GK Questions

1)Absolut vodka is bought in a mega deal by a french company?Name the company

Pernod Ricard

2.Microsoft came up with the collaboration of a company to Buy out Yahoo!.Name

the company?

Rupert Murdoch's Newscorp

3.Which company owns Reuters now?

Thomson Corp.

4.An indian IT company provides software Solutions to FIFA.Name the Company?

Satyam Computers

5.Yum Group consist of three food chain.Name them?

Pizza Hut, KFC & Tacho Bell

6.Recently a company has attached a tag line "FEEL IT".Name the car?

Hyundai Verna

7.Which coumtry is largest natural gas producer?

Russia

8.Which country is lagest Sugarcane producing country?

Brazil

9.Which Indian company invest maximum on R&D?

10.Prasoon joshi a renowned name in the field of advertisement?Name the
company for which he works?

McCann Erickson

11.There is a sharp decline in the STAR TV Viewership because it has not given
Innovation.A master mind behind Star TV Who is behind "KAUN BANEGA
CROREPAT","Kyonki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi" and so on Name the person?

Samir Nair now heading NDTV Imagine

1. which company has launched "Penryn" chips?

INTEL
2. which IT company has introduced its social networking site called "Mash"?

YAHOO

3. which of these has introduced its personalised e-mail service in india ?

MICROSOFT

4. which japanese company has introduced Robina, the 1.2 metre tall humanoid
robot?

TOYOTA MOTOR CORP (TMC)

5. what is the new name of TV18 Group?

NETWORK 18
6. which Richard Branson company plans to launch tourists into space?

VIRGIN GALACTIC
7. who is the CEO and Managing Director of ICICI Venture Funds?

Renuka Ramnath
8. which PC peripheral was introduced by Douglas Ingelbart?

Computer Mouse
9. which company owns the Bravia brand of LCD TVs?

SONY
10. who is Zahi Hawass?
Current Sectrary General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Anitquities

11. Chandragiri is a new variety of which cash crop?

Coffee
12. which institution publishes the World Investement Report every year?

UNCTAD - United Nations Council of Trade and Development

1. M&M has enetered into a 50:50 Joint venture with which South African supply
chain company? Capespan

2. Who owns Reliance gas transportation and infrastructure?

Mukesh Ambani Group

3. Who is the governor of RBI?

Dr. Y V Reddy

4. Who is the chairman of Lowe India?

R Balakrishnan

5. Who is the CEO of Nokia, India?

D.Shivakumar

6. What is the full form of LIBOR?

London InterBank Offered Rate

7. Where has Bharti retail a fully owned subsidiary of Bharti enterprises launched its
first food and grocery store?

Ludhiana
8. What is the name given to Bharti Retail's food and grocery store chain?

Easy Day

9. Bharti retail has its joint venture with which company for its cash and carry
operations?

Walmart

10. Which group owns hypercity malls?

K Raheja group

1. Who is the CMD of Vishal Retail?

R.C. Aggarwal.

2. Reliance industries is in talks with which homeopathic clinic chain for a shop in its
hyper market chain?

Dr. Batra's

3. Name the India who was the first Asian to be appointed as the chief economist of
IMF?

Raghuram Rajan

4. What is the tagline of BSNL?

Connecting India

5. Name the person who can be the new Vice chairman of WIPRO?

Suresh Vaswani

6. RIL has set its sight on acquiring a mjority stake in the oil refinery of South
Arabia. Name it?

Jizan Oil Refinery

7. Who is the Petroleum Minister?

Murli Deora

8. Who is the MD of CISCO ventures?

Joydeep Bose

9.Who owns United Spirits ltd[vodka making company]?

Vijay Mallya

10. Who is the chairman of KPMG international?

Tim Flynn

1. Silvio Berlusconi has recently won a third term as the Prime Minister of?

Italy

2. The joint CEOs of Wipro’s IT business have been announced as Suresh

Vaswani and ________ Girish Paranjpe

3. Which firm has tied up with ICC to be the latter’s title sponsor for its
rankings?

Reliance Communication

4. Fresenius Kabi has acquired 73 percent stake in which pharmaceutical

firm?

Dabur

5. Maitree Express would be traversing between

India and Bangladesh.

