BUSINESS GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

1. Which of the following is not an online shopping portal?
(A) e-bay
(B) Ferns-n-petals
(C) Rediff Shoppy
(D) Sky Shop
Ans : (D)

2. ‘Big Bazar’ belongs to–
(A) Future Group
(B) Spencer’s
(C) Reliance
(D) None of these
Ans : (A)

3. e-chaupal, the IT venture initiated to help the farmers in their agricultural production and marketing belongs to–
(A) Reliance
(B) ITC
(C) TATA
(D) Microsoft
Ans : (B)

4. Which one of the following is not a multi-national company?
(A) Coca Cola
(B) Cadbury
(C) AMUL
(D) Pepsi Co.
Ans : (C)

5. What is ‘Lifebuoy Swasthya Chetna’?
(A) An awareness campaign of Hindustan Unilever to promote hygiene I rural areas through soap
(B) An initiative of Lifebuoy soap makers to promote rural health
(C) A direct marketing initiative of Hindustan Uniliver
(D) None of these
Ans : (A)


6. ‘Advertising allowance’ is–
(A) The concession given by producer and supplier to the retailer
(B) The concession given by producer to the employees
(C) The concession given by producer to consumers
(D) Concession given by advertising agency
Ans : (A)

7. ‘Right to Education’ was implemented on–
(A) November 14, 2010
(B) April 1, 2010
(C) April 1, 2011
(D) January 1, 2011
Ans : (B)

8. After Smt. Pratibha Patil, the first citizen, who was the second to participate in the Census 2011 as an Indian national?
(A) Sonia Gandhi
(B) Manmohan Singh
(C) Devi Singh Shekhawat
(D) Hamid Ansari
Ans : (D)

9. What was the number of the Census 2011 in the sequence of national censuses?
(A) 20th
(B) 15th
(C) 10th
(D) 18th
Ans : (B)

10. The word’ rupee is written in how many languages on an Indian rupee?
(A) 17
(B) 10
(C) 15annel
(D) 5
Ans : (A)

11. This personality has found a place on the postal stamps of almost all the countries of the world–
(A) Nelson Mandela
(B) Mahatma Gandhi
(C) Yasir Arafaat
(D) The Queen of Great Britain
Ans : (B)

12. Contribution of Indian cinema in world cinema is–
(A) 10%
(B) 50%
(C) 73%
(D) 37%
Ans : (C)

13. This is a bear in the ‘The Jungle Book’–
(A) Balu
(B) Baghira
(C) Maggar
(D) Moghuli
Ans : (A)

14. Nollywood is the name of the cinema of this country–
(A) Nigeria
(B) The Netherlands
(C) Germany
(D) Namibia
Ans : (A)

15. Mc Donald Food company was launched in this year–
(A) 1955
(B) 1980
(C) 1991
(D) 2000
Ans : (A)

16. This commission recommended the revival of folk mediums and their use for development purposes–
(A) Chanda Committee
(B) Varghese Committee
(C) Joshi Committee
(D) Mc Bride Commission
Ans : (D)

17. ‘MNP’ is –
(A) Mobile Number Portability
(B) Maharashtra Nuclear Power
(C) Minimum Numeric Point
(D) None of these
Ans : (A)

18. Who among the following is a freelance writer?
(A) Pushpesh Pant
(B) Yashwant Vyas
(C) Rajgopal P.V.
(D) All of these
Ans : (D)

19. ‘Bharat Nirman’ is–
(A) Road construction project
(B) Publicity campaign of the central government
(C) A movie
(D) None of these
Ans : (B)

20. Which one of the following is not a children’s magazine?
(A) Magic Pot
(B) Champak
(C) Nandan
(D) 4Ps
Ans : (C)

21. The newspaper which converted from a weekly into a daily in the year 1884–
(A) The Hindustan Times
(B) The Pioneer
(C) The Hindu
(D) The Times of India
Ans : (C)

