General Knowledge Quiz - 55

1. ‘GDR’, expands to ...
[A]Global Depository Receipts
[B]General Depository Receipts
[C]Government Depository Receipts
[D]Glocal Depository Receipts



2. Surya Shekhar Ganguly belongs to …
[A]Squash
[B]Chess
[C]Golf
[D]Badminton



3. She is the first women to graduate from Harvard Business School from India and is presently the country head of HSBC India. She is ....
[A]Chanda Kochchar
[B]Indira Nooyi
[C]Naina Lal Kidwai
[D]Lalitha Gupte



4. Which of the following brands is NOT owned by Reckitt & Benckiser?
[A]Strepsils
[B]Clearacil
[C]Sweetex
[D]Iodex



5. Ranjan Sodhi is the name that you would associate with…
[A]Table-Tennis
[B]Shooting
[C]Chess
[D]Badminton



6. ‘Making the sky the best place on earth’, is the punch line that you would associate with
[A]British Airways
[B]Air France
[C]United Airways
[D]Lufthansa



7. According to the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, which of the following represents the year by which India’s every child would be able to go to school?
[A]2010
[B]2012
[C]2014
[D]2015



8. Who chaired the Monitoring Committee for the Prevention of Ragging that was constituted recently?
[A]Deepak Pental
[B]R.K. Raghavan
[C]Sunil Gupta
[D]Dr. M.K. Ramchandran Nair



9. This person is declared as the leader of the opposition in Rajya Sabha. We are talking about…
[A]Jaswant Singh
[B]Lal Krishna Advani
[C]Arun Jaitley
[D]Rajnath Singh



10. Yelena Isinbayeva is a legendry personality that belongs to the field of …
[A]Chess
[B]Golf
[C]Lawn -Tennis
[D]Pole Vault



11. This person is the new US ambassador to India. Name him from the given options.
[A]David C. Mulford
[B]Timothy J. Roemer
[C]Ryan C. Crocker
[D]Steven J. White



12. Who is the newly appointed chief of the Central Board of Direct Taxes(CBDT)?
[A]N.B. Singh
[B]S.S.N. Moorthy
[C]Sudhir Chandra
[D]None of these



13. Fanta Apple was launched by this beverage giant nationally recently. Can you name the company in question from the given options?
[A]PepsiCo Inc.
[B]Coca Cola
[C]Cadbury Schweppes
[D]None of these



14. This chairman of an Indian public sector bank is the winner of the AsiaMoney's 'Best Executive' award-2008. Can you name him from the given options?
[A]K.C. Chakraborty
[B]O.P. Bhatt
[C]A.C. Mahajan
[D]S.K. Kohli



15. Which of the following is the first private player to offer IPTV services in India?
[A]Tata Communications
[B]Bharti Enterprises
[C]Reliance Communications
[D]None of these