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1. Which company owns India's leading sweetener brand sugar free? 2. Which famou s company was founded in 1985 following the merger of Houston Natural Gas and In ter North of Omaha, and was one of the fastest growing companies in the world in the last decade? 3. Which was India's first-ever free Internet service provider , which started operations in 1999? 4. With which company has Pepsi tied up to m arket a ready-to- drink range of iced tea internationally? 5. Which automobile t ycoon built one of the world's tallest skyscrapers at the height of the American Depression in 1929? 6. Which famous personality recently resigned from the boar d of the controversial dotcom Tehelka.com in 2001? 7. The book Only the Paranoid Survive focuses on which famous techno company? 8. What was the significance ab out the purchase of a kilo of lychees on the French island of Reunion, located i n the Indian Ocean? 9. When he founded his company in 1939 along with his partne r Dain in San Francisco's Bay Area, he effectively created the trend, which led to the creation of Silicon Valley decades later. He was the CEO of his company t ill 1978 and died of natural causes in 2001. Who are we talking about here? 10. Which company has been associated with sponsoring different events from the Olym pics to the Nobel Prize. Its chairman, Kun Hee Lee was also a member of the Inte rnational Olympic Committee? 11. With which international restaurant chain would you associate Hollywood stars Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bru ce Willis? 12. Kia Motors was a large automobile manufacturer in Korea until tak en over in the 1990s. Which company owns it now? 13. Which business group owns t he brand Kirin, the largest selling beer in Japan? 14. Which country is home to Rolls Royce? 15. The name was adopted by the group of seven major industrial nat ions established in 1985 to discuss the world economy, comprising the United Sta tes, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan is G7. Name the missi ng country? 16. Big Blue is IBM, but who is Big Yellow? 17. This shoe tycoon´s visi ting cards carry the title ´Senior Shoe Salesman´. Name the person referred to. 18. Wh ich brand did Farook Engineer the cricketer model for? 19.who was voted CEO of t he millenium? 20. Rajiv Menon being the director and rediff vision the producer for which product video 21. What is the meaning of the word MOTOROLA? 22. What i s the logo of Indian railways? 23. In which British tax haven are 11 of Dhirubha i Ambani s companies registered? 24. In 2001 John Koegh of Australia filed a pat ent for "Circular transportation facilitation device". What is this? 25. What wa s launched in 1929 by the London Rubber company and derived its name from the qu alities of "durability, reliability and excellence" 26. Which company used the f ollowing slogan to promote their brands 'Axor', 'Pharo' and 'Rendezvous': "With 'aqua' in our middle name, it's hardly surprising we draw our inspiration from w ater"? 27. Avinash Bajaj & Suvir Sujan, 2 Harvard Busines School classmates star ted this hugely popular website. Which website is this? 28. Popcorn industries s uffered heavy loss in early 1950's.What was the reason? . 29. What are missionwa re? 30. The CEO of Wilshire Associates is a very famous man, but not as the usua l businessman. Who is he? 31. State Bank of India was previously known as what?

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1. Which company owns India's leading sweetener brand sugar free? 2. Which famous company was founded in 1985 following the merger of Houston Natural Gas and Inter North of Omaha, and was one of the fastest growing companies in the world in the last decade? 3. Which was India's first-ever free Internet service provider, which started operations in 1999? 4. With which company has Pepsi tied up to market a ready-to- drink range of iced tea internationally? 5. Which automobile tycoon built one of the world's tallest skyscrapers at the height of the American Depression in 1929? 6. Which famous personality recently resigned from the board of the controversial dotcom Tehelka.com in 2001? 7. The book Only the Paranoid Survive focuses on which famous techno company? 8. What was the significance about the purchase of a kilo of lychees on the French island of Reunion, located in the Indian Ocean? 9. When he founded his company in 1939 along with his partner Dain in San Francisco's Bay Area, he effectively created the trend, which led to the creation of Silicon Valley decades later. He was the CEO of his company till 1978 and died of natural causes in 2001. Who are we talking about here? 10. Which company has been associated with sponsoring different events from the Olympics to the Nobel Prize. Its chairman, Kun Hee Lee was also a member of the International Olympic Committee? 11. With which international restaurant chain would you associate Hollywood stars Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis? 12. Kia Motors was a large automobile manufacturer in Korea until taken over in the 1990s. Which company owns it now? 13. Which business group owns the brand Kirin, the largest selling beer in Japan? 14. Which country is home to Rolls Royce? 15. The name was adopted by the group of seven major industrial nations established in 1985 to discuss the world economy, comprising the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan is G7. Name the missing country? 16. Big Blue is IBM, but who is Big Yellow? 17. This shoe tycoon´s visiting cards carry the title ´Senior Shoe Salesman´. Name the person referred to. 18. Which brand did Farook Engineer the cricketer model for? 19.who was voted CEO of the millenium? 20. Rajiv Menon being the director and rediff vision the producer for which product video 21. What is the meaning of the word MOTOROLA? 22. What is the logo of Indian railways? 23. In which British tax haven are 11 of Dhirubhai Ambani s companies registered? 24. In 2001 John Koegh of Australia filed a patent for "Circular transportation facilitation device". What is this? 25. What was launched in 1929 by the London Rubber company and derived its name from the qualities of "durability, reliability and excellence" 26. Which company used the following slogan to promote their brands 'Axor', 'Pharo' and 'Rendezvous': "With 'aqua' in our middle name, it's hardly surprising we draw our inspiration from water"? 27. Avinash Bajaj & Suvir Sujan, 2 Harvard Busines School classmates started this hugely popular website. Which website is this? 28. Popcorn industries suffered heavy loss in early 1950's.What was the reason? . 29. What are missionware? 30. The CEO of Wilshire Associates is a very famous man, but not as the usual businessman. Who is he? 31. State Bank of India was previously known as what?

