India

Q 1. What is special about these stamps launched by India Post ?

Ans. Coffee scented stamps

Q 2. What is unique about the payment wallet Hipbar that has got an RBI licence recently ?

Ans.  It is the wallet which allows to pay for liquor only

Q3. Who has started India’s first scholarship fund of Rs 100 crore for online education ?

Ans. Ronnie Screwvala

Q4. Along with PM Modi, one more Indian has been named in the Time 100 list of most influential people for the year. Name him

Ans. Vijay Shekhar Sharma of PayTM

Q5. Which TCS Exec has joined Niti Aayog to head the Atal Innovation Mission ?

Ans. Ramanathan Ramanan

Q6. Which company has launched a flavoured milk brand VIO ?

Ans. Coca Cola Co.

Global

Q7. Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia fame has now started a crowd sourced news site where reporters will check facts. What is it called ?

Ans. Wikitribune

Q8. Identify this fashion retailer and his brand, who has recently overthrown Jeff Bezos to become the second richest man in the world.

Ans. Amancio Ortega of IndiTex, owners of Zara

Q9. Why is Japan facing a severe potato wafers crunch leading to steep price rise ?

Ans.  Due to poor potato harvest there is short supply of potatoes.

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India

Q 1. Identify this media baron and his company. He passed away recently. RIP.

Ans. Ramesh Chandra Agrawal of Dainik Bhaskar

Q2. Which are the 5 cities where the oil companies will change oil prices daily from May 1 as a pilot project ?

Ans. Puducherry, Visakhapatnam, Udaipur, Jamshedpur and Chandigarh

Q3. The Western Railways local in Mumbai was started 150 years ago on April 12, 1867. What was the antecedent of WR called then ?

Ans. Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway Company

Q4. In the IPL season which brand has created a fictional IPL team Chonkpur Cheetahs ?

Ans. Amazon

Q5. Which PE firm has acquired controlling stake in Religare Health Insurance from Religare Enterprises ?

Ans. True North

Q6. Which company appointed M S Dhoni for a day as CEO where he even attended meetings and took decisions ?

Ans. Gulf Oil

Q7. Who has acquired the Kingfisher Villa in Goa, that earlier belonged to Vijay Mallya ?

Ans. Sachiin Joshi, a n actor and businessman

Q8. The Chinese brands of smartphones are all positioning themselves as Selfie cameras using Bollywood stars as their brand ambassadors. If Gionee : Alia Bhatt, Oppo : Deepika, Vivo : ?

Ans. Ranveer Singh

Global

Q9. Name the subsidiary of Toshiba that has created severe financial stress and even bankruptcy like situation for the parent company

Ans. Westinghouse Electric Company, the US subsidiary running nuclear power plants

Q10. Which airline is in the midst of a storm in social media for forcefully offloading a passenger ? It lost a billion $ in market cap.

Ans. United Airlines

Q11. Identify this former billionaire who gave away all his wealth to charity by end 2016 making him being called ‘ James Bond of philanthropy’ by Forbes.

Ans. Chuck Feeney

Q 12. Which sportswear has announced mass manufacture of sports shoes using 3 D printing ?

Ans. Adidas

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Q 1. Who is this former Rajya Sabha member and winner of Ramon Magsaysay Award, known as the father of the cooperative movement in India?

Ans) Tribhuvandas Patel, founder of the Kaira District Co-operative Milk Producers’ Union in 1946, and later the Amul co-operative movement in Anand

Q 2. Which Indian fintech company that provides consumers access to customised quotes on loans, credit cards or personal finance products was started in 2008 by Adhil and Arjun Shetty?

Ans. Bankbazaar.com

Q3. Which Indian scamster is known for cheating Mumbai based legal firm Purnanand and Co. and has been portrayed in a movie aptly titled Mudrank?

Ans. Abdul Karim Telgi, involved in fake stamp paper scam.

