1. Which company owns India's leading sweetener brand sugar free?

2. Which famous company was founded in 1985 following the merger of

Houston Natural Gas and Inter North of Omaha, and was one of the fastest
growing companies in the world in the last decade?
3. Which was India's first-ever free Internet service provider, which started
operations in 1999?
4. With which company has Pepsi tied up to market a ready-to- drink range of
iced tea internationally?
5. Which automobile tycoon built one of the world's tallest skyscrapers at the
height of the American Depression in 1929?
6. Which famous personality recently resigned from the board of the
controversial dotcom Tehelka.com in 2001?
7. The book ‘Only the Paranoid Survive’ focuses on which famous techno
company?
8. What was the significance about the purchase of a kilo of lychees on the
French island of Reunion, located in the Indian Ocean?
9. 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?
10. Which company has been associated with sponsoring different events
from the Olympics to the Nobel Prize. Its chairman, Kun Hee Lee was also a
member of the International Olympic Committee?
11. With which international restaurant chain would you associate Hollywood
stars Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis?
12. Kia Motors was a large automobile manufacturer in Korea until taken over
in the 1990s. Which company owns it now?
13. Which business group owns the brand Kirin, the largest selling beer in
Japan?
14. Which country is home to Rolls Royce?
15. The name was adopted by the group of seven major industrial nations
established in 1985 to discuss the world economy, comprising the United
States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan is G7. Name
the missing country?
16. Big Blue is IBM, but who is Big Yellow?
17. This shoe tycoon´s visiting cards carry the title ´Senior Shoe Salesman´.
Name the person referred to.
18. Which brand did Farook Engineer the cricketer model for?
19.who was voted CEO of the millenium?
20. Rajiv Menon being the director and rediff vision the producer for which
product video
21. What is the meaning of the word MOTOROLA?
22. What is the logo of Indian railways?
23. In which British tax haven are 11 of Dhirubhai Ambani’s companies
registered?
24. In 2001 John Koegh of Australia filed a patent for "Circular transportation
facilitation device". What is this?
25. What was launched in 1929 by the London Rubber company and derived
its name from the qualities of "durability, reliability and excellence"
26. Which company used the following slogan to promote their brands 'Axor',
'Pharo' and 'Rendezvous': "With 'aqua' in our middle name, it's hardly
surprising we draw our inspiration from water"?
27. Avinash Bajaj & Suvir Sujan, 2 Harvard Busines School classmates started
this hugely popular website. Which website is this?
28. Popcorn industries suffered heavy loss in early 1950's.What was the
reason? .
29. What are missionware?
30. The CEO of Wilshire Associates is a very famous man, but not as the usual
businessman. Who is he?
31. State Bank of India was previously known as what?
32. Which company had insured the World Trade Center (WTC)?
33. "Let Truth Prevail" is the punch line of which newspaper and it is
published by whom?
34. Which company has the patent for the CDMA technology?
35. Which Japanese electronics company started by manufacturing
calculators but came off the market due to diminishing returns. It now regrets
it as one of their biggest mistakes which kept them out of the computer
business. Which company are we talking about?
36. These companies are collectively known as the Chaebols in South Korea.
Name them
37. Expand NASDAQ
38. Which car indigenously made in India was originally adopted from the
"Vauxhall Victor" (Vauxhall is the British form of Opel), a British model?
39. What is common to Kapil Dev, Lisa Ray and Leander Paes in the context
of brand endorsement?
40. What is common to the brands Rolex and Hallmark?
41. Which company was previously known as the Galvin Manufacturing
Company?
42. Which biz leader's name means "enlightened prosperous rice fields"
43. Which company now owns the following car brands: Jaguar, Volvo, Aston
Martin, Mazda, Land Rover, Lincoln?
44. What nickname was given to the day when over £100 billion was wiped
off the value of shares in the city of London?
45. What product was originally named KdF Wagon (or Strength Through Joy
Car) but was later on changed by Hitler?
46. This brand appeared in the original black and white version of the Tintin
adventure 'The Black Island". It was later replaced by "Loch Lomond" in the
colour version. Name the brand?
47. The sports company Spalding promoted what major change in Lawn
tennis to facilitate T. V. viewership?
48. Percy Holmes and Herbert Sutcliffe had a huge partnership for Yorkshire
vs Essex (cricket match)in 1932. According to legend, what did this give rise
to?
49. In 1978, Shudhabardhak bati was transformed into what?
50. In 1958, what did Dan Carney and Frank Carey of Wichita, Kansas do to
pay for their college fees?
51. Early in his career, Kishore Kumar modeled for a particular ad - the only
product he ever modeled for. Name the product.
52. Who owns the registered trademark Lycos?
53. Which company's motto is - "Where the people meet the people"?
54. In which field of human enterprise was the ‘marble’ shaped invention of
Hiram Codd, along with dozens of other contraptions, replaced by the 'crown'
shaped invention of William Painter?
55. Name the brand launched by the movie "Gone with The wind"
56. Who were the first company to sponsor Man United's shirts?
57. Which Swedish car manufacturer once admitted price fixing in Britain?
58. In marketing terminology, who are known as the “Backseat Consumers”?
59. Which structure has a river at one end and a graveyard at the other?
60. The Japanese Prime Minister Tanaka and Prince Barrow of Netherlands
were involved in which bribery scandal in 1974?
61. An organization with more than one million members in over 150
countries, it has no rules or entry requirements. Members, many of whom use
only first names, cannot contribute more than $1000 to the organization.
Which is this organization?
62. What was started in 1922 in a shop below an illegal bar in Greenwich
Village, New York, with a capital of 5000 US Dollars?
63. Which product was advertised as "99.44% pure, it floats
64. What is the daily profit and loss statement system that Marwari
companies in India follow called?
