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1. Goetze () Limited is a group company a) i only b) i and ii only of c) ii only d) None of the above a) Eicher b) HMT 9. The Indian State which is having maximum c) Escorts d) Swaraj area devoted to aquaculture 2. Count Dracula, the character originated from a) Orissa b) West Bengal a) Real Life c) Tamil Nadu d) Gujarat b) Reel Life 10. ‘Spice Girls’ has been created in c) Fiction novel a) U. K. b) U. S. A d) None of the Above c) India d) None of the above 3. In India, the Prime Minister is appointed by 11. Purchasing power of Indian rupee (base 1982 the = 100) stands at around a) Lok Sabha a) 35 paise b) 27 paise b) President c) 45 paise d) None of the above c) Chief Justice 12. What is Java d) None of the these a) A new brand of coffee 4. ‘More Delhi in Your Daily’ is the slogan of b) a soap a) Nav Bharat Times c) a programming language b) The Times of India d) a detergent c) The Hindustan Times 13. The total track length of Indian Railways is d) Indian Express about 5. The much in news film Dil To Pagal Hai has a) 52,000 kms b) 58,000 kms been directed by c) 62,000 kms d) 72,000 kms a) Mahesh Bhatt 14. The company with largest refining capacity b) Yash Chopra in India c) David Dhawan a) Indian Oil d) Rakesh Roshan b) Hindustan Petroleum 6. The Governor of Reserve Bank of India at c) Bharat Petroleum Present is d) Indo-Burmah Petroleum a) C. Rangarajan 15. Which of the following is not a Godrej prod- b) Bimil Jalan uct c) Montek Singh Ahluwalia a) Cinthol b) Good Knight d) Arjun Sengupta c) Jumpin Drink d) Close-up 7. Manu Chhabria is associated with the com- 16. Mark the incorrect pair pany a) Bajaj Auto — Rahul Bajaj a) Shaw Wallace & Co. b) Telco — J J Irani b) Seagram c) Escorts — Rajan Nanda c) Mohan Meakins d) HLL — K B Dadiseth d) None of the above 17. Greenwich Mean Time is given by the zone 8. Which of the following is no more associ- centred at ated with Tatas Group a) Chicago b) London i) X Desai ii) Darbari Seth c) d) New Delhi iii) Russi Mody - 1 - 18. The heaviest person in the world is b) the External Affairs Minister a) Roise Carnemolla c) the Agricultural Minister b) Albert Jackson d) not in the Cabinet c) Michael Hebranko 29. Chryster Corporation was negotiating for d) None of the above manufacturing a passenger car in India with 19. Name the company which organised a con- a) Premier Auto test recently called Perfect 10. b) Lohia Machines Ltd) a) Nokia b) Ericsson c) Daewoo Motors c) Siemens d) Spice Telecom d) Bajaj Auto 20. Which one of the following leaders was not 30. The soft drink company which started a Red assassinated Patrol campaign recently a) Martin Luther King, Jr. a) Thums Up b) Pepsi b) Indira Gandhi c) Coca Cola d) Campa Cola c) John F. Kennedy 31. How many counties are members of the d) Sanjay Gandhi Common wealth Club 21. How many States the Union of India has at a) 15 b) 7 present c) 42 d) 54 a) 24 b) 25 32. Which one of the following is not a brand c) 26 d) 27 by Liberty 22. ‘Modonna’ range of fabrics are being pro- a) Force 10 b) Footfun duced in India by c) Windsor d) Ambassador a) OCM b) Vimal 33. The only Vice-President of India who could c) Raymond d) Prafull not be appointed as the President of India 23. The multinational company Philips belongs a) B. D. Jatti to which country b) Giani Zail Singh a) U. K. b) USA c) G. S. Pathak c) France d) Netherlands d) Zakir Hussein 24. Esso is the brand name of 34. In which religion, the place of worship is a) Shell b) Castrol called ‘Vihar’ c) Exxon d) Mobil a) Jainism b) Buddhism 25. The Anti-Defection Act is listed in the Indian c) Hinduism d) None of the these Constitution in the 35. Oscar Awards are awarded in the field of a) 9th Schedule a) Entertainment