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Air Sahara EMOTIONALLY YOURS Graviera Suitings THE MAN OF
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Bajaj Pulsar Born in a gym, not in a would you do
studio Harrod's retailer, ENTER A DIFFERENT
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be House Full Hero Honda Born in a studio, not in a
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Brooke Bond Cheers your senses Honda DIO FROM INDIA TO THE
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BUSINESS When you're sure HSBC World's local bank
STANDARD Hughes Software Think skywards
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MANAGES e-BUSINESS Jobsahead.com FILL IN YOUR
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Insurance Johnnie Walker Keep Walking
Citibank The city never sleeps whiskey
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Holidays Kodak You press the button and
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Nikon At the heart of the Image Spice Jet Flying for everyone
Nokia Connecting people Tally Power of simplicity
OBC Where every individual is Tata Improving the quality of
committed life
OCM Be Somebody Tata Empowering People
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Pagalguy.com Insanely Different you talk-
PAI International A WORLD OF HOME Thai Airways SMOOTH AS SILK
APPLIANCES Times of India Let truth prevail
Pantaloons Where India Shops Toyota Touch The Perfection
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Samsonite Because you earned
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Chairman- Wills Lifestyle
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Deveshwar Aashirwad
ITC hotels
EXPRESSION greeting cards
AIM match sticks
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4 RASNA Karisma Kapoor & Hrithik
Roshan
5 EPSON Sushmita Sen
Printers
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Jeans
7 MARCO- Sanjay Dutt
RICCI
Shoes
8 LEVIS Jeans Levis 501 range of jeans Bipasha Basu &.
Shahrukh Khan
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Clothing
10 RADO Lisa Ray
11 MOVADAO Twinkle khanna
12 LONGINES Aishwariya Rai
13 TAG Sharukh/Sushmita sen
HEUER
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15 Castrol Ajay Jadeja and Rahul
Dravid
16 Veedol Vinod Kambli
17 Dixcy and Amul MALLIKA SHERAWAT
18 BUICK CARS Tiger Woods, Preity Zinta
19 Kamsutra Condoms POOJA BEDI AND MARC
ROBINSON
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Tanners Ltd
22 FRANKFINN Soha Ali Khan
AIR
HOSTESS
ACEDEMY
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FOUR SQUARE, FIAT INDIA
(PALIO), NESTLE NESFIT,
PONDS CREAM,
24 SONY ENTERTAINMENT Jacky Shroff
TELEVISION,
IBP,
BADSAHA MALPANI GROUP
TOBACCO,
AC APPLE JUICE,
CHANDRIKA BEUTY
PRODUCTS
25 CAMAY Soap Dia Mirza
26 Max New Rahul Dravid
York
Insurance
27 Liril Priety Zinta, Harishta
Bhatt, Tara Sharma.
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28 Air Deccan's Common Man (R. K.
Laxman's cartoon)
29 CREAM BELL Icecream Saif Ali Khan
30 Ultra Heat Treatment (UHT) Tabu
Milk, 'tetra pak India' company
and Samsung
31 SKumars Tamarind (readymade wear) Hrithik Roshan.

32 Pizza hut Mallika Arora Khan
33 Godrej Consumer Products Mona singh (JASSI)
and Bausch & Lomb
34 MALABAR Sania Mirza
GOLD
(Kerala)
35 TATA TEA. HP, Lotto, and Sania Mirza
Tata Indicom
36 RELAXO Chappls Aftab Sivdasani
37 Yamaha John Abraham 38
Indigo UPEN PATEL.
Nation
39 ASMI KAJOL DEVGAN
Diamonds
40 Speed/BPCL Narain Kartikeyan
AMBI PURE (Car Freshener)
41 AIS Glass Shoaib Akhtar
42 TVS Surya -Tamil Movie actor
43 Bank Of Hema Malini
Rajasthan
44 Canara Venkatesh Prasad
Bank
45 Bank Of Rahul Dravid
Baroda
46 Dena Bank Juhi Chawla
47 ICICI Bank Amitabh Bachchan
48 UTI Bank Mona singh (JASSI)
49 Tata Tea Chakra Gold Tea Bhumika
50 Pizza Hut, Hero Honda NANDANA SEN
Karizma
Aditya Puri - HDFC Bank(Housing
India's Top CEO's Development Finance Corporation
Limited)
NAME COMPANY
AC Muthaiah - SPIC(Southern Ajay Piramal - Nicholas Piramal
Petrochemical Industries Corporation) AK Khandelwal - Bank of Baroda
Adi Godrej - Godrej Group AK Purwar - State Bank of India
Adil Zainulbhai - McKinsey India AK Sinha - BSNL
AM Naik - Larsen & Toubro
Anand Mahindra - ` Mahindra & Mahindra
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Anil Agarwal - Vedanta Resources Niall Booker - HSBC India
Anil Ambani - ADAE Nimesh Kampani - JM Morgan Stanley
Anuradha Desai - Venkateshwara Noel Tata - Trent
Hatcheries Kris Gopalaswamy- Infosys Technologies
Arun Maira - BCG India (Boston NS Sekhsaria - Gujarat Ambuja Cement
Consulting Group) Onkar S Kanwar - Apollo Tyres
Ashok Sinha - Bharat Petroleum Peter Mukerjea - Star TV India
Ashwin Dani - Asian Paints Proshanto Banerjee - GAIL
Asim Ghosh - Hutch R Seshasayee - Ashok Leyland
Azim Hasham Premji - Wipro Rahul Bajaj - Bajaj Auto
B Muthuraman - Tata Steel Rajeev Bakshi - Pepsi Co.
Bharat Puri - Cadbury India Rajiv Bajaj - Bajaj Auto
BN Kalyani - Bharat Forge Rana Kapoor - Yes Bank
Brian Tempest - Ranbaxy Ratan Tata - Tata Group
Brij Mohal Lall Munjal - Hero Group Ravi Venkatesan - Microsoft India
BS Nagesh - Shoppers' Stop Renuka Ramnath - ICICI Ventures
BVR Subbu - Hyundai India RS Lodha - Birla Corp
C B Bhave- SEBI S Ramadorai - TCS
Chanda Kochhar- ICICI Bank Sanjay Nayar - Citigroup India
Deepak Parekh - HDFC Sarthak Behuria - IOC
Keki Dadiseth- HUL SB Mathur - UTI
FV Vandrewala - Motorola India Scott Bayman - GE India
Gautam Singhania - Raymond Shashi Ruia - Essar Group
Gautam Thapar - Cromptom Greaves Shikha Sharma - ICICI Prudential
GR Gopinath - Air Deccan Shiv Nadar - HCL Technologies
Hans-Michael Huber - Diamler-Chrysler Shobana Bhartia - HT Media
India SP Hinduja - Hinduja Group
Harish Manwani - Hindustan Lever Subhash Chandra - Zee Telefilms
Harsh Goenka - RPG Group Subir Raha - ONGC
Hemendra Kothari - DSP Merrill Lynch Sunil Mittal - Bharti Enterprises
Jagdish Khattar - Maruti Udyog Suresh Krishna - Sundaram Fasteners
Jaspal Bindra -Standard Chartered Uday Kotak - Kotak Mahindra Bank
Jeh & Ness Wadia - Bombay Dyeing VC Burman - Dabur
K Anji Reddy - Dr. Reddy's Labs Venu Srinivasan - TVS Motors
K Ramachandran - Phillips India Venugopal Dhoot - Videocon Industries
Karsanbhai Patel - Nirma Vijay Mallya - UB Group
Kiran Mazumdar Saw - Biocon Vinita Bali - Britannia
Kishore Biyani - Pantaloon Retail VK Mittal - Ispat Industries
KR Kim - LG India VS Jain - SAIL
Kumar Mangalam Birla - AV Birla Group YK Hamied - Cipla
Lalitha Gupte - ICICI Bank Yogesh C Deveshwar - ITC
Mallika Srinivasan - TAFE YV Reddy - Reserve Bank of India
MB Lal - Hindustan Petroleum Zia Mody - AZB Partners
Mukesh Ambani - Reliance Industries List of Top CEO of India and
MV Subbiah - EID Parry World Business Companies
Naina Lal Kidwai - HSBC India List of CEO's of some of the Famous
Nandan Nilekani - Infosys Technologies companies :
Naresh Goyal - Jet Airways The World's 30 Best CEOs
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1 Warren Buffet (Berkshire Hathaway) 17 Lakshmi Mittal (Arcelor Mittal) 18
2 Kenneth Chenault (American Express) Allan Moss (Macquaire Bank)
3 George David (United Technologies) 19 Angelo Mozilo (Countrywide Financial)
4 Charlie Ergen (EchoStar) 20 Rupert Murdoch (News Corp)
5 Larry Fink (BlackRock) 6 21 Michael O'Leary (Ryanair Holdings)
Lew Frankfort (Coach) 22 Franck Ribould (Groupe Danone)
7 Richard Fuld (Lehman Brothers) 23 Peter Rose (Expeditor International)
8 Fred Goodwin (Royal Bank of Scotland) 24 Steven Roth (Vornado Realty)
9 Jeffrey Immelt (General Electric) 25 James Schiro (Zurich Financial)
10 Satoru Iwata (Nintendo) 26 Bob Simpson (XTO Energy)
11 Steve Jobs (Apple) 27 James Sinegal (Costco Wholesale)
12 Henning Kagermann (SAP) 28 Fred Smith (FedEx)
13 Richard Kovacevich (Wells Fargo) 29 Ratan Tata (Tata Steel)
14 A G Lafley (Procter & Gamble) 30 Jong-Yong Yun (Samsung Electronics)
15 Terry Leahy (Tesco) 31 Dinesh Aggarwal (IndiaMart Limited)
16 John Mackey (Whole Foods)
Computer/IT/Mobile
1) W Paul Allen: 1600, which was considered to

hich is the most expensive domain be all-perfect.
name to be auctioned on the net till Bill Gate: 1590
date?
Business.com for $8 mln [4.3 m pounds] 4) Which school did Larry Ellison go to?
When did he start Oracle?
2) Why a name as queer as altavista.com Ellison went to Univ of Chicago, dropped
had a price tag of 3+ million dollars? out after one semester. Also had gone to
While Compaq owned the AltaVista UIC, dropped out from there too... Oracle
technology some Marshall guy owned the started of a CIA project in 1977. Ellison was
domain name. 33 then. Oracle - 1978
So the sale was a settlement of a long-

standing dispute between the 2 parties. In 5) Which company did Adobe buy recently
1998, it was the highest recorded amt paid and for how much?
for a domain name, when digital owned Macromedia for $ 4 billion
AltaVista, the web add for it was
altavista.digital.com 6) Who founded Adobe along with John
and when?
[It was developed by Digital Corp. in 1995 December 1982, John Warnock and
then sold to Compaq. Now it's a part of Charles Geschke
overture (which recently discovered is a part
of yahoo!) AltaVista means view from 7) Which Univ did Jhon study from
above, Altavista.com WAS sold3.3mil$] Univ of Utah (BS,MS,PhD )
3) What was Bill Gate's and Paul Allen's

SAT score? 8) Where is Adobe's HQ and India center?
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Headquarters: San Jose, California and GE - developed n established it
India office at Noida professionally
9) Why did founders named Adobe so? 19) Finally MS has launched what's seen
Name of the river "Adobe Creek" that ran as life threat to Adobe. What's
behind John's house it
Metro. To be launched as part of
10) 'Corporated Incorporated' and 'Limited Windows Longhorn. (Metro was Acrobat's
Unlimited' were names considered but code name in dev stages)
not adopted. What was finally
adopted ?
Microsoft
11) What was HP's first product? When? 20) Hewlett & Packard, the founders, were
Audio oscillator. (1938) very particular about the quality to be
perfect.
12) Who is Andy Grove? When Carly was hired, she changed
Intel CEO that to ..... (give name of what it is called)
Adopt and Go. Keep the winners and ditch
13) What is the old name of 3i InfoTech? the losers
what does it 3 I stands for?
ICICI InfoTech is the old name 21) HP - Compaq merger was challenged
in court by one of the largest
14) What is the consulting firm recently shareholders of HP, Who was the
(not very recent) acquired by the guy? (He lost of course)
electronics giant Hewlett-Packard? Walter Hewlett, Son of Bill Hewlett
Price Waterhouse Coopers
22) What was Accenture previously known
15) Which online matrimony site was as??
founded by J. Murugavel, who himself Andersen Consulting
found his wife through the Internet.
Bharatmatrimony.com 23) What is the name of the annual
newsletter that Microsoft publishes?
16) Which new Mac. OS introduced by 10 Great Mistakes That Microsoft Did
APPLE?
TIGER 24) Expand WIPRO.
West Indian Vegetable Products Ltd
17) What was IBM nicknamed as in
1960's?Why? 25) HP developed a programming
Big Blue, Due to its big size and blue language as competitor to Java. What did
color. Also the color of the it's employees they name it?
uniform, was of blue color and they HP Chai
seemed to be present at most of the
places. From original word. Big Brother 26) How did Apple have its name?
Actually, when Steve had to register the
18) Founder of 6-sigma methodology? company name, he repeatedly asked the
Motorola - actually brought in the practice partners to come up with some good
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name or else he will register it with took the world by storm?
whatever comes in his mind. However, no Steve Jobbs, Steve Wozniak
one came up with any name till noon.
When he was going for registration, he 33) 'India's Online Marketplace' is now ...?
saw someone eating apple during break Ebay India(formerly bazzee.com)
and that struck his mind. Hence, he
registered company with same name and
kept the same half bite apple as its 34) Which country has the domain name
symbol. (Read it long back on some article ".ch"?
about how some famous company got Switzerland [ its after the Latin name for
their names). Switzerland Confoederatio Helvetica (CH)]
27) What is the personal finance software 35) When MIT graduate Ray Tomlinson
that competes with MS Money and showed his invention to one of his
gives it a run for its money? This is colleagues he also told him: "Don't tell
one of the very few anyone I did this! This is not what we
companies/products that have taken are supposed to be working on." What
Microsoft on and survived to tell the did Tomilson invent?
tale. Email... [Ray Tomilson invented email and
Quicken. also popularized the '@' sign for email
addresses.]
28) Who is "Hughes" in "Hughes
Software" (Think skywards)? 36) Connect: Microsoft, Garry Kasparov &
Howard Hughes. [He created several Irina Krush.
companies in his lifetime, an offshoot of one World Internet chess championship
was Hughes [ In 1999, a 'Kasparov vs. The World'
Networks. Hughes Software is primarily chess match was held on msn.com.
owned by Hughes Networks.] Although anybody in the world could
suggest a move, literally the entire world
29) What is the full form of YAHOO! went by teenage prodigy Irina Krush's
Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle (15 yrs.) choice of moves.]
[For Google : The company formed was
called GOOGOL (derived from 37) Who coined the term "Information
Googlplex). However the first contract Superhighway"?
cheque that the founders received was Al gore Former US Vice-President
for GOOGLE. Hence the company came
to be known as GOOGLE.] 38) Which famous software personality
once admitted on the David Letterman
30) Largest BPO in India? 2nd largest? show in the US that he modified his
Largest -WNS Global Services, 2 largest- school time-table program so that all
Spectramind girls would be in his class at any given
time?
31) Name the person who pioneered Bill gates
Macintosh.
Steve Jobbs, Steve Wozniak 39) What major technology was developed
by European telecom major Ericsson in
32) Whose designed computer in garage 1999?
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How did the technology get its name?
Blue tooth. Ericsson named the 47) Which computer Firm also
technology after Danish king Harald manufactured clocks ?
Blatand, better known IBM .
As Harald Blue tooth. The king gad a [From the close of the 19th century through
great desire for blueberries due to which 1958, IBM and its predecessors
his teeth would always remain blue & manufactured and sold a wide variety of
hence the nickname. devices and systems to record, use, transmit
and display time. The International Time
40) Which Internet term originally meant Recording Company, makers of all types of
"harmless, creative fun"? timekeeping systems, was made a division of
Hacking the IBM Corporation . IBM sold the Time
Equipment Division to Simplex in 1958.]
41) US firm that I-flex bought last year?
Supersolutions 48) What is common to a cursor, Dynamic
RAM ( DRAM) , Floppy Disk and RISC
42) What is i-flex core banking solution architecture ?
platform called? [IBM invented many of the core
Flexicube technologies used in all forms of computing,
including the first hard disk drive and the
43) Which international software company Winchester hard disk drive, the cursor (on
has got so many Indians that it has got a computer screens), Dynamic RAM (DRAM),
special the relational database, Thin Film recording
Indian cafeteria? heads, RISC architecture, the Scanning
Oracle Tunneling Microscope, and the floppy disk.
The infamous Control-Alt-Delete keystroke
44) World's richest bachelor is (Bradly, 2001: "I invented it, but it was Bill that
Larry Ellison made it famous"), also invented at IBM, is still
[ According to Forbes, the richest frequently used on PCs running Windows
bachelors(and hence the most eligible also) operating systems.]
are Sergey Brin(31) and Larry Page(32),
the famed 'google boys'. Each of them is 49) What is the full form of Intel?
worth $7.2 billion. Integrated Electronics
and Lawrence Ellison(Oracle) is married with
2 kids.] 50) Who is the famous brother in law of
Gururaj Deshpande, the promoter of
sycamore
45) Which Indian started his company on networks?
3rd floor apartment at 10 St Paul Street, N R Narayana Murthy
Cambridge Massachusetts? His wife
was his first employee and the year was 51) Who is the chairman & CEO of i2
1972. Technologies?
Narendra K Patni Founder-Chairman of i2 Technologies -
Sanjiv Sidhu
46) Infosys has decided to make a Public
Offering Without Listing in----
Japan
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59) At CEBIT-05 which company had it's
52) Which Indian played a lead role in the theme as "Heart of Technology"
development of the Pentium Chip for Intel INTEL
and
also the K6 chip for AMD? 60) Which Indian businessman was part of
Vinod Dham (he's from DCE) the design team at Intel that designed the
Intel
53) What designation the founders of 80486 microprocessor?
Yahoo have? Also, name the founders. Rajeev Chandrasekhar of BPL
David Filo and Jerry Young designation is
Chief Yahoo! 61) Which university did Bill Gates drop
out before establishing Microsoft ?
54) Cool was codename for what. It was Harvard
from a major software company based in
Washington State, US. 62) When Carly Fiorina joined HP, she
Cool is C# by Microsoft started the campaign to renovate its
image. What
Exactly did she do?
55) According to CNN, Internet, Cell It was a video campaign showing the
phone, PC and Fiber Optics come at 1,2,3, garage where Hewlett& Packard first made
and 4 in the that oscillator,
Top 25 innovations in the technical And then showing her in front of it
world . Which innovation occupies the 5th
position?
e-mail
56) What was coined on June 12, 1995 in

