About India - Business quiz

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1)    What would be the name of the airline brand which ROYAL AIRWAYS erstwhile modiluft airways is going to launch this summer?

Spice Jet

2) What is the name of the low cost airline floated by AIR INDIA?
    Air-India Express

3) Which company has done an in house advertisement in AIR DECCAN? Also which

    Television Company is written in AIR DECCAN flights?
    NDTV

4) Which is the biggest passenger plane??
    Airbus A380

5) What is the name of the holding company JET AIRWAYS promoted by Naresh Goyal?

    Tail Winds [Registered in the Isle of Man, Mauritius, owns 99.99% in Jet Airways]

6)    Who is the started Air Deccan?

     Captain G.R. Gopinath

7) Rono Dutta is CEO of which Airlines? He represented which Airlines in the past as CEO?
    Air Sahara [Previously United Airlines]

8) Which Airline associated with the Billionaire Howard Hughes, finally went under in

    January 2001 and was bought over by American Airlines?

    TWA or Trans World Airline

9) Busiest airport in the world?

     Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Atlanta US

10) What was Spice Jet Ltd. previously known as ?

     Royal Airways [Modiluft Airways. of K.K.Modi Group]

11) Who makes Mirage fighter jets?
      Dassault Aviation

12)         Some aero planes of which airline sported Meera Mehta’s "Paithan Sari Motif” on  

      their tails for sometime?
       British airways

13)  IA signed a 120 Cr. deal recently with a company for providing aircraft maintenances 

support? Which company?
Kingfisher Airlines [the airlines floated by liquor baron Vijay Mallaya started operations on May

     with a Banglore-Mumbai flight, said pricing would be not like Air Deccan but around 20% 

    cheaper then Jet, Sahara and IA.]

14) V. Thulasidas is associated with which company?

      Air India, Managing Director

15) Airline Code for King Fisher Airlines?
     IT (one of the better Q’s in the Quiz)

16) Who is eyeing a 74% stake in AIR SAHARA??
     SpiceJet

17) With which group ZEE group has done alliance 2 compete with Times of India in Mumbai 

      and other regions?

      Dainik Bhaskar group

18) How do you know Indra Nooyie? Her recent achievement?
     CEO of Pepsi Co. Achievement is in a joint committee with CEO Steven Reinemund to develop   

      North American market

19) Who is the highest paid CEO of India? Latest achievement?
      Vivek Paul – Wipro, Achievement is he has got a place in Barron's list of top 30 managers of  

      the world

20) Liquor baron VIJAY MALLAYA owns a monthly magazine. Name it.

     CINEBLITZ

21) Name the television channel of UTV.

      Hungama TV

22) Which Bank was the main funding partner for Ambani when he started out?

      Syndicate bank

23) Metal Junction, the dotcom for procurement and selling services of steel products and

     Ferro alloys, is the venture between which two Indian steel companies?
     Sail & Tata Steel

24) Which Indian company recently forged a joint venture with the Michelin Group, one of

      the global tyre majors?
     Apollo tyres

25) In which television channel does actor Jackie Shroff have a stake?
      SONY entertainment television

26) Eureka Forbes is part of which group of companies?
      TATA Group

27) Who has been the only Chairman of the Tata Group who wasn’t a Tata?

      Sir Nowroji Saklatvala

28) Mudra, India's 1st adv firm, started with only one customer? Which one?

      Reliance

29) What’s the name of autobiography written by Mudra's just retired CEO?

       THE INVISIBLE CEO by A.G. Krishnamurthy

30)      Recently which company has acquired the ColorPlus?

       RAYMOND (Gautam Singhania)

31) When send an SMS and end up winning a free cruise in Singapore!' this headline was

      seeing in the print ad of which cellular phone service brand?

      Airtel

32) Ravi Deol is the CEO of which company?
     BARISTA

 

33) Currently with which company, Alcatel has tied-up to beef up its marketing and

      distribution channel?

      Agrani

34) Which company has launched 'most fuel-efficient' bike?
      Hero Motors

35) Ashwin Dani is the Managing Director of which company?
     Asian Paints

36) Which agency currently handles HP Gas account?
      HTA

37) 'Now, 2 different talcs in the same pack!' this headline was seeing in the print ad of 

       which talcum powder brand?