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32. Which company had insured the World Trade Center (WTC)? 33. "Let Truth Prevail" is the punch line of which newspaper and it is published by whom? 34. Which company has the patent for the CDMA technology? 35. Which Japanese electronics company started by manufacturing calculators but came off the market due to diminishing returns. It now regrets it as one of their biggest mistakes which kept them out of the computer business. Which company are we talking about? 36. These companies are collectively known as the Chaebols in South Korea. Name them 37. Expand NASDAQ 38. Which car indigenously made in India was originally adopted from the "Vauxhall Victor" (Vauxhall is the British form of Opel), a British model? 39. What is common to Kapil Dev, Lisa Ray and Leander Paes in the context of brand endorsement? 40. What is common to the brands Rolex and Hallmark? 41. Which company was previously known as the Galvin Manufacturing Company? 42. Which biz leader's name means "enlightened prosperous rice fields" 43. Which company now owns the following car brands: Jaguar, Volvo, Aston Martin, Mazda, Land Rover, Lincoln? 44. What nickname was given to the day when over £100 billion was wiped off the value of shares in the city of London? 45. What product was originally named KdF Wagon (or Strength Through Joy Car) but was later on changed by Hitler? 46. This brand appeared in the original black and white version of the Tintin adventure 'The Black Island". It was later replaced by "Loch Lomond" in the colour version. Name the brand? 47. The sports company Spalding promoted what major change in Lawn tennis to facilitate T. V. viewership? 48. Percy Holmes and Herbert Sutcliffe had a huge partnership for Yorkshire vs Essex (cricket match)in 1932. According to legend, what did this give rise to? 49. In 1978, Shudhabardhak bati was transformed into what? 50. In 1958, what did Dan Carney and Frank Carey of Wichita, Kansas do to pay for their college fees? 51. Early in his career, Kishore Kumar modeled for a particular ad - the only product he ever modeled for. Name the product. 52. Who owns the registered trademark Lycos? 53. Which company's motto is - "Where the people meet the people"? 54. In which field of human enterprise was the marble shaped invention of Hiram Codd, along with dozens of other contraptions, replaced by the 'crown' shaped invention of William Painter? 55. Name the brand launched by the movie "Gone with The wind" 56. Who were the first company to sponsor Man United's shirts? 57. Which Swedish car manufacturer once admitted price fixing in Britain? 58. In marketing terminology, who are known as the Backseat Consumers ? 59. Which structure has a river at one end and a graveyard at the other? 60. The Japanese Prime Minister Tanaka and Prince Barrow of Netherlands were involved in which bribery scandal in 1974? 61. An organization with more than one million members in over 150 countries, it has no rules or entry requirements. Members, many of whom use only first names, cannot contribute more than $1000 to the organization. Which is this organization? 62. What was started in 1922 in a shop below an illegal bar in Greenwich Village, New York, with a capital of 5000 US Dollars? 63. Which product was advertised as "99.44% pure, it floats 64. What is the daily profit and loss statement system that Marwari companies in India follow called? 65. "Let the dance begin was the ad-line for the launch of which product?