an e-mail sent by a 52-year old
Massachusetts
Programmer named David Eddy. He India Business
later said, "People were calling it CDC and
Faddle. 1) What would be the name of the airline
There were other contenders. It just brand which ROYAL AIRWAYS
came off my fingertips." What am I erstwhile modiluft airways is going to
referring to? launch this summer?
Y2K SpiceJet
57) IBM BCS bought which consulting 2) What is the name of the low cost airline
major? floated by AIR INDIA?
PriceWater Coopers PWC Air-India Express
58) Addition of "N" ; in the European 3) Which company has done an in house
version of Windows XP ; i.e. XPN signifies advertisement in AIR DECCAN? Also
- which
it means Not included with windows media Television Company is written in AIR
player. DECCAN flights?
NDTV
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13) IA signed a 120 Cr. deal recently with a
4) Which is the biggest passenger plane?? company for providing aircraft
Airbus A380 maintenances
support? Which company?
5) What is the name of the holding Kingfisher Airlines [the airlines floated by
company JET AIRWAYS promoted by liquor baron Vijay Mallaya started
Naresh Goyal? operations on May
Tail Winds [Registered in the Isle of Man, with a Banglore-Mumbai flight, said pricing
Mauritius, owns 99.99% in Jet Airways] would be not like Air Deccan but around 20%
cheaper then Jet, Sahara and IA.]
6) Who is the started Air Deccan?
Captain G.R. Gopinath 14) V. Thulasidas is associated with which
company?
7) Rono Dutta is CEO of which Airlines? Air India, Managing Director
He represented which Airlines in the past
as CEO? 15) Airline Code for King Fisher Airlines?
Air Sahara [Previously United Airlines] IT (one of the better Q's in the Quiz)
8) Which Airline associated with the 16) Who is eyeing a 74% stake in AIR
Billionaire Howard Hughes, finally went SAHARA??
under in SpiceJet
January 2001 and was bought over by
American Airlines? 17) With which group ZEE group has done
TWA or Trans World Airline alliance 2 compete with Times of India in
Mumbai
9) Busiest airport in the world? and other regions?
Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Dainik Bhaskar group
Airport, Atlanta US
18) How do you know Indra Nooyie? Her
10) What was Spice Jet Ltd. previously recent achievement?
known as ? CEO of Pepsi Co. Achievement is in a joint
Royal Airways [Modiluft Airways. of committee with CEO Steven Reinemund to
K.K.Modi Group] develop
North American market
11) Who makes Mirage fighter jets?
Dassault Aviation 19) Who is the highest paid CEO of India?
Latest achievement?
12) Some aero planes of which airline Vivek Paul - Wipro, Achievement is he
sported Meera Mehta's "Paithan Sari has got a place in Barron's list of top 30
Motif" on managers of
their tails for sometime? the world
British airways
20) Liquor baron VIJAY MALLAYA owns a
monthly magazine. Name it.
CINEBLITZ
21) Name the television channel of UTV.
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Hungama TV 31) When send an SMS and end up
winning a free cruise in Singapore!' this
22) Which Bank was the main funding headline was
partner for Ambani when he started out? seeing in the print ad of which cellular
Syndicate bank phone service brand?
Airtel
23) Metal Junction, the dotcom for
procurement and selling services of steel 32) Ravi Deol is the CEO of which
products and company?
Ferro alloys, is the venture between BARISTA
which two Indian steel companies?
Sail & Tata Steel 33) Currently with which company, Alcatel
has tied-up to beef up its marketing and
24) Which Indian company recently forged distribution channel?
a joint venture with the Michelin Group, Agrani
one of
the global tyre majors? 34) Which company has launched 'most
Apollo tyres fuel-efficient' bike?
Hero Motors
25) In which television channel does actor 35) Ashwin Dani is the Managing Director
Jackie Shroff have a stake? of which company?
SONY entertainment television Asian Paints
26) Eureka Forbes is part of which group 36) which agency currently handles HP
of companies? Gas account?
TATA Group HTA
27) Who has been the only Chairman of 37) 'Now, 2 different talcs in the same the
Tata Group who wasn't a Tata? pack!' this headline was seeing in the print
Sir Nowroji Saklatvala ad of
which talcum powder brand?
28) Mudra, India's 1st adv firm, started Fair and Lovely
with only one customer? Which one?
Reliance 38) The brand Galleria belongs to?
Galleria is of THOMSON (claiming US's no
29) What's the name of autobiography 1 TV company)
written by Mudra's just retired CEO?
THE INVISIBLE CEO by A.G.
Krishnamurthy 39) Which brand has the "Whistle and win
contest"?
PRESTIGE
30) Recently which company has 40) After RELIANCE INFOCOMM, which
acquired the ColorPlus? company has now fallen into a row with
RAYMOND (Gautam Singhania) BSNL
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regarding inter connectivity problems? Godfrey Phillips India is a joint venture
Tata Indicom between K K Modi (36.67%) and Philip Morris
(35.93%)
41) A company has agreed to pay of the US, Also K.K. Modi owns
somewhat like 100 crores to M.F.Hussain MODICARE. and he is ex-Chairman of FICCI]
for his 100
paintings? what is the name of the 49) Which company owns The Black
company? Berrys range of ready-made garments ?
Swarup Group of Industries Mohan Clothing Company, Gurgaon
42) And who has been roped 2 endorse the 50) The brand Keo Karpin belongs to
paintings?? which company?
FARDEEN KHAN Dey's medical
43)Mr. M A Alagappan is the chairman of

which Indian bicycle major?
Tube Investement Cycles (TI cycles) [Part 51) What does BPL & LG stands for?
of the Murugappa Group] LG - Lucky Goldstar
BPL - British Physical Laboratories
44) Which ad agency currently handles the
'Outlook' magazine account? 52) What is the projected name of the new
Triton Communications ZEE-DAINIK BHASKAR alliance
newspaper to be
45) which nationalized bank has signed a launched in Mumbai in June?
MoU with Bajaj Auto Limited to finance DNA [DNA-Daily News & Analysis]
Bajaj two-
Wheelers? 53) Name the news channel owned by
Canara bank DAINIK JAGRAN?
Channel 7
46) Which suiting brand has come up with
a 'Win 4 Sure' offer, which entitles a 54) Which company was involved in a
consumer to controversy for having used Adolph
an assured gift? Hitler's picture in
GRASIM its advertisement?
Louis Philippe
47) Which car major has recently launched
'Petra' in Indian market? 55) Where are the Head Quarters of Asian
FIAT Development Bank?
Manila
48) Tobacco major 'Godfrey Phillips', is a
flagship company of which group? 56) Which company is India's largest
K K Modi synthetic textile producer?
[Shri Krishan Kumar Modi (born on- Reliance
August 27, 1940 at Patiala) is the eldest son
of Late Rai 57) Whats does TIPS stand in TIPS
Bhadur Gujrarmal Modi (1902-1976), the Cassettes Industries?
Founder of MODI GROUP OF INDUSTRIES To Improve and Promote Singing
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[He left NDTV n joined hands with TV18
58) What is the name of the music group for BROADCAST news channel- a
label(company) owned by producer journalists'
VASHU initiative. to be launched in
BHAGNANI? September/October 2005]
PUJA MUSIC
66) A recent magazine named this as
59) Which is the largest traded e- "India's best known and biggest brand
commerce site in India? overseas",
http://www.irctc.com tickets booking site though it is not a brand in the
of Indian Railways conventional sense. Name the brand.
IIT
60) A comp painted whole of concord blue
for ad campaign, which was it? 67) Which Indian confectioneries brand
PEPSI and Times Warner are involved in legal
wrangle
61) Mr. V. Leeladhar is the chairman of over the 'Bunny' logo?
which nationalized bank? Nutrine
Union Bank of India
61) Which television brand has announced 68) What we know as Maruti Zen was
the launch of its 'Gol do, Flat lo' exchange launched worldwide by Suzuki in the 90's
offer? under
SAMSUNG what name?
Alto
62) What is the name of the mobile
launched by NOKIA in India starting from 69) In which fashion house did the
2lakhs to 17 minister Maneka Gandhi address her
lakhs premium range. and who is the remark, "The skin
distributor for it? of the python is no less precious to the
Mobile: Vertu, Distributor: Regent snake than fur is to the fox"?
Watches & Jewellery Company, MUMBAI Calvin Klein
70) First ever IPO by some bollywood

company?
63) Tehelka.com is a part of which Mukta Arts
company?
Agni Media Pvt Ltd 71) Which publishing group owns Star
News?
64) Which company was launched by ABP-Anand Bazaar Publications
Manoj Prabhakar?
Naturence Research Labs Pvt Ltd 72) Once mudra high post guy was sittin
watching a cric match, suddenly his mind
65) Why was Rajdeep Sardesai in news gets an
recently? idea and he creates a first ever kind of
Rajdeep recently left NDTV, considered to its ad (by Mudra of course), a mega hit !!
be his Alma mater is Times of India Can u
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recall the ad? 81) Which actor is the MD of a BPO called
it was only Vimal, match was between as Pro-Lease India & West Indies, so its the
ad of Viv in Arvind Swami
Vimal and
was first ad with cricketers in suiting 82) Which Indian company is the largest
producer of denim in the world?
73) The Monte Carlo and Canterbury Arvind Mills
brands are owned by ?
Mohan Clothing 83) What is Joint Venture between NTPC
and BSES knows as??
74) Which cloth manufacturing company UTILITY POWER TECH LTD
has filed its IPO papers with SEBI ? [Incorporated 1996 -- NTPC 50% BSES 50%]
Provogue [Acme Clothing]
84) Which Private group is the largest
producer of white cement in India?
75) What would be the new name of
Hindustan Lever Limited(HLL) ? 85) Which Private group is the world
Hindustan Unilever India leader in viscose staple fiber?
76) Which former high profile CEO in India 86) Which Private group is the world's
has started the firm SKA Advisory? largest single location palm oil refinery?
Sunil Alagh of Britannia (84)-(85)-(86) Aditya Birla Group
[Cement-Grasim n Refinery-Pan Century]
77) Which site is the 2nd largest online
trading site after icicidirect.com?? 87) ITC and HLL each has started CSR
http://www.indiabulls.com/ (Corporate Social Responsibility)
initiatives. What
78) Which are the two production Were they?
companies floated by ShahRukh Khan?? E-Choupal n Project Shakti
Dreamz Unlimited / Red Chillies
Entertainment 88) Unlike reliance, which other Indian
major solved the bro-bro fight btw
79) What is the name of the movies themselves
producing company of Birla's?Name two without going to the court?
movies Bajaj
produced by the same company?
The company is Applause Entertainment
Pvt Ltd. 89) How we know Bajaj Tempo today?
The two movies are Dev(Amitabh Force Motors
Bacchan) & Black
90) Bajaj Auto is going to re-launch one of
80) Name two movies produced by their bikes. Which bike?
Kishore Biyani's Pantaloons? Eliminator
Hritik's Na Tum Jaano Na Hum
CHURA LIYA HAI TUMNE(Esha Deol n 91) Who is Kinetic's partner for bringing
Zayed Khan) Acquila in India?
Hyosung Motors
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92) What is the name of the new FM 103) What is common to the BSE and the
channel introduced by India Today? Vadodara Stock Exchange?
Red FM [on 26th June 2002 - Punch line - Both are located on Dalal Street
"Red is in your hand"]
104) 1st Indian Listing on Singapore Stock
93) What is 'Agfa' the trade mark for? Exchange--
Pictures & Photo accessories Meghmani Organics
94) Which company's commercial is 105) Kinetic engg. is going to launch Rs.2
India's first win at Cannes? lakhs sports bike called--
Erricson Mobile Comet 250
[One black coffee, please' TV commercial
by Ericsson when it launched the smallest 106) Weekly Entertainment supplement of
mobile Hindustan Times--
phone in 1996. (Ad director: Prasson Brunch
Pandey)]
107) 1st PSU to come up with concept of
95) What was the erstwhile name of the Branded Fuel--
Ambassador? BPCL
Hindustan Landmaster
108) Which company is marketing Royal
96) New model planned for Chevy? Enfield?
Chevy Trailblazer ss Eicher Group Sidharth Lal
97) Skoda's recent launch?? 109) Which person is behind store chain
Skoda interiors Laurin & Klement `Westside'?
Simone Tata
98) STAR in STAR network stands for--
Satellite Television for Asian Region 110) Which brand is related to `Westside'?
Lakme
99) TEN in TEN Sports stands for--
Taj Entertainment Network 111) Which food joints had a major ad Blitz
with the "Hungry Kya?' campaign?
100) Mudra got Rasna as its 2nd customer, Dominoz Pizza
to catapult it in soft drink market, what ad
line 112) Which company has 49% stake in
did Mudra came up with `Fascel'?
I love u Rasna Hutchinson
101) What business exactly did reliance 113) From whom Hindustan Lever took
start in? over Lakme?
Textiles TATA Group
102) What would be the new name of Bajaj 114) By which name WESTSIDE was
Eliminator?? known earlier?
Avenger Littlewoods
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[The Westside story really began in Ajay Jadeja
1997, when the Tatas sold Lakme, their
cosmetics business, to Hindustan Lever and 123) HAL chairman?
acquired the Britain-based Littlewoods retail N R Mohanti
chain. A new entity called Trent Limited
emerged from this move and Littlewoods 124) What is the Korean steel major that
was renamed Westside. Today Westside plans to set up a steel plant in Orissa, the
has seven outlets, one each in Bangalore, biggest
Hyderabad, Chennai, Mumbai, Pune, New proposed FDI in India till date?
Delhi and Kolkata.,Ahmedabad] Posco Steel
115) Who is the Brand ambassador for 125) Which product/service was promoted
Jolen(US company) beauty care in India? with the phrase "let your fingers do the
Pakistani Actress Meera [She unveiled walking'?
the product in Bangalore recently] Yellow Pages
126) Which publishing house launched a

