Question: Which vehicle took its name from the fact that it was made to be used for general purposes?
Answer: Jeep (GP)
Question: What is the name of the mascot on the bonnet of a Rolls Royce?
Answer: The spirit of ecstasy
Question: Who invented jeans?
Answer: Levi Straus
Question: Arthur Andersen is an Accounting Firm which has been dissolved following their involvement in
which scandal?
Answer: Enron Scandal
Question: Which Indian IT company is a Joint venture between BT and M&M?
Answer: Tech Mahindra
Question: The Journal first published in 1889, featured the Jones 'Average', the first of several indexes of
stock and bond prices on the New York Stock Exchange. How do we know that today?
Answer: Wall Street Journal
Question: The world's first university-based executive education was created in 1931 at MIT under the
sponsorship which stalwart of GM?
Answer: Alfred P. Sloan
Question: Which company owns 'Hotmail', the Internet based e-mail system?
Answer: Microsoft
Question: South Africa is the world's largest producer of 3 metals. Platinum and Gold are 2 of them, what’s
the third?
Answer: Chromite
Question: Which designer is credited with inventing the mini-skirt?
Answer: Mary Quant
Question: Which car is featured in the film Back to the Future?
Answer: De Lorean
Question: The Baht is the monetary unit of which country?
Answer: Thailand
Question: What is the national airline of Spain?
Answer: Iberia
Question: Which was the first company formed to manufacture motor cars?
Answer: Daimler
Question: Which car manufacturer uses a badge consisting of 4 interlocked circles?
Answer: Audi
Question: In which country is Sikorsky Helicopters' head office?
Answer: America
Question: What is the currency of Turkey?
Answer: Lira
Question: Which company manufactured Lancaster bomber?
Answer: Avro
Question: How many old pennies were there in Half a Crown?
Answer: 30
Question: In which country are Saab cars manufactured?
Answer: Sweden
Question: Excluding India name 2 other countries that use the rupee as currency.
Answer: India, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Seychelles and Sri Lanka.
Question: London's Drury Lane is associated with which industry?
Answer: Theatre
Question: What commodity is traditionally measured in units called a Truss?
Answer: Hay/Straw
Question: What is the national airline of Spain?
Answer: Iberia
Question: What is the national airline of Ireland?
Answer: Aer Lingus
91. Which mobile phone manufacturer is popularizing mobile-telephone etiquette with its 'mobile manners' campaign?
Ans.: Nokia
92. Which Indian TV channel owned the transmission rights for the 50th Miss World contest held in the Millennium Dome in London?
Ans.: Zee
93. Bajaj auto is setting up a two wheeler assembly line in which South American country?
Ans.: Brazil
94.Merino, one of the finest types of wool, is associated with which country?
Ans.: Australia
95. In the heyday of nationalization, which PSU emerged from the amalgamation of ESSO and Caltex?
Ans.: Hindustan Petroleum
96. What biscuit in McVittie's range was originally developed by Sir Alexander Grant in the 1890's?
Ans.: Digestive
97. In the world of TV transmission technology, what does the much-talked about acronym DTH stand for?
Ans.: Direct to Home
98.With what product would you associate the well-known designs such as 'American Tank' and 'Tank Francaise'?
Ans.: Watches
99.Which Indian packaging company has taken over a firm called 'Propack' in China?
Ans.: Essel
100.What is the internationally known brand of ice-cream co- promoted by an ex-hippie named Ben Cohen?
Ans.: Ben & Jerry
Business Quiz Questions – India Business Quiz with Answers
Posted on July 3, 2010 by Ashapurna
1) What is the name of Head Quarters of Tata Group?
Answer: Bombay House
2) India’s first steel mill was built by Tata. In which year was it completed?
Answer: 1911
3) About 66% of the Tata capital is allocated by Tata Sons for which purpose?
Answer: Philanthropic trusts
4) What was the first Indian luxury hotel established by the Tata Group?
Answer: Taj Mahal Hotel
5) The Tata group consists of how many companies?
Answer: 80
6) When was the ministry of divestment formed in India?
Answer: 1999
7) Which was the first successful divestment of a PSU carried out by the ruling NDA combine?
Answer: Lagan Jute Machinery Company Ltd
8) Who were the final three bidders for Balco when it was being privatised?(Bharat Aluminium Corporation ltd)
Answer: Sterlite, Hindalco, Alcoa
9) Who was the first minister for divestment under NDA government?
Answer: Arun Jaitley
10) Under which Indian prime minister were guidelines for the divestment process first laid down?
Answer: Chandra Shekhar
11) Who are the Bretton Woods Sisters?
Answer: World Bank and IMF
12) Who is the President of World Bank?