       Fair and Lovely

38) The brand Galleria belongs to?
    Galleria is of THOMSON (claiming US's no 1 TV company)

39)Which brand has the "Whistle and win contest"?

      PRESTIGE

40) After RELIANCE INFOCOMM, which company has now fallen into a row with BSNL 

      regarding inter connectivity problems?
      Tata Indicom

41) A company has agreed to pay somewhat like 100 crores to M.F.Hussain for his 100 

     paintings? what is the name of the company?
     Swarup Group of Industries

42) And who has been roped 2 endorse the paintings??
      FARDEEN KHAN

43)Mr. M A Alagappan is the chairman of which Indian bicycle major?
     Tube Investement Cycles (TI cycles) [Part of the Murugappa Group]

44) Which ad agency currently handles the ‘Outlook’ magazine account?
      Triton Communications

45) which nationalized bank has signed a MoU with Bajaj Auto Limited to finance Bajaj two-

     Wheelers?

Canara bank

46) Which suiting brand has come up with a ‘Win 4 Sure’ offer, which entitles a consumer to 

      an assured gift?
     GRASIM

47) Which car major has recently launched ‘Petra’ in Indian market?
      FIAT

48) Tobacco major ‘Godfrey Phillips’, is a flagship company of which group?
       K K Modi

      [Shri Krishan Kumar Modi (born on-August 27, 1940 at Patiala) is the eldest son of Late Rai  

       Bhadur Gujrarmal Modi (1902-1976), the Founder of MODI GROUP OF INDUSTRIES
      Godfrey Phillips India is a joint venture between K K Modi (36.67%) and Philip Morris (35.93%)  

      of the US, Also K.K. Modi owns MODICARE. and he is ex-Chairman of FICCI]

49) Which company owns The Black Berrys range of ready-made garments ?

       Mohan Clothing Company, Gurgaon

50) The brand Keo Karpin belongs to which company?
      Dey's medical

51) What does BPL & LG stands for?
      LG - Lucky Goldstar

      BPL - British Physical Laboratories

52) What is the projected name of the new ZEE-DAINIK BHASKAR alliance newspaper to be 

      launched in Mumbai in June?
      DNA [DNA-Daily News & Analysis]

53) Name the news channel owned by DAINIK JAGRAN?

      Channel 7

54) Which company was involved in a controversy for having used Adolph Hitler's picture in

      its advertisement?

      Louis Philippe

55) Where are the Head Quarters of Asian Development Bank?

Manila

56) Which company is India’s largest synthetic textile producer?

      Reliance

57) Whats does TIPS stand in TIPS Cassettes Industries?

      To Improve and Promote Singing

58) What is the name of the music label(company) owned by producer VASHU

      BHAGNANI?
      PUJA MUSIC

59) Which is the largest traded e-commerce site in India?

      http://www.irctc.com  tickets booking site of Indian Railways

60) A comp painted whole of concord blue for ad campaign, which was it?

      PEPSI

61) Mr. V. Leeladhar is the chairman of which nationalized bank?

      Union Bank of India

61) Which television brand has announced the launch of its ‘Gol do, Flat lo’ exchange offer?

      SAMSUNG

62) What is the name of the mobile launched by NOKIA in India starting from 2lakhs to 17 

      lakhs premium range. and who is the distributor for it?

      Mobile:  Vertu,  Distributor: Regent Watches & Jewellery Company, MUMBAI

63) Tehelka.com is a part of which company?

  Agni Media Pvt Ltd

64) Which company was launched by Manoj Prabhakar?

      Naturence Research Labs Pvt Ltd

65) Why was Rajdeep Sardesai in news recently?
      Rajdeep recently left NDTV, considered to be his Alma mater is Times of India

     [He left NDTV n joined hands with TV18 group for BROADCAST news channel- a journalists'    

     initiative. to be launched in September/October 2005]

66) A recent magazine named this as “India’s best known and biggest brand overseas”, 

      though it is not a brand in the conventional sense. Name the brand.

IIT

67) Which Indian confectioneries brand and Times Warner are involved in legal wrangle 

      over the 'Bunny' logo?