tea brand that subsequently failed called
116) Which automobile company in India 'Editor's
is going to unveil its new logo soon? Choice'?
Kinetic Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd(TOI n ET
publisher)
117) Fortune brand of hotels are owned
by? 127) Sidestreet, High street, Gotsby and
ITC group Rituals are a range from whom?
Rayban
118) Current chairman of the planning
commission of India? 128) Videocon recently brought the
Manmohan Singh electronic division of--
Hyundai.........exactly Hyundai
119) Who made the largest foreign Electronics India Ltd
acquisition by an Indian ever?
Mr. P. Chatterjee [The Chatterjee Group 129) Head of Bisleri? He owned lot more
in West Bengal, acquired Basell NV of brands other than Bisleri...to which co. did
Netherlands he sell?
with the help of Access Industries of US] Ramesh Chauhan. [He made a bundle
selling ThumsUp,GoldSpot aadi to Coke back
120) How many companies does the Tata in the
group own? day]
91
130) For which item is Tirupur well known
121) Who owns 'the Marine Scope' , 'Twin as a huge exporter to many parts of the
city Times' (Papers of San Francisco)? world?
Vijay Mallya Knitted Garments
122) Which ex-Indian Cricketer owns the 131) Which company owns CMC Ltd?
company 'PDM Sports'? CMC is a TATA Enterprise
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Rs 50/- ?
132) Which place in India is well known for Ripan Kapur started Child Relief and its Bio-
Diesel Plant? You ( CRY ) to help millions of destitute
Kakinada in AP children across
country . [Commendable
133) Which group owns Business-World entrepepreneurship by Ripan , who started
Magazine? this operation from his
Anand Bazaar Patrika house dining table . His first fund raising
event was "Buy a brick , Build a School" way
134) What was so special about Naina Lal back in
Kidwai when she did her MBA from 1980 and was aimed at sensitizing
Harvard in privileged school children towards the needs
1984? of their
She was the first Indian Woman to Lesser-privileged counterpart .]
Graduate from the Harvard Business
School, in 1982 139) How do we know "Burmah Shell "
today ?
135) Who's the chairman of Biocon India BPCL (A Government of India
Ltd? Undertaking ) was established in 1976, when
Kiran Mazumdar Shaw the Burmah Shell
Oil Storage & Distribution Company of
136) While plans of POSCO, a steel major, India was nationalized .
has been mothballed, which another steel
giant 140) How much are LUX Beauty soap
(and from which country) has awaken models paid ?
to make a mark at the dawn of emerging Nothing !!! It is a privilege for a
great models/actress to be in LUX Beauty soap
Indian Economy? opera.
LNM Steel. They're looking at a
Greenfield project in Jharkand that has the
TATA's cryin
Hoarse, And Posco is in trouble with its 141) Amartya Sen, seats high on Indian
project in Orissa as they want to export much Government Order of precedence, than the
more Chief
tones of iron ore from Orissa than the Election Commissioner. Serious OR
govt is willing to allow Joking?
I am serious .
137) How do we Know MAKER [The Indian order of precedence is the
CHAMBERS IV, 222 Nariman Point , protocol list at which Indian government
Mumbai better as ? officials are
Reliance Industries has its HQ on 3rd seated according to their hierarchy. This
floor , Maker chambers , Nariman Point . is not the list of succession. Bharat Ratna
carries no
138) How do we know the Institution, special title, but they do have a place in
Rippan Kapur started way back in 1979, the order of precedence.
with a mere
1 President
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2 Vice President Grandpa King and Granny Queen - Beauty
3 Prime Minister Contest for aged people by Helpage India.
4 Governors of States in their
governing states 143) What was the name of Mahindra and
5 Former Presidents Mahindra and where does that name came
5a Deputy Prime Minister (if existing) from?
6 Chief Justice of India Mahindra & Mohammad. it was formed
Speaker of the Lok Sabha before independence, after independence
7 Union Cabinet Ministers Mr. Mohammad left India. so it was
Chief Ministers in their governing changed to Mahindra & Mahindra keeping
states M & M as same
Dy. Chairman, Planning
Commission
Former Prime Ministers 144) Name of the DTH of Tata-Star
Leaders of Opposition of the Lok venture? Also tell about the stake of both
Sabha and Rajya Sabha the parties.
7a Bharat Ratna awardees Space TV -- 80% Tata and 20% Star
8 Ambassadors extraordinary and Group.
plenipotentiary and High
Commissioners of 145) Which company owns Dish TV?
Commonwealth accredited to Zee Group
India.
Chief Ministers of states, outside 146) Which Indian got listed in the
their governing states. Guinness Book of World Records as the
Governors of states outside their worlds
respective states. youngest self-made millionaire?
9 Judges of the Supreme Court Bunny Reuben
9a Chief Election Commissioner
Comptroller and Auditor-General 147) Along with Gary Hamel, which Indian
10 Dy. Chairman, Rajya Sabha coined the term 'core competency'?
Dy. Chief Ministers of their states C K Prahalad
Dy. Speaker, Lok Sabha
Members of the Planning 148) Which Indian sportsperson formed
Commission 'Hyde Park' Entertainment, a film
Ministers of State in the Union production
and Defence Ministry company in Hollywood with David
11 Attorney General of India Hoberman in 1999?
Cabinet Secretary Ashok Amritraj
Lt. Governors within their Union
territory 149) Which businessman of Indian Origin
12 Chiefs of Staff holding the rank of is the Lord Paul of Marylebone? He was
full General or equivalent rank the
founder of which group of Industries?
142) Grandpa King and Granny Queen. Lord Swaraj Paul, Caparo Group
which organization gives away those titles
150) What was formed under the banyan
tree at Horniman Circle?
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Bombay Stock Exchange.
159) This famous multinational company
151) The first public sector share quoted entered the Indian biscuit market & took
in BSE? operations of Nutrine confectionaries.
HPCL Within two years of its launch it
announced its
152) The first woman president of a stock exit from Indian market. Name the
exchange in India? company.
Omana Abraham, Cochin Stock Sara Lee
Excange
160) What is the name of India's first two
153) Which top Indian honor did renowned way high speed internet device launched
cartoonist R.K. Laxman win recently? by Bharti
The Padma Bhushan Broadband?
Skymantra
154) DNA is being launched by ?
Zee Bhaskar 161) when Steel Ministry in India was first
formed? Who was the head of it then?
155) What is common to Kapildev, Mithun The ministry of Steel was formed on 30th
Chakravarthy, Zakir Hussain, May, 1955 and the first steel minister was
Kamalahaasan? Krishnamachari.
They all appeared in ads of finance
ministry for VDIS (Voluntary Disclosure of 162) The number of Agriculture Export
Income Zones at present in India is?
Scheme) 46
156) Which telecommunications giant also 163) What is an unusual service offered by
owns the phone making company beetel? Bank of Baroda at Tirupati?
Bharti Telecom It's the Prasada, the special darshan
ticket holders collect their Ladoo at the bank
counter
164) Hindustan Motors' Ambassador

157) From whom did LN Mittal buy his adopted its model from Which British car
palatial home in UK? model?
Bernie Ecclestone, the Formula One Morris Oxford
motor racing tycoon for $120 million from. [It
is called 165) Recently our Honorable PM has
Billioner's lane where you would find the formed Knowledge Commission. Who is
palaces of Queen, Elton Jhone and such the chairman
likes.] of the commission?
Sam Pitroda of World Tel
158) Who was the first female
sportsperson to endorse Pepsi?
Sabatini 166) Khaitan's (which) tea company
bought which another Tea Company
(which is the
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holder group)? 174) Nirma has entered into an alliance
Brijmohan Khaitan's tea company with Procter & Gamble to manufacture and
McLeod Russel is buying Williamson Tea distribute one of its brands in India.
Assam Which one?
Holding Company Borelli Tea Holdings Camay
Ltd, UK
175) In 2001, which Indian Industrial house
167) Can you tell the % growth for the obtained world rights to Allen Solly?
following industries in 2004-05? Indian Rayon
Software - 34%
Textile -29.4% 176) Who owns the majority stake in CNBC
BPO- somewhere near 31.5% (name the TV channel)?
Raghav Bahl's TV18
168) Company 'maharashtra scooters'
belong to which group? 177) In which year did the Bournvita quiz
Bajaj contest make its debut?
Bournvita Quiz Contest made its debut
169) 'Nobody cares as much' is the tagline on radio in 1972 and moved to television
of which firm? in 1994
Taj Hotels, Resorts & Palaces
178) Which agency did UTI hire to rebuild
170) India's first color TV was launched by its image, after the fiasco of its US-64
which company & in which year? scheme?
In 1983, through a technical tie-up with FCB Ulka
Toshiba of Japan, Videocon International
Limited
launched India's first Color Television 179) Who runs the Bangalore-based
Stump Vision - the only company in India
171) Which Indian conglomerate's logo is focused on
designed by Wolf Olins and it reflects the providing software solutions to the
'Fluid sporting fraternity?
Motion'? Anil Kumble
TATAS
180) What is the name of to be launched
172) Which famous Indian mascot was news channel of Benett,Coleman n Co.
conceived and created by Bobby Kooka Ltd?
along with Times Now
Umesh Rao, an artist with J.Walter
Thompson Ltd., Mumbai? 181) Which company owns Farex brand?
Air India maharaja Heinz
173) What is the exact designation hold by

Mr.Piyush Pandey at O&M?
Chairman and National Creative Director 182) Which Indian economist or guru has
of O&M. signed up Sachin Tendulkar as its BA for 1
of its
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organization? responsible for setting up the
Arindam Chaudhary for his GIDF(Great Vishakhapatnam
Indian Dream Foundation) Shipyard, established the Hindustan
Aircraft Ltd. in Bangalore in 1940?
183) K.Srikanth is endorsing which Walchand Hirachand
brand(also looking for product name)?
LG, MAX 192) Which Indian brand name, set up by
the Tatas, get its name from a Leon
184) Which group owns INOX cinemas?? Delibes opera
Inox group about an Indian maiden called
Lakshmi?
185) Which Indian actor has inspired the Lakme
brands SK Gold and SK Silver?
Shah Rukh Khan 193) Which Calcutta-born industrialist
contributed a sum of Rs 22000 in the
186) Ezee, Trilo & Key from Cussons India twenties for
Ltd., was acquired by whom ? C.V. Raman's path breaking research,
Godrej which won him the Nobel Prize?
G.D. Birla
187) Which mercantile institution was set
up by Sardar Dayal Singh Majithia on 19
May, 194) With the acquisition of which British
1894, with an emblem of three owned hotel did M.S.Oberoi start his hotel
mountain peaks? chain
Punjab National Bank in 1934?
Cecil Hotel Simla
188) Which trading house was started in
1894 as a collaboration between Tata Sons 195) Which company began in the late
and nineteenth century from a small house in
Volkart Brothers? Calcutta's
Voltas Cotton Street, which served as Dr.S.K
Burman's free dispensary?
189) The companies EID Parry, Dabur
Carborundrum Universal and Coromandel
Engineering are 196) Which business magnate pioneered
all part of which Indian business the concept of a hospital as a corporate
group? venture
The Murugappa Group through his Indian Hospital
Corporation formed in 1982?
190) What trade organization was founded Pratap Reddy
by a group of industrialists led by G.D.
Birla and 197) What company was set up by T.P.G.
Purushottam Thakur Das in 1927? Nambiar in 1963 to manufacture
FICCI [Federation of International measuring
Chambers and Commerce of India] instruments like multimeters and
oscilloscopes?
191) Which industrialist, who was also BPL India Ltd
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brand?
198) Who resigned as a finance minister in Amaron
1958 following Justice Chagla's report on
the 206) The Future of India-Politics,
LIC Haridas Mundhra share Economics & Governance; who wrote the
imbroglio? Book ?
T T Krishnamachari Bimal Jalan
199) Gulf Oil and IndusInd Bank are group 207) "Eicher" Sold to which company?
companies of which business house? TAFE
The Hindujas
208) "Kool" is a brand name of which
200) Which Indian household brand name Cigar company ?
was initiated by Kaka Dandekar in 1930 as R.J.Reynolds
a
Swadeshi product range, and was 209) Jumbo King in Bombay
named after an American cigarette brand? Vada Pav .
Camel
210) Who wrote the Jingle, "Naughty but
201) In 1984, which company became the Nice" for a Shampoo Ad
first to be taken over by its worker's Salman Rushdie.
union?
Kamani Tubes Ltd 211) Which city in eastern India was
originally built for the workers of Sakchi
202) In 1872 which Parsi master ship- and got its
builder who was originally from Surat, present name in 1919?
constructed the Jamshedpur
first docks in Bombay?
Jamsedji Wadia 212) The bat is the registered trademark of
which drinks company?
Bacardi
203) Which Indian businessman entered
into a collaboration with Carr Gordon and 213) Which company has opened
Princep "ProBiking" showrooms across various
to form India's first foreign cities in India??
collaboration in 1833? BAJAJ AUTO [Probiking showrooms will
Dwarka Nath Tagore sell bikes all bikes with a power of more than
150cc
204) When the Prince of Wales Museum will be sold there, so as of now 2 bikes of
started in 1922 the art collection of which Bajaj in the >150 cc segment, Pulsar 180 n
business Avenger - Avenge too is 180cc DTSi
house was the first major acquisition engine]
of the museum?
Tatas 214) Who took a major stake in Landmark
recently??
205) PIT Stops are retail sales and Service Trent
Outlets for which automotive battery
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Wonder-Laa, its from V Guard Group of
215) Which company may buy out 25% in Kochi [V Guard is into stabilizers, water
Vivek's (South India's famous consumer heaters,
durable Geysers n stuffs.]
shop)?
Pantaloon 226) Which Indian company did Sumantra
Ghosal worked for before taking up
216) PVR cinemas may be acquired by? teaching?
Anil Ambani IOCL
[ he had joined IOCL in the same batch
217) Which music channel owns when Subbir Raha (ONGC) and Prashanto
VH1(music channel)??? Bannerji
M TV (GAIL) and Behuria joined IOCL in 1974
(a bit unsure +/- 2 years).Ghoshal was the
218) Who owns Ayush therapy centers? first one
Hindustan Lever to leave the co. to make better future]
219) Expand MTR.

Mid Term Review
220) Which auto company owns

Sunadaram Fasteners and Sundaram
Clayton?
TVS Group
221) Who owns Kaya Skin Clinics?

Marico Industries
222) Which company got the Emerging

company award in ET Awards?
Jet Airways
223) Sharukh Khan has been roped in as

Brand Ambassador by which cosmetics
company
EMAMI ( SRK is Brand Ambassador of
LUX also)
224) What is the name of the car to be International Business

launched by FORD this November?
Ford Fiesta 1) Which is the world's biggest mutual
fund company?
225) Which is India's largest amusement
Fidelity
park (theme park)? which company owns
it? 2) Name the CEO who is responsible for
moving 3G mobile phones in the market.
Hint: the
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company is Vodafone. Consolidated Fund to pay off expenses..
Paul Donovan
12) What is Calpers?
3) Which major US company at one time California Association of Pensioners- one
filed for bankruptcy as a result for a suit of the biggest investors the world over as they
brought handle
against it by Pennzoil? the pension money of all California
Texaco employees
4) Of which company was Richard Cheney

, the CEO?
Halliburton Co. 13) What is a golden parachute?
It's done specifically keeping in mind
5) Former name of Exxon Mobil? Who mergers or takeover of the co. i.e. if the co. is
owned it? what was the parent company's to be
name?? merged or taken over the CEO may not
Previous Company: Standard Oil And keep his job so in his contract there is a
John D. Rockefeller in order provision for
Parent Company: ESSO his financial settlement in such a case
6) Which top Bschool rejected Warren 14) What was Visa International known as
Buffett and Why? Which one accepted before 1976?
him? Bankamericard
Harvard (because he was too young)
accepted by Columbia 15) What is transfer pricing?
The practice that multinational enterprises
7) where were the stock exchanges first adopt of organizing their accounting practices
established? so as
Amsterdam Stock Exchange , Antwerp to declare high incomes and profits in
geographical areas with low taxation rates
8) Which company owns the brand name
Equal? 16) Another big wig, had shown a rabbit
Merisant under crosshair with ad line: we r going
rabbit
9) Which is the world's largest Spirit's co hunting. Which comp are we talking
now? about?
Diageo Penthouse
10) Which company refers to its hometown 17) For Interactive Marketing , CNN has
as: "This is the sweetest place on earth". tied up hands with which coffee chain?
Also name the hometown? Barista
Hershey Park, Its in Pennsylvania
18) What redoubtable Swiss watchmaker
11) What is the Appropriation bill? markets a range of metal-cased watches
The appropriation bill is the green signal under a
to enable the government to withdraw money clever and ironic name of "Irony"?
from the Swatch
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27) Which company invented the cell
19) What did the Buttonwood Agreement phone?
(1811) lead to? Motorola & inventor was Martin Cooper
NYSE was formed because of this
agreement by brokers of NY 28) first U.S. company to reach revenues
of $1 billion without merger or
20) What was first listing on NYSE? acquisition?
Bank of New York Federal Express(FedEx) in 1983
21) Adidas has launched the world's first 29) who started the Wall Street Journal
intelligent running shoe? What's it called? and when?
Adidas 1.[Rs 12990 shoe. It can do Charles Dow and Edward Jones in 1889
50,000 calculations per second]
30) ING-VYASA - Indian collaboration ING-
22) Which company claims to be the ???? - German collaboration
World's 2nd largest appliance maker ING-DiBa
?
Haier 31) CEO of Wall Mart?
John B Menzer
23) With which Worldwide Advertising
Agency would you associate the concept 32) World's largest producer of canned
of butter?
"Disruptive Approach"? Ballantyne Foods, Sweden
TBWA (Trevor Beatie Worldwide
Associates) 33) Which is said to be the world's biggest
mobile phone company by users?
24) Jorma Olilla is the CEO of which China Mobile Ltd.
famous company?
Chairman & CEO Nokia Group 34) which company shifted to its acronym
because of the negative connotations
attached to its middle name?
Coke
35) What was the earlier name of Nokia?

