B usiness Quiz Questions - India Business

Quiz with Answers

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
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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