      Nutrine

68) What we know as Maruti Zen was launched worldwide by Suzuki in the 90’s under
       what name?
      Alto

69) In which fashion house did the minister Maneka Gandhi address her remark, "The skin 

      of the python is no less precious to the snake than fur is to the fox"?
      Calvin Klein

70) First ever IPO by some bollywood company?

       Mukta Arts

71) Which publishing group owns Star News?

      ABP-Anand Bazaar Publications

72) Once mudra high post guy was sittin watching a cric match, suddenly his mind gets an 

      idea and he creates a first ever kind of its ad (by Mudra of course), a mega hit !! Can u

      recall the ad?

      it was only Vimal, match was between India & West Indies, so its the ad of Viv in Vimal and

      was first ad with cricketers in suiting

73) The Monte Carlo and Canterbury brands are owned by ?
       Mohan Clothing

74) Which cloth manufacturing company has filed its IPO papers with SEBI ?
       Provogue [Acme Clothing]

75) What would be the new name of Hindustan Lever Limited(HLL) ?

      Hindustan Unilever India

76) Which former high profile CEO in India has started the firm SKA Advisory?

      Sunil Alagh of Britannia

77) Which site is the 2nd largest online trading site after icicidirect.com??
      http://www.indiabulls.com/

78) Which are the two production companies floated by ShahRukh Khan??
      Dreamz Unlimited / Red Chillies Entertainment

79) What is the name of the movies producing company of Birla's?Name two movies

      produced by the same company?
     The company is Applause Entertainment Pvt Ltd.
     The two movies are Dev(Amitabh Bacchan) & Black

80) Name two movies produced by Kishore Biyani's Pantaloons?

      Hritik's Na Tum Jaano Na Hum
     CHURA LIYA HAI TUMNE(Esha Deol n Zayed Khan)

81) Which actor is the MD of a BPO called as Pro-Lease
      Arvind Swami

82) Which Indian company is the largest producer of denim in the world?
      Arvind Mills

83) What is Joint Venture between NTPC and BSES knows as??

       UTILITY POWER TECH LTD [Incorporated 1996 -- NTPC 50% BSES 50%]

84) Which Private group is the largest producer of white cement in India?

85) Which Private group is the world leader in viscose staple fiber?

86) Which Private group is the world’s largest single location palm oil refinery?

 (84)-(85)-(86) Aditya Birla Group [Cement-Grasim n Refinery-Pan Century]

87) ITC and HLL each has started CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) initiatives. What 

      Were they?

  E-Choupal n Project Shakti

88) Unlike reliance, which other Indian major solved the bro-bro fight btw themselves 

       without going to the court?

       Bajaj

89) How we know Bajaj Tempo today?
      Force Motors

90) Bajaj Auto is going to re-launch one of their bikes. Which bike?
      Eliminator

91) Who is Kinetic's partner for bringing Acquila in India?

      Hyosung Motors

92) What is the name of the new FM channel introduced by India Today?
      Red FM [on 26th June 2002 - Punch line - "Red is in your hand"]

93) What is 'Agfa' the trade mark for?

     Pictures & Photo accessories

94) Which company's commercial is India's first win at Cannes?

Erricson Mobile

     [One black coffee, please' TV commercial by Ericsson when it launched the smallest mobile 

       phone in 1996. (Ad director: Prasson Pandey)]

95) What was the erstwhile name of the Ambassador?
       Hindustan Landmaster

96) New model planned for Chevy?
       Chevy Trailblazer ss

97) Skoda's recent launch??
       Skoda interiors Laurin & Klement

98) STAR in STAR network stands for--
      Satellite Television for Asian Region

99) TEN in TEN Sports stands for--

       Taj Entertainment Network

100) Mudra got Rasna as its 2nd customer, to catapult it in soft drink market, what ad line 

       did Mudra came up with

      I love u Rasna

101) What business exactly did reliance start in?

       Textiles

102) What would be the new name of Bajaj Eliminator??