65. "Let the dance begin” was the ad-line for the launch of which product?
66. In the world of Sports, what is boot money?
67. Which fast food chain is named after a character from the comic strip
featuring Popeye?
68. Who is supposed to have said the following and to whom "Do you want to
spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to
change the world"?
69. Kiran Seth is the founder of which organization?
70. What war or clash in the twentieth century came to be known as the
“cartographic war”?
71. Why are the "Shatabdi" series of trains so called?
72. Who coined the term "Hinduism" to refer to the motley assortment of
sects spread across India, with somewhat similar beliefs and practices?
73. What did Melville de Mellow do for over seven hours without a break that
made him a national celebrity?
74. Why was 26 January selected as the Republic Day of India?
75. What did a Muslim pilgrim called Babu Budan introduce into India in
1695?
76. Which is the only teetotal state in the Union of India?
77. What is the name of d 1st civilian transport aircraft developed by HAL?
Saras
78. What national institution is located at Feroze Jeejeebhoy Towers?
79. Who took over Alexander the great in Egypt?
80. Discovered in the early 1980's by Brian Skiff and Edward Boswell, how are
the asteroids 4147, 4148, 4149 and 4150 collectively known as ?
81. Where did the Great fire of London break out in 1666?
82. Who was the tyrant leader of the Khymer Rouge whose reign of terror
killed some 3 million people in Cambodia in the 1970's?
83. Where did the burglary that led to the resignation of an American
President take place?
84. What political position did Ronald Reagan hold before becoming President
of the United States?
85. The composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in
86. If Cynthia Cooper, Coleen Rowley and Sherron Watkins were the most
recent, who was the first
87. Which British duo were the first people to fly across the Atlantic Ocean
non-stop?
88. Aboard which US warship did the Japanese sign their surrender in World
War II?
89. Who was the only US president to be a University professor?
90. What was called 'Operation Polo' by the Indian army?
91. An English clergyman who emigrated from Cambridge to New England
left half his fortune and his library of 300 books to the college of New Towne.
This was renamed in his honour. Name the college.
92. Subedar Khudad Khan was the first Indian recipient of which award?
93. What was kept on the top of the Eiffel Tower during WW I to detect
approaching bomber aircraft?
94. In the Great Exhibition of 1851 at Hyde Park in London, engineer, George
Jennings started a facility that was a new concept at that time. It became
very popular and is found everywhere today. What?
95. Who was the only U.S. president to receive a patent for an invention
(although it was never used), and what was the invention?
96. The first attempt to measure this was by Galileo, using people on two
distant hills. Ole Roemer tried to do this by studying the movement of
Jupiter's satellites. Hypolite Fizeau and Focault both designed apparatus to
measure it. What?
97. When it was originally designed/prepared by its inventor he called it a
Convenience Food - and ate it when he was too busy gambling to leave the
table for a meal. What is it called now, after its inventor?
98. The 13th century brothels of Paris were the first to have what, following a
royal order that they should use something to demarcate themselves from
normal houses?
99. .Alexander Graham Bell brought a remarkable invention to the bedside of
dying president James A. Garfield. What was it and why did it fail?
100. What invention of the confectioner George Smith was named after a
famous race horse of the early 20th century?
101. A British official, Henry Martin, observed an invention he believed to of
great use to aircraft navigators as it worked equally well at low altitudes and
high altitudes. This was such a success that he formed a company The Miles-
Martin Company along with the inventor for selling the invention. What was
the invention?
102. What did Immanuel Nobel, Alfred Nobel's father invent?
103. A polymer was invented by Dr. Roy Plunkett and first used as an electric
insulator. An earnest French angler tried it on his fishing line to prevent it
from tangling. His wife's suggestion led to its bestknown use today. What?
103. Mary Phelps Jacob wanted to have the freedom to dance comfortably.
What did she make to allow her to dance comfortably?
104. " This day relenting God; Hath placed within my hand; A wondrous thing
and God be praised At his command seeking his secret deeds with tears and
toiling breath ; I find thy cunning seeds O million murdering death; I know this
little thing , A myriad men will save ; O death where is thy sting , Thy victory
O grave " . Identify the poet.
105. What did a certain James Marshall, a carpenter by profession, do on the
24th June 1848 that triggered a famous event in the history of America? What
was this famous event (that gave birth to a city)?
106. KPCB and Morgan Stanley assisted this start-up to go public in 1995. The
start-up launched a
Revolutionary product. Our lives haven't been the same since. Identify the
company or the product.
107. What was created in Feb '02 by the merger ofAceralia of Spain, Unisor of
France and Arbed of Luxemberg?
108. What's slackware in IT parlance?
109. Connect: Abraham Lincoln and Cognizant Technology Solutions.
110. What owes its origins to the blue agave found in a town in the western
Mexican state of Jalisco?
111. Whose epitaph reads: "A tomb now suffices for whom the world was not
enough”?
112. Franklin Roosevelt called it the 'sacred cow’; Harry Truman called it
'Independence' and Eisenhower
called it 'The Columbine' How do it know it as?
113. Whose was the shortest performance to win an acting Oscar?
114. What's Ylem (in physics or rather astrophysics)?
115. Shortly after the erection of the Berlin Wall, President Kennedy visited
Berlin (West Berlin) and made a historic speech. What are the most famous
words in that speech?
116. In IT parlance what's a Heisenbug?
117. This band received a nomination in the heavy metal category for the
Grammy Awards. They performed one of their hit numbers live at the show,
but the award went to Jethro Tull. The band didn't seem to care, though; they
added a sticker to their album reading "Grammy Award LOOSERS". Which
band?
118. ________ was not only a great speech maker, hiswit was also legendary.