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66. In the world of Sports, what is boot money? 67. Which fast food chain is named after a character from the comic strip featuring Popeye? 68. Who is supposed to have said the following and to whom "Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world"? 69. Kiran Seth is the founder of which organization? 70. What war or clash in the twentieth century came to be known as the cartographic war ? 71. Why are the "Shatabdi" series of trains so called? 72. Who coined the term "Hinduism" to refer to the motley assortment of sects spread across India, with somewhat similar beliefs and practices? 73. What did Melville de Mellow do for over seven hours without a break that made him a national celebrity? 74. Why was 26 January selected as the Republic Day of India? 75. What did a Muslim pilgrim called Babu Budan introduce into India in 1695? 76. Which is the only teetotal state in the Union of India? 77. What is the name of d 1st civilian transport aircraft developed by HAL? Saras 78. What national institution is located at Feroze Jeejeebhoy Towers? 79. Who took over Alexander the great in Egypt? 80. Discovered in the early 1980's by Brian Skiff and Edward Boswell, how are the asteroids 4147, 4148, 4149 and 4150 collectively known as ? 81. Where did the Great fire of London break out in 1666? 82. Who was the tyrant leader of the Khymer Rouge whose reign of terror killed some 3 million people in Cambodia in the 1970's? 83. Where did the burglary that led to the resignation of an American President take place? 84. What political position did Ronald Reagan hold before becoming President of the United States? 85. The composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in 86. If Cynthia Cooper, Coleen Rowley and Sherron Watkins were the most recent, who was the first 87. Which British duo were the first people to fly across the Atlantic Ocean non-stop? 88. Aboard which US warship did the Japanese sign their surrender in World War II? 89. Who was the only US president to be a University professor? 90. What was called 'Operation Polo' by the Indian army? 91. An English clergyman who emigrated from Cambridge to New England left half his fortune and his library of 300 books to the college of New Towne. This was renamed in his honour. Name the college. 92. Subedar Khudad Khan was the first Indian recipient of which award? 93. What was kept on the top of the Eiffel Tower during WW I to detect approaching bomber aircraft? 94. In the Great Exhibition of 1851 at Hyde Park in London, engineer, George Jennings started a facility that was a new concept at that time. It became very popular and is found everywhere today. What? 95. Who was the only U.S. president to receive a patent for an invention (although it was never used), and what was the invention? 96. The first attempt to measure this was by Galileo, using people on two distant hills. Ole Roemer tried to do this by studying the movement of Jupiter's satellites. Hypolite Fizeau and Focault both designed apparatus to measure it. What? 97. When it was originally designed/prepared by its inventor he called it a Convenience Food - and ate it when he was too busy gambling to leave the table for a meal. What is it called now, after its inventor? 98. The 13th century brothels of Paris were the first to have what, following a royal order that they should use something to demarcate themselves from

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normal houses? 99. .Alexander Graham Bell brought a remarkable invention to the bedside of dying president James A. Garfield. What was it and why did it fail? 100. What invention of the confectioner George Smith was named after a famous race horse of the early 20th century? 101. A British official, Henry Martin, observed an invention he believed to of great use to aircraft navigators as it worked equally well at low altitudes and high altitudes. This was such a success that he formed a company The MilesMartin Company along with the inventor for selling the invention. What was the invention? 102. What did Immanuel Nobel, Alfred Nobel's father invent? 103. A polymer was invented by Dr. Roy Plunkett and first used as an electric insulator. An earnest French angler tried it on his fishing line to prevent it from tangling. His wife's suggestion led to its bestknown use today. What? 103. Mary Phelps Jacob wanted to have the freedom to dance comfortably. What did she make to allow her to dance comfortably? 104. " This day relenting God; Hath placed within my hand; A wondrous thing and God be praised At his command seeking his secret deeds with tears and toiling breath ; I find thy cunning seeds O million murdering death; I know this little thing , A myriad men will save ; O death where is thy sting , Thy victory O grave " . Identify the poet. 105. What did a certain James Marshall, a carpenter by profession, do on the 24th June 1848 that triggered a famous event in the history of America? What was this famous event (that gave birth to a city)? 106. KPCB and Morgan Stanley assisted this start-up to go public in 1995. The start-up launched a Revolutionary product. Our lives haven't been the same since. Identify the company or the product. 107. What was created in Feb '02 by the merger ofAceralia of Spain, Unisor of France and Arbed of Luxemberg? 108. What's slackware in IT parlance? 109. Connect: Abraham Lincoln and Cognizant Technology Solutions. 110. What owes its origins to the blue agave found in a town in the western Mexican state of Jalisco? 111. Whose epitaph reads: "A tomb now suffices for whom the world was not enough ? 112. Franklin Roosevelt called it the 'sacred cow ; Harry Truman called it 'Independence' and Eisenhower called it 'The Columbine' How do it know it as? 113. Whose was the shortest performance to win an acting Oscar? 114. What's Ylem (in physics or rather astrophysics)? 115. Shortly after the erection of the Berlin Wall, President Kennedy visited Berlin (West Berlin) and made a historic speech. What are the most famous words in that speech? 116. In IT parlance what's a Heisenbug? 117. This band received a nomination in the heavy metal category for the Grammy Awards. They performed one of their hit numbers live at the show, but the award went to Jethro Tull. The band didn't seem to care, though; they added a sticker to their album reading "Grammy Award LOOSERS". Which band? 118. ________ was not only a great speech maker, hiswit was also legendary. In the House of Commons a ladyMP, angry with _______, said 'If I were married toyou, I'd put poison in your coffee'. _________ replied 'If you were my wife, I 'd drink it'. Another female MP, when seeing ________ intoxicated, said '_______you're drunk' to which ________ replied 'Bessie you'reugly. And tomorrow I shall be sober'. Who is being referred to? 119. Dr.Manmohan Singh was a Finance Minister before he became Prime Minister of India. Who was the first Finance Minister who later became President of India

