Top Careers & You

SNAP GK
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After ONGC, which firm has become Indias second largest PSU?
(A) IOC

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(D) BHEL

(B) Mahesh Bhupathi

(C) Vijay Amritraj

(D) Ashok Amritraj

Name the MNC which is in packaging of foods which has an equity stake in Britannia?
(A) Cadbury

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(C) BP

Name this Indian Tennis player who has turned Hollywood filmmaker?
(A) Ramesh Krishnan

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(B) NTPC

(B) Nestle

(C) Danone

(D) HLL

Which of the following honours has Dr. Kalam been awarded, the highest honour that an Indian citizen
can receive?
(A) Arjuna Award

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(D) Padma Vibhushan

(B) 22.4%

(C) 33.8%

(D) 34%

(C) Telephone

(D) None of these

Worldspace is service provider for

(A) Satellite Radio

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(C) Padma Bhushan

What is the investment rate recorded by the economy during 2006-07?

(A) 24%

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(B) The Bharat Ratna

(B) Broadband

Which of the following words was added into the Pre-amble of the Constitution by the 42nd Amendment
Act, 1976?
(A) Federal

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(C) Sovereign

(D) Republic

What is the growth rate recorded by Indian economy during 2006-07?

(A) 8.9%

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(B) Socialist

(B) 9.04%

(C) 9.4%

(D) 10%

Which of the following phenomena of global warming in the Pacific Ocean may also increase in
frequency and severity as long-term global warming continues?
(A) El Nino

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(B) Trade winds

(C) La Nina

(D) None of these

In the list of top 10 valuable brands in the world, there is only one European brand and the rest of the
positions are occupied by US brands. Which is that European brand?
(A) BP

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(C) British Airways

(D) Adidas

Which Constitutional post is enjoyed for a fixed term?

(A) President

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(B) Nokia

(B) Governor

(C) Prime Minister

(D) Chief Justice

"Made in America" - the famous book discusses about which companys business?
(A) GE

(B) Wal Mart

(C) Dell

(D) Apple

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Fiscal deficit during 2006-07 of India was?

(A) 3%

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(C) 2.5%

(D) 4%

(B) Indira Gandhi

(C) Lal Bahadur Shastri

(D) Manmohan Singh

Which of the following Indian cycle companies has entered its name Guinness Book of World Records?
(A) Atlas Cycles

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(B) 1.5%

Who among the following was India's longest serving Prime Minister?
(A) Jawahar Lal Nehru

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(B) Hero Cycles

(C) TI Cycles

(D) None of these

Full name of the "APJ" in Dr. Kalam's name is?

(A) Avul Panthwawala Jain

(B) Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen

(C) Aral Ponnuswamy Jampiru

(D) Akbar Panneer Jalanti

Name the company/organisation that became famous for a generous donation leading to the addition of
new category of Economics, in 1969, in which the Nobel Prize is awarded?
(A) Bank of Sweden

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(C) GM

(D) Ford

Which of the following human rights is protected in Article 21 of the Constitution of India?
(A) Right to Vote

(B) Right to Life and Liberty

(C) Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression

(D) Right to Freedom of Religion

Putting News First is the punch line of

(A) CNBC India

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(B) General Electric

(B) BBC World

(C) Times Now

(D) CNNIBN

The process of breaking of a larger hydrocarbon molecule into smaller ones by heating in the presence
of a catalyst is known as
(A) Cracking

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(D) Bankim Chandra

(B) Bajaj

(C) Suzuki

(D) Toyota

(B) Tata Tea

(C) Hindustan Lever

(D) Nestle

Which business group has a majority share in the magazine Cine Blitz?
(A) Bennett Coleman

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(B) Rabindranath Tagore (C) Satyajit Ray

Which famous group invested in the Barista chain of coffee outlets?

(A) Taj group

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(D) Fusion

Tundra, the pick-up truck is manufactured and sold by

(A) Nissan

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(C) Centrifugation

Which Bengali writer has won an Oscar for his film direction?
(A) Anand Mukherjee

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(B) Fission

(B) Kotak Mahindra

(C) UB

(D) Reliance

Which of the following sports companies was founded in the 1920s by a German Adolf Dassler?
(A) Nike

(B) Adidas

(C) Reebok

(D) None of these

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The new company Aventis is the result of merger of which two large pharmaceutical majors?
(A) Hoechst and Sandoz

(B) Rhone-Poulenc and Hoechst

(C) Glaxo and SmithKline Beecham

(D) Rhone and Warner Lambert

The baseline `Because life insurance is also about other people's lives' belongs to
(A) TATA-AIG

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(B) Bismillah Khan

(C) Amrita Pritam

(D) Shiv Kumar Batalwi

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(D) Birla Sunlife

Who takes the final decision upon the disqualification of a Member of Parliament?
(A) Speaker of Lok Sabha

(B) Vice-President

(C) President

(D) Prime Minister

The leading brand of artificial sweetener Sugar Free' is owned by

(B) Cadila

(C) P & G

(D) Glaxo

The greeting "Jai Hind "was started by which famous person?

(A) Lal Bahadur Shastri

(B) Mahatma Gandhi

(C) Subhash Chandra Bose

(D) Lok Manya Tilak

What was the monetary size that the Indian economy achieved in 2006-07?
(A) $1.75 bn

(B) $100 bn

(C) Rs. 40 lakh crores (approx.)

(D) Rs. 400 lakh crores

Which co. owns the brand Glucon D?

(B) Smithkline

(C) HLL

(D) Heinz

From 1585 to 1592, there has been no information about Shakespeare. This period is known as?
(A) The missing Years

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(C) ICICI Pru Life

(A) Hari Prasad Chaurakia

(A) Ranbaxy
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(B) HDFC

Which of following musicians received the Bharat Ratna?

(A) HLL
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(B) The black Years

(C) The suspense Years (D) The lost Years

Morphology is the study of

(A) The effects of the analgesic drugs

(B) The life study of fauna

(C) The reproduction of cells

(D) The shapes of plants and animals

Who was India's first deputy Prime Minister?

(A) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

(B) B.R.Ambedkar

(C) Sardar Baldev Singh

(D) Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel

India Today magazine is owned by

(A) Living media

(B) Bennett & Colman

(C) Hindustan Times

(D) Today Network

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Which of the following % of Savings rate recorded by Indian economy during 2006-07?
(A) 18%

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(C) Dan Brown

(D) Steven Spielberg

(B) Infosys

(C) Wipro

(D) NIIT

(B) USSR

(C) USA

(D) Japan

(B) Uncle Chipps

(C) Lays

(D) Hello Chipps

The literary work, Sishu is of which of the following authors?

(A) Vikram Seth

(B) Jawaharlal Nehru

(C) Rabindranath Tagore

(D) Arundhati Roy

The IT Company I-flex Solutions was originally a part of which of the following companies?
(A) ABN Amro Bank

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(B) Ron Howard

What brand was acquired by Frito Lays from Amrit Agro?

(A) Lehar Namkeen

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(D) 45%

From which countrys Constitution did Indian Constitution borrow the Concept of a Five Year Plan?
(A) UK

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(C) 39%

Which Indian software company is associated with the design of A380?

(A) Quartz

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(B) 32.4%

The director of the movie The Da Vinci Code is

(A) Sigmund Freud

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(B) ICICI

(C) HSBC

(D) Citicorp

(C) Jehangir

(D) Shah Jahan

Who was the last ruler of the Mughal dynasty?

(A) Bahadur Shah Zafar (B) Aurangzeb

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