In the House of Commons a ladyMP, angry with _______, said 'If I were married
toyou, I'd put poison in your coffee'. _________ replied 'If you were my wife, I'd
drink it'. Another female MP, when seeing ________ intoxicated, said
'_______you're drunk' to which ________ replied 'Bessie you'reugly. And
tomorrow I shall be sober'. Who is being referred to?
119. Dr.Manmohan Singh was a Finance Minister before he became Prime
Minister of India. Who was the first Finance Minister who later became
President of India
119. In the comic series, Dennis the Menace, what is Dennis’s last name?
120. This famous temple derives its name from the palm tree which is
abundant in the region in which it is built. This was built by King
Chandravarman, founder of the Chandela Dynasty, when his mother
appeared in his dreams and asked him to build such a temple. Originally 85
temples were built, but of these, only 22 survive. Which famous religious
landmark in India are we talking about?
121. This is an old invention, and yet, it came into proper shape and form
only in the 1920s. The Aar Valley in Switzerland is the area where this world
famous invention is industrialized, thus putting it on the world map for this
invention. An Englishman, John Harwood obtained a patent for this product.
What is it?
122. What were the series of holy wars between the 11th and 13th centuries
to recover the Holy Sepulchure in Jerusalem called?
123. I was buried in High Gate Cemetry in North London on 17 March 1883.
My gravestone carries the engraving, “Workers of all lands unite”. Who am I?
124. Which small metropolitan borough on the Thames River in London
housed the Royal Observatory till 1946?
125. Which popular comic character’s classmate is Susie Derkins?
126. Sheepsfoot, clip point, spey, americanised tanto, ulu are some of its
types. What is it?
127. This computer term was created when its author, Mike Muuss, named it
after the pulses of sound made by sonar. Which term? Clue: think the
internet.
128. The coiner of this computer term named this concept after his trip to
Hawaii. He had named it after the "quick" shuttle buses at Honolulu Airport,
purely for sentimental reasons. This was the first Hawaiian term he learned
on his first visit to the islands! Now this term means “speed” and is used in
the world of internet, where one can edit a web-page.
129. World Nations: A Cambridge student Choudhary Rahmat Ali coined the
name of this country. He devised the word as an acronym of the different
states or regions around the country and published it on 28 January 1933 in
the pamphlet "Now or never". However, there is another story as well as
pertains to the name of this country: the Persian meaning of the name
translates to “the land of the pure”. Which country’s name is this? Clue: ends
with –stan;
130. A device used commonly in all offices was the central “character” in the
movie, “office Space”, in which it was the prized possession of office worker
Milton Waddams. The movie is all about his feelings, when his boss Bill
Lumbergh confiscated his prize possession. Swingline was the name of the
company, which featured on this product, and it hadn’t actually begun
manufacturing the RED colored product as shown in the movie. But popularity
grew so much for this red color, that the company was forced to offer it in the
year 2004. WHICH PRODUCT IS THIS
131. The five-member group consisting of Nick Carter, Howie Dorough, Brian
Littrell, A.J. McLean and Kevin Richardson forms which popular Music band?
132. Which fictional series of French comic books did Anthea Bell and Derek
Hockridge translate into English (from French)?
133. Which literary piece begins thus (more in a philosophical way), ‘To be
born again,’ sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, ‘first you have
to die. Ho ji! Ho ji! To land upon the bosomy earth, first one needs to fly. Tat-
taa! Taka-thun! How to ever smile again, if first you won't cry? How to win the
darling's love, mister, without a sigh? Baba, if you want to get born again...’?
Clue: think controversial writer.
134. Which literary classic revolves around the tragic love story of two central
characters, Heathcliff and Catherine?
135. Where are ice-hockey players (puckers!) sent for committing fouls?
136. What does the abbreviation YMMV stand for?
137. Why is Cape Three Points, in the Gulf of Guinea, Ghana known as the
`land nearest nowhere'?
138. Rumble In The .... You've all heard it. Who or what is a borborygmus?.
139. To kill which demon did Vishnu take the avatar of Varaha?
140. What does a quine do (think computers)?
141. What's Japanese for "single number"?
142. Forever with chuckers, cricket was never a gentleman's game. Who
invented over-arm bowling?
143. What was the first website to feature a banner ad?
144. What famous techno company was founded by Husband-Wife duo of
Leonard Bosack and Sandra Lerner in 1984?
145. What did claude shannon design in 1904?
146. This 1902 invention was nicknamed ´Noisy Serpent´. Name the
invention?
147. Who are the (now not that famous) founders of NavinMail?
148. Who sang the song start me up for launch of Windows 95.
149. Who developed the ´@´ sign?
150. Dr. Feng Hsuing Hsu was in the news in 1997. For what?
151. Who was the co-founder of apple computers?
152. What is the colour of the black box found in airplanes?
153. When engineer David Bradley said "I may have invented it, but Bill
Gates made it famous" what was he referring to?
154. They were called the "Traitorous Eight" and the “Fair Children". What did
they start?
What is common to Daytona, Chicago, Cairo and Memphis?
155. Who are known as Inky, Pinky, Blinky and Clyde?
156. The name ' dinosaur' comes from two Greek words. What do they mean?
157. Which was the largest carnivore ever known on earth?
158. The Chinese call fossilized dinosaur teeth 'dragon's teeth'. What are they
used for?
159. What was Krakatoa?
160. Americans call it a faucet. What do the British call it?
161. What is measured on the Beaufort scale?
162. If an American footballer talked about his 'zippers' what would he mean?
163. What is the pirate's flag with the skull and cross-bones called?
164. What is the full form of EXIDE?
165. Which is the first stamp to be issued in the world and when was it
issued?