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119. In the comic series, Dennis the Menace, what is Dennis s last name? 120. This famous temple derives its name from the palm tree which is abundant in the region in which it is built. This was built by King Chandravarman, founder of the Chandela Dynasty, when his mother appeared in his dreams and asked him to build such a temple. Originally 85 temples were built, but of these, only 22 survive. Which famous religious landmark in India are we talking about? 121. This is an old invention, and yet, it came into proper shape and form only in the 1920s. The Aar Valley in Switzerland is the area where this world famous invention is industrialized, thus putting it on the world map for this invention. An Englishman, John Harwood obtained a patent for this product. What is it? 122. What were the series of holy wars between the 11th and 13th centuries to recover the Holy Sepulchure in Jerusalem called? 123. I was buried in High Gate Cemetry in North London on 17 March 1883. My gravestone carries the engraving, Workers of all lands unite . Who am I? 124. Which small metropolitan borough on the Thames River in London housed the Royal Observatory till 1946? 125. Which popular comic character s classmate is Susie Derkins? 126. Sheepsfoot, clip point, spey, americanised tanto, ulu are some of its types. What is it? 127. This computer term was created when its author, Mike Muuss, named it after the pulses of sound made by sonar. Which term? Clue: think the internet. 128. The coiner of this computer term named this concept after his trip to Hawaii. He had named it after the "quick" shuttle buses at Honolulu Airport, purely for sentimental reasons. This was the first Hawaiian term he learned on his first visit to the islands! Now this term means speed and is used in the world of internet, where one can edit a web-page. 129. World Nations: A Cambridge student Choudhary Rahmat Ali coined the name of this country. He devised the word as an acronym of the different states or regions around the country and published it on 28 January 1933 in the pamphlet "Now or never". However, there is another story as well as pertains to the name of this country: the Persian meaning of the name translates to the land of the pure . Which country s name is this? Clue: ends with stan; 130. A device used commonly in all offices was the central character in the movie, office Space , in which it was the prized possession of office worker Milton Waddams. The movie is all about his feelings, when his boss Bill Lumbergh confiscated his prize possession. Swingline was the name of the company, which featured on this product, and it hadn t actually begun manufacturing the RED colored product as shown in the movie. But popularity grew so much for this red color, that the company was forced to offer it in the year 2004. WHICH PRODUCT IS THIS 131. The five-member group consisting of Nick Carter, Howie Dorough, Brian Littrell, A.J. McLean and Kevin Richardson forms which popular Music band? 132. Which fictional series of French comic books did Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge translate into English (from French)? 133. Which literary piece begins thus (more in a philosophical way), To be born again, sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, first you have to die. Ho ji! Ho ji! To land upon the bosomy earth, first one needs to fly. Tat taa! Taka-thun! How to ever smile again, if first you won't cry? How to win the darling's love, mister, without a sigh? Baba, if you want to get born again... ? Clue: think controversial writer. 134. Which literary classic revolves around the tragic love story of two central characters, Heathcliff and Catherine? 135. Where are ice-hockey players (puckers!) sent for committing fouls? 136. What does the abbreviation YMMV stand for? 137. Why is Cape Three Points, in the Gulf of Guinea, Ghana known as the

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`land nearest nowhere'? 138. Rumble In The .... You've all heard it. Who or what is a borborygmus?. 139. To kill which demon did Vishnu take the avatar of Varaha? 140. What does a quine do (think computers)? 141. What's Japanese for "single number"? 142. Forever with chuckers, cricket was never a gentleman's game. Who invented over-arm bowling? 143. What was the first website to feature a banner ad? 144. What famous techno company was founded by Husband-Wife duo of Leonard Bosack and Sandra Lerner in 1984? 145. What did claude shannon design in 1904? 146. This 1902 invention was nicknamed ´Noisy Serpent´. Name the invention? 147. Who are the (now not that famous) founders of NavinMail? 148. Who sang the song start me up for launch of Windows 95. 149. Who developed the ´@´ sign? 150. Dr. Feng Hsuing Hsu was in the news in 1997. For what? 151. Who was the co-founder of apple computers? 152. What is the colour of the black box found in airplanes? 153. When engineer David Bradley said "I may have invented it, but Bill Gates made it famous" what was he referring to? 154. They were called the "Traitorous Eight" and the Fair Children". What did they start? What is common to Daytona, Chicago, Cairo and Memphis? 155. Who are known as Inky, Pinky, Blinky and Clyde? 156. The name ' dinosaur' comes from two Greek words. What do they mean? 157. Which was the largest carnivore ever known on earth? 158. The Chinese call fossilized dinosaur teeth 'dragon's teeth'. What are they used for? 159. What was Krakatoa? 160. Americans call it a faucet. What do the British call it? 161. What is measured on the Beaufort scale? 162. If an American footballer talked about his 'zippers' what would he mean? 163. What is the pirate's flag with the skull and cross-bones called? 164. What is the full form of EXIDE? 165. Which is the first stamp to be issued in the world and when was it issued? 166. What do climbers call a peak higher the 914 m (3,000 ft)? 167. Which bird is the international symbol of happiness? 168. Why do American footballers paint black marks across their cheeks? 169. First human to space walk was 170. The original poem was: The wind is mild, the sun is warm The water is clean, the vegetation lush which was shortened to the single word windwater, and has now entered the English language. What word? 171. In Delhi college slang what are "g-jabs" and "c-bats"? 172. The value of a diamond is decided on 4 C's. Two of them are carat and clarity. What are the other 2? 173. What is common to Abar Khabo, Dilkhosh, Rose-Cream, Basant Bahar and Baadshah? 174. Who are nicknamed the "Sandwich Generation"? 175. Which country changed its name because it was tired of being placed permanently between Italy and Jamaica in international gatherings? 176. Which countries name in the native language means "Big Village ? 177. Which organization was previously called the Office of Strategic Studies and it still exists? 178. The Pakistani army in addition to its other responsibilities manufactures and markets cornflakes. Under what brand name? 179. In the army, the rank badges worn on the shoulders are stars. In the navy they are called epaulettes. What are the cloth rank badges worn by the Air Force officers called?

