1. What is the name of Head Quarters of Tata Group?
Answer: Bombay House
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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'?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
50. What do you call a stock market trend that is neither bullish nor bearish?
Answer: Chicken market
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