BUSINESS QUIZ; Part 1

1. What is the name of Head Quarters of Tata Group?

   Answer:  Bombay House

2. India's first steel mill was built by Tata. In which year was it completed?

   Answer:  1911

3. About 66% of the Tata capital is allocated by Tata Sons for which purpose?

   Answer:  Philanthropic trusts

4. What was the first Indian luxury hotel established by the Tata Group?

   Answer:  Taj Mahal Hotel

5. The Tata group consists of how many companies?

   Answer:  114 companies

6. When was the ministry of divestment formed in India?

   Answer:  1999

7. Which was the first successful divestment of a PSU carried out by the NDA?

   Answer:  Lagan Jute Machinery Company Ltd

8. Who were the final three bidders for Balco when it was being privatized? (Bharat Aluminum Corporation ltd)

   Answer:  Sterlite, Hindalco, Alcoa

9. Who was the first minister for divestment under NDA government?

   Answer:  Arun Jaitley

10. Under which Indian prime minister were guidelines for the divestment process first laid down?

    Answer:  Chandra Shekhar

11. Who are the Bretton Woods Sisters?

    Answer:  World Bank and IMF

12. Who is the President of World Bank?

    Answer:   Jim Yong Kim

13. Who is the Managing Director of IMF?

    Answer:  Christine Lagarde

14. Who is WTO Director-General?

    Answer:  Pascal Lamy

15. When did the World Bank come into being?

    Answer:  July 1944

16. What was Former Name of World Bank?

    Answer:  International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)

17. Who was the first president of the World Bank?

    Answer:  Eugene Meyer (18 June, 1946)

18. Which Asian nation was the first to get a World Bank loan?

    Answer:  India on August 18, 1949 for Railway Reconstruction and Development.

19. When did India sign the World Bank Articles of Agreement?

    Answer:  1945

20. Which organization instituted the Nobel Prize for Economics?

    Answer:  Sveriges Riksbank (Bank of Sweden)

21. Who is the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize for Economics?

    Answer:  Amartya Sen. (for his studies in Welfare Economics)

22. How many women have won the Nobel Prize for Economics since 1969?

    Answer:  None

23. Who is the oldest recipient of the Nobel Prize for Economics?

    Answer:  William Vickrey

24. How many times have three people shared the Nobel Prize for Economics?

    Answer:  Three Times

25. Who was the first governor of the Reserve Bank of India?

    Answer:  Sir Osborne Smith (April 1st, 1935)

26. Who has been the longest-serving RBI governor?

    Answer:  Sir Bengal Rama Raju

27. Who had the shortest term as RBI governor?

    Answer:  A.Ghosh

28. Which RBI governor has written Indian Economy: Essays on Money and Finance?

    Answer:  Dr C Rangarajan

29. Who was the first Indian to become the RBI governor?

    Answer:  Sir Chintaman D Deshmukh

30. Which brand of scooter when translated into Italian means 'wasp'?

    Answer:  Vespa

31. Which popular car audio system company's name when translated into German means 'blue point'?

    Answer:  Blaupunkt

32. Which brand name is derived from the word 'polar' suggesting coolness?

    Answer:  Polo

33. When translated in Korean what does Daewoo mean?

    Answer:  Great Universe
 

34. With a presence in 27 countries, the name of which company means 'three oceans?'

    Answer:  Sanyo

 35. Which was the first private mutual fund company in India?

    Answer:  Kothari Pioneer (1993)

36. Samir Arora, who was banned by the Securities and Exchange Board of India, was a part of which mutual fund?

    Answer:  Alliance Capital

37. Which was the first public sector mutual fund to be set up after the Unit Trust of India?

    Answer:  SBI Mutual Fund

38. HDFC Standard Life Mutual Fund recently bought out which of its competitors?

    Answer:  Zurich India Mutual Fund

39. Which is the official advertising agency of the Indian government?

    Answer:  Directorate of Audio Visual Publicity

40. Which ad agency manages the career of cricket star Yuvraj Singh?

    Answer:  Percept D'Mark
 
41. Which Indian biscuit brand is the single largest selling biscuit in the world in its segment?

    Answer:  Parle G

42. The late television star and actress, Priya Tendulkar, used to endorse which brand of biscuits?

    Answer:  Priya Gold

  
 43. Which biscuit company was associated with the TV program, Kaun Banega Crorepati?

    Answer:  Britannia Industries

44. Which was the first Indian bank to open an international branch and where?

    Answer:  Bank of India in London

45. Which bank was founded in 1906 at the temple town of Udupi and is today among one of India's largest banks?

    Answer:  Corporation Bank

46. When were banks in India nationalized?

    Answer:  1969

47. Rana Talwar, who is now the head of Sabre Capital, was formerly the CEO of which bank?

    Answer:  Standard Chartered Plc

48. Who is behind the current Wipro, Britannia, Marico and Lakme logos?

    Answer:  Shombit Sengupta

49. Who was the first Indian actress to model for Lux soap?

    Answer:  Leela Chitnis

50. What do you call a stock market trend that is neither bullish nor bearish?

    Answer:  Chicken market

COMPUTER/IT BUSINESS QUIZ

1. When carly fiorina joined hp, she started the campaign to renovate its

Image. What exactly did she do?