166. What do climbers call a peak higher the 914 m (3,000 ft)?
167. Which bird is the international symbol of happiness?
168. Why do American footballers paint black marks across their cheeks?
169. First human to space walk was
170. The original poem was: “The wind is mild, the sun is warm – The water is
clean, the vegetation lush ” which was shortened to the single word wind-
water, and has now entered the English language. What word?
171. In Delhi college slang what are "g-jabs" and "c-bats"?
172. The value of a diamond is decided on 4 C's. Two of them are carat and
clarity. What are the other 2?
173. What is common to Abar Khabo, Dilkhosh, Rose-Cream, Basant Bahar
and Baadshah?
174. Who are nicknamed the "Sandwich Generation"?
175. Which country changed its name because it was tired of being placed
permanently between Italy and Jamaica in international gatherings?
176. Which countries name in the native language means "Big Village ?
177. Which organization was previously called the Office of Strategic Studies
and it still exists?
178. The Pakistani army in addition to its other responsibilities manufactures
and markets cornflakes. Under what brand name?
179. In the army, the rank badges worn on the shoulders are stars. In the
navy they are called epaulettes. What are the cloth rank badges worn by the
Air Force officers called?
180. What invention of the confectioner George Smith was named after a
famous race horse of the early 20th century?
181. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower cited four weapons that helped most to win
the Second World War. One was the C47 Skytrain / Dakota Transport. What
were the other three?
182. About what logo did its designer Peter Scott, remark: 'We wanted an
animal that is beautiful and one loved by many people in this world for its
appealing qualities. We also wanted an animal that had impact with black
and white printing to save money on printing costs?
183. Death of 8 month old Matthew Eapen caused a sensation. But the
manner in which the verdict was delivered is a first. Why?
184. What was Operation Grand Slam?
185. What is the name of Colombia's airline?
186. What is the name of Russia’s airline?
187. One who collects autographs is called?
188. One who collects flags is called??
189. One who collects compact discs is called?
190. Which US president shares his name with a famous comic character?
191. In Chinese cooking, what is the significance of wolf's hearts and dog's
lungs?
192. In humans, the sex of a child is determined by a combination of
chromosomes. How is the sex of a baby crocodile determined?
193. Where would you find a "dry bible"?
194. If a resident of Hyderabad is called Hyderabadi and a guy from
Bangalore, a Bangalorean, what is a resident of Sydney called??
195. If the President of the USA stays in the White House, which country's
President stays in the Blue House?
196. What do you get if you count the number of times a cricket chirps in one
minute, subtract it by 40, then divide it by 4 and finally add 50?
197. How long did the Hundred Years War last?
198. Which country makes Panama hats?
199. From which animal do we get cat gut?
200. In which month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution?
201. What is a camel's hair brush made of?
202. The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named after what animal?
203. What was King George VI's first name?
204. What color is a purple finch?
205. Where are Chinese gooseberries from?
206. Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini banned which cultural activity because
it was an expression of an 'inferior race'?
207. Altogether 634 Victoria Cross medals were awarded during World war 1,
the maximum number for any war. One hundred and eighty two each (the
second highest number) were awarded during the Second World War and for
which other conflict?
208. These two musicians met nearly 50 years ago as actors in a junior
school play. One of them was the White Rabbit, the other, the Cheshire Cat.
The play was Alice in Wonderland. Name the musicians
209. About what did a Soviet President say this: 'Some people say these
objects are due to the excessive consumption of in the United States of
scotch whisky. They are, I think due to the activities of a soviet Discus
thrower practicing for the Olympics and quite unconscious of his strength'.?
210. In 1930s, the popular dance numbers -'an old fashioned locket' and 'Our
bungalow of dreams' were recorded for Columbia Records on the piano by a
famous sportsman. Who was he?
211. Rudyard Kiplng's chauvinistic poem 'White man's Burden' was actually
addressed to The US congress, urging it to conquer and annex a country.
Which country?
212. His last words before his death on 9th October 1967 reportedly was
"Please tell my wife to remarry and try to be happy'. Who was he?
213. Who introduced the rupee coin in India?
214. Which very popular author once used the penname 'Mahatama sri guru
paramananda guru swamiji' while writing for Vanity Fair magazine?
215. When Maruti Udyog made its millionth car, who did they gift it to?
216. The 61st Amendment to the Indian constitution allows some special
opportunities for young people. What was this?
217. What is the official anthem of the European union?
218. How is Baudhayana Sulba Sutra better known as ?
219. Which company’s logo was actually called Volney and lived at Memphis
Zoo?
220. Who lives at 1313 Webfoot Walk, Duckburg, Calisota?
221. Where will you find The Mount of Jupiter and The Girdle of Venus?
222. What do the letters EMI stand for?
223. Which two toys are named after the children of Ruth and Elliot Handler,
the founders of Mattel?
224. Which comic strip character has its home in the seaport of Sweetwater?
225. What does the term ‘Hyundai’ mean
226. About which car was the following said: ‘The people can have it in
any colour as long as it is black.
227. Which country started off the Industrial Revolution?
228. Francisco Pereria de Moura (1925 - 98) was the founder of modern
economics in -------
229. 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?
230. Which famous Bollywood actress has started a business venture of
marketing high-priced candles under the label, The Faraway Tree?
Sr. no Answer
1 Cadilla
2 Enron
3 Caltiger.com
4 Lipton foods
5 Walter chrysler- empire state
building
6 Amitabh bachchan
7 Intel
8 It was the first official
purchase using the new
currency, the Euro!
9 William Hewitt
10 Samsung
11 Planet holly wood
12 Hyundai
13 Mitsubishi
14 UK
15 Canada
16 Eastman Kodak Co.
17 Thomas J. Bata, Chairman-
Bata Shoe Foundation.
