BUSINESS & ECONOMY
1. Prakash M Telang would be appointed as the managing director of this famous concern of
Tatas. Name the company.
a. Tata Steel
b. Tata Motors
c. Tata Consultancy Services
d. None of these
2. This personality is the CMD of India Trade Promotion Organization (ITPO). Identify him/her
from the given options.
a. Amitabh Kant
b. Usha Thorat
c. Sheela Bhide
d. KM Chandrashekhar
3. Ursula M Burns is the name of the CEO designate of a major American corporation and is the
fi rst Afro-American woman to be appointed to this post. She is about to head....
a. Wal-Mart Stores
b. Xerox
c. General Electric
d. McDonalds
4. Konnect is the name of the low cost initiative of....
a. Kingfisher Airlines
b. Jet Airways
c. Paramount Airways
d. Spicejet Airlines
5. Who has been awarded the Nikkie Asia Prize 2009 for regional growth and pioneering work in
the field of biotechnology in India?
a. Dr KA Reddy
b. KM Shaw
c. Habil Khorakiwala
d. Malvinder Singh
6. Which is the commodity whose future trading resumed after a gap of around two years in
MCX and NCDEX?
a. Wheat
b. Rice
c. Sugar
d. Cotton
7. Which company recently acquired the Melstar Information Technologies and forayed its
entry into IT sector?
a. CK Birla Group
b. KK Birla Group
c. Yash Birla Group
d. AV Birla Group
8. This person is the chief statistician of India.
a. SD Tendulkar
b. Pronab Sen
c. Rakesh Mohan
d. V Leeladhar
9. Which famous cine person is the brand ambassador of Garnier?
a. Shah Rukh Khan
b. Amitabh Bachchan
c. John Abraham
d. Saif Ali Khan
10. Which of the following persons headed the committee that gave the calorie intake-based methodology for assessing the poverty line?
a. DT Lakdawala
b. CD Deshmukh
c. MC Setalvad
d. None of these
11. To change the existing methods for assessing the poverty line based on calorie intake, a new
committee was constituted that fi nalised the new methodology. Who headed this committee?
a. Arvind Virmani
b. Prof Yashpal
c. SD Tendulkar
d. MS Ahluwalia
12. In which year did the Indian economy go into negative inflation prior to 2009?
a. 1973
b. 1975
c. 1977
d. 1979
13. Which is the fi rst life insurance company in India launched by Europeans in Calcutta in 1818?
a. Bharat Insurance Company
b. Bombay Mutual Life Assurance Society
c. Oriental Life Insurance Company
d. Life Insurance Company of India
14. Who is the minister of state for commerce and industry?
a. Sachin Pilot
b. TR Balu
c. Anand Sharma
d. Jyotiraditya Scindia
15. Branding India: An Incredible Story is the name of the book authored by....
a. Gurcharan Das
b. Santosh Desai
c. Amitabh Kant
d. Azim H Primji
16. ‘Powering a greener tomorrow’ is the punchline of....
a. IOC
b. ONGC
c. BP
d. Suzlon
17. Who won the Global Vision Award of the US India Business Council recently?
a. Ratan Tata
b. Azim Premji
c. Sunil Bharti Mittal
d. Mukesh Ambani
18. Savari and Major are the names of the utility vehicles that belong to the stable of....
a. Tata Motors
b. Hindustan Motors
c. Mahindra & Mahindra
d. Ashok Leyland
19. Find the odd one out.
a. O&M
b. JWT
c. FCB Ulka
d. CRISIL
20. ‘Science for a better life’ is the tag line of....
a. Wockhardt Ltd
b. Roche
c. Pfi zer
d. None of these
21. Who is the CEO of Maduraibased Paramount Airways?
a. Siddhant Sharma
b. Captain Gopinath
c. M Thiagarajan
d. None of these
22. Who is the head of Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council.
a. Uday Kotak
b. Ajit Ranade
c. Suresh D Tendulkar
d. Ashok Chawla
23. Angel Gurria is the secretary general of....
a. OPEC
b. ECD
c. WEF
d. WTO
24. ‘The sweet taste of purity’, is the punchline of....
a. Bailey
b. Bisleri
c. Kinley
d. None of these
25. ‘Lead wherever you go’, is the tag line of....
a. Grand Vitara
b. Ford Endeavour
c. Tata Safari
d. Scorpio
26. ‘Next’ is the name of the retail chain of stores in India. It specializes in....
