Globescan - Compiled by Reshma Majithia

1. Who topped this year’s Forbes celebrity power list?
a. Elton John
b. Justin Bieber
c. Oprah Winfrey
d. Lady Gaga

2. Who is the new finance minister of West Bengal?
a. Siddhartha Shankar Ray
b. Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee
c. Prafulla Chandra Sen
d. Amit Mitra

3. Who is the new railway minister?
a. Mukul Roy
b. Ram Vilas Paswan
c. Nitish Kumar
d. C K Jaffer Sheriff

4. British specialty biopharmaceutical firm, Shire had agreed to acquire US-based Advanced BioHealing, a maker of a bio-engineered skin substitute, for ________in cash.
a. $ 550 million
b. $ 500 million
c. $ 450 million
d. $750 million

5. Which two people have been short-listed for the post of managing director of International Monetary Fund (IMF)?
a. Christine Lagarde and Agustin Carstens
b. Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Rodrigo de Rato
c. Nout Wellink and Guido Mantega
d. Horst Köhler and Guy Quaden

6. He was an eminent Indian painter. According to Forbes magazine, he has been regarded as the “Picasso of India.” After a long career, in 1996 a controversy arose over paintings originally created in the 1970s, which were interpreted by some as being anti-Hindu. After legal cases and death threats in his home country, he was on a
self-imposed exile from 2006. He passed away on June 9, 2011. Name him.
a. Vasudeo Gaitonde
b. Manjit Bawa
c. Tyeb Mehta
d. M. F. Husain

7. Which film won the best popular film at 58th National Film Awards?
a. My Name is Khan
b. Dabangg
c. Taare Zameen Par
d. Do Dooni Char

8. Global electrical equipment maker Crompton Greaves (CG) has acquired a Sweden-based company for 57.8 million euro. Name the company.
a. Aneby
b. Emotron Group
c. Alsterbro
d. Angered

9. Which of the following business tycoons has bought 74% stake in Bharti Axa Life and General Insurance?
a. Ratan Tata
b. Mukesh Ambani
c. Lakshmi Mittal
d. Anil Ambani

10. Who has been roped in as brand ambassador of Andhra Pradesh tourism?
a. Salman Khan
b. Virender Sehwag
c. Sachin Tendulkar
d. Saina Nehwal

11. An Australian actor of film, stage and television, he appeared in more than 60 films and won two Australian Film Institute Awards. He passed away on May 21, 2011. Name him.
a. Alan David Lee
b. John Boxer
c. Steve Rackman
d. Bill Hunter

12. She is a British author and has won best book at the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize ceremony in Sydney for her novel The Memory of Love. Name her.
a. Aminatta Forna
b. Lesley Glaister
c. Maggie Gee
d. Gillian White

13. Which of the following has acquired the theatrical telecast rights for cricket matches of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2010 and 2019 for Rs 330 crore recently?
a. Ten Sports
b. Neo Sports
c. Entertainment and Sports Direct (ESD)
d. ESPN Sports

14. Who is the new secretary general of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI)?
a. Dr. P.K. Mishra
b. Rajiv Kumar
c. Asim Dasgupta
d. Amit Mitra

15. Who won the Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction for his novel Super Sad True Love Story? The Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize is the UK’s only literary award for comic literature.
a. Manu Joseph
b. Geoff Dyer
c. Gary Shteyngart
d. Ian McEwan

16. Who is the new cabinet secretary of India?
a. Pawan Bansal
b. Mukul Wasnik
c. Kantilal Bhuria
d. Ajit Kumar Seth

17. Who has bagged this year’s Billboard Millennium Award?
a. Britney Spears
b. Lady Gaga
c. Jennifer Lopez
d. Beyonce Knowles

18. India has signed a deal with which of the following countries on issues of bilateral interest such as trade, piracy and economic cooperation:
a. Somalia
b. South Africa
c. Swaziland
d. Ethiopia

19. An Indian telecommunications company has entered into a five-year deal with mobile software-maker Comviva for providing value-added services across operations in 16 African countries. Name the company.
a. Bharti Airtel
b. Idea
c. Vodafone Essar
d. Loop

20. Which of the following steel companies has been adjudged the winner in ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’ at the Procurement Leaders Forum?
a. Jindal Steel
b. ArcelorMittal
c. Essar Steel
d. Tata Steel

21. Who won the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction for her debut novel The Tiger’s Wife?
a. Barbara Kingsolver
b. Tea Obreht
c. Charlotte Mendelson
d. Marilynne Robinson

22. Which of the following Indian states has signed an agreement with Centre and World Bank for securing USD 350 million loan assistance for implementing roads development under K-SHIP-II project?
a. Karnataka
b. Kerala
c. Andhra Pradesh
d. Uttar Pradesh