18 Brylcream
19 Jack Welch (GE)
20 A.R. Rahman's airtel video
21 Motion of sound
22 Bholu the elephant
23 Isle of Man
24 Wheel, to show how flawed
the patent system was
25 Durex condoms.
26 Jaquar
27 Baazee.com
28 The invention of
television.Movie attended
dropped drastically
29 Products(T-shirt,Pen etc)
with company logo given
free of cost by a company to
their employees for
promotional purposes
30 Dennis Tito
31 Imperial Bank Of India
32 General Electric
33 The Times Of India published
by Bennet & Coleman
34 Qualcomm
35 Sony
36 Hyundai,Samsung,Daewoo
37 National Association of
Security Dealer's Automated
Quotation
38 Contessa
39 All have endorsed RADO
watches
40 Their logos are exactly the
same
41 Motorola
42 Akio Morita

43 Ford Motors
44 Black Monday
45 Volkswagen beetle. Hitler
suggested this name to
Porsche
46 Johnny Walker
47 Changed balls from white
to yellow
48 555, the name for the
brand of cigarettes, since
they had a 555 run
partnership
49 Hajmola pills, the first time
that a classical ayurvedic
medicine was branded
50 They started selling Pizzas
and thus founded Pizza
Hut
51 Brylcreem
52 Carnegie Mellon University
53 Madame Tussaud's
54 The bottling of carbonated
soft drinks.(In India we still
have soda drinks with
marble shaped object in
the neck of bottle. that
was the original kind
invented by Hiram codd)
55 Chesterfield cigarettes
56 Sharp
57 Volvo
58 Children
59 Wall Street
60 Lockheed
61 Alcoholics Anonymous
62 Readers Digest
63 Ivory soap
64 Parta
65 Viagra
66 Money paid to players for
wearing specific pieces of
kit, notably their boots.
67 Wimpy
68 Steve Jobs to John Sculley
69 Spicmacay
70 The series of clashes
between India and China
during the late fifties and
early sixties, arising from a
difference in agreeing on
the legitimate boundary
between the two countries
71 They were so named as a
tribute to Pundit Nehru's
centenary year, during
which the first series of
Shatabdi trains were
launched
72 Raja Ram Mohan Roy
73 He gave the running
commentary over the
radio on Mahatma
Gandhi's funeral
74 It was to honour the day
on which the Congress
Party gad adopted the
Purna Swaraj resolution at
the Lahore session in 1929
75 Coffee
76 Gujarat
77 The BSE
78 Ptolemy
79 The Beatles
80 A baker's shop in Pudding
Lane
81 Pol Pot
82 Watergate Building,
Washington DC
83 Governor of California
84 1756
85 Charles Lindbergh (1927),
Time Person of the Year
86 Alcock and Brown
87 USS Missouri
88 Woodrow
Wilson....President of
 College of New Jersey (now
Princeton University)
89 The police action against
the Nizam of Hyderabad,
to unite the old Hyderabad
state with the Republic of
India
90 John Harvard (Harvard
University)
91 Victoria Cross
92 Parrots as they were
considered good listeners
93 Public Lavatories
94 Abraham Lincoln, for a
device preventing ships
from getting stuck
95 The speed of light
96 The sandwich - invented
by the Earl of Sandwich
97 Hang red lamps outside
their doors - and hence,
red light areas for brothels
98 Bell had a metal detector
and used it in a failed
attempt to locate the
bullet in the assassinated
president's body. It failed
because the bed the
president was lying on,
unbeknownst to Bell,
contained metal
intersprings
99 Lollypop
100 The ball point pen
101 Plywood
102 Non-stick cookware
103 The bra
104 Sir Ronald Ross. He wrote
this poem after discovering
the Malarial parasite.
105 The California gold rush
106 Netscape (The product is
Netscape Navigator)
107 Arcelor
108 The oldest linux vendor
still around
109 CTS was an offshoot of the
Dun & Bradstreet Corp.
Abraham Lincoln worked
for the firm as a Business
 Correspondent
110 Tequila
111 Alexander the Great
112 Air Force one
113 Judi Dench (Best
Supporting actress for
Shakespeare in love)
114 The hypothetical
substance which gave
birth to the universe
through the Big Bang
115 Ich bin ein Berliner (I'm a
citizen of Berlin)
116 A bug that changes its
characteristics when
studied
117 Metallica
118 Winston Churchill
119 R.Venkatraman
120 Mitchell
121 Kajuraho
122 Wrist Watches
123 Crusades
124 Karl Marx
125 Greenwich Of Greenwich
Meridian Time
126 Calvin Of Calvin And
Hobbes
127 Types Of Knife Blades
128 Ping
129 Wiki, After Wiki-Wiki
Shuttle Buses.
130 Pakistan
131 Stapler
132 Backstreet Boys
133 Asterix Comics
134 Salman Rushdie’s The
Satanic Verses
135 Wuthering Heights
136 Sin-Bin
137 Your Mileage May Vary
138 Because it is the land
nearest a location in the
sea which is at 0 latitude, 0
longitude AND 0 altitude.
139 Stomach fills the blank.
The sound made by gas
and fluid moving through
the intestines
140 Hiranyakshap.
141 A quine is a program that
prints itself.