25) It is known as Venture in South Africa, Finnish Rubber Works [Well the genesis
in India it is known as---? of the telecommunications business was
Toyota Qualis [also known as Unser in Finnish Cable Works...though the co itself
Malaysia, Zace in Taiwan, Tamaro in was originally established as Nokia in 1865.]
Philippines]
36) In which year was the term 'Silicon
26) Which company boasts of having fitted Valley' first used?
it's optical lens in the camera that took In 1971, in the magazine Electronic News
photographs of Neil Armstrong when
he first landed on the moon? 37) What is nicknamed as "The Great Lady
Carl Zeiss , lens was Ziess 60mm & of 43rd Street"?
Camera Hassleblad 500 ELM New York Times
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38) Which company was recently in news [They are certificates awarded by
for coming up with a self-heating coffee International Org for Standardization.
can? These are just
Who made that coffee can? certifications]
OnTech [California based company, It where as Six-Sigma emphasizes on
took more than 7 years & 24 million dollars to increasing productivity and profitability.
come up [6 sigma pertains to error free process
with that self-heating can. The discoverer (some six defects per million.. e.g. mumbai
was an LA based chef called Wolfgang Puck. dabawalla)]
The
can will uses a chemical reaction to heat 44) Which country is the largest consumer
the coffee to a pleasant 145 degrees in six of Nuclear Power based upon percentage?
minutes. France [their %age consumption of
The can will be priced at $2.25 only for 10 nuclear power relative to total power
Oz. of coffee] generation is the
highest in the world]
39) Current chairman of Nokia---
Jorma Ollila 45) "Success is a lousy teacher "- Who
said so in " The Road ahead " ?
40) Which 1976 Nobel Prize winner for " Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces
economics coined the slogan "There is no smart people into thinking they can't lose." Bill
such thing Gates
as a free lunch" said so in his book " The road ahead"
Milton Friedman
46) First Elevator(aka Lift) were created by
41) Which is the oldest stock exchange in which company ?
the world. which year? OTIS [Elisha Otis invented a safety
Antwerp Stock Exchange in device for hoisting machinery ]
Belgium.1460, Under King Philip [traded
basically in financial 47) First minister for Corporate Social
securities such as bonds!!] Responsibility was appointed in which
country?
42) In which country is Bandung located. UK
people may recall that this city was the
host to
Conference of African and Asian
countries, which led to establishment of 48) Which company markets Tommy
NAM? Hilfiger in India? Which group owns the
Indonesia same
company? Name some other brands of
43) What does ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 the company.
signify? How is it different from six- Tommy H is marketed by Arvind mills
sigma? owned by Lalbhai Group. Other major brands
ISO 9000-Quality Management from Arvind
Standards Mills are - LEE, Wrangler, and Arrow.etc
ISO 14000-Environment Managmnt
Standards
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49) What "OBJECT" was named by Time 56) What is the capacity of a 'barrel' as
magazine as the 'Man of the year' in 1982? commonly referenced for crude oil
Computer [it is the only non human to production
feature on the front page of TIME magazine.] 42 gallons (35 UK gallons = 42 US
gallons = 159 litres)
50) which company is the highest
producer of steel in the world? which
company is No.2?
No1 is Mittal Steel Co. and no2 is Arcelor 57) Duracell Battery is an arm of which
company?
51) Name the countries to which the Gillete [Now P & G acquire Gillete, that's
following companies originally why Duracell is under P & G]
belong to!?
1. Volvo Sweden 58) Which magazine was co-founded by
2. Hutch Hongkong Henry Luce and Britton Hadden in 1923?
3. Philips Holland TIME
4. Haier China
5. TCL China 59) Which magazine used the ad line
6. Ericsson Sweden "We're Going Rabbit Hunting" with a
7. Bata Czech Republic sharp
8. Rover UK tongue in cheek reference to Play boy
9. Peugeot France bunnies?
10. Michelin France Penthouse
11. Bridgestone Japan
12. BenQ Taiwan [BanQ's 60) Which financial company has the
original name was Acer] motto in utmost Good Faith?
13. Pantech South Korea Lloyds Insurance
14. Moser Baer India
15. Amkette India 61) Which business magnate owns the
16. De Beers South Africa Miss Universe pageant along with CBS
TV?
52) In which year was the button wood Donald Trump
agreement signed? What did it lead to?
1792.New york Stock Exchange 62) Which business magnate owns the
world's largest private yatch brought from
53) The first listed company in NYSE? the Sultan
Bank of New York, traded under the of Brunei?
Buttonwood Tree, 1792. Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid al-
Maktoum, the crown prince of Dubai.
54) The first foreign company listed in
NYSE? 63) This product is manufactured only by
Sony one company - The Mysore Paints &
Varnishes
55) Who was the first American to make Ltd.What?
$100m a year? Voter's Indelible Ink
Al Capone
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64) Which brand created a sensation by Vodafone
sticking a Ford Cortina to a billboard at a
busy 73) Brands 'rodeo', 'axiom', 'sport', and
junction in London? 'trooper' belong to which automobile
Araldite company?
ISUZU
65) To which company did the shipment of
tea destroyed by the American colonists 74) Which international corporate has 42
during dots in its logo?
the Boston Tea Party in 1773 belong? Sony
East India Company
75) Which brands are associated with the
66) When Henry Ford died, amongst his logos known as "Dynamic Vector" and
last possessions was a test tube. What did "Stripes"?
it Adidas (Dynamic Vector) n Reebok
supposedly contain? (Stripes)
Last breath of Edison
76) Which GM subdivision provides
67) According to PWC & Financial Express financing?
which company was voted as the most GMAC - A is for acceptance, was setup in
respected company for fourth decade? early 1900s to help dealers with finance.
General Electric
77) Which is the world's 2nd largest
68) What has been voted by the selling English daily?
"Advertising Age" as the marketing icon of TIMES OF INDIA
the 20th [ TOI is the largest circulating English
century? language Broadsheet paper and not
Marlboro man newspaper per se.. The Sun with a
circulation of 4 mill. a day and Daily Mail
with 3 mill. are way ahead of TOI's 2.4
69) Which brilliant inventor & million copies. So in the context of the
businessman kill himself leaving a note question, the answer might be Daily Mail.]
that said "Why Wait"?
George Eastman Kodak fame 78) which is the world's fastest four-door
sedan?(was in news recently)
70) 'Dell computers' is the client of which Bentley Continental Flying Spur which
advertising company? was recently launched is New Delhi
Origin design
79) Which company entered the mass
71) Headquarters for 'Johnson & Johnson' markets for soaps in Bangladesh by
? acquiring
New Brunswick, New Jersey Camelia and Magnolia brands?
Marico
72) Which British company made UK's
first mobile call at a few minutes past 80) Famous Energy Drink by Otsuka
midnight on pharma company ?
1st of January 1985? Pocari Sweat
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91) Which car name translates as 'people's
81) Which international Ad-guru would you car?
associate with the conservative Party of Volkswagen
UK ?
Moris Sachi 92) From which country does the lambada
dance originate?
82) Gentlemen named Erwin Komunda, Brazil
designed what famous product of
Automobiles ? 93) What is the World's Number one
Volkswagen Gourmet ice-cream brand ?
Haagen-Dazs
83) Which famous man, was a stock
broker for Henry Hoggets ? 94) who is UK's biggest retailer?
Sir Don Bradman UK's biggest retailer is MARKS N
SPENCER......U.S's biggest retailer is
84) Brand in Japanese, means "Ripening Walmart.
the Rice Fields" ?
Minolta 95) The name of which Japanese company
literally means '50 Bells'?
85) in Pakistan it is called Meheran, what ISUZU
is it called in India ?
Maruti 800 96) Who wrote the book 'Liar's Poker'?
Michael Lewis
86) who bought Manchester United? at
what price? 97) US Vice President D Cheney used to
Malcolm Glazer - 790million pounds be CEO of which company?
Halliburton
87) which team does this person already
own?
Tampa Bay Buccaneers 98) Who co-authored the book "Competing
for the future" with C. K. Prahald?
88) which company sponsors Chelsea? Gary Hamel
Samsung
99) Who coined 80-20 principle?
89) which company had majority holdings Pareto
in Manchester united before it was
bought? 100) Author of the book "Being Digital" ?
Cubic expressions [Owned by JP Nicholas Negroponte
McManus and John Magnier]
90) what is famous about the owner of

Fulham club's son?clue:he died in France
Dodi Al Fayed, boyfriend of Princess
Diana and son of Mohammad Al Fayed,
owner of Fulham Identify Personality/Fill In
Blanks
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1) It wasn't the first time the No. 9 batsman hose that he found lying around. Who and
was using this brand in a Test match. It was, what was the solution?
in fact,
the second time! But it came under close John B. Dunlop, he converted the hose
scrutiny from rivals England during a Test into a rudimentary set of tyres.
match at Perth in December 1979. The
batsman would later recount in hi s 5) What name literally means 'prosperous rice
autobiography Menace that he was merely field' in Japanese?
marketing the product. The No. 9 batsman Akio Morita
was the business partner of Graham
Monoghan, who is said to have developed 6) This term was first used by the politician
the product for recreation use. Which Subramaniam Swami in the context of Pepsi
product or brand are we talking about? in
India. What term ?
Dennis Lillee with his aluminum bat Kick forward. [It means bribing to keep
someone out. The reverse obviously is
2) In the late sixties,X started his career with kickback
McKinsey and Co. After some years he to Secure business advantages.]
moved on to American Express where he
worked for 11 years quickly moving up to 7) An early but short-lived name for this
the No.2 position just behind Jim product was ' Elite ' . It was first marketed in
Robinson. In 1989, he moved on to 1928 by the
become the CEO of Nabisco, a major County Chemical Co., Birmingham . The
company in the foods business. However company's then manager Mr. Wilfred Hill was
most people know him better as the CEO responsible for this product to be
of another gigantic company where he manufactured . Name the product
moved on to after his stint with Nabisco.
Identify X. Brylcreem - a combination of
"brilliantine" and "cream"
Hint : X even wrote a book about the
company we famously associate him with. 8) The name was devised by Mr. A.R.Reid ,
to whom it came 'out of the air ' when he was
Lou Gerstner.IBM. book is "How to traveling
make Elephants Dance." one evening in 1929 on his usual train
home from London to South end-on Sea .
3) The name of this 94 year old product The name
translates into English as 'Soul also is [ or was ] that of a brand of
enlightenment". Was adhesive tape in Australia , and a consequent
created by Hakim Hafiz Abdul Majeed. embarrassment to at least one lady visitor
What? to England who should have asked for
Rooh Afza Sellotape or
Scotch tape .Identify the brand
4) This Scottish veterinarian was very
annoyed by the deep grooves that his Durex - condoms by LRC Internationals
son's tricycle left in his carefully tended
lawn. He solved it by using a length of
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9) Toyota was launched by a Japanese flag flying on a steel mast in
inventor Sakichi Toyoda in the early 1930s. Kurukshetra?
Originally the
company was called Toyoda. Why was the The connection here is "Jindal".
name changed to Toyota ? [O.P JIndal died in a helicopter crash
recently. His son, Navin Jindal, the MP of
Toyota Motor Co. was established as Kurukshetra won in a supreme court case
an independent company in 1937. the right to hoist the national flag 365 days
Although the founding family name is a year. And the steel mast - well, the
Toyoda Jindals are a steel conglomerate!
[ reason was Toyoda requires 10
characters in Japanese but Toyota requires 13) A Sri Lankan by birth, he was a colleague
only 8 and for of Rajat Gupta at McKinsey and went on to
the-Japanese 8 is a lucky number. head
one of the fastest growing software
Signify the separation of the founders' services outsourcing companies. Who is
work life from home life; he?
Simplify the pronunciation, and
Give the company an auspicious He is Kumar Mahadeva - former CEO of
beginning. Toyota is considered luckier than Cognizant Technology Solutions.
Toyoda due to
the fact that eight is a lucky number, and 14) Whats the connection between the comic
is the number of strokes it takes to write strip Peanuts and the coffee chain
Toyota in Starbucks?
katakana.]
The surname "Schultz". Peanuts is by
10) What is the Kanban system used in Charles Schultz, while Starbucks was
manufacturing? started off
by Howard Schultz.
KAN BAN is the Two bin system used
for reducing the production time in 15) She may be the wife of the chairman of
manufacturing or production Blowplast but is more famous for the books
lines...one bin is labeled in and the she writes.
other bin is labeled out and raw Who is she?
materials and processed goods are Gita Piramal she wrote the book
stored in them respectively... "Business Maharajas"
16) It was being considered to name it Jersey