Answer: Robert Bruce Zoellvick
13) Who is the President of IMF?
Answer: Domanic Strauss Kahan
14) Who is WTO Chief?
Answer: Pascal Lamy
15) When did the World Bank come into being?
Answer: July 1944
16) What was Former Name of World Bank?
Answer: International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)
17) Who was the first president of the World Bank?
Answer: Eugene Meyer (18 June, 1946)
18) Which Asian nation was the first to get a World Bank loan?
Answer: India on August 18, 1949 for Railway Reconstruction and Development.
19) When did India sign the World Bank Articles of Agreement?
Answer: 1945
20) Which organisation instituted the Nobel Prize for Economics?
Answer: Sveriges Riksbank (Bank of Sweeden)
21) Who is the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize for Economics?
Answer: Amartya Sen (for his studies in Wellfare Ecconomics)
22) How many women have won the Nobel Prize for Economics since 1969?
Answer: None
23) Who is the oldest recipient of the Nobel Prize for Economics?
Answer: William Vickrey
24) How many times have three people shared the Nobel Prize for Economics?
Answer: Three Times
25) Who was the first governor of the Reserve Bank of India?
Answer: Sir Osborne Smith (April 1st, 1935)
26) Who has been the longest-serving RBI governor?
Answer: Sir Bengal Rama Raju
27) Who had the shortest term as RBI governor?
Answer: A.Ghosh
28) Which RBI governor has written Indian Economy: Essays on Money and Finance?
Answer: Dr C Rangarajan
29) Who was the first Indian to become the RBI governor?
Answer: Sir Chintaman D Deshmukh
30) Which brand of scooter when translated into Italian means ‘wasp’?
Answer: Vespa
31) Which popular car audio system company’s name when translated into German means ‘blue point’?
Answer: Blaupunkt
32) Which brand name is derived from the word ‘polar’ suggesting coolness?
Answer: Polo
33) When translated in Korean what does Daewoo mean?
Answer: Great Universe
34) With a presence in 27 countries, the name of which company means ‘three oceans?’
Answer: Sanyo
35) Which was the first private mutual fund company in India?
Answer: Kothari Pioneer(1993)
36) Samir Arora, who recently was banned by the Securities and Exchange Board of India, was a part of which mutual fund?
Answer: Alliance Capital
37) Which was the first public sector mutual fund to be set up after the Unit Trust of India?
Answer: SBI Mutual Fund
38) How many mutual funds are there in India today?
Answer: 31
39) HDFC Standard Life Mutual Fund recently bought out which of its competitors?
Answer: Zurich India Mutual Fund
40) Which is the official advertising agency of the Indian government?
Answer: Directorate of Audio Visual Publicity
41) Which ad agency manages the career of cricket star Yuvraj Singh?
Answer: Percept D’Mark
42) Which Indian biscuit brand is the single largest selling biscuit in the world in its segment?
Answer: Parle G
43) The late television star and actress, Priya Tendulkar, used to endorse which brand of biscuits?
Answer: Priya Gold
44) Which biscuit company was associated with the TV programme, Kaun Banega Crorepati?
Answer: Britannia Industries
45) Which was the first Indian bank to open an international branch and where?
Answer: Bank of India in London
46) Which bank was founded in 1906 at the temple town of Udupi and is today among one of India’s largest banks?
Answer: Corporation Bank
47) When were banks in India nationalised?
Answer: 1969
48) Rana Talwar, who is now the head of Sabre Capital, was formerly the CEO of which bank?
Answer: Standard Chartered Plc
49) Who is behind the current Wipro, Britannia, Marico and Lakme logos?
Answer: Shombit Sengupta
50) Who was the first Indian actress to model for Lux soap?
Answer: Leela Chitnis
51) What do you call a stock market trend that is neither bullish nor bearish?
Answer: Chicken market
52) What is picking stocks that have already sunk to the bottom but still have some bounce in them left called?
Answer: Cigar butt hunting
53) How many stock exchanges are there in India?
Answer: 23
54) What are illiquid stocks that do not follow SEBI rules called?
Answer: Z stocks
55) By what name is the building ‘Phiroze Jeejebhoy Towers’ better known as?
Answer: Bombay Stock Exchange
56) Which company’s ad line was ‘Geography is History’?
Answer: Iridium
57) What publication advertised itself with the lines “Software for the most advanced microprocessor on this planet”?
Answer: The Economic Times
58) “The Brighter Side of Life” is the ad line of which of these companies/groups?
Answer: AV Birla group
59) “Don’t blend in” is the ad line of which of these companies/products?
Answer: Lifestyle International
60) “Life is One Incredible Journey” is the baseline of which magazine?
