Ans. Hanes
Q 2. The cricketer Anil Kumble’s firm TENVIC has the tag line ‘ To ENsure VICtory”. There is one more reason it is called TENVIC. What ?
Ans. Ten Wickets Kumble took in delhi test against Pakistan
Q 3. Which online portal has created a character called Sharman Bose, Master of dating gyaan ?
Ans. itimes.com
Q 4. Karan Johar is associated with coffee thru his TV show Koffee with Karan. Which brand of coffee has used Karan Johar ?
Ans. Nescafe Gold
Q5. What is unique about ‘Femme Productions’ ?
Ans. World’s first female owned , all female production house that makes adult films for females
Q6. Which country has the highest penetration of Internet on mobiles ?
Ans. Australia
Q 7. Why does Gutkha ban spell windfall for cosmetics maker Emami ?
Ans. Menthol is an essential ingredient , whose prices have fallen because of the ban.
Q8 .The FM inaugurates the Rajiv Gandhi Eq Savings scheme today. It gives addl tax benefits to New Retail investors. Who are they ?
Ans. New retail investors are those who have opened a new demat a/c or have not traded earlier
Q 9. Sai silks (kalamandir) ltd IPO is the first one with a safety net. What is a safety net as per SEBI guidelines ?
Ans. An option given by the issuer to the retail investors to buy back the shares upto a limit if the price falls below the IPO price within 6 months of issue
Q 10. What is the name of the virtual currency launched by Amazon to buy apps and other items in the Amazon AppStore ?
Ans. Amazon coins
Q 11. Henry Mintzberg uses the phrase ‘plural sector’. What does plural sector mean ?
Ans. NGOs, communities and movements
Q 12. E-Commerce crossed 1 trillion $ for the first time in 2012 worldwide. US is no 1, which countries are # 2 Bd # 3 ?
Ans. China and UK
Q 13, What popular video game has been developed by Stockholm based Mojang AB which has sold 20mn copies worldwide ?
Ans. Minecraft
Q 14. Gross enrolment in higher education, the world average is 29 %, how much is India’s ?
Ans. 19%
Q 15. In ’12 Shahrukh Khan gave a lecture at Yale University. This year he will speak at Harvard University. What is the topic ?
Ans. Economics of film-making
Q 1. Feb 4 is Facebook’s birthday. How many years has it completed ?
Ans. Nine years
Q 2. Which brand has been named as India’s Buzziest brand byhttp://afaqs.com an advertising industry web-site ?
Ans. Samsung
Q3. 30 software products firms in India have broken away from NASSCOM and formed an industry body. What is its name ?
Ans. iSpirt – Indian Software Products Industry Round Table
Q4. 2013 Super Bowl was held at New Orleans, the most watched TV show as well as the second highest in food consumption, next only to Tahnksgiving Who gave it the name ?
Ans. Lamar Hunt, the NFL Chief
Q5,Which internet service is gaining popularity as the ” Instagram of 6 second videos” ?
Ans. Twitter Vine
Q6. Name the world’s strongest material, that is 300 times stronger than steel.
Ans. Graphene
Q7. For what deficiency in service was McDonalds asked to pay a compensation of Rs 15000 to Delhi resident Vimal Choudhary ?
Ans. serving non-veg burger instead of veg burger ordered
Q8. Which former banker, software honcho is behind the affordable housing co Value and Budget Housing Corp ?
Ans. Jaitirth or Jerry rao
Q9. Dell to acquire Dell. Explain.
Ans. Michael Dell, the founder of Dell is taking the Dell Computers co private by acquiring public shareholding
Q 10. In which city has Durex launched a iphone app as well as a service by which condom is delivered discreetly by a person dressed like a pizza delivery boy ?
Ans. Dubai
Q 11. Which well known German auto major owns the luxury bus brand Scania ?
Ans. Volkswagen
Q 12. What is the new name of the co Research in Motion ?
