Business quiz and current affairs

40 question
Each question 25 seconds
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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
Lloyd’s 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 world’s 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 world’s 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