GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE QUIZ
Flipkart
Amazon
EBay
The Reserve Bank of India has recently reduced the
Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR), the amount against deposits
which commercial banks have to keep as liquid assets,
from 6% to
4%
5%
5.5%
5.75%
The Panta Tpad IS 701r, hailed as the rival of low cost
tablet Aakash, has recently been launched by
Airtel
MTNL
BSNL
Samsung
Apture and Katango, two start-ups dealing with user
experience, were recently acquired by
Microsoft
HP
Infosys
Rebekah Brooks, who resigned from her post in July,
2011 was the CEO of
News of the World
News Corp.
News Inn
The Sun
Sunil Kant Munjal has been appointed as the Joint
Managing Director of
Hero MotoCorp
Bajaj India
Reliance Communications
None of the above
Ginni Rometty recently became the first woman CEO
of which multi-national company?
Infosys
IBM
HP
Microsoft
Which American airline has recently filed a
bankruptcy petition?
Continental
Virgin Airlines
American Airlines
None of the above
Vikram Akula recently resigned as the Chairperson of
which micro-finance company of India?
Share Microfin Limited
SKS Microfinance Ltd.
Asmitha Microfin Ltd.
None of the above
Scott Thompson was recently named as the new CEO
of Yahoo Inc. immediately replacing
Carol Bartz
Roy Bostock
Tim Morse
David Filo
Carl-Peter Forster, Managing Director of ............... quit
from his post in September, 2011.
Reliance Energy
Tata Steel
Tata Motors
Bennett Coleman Group
Who amongst the following was inducted by the East
India Hotels in its board in October, 2011?
Tina Ambani
Ruparani Bajaj
Anuradha Mahindra
Nita Ambani
Caron Bartz, the former CEO of Yahoo Inc. who was
fired recently, was the former executive chairperson of
Autodesk
Apple
AltaVista
Who recently stepped down as the President of
Standard and Poor’s?
Douglas Peterson
Deven Sharma
Arun Deodhar
None of the above
Meg Whitman, the President and Chief Executive
Officer of Hewlett-Packard, is the erstwhile President of
which of the following companies?
Amazon
EBay
Apple
Microsoft
K.V. Kamath recently took over as the Chairman of
ICICI
IDBI
Infosys
Reliance Communications
Bhaskar Pramanik, the erstwhile Managing Director
of Oracle India, was appointed as the Chairman of
…………… in March, 2011.
Facebook India
Microsoft India
Sun Microsystems
Google India
Name the current CEO of Infosys, who succeeded Kris
Gopalakrishnan in August, 2011.
N.R.Narayana Murthy
S.D. Shibulal
Nandan Nilekani
K.V. Kamath
Contract of which iconic company was recently
auctioned by Sotheby’s, one of the world’s oldest auction
house?
Apple
Microsoft
IBM
Nestle
Jill Abramson was recently appointed as the
executive editor of ……………, thus becoming the first ever
woman executive editor in its 160-year old history.
The Guardian
The New York Times
News of the World
The Sunday Times
Pawan Goenka has recently been appointed as the
Chairman of
Hindustan Motors
Ssangyong Motor
Tata Motors
General Motors
Name the co-founder of Twitter who quit recently to
work for his other company, The Obvious Corporation.
Biz Stone
Evan Williams
Jason Goldman
Jack Dorsey
Who was the editor of the tabloid News of the World,
which closed its operations in July, 2011?
Colin Myler
Bob Bird
Dan Wootton
Victoria Newton
Which company recently toppled Reliance Industries
to become India’s most valuable company?
Reliance Power
Coal India
ICICI Bank
BPCL
Michael C. Woodford was sacked as the CEO of
……………. in 2011 in a controversial manner.
Eastman Kodak
Olympus Corporation
Nikon Corporation
Canon Corporation
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General Knowledge questions for SSC CGL, UPSC, IBPS, MAT, CAT and other competitive exams.
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