- Ajith is endorsing Independence brand of biscuits. Who owns this brand ?
Ans. Reliance Consumer Products
2. Winter is here. So here is a legacy skincare brand that was once owned by Colgate Palmolive, now by ITC in India. Identify the brand and the model.
Ans. Charmis ..Neerja Bhanot
3. Another legacy brand where Neerja Bhanot was the model. Identify it…Lots of nostalgia associated with this brand.
Ans. Binaca
4. South Seas Distillery is owned by a Parsi family – Chinoys. They are in distillery business since 1885. They have launched a single malt whisky that is being talked about. Its brand name ?
Ans. Crazy Cock
5. What were the names of the 2 digital wallet apps that ran a ponzi scheme like operations involving 15 lakh customers across many states starting with Gujarat where they used to pay 0.15% to 0.30% daily interest on wallet balances and have now vamoosed causing losses of the order of atleast 1200 crores to common people ?
Ans. SDPay and Apna Pay
6. Ramayana is a film with one of the biggest budgets for an Indian film There is talk of the 2 parts costing over 4000 crore . Now, interestingly the biggest budget line is VFX..Name the company promoted by the producer of Ramayana Namit Malhotra and also the co that owns a controlling stake in the VFX studio DNEG..This makes the budget claim a.little hard to believe.
Ans. Prime Focus
7. Here are 3 books, 2 biographies and 1 autobiography related to 3 business leaders belonging to 1 business family group. Name the group
1.Cementing Legacies: The Life of SNN Sankaralinga Iyer – A Pioneering Polymath by K Balakumar
2. Friendships and Flashbacks by K S Narayanan
3. N. Sankar – A Born Leader by V Sriram
Ans. Sanmar Group
8. Abhishek Ganguly of X first signed Virat Kohli as a brand ambassador of X..Then Abhishek and few of his colleagues left X, created a co Y and acquired Mochiko a mfr of sports shoes. Y later signed a deal for with Lotto to do everything from design to market in India. Y later made a share swap deal with Virat Kohli’s One 8 thus giving Virat a stake in Y..Virat stopped endorsing X..Now Y is the only major integrated mfr to do everything from design to market sportswear
What are X and Y ?
Ans. Puma and Agilitas
9. China has become a major exporter of cars. Its 2026 exports have grown by 65 %..Which co with its brands like Omoda, Tiggo, Exeed Jetour etc is the largest exporter from China ?
Ans. Chery
10. X operates around 160 outlets in India and more than 30 internationally, with a workforce of over 15,000 employees. The company has a strong presence in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka and sells South Indian food, sweets and savouries through its restaurant network and packaged food business.
Identify X whose promoters have sold a controlling stake to Bodhi Tree an investment firm promoted by Uday Shankar and James Murdoch.
Ans. A2B or Adyar Ananda Bhavan
11. Identify this NVidia board member..She after a BS and MS in Stats and Maths from India did a PhD in US..She rose to become a Sr Executive in pharma co Eli Lilly…She is a board member in NVidia and several other companies and NGOs. She is part of the team that will select Jensen Huang’s successor.
Ans. Aarti Shah
12. Today is Juhi Chawla’s birthday…Her husband is a businessman…Besides KKR in which both are invested besides Shahrukh , her husband is Chairman of a fairly large cement co ..Which one ?
Ans. Saurashtra Cement
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