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180. What invention of the confectioner George Smith was named after a famous race horse of the early 20th century? 181. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower cited four weapons that helped most to win the Second World War. One was the C47 Skytrain / Dakota Transport. What were the other three? 182. About what logo did its designer Peter Scott, remark: 'We wanted an animal that is beautiful and one loved by many people in this world for its appealing qualities. We also wanted an animal that had impact with black and white printing to save money on printing costs? 183. Death of 8 month old Matthew Eapen caused a sensation. But the manner in which the verdict was delivered is a first. Why? 184. What was Operation Grand Slam? 185. What is the name of Colombia's airline? 186. What is the name of Russia s airline? 187. One who collects autographs is called? 188. One who collects flags is called?? 189. One who collects compact discs is called? 190. Which US president shares his name with a famous comic character? 191. In Chinese cooking, what is the significance of wolf's hearts and dog's lungs? 192. In humans, the sex of a child is determined by a combination of chromosomes. How is the sex of a baby crocodile determined? 193. Where would you find a "dry bible"? 194. If a resident of Hyderabad is called Hyderabadi and a guy from Bangalore, a Bangalorean, what is a resident of Sydney called?? 195. If the President of the USA stays in the White House, which country's President stays in the Blue House? 196. What do you get if you count the number of times a cricket chirps in one minute, subtract it by 40, then divide it by 4 and finally add 50? 197. How long did the Hundred Years War last? 198. Which country makes Panama hats? 199. From which animal do we get cat gut? 200. In which month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution? 201. What is a camel's hair brush made of? 202. The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named after what animal? 203. What was King George VI's first name? 204. What color is a purple finch? 205. Where are Chinese gooseberries from? 206. Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini banned which cultural activity because it was an expression of an 'inferior race'? 207. Altogether 634 Victoria Cross medals were awarded during World war 1, the maximum number for any war. One hundred and eighty two each (the second highest number) were awarded during the Second World War and for which other conflict? 208. These two musicians met nearly 50 years ago as actors in a junior school play. One of them was the White Rabbit, the other, the Cheshire Cat. The play was Alice in Wonderland. Name the musicians 209. About what did a Soviet President say this: 'Some people say these objects are due to the excessive consumption of in the United States of scotch whisky. They are, I think due to the activities of a soviet Discus thrower practicing for the Olympics and quite unconscious of his strength'.? 210. In 1930s, the popular dance numbers -'an old fashioned locket' and 'Our bungalow of dreams' were recorded for Columbia Records on the piano by a famous sportsman. Who was he? 211. Rudyard Kiplng's chauvinistic poem 'White man's Burden' was actually addressed to The US congress, urging it to conquer and annex a country. Which country? 212. His last words before his death on 9th October 1967 reportedly was "Please tell my wife to remarry and try to be happy'. Who was he? 213. Who introduced the rupee coin in India?

