Globescan - Compiled by Reshma Majithia

1. An American multinational corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers has sued Amazon.com for trademark infringement and unfair competition. Name the multinational corporation.
a. Microsoft
b. Apple
c. Yahoo
d. Hewlett-Packard

2. Who has been appointed the new chairman of the State Bank of India (SBI)?
a. Gautam Talwar
b. Pankaj Gandhi
c. Pratip Chaudhuri
d. Sandeep Lakhina

3. The Prime Minister of Portugal announced his resignation on the eve of the EU summit on the eurozone debt crisis after parliament rejected his minority government’s latest round of austerity measures. Name him.
a. António Guterres
b. José Manuel Barroso
c. Pedro Santana Lopes
d. Jose Socrates

4. An English-born American actress, she became one of the great screen actresses of Hollywood’s Golden Age, and one of the most famous film stars in the world. She starred in movies like ‘Father of the Bride, A Place in the Sun, Giant, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Suddenly, and Last Summer. She also won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Butterfield 8’. She passed away on March 23, 2011. Identify her.
a. Elizabeth Taylor
b. Brittany Murphy
c. Jane Russell
d. Jean Simmons

5. Managing a Dental Practice: the Genghis Khan Way, is a book advising dentists on how to run their practices the Mongolian warlord style. It has won the Diagram prize for oddest book title of the year. Who is the author of the book?
a. Michael Young
b. Ana Castillo
c. Alfonso Chase
d. Ray Bradbury

6. Which of the following advertising agencies has won the media mandate of the direct response company Guthy-Renker, a direct-response marketer known primarily for selling products in the United States via infomercials? The agency has won the business for digital and print media. Name the agency.
a. Mudra
b. Leo Burnett
c. OMD
d. Euro Rscg
7. Who was recently appointed as Assistant Administrator for Asia in the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) by US President Barack Obama?
a. Nisha Desai
b. Farah Pandith
c. Preet Bharara
d. Anju Bhargava

8. Who has been appointed the vice-chairperson of Lowe Lintas India?
a. Raj Kamble
b. Gautam Talwar
c. Anwesh Bose
d. Fali Vakeel

9. Who has won this year’s Orange Prize for Fiction with her sixth novel The Lacuna?
a. Marilynne Robinson
b. Barbara Kingsolver
c. Rose Tremain
d. Hilary Mantel

10. As per census 2011 the population of India has increased by more than _____ during the decade 2001-2011.
a. 120 million
b. 181 million
c. 180 million
d. 150 million

11. Which is the most populous state in India followed by Maharashtra?
a. Jharkhand
b. Haryana
c. Bihar
d. Uttar Pradesh

12. Who has been appointed the chairman of the board of governors of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur?
a. Lakshmi Mittal
b. Ratan Tata
c. Shiv Nadar
d. Rahul Bajaj

13. Which of the following advertising agencies hogged the limelight, winning the only Grand Prix and five gold metals at the ABBY awards at GoaFest 2011?
a. Madison Advertising Pvt Ltd
b. Ogilvy & Mather
c. Percept Advertising Ltd
d. Equus Advertising Co Ltd

14. Who won the Pantaloons Femina Miss India World 2011 beauty pageant?
a. Nicole Faria
b. Ankita Shorey
c. Kanishtha Dhankar
d. Hasleen Kaur

15. Which of the following countries officially banned women from wearing full-face veils/burqa in public places?
a. France
b. Germany
c. Denmark
d. Fiji
16. Who has been elected the new president of WAN-IFRA? (WAN-IFRA, based in Paris and Darmstadt, Germany, is a global organisation of newspaper editors and publishers, representing more than 18,000 publications, 15,000 online sites and over 3,000 companies in more than 120 countries.)
a. Ravinder Siwach
b. Deepak Singh
c. Rajat Gupta
d. Jacob Mathew

17. He is an Italian film director and screenwriter, whose films include The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris, The Last Emperor and The Dreamers. In recognition of his work, he will be presented with the inaugural Honorary Palme d’Or Award at the opening ceremony of the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. Name him.
a. Roberto Benigni
b. Martin Scorsese
c. Bernardo Bertolucci
d. Sergio Leone

18. Which among the following stock exchanges has developed its own computer application called “NOW” to enable mobile trading?
a. Bombay Stock Exchange
b. National Stock Exchange
c. Delhi Stock Exchange
d. MCX

19. Which of the following telecom service providers has signed the most expensive sponsorship deal in the Indian Premier League (IPL) with Chennai Super Kings. The telecom service provider has paid more than Rs 85 crore to renew its sponsorship contract with the Chennai team led by Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
a. Vodafone India
b. Idea
c. Bharti Airtel
d. Aircle

20. Who won the Asian Billiards Championship at the Olympic Stadium of Kish Island, Iran?
a. Rupesh Shah
b. Pankaj Advani
c. Alok Kumar
d. Geet Sethi

