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One of the following liquor brands is not owned by United Breweries(1) Kalyani Black Label(2) Blue Riband(3) McDowells(4) Bagpiper

 Marlboro Cigarette is owned by(1) ITC(2) Godfrey-Philips(3) Philip Morris(4) British American Tobacco

One of the following is not an Insurance Company(1) ICICI Prudential(2) HDFC Natwest(3) OM Kotak Mahindra(4) Birla Sun Life

What does the letters XP stand for in the product Microsoft XP?(1) Extended product(2) Extra Pampering(3) Experience(4) Entry level product

Which country is the company Nestle head quartered?(1) Sweden(2) Switzerland(3) The Netherlands(4) Luxemburg

Which multinational packaged food company has an equity stake in Britannia?(1) Danone(2) Heinz(3) Frito Lays(4) Schweppes

Which companies chips power more than 60% of the world's cell phones?(1) Nokia(2) Intel(3) Motorola(4) Texas Instruments

Who is the famous author of the book What they don't teach you at Harvard Business School?(1) Stephen R Covey(2) Mack McCormak(3) John Love(4) None of these

Which family owns the Hero group of companies?(1) Munjals(2) Mansingh(3) Firodias(4) Hindujas

Hewlett Packard, the famous Computer company is named after(1) Its promoters, Hewlett and Packard(2) The city in which they commenced their operation initially(3) The street in which their first office was located.(4) None of these

“Be the first to know” is the baseline of which company?(1) BBC(2) STAR News(3) CNBC(4) CNN

Which bathing soap advertises with the baseline, ‘For total skincare since 1918’ in India?(1) Camay(2) Mysore Sandal(3) Hamam(4) Lux

Which one of the following partnership in the domestic insurance sector is incorrect?(1) HDFC - Standard Life(2) Birla - Sun Life(3) Tata - Allianz(4) Max - New York Life

 What famous brand name is derived from a combination of two words, which mean ‘dead’ in French and ‘one’ in German?(1) Dettol(2) Mortein(3) Martini(4) Ritter

In which year did Mahatma Gandhi launch The Dandi March?(1) 1924(2) 1930(3) 1941(4) 1942

What famous car brand, originally from the former Czechoslovakia, was taken over by Volkswagen in the 1990s?(1) Skoda(2) Saab(3) Piaggio(4) Volvo

 Cash Reserve Ratio ( CRR) and Stautory Liquidity Ratio (SLR ) are terms most closely related to which of the following industries/markets:(1) Stock Exchange(2) Banking(3) Mutual Fund(4) Income Tax

Which famous CEO was featured in the endorsement ad for Microsoft XP with the quote, “When I saw Windows XP in action, I was amazed. How did Microsoft get hold of my wishlist?”?(1) Ratan Tata(2) Azim Premji(3) N R Narayana Murthy(4) Arun Jain

Which company owns the famous cigarette brands Charminar and Charms?(1) Godfrey Philips(2) Philip Morris(3) ITC(4) VST Industries

What is the name of the instrument used to measure blood pressure?(1) Barometer(2) Hygrometer(3) Hydrometer(4) Sphygmomanometer

Royal Stag brand of Whisky is owned by(1) United Breweries(2) Shaw Wallace & Co(3) Seagram(4) Mohan Meakin

 Who invented Parachute?(1) Leonardo da Vinci(2) Scanderberg(3) Sigismund(4) Van Gogh

Which of the following countries fought the first of the opium wars?(1) Russia - China(2) Britain - Indonesia(3) China - Britain(4) Japan - China

 Dr. Pepper is a famous brand of:(1) Iced tea(2) Peppermint(3) Soft Drinks(4) None of these

Mr. Shiv Nadar is the Chairman of which of the following groups of companies?(1) Wipro(2) HCL(3) Aptech(4) None of these

Lloyd’s is a world leader in which of the following industries?(1) Garment(2) Insurance(3) Commodity Trading(4) Banking

Jeffrey Immelt took over as the CEO from a legend of which US corporate giant?(1) Oracle(2) Boeing(3) General Electric(4) Federal Express

The management strategy with the acronym CRM can be expanded as:(1) Concrete Relationship Management(2) Customer Relationship Management(3) Correct Relationship Management(4) Constructive Relationship Management

 Which group owns Crompton Greaves?(1) Mittals(2) Ruias(3) Thapars(4) Ranas

Kenwood corporation is a(an) ____________ company(1) Japanese(2) American(3) British(4) German

Cartier, Piaget, Omega and Rado are all brands of:(1) Cameras(2) Suits(3) Watches(4) Pens

 Mars, the fourth planet from the sun, is named after the Roman god of:(1) Peace(2) War(3) Love(4) Marriages

When there is many buyer and one sellers in a market – what is this situation called?(1) Monopoly(2) Monopsony(3) Monotony(4) Oligopoly

Which famous CEO, currently applauded for turning around the fortunes of a famous computer company, reportedly takes home a salary of $1 per year?(1) Steve Case(2) Steve Jobs(3) Larry Ellison(4) Jim Clark

 Name the world’s largest television network that is beamed to over 210 countries?(1) MSNBC(2) STAR(3) CNN(4) BBC

Which Indian business group holds the maximum stake in the mobile cellular service provider Spice?(1) Aditya Birla group(2) Bharti group(3) Essar group(4) BK Modi group

‘The world’s local bank’ – is the tag line of which bank(1) ABN Amro(2) Standard Chartered Bank(3) Hong Kong and Shangai Banking Corporation(4) Rabo Bank

Which country accounts for the highest foreign direct investments (inflows) into India?(1) US(2) Japan(3) Mauritius(4) Channel Islands

Who was the first Indian Governor-General of India?(1) Lord Mountbatten(2) Rajagopalachari(3) Rajendra Prasad(4) None of these

How long did the Kurushektra war last?(1) Fourteen years(2) 27 days(3) 13 months(4) 18 days