11) Full Form of TEN as in TEN SPORTS? and Highland Milk, the product that was
Which company markets the same in India? launched to
Taj Entertainment Network challenge the Swiss domination in this
category. What was the product ultimately
called?
12) The Euro King is a French Helicopter. Dairy Milk
What connection does it have with the Indian
National 17) This was first used as cellulose bandage
in WW1, whats the product?
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Sanitary Napkin 22) Which company began as Geophysical
Service, an oil exploration company
18) How do we connect Nipper and music founded in 1930 by J. Clarence Karcher
industry? and Eugene McDermott pioneering the
The name of the dog in the HMV logo use of sound-wave technology to locate oil
deposits? The current no longer operates
19) This company was founded by John in the oil business but is more famous in
Knowles F. in 1913. It was a publishing another completely different field
company that sold altogether.
data to Wall Street. Name this company.
Texas Instruments
Fitch Ratings was founded as the Fitch
Publishing Company on December 24th, 23) Harvard Business School once conducted
1913 by a special case study on which NRI
John Knowles Fitch in New York City. businessman
It is the third largest Rating Agency in the who was able to establish a Rs.500 crore
world business empire without a single
advertisement?
20) This Company was founded in 1965 by Who was he?
Fred DeLuca and Dr. Peter Buck as Pete's
Subs. Later Lakhubhai Pathak the Pickle King [he
this name was changed to the current was also involved in that corruption case in
name. Jared Fogle, a young man lost 245 which he
pounds by had accused P V Narasimha Rao ]
consuming this company's products..
Name this Company. 24) Recently two companies signed an
agreement: Air India and APCO. According to
Subway Chain of Sandwich the
Restaurants. Jared Fogle consumed agreement, what item will be exclusively
low fat Subway Sandwiches in a diet provided to Air India by APCO?
and exercise program of his own
design. Sarees to air hostesses for Air India [
APCO is a co-operative from Andhra
Pradesh]
21) all of us must have heard of the 51%
stake in CRISIL sought by Standard and 25) What is the new name of Barbie dolls,
Poor's, now the question is ...to which introduced, after she split with her boyfriend
famous group of companies does S & P's Ken
belong to ? Cali Barbie which stands for California
Barbie
McGraw Hill group of Companies
[among other things they also publish the 26) Who is the official sponsorer for Davis
Business Week Cup which is presently going on?
Magazine, Tata McGraw Hill is their BNP Paribas
venture in India.]
27) Which company was the first to sponsor
Davis Cup in India?
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SAIL world?
Harley Davidson
28) Which is the company founded by the
person who drafted the 1st Electricity Act of 36) Name the first ever brothel to be listed on
Britain. The a Stock Exchange
company still exists in India. The daily planet at Elsternwick on the
Melbourne Stock Exchange
Compton Greaves, Person was Colonel
Compton 37) This company was called Lutsuko and
later changed its name to something that
29) Mandira Bedi once approached an Ad literally means
agency for career. She was made to write a 'to lose money'. Which one?
story on the Sony
spot by this famous Ad man. Which
company and Ad man/guru am i talking 38) Which international brand had an ad
about? (it's in campaign - 'Tomorrow is mine' and had
India, though not Indian) signed Rahul
Piyush Pandey, O&M. Dravid for the campaign?
Reebok
30) How is these two guys Don n Frank 39) This organization has 1356 members and
related with reference to a special dish of has the ad-line "the world put stock on us".
Italy? Which
organization?
Pizza Hut, Don n Frank are the 2 who New York Stock Exchange
started it.
40) Of whom did Shahrukh Khan once say
31) Jeff Bezos is the name associated with that 'our figures are similar'?
which famous company? Cindy Craford & Pierce Brosnan while
Jeff Bezos is the founder and CEO of modeling for Omega watches
Amazon.com
41) Who designs jewellery for the company
32) Sidenafil Citrate is more popularly known called Artex?
as-- Priyanka Gandhi(Vadhera) [ Artex is his
Viagra Mr. Vadhera's co.]
33) ANZ in ANZ Grindlays stands for— 42) What is a coin with a minting error called
Australia and New Zealand Bank. ?
FIDO
34) The most expensive part of the body ever
to be insured are the legs of a famous football
player
for 60 mn pounds. Name the player 43) To whom is the following quote attributed:
David Bechkham "I have done more than anybody else to
change the
35) Which logo is the most tattooed in the face of mankind."
King Camp Gillette
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H.Kuroda (President of ADB)
44) It was a big news few months back when
A cargo giant took over Blue Dart. Name it. 51) Name the brand that appears in Harry
DHL Express India took over Blue Dart Potter movies and shares its name with an
[Recent news--Dutch express company TNT Indian
is Creative Company.
buying secundrabad based GATI cargo] Nimbus. [remember the broomsticks for
Quidditch. Malfoy gets Nimbus 2001 for all
45) 'Father, Son & Co.' is a book written by-- players
Thomas Watson Jr. the son of Thomas and gets admitted into Slytherin team.
Watson Sr. who was the founder of IBM. Harry gets a Nimbus 2000 when he is
admitted as a
46) "I want _____ to be as well-known around seeker into Gryfindor.The Indian
the world as Coca-Cola", fill the blank & tell connection is Nimbus communications
who private limited
said it which makes entertainment software
Richard Branson for Virgin. for TV channels.]
47) What was Fed Ex earlier name? Why they 52) Saudi's make most oil, Americans
changed their name? consume most. Which countries citizens ship
Federal Express [One reason for it to most of the
change was that in some other parts of the world's oil....(remember Jackie Kennedy)
world, Greece
people had trouble pronouncing Federal
Express. Also in Latin American countries, it
conjured
images of the federals i.e. it was
considered bureaucratic]. 53) In Gulliver's Travels, if dwarfs are Liliputs
and Giants are Brobdingnagians, then what
48) Who said "The surest way to become a are the
millionaire is to start as a billionaire and invest race of animal like humans called.
in the Yahoos
airline industry"?
Richard Branson 54) In 2001, John Keogh, an Australian,
obtained a patent for what he called 'Circular
49) Whats the connection between the Transport
following — the Fevicol campaign; the "Chal Facilitation Device'. This he did to show
Meri Luna" that patent system was flawed. What did he
campaign; and the controversial movie make
song Choli ke peeche kya hai?? Wheel
The people behind it were all 55) Which three Asian countries have agreed
siblings...Prasann Pandey and Piyush to come together to help ASIA fend off
Pandey and Ila Arun attacks on its
currencies?
50) Who is the chairman of Asian China, Japan and S. Korea
development bank?
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56) The founder of Harrod's H.C Harrod, was
a retailer of ....
Tea 63) Which newspaper company has filed its
papers with SEBI recently? Also, name the
57) In Taiwan, the Pepsi slogan, Come Alive group who
With the Pepsi Generation, was transliterated owns the same company.
as. Hindustan Times of HT media Ltd.
Bring you ancestors back to life K.K.Birla Group owns it.
58) Elite, Classic and Comfort are 64) In Middle ages Vatican also used to be in
ITDC's hotel brands Business. What did they sell?
They sold tickets to heaven
59) Who said this recently: "I understand that
Iam, to put it mildly, a controversial figure. But 65) Currently, two American companies are I
hope locked in a bitter struggle to acquire MCI - a
that as people get to know me better, they telecom
will understand that I really do believe deeply company. Which two?
in the
mission of the bank"? Verizon and Qwest Communications
had bid against each other.
Paul Wolfowitz [ MCI is merging with Verizon
Communications Inc.]
60) In 1906, Ammembal Subba Rao Pai
founded this organization as the Bank Hindu 66) This leader termed the use of dollar as
Permanent international standard as an 'Exorbitant
Fund. Fill up the blank. (Some more privilege' to
details: the organization has a bi-monthly, bi- the Americans. He also switched his
lingual house country back to gold standard. But he is more
journal called Shreyas, and has on its rolls famous for
sportsmen such as Venkatesh Prasad and other exploits....Who?
Vimal
Kumar.) Charles De Gaulle (He also said "China
is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.")
Canara Bank Hindu Permanent Fund
67) He started out big time by manufacturing
61) RECC: Reva; Adam Motors:....? toothpaste tubes. Now he is a media moghul.
Revo (Adam Motors, Pakistan) Who?
Subhash Chandra of Zee Network. [He
62) It is a three-letter word which in Sanskrit started Essel Packaging Ltd. that
means 'Mother Earth.' The word is also the manufactured
brand toothpaste tubes]
name of a designer jewellery collection
launched by D. Navinchandra & Co. What's 68) This firm was accused of using slave
the word? labor from concentration camps during the
WW2. It
IRA
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produced armaments for Third Reich. Its Willian Durant
owner were tried at Nuremburg and all but
were 76) in dec.1985,two teenage boys, James
convicted and served time. Which is the Vance and ray belknap attempted suicide on
firm? a
Krupp Works. cemetery.belknap died but Vance
survived only to die of drug complications
69) 'Pegasus' meaning the flying horse, is the three years
logo of Career Launcher in India. Which later. on trial in 1990,the boy's parents
famous alleged the subliminal messages contributed
magazine has the same logo. to their
Readers Digest suicidal impuslses.those messages were
believed to be heard in songs "better by you
70) What are the celebrities, who refuse to better
endorse products in ads, called in marketing than me"," beyond the realms of death",
terminology? both on a 1978 album "stained class"
Virgins of a Birmingham based band with rob
halford as lead singer: Glenn tipton and
71) Complete The Group:Ruma Guha k.k.downing
Thakurta,Yogita Bali,Leena were on the guitars. the name of the
Chandawarkar...... band?
Wives of Kishore Kumar
Judas Priest
72) whose Oscar speech was voted as the
most memorable speech of the last 30 years? 77) which artist is credited for sketching and
Halle Berry designing a helicopter as early as in 1483?
Leonardo Da Vinci
78) General Dwight D. Eisenhower sent a

telegram requesting 10 ____ plants for the
troops
73) originally the name of this party meant overseas on June 29, 1943. At the
"rebirth" in Arabic. originally there was just beginning of the war, Robert W. Woodruff,
one president of
party, then it split into two, one each in ____, issued an order to "see to it that
Syria and Iraq. name this. every man in uniform gets ____ for five cents
Ba'ath Party wherever
he is and whatever it costs the Company."
74) he wrote a book "a salmon of doubt" Fill in.
before his death. his book has various
manifestations like Coca Cola
tv,radio,comp games, bath towels. It's
being made into a major movie. his name? 79) "The companies in The _____ Index were
Douglas Adams carefully selected based on this formula:
Company = (P*10)+X+Y where P is my
75) who found general motors? personal opinion and X and Y are both letters
that don't
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mean anything. P is subject to sudden Lapware
and unexplained change, based on the e-mail
reports I 86) What spectacular success story was
get from readers in the field. Weight is started in 1889 by Lila Acheson Wallace and
given to companies that have high numbers DeWitt
of cubicles, Wallace?
engineers." Who explaining what? Reader's Digest
Warren buffet on his inability/ability to 87) Whose failed Oil and Gas venture was
invest in tech stocks named Arbusto? The name is a Spanish
translation for
the Guy's surname?
80) Canon, 11 Bentley, 6 Timberland, 5 George.W.Bush
Jaguar, 1 Xerox, what are these means in
USA in 2000? 88) Golden handshakes are payoffs that are
these are the names of newborn baby made to employees retiring before their term,
given by some gr8 brand loving parents. usually
to facilitate a downsizing. What are
incentives used to retain employees called?
Golden Handcuffs
81) which airline was originally called 89) 'Every Street is paved with gold' is the
Dobrolet? autobiography of--
Aeroflot Kim Woo Chang founder of Daewoo
82) What is the connection between Finding 90) 'Beyond Last Blue Mountain' is the
Nemo and Steve Jobs? autobiography of--
Steve Jobs heads Pixar Animation JRD Tata
Stidio, which has produced Finding Nemo
91) Expand Following
83) The person next in command to the CEO ECOSOC - Economic and Social
is often referred to as the 'Upper Roger'. Council
From what FAO - Food and Agricultural
Indian (Sanskrit) word does this phrase Organization
come? IFAD - International Fund for
Yuva Raja Agricultural Development
ILO - International Labor Organization
84) What 'social expression' company (if I UNESCO - United Nations Educational,
may coin a phrase) was started by the 18- Scientific and Cultural Organization
year-old IBRD - International Bank for
Joyce Hall in 1910? Reconstruction and Development
Hallmark [it is World Bank's original name
- IBRD]
85) What is the name given to software
developed exclusively for use by infants and
toddlers?
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MIGA - Multilateral Investment source kernel called XNU. Apple first
Guarantee Agency released Darwin to the open source
IFC - International Finance Corporation community in 2000.]
Adidas - ADolf DAssler. [and then the
popular All Day i Dream About] 97) He is a self-made multi-billionaire CEO.
He is obsessive about mopping up water
92) Give Organization formed in the year, no. puddles in
of members and HQ Detail of following the men's restroom, colleagues say. He
has a slew of pets, including three dogs and
European Union (EU), 1991, 25 Brussels six birds.
Association Of South East Asian His company features one of the loopiest
Nations (ASEAN), 1967,10, Jakarta corporate cultures, where "having fun" is an
South Asian Association for Regional official
Cooperation (SAARC) ,1983 , 7 Kathmandu goal. He has pinned up jumbo-sized
pictures of grinning employees all over the
Organization of the Petroleum hallway at the
Exporting Countries (OPEC) ,1960 ,12 , company's corporate headquarters in
Vienna Pleasanton, California. Who, and which
International Criminal Police company?
Organization (Interpol) ,1914, 177, Lyon
(France) David Duffield of PeopleSoft.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB),
1966 , 63, Manila 98) Born in 1837, descendent of Welsh
ancestors who came to Massachusetts in
93) The name of the flavor base included in 1636, he began
the secret formula of Coca-Cola is referred to his career in 1856. He disliked and
as? disagreed frequently with Theodore
7X Roosevelt, and when
the president was off on a safari in Africa,
94) Expand YAHOO? Yet Another he is alleged to have said 'I hope the first lion
Heirarchial Officious Oracle that
he meets does its duty'. He was once
95) The management guru who describes asked for money by a friend in need. He took
himself as "Prince of disorder" and a the friend
"Professional for a walk all around New York and after
Loudmouth"? an hour, told him 'Now that you have been
Tom Peters seen with
me, you will have no problems getting a
96) What connects Hexley , the platypus to loan'. A churchman called him 'Pierpontifex
Apple computers? Maximus'.
The Darwin [developers decided to adopt The Wall Street Journal called him 'the
a mascot in 2000, and chose Hexley the undisputed leader who has stood between
platypus the business
Darwin is the core operating system of of this country and disaster'. Who?
Apple Computer's Mac OS X, and runs on an John Pierpont Morgan - JP Morgan
open
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101) This person wrote about himself thus
:"Principal virtues : keeps his nails clean.
99) In 1923, he left Kansas and boarded a Principal faults
train to California with $40 in his pocket. that he has no family, is bad tempered
When a fellow and has a poor digestion. One and only wish :
passenger asked him about his intentions, Not to
he said 'I'm going to direct great Hollywood be buried alive. Greatest sin : that he
motion does not worship Mammon. Important events
pictures'. After seeing 'The Jazz Singer' in his life :
he wrote to his brother: "I think this is, Old None". Who?
Man,
Opportunity rapping at our door. Slap a Alfred Nobel
big mortgage on everything we've got and let
us go 102) He called his wife 'The Believer'
after this thing in the right manner." In because she encouraged him at a time when
1938, he received honorary degrees from everyone else
both Harvard called him crazy. John Kenneth
and Yale universities, and also accepted Galbraith said this of him:" If there is any
an award from the League of Nations. He certainty as to what
started the a businessman is, he is assuredly the
'Experimental Prototype Community of things ________ is not." Thomas Alva Edison
Tomorrow' center in USA. Who? once told
Walt Disney him 'Young man, you have the right
idea. Keep at it'. He got his greatest
100) At a meeting of advertising heads at inspiration while
National Cash Register which was going watching Chicago meat-packers cut beef
nowhere, this that moved past them on an overhead trolley.
young Sales Manager jumped to his feet Who?
and yelled 'The trouble with every one of us is
that Henry Ford - He got the idea of
we don't think enough. We don't get paid assembly line production while watching
for working with our feet - we get paid for Chicago meat-
working packers cut beef that moved past them
with our heads. Any man on the selling on an overhead trolley.
force could make two dollars where he now
makes 103) He has launched a university at Elk
one if he would think along the right Grove Village, Illinois. President Nixon once
lines. 'I Don't Think' has cost the world met him and
millions of dollars'. asked "What is it now, eight or nine
Who? billion?" To which he replied, "Mr. President, it
is 12
Thomas Watson, who later went on to billion." When his company's market
head IBM -& also it was he who gave IBM the value surpassed U.S.Steel's, Senator Lloyd
motto Bentson
'THINK' complained 'Something is wrong with our
economy when the stock market is long on
_____
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and short on steel' At the age of 72, he 'Made in America' is a book on Wal-
acquired the San Diego Padres baseball Mart by Sam Walton
team. Till the while 'Well Made in America' is a
age of 52 he was a peddler of milk- book on Harley Davidson by Peter C. Ried.
shake machines. Who?
108) Which very famous personality name
Ray Kroc , He was the main force was deleted from the list of the Top
behind McDonalds. he has started a Philanthropists for
Hamburger some unscrupulous reasons. And why ?
University in Illinois. The answer for
the blank is Burgers Warren Buffet- because his charity was
not at par with his wealth and others on the
104) An author, as a sign of gratitude to the list
nurse who had cared for his firstborn child, Voted against his inclusion, he is
gave a famous for two things. First, for amassing the
script and asked her to sell it when she second-
was in need of money. Years later, when the biggest fortune in the U.S. as one of the
nurse most talented investors the world has ever
was really in want of money, she sold it known.
and lived in comfort for the rest of her life. The Second, for an aversion to spending a
manuscript was the first part of a famous dime of that $41 billion on anything but the
work of this author. Name the book and strictly
author? necessary. That includes declining to
provide his kids with fortunes of their own,
Book: Jungle Book Author : Rudyard collecting
Kipling. yachts or racehorses, or giving large
chunks of his wealth to worthy causes.
105) Masaru Ibuka, after graduating in
engineering, failed the entry examination for 109) " Back to back ticketing" what is it and
lifetime how come it is used intelligently.
employment at Toshiba, and decided to Back to back ticketing - is it buying
start his own small business. He was round trip tickets like A -> B -> C & back
fortunate to find but
a partner who had a flair for finance and using only one leg of each trip ( for
salesmanship. Who was this partner? What economical reasons).
was the [ In simple words, it means, either you
company they started? are intentionally using only a part of your
Akio Morita was the partner & itinerary or
company was Sony your itinerary is not used in sequential
manner to save money and take advantage of
106) Who was the star of a film "Grime goes various discount offered by Airline
green' along with John Cleese? which may not be available for general
Prince Charles booking.]
107) What is the difference between 'Made in 110) You must have heard the famous ad of"
America' and 'Well Made in America'? saat swad main lijjat papad "!!! Where does
that saat
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comes from?
saat swad main lijjat papad - because 114) This famous person's political
started by seven seven sister members of involvement came with its share of
Shri controversy. Most notably,
Mahila Griha Udyog Lijjat Papad, now in 1975 he spent six days giving
it has more than 40000 sisters as its lectures on public policy in Chile and had one
members. brief meeting
Incidentally, its Product 'Papad' is also with the right-wing dictator Augusto
available in 7 categories. Pinochet. The result was a storm of protest.
When he was
awarded the Nobel Prize the next year,
public objections came from all directions,
including
111) Jaggery was followed by potatoes then previous prize winners Linus Pauling and
castor, black pepper, turmeric and hessian- David Baltimore. Who?
what is
this series.? Milton Friedman, one of the greatest
Forward trading is allowed only on economist of all times
these commodities in India.
115) He has been a professor of Electrical
112) Richard Branson usually associated the Engg and Computer Science at the
word Virgin with almost all of his business Massachusetts
ventures. Institute of Technology for 35 years. His
However the only exception was when products have been used in GM Cars, Zenith
he launched this Condoms brand. Deciding and
that the Phillips TV divisions, NASA space
word Virgin would not go down well with shuttles, the Queen Elizabeth liner, and
a Condoms brand, he came up with this other Broadway theatres.
name. His father fled from Calcutta where he
Now, what was the name of this brand?? was wanted by the British police for
Mates condoms revolutionary
activities. Who?
113) The year was 1950. She had brought a
big bag filled with merchandise, and she set it Amar Bose (Bose Speakers)
up and
was in business at Neiman Marcus. 116) He set up shop in 1859 as a dry goods
Stopping everyone who came in the door, she trader. The business thrived in 1861 after the
said, "Try outbreak
this. I', ___________, and these are the of the US Civil War, when the US Army
most wonderful beauty products in the world." bought a lot of grain and supplies from him.
Who? He was a
regular at the Euclid Avenue Baptist
Estée Lauder, who founded the Estée Church in Cleveland and served as a Sunday
Lauder Co. Today, it controls over 45% of the School
cosmetics market in US department Superintendent. In 1881, he set up a
stores - three times the volume of its closest trust of dozens of companies that controlled
competitor. 80% of a
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particular industry. Other industries call monitors, which are commonly used
followed suit and this started off the first 'Anti- in STD booths across India. Which former
Trust Indian
regulations' in the USA. Who? cricketer owns this firm?
John Rockefeller Brijesh Patel
121) Which business tycoon once said "I don't