         Avenger

103) What is common to the BSE and the Vadodara Stock Exchange?
        Both are located on Dalal Street

104) 1st Indian Listing on Singapore Stock Exchange--
       Meghmani Organics

105) Kinetic engg. is going to launch Rs.2 lakhs sports bike called--
       Comet 250

106) Weekly Entertainment supplement of Hindustan Times--
        Brunch
 

107) 1st PSU to come up with concept of Branded Fuel--
        BPCL

108) Which company is marketing Royal Enfield?
        Eicher Group Sidharth Lal

109) Which person is behind store chain `Westside'?
        Simone Tata

110) Which brand is related to `Westside'?
        Lakme

111) Which food joints had a major ad Blitz with the "Hungry Kya?' campaign?
        Dominoz Pizza

112) Which company has 49% stake in `Fascel'?

        Hutchinson

113) From whom Hindustan Lever took over Lakme?
       TATA Group

114) By which name WESTSIDE was known earlier?

   Littlewoods

         [The Westside story really began in 1997, when the Tatas sold Lakme, their cosmetics business, to Hindustan Lever and acquired the Britain-based Littlewoods retail chain. A new entity called Trent Limited emerged from this move and Littlewoods was renamed Westside. Today Westside has seven outlets, one each in Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Mumbai, Pune, New Delhi and Kolkata.,Ahmedabad]

115) Who is the Brand ambassador for Jolen(US company) beauty care in India?
       Pakistani Actress Meera [She unveiled the product in Bangalore recently]

116) Which automobile company in India is going to unveil its new logo soon?
        Kinetic

117) Fortune brand of hotels are owned by?

   ITC group

118) Current chairman of the planning commission of India?
        Manmohan Singh

119) Who made the largest foreign acquisition by an Indian ever?

        Mr. P. Chatterjee [The Chatterjee Group in West Bengal, acquired Basell NV of Netherlands 

       with the help of Access Industries of US]

120) How many companies does the Tata group own?
        91

121) Who owns 'the Marine Scope' , 'Twin city Times' (Papers of San Francisco)?
        Vijay Mallya

122) Which ex-Indian Cricketer owns the company 'PDM Sports'?

   Ajay Jadeja

123) HAL chairman?

       N R Mohanti

124) What is the Korean steel major that plans to set up a steel plant in Orissa, the biggest

        proposed FDI in India till date?
        Posco Steel

125) Which product/service was promoted with the phrase "let your fingers do the walking'?

        Yellow Pages

126) Which publishing house launched a tea brand that subsequently failed called 'Editor's

       Choice'?

       Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd(TOI n ET publisher)

127) Sidestreet, High street, Gotsby and Rituals are a range from whom?

        Rayban

128) Videocon recently brought the electronic division of--
        Hyundai.........exactly Hyundai Electronics India Ltd

129) Head of Bisleri? He owned lot more brands other than Bisleri...to which co. did he sell?
         Ramesh Chauhan. [He made a bundle selling ThumsUp,GoldSpot aadi to Coke back in the 

         day]

130) For which item is Tirupur well known as a huge exporter to many parts of the world?

   Knitted Garments

131) Which company owns CMC Ltd?

   CMC is a TATA Enterprise

132) Which place in India is well known for its Bio-Diesel Plant?

    Kakinada in AP

133) Which group owns Business-World Magazine?

    Anand Bazaar Patrika
 

134) What was so special about Naina Lal Kidwai when she did her MBA from Harvard in

       1984?

  She was the first Indian Woman to Graduate from the Harvard Business School, in 1982

135) Who's the chairman of Biocon India Ltd?

   Kiran Mazumdar Shaw

136) While plans of POSCO, a steel major, has been mothballed, which another steel giant

       (and from which country) has awaken to make a mark at the dawn of emerging great

        Indian Economy?

        LNM Steel. They're looking at a Greenfield project in Jharkand that has the TATA's cryin  

        Hoarse, And Posco is in trouble with its project in Orissa as they want to export much more 

        tones of iron ore from Orissa than the govt is willing to allow

137) How do we Know MAKER CHAMBERS IV, 222 Nariman Point , Mumbai better as ?

        Reliance Industries has its HQ on 3rd floor , Maker chambers , Nariman Point .

138) How do we know the Institution, Rippan Kapur started way back in 1979, with a mere

        Rs 50/- ?
        Ripan Kapur started Child Relief and You ( CRY ) to help millions of destitute children across   

        country . [Commendable entrepepreneurship by Ripan , who started this operation from his 

        house dining table . His first fund raising event was "Buy a brick , Build a School" way back in 

        1980 and was aimed at sensitizing privileged school children towards the needs of their

        Lesser-privileged counterpart .]