Answer: Outlook Traveller
Answer: Jeep (GP)
Question: What is the name of the mascot on the bonnet of a Rolls Royce?
Answer: The spirit of ecstasy
Question: Who invented jeans?
Answer: Levi Straus
Question: Arthur Andersen is an Accounting Firm which has been dissolved following their involvement in
which scandal?
Answer: Enron Scandal
Question: Which Indian IT company is a Joint venture between BT and M&M?
Answer: Tech Mahindra
Question: The Journal first published in 1889, featured the Jones 'Average', the first of several indexes of
stock and bond prices on the New York Stock Exchange. How do we know that today?
Answer: Wall Street Journal
Question: The world's first university-based executive education was created in 1931 at MIT under the
sponsorship which stalwart of GM?
Answer: Alfred P. Sloan
Question: Which company owns 'Hotmail', the Internet based e-mail system?
Answer: Microsoft
Question: South Africa is the world's largest producer of 3 metals. Platinum and Gold are 2 of them, what’s
the third?
Answer: Chromite
Question: Which designer is credited with inventing the mini-skirt?
Answer: Mary Quant
Question: Which car is featured in the film Back to the Future?
Answer: De Lorean
Question: The Baht is the monetary unit of which country?
Answer: Thailand
Question: What is the national airline of Spain?
Answer: Iberia
Question: Which was the first company formed to manufacture motor cars?
Answer: Daimler
Question: Which car manufacturer uses a badge consisting of 4 interlocked circles?
Answer: Audi
Question: In which country is Sikorsky Helicopters' head office?
Answer: America
Question: What is the currency of Turkey?
Answer: Lira
Question: Which company manufactured Lancaster bomber?
Answer: Avro
Question: How many old pennies were there in Half a Crown?
Answer: 30
Question: In which country are Saab cars manufactured?
Answer: Sweden
Question: Excluding India name 2 other countries that use the rupee as currency.
Answer: India, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Seychelles and Sri Lanka.
Question: London's Drury Lane is associated with which industry?
Answer: Theatre
Question: What commodity is traditionally measured in units called a Truss?
Answer: Hay/Straw
Question: What is the national airline of Spain?
Answer: Iberia
Question: What is the national airline of Ireland?
Answer: Aer Lingus
91. Which mobile phone manufacturer is popularizing mobile-telephone etiquette with its 'mobile manners' campaign?
Ans.: Nokia
92. Which Indian TV channel owned the transmission rights for the 50th Miss World contest held in the Millennium Dome in London?
Ans.: Zee
93. Bajaj auto is setting up a two wheeler assembly line in which South American country?
Ans.: Brazil
94.Merino, one of the finest types of wool, is associated with which country?
Ans.: Australia
95. In the heyday of nationalization, which PSU emerged from the amalgamation of ESSO and Caltex?
Ans.: Hindustan Petroleum
96. What biscuit in McVittie's range was originally developed by Sir Alexander Grant in the 1890's?
Ans.: Digestive
97. In the world of TV transmission technology, what does the much-talked about acronym DTH stand for?
Ans.: Direct to Home
98.With what product would you associate the well-known designs such as 'American Tank' and 'Tank Francaise'?
Ans.: Watches
99.Which Indian packaging company has taken over a firm called 'Propack' in China?
Ans.: Essel
100.What is the internationally known brand of ice-cream co- promoted by an ex-hippie named Ben Cohen?
Ans.: Ben & Jerry
Business Quiz Questions – India Business Quiz with Answers
Posted on July 3, 2010 by Ashapurna
1) What is the name of Head Quarters of Tata Group?
Answer: Bombay House
2) India’s first steel mill was built by Tata. In which year was it completed?
Answer: 1911
3) About 66% of the Tata capital is allocated by Tata Sons for which purpose?
Answer: Philanthropic trusts
4) What was the first Indian luxury hotel established by the Tata Group?
Answer: Taj Mahal Hotel
5) The Tata group consists of how many companies?
Answer: 80
6) When was the ministry of divestment formed in India?
Answer: 1999
7) Which was the first successful divestment of a PSU carried out by the ruling NDA combine?
Answer: Lagan Jute Machinery Company Ltd
8) Who were the final three bidders for Balco when it was being privatised?(Bharat Aluminium Corporation ltd)
Answer: Sterlite, Hindalco, Alcoa
9) Who was the first minister for divestment under NDA government?
Answer: Arun Jaitley
10) Under which Indian prime minister were guidelines for the divestment process first laid down?
Answer: Chandra Shekhar
11) Who are the Bretton Woods Sisters?
Answer: World Bank and IMF
12) Who is the President of World Bank?
