Globescan - Compiled by Reshma Majithia

1. Who has been given the 'Businessman of the Decade' by the Federation of the Indo-Israeli Chambers of Commerce (FIICC) ?
a. Ratan Tata
b. Lakshmi Mittal
c. Rahul Bajaj
d. Narayan Murthy

2. Who among these is not the brand ambassador for commonwealth games 2010?
a. Abhinav Bindra
b. Saina Nehwal
c. Vijender Singh
d. Amitabh Bachchan

3. __________ has unveiled a keyboard which will have the new Indian rupee sign on it.
a. TVS Electronics
b. Foradian Technologies
c. Samsung Electronics
d. HCL Technologies

4. An Indian-American has been appointed as co-chairman of the US National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (NACIE) by the Obama administration. Name him
a. Richard Verma
b. Gururaj Deshpande
c. Vinai Thummalapally
d. Rajiv Shah

5. Who has been given this year's Lokmanya Tilak Award in recognition of her contribution to politics?
a. Mayawati
b. Priya Dutt
c. Pratibha Patil
d. Sheila Dikshit

6. Who has been appointed as the chairperson to head the Arjuna committee 2010, a panel that has been constituted to select the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Arjuna and Dhyanchand awards apart from Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puraskar?
a. Mary Kom
b. Rohini Rao
c. PT Usha
d. Soma Biswas

7. A former World Snooker champion, he was also known by his nickname the Hurricane for his fast and flamboyant style of play. He won his first World Championship title in 1972 and his second World Championship title in 1982. He passed away on July 24, 2010. Name him
a. Alex Higgins
b. Tom Dennis
c. Joe Davis
d. Walter Donaldson

8. Sanofi-Aventis, the world's fourth-largest pharmaceutical company is in talks to buy US-based Biotechnology Company. Name the company .
a. Merck & Co
b. SenesTech
c. AstraZeneca
d. Genzyme Corporation

9. ______________ will be the first district in the country to have streets in all villages illuminated by solar street lighting system.
a. Haryana's Sirsa district
b. J and K's Dangerpora area
c. Bihar's Tara Chatti area
d. Rajasthan's Jalore district

10. Who is the new Chief Election Commissioner of India?
a. B. B. Tandon
b. S Y Quraishi
c. Navin Chawla
d. N. Gopalaswami

11. Which country overtook the US as the world's biggest energy user last year according to International Energy Agency?
a. China
b. India
c. Japan
d. Australia

12. British oil giant BP's Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward, who has been in the spot light since the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, will step down on October 1. He is to be replaced by____________
a. Robert E. Wilson
b. Carl-Henric Svanberg
c. Robert Dudley
d. Doug Suttles

13. _______________ of Deutsche Boerse AG and Eurex has been appointed the new shareholder director of The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) This is the second big appointment on the BSE board after Tata Consultancy Chairman S Ramadorai was appointed as the exchange's chairman.
a. Madhu Kannan
b. Andreas Preuss
c. Keki Mistry
d. M.R Mayya

14. Who is the new Managing Director of Tata International?
a. I. Hussain
b. Nowroze J. N. Vazifdar
c. Mr. F. K. Kavarana
d. Noel Tata

15. Who has been chosen for the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhawana Award for his contribution towards the promotion of communal harmony, peace and goodwill?
a. Dr. A. Sivathanu Pillai
b. N. Radhakrishnan
c. Rohit kochhar
d. Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

16. Who has been appointed as South Asia Director for BBC?
a. Deepak Shourie
b. Sam Zarifi
c. Shami Chakrabarti
d. Mark Thompson

17. Name the prime minister of South Korea who recently resigned over a controversial government-office development plan, as mounting troubles in the housing and construction industries threaten the country's rapid recovery from the global economic crisis.
a. Han Seung-soo
b. Chung Un-chan
c. Han Duck-soo
d. Han Myung Sook

18. An Indian badminton player currently ranked number 2 in the world by Badminton World Federation; she is the first Indian to reach the singles quarterfinals at the Olympics and the first Indian to win the World Junior Badminton Championships. She has been selected for the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, the country's sporting honour, for her outstanding achievements on the badminton court. Name her.
a. Aparna Balan
b. Jwala Gutta
c. Aparna Popat
d. Saina Nehwal