b) Music b) 10th Schedule c) Cinema d) Acting c) 11th Schedule 36. Caffeine is an important constituent of d) 12th Schedule a) Orange Drinks 26. Red Fort was the seat of Mughal Power in b) Csola Drinks India until c) Cloudy Lime Drinks a) 1919 b) 1857 d) Clear Lime Drinks c) 1947 c) None of these 37. Which one of the following is not an adver- 27. The largest district of Himachal Pradesh is tising agency a) Kangra b) Kulu a) Trikaya Grey b) MICA c) Solan d) Shimla c) Rediffusion d) HTA 28. Immediately before taking over as the Prime 38. The world’s largest church is situated in Minister Mr. I. K. Gujral was a) Rome b) New York a) the Home Minister c) Illionis d) None of these

- 2 - 39. Pan Pasand is manufactured by c) Arjuna Award a) Parle b) Nutrine d) Kirti Chakra c) Ravalgaon d) Parry’s 50. Which famous personality endorses Ariel de- 40. Mantra—the make order magazine has been tergent power? introduced by a) Shabana Azmi a) India Today b) Hema Malini b) Spectrum c) Javed Akhtar c) The Times of India d) None of the these d) Stardust 51. Which brand uses for famous quote, “All me- 41. Euro Checks-the formal checked shirt is mar- dia are an extension of some human fac- keted by ulty” in its advertisements? a) Raymonds a) Opel Astra b) Sony b) Bombay Dyeing c) Daewoo d) Samsung c) Arvind Mills 52. Which brand has a copyright on the number‘ d) Zodiac 31’? 42. Akbarallys is a well known a) Daewoo b) Kwality Walls a) departmental store c) Nirula’s d) Baskin Robbins b) chain of restaurants 53. With which company would you associate c) cinema hall the numbers 505, 512, 517 and 554? d) theatre a) Kodak b) Levi’s 43. Central Leather Research Institute is situated c) Maruti d) Aggarwal Soap Co. at 54. Which brand advertises itself with the line. a) New Delhi b) Mumbai “Every girl must have two friends. One to c) Chennai d) Hyderabad gossip with and one to gossip about”? 44. With what is the Deming Award associated a) Lakme b) Revlon with? c) Elle 18 d) None of these a) ISO 9000 b) Productivity 55. Naresh Goyal is the chairman of a private c) TQM d) None of the these airline in India. Name the airline: 45. Hotel Taj Mahal belongs to the group a) Sahara b) Jet a) Indian Hotels Company c) NEPC d) East-West b) East India Hotels 56. Tobacco companies in the US have agreed c) Welcomgroup to stop advertising aimed at youngsters. One d) ITDC of such images, of a camel, will no longer 46. Amartya Sen is a well known be used. What was the name of the famous a) Scientist b) Economist camel featured on all the packs of the brand? c) Sarod Player d) Musician a) Cool Dude b) Johnny 47. ‘Flying machine’ is a brand of c) Smart Puss d) Joe Camel a) Shirts b) Jeans 57. In marketing language, who would be re- c) Airline Service d) Courier Service ferred to as ‘pink collared workers’? 48. The Indian author who has been awarded a) Working Women the Booker Prize b) Company Directors a) Vikram Seth b) Arundhati Roy c) Air hostesses c) Salman Rushdie d) Kushwant Singh d) Hotel attendants 49.Which one of the following is not an In- 58. Name of the Company founded by Thomas dian Gallantry Award Alva Edison? a) Mahavir Chakra a) Westing house b) Paramvir Chakra b) General Electric - 3 - c) 20th Century Fox venturing into mineral water. Name the d) Warner Brothers brand. 