142 Sudoku
143 Christina Willes
144 Hotwired
145 Cisco systems
146 First chess playing game
147 Va cuum Cleaner
148 Sabeer Bhatia & Vishwas
Godbole
149 Rolling stones
150 Raymond Tomlinson
151 He was Project Manager of
the team which created
the IBM Deep Blue chess
computer
152 Steve Wozniak
153 Orange
154 He was referring to the
Ctrl-Alt-Delete key
sequence. He spent about
five minutes writing the
code to implement the
now-famous three-
fingered-salute'. He retired
from IBM after a 28 year
career
with the company
155 Intel
156 Code names for WinNT3.5,
Windows 95 , WinNT 4.0
and Windows 98
development projects
157 The ´Ghosts´ in the game
Pacman
158 Terrible Lizard
159 Liopleurodon
160 Medicines
161 A Volcanic Island
162 A Tap
163 Wind Velocity
164 Scars
165 Jolly Roger
166 Excellent Oxide
167 Blackpenny in 1840
168 A munro
169 Bluebird
170 It helps to protect against
the suns glare
171 Alexei Leonov
172 Feng Shui
173 Gulabjamuns and Chana
Baturas
174 Cost and cut
175 Flavors of rasogolla
176 The middle-aged people
rearing their children and
also taking care of their
older generation
177 Ivory Coast
178 Canada
179 CIA (Central Intelligence
Agency)
180 Fauji
181 Pips
182 Lollypop
183 The jeep, the bazooka and
the atom bomb
184 Chi-Chi - the Panda
-mascot of WWF
185 It was first verdict
delivered on the internet
186 Pakistan’s attempt to
capture Kashmir in 1965
187 Avianca
188 Aeroflot
189 Phillographist
190 Vexilologist
191 Discophile
192 James a Garfield (1881)
193 Only items never used in
Chinese cuisine
194 By the temperature at
which the eggs are
hatched. Anything above
30 degrees Celsius
produces a male crocodile
195 It is one of the chambers of
the heart in ruminants
(cud-chewing animals)
Sydneysider
196 Korea
197 The temperature of
that place in
Fahrenheit.
198 116 years
199 Ecuador
200 Sheep and Horses
201 November
202 Squirrel fur
203 Dogs
204 Albert
205 Crimson
206 New Zealand
207 Jazz music
208 The revolt of 1857
209 Paul Simon and Art
Garfunkel
210 UFOs
211 Sir Don Bradman
212 The Phillipines
213 Che Guevara
214 Sher Shah Suri
215 PG Wodehouse
216 Mother Teresa
217 Reducing the voting
age of people from 21
to 18 years.
218 Beethoven's Ode to
Joy
219 MGM – Metro-
Goldwyn-Mayer
220 Donald Duck
221 On our Palm
222 Electric and Musical
Instruments
223 Barbie & Ken
224 Popeye
225 I appreciate it
226 Ford Model T
227 Great Britain
228 Portugal
229 Goodyear
230 Dimple Kapadia

SL NO Question Option1 Option2 O

1 Which one of the following enterprise applications Gmail Books S
of Google is now finally out of beta appellation?
2 Who amongst the following has won the Roger Federer Andy Roddick A
Wimbledon men's singles final on Sunday July 05,
2009?
3 Which is the largest telecom company in Indian BSNL Bharti Airtel M
market?
4 Last year Tata Teleservices sold its 26 percent NTTDoCoMo AT&T U
shares to which Japanese telecom giant?
5 Who is the only finance minister in India to Manmohan Singh Pranab
present Budgets on either side of an election? Mukherjee
 6 Nandan Nilekani, one of the seven Co-founders of International Cyber Crime
Infosys left it to join which Government of India Informatics Control N
Programme? Programme Programme P
7 Marks & Spencer has tied up with which Indian Fortune Group Pantaloons
Retail Giant for its outlets?
8 Which one of the following companies is a market Nestlé General Mills K
leader in the breakfast cereals market in India?
9 What is the name of the low cost carrier of Air Indian Airlines Air India Smart J
India?
10 Inflation is measured on the basis of………… Gross Domestic Wholesale Price
Product Index P
11 The global economic downturn has hurt India's Exporters may by providing i
exports. How does the government plan to help get tax refunds interest free w
exporters? loans to m
exporters.
12 Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, which is the third 20th Century Fox Universal P
in the hugely successful Ice Age animated series is Pictures P
released by which one of the following production
houses?
13 What effort is taken by the central government to Providing Providing 25% C
boost investment in Special Economic Zones? logistics equity stake in f
SEZ
14 Employee stock options (ESOPs) fall under which Fringe Benefits Bonus S
one of the following categories?
15 Which one of the following carmakers has become Honda Motors Volkswagen A
the first one to quit Formula One auto racing series Co.
in December last year?
16 Aamir Khan as a celebrity endorser does not Tata Sky Kurkure S
endorse which one of the following brands?
17 Who amongst the following is the highest paid Aamir Khan M S Dhoni S
celebrity endorser in this country having been paid
Rs 12-15 crore per annum for each of the brands
he endorses?
18 Which one of the following corporate entities Wipro Ltd. Tata I
became the first private sector establishment in Consultancy T
India to be provided security cover by the elite Services
Central Industrial Security Force (CISF)?
19 If a financial instrument is rated the rating scale riskier than strict no buy b
starts with AAA (lowest credit risk) and ends at D. government o
A rating of 'D' indicates bonds
20 Santoor is a flagship soap brand of which one of Johnson & Pfizer W
the following companies? Johnson C
L
21 Which one of the following is not a brand of Lifebuoy Lux D
Hindustan Unilever Ltd.?
22 Which one of the following is not a fast food Domino's Taco Bell K
restaurants brands from the US-based fast food
restaurants operator Yum! Restaurants?
23 Who amongst the following has been recently Ekta Choudhary Shriya Kishore I
selected as Femina Miss India World 2009 and is a
brand ambassador of Tata DoCoMo Services?
24 Which one of the following telecom companies was Vodafone Bharti Airtel I
the first one to outsource its IT requirements when
it awarded a 10-year $750 million contract to IBM?
25 Which one of the following mobile companies is Nokia Samsung M
the world's largest mobile carrier by number of
users?