19. Which of the following brands has emerged as the world's most valuable brand in the 50 Top valuable brand list of the Forbes magazine.
a. General Electric
b. Coca Cola
c. Apple Computers
d. Microsoft

20. India's latest supercomputer ________was unveiled at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc) in Chennai. It is the country's seventh fastest high-performance computation (HPC) cluster having 1.5 Tera Byte (TB) memory and 30 TB storage space cluster capacity. Name the computer.
a. Param
b. Annapurna
c. Eka
d. IBM Roadrunner

21. An awardee of the Order of the British Empire in 1995, he is the first person in history to have walked to the South and North Poles. Name him.
a. Sir Ranulph Twistleton-Wykeham-Fiennes
b. Dr. Guion Stewart Bluford Jr
c. John Dowd
d. Robert Swan

22. A multinational computer technology corporation that specializes in developing and marketing enterprise software products has launched a copyright and patent infringement lawsuit against Google, claiming that the search engine giant's mobile phone operating system uses elements of its technology. Name the company.
a. Lectron
b. Oracle
c. Nortel Networks
d. Apple

23. The government on 16th August 2010 approved the implementation of the Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of Adolescent Girls aimed at enhancing their nutritional and economic status. Name the scheme.
a. SABLA
b. Kishori Shakti Yojna
c. The Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS)
d. The Nutritional Programme for Adolescent Girls (NPAG).

24. Which of the following IT majors has been selected by the government to develop software for digitising its crime and criminal tracking network system under the national e-governance plan?
a. IBM
b. Wipro
c. Accenture
d. Tata

25. Who has been elected as Hockey India president?
a. Jose Brasa
b. Sandeep Singh
c. Vidya Stokes
d. Adrian D'Souza

26. Warner Bros is all set to buy the British television production company, maker of programs such as Supernanny and The Choir, for around 100 million pounds. Name the British production company.
a. Shed Media
b. Objective Productions
c. Kudos Productions
d. Princess Productions

27. Well-known physicist-turned author, journalist and television producer of Indian origin, he has been selected by the International Mathematical Union for the Leelavathi Award in recognition of his outstanding contribution to public outreach in mathematics.
a. Pico Iyer
b. Simon Lehna Singh
c. Karsh Kale
d. Bobby Ghosh

28. The "cyberwar" between India and Pakistan has claimed another victim, with the hacking of a high-profile business baron's website that experts say highlights the woeful lack of Internet security in South Asia. Name the person.
a. Rajiv Chandrashekhar
b. Naveen Jindal
c. Vijay Mallya
d. Rajkumar Dhoot

29. Who is the new president of Rwanda?
a. Pasteur Bizimungu
b. Paul Kagame
c. Juvénal Habyarimana
d. Alfred Mukezamfura

30. Who resigned as Chief Executive Officer of Hewlett Packard after a sexual harassment probe found he had a close personal relationship with an HP contractor who received improper payments.
a. Michael Holston
b. Shane Robison
c. Peter Bocian
d. Mark Hurd

31. Who is the new prime minister of South Korea?
a. Kim Tae-ho
b. Chung Un-chan
c. Han Seung-soo
d. Han Duck-soo

32. Who is the winner of the 2010 Toronto Title?
a. Novak Djokovic
b. Rafael Nadal
c. Roger Federer
d. Andy Murray

33. The largest cellular service provider in India is all set to acquire 100 percent stake in Telecom Seychelles for $ 62 million (about Rs 288 crore). Name the service provider.
a. Vodafone
b. Bharti Airtel
c. Idea
d. Loop

34. A Sri Lankan cricketer, he was rated the greatest Test match bowler ever by Wisden Cricketers' Almanack in 2002. Recently he became the first test cricket bowler who has reached 800 wickets. Name him.
a. Muttiah Muralitharan
b. Thilan Samaraweera
c. Kumar Sangakkara
d. Suranga Lakmal

35. World Environment Day is observed on:
a. August 15
b. June 5
c. September 5
d. December 31

ANSWER KEY
1.a 2.d 3.a 4.b 5.d
6.c 7.a 8.d 9.a 10.b
11.a 12.c 13.b 14.d 15.d
16.a 17.b 18.d 19.c 20.b
21.d 22.b 23.a 24.b 25.c
26.a 27.b 28.c 29.b 30.d
31.a 32.d 33.b 34.a 35.b