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214. Which very popular author once used the penname 'Mahatama sri guru paramananda guru swamiji' while writing for Vanity Fair magazine? 215. When Maruti Udyog made its millionth car, who did they gift it to? 216. The 61st Amendment to the Indian constitution allows some special opportunities for young people. What was this? 217. What is the official anthem of the European union? 218. How is Baudhayana Sulba Sutra better known as ? 219. Which company s logo was actually called Volney and lived at Memphis Zoo? 220. Who lives at 1313 Webfoot Walk, Duckburg, Calisota? 221. Where will you find The Mount of Jupiter and The Girdle of Venus? 222. What do the letters EMI stand for? 223. Which two toys are named after the children of Ruth and Elliot Handler, the founders of Mattel? 224. Which comic strip character has its home in the seaport of Sweetwater? 225. What does the term Hyundai mean 226. About which car was the following said: The people can have it in any colour as long as it is black. 227. Which country started off the Industrial Revolution? 228. Francisco Pereria de Moura (1925 - 98) was the founder of modern economics in ------229. Which famous pair of brothers were the first to fit a motor vehicle with tyres with inner tubes in 1885; a name today synonymous with automobile tyres? 230. Which famous Bollywood actress has started a business venture of marketing high-priced candles under the label, The Faraway Tree? Sr. no Answer 1 Cadilla 2 Enron 3 Caltiger.com 4 Lipton foods 5 Walter chrysler- empire state building 6 Amitabh bachchan 7 Intel 8 It was the first official purchase using the new currency, the Euro! 9 William Hewitt 10 Samsung 11 Planet holly wood 12 Hyundai 13 Mitsubishi 14 UK 15 Canada 16 Eastman Kodak Co. 17 Thomas J. Bata, ChairmanBata Shoe Foundation. 18 Brylcream 19 Jack Welch (GE) 20 A.R. Rahman's airtel video 21 Motion of sound 22 Bholu the elephant 23 Isle of Man 24 Wheel, to show how flawed the patent system was 25 Durex condoms. 26 Jaquar 27 Baazee.com 28 The invention of

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television.Movie attended dropped drastically 29 Products(T-shirt,Pen etc) with company logo given free of cost by a company to their employees for promotional purposes 30 Dennis Tito 31 Imperial Bank Of India 32 General Electric 33 The Times Of India published by Bennet & Coleman 34 Qualcomm 35 Sony 36 Hyundai,Samsung,Daewoo 37 National Association of Security Dealer's Automated Quotation 38 Contessa 39 All have endorsed RADO watches 40 Their logos are exactly the same 41 Motorola 42 Akio Morita 43 Ford Motors 44 Black Monday 45 Volkswagen beetle. Hitler suggested this name to Porsche 46 Johnny Walker 47 Changed balls from white to yellow 48 555, the name for the brand of cigarettes, since they had a 555 run partnership 49 Hajmola pills, the first time that a classical ayurvedic medicine was branded 50 They started selling Pizzas and thus founded Pizza Hut 51 Brylcreem 52 Carnegie Mellon University 53 Madame Tussaud's 54 The bottling of carbonated soft drinks.(In India we still have soda drinks with marble shaped object in the neck of bottle. that was the original kind invented by Hiram codd) 55 Chesterfield cigarettes 56 Sharp 57 Volvo 58 Children 59 Wall Street 60 Lockheed 61 Alcoholics Anonymous

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62 Readers Digest 63 Ivory soap 64 Parta 65 Viagra 66 Money paid to players for wearing specific pieces of kit, notably their boots. 67 Wimpy 68 Steve Jobs to John Sculley 69 Spicmacay 70 The series of clashes between India and China during the late fifties and early sixties, arising from a difference in agreeing on the legitimate boundary between the two countries 71 They were so named as a tribute to Pundit Nehru's centenary year, during which the first series of Shatabdi trains were launched 72 Raja Ram Mohan Roy 73 He gave the running commentary over the radio on Mahatma Gandhi's funeral 74 It was to honour the day on which the Congress Party gad adopted the Purna Swaraj resolution at the Lahore session in 1929 75 Coffee 76 Gujarat 77 The BSE 78 Ptolemy 79 The Beatles 80 A baker's shop in Pudding Lane 81 Pol Pot 82 Watergate Building, Washington DC 83 Governor of California 84 1756 85 Charles Lindbergh (1927), Time Person of the Year 86 Alcock and Brown 87 USS Missouri 88 Woodrow Wilson....President of College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) 89 The police action against the Nizam of Hyderabad, to unite the old Hyderabad state with the Republic of India 90 John Harvard (Harvard University)

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91 Victoria Cross 92 Parrots as they were considered good listeners 93 Public Lavatories 94 Abraham Lincoln, for a device preventing ships from getting stuck 95 The speed of light 96 The sandwich - invented by the Earl of Sandwich 97 Hang red lamps outside their doors - and hence, red light areas for brothels 98 Bell had a metal detector and used it in a failed attempt to locate the bullet in the assassinated president's body. It failed because the bed the president was lying on, unbeknownst to Bell, contained metal intersprings 99 Lollypop 100 The ball point pen 101 Plywood 102 Non-stick cookware 103 The bra 104 Sir Ronald Ross. He wrote this poem after discovering the Malarial parasite. 105 The California gold rush 106 Netscape (The product is Netscape Navigator) 107 Arcelor 108 The oldest linux vendor still around 109 CTS was an offshoot of the Dun & Bradstreet Corp. Abraham Lincoln worked for the firm as a Business Correspondent 110 Tequila 111 Alexander the Great 112 Air Force one 113 Judi Dench (Best Supporting actress for Shakespeare in love) 114 The hypothetical substance which gave birth to the universe through the Big Bang 115 Ich bin ein Berliner (I'm a citizen of Berlin) 116 A bug that changes its characteristics when studied 117 Metallica 118 Winston Churchill 119 R.Venkatraman