a. FMCG products
b. Electronics goods
c. Vegetables and domestic goods
d. Literature and music
27. ‘India tomorrow’ is the tag line of this company.
a. Tata Steel
b. Future group
c. Reliance Industries Ltd
b. RPG Enterprises
28. ‘Crossword’ and ‘Mothercare’ are the names of the brands that belong to....
a. Shopper’s Stop
b. Future Group
c. Times group
d. None of these
29. Who is the chairperson of the Essar Group?
a. Prashant Ruia
b. Shashi Ruia
c. Ravi Ruia
d. Anshuman Ruia
30. Who is the chairperson of Lupin laboratories?
a. PB Gupta
b. DB Gupta
c. JB Gupta
d. BB Gupta
31. Arcandor is the name of a company that owns 52 per cent stake in Thomas Cook and is into the business of internet shopping, departmental stores and tourism services. It is the latest victim
of global economic meltdown and has fi led for bankruptcy. The company hails from....
a. Italy
b. France
c. Germany
d. The UK
32. Which of the following countries is the biggest steel producing country of the world ?
a. India
b. Russia
c. The US
d. China
33. Kaya Kalp is the luxury spa brand of....
a. Marico Industries
b. ITC Ltd
c. Dabur Ltd
d. None of these
34. Of which Indian domestic airliner is Sanjay Aggarwal the CEO?
a. Jetlite
b. Spicejet
c. Paramount airways
d. GoAir
35. Who is the recently-appointed commerce secretary to the government of India?
a. Ashok Chawla
b. Arvind Virmani
c. GK Pillai
d. Rahul Khullar
36. 'One Life. Why so serious?' is the punchline of....
a. Grand Punto
b. Jazz
c. i20
d. Land cruiser
37. What is the present name of the company that was founded by Herman Hollerith in the year
1896 as the Tabulating Machine Company?
a. GE
b. Oracle
c. IBM
d. Acer
38. Which Indian businessman has been chosen to head the government’s ambitious Unique Identifi cation Cards project?
a. NR Narayana Murthy
b. Nandan Nilekani
c. Azim H Premji
d. S Ramadorai
39. Which company has launched a series of laptops by the name of ‘Artful’?
a. Dell
b. HP
c. Toshiba
d. Acer
40. This person is the chairperson and CEO of Telmex, Telcel and America Movil and is one of the
world’s richest persons.
a. Warren Buffet
b. Carlos Slim Helu
c. Ingwar Kemprad
d. None of these
41. Which airline proclaims itself to be ‘The Reliable Airline’?
a. KLM
b. Cathy Pacifi c
c. Air France
d. Qantas Airlines
42. Who is the chairperson of Amul?
a. Amrita Patel
b. V Kurien
c. P Bhatol
d. UC Sarangi
43. What is the worth of the deal in which S Kumars bought Hartmarx Corporation , a US clothing
fi rm , recently?
a. $100 million
b. $110 million
c. $120 million
d. $130 million
44. Forbes magazine has launched its Indian edition in collaboration with....
a. Times Group
b. Network 18
c. NDTV
d. None of these
45. 'Enable. Enlighten. Entertain' is the punchline of....
a. Viacom
b. Network 18
c. ET Now
d. 9X
46. Mango Frooti is the name of a mango drink that belongs to....
a. ITC
b. HUL
c. Parle Agro
d. Nestle
47. Who is the CMD of Bharat Petroleum Ltd?
a. S Radhakrishnan
b. Ashok Sinha
c. RK Singh
d. SK Joshi
48. Cellebrum and Omnia are the names of the companies that belong to....
a. Spice Telecom
b. Aircel
c. Bharti Enterprises
d. Reliance Communications
49. Raymond Albert Kroc is the founder of ..., which promotes itself by using the tag line I’m
Lovin’ it.
a. Wal-Mart Stores
b. Home Depot
c. McDonalds
d. None of these
50. ‘Where patients come fi rst’ is the punchline of …
a. Pfi zer
b. Novartis
c. Roche
d. Merck
CURRENT AFFAIRS
1. Robert Mugabe, president of Zimbabwe, recently addressed the US assistant secretary of
state for African affairs as “an idiot”, with a condescending attitude. Name the person.
