BIZ QUIZ 2

Business GK Quiz Questions - Set 1

1 : Name the largest call-centre services company in the world

»  The answer is :Convergys Corp

2 : Which was first dividend-yield focussed fund launched in India?

»  The answer is :Birla Dividend Yield Plus.

3 : Mr Pawan Sachdeva was involved in a major capital market scandal in the mid-1990s.

With which company was he associated?

»  The answer is :M.S.Shoes East

4 : Which was the first bank in India?

»  The answer is :General Bank of India

5 : First Indian bank to open a branch outside India?

»  The answer is :Bank of India

6 : Who is the first Indian woman to graduate from the Harvard Business School?

»  The answer is :Naina Lal Kidwai

7 : Name the 1st woman director on the board of Larsen & Toubro.

»  The answer is :Rajashree Birla

8 : The first commercial cardboard box was produced in...

»  The answer is :England

9 : Which Indian software company is associated with the design of A380?

»  The answer is :Infosys 

10 : Which company manufactured the Ambassador?

» The answer is :Hindustan Motors

Business Quiz Questions - Set 2

1 : This company was called Lutsuko and later changed its name to something that literally means 'to lose money'. Which one

»  The answer is :Sony

2 : Which car in Spanish means 'Charming'

»  The answer is :Matiz

3 : Which international brand had an ad campaign - 'Tomorrow is mine' and had signed Rahul Dravid for the campaign

»  The answer is :Reebok

4 : This organisation has 1356 members and has the ad-line

»  The answer is :NYSE

5 : Of whom did Shahrukh Khan once say that 'our figures are similar'

»  The answer is :Cindy Crawford

6 : Who designs jewellery for the company called Artex

»  The answer is :Priyanka Gandhi

7 : What is a coin with a minting error called

»  The answer is :FIDO

8 : What is the name of the new FM channel introduced by India Today

»  The answer is :Red

9 : What is 'Agfa' the trade mark for

»  The answer is :Photo Goods

10 : Which international airline uses the slogan

»  The answer is :Thai Airways

11 : The Indian born, who was recently promoted as the President of Pepsi Co

»  The answer is :Indira Nooyi

12 : Which Indian Entrepreneur was recently awarded the Max Schmidheiny Foundation Freedom Award

»  The answer is :N R Narayana Murthy

13 : TIndia's weightage in Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) index has been cut to ___ %

»  The answer is :4.4

14 : The controversial MIP-95 mutual fund scheme belongs to ______.

»  The answer is :U.T.I

15 : India's first electric car is known as _____.

»  The answer is :Reva

16 : The CEO of Zee Telefilms is ________.

»  The answer is :Subhash Chandra

17 : The Span of Eighth Five Year Plan has been decided

»  The answer is :1992-97

18 : The growth rate for the Eighth Plan is scheduled to be

»  The answer is :About 5.6

19 : Sakaria Panel Report ws associated withFixation of procurement prices

»  The answer is :Centre-State Relations

20 : Inflation Rate on 30th project is in the State of

»  The answer is :Gujrat

21 : UKAI multi-purpose project is in the stateof

»  The answer is :Gujrat

22 : The central Board of Irrigation and power was set-up in

»  The answer is :1927

23 : The nationla water Development Agency was established

»  The answer is :July 1982

24 : National Institute of Hydrology was set up in 1978 with its Headquarters at

»  The answer is :Roorkee

25 : What is the name of a multi-purpose project,whuch serves Bihar and Nepal

»  The answer is :Kosi Project

26 : Which one of the following is the world's longest dam located on Mahanadi rive

»  The answer is :Hirakud

27 : What is meant by a Floating Debt

»  The answer is :A short term debt

28 : What is meant by the term appreciation of money

»  The answer is :It is the rise in the price of money

29 : What is meant by Consumer's surplus' in Economics

»  The answer is :It is the difference between the maximum price whuch a consumer would be prepared to pay for a commodity and the price he hs actually to pay in the market

30 : What was the Duration of the Seventh Five year plan in India

»  The answer is :1985-1990

Business Quiz Questions : Set 3 

1 : who invented first microphone & when?

»  The answer is :Emile Berliner - march 4

2 : What is the headquarters of the Tata group called?

»  The answer is :Bombay House

3 : India's first steel mill was built by the Tatas. In which year was it completed?

»  The answer is :1911

4 : About 66 per cent of the Tatas' capital is allocated by Tata Sons for which purpose?

»  The answer is :Philanthropic trusts

5 : What was the first Indian luxury hotel established by the Tatas?

»  The answer is :Watson Hotel

6 : What is Satyam's BPO company called?

»  The answer is :Nipuna

7 : What is the name of the BPO company recently launched by former Karnataka State IT secretary Vivek Kulkarni?

»  The answer is :B2K Corp

8 : What is British Airway's BPO unit called?

»  The answer is :World Network Services

9 : The Aditya Birla group recently acquired which BPO company?

»  The answer is :Transworks Customer

10 : Which organisation instituted the Nobel Prize for Economics?

»  The answer is :Sveriges Riksbank

11 : Who is the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize for Economics?

»  The answer is :Amartya Sen

12 : How many women have won the Nobel Prize for Economics since 1969?

»  The answer is :none

13 : Who is the oldest recipient of the Nobel Prize for Economics?

»  The answer is :William Vickrey

14 : How many times have three people shared the Nobel Prize for Economics?

»  The answer is :3 times

15 : Which brand of scooter when translated into Italian means 'wasp'?

»  The answer is :Vespa

16 : UKAI multi-purpose project is in the state of

»  The answer is :Gujrat

17 : W ho topped in top business houses in the country during 1990-91

»  The answer is :Birla

18 : Tin is largely produced in

»  The answer is :Malaysia

19 : Koyna project is in the state of

»  The answer is :Maharashtra

20 : Where is the fifth atomic power plant to be located

»  The answer is :Khakharpara

21 : The Indian born, who was recently promoted as the President of Pepsi Co

»  The answer is :Indira Nooyi

22 : What brandname did the Maharashtrian entrepreneur, Kaka Dandekar, coin after seeing an American cigarette ad in 1930?

»  The answer is :Onida

23 : Which Indian Entrepreneur was recently awarded the Max Schmidheiny Foundation Freedom Award ?

»  The answer is :N R Narayana Murthy

24 : The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 was passed largely in response to

»  The answer is :The corporate accounting scandals of the previous couple of years

25 : The Sarbanes-Oxley Act sets out the general principles of the law. It gives which of the following agencies primary responsibility for writing specific rules to implement the law:

»  The answer is :The Securities and Exchange Commission

26 : Sarbanes-Oxley applies to:

»  The answer is :All companies that are required to file reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission

27 : Under the new rules, an accounting firm that does an audit is prohibited from providing many other accounting services. Which of the following is specifically permitted under Sarbanes-Oxley

»  The answer is :Tax services

28 : Not all possible services that might be provided by the auditing firm are expressly prohibited by Sarbanes-Oxley. If a non-audit service is not expressly prohibited, the auditing firm may provide that service:

»  The answer is :If the audit committee gives its prior approval

29 : Which of the following state has the lowest density of population as per 1981 census

»  The answer is :Sikkim

30 : Where is the currency Pringing Press Located at

»  The answer is :Nasik