59. Coca Cola created a flutter recently by Shift- a) Jaldhara ing its account from Mc Cann Erickson to a b) Dhara II different advertising agency. Name the news c) Jal-ganga agency. d) None of these a) Chaitra Leo Burnett 68. Ranked in terms of assets, which groups tops b) HTA the list of India’s biggest industrial houses? c) Lintas a) Ambanis d) Oglivy and Mather b) Birlas 60. Who is the chairman of Indian Hotels Co. ? c) Tatas a) M. S. Oberoi d) Goenkas b) Charanjit Singh 69. To which company does Premier Auto (PAL) c) want to sell its car business to? d) None of these a) Peugot 61. Which company has launched the first elec- b) Piaggio tronic cash card in India? c) Fait a) Kotak Mahindra b) SBI d) General Motors c) Bank of Baroda d) Escorts Finance 70. ‘Solitaire’ is the brand name of which of the 62. Which company has bought a major stake following products? in Asian Paints recently? a) A new car to be launched by Honda a) Nerolac b) Berger Paints b) Handcrafted crystal ware by La Opala c) British Paints d) ICI c) Computer game by Microsoft d) A new whisky by MC Dowell. 63. Which foreign group has applied for permis- sion to set up a joint venture with the 71. What is the name of the Malaysian currency, Kirloskar Group to manufacture automobiles? which was devalued recently a) General Motors b) Toyota a) Ringgit b) Rupiash c) Hyundai d) Honda c) Baht d) Dinar 64. What is the new name of Damania Airways? 72. Which company claims that it has a ‘A Posi- a) Skyline NEPC tive Attitude”? b) Archna Airways a) Tata b) Ericsson c) Khemka Airlines c) Essar b) Bajaj d) None of these 73. With which name has the line “Diamonds 65. Name the brand of batteries launched by are forever” has come to be associated with? BPL? a) De Beers b) James Bond a) Duracell c) The Beatles d) None of these b) Long-Life 74. Which group is celebrating its hundredth an- c) Excel niversary with he line. “A Hundred Years d) Energiser Into the Future”? 66. Which company has recently introduced a a) Godrej b) Asian Paints product or service called “Smart Box”? c) B. K. Birla d) Khaitan Group a) DHL 75. Which was the first public sector share to be b) Skypack quoted on the Mumbai Stock Exchange? c) Overnite Express a) Indian Oil d) Blue Dart b) Hindustan Petroleum 67. After its success in the vegetable oil market c) IPCL with the brand name ‘Dhara’, NDDB is now d) None of those - 4 - 76. Which airline triggered a price war in the 85. What is the name of the Italian design agency Indian market by reducing air fares on flights? which has designed the small car to be a) KLM-Northwest launched by Tatas? b) British Airways a) Perfetti b) Gyanetti c) b) Don Juan d) Idea d) Lufthansa 86. Three of the famous personalities who ap- 77. With which company has State Bank of In- peared in VDIS advertisements were. dia tied up to enter the credit card business? Kamalahasan, Mithun Chakrabarty and a) Visa b) Inter Card Amjad Ali Khan. Name the fourth c) master Card d) GE Capital a) b) Om Puri 78. Which Indian company has been adjudged c) Kapil Dev d) Alla Rakha as the best sovereign public sector borrower 87. Which company has been rated “Company in Asia for 1997 by Euroweek? of the Year” for 1997 by Forbes magazine? a) Indian Oil b) SAIL a) IBM b) Compaq c) ONGC d) VSNL c) Coca Cola d) Unilever 79. The Company TV 18 was in the news re- 88. The chairman of which company has been cently for having been appointed sole fran- named “Man of the Year” by Time magazine chise for India by an international channel. this year? Which one? a) Intel b) IBM a) ABNI b) BBC c) Compaq d) Coca Cola c) CNBC d) CNN 89. Which company has been advertising with 80. Which company has plans to launch the the phrase, “We call this human technology”? cheapest car (Rs. 1.25 Lakh) in the Indian a) Siemens b) Ericsson market? c) Nokia d) Philips a) Tata b) Hyundai 90. The famous model Cindy Crawford, who was c) Hero Motors d) Kinetic Engineering in India recently, was promoting which brand 81. The football club, Mohan Bagan, has recently of watches? decided to form a private limited company a) b) Seiko with a private company. Which one? c) Casio d) Omega a) McDowells b) Raymond’s 91. Which brand of clothing promotes itself as c) United Breweries d) None of these “Real Formal. Real Easy”? 