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120 Mitchell 121 Kajuraho 122 Wrist Watches 123 Crusades 124 Karl Marx 125 Greenwich Of Greenwich Meridian Time 126 Calvin Of Calvin And Hobbes 127 Types Of Knife Blades 128 Ping 129 Wiki, After Wiki-Wiki Shuttle Buses. 130 Pakistan 131 Stapler 132 Backstreet Boys 133 Asterix Comics 134 Salman Rushdie s The Satanic Verses 135 Wuthering Heights 136 Sin-Bin 137 Your Mileage May Vary 138 Because it is the land nearest a location in the sea which is at 0 latitude, 0 longitude AND 0 altitude. 139 Stomach fills the blank. The sound made by gas and fluid moving through the intestines 140 Hiranyakshap. 141 A quine is a program that prints itself. 142 Sudoku 143 Christina Willes 144 Hotwired 145 Cisco systems 146 First chess playing game 147 Va cuum Cleaner 148 Sabeer Bhatia & Vishwas Godbole 149 Rolling stones 150 Raymond Tomlinson 151 He was Project Manager of the team which created the IBM Deep Blue chess computer 152 Steve Wozniak 153 Orange 154 He was referring to the Ctrl-Alt-Delete key sequence. He spent about five minutes writing the code to implement the now-famous threefingeredsalute'. He retired from IBM after a 28 year career with the company 155 Intel

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156 Code names for WinNT3.5, Windows 95 , WinNT 4.0 and Windows 98 development projects 157 The ´Ghosts´ in the game Pacman 158 Terrible Lizard 159 Liopleurodon 160 Medicines 161 A Volcanic Island 162 A Tap 163 Wind Velocity 164 Scars 165 Jolly Roger 166 Excellent Oxide 167 Blackpenny in 1840 168 A munro 169 Bluebird 170 It helps to protect against the suns glare 171 Alexei Leonov 172 Feng Shui 173 Gulabjamuns and Chana Baturas 174 Cost and cut 175 Flavors of rasogolla 176 The middle-aged people rearing their children and also taking care of their older generation 177 Ivory Coast 178 Canada 179 CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) 180 Fauji 181 Pips 182 Lollypop 183 The jeep, the bazooka and the atom bomb 184 Chi-Chi - the Panda -mascot of WWF 185 It was first verdict delivered on the internet 186 Pakistan s attempt to capture Kashmir in 1965 187 Avianca 188 Aeroflot 189 Phillographist 190 Vexilologist 191 Discophile 192 James a Garfield (1881) 193 Only items never used in Chinese cuisine 194 By the temperature at which the eggs are hatched. Anything above 30 degrees Celsius produces a male crocodile 195 It is one of the chambers of the heart in ruminants

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(cud-chewing animals) Sydneysider 196 Korea 197 The temperature of that place in Fahrenheit. 198 116 years 199 Ecuador 200 Sheep and Horses 201 November 202 Squirrel fur 203 Dogs 204 Albert 205 Crimson 206 New Zealand 207 Jazz music 208 The revolt of 1857 209 Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel 210 UFOs 211 Sir Don Bradman 212 The Phillipines 213 Che Guevara 214 Sher Shah Suri 215 PG Wodehouse 216 Mother Teresa 217 Reducing the voting age of people from 21 to 18 years. 218 Beethoven's Ode to Joy Metro219 MGM Goldwyn-Mayer 220 Donald Duck 221 On our Palm 222 Electric and Musical Instruments 223 Barbie & Ken 224 Popeye 225 I appreciate it 226 Ford Model T 227 Great Britain 228 Portugal 229 Goodyear 230 Dimple Kapadia SL NO Question Option1 Option2 Option3 1 Which one of the following enterprise applications of Google is now finally out of beta appellation? Gmail Books Scholar 2 Who amongst the following has won the Wimbledon men's singles final on Sunday July 05, 2009? Roger Federer Andy Roddick Andre 3 Which is the largest telecom company in India n market? BSNL Bharti Airtel MTNL 4 Last year Tata Teleservices sold its 26 percent shares to which Japanese telecom giant? NTTDoCoMo AT&T Unitech 5 Who is the only finance minister in India to present Budgets on either side of an election?