26 Volvo is a brand of which one of the following auto Geely Ford Motors Co. H
companies? C
27 Why do FMCG companies majorly advertise their Doordarshan Doordarshan is A
brands on (Doordarshan) DD channels? offers the the the country’s c
most economical largest TV s
rates. broadcaster. o
s
f
28 Instituted in the memory of the late prime Amitabh Shahid Kapoor D
minister, the awards are presented to those who Bachchan
have achieved excellence in their respective fields,
to encourage youth to innovation, and strive for
success. This year who amongst the following has
won the Rajiv Gandhi Award for Entertainment?
29 Instituted in the memory of the late prime M S Dhoni Sania Mirza A
minister, the awards are presented to those who
have achieved excellence in their respective fields,
to encourage youth to innovation, and strive for
success. This year who amongst the following has
won the Rajiv Gandhi Award for Sports?
30 Which one of the following car maker's first big Hyundai Motors Mahindra & M
sports luxury car developed in-house will be Co. Mahindra
introduced in India in the 2010 Auto Expo?
31 Williams sisters are looking to buy share of which Dallas Cowboys New York Jets M
one of the following famous football teams?
32 Formula One's new Team U.S. F1 will have the MetaCafe FaceBook Y
financial backing of Chad Hurley, a Co-founder of
which one of the following websites?
33 According to the list of world's 100 most powerful Indra Nooyi Sonia Gandhi C
women by Forbes magazine, which one of the
following women is on top amongst the Indian
women given below?
34 According to the list of world's 100 most powerful Hillary Clinton Angela Merkel S
women by Forbes magazine, who amongst the
following is ranked number 1 across the world?
35 Which one of the following states is developing Maharashtra Andhra Pradesh U
what could be termed as the country’s first state-
developed integrated logistics hub?
36 Who amongst the following is the winner of the Andy Murray Rafael Nadal N
2009 French Open and Wimbledon titles?
37 Which one of the following famous coffee chains Dunn Bros. Starbucks C
foray into the world of instant coffee with VIA Coffee
Ready Brew?
38 Santoor has become the largest selling soap brand eternal beauty ageless skin c
in South India. What has been the main selling d
point of their promotion campaign over the years?
39 Shah Rukh Khan has expressed his desire not to Jet Airways Videocon P
be reappointed to the Board of ___________________.
40 Who has been reappointed as Director and Chief Peter Mukherjee Sameer Nair S
Executive Officer of Zee Entertainment? C
41 Lux is a brand of which one of the following Fast Hindustan P&G G
Moving Consumer Goods companies? Unilever C
P
42 Royal challenge is a premium brand of which one Vinbros & Co United Spirits S
of the following spirit makers?
43 Which one of the following car brands do not Versa Alto V
belong to Maruti-Suzuki?
44 Who amongst the following celebrities has been Salman Khan Aamir Khan S
detained for two hours at Newark airport in the
US?
45 Allah Rakha Rahman is an Indian film composer, Yuva Rangeela D
record producer, musician and singer. He has won
Film Fare Best Music Director Award for all of the
following movies EXCEPT:
46 Which one of the following companies will launch Apple Inc. Qualcomm S
in India its FLO TV, which is size of an iPhone and
currently available in the US?
47 Which one of the following companies plans to Sony Corp. LG Electronics P
launch 3D TVs next year in a move to spur sales
amid slowing growth in flat TV demand?
48 Which one of the following video websites is in MetaCafe YouTube B
discussions with Hollywood studios to start an
online movie rental service?
49 The high-end Xbox 360 video game is a product of Microsoft Corp. Apple Inc. S
which one of the following companies?
50 Play Station3 is a brand of which one of the Apple Inc. Sony Corp. Q
following companies?
51 Which one of the following Life Insurance ICICI Pru Life Max New York I
Companies has launched its latest advertisement Life
campaign with Amitabh Bachchan as the brand
ambassador?
52 Van Heusen is a brand of which one of the Arvind Mills Mudra Garments A
following apparel manufacturer? N
53 Which one of the following Bollywood icon has Amitabh Rekha S
been given a role of what Colors calls a “Pop- Bachchan
Philosopher in Bigg Boss-3?
54 Which one of the following movies would be the Samantar Aagey Se Right C
first Hindi film to be released on both in theatres
and the DTH platform simultaneously?
55 Eon is a television brand of which one of the Godrej Videocon O
following companies? Appliances
56 X-Trail, a sports utility vehicle is a brand of which Hyundai Motors Honda Motors N
one of the following Japanese auto makers?
57 __________plans to launch 3D TVs next year in a Sony Samsung P
move to spur sales amid slowing growth in flat TV
demand.
58 Out of the mentioned hotel groups, name the one Taj Group Oberoi Group L
which is owned by the Indian Hotels?
59 Public Sector lender, Punjab National Bank (PNB) is Investment Factoring & M
planning to launch two subsidiaries to enter new Banking & Leasing I
areas of business . It is set to foray into - Factoring
60 Name the e-commerce site that owns Skype Rediff Yahoo E
Internet calling Unit and is planning to sell its 65%
stake for reviving its sales.
61 Leading consumer durables retail chains such as Tata Videocon B
Next and Planet M belongs to-
62 Unilever, the maker of Dove soap, agreed to buy Coffee & Food Cosmetics & F
Sara Lee’s _____________unit for € 1.28 billion Perfumes E
($1.88 billion). C
63 Name the Toyota’s new SUV that is setting the Captiva Fortuner P
sales chart on fire.
64 Name the company that has launched the world’s Samsung Nokia M
first full-touch screen handset.
65 The 3G spectrum is essential for offering value- Video Defense activity U
added services mentioned below except for- conferencing i
m
66 Name the Denim company that is planning to Levi's Wrangler A
come up with bandhini saree and salwar kameez
in denim.
67 Name the whisky brand that is poised to displace Bagpiper Charbay C
Johnnie Walker as World's top selling brand.
