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❖ 20 questions!❖ 5,10,15,20 are star marked questions!❖ One point is awarded per correct
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Q 1
What is the original name of !Phiroze Jeejeebhoy Towers?
Q 2
Who was the first Finance Minister !of Independent India?
Q 3
Identify the currency.
Q 4
Who is the first executive in corporate India to get Director Identification Number
(DIN), the number being 0001?
Q 5*
"Rule No.1: Never lose money. !Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.”!
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Who said this famous statement?
Q 6
Situated at Hoshangabad, Madhya Pradesh,! it is the only company to produce this product.
Identify the product.
Q 7
Identify the deity.
Q 8
Whose signature does the !one-rupee note bear?!
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Finance Minister!Governor of RBI!Finance Secretary!
Q 9
Identify the person.
Q 10*
This bank established in 1943 in Kolkata, is one of the oldest and major commercial banks of India. Ghanshyam Das Birla, during the Quit
India Movement of 1942, had conceived the idea of organising a commercial bank with Indian capital and management. Which bank are we
talking about?
Q 11
Whose picture has been !on Israeli currency note?
Q 12
Who is an ‘open-collar worker’?
Q 13
Which english word originally meanings!Companion, who eats bread with you.
Q 14
Q 15*
Which term is used in economics to describe a situation where the inflation rate is high, the
economic growth rate slows down, and unemployment remains steadily high.
Q 16
Which country advocates !‘Gross National Happiness is more!
important than Gross National Product.’
Q 17
Identify the logo.
Q 18In a country’s economy under what account
would you find record of all monetary transactions between a country and the rest of
the world. These transactions include payments for the country's exports and imports of, services, financial capital, and financial
transfers?
Q 19
The original choice was the sketch of the Lion and Palm Tree. However it was
decided to replace the lion with the tiger, the national animal of India.!What are we talking about?
Q 20*
Identify the currency.
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Q 1
What is the original name of !Phiroze Jeejeebhoy Towers?
Bombay Stock Exchange Towers
Q 2
Who was the first Finance Minister !of Independent India?
R. K. Shanmukham Chetty
Q 3
Identify the currency.
Bitcoin
Q 4
Who is the first executive in corporate India to get Director Identification Number
(DIN), the number being 0001?
Ratan Tata
Q 5*
"Rule No.1: Never lose money. !Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.”!
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Who said this famous statement?
Warren Buffett
Q 6
Situated at Hoshangabad, Madhya Pradesh,! it is the only company to produce this product.
Identify the product.
Banknotes and coins
Q 7
Identify the deity.
Lord Kubera
Q 8
Whose signature does the !one-rupee note bear?!
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Finance Minister!Governor of RBI!Finance Secretary!
Finance Secretary
Q 9
Identify the person.
Harshad Mehta
Q 10*
This bank established in 1943 in Kolkata, is one of the oldest and major commercial banks of India. Ghanshyam Das Birla, during the Quit
India Movement of 1942, had conceived the idea of organising a commercial bank with Indian capital and management. Which bank are we
talking about?
UCO Bank
Q 11
Whose picture has been !on Israeli currency note?
Albert Einstein
Q 12
Who is an ‘open-collar worker’?
Person who work from home
Q 13
Which english word originally meanings!Companion, who eats bread with you.
Company
Q 14
OPEC countries
Q 15*
Which term is used in economics to describe a situation where the inflation rate is high, the
economic growth rate slows down, and unemployment remains steadily high.
Stagflation
Q 16
Which country advocates !‘Gross National Happiness is more!
important than Gross National Product.’
Bhutan
Q 17
Identify the logo.
Bharatiya Mahila Bank
Q 18In a country’s economy under what account
would you find record of all monetary transactions between a country and the rest of
the world. These transactions include payments for the country's exports and imports of, services, financial capital, and financial
transfers?
Balance of Payment
Q 19
The original choice was the sketch of the Lion and Palm Tree. However it was
decided to replace the lion with the tiger, the national animal of India.!What are we talking about?
RBI seal
Q 20*
Identify the currency.
Euro
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QIn 1534, during the Portuguese rule, this place, which is an archipelago of seven
islands, was leased to Mestre Diogo for an annual rent of about Rs. 537, payable at the
royal treasury in Bassein.!What place for we talking about?
Bombay
QConstruction of this monument started in 1785
and one of Asaf-ud-Daula's objectives in embarking on this project was to provide
employment for people in the region for almost a decade while the famine lasted. !
It is said that ordinary people used to work in the day building up the edifice, while noblemen and other elite worked at night to break down
anything that was raised that day.
Bara Imambara
QThis bank was established by Shri. Attavar
Balakrishna Shetty at Bunts Hostel in Mangalore in 1931. The objective was to
promote banking habits, thrift and entrepreneurship among the farming
community of Dakshina Kannada district in Karnataka State.!
Which bank are we talking about?
Vijaya Bank
QThe Babylonians developed a system which was
practiced by early Mediterranean sailing merchants. If a merchant received a loan to fund
his shipment, he would pay the lender an additional sum in exchange for the lender's
guarantee to cancel the loan should the shipment be stolen. Which prominent practice of
today traces its roots to the above story?
Insurance
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An Inquiry into the !Nature and Causes of the!
____ ____ _____!!
Fill in the blanks.
Wealth of Nations
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In the early 18th Century, Lahore was famous for its weekend markets. Which term gets its name
from the tradition that the first sale on every market day was made to a dwarf?
Bouni
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5090160983!5090160984!
What are these?
Anil and Mukesh Ambani Swiss bank accounts
QJoseph Stalin implemented the first of its kind
in the Soviet Union in the late 1920s. Most communist states and several capitalist countries
subsequently have adopted them. China and India both continue to use this, although China
renamed as guideline. !What are we talking about?
Five Year Plan
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It was made with an estimated expenditure of Rs.1-1.5 crore. Shapoorji Mistry, grandson of producer Shapoorji Pallonji Mistry, gave a fitting tribute to complete his grandfather's unfinished dream of colorizing it entirely.!
What are we talking about?
Mughal-e-Azam
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In 2005, Forbes put a list of 15 richest fictional characters. Santa Claus was given number one ranking with his wealth as ‘infinite’. Why was he dropped from the list in subsequent years?
Claus is 'real.'
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This day sometime in late October 1929 was the most devastating stock market crash in the
history of the United States. The event on this day marked the beginning of a 10 year long
Great Depression. !What is that day known as?
Black Tuesday
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What is Golden Handcuff?
Golden handcuffs are a system of financial incentives designed to keep an employee from
leaving the company.
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