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1. Qualcomm, the pioneer of CDMA, a digital wireless technology will invest $ 300 million in Reliance Info. The Qualcomm is a ___ based company. (a) USA (b) UK (c) Russia (d) Germany (e) France 2. Enron Corporation is facing bankruptcy as the smaller rival Dynegy Inc. called off its planned ___ acquisition of the energy giant. (a) $ 8.4 million (b) $ 8.4 billion (c) $ 8.40 million (d) $ 80 billion 3. Who among the following has been honoured with the Asian Business Leader of the Year 2001? (a) Mr M.V. Kamath (b) Mr Narayan Murthy (c) Mr K.V. Kamath (d) Mr T.S. Krishna 4. India Economic Summit was held at New Delhi, organised by World Economic Forum and: (a) Phd Chambers of Commerce and Industry (b) FICCI (c) CII (d) Wipro 5. Jamnalal Bajaj Award for fair practices has been bagged by: (a) Wipro technologies (b) Satyam computers (c) Hewlett-Packard India Ltd (d) Infosys technologies 6. Music World has launched a flashcard to reward the customer loyalty. Any purchase of Rs 300 and over entitles the customer to buy this flashcard for Rs 50. The card has been named as: (a) Planet M (b) Music card (c) Masti card (d) Music masti 7. Rana Gurvinder Singh Talwar, the first Indian to head the group has resigned as the Chief Executive Officer of the group. Name the group. (a) Standard Chartered Plc (b) Stanchart (c) ANZ-Grindleys (d) American Business Group 8. Subash Chandra of Zee Telefilms has offloaded a ten per cent equity to ___ for Rs 700 crore. (a) Doordarshan (b) American business corporation (c) AOL (d) BBC (e) CNN 9. Mr Subir Raha has been elected as the fellow of the World Academy of Productivity Sciences. He is the Chairman of: (a) Indian Oil Corporation (b) Bharat Petroleum ( c ) Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (d) Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd 10. Which of the following committee has investigated the functioning of UTI fiasco in July and has favoured only limited privatisation of the Rs 58,000 crore mutual fund? (a) Y.V. Reddy (b) S.S. Tarapore (c) Y. Malegham (d) C. Chakraborti 11. Who among the following has been elected as the President of Phd Chamber of Commerce and Industry for 2001-02? (a) Arun Kapoor (b) V. Suresh (c) Sanjeev Goenka (d) Rajendra Singh Lodha 12. K.M. Chandrashekhar is the newly appointed ambassador of India to the WTO at: (a) New York (b) Washington (c) Geneva (d) London 13. Prime Minister Gram Vidyut Yojna is a 100 per cent Centrallysponsored scheme. The scheme targets to bring complete rural electrification by the year: (a) 2011 (b) 2007 (c) 2010 (d) 2012 (e) 2015 14. The American scientist for the first time have brought drug for cure of common cold. Name the drug. (a) Con Conaril (b) Pleconaril (c) Calcirin (d) Plamocold 15. IOC has decided to walk out the joint venture Indo Mobil Pvt Ltd by divesting its entire 50 per cent shareholding in favour of: (a) Exxon (b) Mobil (c) Mobil Petroleum Company Inc. (d) ONGC (e) None of these 16. CRIS-INFAC is a subsidiary
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rating agency of: (a) CRISIL (b) CARE (c) Standard Plc. (d) Modi Care 17. Insurance Regulatory Development Authority has stipulated a minimum ___ per cent business from rural segment in the first year of operation for new players. (a) 7 (b) 5 (c) 10 (d) 15 18. SWIFT Jyoti is a ten-hour course pegged at Rs 500 to acquaint 17 novices with computers. The course has been launched by: (a) Satyam (b) Wipro (c) NIIT (d) Indiatimes (e) both (b) and (c) 19. Worlds tallest residential and hotel development with 320 towers is coming up at: (a) USA (b) UK (c) Australia (d) France (e) China 20. Name the oil refinery which has the accredition of being the first oil refinery in Asia, laid the foundation of oil refining industry in India and developed the concept of customised products and first refinery in the world to use Vacuum Residue Short Path Distillation technology in the petroleum industry for processing heavy vacuum Residue. (a) Digboi (b) Barauni (c) Aasansol (d) Mathura 21. The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Britannia Industries Mr Sunil Alagh has been awarded the ___ for 2000-01 in recognition of his service to the FMCG industry. (a) Business Award (b) Kalashikhar Award (c) Kalashalkar Award (d) Birla Award 22. Rupert Murdochs 20th Century Fox has signed an agreement to jointly produce movies in India with an Indian studio. This is the first time a Hollywood studio has joined hands with an Indian group. Name the Indian part. (a) United Television (b) Balaji Telefilms

