cmybl 2011 business quiz

8/3/2019 CMYBL 2011 Business Quiz

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GRG SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES

URJITH 2011

CHANDRAKANTHI MEMORIALYOUNG BUSINESS LEADER AWARD

BUSINESS QUIZ

7 January 2011


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How much is the approximateannual production of milk in theorganised sector in India?

90 million tonnes


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Name the company.

Accenture


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Name the South Africancompany that Bharti AirTelacquired recently.

Zain Africa BV


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Which company is the owner ofthe Hercules and BSA brandsof bicycles in India?

TI Cycles of India(Murugappa Group)


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Some digital cameras arecategorised as SLR camera.What does SLR stand for?

Single Lens Reflex


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Who is the CEO (ManagingDirector) of Nokia India?

D. Shivakumar


10/90

Name the companyassociated with thislogo. When was the

logo launched?

Air India 1948(Sagittarius)


11/90

What is Indias Forex reserves as

at the end of July 2010? Of this,how much is Gold?

US$ 283bn US$ 19bn


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Worlds largest nuclear

power plant, costing aboutUS$ 22.7bn (Rs.1,01,582Cr) to be suppliedby France

The small town of Jaitapur hasbeen in the news recently for acontroversy relating to what?


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Who is the Indian JV partner ofthe US Confectionery giant,Hersheys?

Godrej


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Identify this person.

Shikha Sharma, CEO andMD of Axis Bank


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How many outlets (stores) doesWal-Mart have in India? Who isthe Indian partner?

Only 3 (all in Punjab) Bharti Enterprises


17/90

Name the founder and chiefeditor of Malayala Manoramawho

passed away recently at the ageof 93.

K.M. Mathew


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Name the company thatmanufactures Bailley, thepackaged drinking water. Who is

its CEO?

Parle Agro NadiaChauhan, Jt. MD


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Tata US$ 11.2bn

Which is the Most ValuableIndian brand and how much?


20/90

How many countries have issued

postage stamps on MahatmaGandhi?

150


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Who is known as the Sultan of

Sound and what is his companysname?

Amar Bose ofBose Corporation


22/90

Who is Indian acknowledgedas the father of thePentium Chip?

Vinod Dham


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How many Indian students havewon the prestigious Spell Beecontest conducted every year inthe USA since 1999?

Eight out of 12


24/90

Name the three Indian PrimeMinisters whose statues havebeen installed at the famous

Madame Tussauds in London.

Indira Gandhi,Narasimha Rao, andRajiv Gandhi


25/90

Name the title and the authorof the original book on whichthe Oscar-winning Slumdog

Millionaire was based.

Q&A by VikasSwarup


26/90

What is the original Indian wordfor Ginger?

The Tamil wordsInji and Ver


27/90

Name the author of the book It

Happened in India

Kishore Biyani and DipayanBaishya of Future Group


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According to Forbes, whose homewill be the worlds costliest andthe only billion-dollar homeglobally to be owned by anindividual?

Mukesh Ambani, in Mumbai


29/90

Name at least 3 Indians who areHeads of prestigious b-schoolsin the USA.

Dipak Jain of Kellogg, NitinNohria of Harvard, andSunil Kumar of UChicago


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Name the bank that has beenselected the Best Bank of 2010by Business India. Who is its

CEO?

Bank of BarodaM.D. Mallya


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He invented the Digital Diary in1975, and has recently inventedthe Mobile Wallet. Name him.

Sam Pitroda


32/90

Name the company thatmanufactures Fevicol, M-Seal,and Dr. Fixit brands of products.

Pidilite Industries


33/90

Which city is the venue forthe next CommonwealthGames in 2014?

Glasgow, Scotland


34/90

What is the fullname of thiscompany?

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu


35/90

What is ChotuKool?

A refrigerator manufacturedby Godrej that uses only a

cooling chip and a small fan


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What is the approximate total

number of employees at thetop 5 IT companies in India(TCS, Infosys, Wipro, CTS,

HCL)?

5,12,000


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Last year, the famous pen maker,Mont Blanc sold a special editionpen dedicated to Mahatma

Gandhi. How much was the price?

$ 25,000 (` 11,50,000)


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Name the top 3 mutual funds inIndia according to their averageAsset Under Management(AUM) value.

Reliance (1,02,179 crores),

HDFC (84,628 crores), ICICIPrudential (68,715 crores)


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Name the company that ownssuch brands as Lipton, Dove, andPonds.

Unilever Plc, UK


40/90

Identify thesetwo brands /logos

Maruti /HindustanMotors


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Which is the largest sellingsoap in India? How manyconsumers?

Lifebuoy over 600mn

consumers over 100years old


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According to the World BanksGlobal Competitiveness Index,what is Indias rank among the133 countries surveyed in 2009-10?

49. Switzerland is rankno. 1


43/90

What is the

approximate marketshare of Intel in theworld semiconductor

business?

