Johnson and seizing talcum powder ?
Ans. Presence of asbestos
Q 13. What is the new name for the merged entity formed by the merger of IDFC Bank and Capital First ?
Ans. IDFC First Bank
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Q 14. Name this fund manager and philanthropist . He is called the Father of Hedge Funds and as a
philanthropist he advocates liberal democracy and open society. He has been named the FInancial Times
person of 2018.
Ans. George Soros
Q 15. Goodyear has withdrawn out of Venezuela due to the economic crisis there . What severance
benefits it is offering its workers ?
Ans. 10 tyres each
Q 16. When Elon Musk wanted to name his company Tesla , he found it was already taken. He later
bought it for 75000 $. What was the alternate name thought for Tesla ?
Ans. Faraday
Q 17. Identify this logo.
Ans. Python – the programming language
Q 18. What is the business of Cronos a Canadian company where Altria Group, the maker of Marlboro has
invested ?
Ans. Marijuana
Q 19. John Rockefeller had a Family Office in 1882. It has become popular in the last decade or so. What is
a ‘family office’ ?
Ans. Family offices manage families’ wealth, administer assets and often other services, from paying bills
to succession-planning
Q20. After the merger of HUL and GSK Consumer Healthcare what would be the share of GSK in HUL ?
Ans. 5.7 %
Q 21. Who will be taking over as the Chief Creative Officer of Ogilvy worldwide ?
Ans. Piyush Pandey
Q 22. Birla Tyres is going to be demerged out of which Birla Group Co ?
Ans. Kesoram Industries
Q23. Who has Govt appointed as the Chief Economic Adviser in place of Arvind Subramanian ?
Ans. Prof Krishnamurthy Subramaniam
Q24. Where has the 4th international airport in Kerala come up ?
Ans. Kannur
Q25. Which auto co has launched a new SUV Alturas G4 in India ?
Ans. Mahindra
Q26. Which event in Udaipur helped Mumbai airport to create a new record of handling 1007 flights in a
single day ?
Ans. Isha Ambani wedding celebrations at Udaipur
Q27. Where has INOX launched its first LED screen based on Samsung’s ONYX technology ?
Ans. Mumbai
Q28 . Arundhati Bhattacharya has taken over as the Chairperson of SWIFT India. Expand SWIFT
Ans. Society for Worldwide Interchange of Financial Telecommunications
Q 29. When the newly appointed RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das retired as Secretary from Govt of India in
2017 what parting gift did he receive from the Govt ?
Ans. A Rupee 1 currency note carrying Shaktikanta Das’s signature
Q 30. What new product category has Titan entered the Indian market with the brand name TANEIRA ?
Ans. Sarees