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(c) Zee Telefilms (d) Pritish Nandy Communications 23. Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai has signed an MoU for collaboration in research and technology in a multitude of areas with: (a) Hindustan Liver Limited (b) Godrej Industries Ltd (c) Reliance Industries Ltd (d) Wadia and Gandhy Company 24. The first Indian Businessman to be spotlighted by Forbes Global in its cover story is: (a) Dr A. Reddy (b) Dhirubhai Ambani (c) A.H. Premji (d) Narayan Murthy 25. The World Competitiveness Report 2000 has been authored by: (a) Jeffrey Sachs (b) Michael Porter (c) Morgan Whitley (d) both (a) and (b) 26. Recently RBI raised the limit on foreign currency rupee swap operations that banks can undertake on an unmatched basis to: (a) $ 20 million (b) $ 25 million (c) $ 40 million (d) $ 45 million 27. According to Working Group on Information Technology for the tenth five-year plan the turnover will be: (a) $ 150 billion (b) $ 140 billion (c) $ 130 billion (d) $ 120 billion 28. Silicon Valley was first used by Don Hoeffler a reporter for electronic news magazine for Santa Clara Valley, USA in the year: (a) 1992 (b) 1974 (c) 1972 (d) 1971 (e) 1981 29. Mr David Eldon is the Chairman of a leading financial group. Name the organisation. ( a ) Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (b) ANZ Grindleys (c) American online (d) Bajaj Allianz 30. Kyndal is a whisky major which has signed a memorandum of understanding with Shaw Wallace is a company based in: (a) USA (b) UK (c) Scotland (d) Switzerland (e) Australia 31. Worlds largest beer manufacturing majors is named as: (a) Shaw Wallace and Company (b) United Breweries (c) Interbrew (d) South African Breweries 32. Octavia is a luxury car launched by: (a) Ford (b) Skoda (c) Hyundai (d) Tata (e) Volkswagon 33. The 2001 Asian Venture Forum entitled Indian Private Equity Investing in the New Environment was held at: (a) New Delhi (b) Mumbai (c) Kolkata (d) Bangalore 34. The first railway station to have branded theme was done by Sonata watches as the part of advertisement at: (a) Sonepur (Bihar) (b) Prayag (U.P.) (c) Naini (U.P.) (d) Churchgate (Maharashtra) 35. CeBIT, the worlds leading event on Information Technology, Telecommunications, software and services is scheduled from March 13-20, 2002 in: (a) Queensland (b) Hannover (c) Geneva (d) New Delhi 36. Grameen Phone Seva has been launched in Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal, Haryana by: (a) MTNL (b) Usha (c) Escotel (d) Essar (e) both (a) and (c) 37. Mr Michael Mascarenhas has been reinstated as the Managing Director of ___ after CBI exonerated him. (a) Air India (b) Indian Airlines (c) Pawan Hans (d) Jet Airways 38. Jahan Lali Wahan Khushaali is the caption used by: (a) British Petroleum (b) Shell (c) IBP (d) Amco 39. Shadow of Words is an autobiography of: (a) Swami Purna (b) Amrita Pritam (c) Pheroz Vandrevalla (d) Kiran Karnik
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40. Count your chickens before they hatch is a book authored by: (a) Vikram Seth (b) Amitav Ghosh (c) Arindam Chaudhuri (d) K.V. Kamath 41. The Centre has stepped in with a Rs 9000 crore package to bail out the: (a) SAIL (b) Indian Airlines (c) BALCO (d) ITDC 42. SBI was fined by the US Federal Reserve and other US Regulators for violations of the Bank Secrecy Act and failure to maintain complete books and records. SBI paid a fine of Rs ___ crore. (a) 40 (b) 35 (c) 36 (d) 37 43. A three tiered VAT (Value Added Tax) structure has the highest slab starting with a minimum of 10 per cent for all States. The VAT will be implemented by the year: (a) April 2003 (b) January 2002 (c) April 2005 (d) April 2002 44. Maximum sick industrial units are located at: (a) Uttar Pradesh (b) Maharashtra (c) Gujarat (d) West Bengal 45. The foreign direct investment in India between August 1991 to June 2001 has been maximum in the ___ sector. (a) telecom (b) electrical equipment (c) transportation (d) fuels ANSWERS 1. 5. 9. 13. 17. 21. 25. 29. 33. 37. 41. 45.

(a ) ( d) ( a) (d ) (b) (c ) (d ) (a ) (b) (a ) (b) (d )

2. 6. 10. 14. 18. 22. 26. 30. 34. 38. 42.

(b) ( c) (b) (b) (c ) (d ) (b) (c ) (b) (c ) (c )

3. 7. 11. 15. 19. 23. 27. 31. 35. 39. 43.

(c ) (a ) ( a) (c ) (c ) ( b) ( b) ( d) ( b) ( b) ( d)

4. 8. 12. 16. 20. 24. 28. 32. 36. 40. 44.

(c ) (c ) ( c) ( a) ( a) ( a) (b) (b) ( c) ( c) (d )