14% (US$ 32bn)


44/90

Name the Union Minister ofState for Industry and

Commerce

Jyotiraditya Scindia


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Name the Chairman and CEO ofPepsiCos India Region.

Sanjeev Chadha


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Micromax Mobile

Sorry Michelangelo, it took us500 years to add that finishingtouch. Which companys ad-line

is this?


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49/90

According to the latest

Business Worldreport, whichare the top 5 companies in India(based on total assets)

Reliance Industries;Indian OilCorporation; ONGC;Tata Steel; BPCL


50/90

Who is the President of

NASSCOM?

Som Mittal


51/90

Of which organisation wasMs. Deena Mehta the firstwoman President?

Bombay StockExchange in 2001


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Who is/was the youngestelected President of USA toassume office?

John F Kennedy (43 years)


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According to a study by CII,what is the % of familybusinesses that survive till the3rd generation? What % beyond

the 3rd

generation?

13% and 4%


54/90

In telecom jargon, what doesARPU stand for?

Average Revenue

Per User AirTel230; Vodafone210; Tata 125


55/90

Who is the new Chief Minister ofMaharashtra?

Prithviraj Chavan,MoS in PMO


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Who is the highest paid CEO in

India?

Naveen Jindal 70Cr


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Who is the first personwithout an aviation backgroundto be awarded the honoraryrank of Group Captain by the

Indian Air force?

Sachin Tendulkar


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Name the top 5 Most Valuable

Indian companies in 2010,according to the latest BusinessTodaysurvey.

RIL, Infosys, TCS, BhartiAirTel, ITC


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Thi i l b l


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This is a globalleader in

networkingsolutions. Where isits name derived

from?

San Francisco


61/90

Vinita Bali is among the most

powerful CEOs in India. Of whichcompany is she the MD?

Britannia Industries


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Hotmail 363mn;

Yahoo 273mn;Gmail 193mn

What is the approximate

number of users of popularemail services Hotmail, Yahooand Gmail?


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In which city/country was themost recent G20 Summit held?

Seoul, South Korea


64/90

Identify thisfamous personality

Jamsetji NusserwanjiTata (founder of theTata Group)


65/90

In the end, all businessoperations can be reducedto three words people,

product, and profits saidwho?

Lee Iacocca, formerChairman of Chrysler


66/90

Who is the current President of

the Confederation of IndianIndustry (CII)?

Hari S Bhartia, Co-Chairman and MD ofJubilant Organosys


67/90

Who is the current Governor of

the Reserve Bank of India?

Duvvuri Subbarao


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According to TransparencyInternationals Corruption Index(2009), what is the score of India(on a scale of 1 to 10 1 being

most corrupt and 10 being least)?

3.3 ranked 87 among178 countries


70/90

Name the new

Chairman andDirector on theBoard of SpiceJet.

Kalanidhi Maran


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Which company is the worldslargest in terms of sales and howmuch?

Wal-Mart Stores US$ 400bn


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Name the author of the best

selling book We Are Like ThatOnly: Understanding the Logic ofConsumer India

Rama Bijapurkar


73/90

Identify thecompany / brand

KFC (KentuckyFried Chicken)


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What is special

about these 5brands?

They are the five mostvaluable global brands (US$280bn)


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Mobile Phones and Laptops(over 50% - 26/24 for girlsand 24/29 for boys)

Which are the two items most

sought after by kids (under theage of 15 years) in India, as perthe latest report in Business

Today?


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When was the first BPO set up inIndia and by whom?

1994 in Gurgaon by

American Express, soonto be followed by GE(Genpact, now)


79/90

Who were the first official users

of mobile phones in India andwhen?

West Bengal CM Jyoti

Basu and CommunicationsMinister Sukh Ram on31st July 1995


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1998 by Tata Motors(Indica)

When was the first fully-

indigenous Indian car launchedand by whom?


81/90

Which company was the first in

India to receive the Deming Prizefor Total Quality Management?When?

Sundaram Clayton in

1998 the secondAsian company outsideJapan


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83/90

This is the picture

of the worlds firstmotor cycle. Inwhich year was it

produced and bywhom?

1885 by Maybach and Daimler


84/90

What is the name of the scheme

of issuing unique identity card toevery citizen? When and where wasthe first UID card issued?

Aadhaar; September

2010 in NadurbarDistrict of Maharashtra


85/90

Name all the World Leaders who

visited India from July toDecember 2010.

David Cameron of UK (July 28-29); Barack Obama of USA(Nov 6-9); Nicolas Sarkozy of

France (Dec 4-7); Wen Jiabaoof China (Dec 15-17); DmitryMedvedev of Russia (Dec 20-22)


86/90

What does the word Tweetup

mean?

A meeting between people onTwitter


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He was the first Asian recipientof the Nobel Prize for literature.His 150th birth anniversary was

recently celebrated. Name him.

Rabindranath Tagore


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He is the CEO ofTata Motors.Name him.

Carl-Peter Forster


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Name the

brandambassador ofNissan Micra.

Actor Ranbir Kapoor

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