82. Which brand introduced 24-karat gold jew- a) Levi’s b) Park Avenue ellery on the occasion of Valentine’s Day c) Weekender d) Colour Plus this year? 92. What is ORG-MARG? a) Gili b) Tanishq a) a market research agency c) Gold Master d) Benetton b) an art magazine 83. Which airline bagged the silver medal for c) an advertising agency the second best marketing programme in d) an operations research group 1997 at the Advertising Effectiveness contest 93. In what was described as the merger of the in New York? millennium, two drug companies were be- a) Air India b) Indian Airlines ing talked about, but talks broke down in c) Jet Airways d) East West the end. Which companies were they? 84. The West Bengal plant of which company a) Cibaca and Sandoz was closed down recently, leading to vio- b) Glaxo Wellcome and Sandoz lence by the workers? c) Glaxo Wellcome and Smithkline a) Ceat b) Dunlop Beecham c) Bella Vesta d) Non of these d) Smithkline Beecham and Cibaca - 5 - 94. From which State is the newspaper The d) D’ signer lenses Marthrubhumi published? 102. What was the level of software exports for a) Tamil Nadu b) Kerala the year 1996-97? c) Karnataka d) Gujarat a) Rs. 900 crore 95. The brand of instant soups. Knorr, has been b) Rs. 2900 crore launched by which company? c) Rs. 3900 crore a) Kissan d) Rs. 4900 crore b) Kellogg’s 103. What are “People meters” installed by IMRB- c) American Home Products Nielson in India recently? d) Corn Products Co. a) Instruments to measure the number of 96. The sanitary napkins Kotex were withdrawn visitors in an exhibition from the market due to complaints but has b) television cameras that record the number been relaunched again. Which company of visitors in an office owns the brand? c) electronic meters to monitor TV viewing a) Colgate Palmolive habits of people b) Kimberly Clark Lever Ltd. d) electronic meters to measure population c) Johnson and Johnson of a particular place d) Modicare Mundipharma 104. The brand of Bruno underwear has been 97. Which Indian Publisher has recently launched by which company? launched a book club? a) VIP b) Rupa & Co. a) Rupa b) Harper Collins c) Riveira d) Bhilwara c) Jaico d) Writers Workshop 105. For many years, Onida Advertised its brand 98. Which US company has recently acquired a with the line “Neighbours’ Envy, Owner’s patent on basmati rice? Pride”. What is the new ad line of the brand? a) US Agro a) The world’s envy, India’s pride b) Texas Rice Co. b) Goodbye to envy, welcome price c) Agro Technology Co. c) Conquer Envy, Acquire pride d) Ricetec d) No change in ad line 99. Which bank has launched its cash manage- 106. Channel V VJ Udham Singh appears in a ment scheme called FAST-Funds Available brand of Brittania biscuits. Which brand? in Shortest Time? a) Little Hearts a) Hong Kong Bank b) Chekkers b) Citi Bank c) Pure Magic c) SBI d) Tiger d) Times Bank 107. Which company has introduced a cellular 100. Which bank has launched the first interna- phone with a colour display? tional credit card in India? a) Siemens a) Hong Kong Bank b) Ericsson b) Citi Bank c) Nokia c) SBI d) Philips d) Deutsche Bank 108. Who owns the company Miss World Inc. 101. The Acuvue UV Contact lenses, which pro- which organises the Miss World contest? vide protection from radiation, are made by a) Julia and Donald Trump which of the following companies? b) Monica and Donald Trump a) Bausche & Lomb c) Julia and Eric Morley b) Johnson & Johnson d) Julia and Eric Trump c) Corning 109. Which newspaper group has recently - 6 - launched a magazine called Vanitha? 118. What was the name of the Zero emission, a) Malayala Manorma electric car exhibited at the environment In- b) Anand Bazar Patrika dia’ 98 exhibition held in New Delhi re- c) Deccan Herald cently? d) The Times of India a) Enviro b) Reva 110. Name of suiting brand for which Shah Rukh c) Astra d) Futura Khan used to model and now it is 119. Where was the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Chandrachur Singh? held recently? a) Digjam b) Graveira a) Geneva b) New York c) Raymond’s d) Mayur c) Singapore d) London 111. Which company or brand urges you in its 120. Which company in India is the only manu-