6. With which sports would one associate Yuki Bhambri?

Tennis

7. ‘Bringing Smiles’ is the punch line of

PVR cinemas
8. Who clocked the fastest 100 in Twenty20 history recently?

Gilchrist

9. Which private Indian bank recently raised its minimum account balance in
the savings account to Rs 10,000?

ICICI

10. Who won the US Masters Golf Tournament 2008?

Trevor Immelman

1.Which automobile giant's German Web site was recently blacklisted by

Google for violating the search engine's guidelines?

BMW

2.He tried a variety of jobs before settling on being a milkshake-mixer

salesman.

Ray Kroc of McDonald’s

3.n 1974, he took a job with Atari.founder of a huge company we all know

and no clues cos its dam easy

Steve Jobs

4.At 27, he borrowed US$ 20,000 from his father-in-law and bought his first
store in Newport, Arkansas.i dont want the person's name..give me the store
name?
wal-mart

5.What did Meg Hourihan and Evan Williams found that has now been taken
over by Google?

Pyra Labs, creator of Blogger

6.How many countries are members of IMF?

184

7.What is the anthem of the European Union

Beethoven's "ode to joy"

8.What is the title of Marilyn Monroe’s last film

The Misfits

9.In which city will the Winter Olympic Games of 2010 be held

Vancouver in Canada

10.Which country topped the final medals tally at the Winter Olympic Games
conducted in Turin, 2006?

Germany

1.recently this person was inducted into the board of goldman sacchs as an
independent member.who is this person?

L N Mittal

2.Recently this French luxury fashion brand sued e-bay for selling fake goods
under this co's brand name.name the fashion brand.
LVMH

3.US has framed that this famous pharma company has sold adulterated
drugs.name this pharma co?

Ranbaxy

4.This IIM-A alumni in April 2008, he was given additional responsibility for
the global Home & Personal Care (HPC) business.name the person and the
company?

Malvinder Banga of HUL

5.name the g8 summit nations

Canada, USA, Japan, Australia, Russia, UK, Italy, Germany

1: Name Miss Universe 2008 and the country she belongs.

Dayana Mendoza – Venenzuela

2: Who invented iPod ?

Jonathan Ive

3: As per the latest data provided by Transparency International, India ranks

_____on Corruption Index ?

5th

4: Who was named as the Best Player of Euro 2008 by UEFA recently?

Xavi Hernandes - Barca and Spain

5: Who won in the finals of Champions Trophy (Men’s) hockey tournament

held recently?
Australia
6: Who is the President of OPEC?
Salem Badri

7: As per the World Values Survey conducted by the US Government, which

is the happiest nation in the world?

Switzerland

1)Name the company which successfully acquired Anheuser-Busch in a $52

billion bid?
InBev

2)Which company is India's largest manufacturer of ayurvedic remedies?

Dabur India Ltd.

3)What was the first western consumer product to be sold in erstwhile USSR?

4)‘Forester’- A sports utility vehicle is associated with which among the

following companies?
Chevrolet

5)name the 100 m men's record holder(s) and the time

Usain Bolt – 9.69 seconds

1.'I Build, I Bond' is the tag line of ...?

ibibo.com

2.Mark Barraud's 1898 painting with Nipper as the model is famous by which
title?

It is the logo of HMV (His Master's Voice)

3.What's common to Milky Way, Starburst, Dolmio, Uncle Ben's, and

Whiskas?

All are the brands of Mars chocolate

4.What has been recently re-launched with the tagline 'Absolutely

Mangolicious'?

Slice (cold drink)

5.Stephen Marks is the Chairman and CEO of a company whose brand name
and advertising has created lot of controversy. Which one?

He is the Chairman & CEO of the company which owns FCUK (french
connection united kingdom) brand.

1.What famous brand of cosmetics founded by Oskar Troplowitz in 1911

derives its name from the Latin word meaning `snow white'?
Nivea

2.Which Indian e-commerce site advertises with the line `More secure than
Amazon.com'?
fabmart.com

3.With which management consultancy would you associate the 7-S strategy
framework consisting of Structure, Strategy, Systems, Shared Values, Skills,
Style and Staff? (Sitter I guess)
McKinsey

4.Which famous US magazine, started in the late 1910s, refused to carry

advertisements in its US edition till 1955 when it changed this policy?
.Reader's Digest

5.With which famous company would you associate its founder and CEO
Charles Wang, an American of Chinese origin and its President Sanjay
Kumar, an American of Indian origin?