23. Who was honoured with the Col. C.K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award at the 4th Annual Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Awards?
a. Kapil Dev
b. Sunil Gavaskar
c. Salim Durrani
d. Mohammad Azharuddin

24. Serco, the international service company signed an agreement to acquire Mumbai-based Intelenet Global Services Private Ltd. (Intelenet), a leading provider of business process outsourcing (BPO) services to the private sector and in the domestic Indian market for ___________
a. 250 million pound sterling
b. 520 million pound sterling
c. 385 million pound sterling
d. 100 million pound sterling

25. Which of the following countries will become the third largest market in the world after China and the US for light vehicles, including passenger cars and light commercial vehicles (LCVs), by 2020, according to market research firm JD Power Asia Pacific?
a. Germany
b. India
c. France
d. Indonesia

26. Who was re-elected head of world football’s governing body FIFA?
a. Agum Gumelar
b. Bin Hammam
c. Sepp Blatter
d. Egil Olsen

27. Who is the new finance secretary of India?
a. Vijay Kelkar
b. Bimal Jalan
c. Sunil Mitra
d. Montek Singh Ahluwalia

28. India’s top mobile operator has signed a $400-million contract with China’s Huawei Technologies to modernise and expand its 2G and 3G mobile networks in Africa. Name the mobile operator.
a. Bharti Airtel
b. Loop
c. Idea
d. Vodafone Essar

29. A Gujarat based Indian conglomerate has acquired Australia’s Abbot Point Port Coal Terminal (APPCT) for AUD 1.829 bn (Rs 8,900 crore) in an all-cash deal. Name the Indian conglomerate.
a. Arvind Mills
b. Torrent Power AEC
c. Alembic
d. Adani group

30. Which of the following countries could leapfrog the United States to become the world’s largest banking economy by 2023?
a. India
b. Brazil
c. Japan
d. China

31. Who has been re-elected to the Board of Governors of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) for 2011-13?
a. Praful Patel
b. Naresh Goyal
c. Vikay Mallya
d. Ratan Tata

32. Who is the new president of Peru?
a. Valentín Paniagua
b. Alejandro Toledo
c. Alan García
d. Ollanta Humala

33. Which of the following American movies dominated the 2011 MTV Movie Awards, winning five trophies, including the night’s most coveted prize, Best Movie?
a. Road to Nowhere
b. ‘The Twilight Saga: Eclipse’
c. Source Code
d. Red Riding Hood

34. India’s second-biggest software services exporter, its Australia and New Zealand unit has acquired the software solutions business of New Zealand’s Gen-i for an undisclosed sum. Name the software services exporter.
a. Infosys
b. Wipro
c. Accenture
d. TCS

35. An American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies has purchased online ad firm AdMeld for $400 Million. Name the internet search company.
a. Microsoft
b. Yahoo!
c. Google
d. Time Warner

36. He was the board member of Infosys Technologies Limited and served as CFO and Director in charge of HR. He resigned from the board and Infosys Technologies Limited on April 15 2011 and is all set to be the chief architect of a multi-discipline university cluster being planned by Dr Ranjan Pai of Manipal Education & Medical Group (MEMG). Name him.
a. Nandan Nilekani
b. Narayan Murthy
c. N. S. Raghavan
d. Mohandas Pai

37. Which of the following airlines has tied up with leading global luxe hotel chain Marriott International to offer members of its frequent flyer programme luxurious stay options across the world?
a. Kingfisher
b. GoAir
c. Jet
d. IndiGo

38. Which of the following countries signed a loan agreement of $ 432 million loan with Asian Development Bank (ADB)?
a. China
b. India
c. Germany
d. Brazil

39. Mobile network gear maker Ericsson is to spend _______in cash to buy US group Telcordia to help it manage an explosion in data and services and fend off tough competition.
a. $ 1.5 billion
b. $ 4 billion
c. $ 2.5 billion
d. $1.15 billion

40. Who is the winner of US open 2011?
a. Rory McIlroy
b. Graeme McDowell
c. John Atkinson.
d. Michael Campbell

41. Who has been chosen as secretary-general of the UN for the second time in a row?
a. Boutros Boutros-Ghali
b. Kofi Annan
c. Ban Ki-moon
d. Javier Pérez de Cuéllar

Answers

1.d 2.d 3.a 4.d 5.a 6.d
7.b 8.b 9.b 10.d 11.d 12.a
13.c 14.b 15.c 16.d 17.d 18.d
19.a 20.d 21.b 22.a 23.c 24.c
25.b 26.c 27.c 28.a 29.d 30.d
31.b 32.d 33.b 34.a 35.c 36.d
37.a 38.b 39.d 40.a 41.c