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Saturday, August 1, 2015

Quiz 68: on Current Affairs 2014-15 for SSC CGL, UPSC, IBPS, MAT, CAT and other competitive exams









GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE QUIZ


The Book Depository, the UK based online bookseller
was recently taken over by


Flipkart

Amazon

EBay

Facebook

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


Google

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


Google

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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