new quiz matirial

Which software products major would be the first major co to discontinue CD/DVD to ship software and move to cloud totally ?
Ans. Adobe
Nisaba Godrej, daughter of Adi Godrej, recently married her classmate from Wharton in a simple ceremony. What was the invite ?
Ans. Office memo
Which cartoon character connects McDonalds, Holicks, Reynolds and Max SuperMarkets ?
Ans. Chhota Bheem
As per the TRAI released data for December ‘ 12 what is the ARPU in Rs for a GSM mobile user in India ?
Ans. Rs 98
Narayana Murthy has summarised his business philosophy as PSPD. What does PSPD stand ? ( not to be confused with the Orient Fans acronym:-)
Ans. Predicatibility, sustainability, profitability, De-risking
Who started a co focused on the Indian market called Softronics and closed it when he realised the market was weak ?
Ans. Narayana Murthy
It was started by the owner’s son who said ” I certainly don’t think that we will earn much money on this, but at least it will allow us to take pictures for free.” They represented Kodak in Sweden. Their cameras became very famous and was used by NASA in the Apollo mission. These cameras were belovedly archaic, taking pictures in a square format on actual, physical film. Their iconic 503CW ceased production this week. Name this Swedish brand
Ans. Hasselblad
Identify this man.
Clue 1 : Born in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He landed in the UK in ’1960s. He only ate Cadbury’s milk chocolate for many days, because that was the only thing he was familar with in India.
Clue 2 : He is a manufacturing guru and… runs the Warwick Manufacturing Group in University of Warwick. He trains thousands of Indians and Chinese in cutting edge mfg.
Clue 3 : He was recognised by British govt and made a Labour Peer. He is Lord of Moseley.
Clue 4 : His closeness to Ratan Tata is clear when he says “She got rid of the automotive sector but kept the Jaguar because she knew there was a nugget there. And when it was finally disappearing, I went and told Ratan to buy it.” He also influenced Ratan in choosing Cyrus Mistry over other candidates.
Ans. Lord Kumar Bhattacharya
Cyrus McCormick invented the mechanical reaper. His co merged with Deering Harvester in 1902 to become International Harvester. This co was part of the first Fortune 500. Now this co is no longer in agriculture but is still part of Fortune 500. How do we know this co. today ?
Ans. Navistar
Which Indian jewellery co is India’s largest importer of gold at 120 tonnes per annum ?
Ans. Rajesh Exports
By using Big Data, Wal-Mart realised that sales of what product went up 7 times with onset of storms and hurricanes ?
Ans. Strawberry pop-tarts
Mukesh Ambani is the first businessman to get Z-category security, he will however pay for it. How much every month ?
Ans. Rs 14 lakhs per month
Which social networking site was started by Reid Hoffman and associates 10 years ago on May 5, 2003 ?
Ans. LinkedIn
What is the popular definition of kids born in the late ’70s and early ’80s, who attained youth in the turn if the century ?
Ans. Gen-Y or Millennials
Which premier B-school’s MBA grads will lose their jobs because they had forged their application forms at the time of entrance ?
Ans. NMIMS, Mumbai
Why did GG Tronics  MD Manjunath paid the 90 lakh bribe on behalf of Mahesh Kumar to Pawan Bansal’s nephew ? Explain
Ans. GGTronics is in railway signalling business. he paid bribe to help Mahesh Kumar get Member(Electrical) post on Railway Board. This was part payment for the Rs 10 crore bribe.
Harvard Prof , author Niall Ferguson in a recent Q & A session said a famous economist did not worry about future because he was gay. Who ?
Ans. John Keynes…had said ” In the long run, we are all dead”. 
Who has acquired the consumer imaging and document imaging businesses of Kodak, that may help it to come out of bankruptcy ?
Ans. The UK Pension Fund of Kodak
Avis, Wonderbread, Sheraton hotels were all spun off from which conglomerate ?
Ans. ITT Corp
Which brand of Coca Cola co sells more than Coke not only in India, even in China ?
Ans. Sprite
Which is the first company in India to receive permission from RBI to set up white-label ATMs ?
Ans. Tata Communicatuion Payment Solutions Ltd
Why has the aviation regulator suspended 2 pilots and 2 flight attendants of Air India ?
Ans. The pilots put the flight on autopilot and went to sleep in the business class. The flight attendants were in the cockpit and accidentally put off the autopilot. There was no accident but it put 166 passengers life in danger
Netflix produced a TV series called ‘House of Cards’ which has become a big hit. It did something that was unusual for a TV series. What ?
Ans. All the 13 episodes were available simultaneously for binge viewers to view them
Which is the only domestic airline in the world to provide power socket and USB to every seat in every craft ?
Ans. Virgin 
We heard you. Now we’d love to see you.” Which retail chain has started a campaign apologising and urging customers to return ?
Ans. J.C.Penney
BSE has come up with an Islamic stocks index. What is it ?
Ans. 500 stocks that conform to the Shariah rules as per Islam.
Almost all TV channels are not airing ads. There is a dispute on billings method. What is the difference between gross and net billings ?
Ans.Gross billing incl 15 % commission of the ad agency/media releasing agency and net billings does not include it.
Equity linked savings schemes ( ELSS) are EEE ? In investment jargon, which schemes are EEE ?
Ans. EEE (Exempt-Exempt-Exempt) funds are not taxable at all the three stages — at the time of investments, the amount is deducted from your taxable income, during the period of investment when interest accrues it is not taxed and at the time of withdrawal too no tax is payable.
In the film OMG, the atheist Paresh Rawal was refused insurance claim bcoz of Act of God. What is ‘act of God’ ?
Ans. natural calamity like earthquake, tsunami
In mutual fund parlance what is B15 ?
Ans. beyond the Top 15 cities
Which is the first airline in the world to operate the Boeing Dreamliner after the battery problem has been recitified ?
Ans. Ethiopian airlines
Which company has launched a teeth whitening product called Visible White, with Sonam Kapoor as its brand ambassador ?
Ans. Visible White
Which country’s inflation reached an absurd 231,000,000% in the summer of 2008 ?
Ans. Zimbabwe
Who has taken over as the Chairman of the National Skill Development Corporation recently ?
Ans. S.Ramadorai of TCS
The TV spot rates for 10 sec ads for IPL finals was Rs 5-6 lacs in IPl-I. What are the rates for this year’s finals ?
Ans. Rs 15 lakhs
As per Indian alcohol policy what is the average age at which an Indian takes the first sip of alcohol today ? It was 28 in ’90s
Ans. 19 years