advertisements to get the “Power of Free- facturer of Vitamin B12 in Asia? dom”? a) Burroughs Wellcome a) Elle 18 b) Standard b) Sandoz c) Exide d) Park Avenue c) Cadila 112. Which company Markets the brands Star and d) Merind Moon? 121. Which company advertises with the famous a) Lakme b) Revlon baseline, “Better things for better living”? c) Oriflame d) Avon a) Ericsson 113. Which company claims that it tyres will im- b) Du Pont prove the sound of the music system? c) Godrej a) Apollo b) Ceat d) None of the above c) Dunlop d) JK 122. The fonding father of re-engineering, the 114. What is the name of the small car to be management techniques that advocates radi- launched by Tata? cal overhual of business is: a) Mint b) Indica a) Pater Drucker c) Safari d) None of these b) Robert Townsend c) Michael Hammer 115. Which brand of clothing has the ad line, d) Heff Hyman “Power dressing for the next millennium”? a) Van Heusen b) Digjam 123. The badla system is associated with which c) Raymond’s d) Mumbai Dyeing of the following? a) Forward Trading 116. The Managing Director of which company b) Foreign Exchange has resigned recently following the investi- c) Currency Markets gation initiated by SEBI on alleged charges d) Stock Markets of insider trading? a) Hindustan Lever 124. Bill Gates is one of the founders of Micro- b) Bombay Dyeing soft. Who was the other? c) Nestle a) Paul Allen d) JVG Finance b) John Naisbitt c) Michael Crichton 117. Name the Chairman of the fertilisers pricing d) James Cameron policy review committee which has sug- gested the scrapping of the existing retentin 125. What is the name of the trade union affili- pricing scheme: ated to the Shiv Sena? a) C. H. Hanumantha Rao a) Bharatiya Kamgar Sena b) M. S. Swaminathan b) Hind Mazdoor Sabha c) S. S. Barnala c) Rashtriya Mill Mazdoor Sangh d) S. Krishnamurthy d) Kamghar Aghadi Union - 7 - 126. The electronics and computer software ex- a) Cars b) Trucks port promotion council is organising an ex- c) Televisions d) Luggage position “India Tech. 98” in an African coun- 135. Who is the Chairman of the Telecom Regu- try this year. Name the country latory Authority of India (TRAI)? a) South Africa b) Somalia a) S. S. Gill c) Kenya d) Ethiopia b) Nikhil Chakravarty 127. Name the management thinker who gave the c) S. S. Sodhi concept of ‘lateral thinking’? d) P. N. Bhagwati a) Kenneth Clarke 136. Which company has recently issued its b) Peter Drucker “Flexibonds”? c) Philip Kotler a) IDBI b) ICI d) Edward de Bono c) IFCI d) IRBI 128. Name the most advanced server based soft- 137. If you had one unit each of the following ware project unleashed by IBM? currencies, from which would you be able a) IBM Servo b) San Francisco to get the maximum number of rupees? c) Java d) Los Angles a) US Dollar 129. Name the author of the book, The Art of b) UK Pound Comeback. c) Deutsche Mark a) Donald Trump d) Japanese Yen b) Peter Drucker 138. For which State in India has the World Bank c) C. K. Prahlad recently agreed for a Rs. 2334 crore pack- d) Deepak Chopra age for economic restructuring programme? 