Business Quiz
Total Marks 25
1) Which Indian household brand name was initiated by Kaka Dandekar in 1930, as Swadeshi product range, and was named after an American Cigarette brand?
Camel Surf Henkel Ariel
2) Shiv Ratan Agarwal, MD of Shivadeep Industries started off by making a product for soldiers to carry with them for days together. This company now controls 70% share in Indian market. Name the company. Milton Haldiram Parle Dukes
3) Which is “Your Home In The Sky”? Air France Air India Cathay Pacific Indian Airlines
4) “These days, it seems like any idiot with a laptop can write a management book and earn a million dollars. I’m trying to do the same “ are the starting lines of which book? Made In Japan Management Thoughts Dilbert Principles The Fifth Discipline
5) The highest level of worker decision making power is in: Quality Circles Socio-technical teams Autonomous work groups Ergonomics
6) Which car manufacturing giant recently shut down one of their plants in India? Toyota FIAT Daewoo Mitsubishi
7) Which group or company has developed the first electric car of the country? Kirloskar Sriram Honda Maini M&M
8) Which company is the first financial company to launch” floating interest rate bonds”? ICICI IDBI SIDBI EXIM
9) Providing incentives for attendance is an example of: Progressive Discipline Supervisory Discipline Preventive Discipline Corrective Discipline
10)Which group is Eureka Forbes associated with? Tata Kelvinator Godrej Allwyn
11) Which television company has had as many as seven CEOs in eight years- upto 2001? Sony Star Zee Sun
12) CEO of which India Government Company was sacked most recently? Coal India Ltd HMT Indian Railways NTPC
13) In 1945, Mc Donalds came up with a unique shape of Spaghetti. What was the shape? Ronald Jet Plane Reverse swastic Clown
14) The process of identifying, measuring, accounting and forecasting the value of human resources is known as Human Resource Accounting HRIS development Delphi Technique Markov analysis
15) The major dimensions of HRM practices that contribute to organization competitiveness includes all the following except Managing the human resource environment Acquiring and preparing human resources Assessing work and work outcomes None of the above
16) A pay band Is a combination of pay grades that include the number of levels in a pay structure Refers to the distance between the minimum and maximum pay rate in a pay grade Is the salary range attached to white collar jobs Reduces flexibility and assigning merit increases
17) The Jobs Descriptive index measures all of the following facets of satisfaction except Pay Work Itself Expression Customer
18) While collecting and processing forms, HR department administers which function Creating plan documentation Communication/education Plan management Plan implementation
19) The use of job rotation is an attempt to reduce job dissatisfaction caused by Organizational tasks Organizational roles Social environment Characteristics of individual
20)The first step in evaluating training results is Choose evaluation criteria Pretest current level of knowledge Evaluate the transfer of knowledge to jobs Gather reactions from trained workers
21) Most HR experts express concern about the competency of using __________ to promote the workers since all of the workers are not equally capable Experience Seniority Transfers Head hunters
22) What is unique about Vespa 400? 400cc scooter Only car brought by Piaggio Three wheeler by Piaggio None of the above
23) This brand appeared in original black and white version of Tintin adventure “The black island “ it was later replaced by “Loch Lomond” in the coloured version.Name the brand. Shaw Wallace Johnny Walker Royal Challenge Seagrams
24) Which of the following refrigerators has been named after a scientist?
Kelvinator Allwyn Godrej Voltas
25) 'The real thing is back' read one ad in 1993. What was the 'real thing' which was announcing its return to India? Coca Cola Pepsi Kellogg’s Fosters