139) How do we know "Burmah Shell " today ?

        BPCL (A Government of India Undertaking ) was established in 1976, when the Burmah Shell   

        Oil Storage & Distribution Company of India was nationalized .

140) How much are LUX Beauty soap models paid ?
         Nothing !!! It is a privilege for a models/actress to be in LUX Beauty soap opera.

141) Amartya Sen, seats high on Indian Government Order of precedence, than the Chief

        Election Commissioner. Serious OR Joking?

        I am serious .

       [The Indian order of precedence is the protocol list at which Indian government officials are   

        seated according to their hierarchy. This is not the list of succession. Bharat Ratna carries no

        special title, but they do have a place in the order of precedence.

1   President
2   Vice President
3   Prime Minister
4   Governors of States in their governing states
5   Former Presidents
5a Deputy Prime Minister (if existing)
6  Chief Justice of India 
     Speaker of the Lok Sabha
7   Union Cabinet Ministers
     Chief Ministers in their governing states
     Dy. Chairman, Planning Commission
     Former Prime Ministers
     Leaders of Opposition of the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
7a  Bharat Ratna awardees
8    Ambassadors extraordinary and plenipotentiary and High Commissioners of

                   Commonwealth accredited to India.
      Chief Ministers of states, outside their governing states.
      Governors of states outside their respective states.
9    Judges of the Supreme Court
9a  Chief Election Commissioner
      Comptroller and Auditor-General
10  Dy. Chairman, Rajya Sabha
      Dy. Chief Ministers of their states
      Dy. Speaker, Lok Sabha
      Members of the Planning Commission
      Ministers of State in the Union and Defence Ministry
11  Attorney General of India
      Cabinet Secretary
      Lt. Governors within their Union territory
12  Chiefs of Staff holding the rank of full General or equivalent rank

142) Grandpa King and Granny Queen. which organization gives away those titles

   Grandpa King and Granny Queen - Beauty Contest for aged people by Helpage India.

143) What was the name of Mahindra and Mahindra and where does that name came from?

  Mahindra & Mohammad. it was formed before independence, after independence

  Mr. Mohammad left India. so it was changed to Mahindra & Mahindra keeping M & M as same

144) Name of the DTH of Tata-Star venture? Also tell about the stake of both the parties.
        Space TV -- 80% Tata and 20% Star Group.

145) Which company owns Dish TV?
       Zee Group

146) Which Indian got listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the worlds

       youngest self-made millionaire?

       Bunny Reuben

147) Along with Gary Hamel, which Indian coined the term 'core competency'?

        C K Prahalad

148) Which Indian sportsperson formed 'Hyde Park' Entertainment, a film production

        company in Hollywood with David Hoberman in 1999?

        Ashok Amritraj

149) Which businessman of Indian Origin is the Lord Paul of Marylebone? He was the

        founder of which group of Industries?

        Lord Swaraj Paul, Caparo Group

150) What was formed under the banyan tree at Horniman Circle?

        Bombay Stock Exchange.

151) The first public sector share quoted in BSE?

        HPCL

152) The first woman president of a stock exchange in India?

        Omana Abraham, Cochin Stock Excange

153) Which top Indian honor did renowned cartoonist R.K. Laxman win recently?
        The Padma Bhushan

154) DNA is being launched by ?

         Zee Bhaskar

155) What is common to Kapildev, Mithun Chakravarthy, Zakir Hussain, Kamalahaasan?

        They all appeared in ads of finance ministry for VDIS (Voluntary Disclosure of Income  

        Scheme)

156) Which telecommunications giant also owns the phone making company beetel?

        Bahrti Telecom

157) From whom did LN Mittal buy his palatial home in UK?

        Bernie Ecclestone, the Formula One motor racing tycoon for $120 million from. [It is called 

        Billioner's lane where you would find the palaces of Queen, Elton Jhone and such likes.]

158) Who was the first female sportsperson to endorse Pepsi?
        Sabatini

159) This famous multinational company entered the Indian biscuit market & took 

        operations of Nutrine confectionaries. Within two years of its launch it announced its

        exit from Indian market. Name the company.
        Sara Lee

160) What is the name of India's first two way high speed internet device launched by Bharti

        Broadband?
        Skymantra

161) when Steel Ministry in India was first formed? Who was the head of it then?