think Internet is going to change the world
how
117) Microsoft issues a 'Certificate of people chew gum"?
Authenticity' to guard against counterfeit Warren Buffett
software. It has a
watermark with the image of a woman. 122) Big Ideas and Global Knowledge Portals
Name the woman. are companies founded by__________.
Dan Lifton founded big ideas... Derek
Ada Byron O'Brien. Global Knowledge
118) His wife Tove was six times Karate 123) Which song was used as the theme
champion of Finland. He became famous for song for the launch of Windows 95? also give
something the name
he wrote as a student at the University of of the band by whom it was composed.
Helsinki. Name him. Rolling stones-"Start Me Up"
Linus Torvalds,Linux 124) Synergy Communications a Pvt Ltd co is

floated by___________
119) In 1979, two American executives were Siddharth Basu
imprisoned without charge in Iran when
Ayatollah 125) Connect: Santoor,Glucovita & BabySoft.
Khomeini deposed the shah of Iran. Wipro
Their CEO sent in a bunch of company
executives, led by
a former commando called Arthur Bull
Simons, who rescued them, freeing 13000
other
prisoners in the process. This incident
was later turned into a best-selling novel On 126) on the recommendation of
Wings of kumaramangalam birla committee on
Eagles by Ken Follett. Just name the corporate govenance Sebi
CEO. asked stock exchanges on 21 Feb 2000
to insert a new clause 49 in their listing
Texas businessman Ross Perot of EDS. agreements
with companies. it had about 2000
120) Computer Peripheral Devices is a words. then appointed another committee
Bangalore based firm which manufactures under Narayana
electronic PCO
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Murty, following it, sebi revised clause 'Oikanomia' means "House Management".
49. then in oct 2004 it sent another version to What is
the stock it?
exchanges, this time about 3 times as Economics
large as the previous one Now by the end of
2005 all 129) How ABN AMRO bank got its present
listed companies will have to---. name?
according to the amended definition under the Nederlandse and the Twentsche
clause 49... what Bank merged to form the Algemene Bank
is it Nederland
(ABN). later the Amsterdamsche Bank
it deals with the appointment of and the Rotterdamsche Bank merged to form
independent directors and the new the Amro
amended clause tightens the gamut Bank. than, ABN and Amro Bank merged
of independent directors to form ABN AMRO
The proposed Clause 49 of the 130) He is the pioneer in mutual fund industry
Listing Agreement stipulates that at and often referred as the Father of Index
least 50 per cent of the board of Fund
companies should comprise investing. He created the first S&P 500
independent directors. This is Index fund. Identify this person?
basically a corporate governance JohnBogle
initiative to avoid the Board of directors
being for from a single family or maybe 131) Which financial services giant is referred
too many government servants as in as the "Thundering Herd"?
the case of ONGC. Merrill Lynch
The Government-controlled listed 132) What term became popular after the
entities (where the Government has a newspaper report of Watergate Scandal in
majority stake), including ONGC, have the year
in the recent months have been forced 1973?
to review the composition of their 'Money Laundering'
boards on account of the proposed
revised Clause 49 and also due to the 133) If you file the 'chapter number 11' in USA
capital market regulators' stance that in the name of your company what would you
the Government nominees on the do?
boards of Government-owned entities You'll be filing for bankruptcy
cannot be counted as independent
directors. 134) What were built under the project 178 ?
FIAT cars Siena, Siena weekend, and
127) Name the drink that was initially sold as Palio
medicine for the headache and it was
advertised with 135) Cannaught Plaza Restaurants and
a tagline of "The Idea Brain Tonic" Hardcastle Restaurants have had the
Coca Cola . responsibility for the
entry of Which MNC to India ?
128) This term is derived from the Greek word Mc Donalds
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publishers for years, until Macmillan
136) This famous business personality earn published it in 1936. Identify her.
money by repairing toy trains when he was at
13. His Ayn Rand
father escaped from the British Police in
1920 and landed in USA with $20 in his 141) This world famous direct marketing
pocket and company was founded by Rich Devos and
later married an American school teacher Jay Van Andel
and settled in Philadelphia. His corporate in 1959. Name it?
headquarters is known as "The Amway
Mountain". Identify him.
Amar Bose of Bose corp.
137) Big Blue is IBM. Which corporate is

referred as 'Big Black' ?
United Parcel Service (UPS) 142) Name the person who coined the term
"Management by Wandering Around (Walking
138) This famous Japanese corporation first About)",
started as a tiny cork manufacturer in and popularly known as MBWA?
Hiroshima in
1920, and was known as Tokyo Cork Tom Peters [In his book In Search of
Togyo Co Ltd. How it is known today? Excellence, Tom Peters detailed for millions
Mazda of
readers the trick behind HP's
139) You may know what is blue collar or phenomenal growth and success. The trick, it
white collar worker. What's steelcolar worker? turned out, wasn't
And Open so much whiz-bang technology as it was
Collar workers? a special kind of spirited management.
Steel collar - robots are doing actual
work instead of men; Open collar - someone HP's idea of "management by
who walking around" focused more on a boss's
works at home or telecommutes. ability to
communicate goals (rather than orders)
140) She was born in St. Petersburg, Russia to his or her staff. It also put a high premium
on Feb 2, 1905. In 1926, she left for on a
Hollywood to manager's ability to watch and listen
pursue a career as a screenwriter. Cecil (rather than bark and bite).
B. DeMille gave her a job, first as an extra,
then as a Here's an excerpt from one of interviews
script reader. She sold her first of tom peters:
screenplay 'Red Pawn' to Universal Studios in he says...
1932 and also "......So we talked to our colleagues and
staged her first play 'Night of January we then ended up chatting up Hewlett
16th' on Broadway. Her first novel was Packard and
rejected by
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chatting up 3M and chatting up only 144) Which is the only country having paper
about two or three other companies and currency and have no coins and it introduced
people had cheque
talked to us and we said 'my gosh, they only in 1997?
are talking about all these incredibly strange Vietnam
things
for big companies like people listen to 145) "I knew a trade name must be short,
their customers, and if you an officionardo of vigorous, incapable of being misspelled to an
my work extent that
you will know that we shamelessly will destroy its identity, and in order to
stole from Hewlett Packard this idea that satisfy the trademark laws, it must mean
was called nothing". Who
MBWA - Managing By Wandering said this and name the brand?
Around' - which you could call the worst kind George Eastman- Kodak
of
management consultancy crap but at
the time the whole notion was business is not
all an 146) What was known as the Blue Ribbon
abstraction, business is not all about Sports company earlier?
MBA schools, business is not all about Nike
numbers, it's
about managers who get the heck out of 147) Which brand got its name from a
their cubicles and who are actually in true Sanskrit word which means "Priceless"?
contact Amul
with their employees and their vendors
and their customers and doing the face to 148) The Experience Music project in Seattle,
face thing Washington is an interactive music museum
which was not where enterprise was at designed by architect Frank O Gehry.
the time....." Who is its founder?
Paul G. Allen [co-founder of
more details of the interview: Microsoft]
http://www.redworld.biz/redbusiness/issue/vol 149) In medieval times, as they do even now,

3/issue04/guru merchants used to buy goods in bulk, for
more about MBWA go to : example
12 dozen bales of cloth, and sell these at
http://www.1000ventures.com/business_guid fairgrounds. Now, what word was coined to
e/mgmt_mbwa.html ] describe
such merchants?
143) Which successful investor is popularly Grocery
known as "The Oracle of Omaha"? And his
famous 150) One of the risk analysis models used to
quote is "Rule No.1: Never loss money, analyze, say a stock price, is a simulation
Rule No.2: Never forget the Rule No.1" method
Warren Buffet that randomly generates values for
uncertain variables over and over to simulate
a model.
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This model is named after a European Boeing 747
city. Which method?
Monte Carlo method 157) What principle of stock speculation was
first propounded by Thomas F. Woodlock?
151) 'The Meghdoot Awards for Excellence' is the concept that odd otters are
awarded to employees of which profession in always wrong
the
Indian Service Industry? 158) He called his wife 'The Believer'
Postal Service because she encouraged him at a time when
everyone else
152) In 1851, when consumers balked at the called him crazy...Who is he?
$75 price tag, this company "originated the Henry Ford
world's
first installment plan to make it 159) For which corporate Carolin Davidson
affordable"? Name the company. designed the logo for $30 while she was a
Singer - the Sewing machine student in
company. Stanford University?
Nike
153) connect : Bagpiper whisky brand
ambassador, Bajaj 2 wheeler and ITC brand 160) This former maid was the first woman to
mascot... sell products by mail order, organize a
ITC brand mascot- Sunny mascot nationwide
Bagpiper whisky brand ambassador- door-to-door sales force, and open her
Sunny's father- Dharmendra own beauty school.
Bajaj 2 wheeler- Bajaj Sunny Sarah Walker / Madam C J
154) Who was the first Indian actress to 161) Known as the 'Queen of Seventh
endorse LUX.? Avenue,' this fashion designer launched her
Leela Chitnis own line in
1984.
155) The first product made by this company Donna Karan
was a car record player. They gave
themselves a 162) The first woman to purchase a seat on
name similar to the name of the market the New York Stock Exchange was:
leader in record players in those days. Name Muriel Siebert
the
company. 163) After working as a stockbroker, she
Motorola founded a catering company that led to a
magazine and
156) This product is considered the best of its TV show devoted to cooking and
kind. The first one was completed in entertaining
September Martha Stewart
1968, took four years and $1.5b to build,
and the effort almost sank the company and 164) Her 1989 conviction for income tax
threw evasion and her tough reputation earned this
the city of Seattle into a depression. hotel owner
7000 men worked to make it. What? the nickname 'The Queen of Mean.'
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Leona Helmsley 170) Such bonds of Latin American countries
are issued in US dollars and backed by US
165) What cosmetics executive is known for Treasury
giving pink Cadillacs as incentives for her zero coupon bonds. They are named
sales staff? after a former US Secretary of Treasury.
Mary Kay Ash What are we
referring to?
166) It was called Racal Telecom when it was Brady Bonds
formed in 1984 as a subsidiary of Racal
Electronics 171) North American Sports Network is a
Ltd. It became an independent company cable channel that broadcasts baseball,
seven years later, at which time it changed its basketball, and
name other US sports in Europe. Now, which
to ? investor, one of the world's richest people,
Vodafone recently
decided to sell his 70 per cent stake in
167) Who said this recently: "Although there it?
will always be more work to be done to Allen Paul
preserve and
enhance the integrity and strength of our 172) Acme Clothing bought Acme Global and
nation's corporations and markets, I believe Acme Hospitality last year. What was it
the time renamed as
has come for me to step down and this year?
return to the private sector an d my family." Provogue
William Donaldson Leaving the SEC
173) Byung-Chull Lee's business, started in
1938, initially focused on exporting dried
Korean fish,
168) KitKat has always been seen in its well vegetables and fruit to Manchuria and
known red and white wrapper except between Beijing. In over a decade, it had its own flour
1945 mills and
and 1947 when it sported a blue confectionery machines. Which company
wrapper. Why was it changed then? are we referring to?
Samsung
the wrapper was changed to a blue
one in 1945 ,when it was made with a plain 174) The currency of which country is zloty,
chocolate covering instead of milk literally meaning 'golden'? (The modern zloty
chocolate owing to acute shortage of milk was
after introduced in 1924 after the
World War 2 hyperinflation post-World War I. It replaced
the country's currency
169) Dorcas Market Makers Ltd is the 'mark,' which had been around for eight
marketing arm of which wellness and years.)
personal care Poland
company?
Cholayil 175) Allied Domecq wants to revive the fading
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Canadian Club whisky, and for that it has
unveiled a 180) The chief of Mirna Voda, a mineral water
strategy wherein 10 lucky winners of a company in Zagreb which has launched a
programme will have a chance to compete brand
alongside called 'Titoz Izvor,' said about the name:
champion Chris Moneymaker for a multi- "It has nothing to do with politics. It is purely a
million dollar purse. Chris is a leading player marketing move which could help us
in which make a breakthrough in a rather saturated
'sport'? market."
Poker What's with the name?
Its named after late Yugoslav leader
176) Written by Steven Levitt and Stephen Tito
Dubner, the book's baseline reads, 'A Rogue
Economist Explores the Hidden Side of 181) About what did Warren Buffett refer to
Everything.' Which book? when he wrote this: "From 1733 to 1758, Ben
Freakonomics Franklin
dispensed useful and timeless advice
through Poor Richard's Almanack. Among the
177) Following protests from business leaders virtues
and unions, the British Government decided extolled were thrift, duty, hard work, and
not to simplicity. Subsequently, two centuries went
go ahead with the proposal to change by
the name of the Department of Trade and during which Ben's thoughts on these
Industry. subjects were regarded as the last word.
Which two words, separated by a Then Charlie
comma, were proposed in the place of 'Trad Munger stepped forth."
e'? Poor Charlie's Almanack , an
Productivity, Energy assortment of Mungers ideas
178) The weekly Economist compiles two 182) Kleenex and Huggies are brands of
indexes based on the concept of purchasing- which company?
power Kimberly Clark
parity. One is the Big Mac index, which
compares the prices of the McDonald's 183) In 1993, a Director at this Ahmedabad-
burger around based pharma company, while travelling in
the world. The second is the 'tall latte interior
index.' What does it compare? Gujarat, saw deep cracks in the heels of
Prices of Starbucks Coffee women working in the fields. "Some of them
had
179) Which Indian company has joint difficulty in walking and the mud, stones
ventures and alliances with organizations and dirt aggravated the problem." Which
such as Babcock & product was
Wilcox, Kawasaki Thermal Engineering created based on this experience?
Company, Eco Tech, Honeywell, Bloom Krack Cream Paras Company
Engineering,
Struthers Wells and Ozone Systems?
Thermax
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184) "The histories of the family (which shareholder in Crisil?
founded the business) and of the company Standard & Poor (S&P)
are directly
linked to one region: eastern France, 189) The same two key words are used to
Montbeliard. The Lion, the emblem of the describe the following two phenomena: (i)
make, is also This kind of
on the coat of arms of Franche-Comte, liability is one wherein the injury or harm
the birthplace of the family." Which company? takes time to become known, and the gap
Peugeot between a
claim and the circumstances that caused
it could be decades. (ii) T he phrase coined
by Chris
Anderson to describe how products that
are in low demand can collectively make up a
185) A company called SeaCode has market
presented an "innovative service" called share that rivals or exceeds the relatively
'Hybrid-Sourcing.' few current bestsellers or blockbusters if
According to the plan, workers from distribution
countries such as India and Russia would get is adequate. Can you name them?
paid
around $22,000 a year, which is about a Long Tail
third of the market rate. As what wil l the
workers be 190) In an interview to a daily, he said: "I live
classified, and why is this scheme so on my farm most of the time, coming to
unique? Mumbai only
for shootings." He was asked about his
"Seamen", The Californian company decision to be the brand ambassador of
plans to have its engineering facility just Mahyco
beyond Monsanto's Bt Cotton products. Who's
the three-mile limit off the US coast he?
and will have foreign software Nana Patekar
programmers.
191) The origins of this company go back to
186) Complete the name: Peter Ferdinand ... 1901, when Englishman William Knox D'Arcy
Drucker got to
explore the oil resources of Persia,
187) Recently, the Sanctuary group, which thanks to a concession he obtained from the
manages artistes such as Beyonce, took over Shah of
Twenty Persia. It took years to make the
First Artists, originally co-owned by three discovery, and when it was made, the Angl o-
people, including Frank Presland and Keith Persian Oil
Bradley. Company was formed, which is now
Who was the other? called what?
Elton John British Petroleum
188) Who has recently become the majority 192) Pepsi lost its bid to trademark one of its
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product's brands in the European Union. A teenager behavioral pattern?
EU court The phenomenon of most US
ruled recently that the name could be teenagers losing their virginity during
confused with a German potato chips brand, Christmas
marketed Holidays!
by Intersnack Knabber-Geback. Which is
this brand, and what is Pepsi 's? 199) What was Mrs. Weasley's Christmas gift
Ruffles to Harry Potter on his first Christmas at
Hogwarts
193) Complete the name: Cara Carleton School of Witchcraft and Wizardry?
Sneed .... A bright emerald-green hand-knit
Fiorina sweater
194) Under what brand name does Bengal 200) Name the world's first bicycle brand
Waterproof Ltd, whose subsidiaries include Boneshaker (1866) manufactured by
Bihar Swift cycle company at Coventry, England
Rubber Company Ltd and Bensri
Rubber Products, sell its products? 201) In 1906, Ammembal Subba Rao Pai
Duckback founded this organization as the ... Bank
Hindu
195) Which pioneering industrialist said: Permanent Fund. Fill up the blank.
"There is one rule for the industrialist and that (Some more details: the organization has a
is: Make the bi-monthly, bi-
best quality of goods possible at the lingual house journal called Shreyas,
lowest cost possible, paying the highest and has on its rolls sportsmen such h as
wages Venkatesh
possible"? He sure practised what he Prasad and Vimal Kumar.)
preached! Canara
Henry Ford
202) The following is part of Bono's foreword
196) Charles Simonyi, along with Butler to this book: "His voice is louder than any
Lampson, is said to have developed the first electric
WYSIWYG, guitar, heavier than heavy metal. He is
pronounced 'wizzy-wig' or 'wuzzy-wig', not just animated; he's angry. Because he
document preparation programme. What knows that a
does it stand lot of the crisis in the developing world
for? can be avoided." Can you name the author
What You See Is What You Get and the
book, which talks about putting an end to
197) Which country's Postal Department, for poverty?
the first time, dressed up its postmen as
Santa "The End of Poverty", author is
Clauses in an effort to match up with the Jefferey D Sachs
Christmas promotions of private players?
India
198) What is Santa Claus Effect w.r.t US
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ambitions." So, according to an executive
203) After years of delivering speeches about with the ad agency Duval Guillaume, which
a scandal and his survival of colon cancer, he worked
has for the brand, there had to be enough
landed his first regular job in 10 years — excitement around the product without it
as commercial manager of Ireland's Galway costing a lot.
United What did the agency do recently, and can
Football Club. Who's he? you name the brand?
Nick Leeson
'One Second.' The agency created a
204) It was started in 1887 as the Clinton TV commercial for one second!
Pharmaceutical Company, when its partners,
McLaren 209) Which is the flagship company of the
Bristol and John Ripley Myers, got it group that owns Hikal Chemicals, Automotive
officially incorporated. In 1898, the company Axles and
got a new Epicenter Technologies?
name, with the founders' names The Kalyani Group and that would be
becoming part of it. After Myers' death h in Bharat Forge
1899, when the
company became a corporation, its 210) — Iron & Steel is more famously known
name underwent a further change. How was it as Posco. Fill up the blank.
known Pohang
before and after Myers' death?
Bristol , Myers - after his death it got 211) If you are a 'Sheru,' you would be a
changed to Bristol-Myers registered member of ...?
ShareKhan.com
205) 'India's Online Marketplace' is now ...?
Baazee.com [now eBay.in] 212) Alain de Pouzilhac stepped down as
CEO of which advertising company recently?
206) Which is said to be the world's biggest Havas
mobile phone company by users?
China Mobile
207) A broken printer ribbon forced Tom