a. Johnnie Carson
b. Hillary Clinton
c. Robert McNamara
d. None of the above
2. Name this region in China which faced ethnic clashes that claimed more than 150 lives.
a. Xinjiang
b. Yunnan
c. Guizhou
d. Guangxi
3 . Exiled Tibetan leader, the Dalai Lama, scelebrated his … birthday on July 6.
a. 71st
b. 73rd
c. 74th
d. 75th
4. Robert McNamara, a top US official, who is known as the key architect of the US-Vietnam
war, died at his home in Washington, US. Which post did he hold?
a. US secretary of state
b. US assistant secretary of state
c. US deputy secretary of state
d. US secretary of defence
5. This personality, coming out in support of Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, has asserted that good entertainment is the best contraceptive. Name him/her.
a. Mahesh Bhatt
b. Pooja Bhatt
c. Aamir Khan
d. Shah Rukh Khan
6. US President Barack Obama visited Russia to reset ties with the nation during which he met
his Russian counterpart. Name the Russian president.
a. William J Burns
b. Mark Medish
c. Vladmir Putin
d. Dmitri A Medvedev
7. Chinese President Hu Jintao had to cut short his G-8 summit tour due to the ethnic clashes back home. Name the host nation for G-8 summit.
a. Japan
b. Russia
c. Italy
d. India
8. Indonesia’s presidential elections were held recently. It was the … direct presidential election
since the fall of the dictatorship in 1998.
a. First
b. Second
c. Third
d. Fourth
9. This film personality has been accused of violating the Copyright Act in his venture Shortkut.
Name him.
a. Mukesh Bhatt
b. Mahesh Bhatt
c. Anil Kapoor
d. Ram Gopal Verma
10. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is the President of....
a. Indonesia
b. Malaysia
c. Philippines
d. Fiji
11. This cricket personality has penned the book The Rise of Twenty20, in which he has
slammed Sunil Gavaskar.
a. Ricky Ponting
b. Shoaib Akhtar
c. Andrew Flintoff
d. John Buchanan
12. The G5 has urged the G8 to address financial crisis and food security as major issues. The
G-5 includes China, India, Mexico, Brazil and....
a. Argentina
b. South Africa
c. Peru
d. Chile
13. This fastfood chain has apologized for an advertisement in Spain that shows Goddess Lakshmi seated atop a meat sandwich. Name it.
a. McDonalds
b. Dominos
c. Burger King
d. Subway
14. Who has said that a blanket ban on plastic bags is a bad idea?
a. Jairam Ramesh
b. Sheila Dixit
c. Narendra Modi
d. Harshpati Singhania
15. According to the railway minister Mamata Banerjee, railways surplus is not Rs 90,000 crore
as her predecessor Lalu Yadav claimed, rather it’s....
a. Rs 8,150 crore
b. Rs 8,361 crore
c. Rs 9,361 crore
d. Rs 10,150 crore
16. On the sidelines of the G8 meet PM Manmohan Singh got a soccer jersey of this country from
the country’s President. Name the country.
a. Italy
b. Spain
c. Argentina
d. Brazil
17. This politician is now under CID scanner for bungling of UTI funds by the company Auto Riders that he headed in 1993-1999.
a. Praful Patel
b. Kamal Nath
c. Suresh Kalmadi
d. None of these
18. Two Lashkar-e-Taiba militants arrested in Kupwara revealed
that a power project in Jammu
is at the militants’ target. Name
the project?
a. Baglihar
b. Rampur
c. Chamera
d. Dagacchu
19. Who has been made the new chief of defence staff of Sri Lanka?
a. Vasantha Karannagoda
b. Thisara Samarasinghe
c. Sarath Fonseka
d. GA Chandrasiri
20. The leaders of opposing parties of this country came together to play football to help volleyball player Dinesh Baniya, who is in dire need of kidney transplant. Which country is it?
a. Sri Lanka
b. Bhutan
c. Bangladesh
d. Nepal
Answer at the end of Question Bank
21. The fi rst women battalion of a security force of India was inducted
for combat duties in July
end. Which force is this?
a. National Security Guards
b. Border Security Force
c. COBRA
d. Police
22. A high-level cabinet committee has been constituted by the government that aims to provide
a thrust to infrastructure. Who will be heading the committee?
a. Pranab Mukherjee
b. Dr Manmohan Singh
c. Sharad Pawar
d. Farooq Abdullah
23. A teenage tribal girl Sanjukta Pangi from the Indian state of ... participated in the junior 8
(J8) international youth summit which was held along with the G8 conclave in Italy.