Ans. It was a video campaign showing the garage where Hewlett& Packard first made

the oscillator and then showing her in front of it.

2. What were bill gates and Paul Allen’s sat score?

Ans. Paul Allen: 1600, which was considered perfect. Bill gate: 1590
 

  3. Which school did Larry Ellison go to? When did he start oracle?

Ans. Ellison went to university of Chicago, dropped out after one semester. Also had gone to uic, dropped out from there too... Oracle started of a CIA project in 1977. Ellison was 33 then. Oracle – 1978

4. Who founded adobe along with john and when?

Ans. December 1982, john Warnock and Charles geschke

5. ‘corporated incorporated' and 'limited unlimited' were names considered but not adopted. What was finally adopted?

Ans. Microsoft

6. What was hp's first product? When?

Ans.  Audio oscillator (1938)

 7. What is the old name of 3i InfoTech?

Ans. ICICI InfoTech is the old name

8. Which online matrimony site was founded by j. Murugavel, who himself found his wife through the internet.

Ans. Bharatmatrimony.com

9. New Mac os introduced by apple?

Ans. Os x mountain lion

10. What was IBM nicknamed as in 1960's? Why?

Ans. Big blue, due to its big size and blue color. Also the color of the employees’ uniform was of blue color and they seemed to be present at most of the places.

11. Founder of 6-sigma methodology?

Ans. Motorola - actually brought in the practice. Ge - developed and established it professionally.

12. Hewlett & Packard, the founders, were very particular about the quality to be

Perfect. When Carly Fiorina was hired, she changed that to..... (give name of what it is called)

Ans.  Adopt and go. Keep the winners and ditch the losers.

13. Hp - Compaq merger was challenged in court by one of the largest shareholders of hp, who was the guy? (He lost the case)

Ans. Walter Hewlett, son of bill Hewlett

14. What was Accenture previously known as??

Ans. Andersen consulting

15. What is the name of the annual newsletter that Microsoft publishes?

Ans. 10 great mistakes that Microsoft did

16. Expand Wipro.

Ans. Western India products limited

17. Hp developed a programming language as competitor to java. What did they name it?

Ans. Hp chai

18. Which university did bill gates drop out before establishing Microsoft?

Ans. Harvard

19. What is the full form of yahoo?

Ans. Yet another hierarchical officious oracle

20. What was the first name of Google? Why was it changed?

Ans. It was formed under the name googol. However the first contract cheque that the founders received was for Google. From then the company is known as Google.

21. Which is the largest and 2nd largest bpo in India?

Ans. Genpact is the largest and then comes tcs’s bpo

22. Whose designed computer in garage took the world by storm?

Ans. Steve jobs, Steve wozniak

23. Which country has the domain name ".ch"?

Ans. Switzerland

24. When MIT graduate Ray Tomlinson showed his invention to one of his

 Colleagues he also told him: "don’t tell anyone i did this! This is not what we

Are supposed to be working on." what did Ray Tomlinson invent?

Ans.  Email... [Ray Tomlinson invented email and popularized the '@' sign for email addresses.]

25. Connect: Microsoft, Garry kasparov & Irina krush.

Ans. World internet chess championship [in 1999, a 'kasparov vs. The world'

Chess match was held on msn.com. Although anybody in the world could

Suggest a move; literally the entire world went by teenage prodigy Irina krush's

(15 yrs.) Choice of moves.]

26. Which famous software personality once admitted on the David Letterman?

Show in the us that he modified his school time-table program so that all

Girls would be in his class at any given time?

Ans. Bill gates

27. What major technology was developed by European telecom major Ericsson in 1999? How did the technology get its name?

Ans.  Blue tooth. Ericsson named the technology after Danish king herald blatand, better known as harald blue tooth. The king gad a great desire for blueberries due to which His teeth would always remain blue & hence the nickname.

28. Which internet term originally meant "harmless, creative fun"?

Ans. Hacking

29. Which Indian started his company on 3rd floor apartment at 10 st Paul Street?

Cambridge Massachusetts? His wife was his first employee and the year was 1972.

Ans. Narendra k patni (patni computer systems)

30. Infosys has decided to make a public offering without listing in----

Ans. Japan

31. Which computer firm also manufactured clocks?

Ans. IBM

32. What is the full form of Intel?

Ans. Integrated electronics

33. Which Indian played a lead role in the development of the Pentium chip for Intel and the k6 chip for AMD?

Ans. Vinod dham

34. According to cnn, internet, cell phone, pc and fiber optics come at 1, 2, 3, 4 in the top 25 innovations in the technical world. Which innovation occupies the 5th position?

Ans. E-mail

35. What was coined on June 12, 1995 in an e-mail sent by a 52-year old?

Massachusetts programmer named David eddy. He later said, "People were calling it cdc and faddle. There were other contenders. It just came off my fingertips." what am I referring to?

Ans. Y2K

36. Addition of “n”; in the European version of windows xp; i.e. Xpn signifies

Ans.  It means not included with windows media player.

37. Which Indian businessman was part of the design team at Intel that designed the Intel 80486 microprocessor?

Ans. Rajeev Chandrasekhar of BPL