68 Name the company that will buy Grasim’s cement Gujarat Ambuja ACC J
division in a deal worth more than $2 billion and
this transaction will create India’s single-largest
entity in the cement industry.
69 Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) and Mahanagar Al-Bukhary Vavasi
Telephone Nigam (MTNL) have outlined their
terms for being part of an attempt by an Indo-
Malaysian consortium to buy stakes in
Kuwait’s_______ Telecom group.
70 Indian advertisers seem to have shifted their Tele soaps Reality Shows T
loyalties from One Day Internationals (ODIs) to-
71 Coca-Cola is gearing up to reposition its 38-year- Fanta Limca M
old which soft drink with a view to bring freshness
to the brand and to make it more contemporary to
suit the taste of youngsters?
72 Name who is planning to launch a smartphone Dell Zenith I
with Google’s Android mobile software on carrier
AT&T’s network, marking the PC maker’s first
foray into a cut-throat US cell phone arena?
73 Which one of the following auto companies is Ford Motors BMW N
planning to launch it's sports car 370Z in India by
January 2010?
74 French car maker Renault likely to set up an Hyundai Motors Toyota Motors H
engine and transmission facility with which one of
the following Japanese auto companies?
75 Infiniti is a luxury brand of which one of the Nissan Motors Hyundai Motors T
following car makers?
76 Who amongst the following has been renewed his Salman Khan Shah Rukh Khan S
contracts with Tag Heuer as brand ambassador?
77 Which one of the following companies announced P&G Sony Corp. A
a series of Team USA athlete marketing alliances
that will extend through the 2010 Olympic Winter
Games in Vancouver?
78 Latitude Z, a notebook with a 16-inch HD display Hewlett-Packard Acer D
and that runs Intel Core 2 Duo processor is a brand Co
of which one of the following companies?
79 Which one of the following will be the latest Always ON Virtual Keyboard V
feature in the Latitude Z business laptop?

80 Sports and lifestyle brand Puma belongs to which US Germany U

one of the following countries?
81 Who amongst the following celebrities has brand Shah Rukh khan Akshay Kumar A
value at over Rs 700 crore at present? B
82 Which one of the following Sports and lifestyle Adidas Nike R
brand has recently launched it's line of kidswear?
83 Although his wealth has fallen by $7 billion dollars Bill Gates Steven Ballmer W
in a year, he has retained his title as the richest
American for the 16th year in a row. Name the
person?
84 Which one of the following cities has become the Santiago, Rio de Janeiro S
first city in South America to host Olympics that
will be held in 2016?
85 GoAir, the budget carrier is promoted by which Hinduja Group Aditya Birla W
one of the following Corporate groups? Group
86 Z4 (a convertible) the most awaited luxury brand BMW Volkswagen M
will soon be launched in the Indian luxury car
market. Z4 is a brand of which German car maker?
87 Ashok Leyland is a flagship brand of which one of Mahindra & Hinduja Group A
the following corporate groups? Mahindra G
 88 Which one of the following social networking sites Facebook.com Ibibo.com B
has announced its first ever online reality show
called "Bharti ki Khoj"?
89 Which one of the following Japanese drug makers Eisai Daiichi Sankyo C
announced a global marketing deal with it's Indian P
subsidiary Ranbaxy Laboratories? C
90 Yash Raj Films (YRF) has formally announced its STAR TV ZEE TV S
entry into the television space, by joining hands E
with which one of the following : T
91 The most-awaited 250cc sports bike Kawasaki Hero Honda TVS Motors Ltd. B
Ninja 250R recently launched at price Rs 2.7 lakh. Motors
It is a brand of which one of the following
motorcycle companies?
92 India bulls Retail, part of the India bulls group, has Bull One Mega One O
rebranded its loss-making lifestyle stores, India
bulls Megastore as:
93 Who amongst the following has won the Nobel Barack Obama Vladimir Putin N
Peace Prize 2009?
94 Through which entity does Saudi Telecom operate Aircel Vodafone I
in India?
95 Which Group is in talks with Malaysia’s national Fiat Hero M
carmaker Proton Holding to make passenger cars M
in India, currently the fastest-growing market in
the world?
96 Which one of the following airways flight has AQatar Airways Jet Airways
become the first commercial passenger aircraft to
fly on natural gas?
97 Who amongst the following is on top in the list of Sunil Bharti Brijmohan Lall M
CEO's in terms of salary? Mittal Munjal
98 Manza is a brand of which one of the following Toyota Motors Hyundai Motors M
passenger vehicle makers? M
99 The famous channel MTV India is owned by which Star TV HBO India N
group?
100 Aliva is a snack cracker manufactured by Britannia Parle P
__________
101 What is Parle's new venture in nonfried and Aliva Monaco Smart M
healthy snack segment? Chips
102 Parle forayed into non-biscuit snacks Lays Bingo L
with__________
103 Which company is launching probably the first non Britannia Parle P
fried chips in India?
104 Which is the only actor who has ever endorsed for Shahrukh Khan Aamir Khan H
any brand of Parle Biscuits?
105 General Motors launched Chevrolet Cruze diesel in Executive Small Car
which one of the following type of segment? Segment Segment S
106 What is the main point of discussion in Doha Depletion of Global Warming
Round of WTO talks? Ozone Layer
107 What is meaning of Informal workers? People on Work Do not have
From home secure e
employment c
contracts
108 Which of the following is the major factor which is Informal workers Subsidy C
not letting world Trade boom reach the poor
countries?
109 World Trade Organization (WTO) world's largest Zurich Doha G
trade forum is based in which European City?
110 Which one of the following is India’s third biggest Eicher Motors Maruti Suzuki G
manufacturer in passenger vehicle Segment?