Stemberg to look for a store that could supply 213) 'Idiots Price Our Devices'! This was one
him the famous comment among the many that were
stuff, but he was getting nowhere with the seen on
search. That was in July 1985, and the the Internet when this company
incident was launched a product nearly three years ago.
the basis for a pioneering effort by Tom. Demand,
What did he start 10 month has later? however, seems to have soared now.
Staples Which product are we referring to? Also,
which is the
208) This breath freshener brand in Belgium company?
has been called "a small company with big Apple i-pod
214) M. P. Sharma, Dr Madan Vaidya Mishra
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and P. L. Agarwal. Why were the three names make" - Golden words, whom?
in the Philip Kotler
news?
Priyamvada birla will case 221) Connect - Bernard Tapie, Credit
Leonige, Robert Louie Dreyfuss to a Brand ?
215) This bank was established in Lahore in ADIDAS. After the Adidas Family
1943 by Rai Bahadur Lala Sohan Lal, who gave over the entire Stock holding, these
also were the
became its first Chairman. After various people with whom the
Partition, the bank's registered office shifted shares were transferred one after another.
to Amritsar. Its
current head office is in New Delhi. Can 222) Connect : Interstate, Chronical, Pure
you name this bank? Design(or was it Theo Design) , etc
Oriental Bank Of Commerce. Hindu newspaper called in Mario
Garcia to re-design their newspaper and
216) Can you name the company set up by these were
Prince Charles in the early 1990s to make the 2 Fonts he introduced (Interstate,
organic food Chronical).
products?
Duch Original
217) Japan's second and fourth biggest 223) James Wilson, founder of Economist
banks in terms of assets have agreed to Newspaper and also Standard Chartered
merge. The Bank gave
merged entity will become the world's India something - What?
biggest banking group. Can you name the Income Tax
two banks?
Mitsubishi Bank n UFJ Holdings 224) Started by Aristotle Onasis, it is the
National Airline of Greece?
218) In 1907, Eugene Schueller, a French Olympic Airlines
chemist, developed a hair-colour formula.
Two years 225) Jet-ix is one of the lesser known
later, he registered his company as channels of -
'Societe Francaise de Teintures Inoffensives Disney
pour
Cheveux.' How do we know it today? 227) Net merger is a registered trademark
L'oreal merging Telephony with Microsoft Speech
server
219) SMS : Short Messaging Service:: XMS : Platform, developed by -
? Intel
Secure Messaging Service
228) Eye-ware, goggles designed for Golf
220) "Authentic Marketing isn't knowing the specifically by - Adidas.
cost of selling of what you make, but knowing
what you 229) IQ magazine's Online Publication is
done by - CISCO.
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230) Connect : (All pics are shown) 234) Which sporting company entered a tie-
Nimbus, Reliance, NAL's SARAS up with Searra to enter into the Indian Market
(Fighter plane), Silk Route (Album) and then -
there is the Lotto Sport
song : "Chinna Chinna Aasai" from
ROJA 235) Rallisport is the Blue tooth Mobile from
Motorola with collaboration with -
All of them are registered Trademarks Oakley.
Paint Shades of Asian paints (ROJA,
Nimbus, 236) Which mercantile institution has had the
etc) motto "My word is my bond since 1801?
London Stock Exchange
231) Connect : (Again Pics)
SS Music, Inquilab, Metro Railways, 237) By what popular name was the coalition
Kiran Karnik(Photo) of various reformist groups that overthrew
Ottoman
Midday Magazine. Connect being, Sultan Abdulhamid II in 1876 known?
Metro being their editorials, Inquilab being (Hint: The answer is a very popular show on
Midday's CNBC
Hindi periodical, SS investments TV18, well even though all the shows are
being their International stocks(or popular this one has become famous )
something) Young Turks
232) Connect : (Pics again) 238) By what brand name is the Federation of
Polaris, Hotel Trident, Hercules(& XENA Italian Automobile Works at Turin, more
warrior princess), Carmen Electra, and Song popularly
of U2 ? know?
FIAT
All Plane brands of Lock Heed
Martin. 239) Which economist put forward the
proposition " Work expands to fill time"?
233) Connect : (pics) Parkinson's law
Alan Cox, "Story of accidental
revolution", Phoebe Buffay(friends) , Mustang 240) Its principal subsidiaries are MGM
Logo, Spirit Studios Inc., United Artists Corporation, and
watches. and Song from Enigma. Orion Pictures
Corporation. The name is taken from the
Linux ; connect being like this : three companies that formed a corporate
"Story of accidental revolution" was the merger in
subtitle of 1924 under the control of movie theater
Linus torvaldis's Auto Biography. magnate Marcus Loew ?
Alan Cox gave the initial idea of the Tux. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. (Ars
Phoebe, Gratia Artis)
Mustang , enigma and e-spirit are the
Code names of Unix versions. 241) ------- was founded by Toshio Iue, a
former Matsushita employee, in 1947
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The company's name means three .Give me the full name and justify the
oceans in Japanese, referring to the founder's name(why is it called so)
ambition to Camellia House
sell their products worldwide, across the
Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. 246) The brains behind this tractor model,
Sanyo developed inlate sixties, gave it a name that
signifies
242) ____was founded in February 1982 by 'something Indian'. Name the brand
Rod Canion, Jim Harris and Bill Murto, three Swaraj
senior
managers from semiconductor 247) Which Indian organization has used
manufacturer Texas Instruments.This outsourcing to the highest level and has 570
company recently employees
merged with another company ,the all over the country handling business
merger was one of the most talked about worth Rs 54000 crores?
mergers after Xansa
AOL Time Warner in America..
Compaq 248) Which car has become the first car ever
to be conferred with the Five star diamond
243) The first edition of the _________ was award?
published in 1955, commissioned by the Merc Maybach
Guinness
brewery after a debate over the fastest 249) Which famous brand name is derived
species of gamebird could not be settled with from a combination of two words, that means'
existing dead' in
reference books. It was researched by French and 'one' in German?
Ross and Norris McWhirter, twins and noted Mortein ( Mort + Ein )
British
athletes and journalists, who at the time 250) Whats common with Gujarat Ambuja
ran a fact-finding agency in London. Cements,Bharti Televentures and Max
Healthcare??
The Guinness Book of Records Warburg Pincus , it has invested in all
the three companies.
251) Its Mexico ads were supposed to have

244) ______ was co-founded in Hollywood, read, "It won't leak in your pocket and
California, in 1923 by four brothers, Harry embarrass you."
(1881-195, The company thought that the word
Albert (1882-1967), Sam (1887-1927) "embarazar" (to impregnate) meant to
and Jack (1892-197.The first major star of this embarrass, so the
company was a dog, Rin Tin Tin. ad read: "It won't leak in your pocket and
Warner Bros make you pregnant!"
Parker Pen
245) Goodricke Group of companies head
office in South Calcutta is called " 252) Its "Come Alive With the [company
__________ house" name] Generation" translated into "[company
name]
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Brings Your Ancestors Back From the Products Ltd. is the world no. 1 in its field.
Grave" in Chinese. What field?
Pepsi Advertising. It's the core of the WPP
Group that owns O&M, JWT and other
253) It introduced a toothpaste in France companies.
called Cue, the name of a notorious porno
magazine. 260) What invention of the confectioner
Colgate-Palmolive George Smith was named after a famous
race horse of the
254) This auto major marketed this car in early 20th century ?
Central and South America by the name The Lollipop
meaning in
Spanish, "it doesn't go". 261) If you had bought stocks worth $15 in
GM for car Nova this company in 1964, it would be worth more
than
$5000 in 25 years. This company's
success is, more or less, based on a single
product.(Hint: The company's name
255) This Scandinavian vacuum manufacturer contains the product it sells)
used the following in an American campaign: Kentucky Fried Chicken
"Nothing sucks like an [company
name]." 262) "Any Airline which has been in service
Electrolux since 1365...." is the beginning of an
advertisement for
256) In takeover jargon, what is a Poison Pill which airline ?
? SaudiA
Liabilities or losses deliberately
assumed by a company, to make it a less 263) Tata - Fiat , connect (recent news)
attractive Tata Motors going to use the Palio
candidate for takeovers. engines for the Indica petrol versions.
257) What is the key difference between cars 264)Tommy Hilfiger is being considered by
for the American & Canadian markets? which Fortune 500 company for buy out
Dashboard in FPS system vs. MKS Wal-Mart is buying Tommy Hilfiger
system.
258) What is the similarity between Levi

Strauss and Fevicol?
Their logos are similar: horses pulling
apart jeans for Levi's, elephants pulling apart
a ball
for Fevicol. As mentioned above, the
respective product logos are derivatives of the
Magdeburg hemisphere experiment
General
259) A British company called Wire & Plastic
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1) Name two movies distributed by Ronie
Screwala's UTV? 10) can anyone list me the order of
Lagaan, Mission Kashmir, Sarfarosh, payment to the variety of stakeholders in a
Asoka, Hyderabad Blues, Phir Milenge company
,Swades etc. once it has been liquidated by a
trustee?
2) Who conceived the idea of ISB? Who i need the order, who gets paid first and
was the dean? The founder headed which who the last and the reasons listed
world alongside.
known company?
Rajat Gupta (McKinsey) ,S.Ghoshal(Dean) Logically the creditors should get it first...
unsecured creditors
3) Indian contender (very strong one, floating charge holders
really!!) for Papal election?? preferential creditors
Ivan Dias [Joseph Ratzinger from Germany debenture holders
is the new Pope]
then go the shareholders?
4) This sporting event, the first edition of preferential shareholders
which was played at the Warehouseman's equity shareholders
Cricket promoters.
Ground at Albert Park, is sponsored by
Kia Motors. Which is it? 11) Which Indian cricketer is the endorser
The Australian Open of the world's first state-of-the-art cell
phone with
5) Kishore Kumar has modeled for one harmless radiation? Also Name the
product, which one ? company.
Brylcream Sachin Tendulkar, G-Hanz mobile phones
6) On which TV channel now in India 12) what is the original name of "lalitaji"-
would you find a frog as the logo ? the surf fame "?
Kermit Kavita Chowdary
7) During Clinton and Bush presidency 13) The 'A' series refers to sizes of paper
fight, Clinton's party came up with a 4 like A3, A4 etc. What series describes the
letter slogan, envelopes or folders that will enclose
what was it? the A series ?
Its the economy stupid size C..
8) What is a Dutch Auction? 14) Which Indian city was the first to have
An auction method that uses a bidding lager number of cell phones than landline
process to find an optimal market price for the phones?(now. whole India has more
stock, the cell phones than landlines)
lowest price at which an issuing company Chandigarh
can sell all the available shares
15) Who wrote the book Liar's poker?
9) Who is Africa's richest man? Michael Lewis
Nicky Oppenheimer
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16) James Bond is supposed to be an Ranveer has been put on hold...It will be
employee of which company? Ajnabi now..(*ing bigb n dia)..others include
her majesty's secret service / Mi6!! Viruddh
and Family
17) Who are the sponsors of Zimbabwe n
South African cricket team? 26) Which word connected to stock
Bata(Zimbabwe) MTN-- South African exchange has its origin from Latin for
'money bag'
18) Which product was first certified by Bourse
ISI?
Indian National Flag 27) Who is voted as the most influential
person of ALL TIMES?
19) Which car in Spanish means Muhammad [Preacher of Islam]
'Charming'? Jesus Christ comes 2nd...
Matiz
28) Which was the first building in the
20) Which famous 'rehab center' had the world to have air cooling system & when?
text "Welcome home, welcome to xxxxx", The British Parliament in 1837
where
xxxxx is its name? 29) On August 4,1922 the entire telephone
well this rehab center is the prison, on system of US & Canada was switched off.
which is based the lovely movie The Rock What
, its name is Alcatraz was the reason?
Alexander Graham Bell died.
21) Which US prez was part of a
publication group? acn u name that? 30) What does "sheep" mean in Stock
Roosevelt Market?
The sheep in stock market is the one who
22) In Calcutta, Tata Indica have been follows the leader.
converted into AC taxis. What are they
called? 31) Cine personality to be appointed as the
Blue Arrow UNICEF icon for child health--
Angelina Jolie
32) What was marketed as Indian version

