GRG SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES

URJITH 2011
CHANDRAKANTHI MEMORIAL YOUNG BUSINESS LEADER AWARD

BUSINESS QUIZ
7 January 2011

How much is the approximate annual production of milk in the organised sector in India?

90 million tonnes

Name the company.

Accenture

According to a recent survey of Indias Super Rich by Business World magazine, who is ranked 1? And, how much is the worth? Tata Family Trust Rs. 1,84,204 crores

Name the South African company that Bharti AirTel acquired recently.

Zain Africa BV

Which company is the owner of the Hercules and BSA brands of bicycles in India?

TI Cycles of India (Murugappa Group)

Some digital cameras are categorised as SLR camera. What does SLR stand for?

Single Lens Reflex

When was the first Internet service started in India and by whom?

1st January 1995 by Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited (VSNL)

Who is the CEO (Managing Director) of Nokia India?

D. Shivakumar

Name the company associated with this logo. When was the logo launched?
Air India 1948 (Sagittarius)

What is Indias Forex reserves as at the end of July 2010? Of this, how much is Gold?

US$ 283bn US$ 19bn

The small town of Jaitapur has been in the news recently for a controversy relating to what?

Worlds largest nuclear power plant, costing about US$ 22.7bn (Rs. 1,01,582Cr) to be supplied by France

Who is the Indian JV partner of the US Confectionery giant, Hersheys?

Godrej

Identify this person.

Shikha Sharma, CEO and MD of Axis Bank

Who is the brand ambassador for Kent Mineral RO Water Purifier?

Hema Malini

How many outlets (stores) does Wal-Mart have in India? Who is the Indian partner?

Only 3 (all in Punjab) Bharti Enterprises

Name the founder and chief editor of Malayala Manorama who passed away recently at the age of 93.

K.M. Mathew

Name the company that manufactures Bailley, the packaged drinking water. Who is its CEO?

Parle Agro Nadia Chauhan, Jt. MD

Which is the Most Valuable Indian brand and how much?

Tata US$ 11.2bn

How many countries have issued postage stamps on Mahatma Gandhi?

150

Who is known as the Sultan of Sound and what is his companys name?

Amar Bose of Bose Corporation

Who is Indian acknowledged as the father of the Pentium Chip?

Vinod Dham

How many Indian students have won the prestigious Spell Bee contest conducted every year in the USA since 1999?

Eight out of 12

Name the three Indian Prime Ministers whose statues have been installed at the famous Madame Tussauds in London.
Indira Gandhi, Narasimha Rao, and Rajiv Gandhi

Name the title and the author of the original book on which the Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire was based.

Q&A by Vikas Swarup

What is the original Indian word for Ginger?

The Tamil words Inji and Ver

Name the author of the book It Happened in India

Kishore Biyani and Dipayan Baishya of Future Group

According to Forbes, whose home will be the worlds costliest and the only billion-dollar home globally to be owned by an individual?

Mukesh Ambani, in Mumbai

Name at least 3 Indians who are Heads of prestigious b-schools in the USA.
Dipak Jain of Kellogg, Nitin Nohria of Harvard, and Sunil Kumar of UChicago

Name the bank that has been selected the Best Bank of 2010 by Business India. Who is its CEO?

Bank of Baroda M.D. Mallya

He invented the Digital Diary in 1975, and has recently invented the Mobile Wallet. Name him.

Sam Pitroda

Name the company that manufactures Fevicol, M-Seal, and Dr. Fixit brands of products.

Pidilite Industries

Which city is the venue for the next Commonwealth Games in 2014?

Glasgow, Scotland

What is the full name of this company?

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu

What is ChotuKool?

A refrigerator manufactured by Godrej that uses only a cooling chip and a small fan

What is the approximate total number of employees at the top 5 IT companies in India (TCS, Infosys, Wipro, CTS, HCL)? 5,12,000

Last year, the famous pen maker, Mont Blanc sold a special edition pen dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi. How much was the price?

$ 25,000 (` 11,50,000)

Name the top 3 mutual funds in India according to their average Asset Under Management (AUM) value.
Reliance (1,02,179 crores), HDFC (84,628 crores), ICICI Prudential (68,715 crores)

Name the company that owns such brands as Lipton, Dove, and Ponds.

Unilever Plc, UK

Identify these two brands / logos

Maruti / Hindustan Motors

Which is the largest selling soap in India? How many consumers?

Lifebuoy over 600mn consumers over 100 years old

According to the World Banks Global Competitiveness Index, what is Indias rank among the 133 countries surveyed in 200910?

49. Switzerland is rank no. 1

What is the approximate market share of Intel in the world semiconductor business?

14% (US$ 32bn)

Name the Union Minister of State for Industry and Commerce

Jyotiraditya Scindia

Name the Chairman and CEO of PepsiCos India Region.

Sanjeev Chadha

What business is the company engaged in? It is a division of which company?

