Business Quiz - 10

The Oil refinery established in Panipat belongs to:
i) Joint Sector ii) Public Sector iii) Cooperative Sector iv) Private Sector

Index 'Residex' is associated with:
i) Land Prices ii) Share Prices iii) Mutual Fund Prices iv) Price Inflation Index

Name the brand which does not belong to the UB Group?
i) McDowell ii) Celebration Drum iii) Bagpiper iv) Teacher's Special

I-phone is associated with
i) Reliance ii) Apple iii) Nokia iv) Samsung

Nano knowledge city has been established at:
i) Jaipur ii) Hyderabad iii) Bangalore iv) Chandigarh

Which of the following owns the 'Easy Day' retail stores?
i) Reliance Retail ii) Birla Retail iii) DLF iv) Bharti Retail

Name the brand/company not owned by Sony Corporation of Japan
i) Play Stations ii) VAIO iii) Bravia iv) Xbox

Which of the following brands is not associated with footwear?
i) Bata ii) FCUK iii) Liberty iv) Lotto

Reasoning - 12 (for competitive exams)

If 53 - 34 = 5334, 64 - 56 = 6546 then 75 - 24 = ?
i) 7254 ii) 7452 iii) 7542 iv) 7524

Which is the number if it comes to 15 when divided by 4 and added by 9?
i) 24 ii) 22 iii) 21 iv) 26

Find the odd man out: 225, 289, 400, 36, 35
i) 35 ii) 400 iii) 36 iv) 225

Complete the series: 1, 8, 27, 64, 125, 216....
i) 1000 ii) 729 iii) 512 iv) 343

If A = 1, B = 3, C = 5 and so on, what do the numbers 3, 9, 7 stand for?
i) BAD ii) CAR iii) BID iv) BED

Cobra : Snake :: Crocodile : _____
i) Marsh ii) River iii) Carnivore iv) Reptile

Light : Bright :: Sun : ______
i) heat ii) twinkle iii) burn iv) shine

10, 12, 32, 34, 54, 56, ?
i) 76 ii) 61 iii) 60 iv) 58

Forbes Rich List - Top 10 Billionaires in the world

Name	Net Worth
Carlos Slim	$74B
Bill Gates	$56B
Warren Buffet	$50B
Bernard Arnault	$41B
Larry Ellison	$39.5B
Lakshmi Mittal	$31.1B
Amancio Ortego	$31B
Eike Batista	$30B
Mukesh Ambani	$27B
Christy Walton	$26.5B

Forbes Rich List - Top 10 Billionaires - Richest Indians

Name	Net Worth	Rank
Lakshmi Mittal	$31.1B	6
Mukesh Ambani	$27B	9
Azim Premji	$16.8B	36
Shashi and Ravi Ruia	$15.8	42
Savitri Jindal and family	$13.2B	56
Gautam Adani	$10B	81
Kumar Birla	$9.2B	97
Anil Ambani	$8.8B	103
Sunil Mittal and family	$8.3B	110
Adi Godrej and family	$7.3B	130

Current Affairs March 2011

Business

Tanishq to be merged with Titan Industries

Carmker GM India to launch 14 variants of 6 new models in the country in next 2 years

Tata Communications becomes first Indian Telco to launch cloud computing solutions globally

McDonald India ties up with HCL Infosystems to give kids (a chance to win) HCL ME Kids Educational Laptops with a purchase of Happy Meal

BCCI invites bid for IPL mobile, radio and Internet rights

Sonata Software launches car rental management service MiEdge

'Bing deals', a feature for desktop and mobile allowing consumers to find best deals locally has been launched by Microsoft

India and Brazil signed a bilateral air services agreement (ASA), intended to increase air-connectivity between 2 countries

Lovable Lingerie IPO subscribed 4% on Day 1 (8/3/2011)

Mahindra Group inks deal with global networking company Cisco to provide a host of services including cloud computing, entertainment, smart cities, virtual dealerships and sports

Jubliant Life Sciences (JLS) to set up a manufacturing plant to produce Symet, a key ingredient for making insecticide 'Chloryrifos', at Bharuch in Gujarat


Education

HCL and BPO training institute Orion Edutech jointly launches a diploma course to train the youth for entry in the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry


Employment

Global IT and BPO service provider HTC Global Services to recruit 3,000 people by next fiscal


Medicine

Kochi to get country's first health mall. 10-storied mall to have doctors, hospitals, ayurveda centres, pharmacies and insurance referral units


People

Canaan Partners appoints Rahul Khanna as Managing Director of Cannan India

Harish C.Mariwala takes over as Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) President

Diwakar Gupta has been appointed as Managing Director of State Bank of India

Kapil Dev has been appointed as brand ambassador of UEI GLobal and has launched 'Kapil Dev Scholarship Program' of Rs.40 crores

'Dream girl', Hema Malini took oath in Rajya Sabha as a BJP member from Karnataka


Sports

Mumbai Indians signs up Hero Honda as sponsor

Government exempts custom duty for cricket World Cup

Gambhir named Kolkata Knight Rider captain

Yuvraj named Pune Warriors captain

ICC approves Morgan replacement for injured Pietersen

Usain Bolt to run 100 metres at the Herculis Diamond League in Monaco

Wimbeldon finals to be filmed in 3D

Indian squash player Dipika Pallikal participating in the WSF-World Cup reached career high of 23 in WISPA ranking


Technology

Nokia to launch E7 smartphone in India, to be priced at Rs. 35000

Google Launches Chrome Beta 10. It brings synchronization improvements as well as speed advancements. Chrome 10.0.648.82 is created for Linux, Windows as well as Mac OS X

36 hours of videos are uploaded on YouTube every minute, the video-sharing website owned by global search giant Google

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Fastest hundreds in Cricket World Cup (CWC records at Glance)

Kevin O ' Brein right handed batsmen from Ireland scored fastest hundred in cwc 2011

He scored 100 runs in just 50 balls against England at Bangalore.

Other players who has a record are :

a) Mathew Hayden left handed batsmen from Australia scored 100 runs in 66 balls against South Africa in cwc 2007

b) John Davison right handed batsmen from Canada has scored a blistering century in 67 balls against West Indies in cricket worldcup 2003

c) Kapil Dev right handed batsmen from India had scored 100 runs in 72 balls against Zimbabwe in 1983.

d) Adam Gilchrist scored 100 runs in 72 balls against Srilanka in cwc 2007 

Years observed by United Nations Organisation - UNO

Which year is observed as International Youth year?	1985
Which year is observed as International Year of the Child?	1979
Which year is observed as International Year of Fresh Water?	2003
Which year is observed as World Population Year?	1974
Which year is observed as World Communication Year?	1983
Which year is observed as Year of Potato?	2008
Which year is observed as Year of Older Persons?	1999
Which year is observed as Year of the Culture of Peace?	1986

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