21. A Zimbabwe-based conservationist who has taken a very direct
approach to saving Africa’s Critically Endangered black rhino has been awarded the 2011 Goldman Environmental Prize. Name him.
a. David Attenborough
b. Raoul du Toit
c. Matthew Hatchwell
d. Chris Weston

22. An Indian chartered accountant, he was the board member of Infosys Technologies Limited and the company’s Director Incharge of the Human Resource Department. He resigned from the board and Infosys Technologies Limited in April 2011. Name him.
a. NR Narayana Murthy
b. Dr. Omkar Goswami
c. T V Mohandas Pai
d. Srinath Batni

23. He is a business magnate and philanthropist and has been ranked as the world’s wealthiest man by Forbes magazine. He is also the chairman and CEO of telecommunications companies Telmex and América Móvil and plans to invest $1.5 billion over the next two years in Argentina’s telecommunications sector. Name him.
a. Warren Buffet
b. Bill Gates
c. Carlos Slim
d. Larry Ellison

24. He is an American business entrepreneur and is also the owner of Kroenke Sports Enterprises, which includes the Denver Nuggets of the NBA, Colorado Rapids of Major League Soccer, Colorado Avalanche of the NHL, Colorado Mammoth of the National Lacrosse League and St. Louis Rams of the NFL. Recently he bought Arsenal Football Club, which is a professional English Premier League football club based in North London for $1.2 billion. Name the business entrepreneur.
a. George Lucas
b. Stan Kroenke
c. Ted Turner
d. Marc Rich

25. Who has been appointed the new global CEO of British consumer products giant Reckitt Benckiser?
a. Pratip Chaudhri
b. Barry Salzberg
c. Raj Kamble
d. Rakesh Kapoor

26. Who has taken over as the new president of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for 2011-12?
a. B Muthuraman
b. Rajesh Kamat
c. Keith Alphonso
d. Vijay Kumar

27. Who has been named as Wisden’s Leading Cricketer in the World for 2010?
a. Yuvraj Singh
b. Gautam Gambhir
c. Sachin Tendulkar
d. MS Dhoni

28. The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry expects the Indian pharmaceutical industry to reach _____by 2015, making it one of the world’s top 10 pharmaceuticals markets.
a. $ 30 billion
b. $ 15 billion
c. $ 25 billion
d. $20 billion

29. Which of the following actresses has been conferred with the French honour Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters for her contribution to the development of Indo-French cooperation in the field of cinema?
a. Shabana Azmi
b. Nandita Das
c. Sharmila Tagore
d. Madhuri Dixit

30. Sachin Tendulkar has added one more feather to his cap by hitting his first ever century in the twenty20 format of the game in the ongoing IPL against which of the following IPL teams?
a. Team Pune
b. Kochi Team
c. Kolkara Knight Riders:
d. King XI Punjab:

31. Which of the following business tycoons was the biggest wealth creator at the end of fiscal year 2011, doubling his wealth to Rs 33,211 crore?
a. Gautam Adani
b. Mukesh Ambani
c. Lakshmi Mittal
d. Ratan Tata

32. Aditya Birla group company, Aditya Birla Chemicals (India), is all set to acquire the chloro chemicals division of Kanoria Chemicals & Industries Limited (KCIL) for a cash consideration of _________.
a. Rs 250 crore
b. Rs 550 crore
c. Rs 225 crore
d. Rs 830 crore

33. Who won his seventh Monte Carlo Masters title? The Monte-Carlo Masters (currently sponsored by Rolex) is an annual tennis tournament for male professional players. The event is part of the ATP Masters Series on the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Tour.
a. José Acasuso
b. Rafael Nadal
c. David Adams
d. Andre Agassi

34. Which of these is the first foreign country has launched a website in Hindi aimed at providing better information access to families of prospective Indian students in its country?
a. Australia
b. Canada
c. Brazil
d. New Zealand

35. India’s Supreme Court has granted bail to leading public health specialist and human rights activist___________
a. Dr Binayak Sen
b. Abdul Jabbar
c. Gautam Navlakha
d. Anna Hazare

36. Aditya Birla Group has acquired Sweden-based speciality pulp and bio-refinery company Domsjo Fabriker for about _________through its international subsidiaries Thai Rayon Public Company and Indo Bharat Rayon (Indonesia) from a consortium of six individual investors.
a. Rs 1, 800 crore
b. Rs 900 crore
c. Rs 1,200 crore
d. Rs 1,500 crore

37. Name the Indian-American doctor and non-fiction writer whose acclaimed book on cancer, The Emperor of all Maladies: A Biography of Cancer has won the prestigious 2011 Pulitzer Prize in the general non-fiction category.
a. Siddhartha Mukherjee
b. Tapan Thakur
c. Sanjay Dabral
d. Piyush Tiwary

Answers

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