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1)Name the company which promotes itself by the promo line ‘It’s all about Imagineering’.                                 L&T         ...

Business GK: Part 1

1)Name the company which promotes itself by the promo line ‘It’s all about Imagineering’.
                                L&T
                                GE
                                Siemens
                                None of these  
 2)Name the current finance secretary of India who was appointed as the head of the Department of Economic Affairs in 2008.
                                CP Singh
                                PVK Mohan
                                Ashok Chawala
                                A Sachidanand   
 3)Name the bank that won the 2008 ‘Asian Banker’s Best Retail Bank in India’ for the second time in a row.
                                ICICI Bank
                                HDFC Bank
                                HSBC Bank
                                Citibank 
 4)Identify this personality who had been awarded the UK Trade & Investment special recognition award in late 2008 for promoting trade between India and UK?
                                Swaraj Paul
                                Anil Aggarwal
                                KV Kamath
                                Aditya Puri   
 5)Which of the following Constitutional articles deals with the establishment of Finance Commission?
                                Article 233
                                Article 246
                                Article 268
                                Article 280  
 6)Who is the head of Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council?
                                Uday Kotak
                                Ajit Ranade
                                Suresh D Tendulkar
                                Ashok Chawla  
 7)Which of the following represents the rank of India in the World Economic Forum’s first Financial Development Index released in 2008?
                                11
                                21
                                31
                                41   
 8)Where would you find the headquarters of India’s largest private sector bank ICICI Bank?
                                New Delhi
                                Mumbai
                                Kolkata
                                Chenna  
 9)‘We fly for your smile’ is the tag line that you would associate with....
                                Austrian Airways
                                Finnair
                                Air Italia
                                Lufthansa  
 10)‘The miracles of science’ is the tag line that you would associate with....
                                Dupont
                                Bayer
                                Biocon International
                                GSK 
 11)Identify this state that announced free education to the students till XIIth standard in late 2008.
                                Madhya Pradesh
                                Uttar Pradesh
                                Rajasthan
                                Gujarat 
 12)Who is the recently-appointed commerce secretary to the government of India?
                                Ashok Chawla
                                Arvind Virmani
                                GK Pillai
                                Rahul Khullar

 13)Identify the name of this mobile that happened to be the first ever by Google.
                                G1
                                G3
                                G5
                                G7  
 14)Which of the following represents the punchline of Mitsubishi Electric?
                                Change is constant
                                Changes for the better
                                Change is everything
                                None of these  
 15)‘Built to last’ is a business bestseller. Can you identify the name of the authors of this work from the given options?
                                Ram Charan & Larry Bossidy
                                Jim Collins & Jerry I Poras
                                Peter Drucker
                                Tom Peters  
 16)This magazine proclaims itself to be the ‘magazine of the corporate world’. Identify it from the given options.
                                Business World
                                Business India
                                Business Today
                                None of these  
 17)Which two wheeler manufacturer completed 25 years of its existence in 2008?
                                Kinetic Engineering Ltd
                                Bajaj Auto Ltd
                                Hero Honda Motors Ltd
                                TVS Motors  
 18)Hot, Flat, And Crowded is the recent work of this famous author. Identify him from the given options.
                                Joseph Stiglitz
                                Thomas L Friedman
                                Aravind Adiga
                                Salman Rushdie   
 19)‘Make it Happen’ is the tag line that you would associate with….
                                ABN Amro Bank
                                RBS
                                Citibank
                                Standard Chartered Bank 
 20)Sachin Tendulkar is the brand ambassador of….
                                Royal Bank of Scotland
                                HDFC Bank
                                SBI
                                Standard Chartered Bank
   21)‘Stop counting clicks. Start making money’ is the ad campaign that you would associate with….
                                HP
                                Nestle
                                IBM
                                Microsoft
   22)Can you identify the year in which the troubled investment bank of USA, Lehman Brothers, was founded?
                                1840
                                1850
                                1860
                                1870
    23)Which of the following personalities would you associate with the concept of ‘Core Competence’?
                                Deepak C Mahajan
                                Vijay Govindarajan
                                MB Athreya
                                CK Prahalad
   24)Vista is the name of a car model from....
                                Indica
                                Indigo
                                Santro
                                Palio
    25)Grasim Industries is a flagship company of….
                                Reliance Industries
                                AV Birla Group
                                Essar Group
                                RPG Enterprises
    26)Where would you find the headquarters of Diageo, world’s largest spirit maker?
                                London
                                New York
                                Geneva
                                Cape Town
    27)DHL is a logistics giant that hails from...
                                Italy
                                France
                                The UK
                                Germany
 28)Air Asia belongs to….
                                Singapore
                                Hong Kong
                                Indonesia
                                Malaysia
    29)Which of the following days is celebrated as the World Food Day?
                                October 12
                                October 14
                                October 16
                                October 18
    30)A Sage That Knows His Opinions is the authorized biography of…. 
                                Rupert Murdoch
                                Ted Turner
                                Warren Buffet
                                 Steve Jobs