130. The term GOMBAs is applied to : a) Maharashtra a) The stock market b) Haryana b) Low-paid, un-intelligent workers c) Gujarat c) Currency markets d) Andhra Pradesh d) Overpaid MBAs 139. From which company is Raasi Cements fac- 131. According to Forbes magazine, the only bil- ing a takeover bid? lionaire family left in India this year after the a) ACC turmoil in Asian markets, is: b) Gujarat Mabuja a) Birlas b) Ambanis c) India Cement c) Tatas c) Mittals d) Indal 132. The book Beyond Boundaries: A memoir, is 140. The brand name of “Panama” cigarettes be- the autobiography of which of the following longed to a very profitable and the Coun- industrialist? try’s third largest cigarette company, but the a) K. K. Birla b) Nusli Wadia company has now become a case for the c) Swaraj Paul c) Raunaq Singh BIFR. Which Company is that? 133. According to estimates by the All India As- a) GTC sociation of Industries (AIAI), the number of b) ITC days that a bank employee works per year in c) Wazir Sultan Tobacco Co. the country is: d) None of these a) 158 b) 161 141. The novel The Insider by P. V. Narasimha c) 165 d) 168 Rao, is published by which company? 134. The 900 million dollar Samsonite Corpora- a) Penguin b) Viking tion of the USA, which has recently set up c) Harper Collins d) Rupa its factory in Nasik, manufactures which of 142. A new advertising code has introduced tough the following items? new set of guidelines for tobacco advertis- - 8 - ing, to come into effect form October 1, b) SAIL 1998. Which agency has set these new guide- c) ONGC lines? d) Indian Oil a) Government of India 150. Name the most successful toy in business b) Tobacco Control Council of India history c) Advertising Standards Council of India a) Leo b) Meccano d) None of these c) Barbie d) None of these 143. Who said, “It is not the best product, but the 151. The new anti-impotency drug, Viagra, has best brands that win”? been launched by which company? a) Philip Kotler a) Novartis b) Sandoz b) Deepak Chopra c) Glaxo d) Pfizer c) P. Chidambaram 152. The famous car company, Rolls Royace, has d) None of these been taken over by which company? 144. Which drug company had launched the “Ac- a) General Motors tion TB Programme” in 1993 to develop new b) Volkswagen therapies for the treatment and prevention c) BMW of tuberculosis? d) Ford a) Glaxo Welcome 153. Name the founder of the Ranbaxy group b) Smithkline Beecham a) Parvinder Singh c) Novartis b) Bhai Mohan Singh d) Lupin Laboratories c) Analjit Singh 145. Which refrigerator is advertising with the line d) Gurbax Singh “Now make the ice, in half the time” these 154. What is the name of the car that Hyundai is days? planning to launch in India? a) Godrej b) Whirlpool a) D’Arts b) City c) Kelvinator d) Samsung c) Santro d) Mint 146. Which bank introduced the first Automatic 155. Where has Hyundai set up its factory in In- Teller Machine (ATM) in India? dia? a) State Bank of India a) Hyderabad b) Bangalore b) Citi Bank c) Mumbai d) Chennai c) Bank of America d) Hong Kong Bank 156. Where has Microsoft set up its factory in In- dia? 147. Java the computer language, was invented a) Chennai b) Bangalore by c) Mumbai d) Hyderabad a) IBM b) Microsoft 157. Name the authors of the best-selling man- c) Sun Microsystems agement book, In Search of Excellence? d) Motorola a) Tiom Peters and Peter Drucker b) Peter Drucker and robert Waterman 148. With net worth estimated at Rs. 8800 crore, c) Tom Peters and Michael Hammer the work’s richest Indian is: d) Tom Peters and Robert Waterman a) Dhirubhai Ambani b) Swaraj Paul 158. The automobile company, Diameler Benz, c) Lakshmi N. Mittal has merged with which car company? d) G. D. Birla a) Ford b) Volkswagen 149. Which was the first public sector share to be c) General Motors quoted on the Mumbai Stock Exchange? d) None of the above a) Hindustan Petroleum - 9 -   Login | Register 0

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