Express Distribution Specialist Transport Corporation of India

Sorry Michelangelo, it took us 500 years to add that finishing touch. Which companys ad-line is this?

Micromax Mobile

Which is Indias first and only listed MFI (Micro Finance Institution)?

SKS Microfinance

According to the latest Business World report, which are the top 5 companies in India (based on total assets)

Reliance Industries; Indian Oil Corporation; ONGC; Tata Steel; BPCL

Who is the President of NASSCOM?

Som Mittal

Of which organisation was Ms. Deena Mehta the first woman President?

Bombay Stock Exchange in 2001

Who is/was the youngest elected President of USA to assume office?

John F Kennedy (43 years)

According to a study by CII, what is the % of family businesses that survive till the 3rd generation? What % beyond the 3rd generation?

13% and 4%

In telecom jargon, what does ARPU stand for?

Average Revenue Per User AirTel 230; Vodafone 210; Tata 125

Who is the new Chief Minister of Maharashtra?

Prithviraj Chavan, MoS in PMO

Who is the highest paid CEO in India?

Naveen Jindal 70Cr

Who is the first person without an aviation background to be awarded the honorary rank of Group Captain by the Indian Air force?

Sachin Tendulkar

Name the top 5 Most Valuable Indian companies in 2010, according to the latest Business Today survey.

RIL, Infosys, TCS, Bharti AirTel, ITC

Name the Chairman of Ashok Leyland

Dheeraj Hinduja

This is a global leader in networking solutions. Where is its name derived from?

San Francisco

Vinita Bali is among the most powerful CEOs in India. Of which company is she the MD?

Britannia Industries

What is the approximate number of users of popular email services Hotmail, Yahoo and Gmail?

Hotmail 363mn; Yahoo 273mn; Gmail 193mn

In which city/country was the most recent G20 Summit held?

Seoul, South Korea

Identify this famous personality

Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata (founder of the Tata Group)

In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words people, product, and profits said who? Lee Iacocca, former Chairman of Chrysler

Who is the current President of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)?

Hari S Bhartia, CoChairman and MD of Jubilant Organosys

Who is the current Governor of the Reserve Bank of India?

Duvvuri Subbarao

India Economic Summit is reported to be the most powerful platform of businessmen in the world. Who is the organiser of this event?

World Economic Forum

According to Transparency Internationals Corruption Index (2009), what is the score of India (on a scale of 1 to 10 1 being most corrupt and 10 being least)?

3.3 ranked 87 among 178 countries

Name the new Chairman and Director on the Board of SpiceJet.

Kalanidhi Maran

Which company is the worlds largest in terms of sales and how much?

Wal-Mart Stores US$ 400bn

Name the author of the best selling book We Are Like That

Only: Understanding the Logic of Consumer India

Rama Bijapurkar

Identify the company / brand

KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken)

What is special about these 5 brands?

They are the five most valuable global brands (US$ 280bn)

Which are the two items most sought after by kids (under the age of 15 years) in India, as per the latest report in Business Today?
Mobile Phones and Laptops (over 50% - 26/24 for girls and 24/29 for boys)

Identify the brand / product of this advertisement

Kohler Bath Fittings

The Economic Reforms in India began in 1991. When did Finance Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh present the path breaking budget in 1991 (date)?

24th July 1991

When was the first BPO set up in India and by whom?

1994 in Gurgaon by American Express, soon to be followed by GE (Genpact, now)

Who were the first official users of mobile phones in India and when?

West Bengal CM Jyoti Basu and Communications Minister Sukh Ram on 31st July 1995

When was the first fullyindigenous Indian car launched and by whom?

1998 by Tata Motors (Indica)

Which company was the first in India to receive the Deming Prize for Total Quality Management? When?
Sundaram Clayton in 1998 the second Asian company outside Japan

When did the National Stock Exchange (NSE) launch its operations?

1994

This is the picture of the worlds first motor cycle. In which year was it produced and by whom?
1885 by Maybach and Daimler

What is the name of the scheme of issuing unique identity card to every citizen? When and where was the first UID card issued?
Aadhaar; September 2010 in Nadurbar District of Maharashtra

Name all the World Leaders who visited India from July to December 2010.
David Cameron of UK (July 2829); Barack Obama of USA (Nov 6-9); Nicolas Sarkozy of France (Dec 4-7); Wen Jiabao of China (Dec 15-17); Dmitry Medvedev of Russia (Dec 2022)

What does the word Tweetup mean?

A meeting between people on Twitter

According to Business Today, which is the Best Bank in 2010? Who is the MD?

Axis Bank Shika Sharma

He was the first Asian recipient of the Nobel Prize for literature. His 150th birth anniversary was recently celebrated. Name him.

Rabindranath Tagore

He is the CEO of Tata Motors. Name him.

Carl-Peter Forster

Name the brand ambassador of Nissan Micra.

Actor Ranbir Kapoor