Business Quiz Questions - India Business Quiz with Answers

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1) What is the name of Headquarters 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: Dominique Strauss Kahn

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 Sweden)

21) Who is the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize for Economics?
Answer: Amartya Sen (for his studies in Welfare Economics)

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 Benegal 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