Ans. Blackberry
Q 13. Which actor owns the production house Rajkamal Films International ?
Ans. Kamal Hassan
Q 14. Indian Captain MS Dhoni has been named as Vice President in which co recently ?
Ans. India Cements
Q 15. Which country known for its liquor is making laws that stipulate the minimum price to sell liquor so as to curb driniking ?
Ans. Scotland
Q16. Which co had created a comic character called Joe Camel which was banned in ’97 bcoz it was promoting smoking among children ?
Ans, R J Reyonolds
Q 17. With which IT co has Govt of India partnered to launched the eBIz Govt 2 Biz application in PPP mode ?
Ans. Infosys
Q 18. Who has acquired the audio and video business of Philips worldwide ?
Ans. Funai
Q 1. Consim Info is launching India’s largest Internet IPO soon. With which website would you associate this company ?
Ans. http://Bharatmatrimony.com
Q 2. What is Turing test in the field of computer science ?
Ans. The ability of a computer to replicate the human brain
Q3. What was the inspiration of naming the humanoid created by IPSoft to solve IT technical problems as ELIZA ?
Ans. GBS’s Pygmalion Eliza Dolittle
Q4. Name the oldest Swiss private bank that has gone down recently.
Ans. Wegelin and Co.
Q5. In Marketing lingo, what is ‘genericide” ?
Ans. A brand name suffering because it has become generic for its category e.g xerox
Q6. Connect PepsiCo, Apple, Inflexionpoint and an Indian startup changemytyre.com to a person …
Ans. John Sculley
Q7. Name the hormone which is also known as the moral molecule for its ability to promote trust and love.
Ans. oxytocin
Q8. Which is India’s first education focused private equity fund ?
Ans. kaizen fund
Q9. Who is the central minister for corporate affairs in the Indian Govt ?
Ans. Sachin Pilot
Q10. To which business group does Eureka Forbes the co known for Aquaguard water purifiers belong ?
Ans. Shapoorji Pallonji group
Q 11. What is the ex showroom price of the new Lamborghini Avantador Roadster launched in Delhi recently?
Ans. Rs 4.77 cr
Q 12. For which item of mass consumption in India is the benchmark Lasalgaon market in Nashik ?
Ans. Onion
Q 13. Which brand introduced mobile phones with dual SIM and 30 day battery recharge for the first time in India ?
Ans. Micromax
Q 14. Which patriotic song written by Kavi Pradeep celebrated 50 years on 23rd January this year ?
Ans. Ae Mere Watan Ke Logon
Q 15. Which two industrialists have recd Padma Bhushan in this years Civilian awards ?
Ans. R.Thyagarajan of Shriram group and AdI Godrej
Q 16. Which accounting firm publishes the European football money league every year ?
Ans. Deloitte
Q 17. When Etihad takes 26 % stake in Jet airways, its international hub will shift from which city to which one ?
Ans. From Brussels to Abu Dhabi
Q 18. To whom was the royalty of the patriotic song Ae Mere watan ke logon supposed to be given as per the original contract ?
Ans. Army widows association
Q 19. To which university has the New York Mayor and businessman Michael Bloomberg made donations of over 1 B $ over the years ?
Ans. Johns Hopkins University
Q 1. What is the meaning of the term ‘dollarise’ the economy ?
Ans. A country abandoning its currency in favour of the US $
Q 2. Price is what you pay. Value is what you get. Who said this ?
Ans. Warren Buffett
Q 3. Who is the title sponsor for University Cricket Championship (UCC) ?
Ans. Toyota
Q 4. Which are the top 3 brands of bathing soaps in the Indian market ?
Ans. Lux, Lifebuoy and Santoor
Q5. Which brand first came out with a Buttoned down shirt , also called a polo shirt and has a trademark for it ?
Ans. Brooks Brothers
Q6.What is the name of the travel guide anyone can edit being started by Wikipedia ?
Ans. Wikivoyage
Q7. What or who connects Expedia, Zillow and Glassdoor ?