a. Manipur
b. Jharkhand
c. Andhra Pradesh
d. Orissa
24. Hamish Hamilton will be launched in India soon with the publication of a collection of
political essays called Listening to Grasshoppers by …
a. Jhumpa Lahiri
b. Kunal Basu
c. Arundhati Roy
d. Ali Seth
25. The Catholic church in this state is aiming to launch medical schemes for reversal of tubectomy and remedial support for infertile couples.
a. Chhattisgarh
b. Orissa
c. Kerala
d. Mizoram
26. A much-talked-about documentary of Dan Reed, recently telecast on UK’s Channel 4, is
about....
a. The Al-Qaeda and Taliban offensive in Swat Valley
b. Ajmal Amir Kasab
c. The inhuman treatment to women in Afghanistan and adjoining parts of Pakistan
d. The Lok Sabha elections in India, 2009
27. Tyeb Mehta, who died in Mumbai on July 2, was a noted….
a. Journalist
b. Writer
c. Theatre director
d. Artist
28. The remuneration for serving in difficult and inaccessible areas for this body of professionals
would be double of their urban counterparts.
a. Teachers
b. Doctors
c. Civil servants
d. Armymen
29. Roger Federer made history during 123rd Wimbledon Championship by surpassing Pete
Sampras’s record of maximum Grand Slam victories till then. How many Grand Slams does
Federer have in his kitty now?
a. 13
b. 15
c. 14
d. 16
30. What is the trophy for women’s singles winner of the Wimbledon Championships commonly
known as?
a. Queen’s Award
b. Centre Court Champion
c. Venus Rosewater Dish
d. Rosemary Plate
31. At which place in MP did the blasts occur in two private factories manufacturing explosives
used for coal mining in the Bairhan Industrial Area?
a. Sanchi
b. Bhimbetkar
c. Ujjain
d. Singrauli
32. Andhra Pradesh MLA TV Rama Rao has been accused of molestation by students of
Spruha College of Nursing. Which political party does he belong to?
a. Congress
b. BJP
c. Praja Rajyam
d. Telugu Desam
33. “If you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two impostors just the same”. At
which famous entrance do you find this quote?
a. Gateway of India, Mumbai
b. Botanical Garden, San Francisco
c. Centre Court, London
d. Empire State Building, New York
34. Who has received the MP Birla Memorial Award 2009?
a. Shabana Azmi
b. Shiv Shankar Menon
c. Asha Bhonsle
d. G Madhavan Nair
35. United Nations has begun inquiry into the assassination of former Pakistani PM Benazir
Bhutto. Who is heading the inquiry?
a. Heraldo Munoz, Chile’s ambassador to the UN
b. Marzuki Darusman, a former Indonesian attorney-general
c. Rehman Malik, Pakistan's interior minister
d. Hussain Haroon, Pakistan ambassador to the UN
36. Which city of a middle eastern country was elected as headquarters of the International
Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)?
a. Ankara, Turkey
b. Tehran, Iran
c. Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
d. None of the above
37. Name the commission, which submitted its report on the sequence of events that led to the
Babri Masjid demolition in Ayodhya in December 1992.
a. Nanavati Commision
b. UC Banerjee Commission
c. MS Swaminathan Commision
d. Liberhan Commission
38. Who succeeded Shiv Shankar Menon as the foreign secretary when he retired at the end of
July? The person served as India’s ambassador to China, before the new stint.
a. KM Meena
b. Ronen Sen
c. Nirupama Rao
d. Prabhat Prakash Shukla
39. This web messenger will be scrapped to be replaced with the company’s new web-based
instant messaging available in Windows Live Hotmail worldwide.
a. Yahoo messenger
b. Google talk
c. MSN web messenger
d. Mebo
40. Pop icon Michael Jackson’s mother was granted a limited control over her son’s property.
Name his mother.
a. Katherine Jackson
b. Janet Jackson
c. Paris Michael
d. None of the above
41. An airliner belonging to Yemen’s state carrier crashed in the … near the archipelago of
Comoros, killing 153 people onboard.