Computer Associates

1.‘Banking with Passion’ is the line used by this bank to promote itself.
We are talking about…? -Bank of Baroda

2. Which Hurricane recently swept across southern US and Mexico?

Dolly

3.What is the name of the search engine launched by former star Google
Engineers? - cuil

4.Who won the Nagashima Shigeo Invitational Sega Sammy Golf Cup?

Jeev milkha singh(india)

5. Pascal Lamy is the Chief of? - WTO

6.Where is the 15th SAARC Summit slated to be held this year?

Colombo(sri lanka)

7. Which country is in the process of setting up the world’s largest Special

Economic Zone (SEZ)?
Saudi Arabia

8. To strengthen their foothold several Pharma companies are forging

alliances with generics manufacturers. Which of the following has entered
 into an alliance with South African firm Aspen Pharma? - Lupin

9. Who won the Toronto Masters tournament 2008 (Men’s Singles)?

Rafael Nadal

10. LIC has recently announced that it will not partner with __________
for its proposed credit cards business. - GE Money

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1)which auto major(MNC) recently filed a case on an mahindra and mahindra

for having copied its design in making one of its cars?
Chrysler

2)Reliance Retail has recently tied up with the toy retailer to set up a
nationwide network of exclusive toy stores.name the group
Hamleys

3)Name ITC's rural initiative(sitter )

E-Choupal

4)who provided the voice of a Rosso Corsa Ferrari F430 in Disney-Pixar's

animated feature film Cars?
Michael Schumacher

5)iflex won a deal for $90 million from a multinational bank.name the bank

National Australia Bank

1.Recently the Indian government has approved the merger of which

bank with the SBI? (anyone reading newspaper l answer this )

State Bank of Saurastra

2. The American Hatch-Waxman Act, 1984 is in news as more and more
pharma biggies are finding ways of flouting its main purpose. What is the
Act about?

Improving access to affordable copycat drugs in the US

3. For what reason was the Tarabarov Island in recent international news
for?

The new capital of Toga

4. Tata Sky has tied up with which matrimonial website?

BharatMatrimony.com

5. Who is slated to be the next United Nations Human Rights

Commissioner?

BharatMatrimony.com

6. Who is the MD of Tata Power Company?

BharatMatrimony.com

7. Who won 2008’s Tour de France?

Carlos Sastre

8. Which 2 telecom companies are launching Apple's iPhone in India on

22-Aug ?

Vodafone and Airtel

9. What is ADAG's(anil dhirubhai ambani group) DTH service venture

called ?

Big Tv
10. Recently which retail giant clocked sales worth 105 crore in a day ?

Future Group owned by Kishore Biyani

1.Who authored 'My Country, My Life' (sitter)

L K Advani
2. Bill Watterson created which famous comic strip ? (expecting everyone

to answer ) Calvin and Hobbes

3. An Indian software firm has been in news for breaching American

copyright laws for something called 'Scrabulous'. What is it ?

RJ Software that created Scrabulous

4. While production I was given Z-Grade security. What am I ? (this thing

is produced/ is under production) Is it TATA Nano??
TATA Nano

5. Who is the official Time keeper of Formula-1 ?

Siemens

6. Who won Miss Universe 2008 ?

Dayana Mendoza

7. Magic Moments Vodka is a brand of _____ ?

Radico Khaitan

8. Who is the chairman of Nation Knowledge Commission ?

Sam Pitroda

9. Who is the author of 'The World As I See It' ?

Albert Einstein

10. Who was regarded as 'Zinda pir' ? (in Indian History) Aurangzeb

Aurangazeb

1. Food-World, Giant, Health 8′ Glow and Music World are all retail outlets
of …
RPG

2.Sarthak Behuria is the chairman-cum-managing director of…

IOCL

3.Aapka Fayda’ is the punch line that you would associate with….
ZEE BUSINESS