Ans. Same founder Rich Barton and Lloyd Frink
Q8. What is the list price of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner ?
Ans. 207 mn $
Q 9. Why did Air India pilot Capt Smiti Trehan delay her Jodhpur flight yesterday ?
Ans. To buy her favourite Onion kachoris
Q 10. Name this legendary music retail brand which was opened on
London’s Oxford Street by Edward Elgar in 1921. It is about to be closed
down.Ans. HMV
Q 11. Jessops a speciality retailer in UK closed down its 187 stores last week. What was its speciality ?
Ans. Photography eqpt
Q 12. Boehringer Ingelheim has introduced a novel method of networking among its employees called Lunch Roulette. What’s it ?
Ans. An app that helps employees to find lunch partners from diff departments randomly..intended to break silos and improve partnerships
Q 13. Who has launched a music label to promote quality music under the name of LM Music ?
Ans. Lata Mangeshkar
Q 1. Can the Oscar winners or their heirs sell the statuettes legally ?
Ans. The first right of refusal rests with the academy for a value of 1 $.
Q 2. What makes a film eligible for Oscar awards ?
Ans. It has to have atleast one week paid run in the LA County in the last one year
For more read the link.
Q3. If Katrina is the face of Slice, who will be the face of Maaza ?
Ans. Parineeti Chopra and Imran Khan
Q4. After PVR acquired Cinemax, which multiplex chain is set to be acquired by INOX ?
Ans. Fun republic
Q5. Kingfisher airlines has provided the Kingfisher brand as one of the collaterals to the lenders for its huge debt. What is its value ?
Ans. Rs 3000 crore valued by Grant Thornton.
For more read the link.
Q6. In terms of per capita income which is the richest country in the world ?
Ans. Qatar at 98,000+ $
Q7. Obama has decided not to go for the platinum coin option. What was the option ?
Ans. Minting platinum coins and stamping a value of 1Trillion $ to avoid the debt ceiling legally
For more read the link.
Q8. Name this Internet pioneer and hacker who was a co-inventor of RSS 1.0 and a founder of REDDIT. He committed suicide at 26.
Ans. Aaron Swartz
Q9/ Which brand has become the world’s largest selling PC brand by beating HP ?
Ans. Lenovo
Q 10. Which brand of detergent has become a pain for the retailers across US because of its ease of theft from superstores by drug pedlars ?
Ans. Tide
For more read the link
Q 11. Dialogues from which Tarantino movie has inspired the words of the idea jingle ” u r my pumpkin, pumpkin, hunny bunny “
Ans. Pulp Fiction
Q 12. Who has been nominated by Pres Obama to succeed Timothy Geithner as the treasury secretary ?
Ans. Jack Lew
Q 13. Which Indian co has been nominated for the notorious Public Eye awards for worst co worldwide for protection of human rights and environment ?
Ans. Coal India
Q14. In 1875 41 replicas of kilogram was made under the International Prototype Kilogramme ( IPK) from a spl alloy of Platinum-Iridium Why is it in news now ?
Ans. Its weight has increased marginally
Q 15. What is the key distinction between a multilevel marketing and a pyramid scheme ?
Ans. MLM makes money by selling products and not by enrolling new members
For more read the link.
Q 16. Twigs from which tree were recommended by Prophet Muhammad for brushing. It is also a brand.
Ans. Miswak
For more read the link.
Q 17. Which city’s iconic metro celebrated its 150 years recently ?
Ans. London
Q 18. Which US University has honored HCL Founder Shiv Nadar by naming a Chair of Engineering in his name ?
Ans. Carnegie Mellon
Q 1. As per Economist, what is the world’s largest peer-to-peer lender with over 1 Bn $ in loans ?
Ans.Lender Club
Q 2. Who are the title sponsors of Hockey India League ?
Ans. Hero MotoCorp
Q 3. In Google, for products to be accepted they need to pass a “toothbrush test “. What is it ?