23) In management jargon, if you have of the blue pill- Viagra
heard of IQ and EQ, then what is SQ? Sheelajit
SQ - Spiritual Quotient
33) What is Built-operate-Transfer (BOT)?
24)Which company is the sponsor for all Its a model in which u build a firm, operate
cricket umpires?? it for some time n then sell it to a big shot
Emirates (http://www.icc- firm. example --- DAKSH sold to IBM
cricket.com/umpires-referees/)
34) What is Paris Club?
25) ABCL is coming back with which film? The Paris Club is an informal group of
official creditors whose role is to find co-
ordinated and
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sustainable solutions to the payment taught me"
difficulties experienced by debtor nations. Celina Dion
Paris Club
creditors agree to rescheduling debts due 43) 'grease' made john travolta a star. who
to them. Rescheduling is a means of was he paired against?
providing a Olivia Newton John
country with debt relief through a
postponement and, in the case of 44) before beauty crowns and movies lara
concessional rescheduling, dutta first faced camera in an obscured
a reduction in debt service obligations. video of
The first meeting with a debtor country was in an even more obscure song "tuu chalu
1956 hai re" who sung it?
when Argentina agreed to meet its public Devang Patel
creditors in Paris.
45) zizou or zinedine zidane is the son of
immigrants. from where did his parents
35) Who is the only Indian American US immigrate
congressman? to France?
Dalip Singh Daund Algeria
36) Youngest man in Union cabinet— 46) Name the new movie produced by
Anbumani Ramadoss ShahRukh Khan?
Paheli
37) What is dead-weight debt?
Debt without security 47) In B-school lingo, who are "poets"?
The poets are people without business or
38) BSE is located on Dalal Street. On quantitative backgrounds
what street is the London Stock Exchange
located?
Lombard Street
39) Which is the official beer of 48) The Mughal Emperor gave East Indian
Manchester United club? Company the privilege of 'dastak'. What
Budwieser does
'dastak' mean?
40) What is the term given to focusing the The ability to import and export good
camera on beautiful young ladies in without paying any taxes
between
sports events? 49) Where is Bay Street located?(Hint:
Virgins tour Similar to Wall street)
Toronto, Canada
41) specifically, which international cricket
team was referred to as "white ferns" 50) If something is accredited with AMBA ,
New Zealand women's cricket team what would be that ?
AMBA is an international organization that
42) whose biography is "songs my mama accredits mostly international elite business
schools
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and MBAs, similar to the AACSB in the 58) In which Sherlock Holmes' story does
US. EQUIS is the European counterpart for the detective let go the criminal and says
the same . to Dr
Watson "...it is the season of
51) Which product get its name from its forgiveness."[the case began "upon the
contents phenol-synthetic ?(Hint: second morning
Toiletries) After Christmas"]?
Cinthol--Cinthol is made up of synthetic The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
phenol hence the name Cinthol that
makes it 59) Whose birthday is celebrated
Vegetarian, and hence to make it throughout the world on 25th January?
distinguishable this name was adapted. Robert Burns
and so much so that it has become a
super brand..
52) Every body knows last supper but do 60) On what road did Nellie the Elephant
you know what is "first supper"? meet the Head of the Herd?
First Supper - it is the first dinner paid by Mandalay
Macnamra with Diners Club Card of Diners
Club 61) Which Instrument does the Leader of
International. an Orchestra play?
Violin
53) who has come on the playboy
magazine cover the max n how many 62) Bewick and Whooper are types of what
times? bird?
Pamela Anderson , with 11 covers to her Swan
name
63) To which flower family does garlic
54) Who invented the small alkaline belong?
battery? The Allium family
Lew Urry [in 1949]
55) Who coined the term 'battery'?

Benjamin Franklin [in1748 ] first coined
the term "battery" to describe an array of
charged glass
plates.
56) Which is the most common space

battery?
Nickel-Cadmium
57) Which Godman of Indian origin was famous

for his collection of Rolls-Royce
cars?
Osho.(Rajnish).
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General Quiz: Naresh Goyal of Jet Airways
1. What was founded by Herb Kelleher in 10. What were bulit under the project 178 ?
1973 in Dallas, Texas, USA? FIAT cars Siena, Siena Weekend and Palio
South West Airlines
11. This famous business personality earn
2. The former chairman of Proctor & Gamble, money by repairing toy trains when he was at
Edwin L.Artzt got a nickname for his 13. His father escaped from the British Police
demanding and harsh treatment of his in 1920 and landed in USA with $20 in his
subordinates. How he nick-named? pocket and later married an American school
Wrecking Ball teacher and settled in Philadelphia. His
corporate headquarters is known as "The
3.Shasi Chimala sold his IT startup Indigo Mountain". Identify him.
Technologies to Chennai based SSi Dr.Amar Bose
technologies before eyeing into his new
venture which is totally unrelated to his 12. Which famous corporate was founded in
previous field. Name it? 1894 in Zlin and made its presence in India in
Qwikys Coffee 1931 and commenced the manufacturing of
shoes at Batanagar plant in 1936?
4. Who endorsed the shaving product BATA
'Erasmic', a brand owned by Hindustan Lever
Limited, in 1970s? 13. Name the world's largest fully integrated
Tony Creig Live Entertainment company?
SFX (Spectacular Fun eXcitemen)
5. In business context what is claimed to the
fame of Ahus, a town in Sweden? 14. What is the name of Belgium's National
Manufacturing base of Absolut Vodka Airlines?
SABENA - Societe anonyme Belge
6. Which NRI businessman owns the Caparo dExploitation de la Navigation Aeriene
Group?
Lord Swaraj Paul
7. Cannaught Plaza Restaurants and 15. What is the commercial Tradename of

Hardcastle Restaurants have had the Monosodium Glutamate?
responsibility for the entry of Which MNC to Ajinomotto
India ?
McDonalds 16. Name the company founded by Acharya
P.C. Ray and Rajshekar basu in the early
8. N.Thanu got a double first class in BA from 1920's?
Loyola College, Madras. He worked as an Bengal Chemicals
illustrator in Ananda Vikatan and later with
The Indian Express and Swarajya. Which 17. Hindustan Motors' Ambassador adopted
famous organisation was founded by him? its model from Which British car model?
Brilliant Tutorials Morris Oxford
9. Which indian industrialist owned Tail Winds 18. From the following lines identify the
limited? Corporate. "Since 1935, We have given
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millions of apples to countless daily visitors to 7. If you buy health drink brands you would
the agency worldwide" have noticed the words RDA Balanced
Leo Burnett Formula on it. What does it mean?
Recommended Dietary Allowance
19. With which brand of healthcare house
would Dr.Mukesh Batra associated? 8. Expand SKG in the production house
Positive Health Foundation - First Dreamworks SKG?
Corporate Homeopathic Clinic in India and Spielberg, Katzenberg and Geffen
the First ISO 9002 certified homeopathic clinic
worldwide 9. The famous luxury goods maker IKEA was
founded in 1943 by Ingvar Kamprad. What
20. Initially it was started as 'Brahmanara does IKEA mean?
Coffee Club' in 1924 and changed the name I and K from the initials of the founder, E
in 1951 to the present one. In 1976, during and A stands for Elmtaryd and Agunnaryd,
emergency, it started instant foods business the farmhouse and the village
due to the price controls imposed by the respectively, where I K grew up
Indira Gandhi Government. Identify this
successful desi company/brand? 10. In computer terminology what does the
MTR - Mavalli Tiffin Rooms acronym VERONICA stand for?
Very Easy Rodent Oriented Netwide Index
Abbreviations: for Computer Archives
1. How do we better know the Fabbrica
Italiana Automobili Torino? 11. DHL-Dalsey, Hillblom and Lynn
FIAT
2. What does SIM stand for in cellular
telephone industry? Stock Market:
Subscriber Identity Module 1.Name the index which used to detect the
Bullish or Bearish trend in stock market?
3. One of the most successful small cars on Advance-Decline Index. Ratio of the
Indian road is ZEN from Maruti. What does it number of shares which increase
mean? pricewise to those decreased pricewise
Zero Engine Noise
2. What are the certificates issued by the US
4. CIPLA was set up by Khwaja Abdul depository bank representing the shares of a
Hamied in 1935 in India. Expand CIPLA foriegn company?
The Chemical Industrial and American Depository Receipts
Pharmaceutical Laboratories
3. What was formed under the Banyan tree at
5. What is CALS, an initiative framework for Hormiman Circle?
e-commerce developed by US Department of Bombay Stock Exchange
Defence? 4. What does Chalu Upla mean in stock
Continuous Acquisition Life-cycle Support trading?
An unofficial deal, i.e a deal not made on
6. What does the abbreviation FFP stand for the floor of exchange
as in airlines jargon?
Frequent Flyer Programme
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5. How is the interest paid by the buyers on Centurion Bank
the borrowed fund in carry forward transaction
called? 3. Name the term used for depreciating a
Contango company's intangible assets?
Amortization
6. Name the Stock Market Regulator in United
kingdom? 4. This term is derived from the Greek word
Financial Services Authority 'Oikanomia' means "House Management".
What is it?
7. Name the first Public Sector share quoted Economy
on the Bombay Stock Exchange?
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited 5. What is known as the cost of living index
which represents the goods and services
8. Name the First women President of a Stock purchased by consumers?
Exchange in India? CPI - Consumer Price Index
Omana Abraham of Cochin Stock
Exchange 6. How ABN-AMRO bank got it's present
name?
9. What is DJIA in world stock market ABN-Algemene Bank Nederland. AMRO-
trading? formed after the merger of
Dow Jones Industrial Average, an average Amsterdamsche Bank and Rotterdamsche
of 30 blue chip stocks Bank. Created after the merger of ABN
& AMRO in 1991
10. Which is the first foreign company listed
on NYSE? 7. What is known as "Greenshoe Option" or
SONY "Overallotment"?
11. NASDAQ- National Association of A typical underwriting agreement allows
Securities Dealers Automated Quotations the underwriters to buy upto an additional
12. SEBI chairman- C.B. Bhave 15% of shares at the offering price.The
13. NSE- 1992-Listed: 1587--Mr.RAVI term originated from the Green Shoe
NARAIN Managing Director company which first having this option.
14. BSE -1875-Listed: 4909
15. Total Stock exchanges in India- 23 8. Name the first Indian woman CEO of a
16. World Bank/International Bank for Foreign Bank?
Reconstruction and Development- President: Tarini Vaidya of KBC Bank India &
Robert B. Zoellick/27-12-1947/186 South Asia
countries.
9. Royal & Sun Alliance recently re-
Finance and Economics: entered, after 29 years, to Indian financial
1. In the world of trade and commerce what is market and it is the first foreign insurance
special about the commissioning of Monte dei company started operations here through a
Paschi si Siena in Italy in 1742? joint venture with an Indian company. Name
First Trading Bank in the world the company?
Sundaram Finance
2. Which bank is promoted by 20th Century
Finance Corporation and Keppel Tatlee Bank 10. He is the pioneer in mutual fund industry
of Singapore in India? and often referred as the Father of Index
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Fund investing. He created the first S&P 20. Name the person who introduced the
500 Index fund. Identify this famous person? 'Double Entry' book keeping concept?
John Bogle Lucas Pacioli
21. Name India's largest Mutual Fund scheme

11. In Indian economic scenario what which recently had a troublesome run and
significant reform was introduced by the make the investors unhappy?
Indian Government on April 1, 1957? US 64 from UTI
Decimal Coinage System was introduced
22. Name this famous personality who
12. Who founded the famous Wall Street founded Pratichi Trust with the use of his
Journal? Nobel Prize money?
Charles Dow and Edward Jones Amartya Sen
13. Name the first private sector corporate 23. Who is the first woman became the
launched the gold fund in India? President of Madras Chamber of Commerce?
Dundee Mutual Fund Mallika Srinivasan
14. Which financial services giant is referred 24. What is known as the purchase of
as the "Thundering Herd"? insurance against losses because of currency
Merrill Lynch fluctuations?
Hedging
15. What is an unusual service offered by
Bank of Baroda at Tirupati?
Only bank in India to sell Prasad 25. If you are going for a 'Forward Contract'
what will you do?
16 What term became popular after the Sell or Purchase a specified amount of a
newspaper report of Watergate Scandal in foreign currency at a fixed rate of
the year 1973 exchange for delivery or settlement on a
Money Laundering specific time limit
17. How does the transaction termed when a 26. Which successful investor is popularly
company borrow money to lend it at a profit, known as "The Oracle of Omaha"? And his
taking advantage of a short term rise in famous quote is "Rule No.1: Never loss
interest rate? money, Rule No.2: Never
Round Tripping forget the Rule No.1"
Warren Buffet
18 What is the exchange rate of one currency
for another over a fixed period of time called? 27. Which is India's first Equipment Bank
Swap or Currency Swap launched recently by SREI International
Finance Ltd.?
19. In which country's coins you can found Quipo
the following lines imprinted, 'This is the root
of all evils' ? 28. Currency trivia. In India where is the
Vatican City Paper for the currency manufactured?
Security paper Mill at Hoshangabad,
Madya Pradesh
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LIBOR, London Interbank Offered Rate
29. What do you call when a firm's actual
bank balance is greater than the balance 39. What is known as the working balance in
shown in the firm's book? foreign currency maintained by a bank in
Payment Float Country X with its correspondent bank in
Country Y to facilitate delivery or receipt of
30. What is ANCOM? currencies?
Andean Common Market covering Bolivia, Nostro Account
Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and
Venezuela 40. Who created SDR, Special Drawing
Rights, in 1967 which deals with the
31. Which word was derived from the French reserve of international assets whose value is
word Bougette meaning 'Little Bag' based on the widely used currencies?
Budget International Monetary Fund
32. What is known as the 'Slash Fund'? 41. Who is known as the Father of modern
Money spent for payment towards the Economics?
influential persons for the benefit of Adam Smith
organizations
42. Which country's foreign market is known
33. What does 'Asset Tripping' mean? as 'Rembrandt Market'?
Buying a company to sell its assets The Netherlands
34. Which is the only country having paper 43. Where is the European Central Bank
currency and have no coins and it introduced located?
cheque only in 1997? Frankfurt
Vietnam
44. In 1921 the three Presidency Banks in
35. This agreement was introduced in 1946 India named Bank of Bengal, Bank of
that each government pledged to Bombay and Bank of Madras were
maintain a fixed exchange rate for its amalgamated to form which other Bank?
currency. This arrangement supposed to Imperial Bank of India
reduce the risk involved in international trade
and transactions. Name the agreement? 45. Which is India's first Credit Rating Agency
Bretton Woods Agreement set up jointly by LIC, GIC, UTI, ICICI and
Asian Development Bank in January 1988?
36. In financial lingo what is a 'Bridge Loan"? Credit Rating Information Services of India
Temporary finance provided until the Limited, CRISIL
availability of long-term arrangements
46. In money market, what is the term used
37. What is a 'Credit Crunch'? for the non-convertible paper money?
Supply of credit falls, though there is Fiat Money
sufficient demand
47. What are the Bonds that carry low ratings
38. What is the rate of interest at which short- with correspondingly higher yields called?
term funds are exchanged between banks in Junk Bonds
London called?
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48. Which country's currency is known as
Drachma, which in Greek means 'to grasp'?
Greece
49. If you file the 'chapter number 11' in USA in the

name of your company what would you
do?
Filing Bankruptcy
50. CAMEL is an effective system of rating by

the banks. The model insists five
main criteria and based on these the financial
health is evaluated on a
scale of highest to lowest, 1 to 5. In that A
means 'asset quality', M
means 'management' and L for 'liability', then
what are C and E refer?
Capital adequacy and Earning
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