Q4. Incorporated in 1988 under the Companies Act, Container Corporation of India Ltd. (CONCOR), is a Navratna Public sector undertaking under which ministry?

Ans. Ministry of Railways

Q5. What started its operations in 2001 as ICICI InfoTech Upstream Ltd, a business process outsourcing organisation wholly owned by ICICI Bank and is now part of the RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group?

Ans. Firstsource

Q6. Kota sarees are popularly known as Kotadoria (doria means thread) outside the state. What are they called in Kota?

Ans. Masuria –  because they were originally woven in Mysore and later by weavers from Mysore.

Global

Q7. Which media personality owns this company?

Ans. Simon Cowell

Q8. What is the most famous brand of a group that traces its history to Mr. Bhuramull Chaudhary from Rajasthan who started his business towards the end of the eighteenth century by selling clothes to the royalty and high-end customers in a neighbouring country?

Ans. Wai Wai noodles of the Nepal based Chaudhary group

Q9. Identify this popular Disney franchise whose cast debuted in 1955 on a TV program called Sam and Friends

Ans. Muppets

Q 10. What file sharing protocol was designed in 2001 by Bram Cohen, a former student at Buffalo University?

Ans. Bit Torrent

Q 11. “Today is the end of sheloshim for my beloved husband—the first thirty days. Judaism calls for a period of intense mourning known as shiva that lasts seven days after a loved one is buried. After shiva, most normal activities can be resumed, but it is the end of sheloshim that marks the completion of religious mourning for a spouse” – who wrote this Facebook post in 2015?

Ans. Sheryl Sandberg after the death of her husband Dave Goldberg.

Q 12. Which B-school’s approach to business education in a global context and how it functions with a dual-campus setting (second campus being in Singapore), was the subject of a 2008 Harvard Business School case study by Srikant Datar, Davind Garvin and Carin-Isabel Knoop?

Ans. INSEAD

Q 13. What name was given to the formulation that stuck to everything with which it came in contact and which was first sold in 1958 under the title “Eastman #910”?

Ans) Superglue, invented by Harry Coover Jr. and a colleague while working as researchers for Eastman Kodak.

Q 14. Which company that started in 1898 as a small Berlin drugstore with a popular perfume section uses the logo shown here?

Ans. Schwarzkopf

Q 15. Google X Lab and development of Macintosh computer are examples of what kind of projects which American sociologist Everett Rogers defined as an “enriched environment that is intended to help a small group of individuals design a new idea by escaping routine organizational procedures?

Ans. Skunkworks, associated with Lockheed’s World War II Skunk Works project.

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India

Q 1, Along with Nano, which other successful model will Tata Motors withdraw as a part of its product rationalisation strategy ?

Ans. Tata Sumo

Q2. Indian Premier League (IPL)  is in its 10th edition this year. Yet, only 2 of its franchisees have turned profitable. Which are the two franchisees ?

Ans. Kolkata Knight Riders and Kings XI Punjab

Q3. After introducing Rs 2000 and new Rs 500 currencies, what denomination will RBI introduce shortly ?

Ans. Rs 200

Q4. Identify this bureaucrat turned CMD who believes in ‘ employees first’ and hence supported the employees in the Ravindra Gaikwad episode 

Ans. Ashwani Lohani of Air India

Global

Q5. Who invented LED bulb and with which company was he associated with ?

Ans. Nick Holonyak, General Electric. He invented the red diode

Q6. Which company after the recent rally has become No 1 auto company in terms of market capitalisation in the US ?

Ans. Tesla Motors has a higher market cap than GM and Ford now

Q7. Which country’s postal department has taken up delivery of KFC as a diversification move to survive ?

Ans. New Zealand Postal service

Q8. In which country would investor Warren Buffett’s picture appear in the cans of Coke ?

Ans. China

Q9. Which cosmetics brand had to withdraw its ad for the copy ‘ White is purity’ because it indicated racism as per some ?

Ans. Nivea

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