Ans. Used atleast twice daily
Q 4. What is the value of US treasury bills seized from a stockbroker in Coimbatore by the IT department ?
Ans. Over 5 Bn $
Q 5. Name the Economist who became the youngest Dy Governor of RBI at 49, completed his term on Dec 31
Ans. Subir Gokarn
Q 6. From which co has Soft and Gentle brand been acquired by Godrej in UK ?
Ans. Colgate
Q 7. Which is the world’s largest PR firm, headquartered in London ?
Ans. Edelman
Q 8. Who has been named to head the 14th Finance Commission ?
Ans. Y.V.Reddy
Q 9. In the 19th century which Marwari family was the biggest business house in India ? Now , not in business.
Ans. Ghanshyamdas Poddar
1. As per Economist, what is the world’s largest peer-to-peer lender with over 1 Bn $ in loans ?
Ans.Lender Club
Q 2. Who are the title sponsors of Hockey India League ?
Ans. Hero MotoCorp
Q 3. In Google, for products to be accepted they need to pass a “toothbrush test “. What is it ?
Ans. Used atleast twice daily
Q 4. What is the value of US treasury bills seized from a stockbroker in Coimbatore by the IT department ?
Ans. Over 5 Bn $
Q 5. Name the Economist who became the youngest Dy Governor of RBI at 49, completed his term on Dec 31
Ans. Subir Gokarn
Q 6. From which co has Soft and Gentle brand been acquired by Godrej in UK ?
Ans. Colgate
Q 7. Which is the world’s largest PR firm, headquartered in London ?
Ans. Edelman
Q 8. Who has been named to head the 14th Finance Commission ?
Ans. Y.V.Reddy
Q 9. In the 19th century which Marwari family was the biggest business house in India ? Now , not in business.
Ans. Ghanshyamdas Poddar
1. As per Economist, what is the world’s largest peer-to-peer lender with over 1 Bn $ in loans ?
Ans.Lender Club
Q 2. Who are the title sponsors of Hockey India League ?
Ans. Hero MotoCorp
Q 3. In Google, for products to be accepted they need to pass a “toothbrush test “. What is it ?
Ans. Used atleast twice daily
Q 4. What is the value of US treasury bills seized from a stockbroker in Coimbatore by the IT department ?
Ans. Over 5 Bn $
Q 5. Name the Economist who became the youngest Dy Governor of RBI at 49, completed his term on Dec 31
Ans. Subir Gokarn
Q 6. From which co has Soft and Gentle brand been acquired by Godrej in UK ?
Ans. Colgate
Q 7. Which is the world’s largest PR firm, headquartered in London ?
Ans. Edelman
Q 8. Who has been named to head the 14th Finance Commission ?
Ans. Y.V.Reddy
Q 9. In the 19th century which Marwari family was the biggest business house in India ? Now , not in business.
Ans. Ghanshyamdas Poddar
1. As per Economist, what is the world’s largest peer-to-peer lender with over 1 Bn $ in loans ?
Ans.Lender Club
Q 2. Who are the title sponsors of Hockey India League ?
Ans. Hero MotoCorp
Q 3. In Google, for products to be accepted they need to pass a “toothbrush test “. What is it ?
Ans. Used atleast twice daily
Q 4. What is the value of US treasury bills seized from a stockbroker in Coimbatore by the IT department ?
Ans. Over 5 Bn $
Q 5. Name the Economist who became the youngest Dy Governor of RBI at 49, completed his term on Dec 31
Ans. Subir Gokarn
Q 6. From which co has Soft and Gentle brand been acquired by Godrej in UK ?
Ans. Colgate
Q 7. Which is the world’s largest PR firm, headquartered in London ?
Ans. Edelman
Q 8. Who has been named to head the 14th Finance Commission ?
Ans. Y.V.Reddy
Q 9. In the 19th century which Marwari family was the biggest business house in India ? Now , not in business.
Ans. Ghanshyamdas Poddar
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