a. Pacifi c Ocean
b. Bay of Bengal
c. Arabian Sea
d. Indian Ocean
42. The fi rst bridge to be built over the sea has been set in the city of....
a. Mumbai
b. Chennai
c. Kolkata
d. Guwahati
43. Yukiya Amano, the new chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency, is a … diplomat.
a. Chinese
b. Japanese
c. Russian
d. British
44. The United Nations secretary general … has demanded the release of the democratic leader
Aung San Suu Kyi.
a. Ban Ki Moon
b. Trygve Halvdan Lie
c. Hubert Miles
d. Dag Hjalmar
45. New release Kambhakkt Ishq features which Hollywood actor?
a. Hugh Grant
b. Sylvester Stalone
c. Michael Douglas
d. Antonio Banderas
46. Under which act has the naxal group Communist Party of India (Maoist) been banned by the Central government?
a. Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act
b. Prevention of Terrorism Act
c. Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act
d. None of the above
47. Where will the extension centre of IIT-Kanpur be opened?
a. Noida
b. Ghaziabad
c. Gurgaon
d. Faridabad
48. Who won the US Open for Golf recently?
a. Jeev Milkha Singh
b. Lucas Glover
c. Jyoti Randhawa
d. Tiger Woods
49. Who has become the new CM of Uttrakhand as the outgoing CM stepped down
owning moral responsibility for the BJP losing all fi ve Lok Sabha seats from the
state in the recent general elections?
a. Prakash Pant
b. Bachi Singh Rawat
c. BC Khanduri
d. Ramesh Pokhriyal
50. Margaret Alva has been made the Governor of....
a. Punjab
b. Haryana
c. Himachal Pradesh
d. Uttarakhand
BUSINESS & ECONOMY
1. b Tata Motors
2. c Sheela Bhide
3. b Xerox
4. b Jet Airways
5. b KM Shaw
6. a Wheat
7. c Yash Birla Group
8. b Pronab Sen
9. c John Abraham
10. a DT Lakdawala
11. c SD Tendulkar
12. c 1977
13. c Oriental Life Insurance Company
14. d Jyotiraditya Scindia
15. c Amitabh Kant
16. d Suzlon
17. b Azim Premji
18. c Mahindra & Mahindra
19. d CRISIL
20. d None of these
21. c M. Thiagarajan
22. c Suresh D. Tendulkar
23. b OECD
24. b Bisleri
25. b Ford Endeavour
26. b Electronics goods
27. b Future group
28. a hopper’s Stop
29. b Shashi Ruia
30. b D.B. Gupta
31. c Germany
32. d China
33. b ITC Ltd.
34. b Spicejet
35. d Rahul Khullar
36. b Jazz
37. c IBM
38. b Nandan Nilekani
39. c Toshiba
40. b Carlos Slim Helu
41. a KLM
42. c P. Bhatol
43. c $120 million
44. b Network 18
45. b Network 18
46. c Parle Agro
47. b Ashok Sinha
48. a Spice Telecom
49. c McDonalds
50. d Merck
CURRENT AFFAIR
1. a. Johnnie Carson
2. a. Xinjiang
3. c. 74th
4. d. US secretary of defence
5. a. Mahesh Bhatt
6. d. Dmitri A Medvedev
7. c. Italy
8. b. Second
9. c. Anil Kapoor
10. a. Indonesia
11. d. John Buchanan
12. b. South Africa
13. c. Burger King
14. a. Jairam Ramesh
15. b. 8,361 crore
16. d. Brazil
17. a. Praful Patel
18. a. Baglihar
19. c. Sarath Fonseka
20. d. Nepal
21. b. Border Security Force
22. b. Dr Manmohan Singh
23. d. Orissa
24 c. Arundhati Roy
25. c. Kerala
26. b. Ajmal Amir Kasab
27. d. Artist
28. b. Doctors
29. b. 15
30. c. Venus Rosewater Dish
31. d. Singrauli
32. d. Telugu Desam
33. c. Centre Court, London
34. d. G Madhavan Nair
35. a. Heraldo Munoz, Chile’s ambassador to the UN
36. c. Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
37. d. Liberhan Commission
38. c. Nirupama Rao
39. c. MSN web messenger
40. a. Katherine Jackson
41. d. Indian Ocean
42. a. Mumbai
43. b. Japanese
44. a. Ban Ki Moon
45. b. Sylvester Stalone
46. c. Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act
47. a. Noida
48. b. Lucas Glover
49. d. Ramesh Pokhriyal
50. d. Uttarakhand