        The ministry of Steel was formed on 30th May, 1955 and the first steel minister was   

         Krishnamachari.

162) The number of Agriculture Export Zones at present in India is?

        46

163) What is an unusual service offered by Bank of Baroda at Tirupati?

        It’s the Prasada, the special darshan ticket holders collect their Ladoo at the bank counter

164) Hindustan Motors' Ambassador adopted its model from Which British car model?

        Morris Oxford

165) Recently our Honorable PM has formed Knowledge Commission. Who is the chairman

        of the commission?
        Sam Pitroda of World Tel

166) Khaitan's (which) tea company bought which another Tea Company (which is the

        holder group)?

        Brijmohan Khaitan's tea company McLeod Russel is buying Williamson Tea Assam
        Holding Company Borelli Tea Holdings Ltd, UK

167) Can you tell the % growth for the following industries in 2004-05?
        Software - 34%
       Textile -29.4%
       BPO- somewhere near 31.5%

168) Company 'maharashtra scooters' belong to which group?

         Bajaj

169) 'Nobody cares as much' is the tagline of which firm?

        Taj Hotels, Resorts & Palaces

170) India's first color TV was launched by which company & in which year?

        In 1983, through a technical tie-up with Toshiba of Japan, Videocon International Limited

        launched India's first Color Television

171) Which Indian conglomerate’s logo is designed by Wolf Olins and it reflects the 'Fluid

        Motion'?

        TATAS

172) Which famous Indian mascot was conceived and created by Bobby Kooka along with

        Umesh Rao, an artist with J.Walter Thompson Ltd., Mumbai?

        Air India maharaja

173) What is the exact designation hold by Mr.Piyush Pandey at O&M?

        Chairman and National Creative Director of O&M.

174) Nirma has entered into an alliance with Procter & Gamble to manufacture and 

       distribute one of its brands in India. Which one?

  Camay

175) In 2001, which Indian Industrial house obtained world rights to Allen Solly?

   Indian Rayon

176) Who owns the majority stake in CNBC (name the TV channel)?

   Raghav Bahl's TV18

177) In which year did the Bournvita quiz contest make its debut?

   Bournvita Quiz Contest made its debut on radio in 1972 and moved to television in 1994

178) Which agency did UTI hire to rebuild its image, after the fiasco of its US-64 scheme?

   FCB Ulka

179) Who runs the Bangalore-based Stump Vision - the only company in India focused on

        providing software solutions to the sporting fraternity?

   Anil Kumble

180) What is the name of to be launched news channel of Benett,Coleman n Co. Ltd?
        Times Now

181) Which company owns Farex brand?
        Heinz

182) Which Indian economist or guru has signed up Sachin Tendulkar as its BA for 1 of its 

       organization?
        Arindam Chaudhary for his GIDF(Great Indian Dream Foundation)

183) K.Srikanth is endorsing which brand(also looking for product name)?

        LG, MAX

184) Which group owns INOX cinemas??

  Inox group

185) Which Indian actor has inspired the brands SK Gold and SK Silver?
        Shah Rukh Khan

186) Ezee, Trilo & Key from Cussons India Ltd., was acquired by whom ?

       Godrej

187) Which mercantile institution was set up by Sardar Dayal Singh Majithia on 19 May,

       1894, with an emblem of three mountain peaks?
       Punjab National Bank

188) Which trading house was started in 1894 as a collaboration between Tata Sons and

        Volkart Brothers?
        Voltas

189) The companies EID Parry, Carborundrum Universal and Coromandel Engineering are

       all part of which Indian business group?
       The Murugappa Group

190) What trade organization was founded by a group of industrialists led by G.D. Birla and

        Purushottam Thakur Das in 1927?
        FICCI [Federation of International Chambers and Commerce of India]

191) Which industrialist, who was also responsible for setting up the Vishakhapatnam

        Shipyard, established the Hindustan Aircraft Ltd. in Bangalore in 1940?
         Walchand Hirachand

