Wednesday 29 May 2013

new biz quiz

Q1. The official currency of Botswana is called Pula. The people of Botswana named it themselves, to indicate somethng wich was very precious to them. What is the meaning of Pula?

Q2. Which management guru did The Economist call 'Euroguru'?

Q3. JimO'Neil is an economist with Goldman Sachs, who contributed acronym BRIC for four emerging economies: Brazil, Russia, India and China. Now he has come up with "MIST", a next set of emerging economies. Expand MIST

Q4. A Bharat Ratna awardee in 1999, whom did Rabindranath Tagore named as ___________ meaning "immortal"?

Q5. Dubbed as Madame La Gaffe by the local press, she became the 1st woman head of a major organisation in 2011. Identify her.

Q6. X Index, debuted in 1986, uses the prices of McDonals X to compare purchasing power and exchange rates across countries. It has been a popular feature and appears annually in The Economist.   Identify X.


Q7. Connect : '74, Sylvia Nasar and 1994' with a very famous economist.

Q8. AMUL Ad for?
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Q9. She is Elinor Ostrom who passed away in 2012. What trivia does she hold in the history of Economics?
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Q10. Which country was the last one to join Eurozone and last to adopt Euro currency?

Q11. B.Sc Hons in Physics from IIT Kharagpur 
M.Sc Degree in Physics from IIT Kharagpur
Masters Degree in Economics from Ohio State University,USA
Humphrey Fellowship Program from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ph.D in Economics from Andhra University
Today, he occupies the top position in one of the most famous Indian institutions. Who?

Q12. Five agencies that grants loans to other countries -
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)
International Development Association (IDA)
International Finance Corporation (IFC)
Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA)
International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID)
       What are these collectively called?

Q13.
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Australia (0.929)
Netherlands (0.910)
United States (0.910)
New Zealand (0.908)
This world famous list follows this pattern - Giving numbers from 0 to 1 using their formula with 1 being the best outcome possible. Which country tops this list with a score of 0.943?

Q14. One of the most fundamental principle of Economics is denoted by this figure. What?
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Q15. Who is the only woman to become the Finance Minister of India?
Q16. Coins of which country have this imprinted on them : "This is the root of all evils"?
Q17. X, a movie released in 1987 shares its name with one of the world's most famous financial sites located in Manhattan. The sequel to X was released in 2010. What was its tagline?
Q 18. Print Ad of which Bank?
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Q 19. Logo of which Bank?
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Q 20. Most currency notes have a personality figure depicted on them. But Nepal's notes have something unique from their country, depicted on them. What?
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Answers

1. Water

2. Sumantra Ghoshal

3. Mexico, Indonesia, South Korea and Turkey

4. Amartya Sen
5. Christine Lagarde

6. The BIG MAC Index

7. John Nash - The film made on his life, A Beautiful Mind is based on the unauthorized biography of the same name written by Sylvia Nasar won four Academy Awards in the 74th Oscars in 2002. John Nash won Nobel Prize for Economics in 1994.

8. USA's credit rating fall in 2011

9. Till date, the only woman to be awarded Nobel Prize for Economics

10. Estonia in 2011

11. DV Subbarao

12. WORLD BANK Group

13. Norway, Human Development Index (HDI) List

14. Law of Invisible Hand by Adam Smith

15. Indira Gandhi

16. VATICAN City

17. Money Never Sleeps (X= Wall Street)

18. Union Bank
19. Bank of America

20. Mount Everest

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