22. The first Indian actress to find a place on the cover page of the prestigious ‘Time’ magazine–
(A) Hema Malini
(B) Zeenat Aman
(C) Parween Bobby
(D) Helen
Ans : (C)

23. TV channels CNN-IBN, CNBC Awaz and IBN7 belong to this network –
(A) Zee
(B) Star
(C) Network 18
(D) None of these
Ans : (C)

24. What is ‘Wilfing’
(A) Surfing web aimlessly
(B) Purposeful web surfing
(C) Continuous web surfing
(D) None of these
Ans : (A)

25. This country propounded the concept of ‘Small Economic Zone’ (SEZ)–
(A) India
(B) China
(C) Britain
(D) America
Ans : (B)


26. He is known for the live broadcast of Mahatma Gandhi’s death procession on All India Radio–
(A) Surojeet Sen
(B) Melvyn D’mellow
(C) Edward Murrow
(D) None of these
Ans : (B)

27. The first news bulletin was radio was broadcast in this year–
(A) 1923
(B) 1925
(C) 1927
(D) 1929
Ans : (C)

28. Melvyl D’mellow of All India Radio received Prix-Italia award for this radio feature in 1964–
(A) Daastan
(B) In the Eye of Storm
(C) Lali and the Lion of Gir
(D) None of these
Ans : (C)

29. This media organisation owns the maximum shares of the channel CNBC–
(A) UTV
(B) TV 18
(C) Star TV
(D) Zee TV
Ans : (B)

30. Full form of the TV channel HBO–
(A) Hollywood Box Office
(B) Home Box Office
(C) Home Broadcasting Organisation
(D) None of these
Ans : (B)

31. Who designed the symbol of Indian rupee?
(A) D. Uday Kumar
(B) Ambika Soni
(C) Pranav Mukharjee
(D) P. Chidambaram
Ans : (A)

32. Which of the following personalities is very famous for his association with Twitter?
(A) Amitabh Bachchan
(B) Rahul Gandhi
(C) Shashi Thuroor
(D) M.S Dhoni
Ans : (C)

33. The model found recently dead in her flat in Mumbai–
(A) Nafisa Joseph
(B) Kuldeep Randhawa
(C) Viveka Babiji
(D) None of these
Ans : (C)

34. Lapataganj, the popular TV serial on SAB TV is based on the stories of famous litterateur–
(A) Tarak Mehta
(B) Prem Chand
(C) Sharad Joshi
(D) None of these
Ans : (C)

35. Vaka Vaka, the well-known theme song of FIFA was sung by–
(A) Remo Fernandez
(B) Shakira
(C) Lady Gaga
(D) Britney Spears
Ans : (B)

36. Which of the following has been an initiative of the Indian Railway to pay tribute to the concerned personality or to build awareness on the related topic?
(A) Mother Express, dedicated to Mother Teresa
(B) Sanskriti Express, dedicated to Rabindranath Tagore
(C) Red Ribbon Express, an initiative to build awareness on HIV/AIDS
(D) All these
Ans : (D)

37. The Khap Panchayats of Haryana, known for honour killings are similar to–
(A) Katta Panchayat of Tamilnadu
(B) Bhayyadi of Jharkhand
(C) Chaupal of Uttar Pradesh
(D) None of these
Ans : (A)

38. What is ‘media-dark’ region?
(A) Regions where there in not much access of media
(B) Undeveloped regions
(C) Regions without electricity
(D) None of these
Ans : (A)

39. The government authorised body to register any complaint pertaining to news–
(A) News Broadcasting Standard Authority (NBSA)
(B) News Broadcasting Association
(C) News Association (NBA)
(D) All these
Ans : (A)

40. News Broadcasting Association (NBA) is–
(A) An association of private TV news channels and broadcasters
(B) A government nodal agency for the regulation of news
(C) A news channel
(D) None of these
Ans : (A)