Answer: Robert Bruce Zoellvick
13) Who is the President of IMF?
Answer: Domanic Strauss Kahan
14) Who is WTO Chief?
Answer: Pascal Lamy
15) When did the World Bank come into being?
Answer: July 1944
16) What was Former Name of World Bank?
Answer: International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)
17) Who was the first president of the World Bank?
Answer: Eugene Meyer (18 June, 1946)
18) Which Asian nation was the first to get a World Bank loan?
Answer: India on August 18, 1949 for Railway Reconstruction and Development.
19) When did India sign the World Bank Articles of Agreement?
Answer: 1945
20) Which organisation instituted the Nobel Prize for Economics?
Answer: Sveriges Riksbank (Bank of Sweeden)
21) Who is the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize for Economics?
Answer: Amartya Sen (for his studies in Wellfare Ecconomics)
22) How many women have won the Nobel Prize for Economics since 1969?
Answer: None
23) Who is the oldest recipient of the Nobel Prize for Economics?
Answer: William Vickrey
24) How many times have three people shared the Nobel Prize for Economics?
Answer: Three Times
25) Who was the first governor of the Reserve Bank of India?
Answer: Sir Osborne Smith (April 1st, 1935)
26) Who has been the longest-serving RBI governor?
Answer: Sir Bengal Rama Raju
27) Who had the shortest term as RBI governor?
Answer: A.Ghosh
28) Which RBI governor has written Indian Economy: Essays on Money and Finance?
Answer: Dr C Rangarajan
29) Who was the first Indian to become the RBI governor?
Answer: Sir Chintaman D Deshmukh
30) Which brand of scooter when translated into Italian means ‘wasp’?
Answer: Vespa
31) Which popular car audio system company’s name when translated into German means ‘blue point’?
Answer: Blaupunkt
32) Which brand name is derived from the word ‘polar’ suggesting coolness?
Answer: Polo
33) When translated in Korean what does Daewoo mean?
Answer: Great Universe
34) With a presence in 27 countries, the name of which company means ‘three oceans?’
Answer: Sanyo
35) Which was the first private mutual fund company in India?
Answer: Kothari Pioneer(1993)
36) Samir Arora, who recently was banned by the Securities and Exchange Board of India, was a part of which mutual fund?
Answer: Alliance Capital
37) Which was the first public sector mutual fund to be set up after the Unit Trust of India?
Answer: SBI Mutual Fund
38) How many mutual funds are there in India today?
Answer: 31
39) HDFC Standard Life Mutual Fund recently bought out which of its competitors?
Answer: Zurich India Mutual Fund
40) Which is the official advertising agency of the Indian government?
Answer: Directorate of Audio Visual Publicity
41) Which ad agency manages the career of cricket star Yuvraj Singh?
Answer: Percept D’Mark
42) Which Indian biscuit brand is the single largest selling biscuit in the world in its segment?
Answer: Parle G
43) The late television star and actress, Priya Tendulkar, used to endorse which brand of biscuits?
Answer: Priya Gold
44) Which biscuit company was associated with the TV programme, Kaun Banega Crorepati?
Answer: Britannia Industries
45) Which was the first Indian bank to open an international branch and where?
Answer: Bank of India in London
46) Which bank was founded in 1906 at the temple town of Udupi and is today among one of India’s largest banks?
Answer: Corporation Bank
47) When were banks in India nationalised?
Answer: 1969
48) Rana Talwar, who is now the head of Sabre Capital, was formerly the CEO of which bank?
Answer: Standard Chartered Plc
49) Who is behind the current Wipro, Britannia, Marico and Lakme logos?
Answer: Shombit Sengupta
50) Who was the first Indian actress to model for Lux soap?
Answer: Leela Chitnis
51) What do you call a stock market trend that is neither bullish nor bearish?
Answer: Chicken market
52) What is picking stocks that have already sunk to the bottom but still have some bounce in them left called?
Answer: Cigar butt hunting
53) How many stock exchanges are there in India?
Answer: 23
54) What are illiquid stocks that do not follow SEBI rules called?
Answer: Z stocks
55) By what name is the building ‘Phiroze Jeejebhoy Towers’ better known as?
Answer: Bombay Stock Exchange
56) Which company’s ad line was ‘Geography is History’?
Answer: Iridium
57) What publication advertised itself with the lines “Software for the most advanced microprocessor on this planet”?
Answer: The Economic Times
58) “The Brighter Side of Life” is the ad line of which of these companies/groups?
Answer: AV Birla group
59) “Don’t blend in” is the ad line of which of these companies/products?
Answer: Lifestyle International
60) “Life is One Incredible Journey” is the baseline of which magazine?
Answer: Outlook Traveller
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