192) Which Indian brand name, set up by the Tatas, get its name from a Leon Delibes opera

        about an Indian maiden called Lakshmi?
        Lakme

193) Which Calcutta-born industrialist contributed a sum of Rs 22000 in the twenties for

       C.V. Raman’s path breaking research, which won him the Nobel Prize?
        G.D. Birla

194) With the acquisition of which British owned hotel did M.S.Oberoi start his hotel chain

       in 1934?
       Cecil Hotel Simla

195) Which company began in the late nineteenth century from a small house in Calcutta’s

        Cotton Street, which served as Dr.S.K Burman’s free dispensary?
        Dabur

196) Which business magnate pioneered the concept of a hospital as a corporate venture

       through his Indian Hospital Corporation formed in 1982?
       Pratap Reddy

197) What company was set up by T.P.G. Nambiar in 1963 to manufacture measuring

        instruments like multimeters and oscilloscopes?
        BPL India Ltd

198) Who resigned as a finance minister in 1958 following Justice Chagla’s report on the

        LIC Haridas Mundhra share imbroglio?
        T T Krishnamachari

199) Gulf Oil and IndusInd Bank are group companies of which business house?
        The Hindujas

200) Which Indian household brand name was initiated by Kaka Dandekar in 1930 as a

        Swadeshi product range, and was named after an American cigarette brand?
        Camel

201) In 1984, which company became the first to be taken over by its worker’s union?
        Kamani Tubes Ltd

202) In 1872 which Parsi master ship-builder who was originally from Surat, constructed the

        first docks in Bombay?
        Jamsedji Wadia

203) Which Indian businessman entered into a collaboration with Carr Gordon and Princep

        to form India’s first foreign collaboration in 1833?
        Dwarka Nath Tagore

204) When the Prince of Wales Museum started in 1922 the art collection of which business

        house was the first major acquisition of the museum?

       Tatas

205) PIT Stops are retail sales and Service Outlets for which automotive battery brand?
        Amaron

206) The Future of India-Politics, Economics & Governance; who wrote the Book ?
         Bimal Jalan

207) “Eicher” Sold to which company?
        TAFE

208) “Kool” is a brand name of which Cigar company ?
        R.J.Reynolds

209) Jumbo King in Bombay

         Vada Pav .

210) Who wrote the Jingle, “Naughty but Nice” for a Shampoo Ad

        Salman Rushdie.

211) Which city in eastern India was originally built for the workers of Sakchi and got its

       present name in 1919?

       Jamshedpur

212) The bat is the registered trademark of which drinks company?
        Bacardi

213) Which company has opened "ProBiking" showrooms across various cities in India??

        BAJAJ AUTO [Probiking showrooms will sell bikes all bikes with a power of more than 150cc

        will be sold there, so as of now 2 bikes of Bajaj in the >150 cc segment, Pulsar 180 n

        Avenger – Avenge too is 180cc DTSi engine]

214) Who took a major stake in Landmark recently??
        Trent

215) Which company may buy out 25% in Vivek's (South India's famous consumer durable

        shop)?
        Pantaloon

216) PVR cinemas may be acquired by?

        Anil Ambani

217) Which music channel owns VH1(music channel)???
        M TV

218) Who owns Ayush therapy centers?
         Hindustan Lever

219) Expand MTR.
        Mid Term Review

220) Which auto company owns Sunadaram Fasteners and Sundaram Clayton?
        TVS Group

221) Who owns Kaya Skin Clinics?

        Marico Industries

222) Which company got the Emerging company award in ET Awards?

        Jet Airways

223) Sharukh Khan has been roped in as Brand Ambassador by which cosmetics company

        EMAMI ( SRK is Brand Ambassador of LUX also)

224) What is the name of the car to be launched by FORD this November?
        Ford Fiesta

225) Which is India’s largest amusement park (theme park)? which company owns it?

        Wonder-Laa, its from V Guard Group of Kochi [V Guard is into stabilizers, water heaters,

        Geysers n stuffs.]

226) Which Indian company did Sumantra Ghosal worked for before taking up teaching?

   IOCL

        [ he had joined IOCL in the same batch when Subbir Raha (ONGC) and Prashanto Bannerji

         (GAIL) and Behuria joined IOCL in 1974 (a bit unsure +/- 2 years).Ghoshal was the first one

         to leave the co. to make better future]