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Manmohan Singh Pranab Mukherjee 6 Nandan Nilekani, one of the seven Co-founders of Infosys left it to join which Government of India Programme? International Informatics Programme Cyber Crime Control Programme Nuclear Programme 7 Marks & Spencer has tied up with which Indian Retail Giant for its outlets? Fortune Group Pantaloons 8 Which one of the following companies is a market leader in the breakfast cereals market in India? Nestlé General Mills Kellogg 9 What is the name of the low cost carrier of Air India? Indian Airlines Air India Smart Jet 10 Inflation is measured on the basis of omestic Product Wholesale Price Index Product 11 The global economic downturn has hurt India's exports. How does the government plan to help exporters? Exporters may get tax refunds by providing interest free loans to exporters. import waiver materials. 12 Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, which is the third in the hugely successful Ice Age animated series is released by which one of the following production houses? 20th Century Fox Universal Pictures Paramount Pictures 13 What effort is taken by the central government to boost investment in Special Economic Zones? Providing logistics Providing 25% equity stake in SEZ Cheaper for 14 Employee stock options (ESOPs) fall under which one of the following categories? Fringe Benefits Bonus Salary 15 Which one of the following carmakers has become the first one to quit Formula One auto racing series in December last year? Honda Motors Co. Volkswagen Audi 16 Aamir Khan as a celebrity endorser does not

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endorse which one of the following brands? Tata Sky Kurkure Samsung 17 Who amongst the following is the highest paid celebrity endorser in this country having been paid Rs 12-15 crore per annum for each of the brands he endorses? Aamir Khan M S Dhoni Shah 18 Which one of the following corporate entities became the first private sector establishment in India to be provided security cover by the elite Central Industrial Security Force (CISF)? Wipro Ltd. Tata Consultancy Services Infosys Technologies 19 If a financial instrument is rated the rating scale starts with AAA (lowest credit risk) and ends at D. A rating of 'D' indicates riskier than government bonds strict no buy buy own 20 Santoor is a flagship soap brand of which one of the following companies? Johnson & Johnson Pfizer Wipro Care Lighting 21 Which one of the following is not a brand of Hindustan Unilever Ltd.? Lifebuoy Lux Dove 22 Which one of the following is not a fast food restaurants brands from the US-based fast food restaurants operator Yum! Restaurants? Domino's Taco Bell KFC 23 Who amongst the following has been recently selected as Femina Miss India World 2009 and is a brand ambassador of Tata DoCoMo Services? Ekta Choudhary Shriya Kishore Ishita 24 Which one of the following telecom compa nies was the first one to outsource its IT requirements when it awarded a 10-year $750 million contract to IBM? Vodafone Bharti Airtel Idea 25 Which one of the following mobile companies is the world's largest mobile carrier by number of users? Nokia Samsung Motorola 26 Volvo is a brand of which one of the following auto companies? Geely Ford Motors Co. Hyundai Co. 27 Why do FMCG companies majorly advertise their brands on (Doordarshan) DD channels? Doordarshan offers the the most economical rates. Doordarshan is the country s largest TV broadcaster. As channel social objectives, slots free. 28 Instituted in the memory of the late prime minister, the awards are presented to those who

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have achieved excellence in their respective fields, to encourage youth to innovation, and strive for success. This year who amongst the following has won the Rajiv Gandhi Award for Entertainment? Amitabh Bachchan Shahid Kapoor Dharmendra 29 Instituted in the memory of the late prime minister, the awards are presented to those who have achieved excellence in their respective fields, to encourage youth to innovation, and strive for success. This year who amongst the following has won the Rajiv Gandhi Award for Sports? M S Dhoni Sania Mirza Abhinav 30 Which one of the following car maker's first bi g sports luxury car developed in-house will be introduced in India in the 2010 Auto Expo? Hyundai Motors Co. Mahindra & Mahindra Maruti 31 Williams sisters are looking to buy share of which one of the following famous football teams? Dallas Cowboys New York Jets Miami 32 Formula One's new Team U.S. F1 will have t he financial backing of Chad Hurley, a Co-founder of which one of the following websites? MetaCafe FaceBook YouTube 33 According to the list of world's 100 most powerful women by Forbes magazine, which one of the following women is on top amongst the Indian women given below? Indra Nooyi Sonia Gandhi Chanda 34 According to the list of world's 100 most pow erful women by Forbes magazine, who amongst the following is ranked number 1 across the world? Hillary Clinton Angela Merkel Sheila 35 Which one of the following states is dev eloping what could be termed as the country s first statedeveloped integrated logistics hub? Maharashtra Andhra Pradesh Uttar 36 Who amongst the following is the winner of the 2009 French Open and Wimbledon titles? Andy Murray Rafael Nadal Novak 37 Which one of the following famous coffee chain s foray into the world of instant coffee with VIA Ready Brew? Dunn Bros. Coffee Starbucks Coffee 38 Santoor has become the largest selling soap brand in South India. What has been the main selling point of their promotion campaign over the years? eternal beauty ageless skin change destiny 39 Shah Rukh Khan has expressed his desire not to be reappointed to the Board of ___________________. Jet Airways Videocon PepsiCo 40 Who has been reappointed as Director and Chief Executive Officer of Zee Entertainment? Peter Mukherjee Sameer Nair Subhash Chandra

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41 Lux is a brand of which one of the following Fast Moving Consumer Goods companies? Hindustan Unilever P&G Godrej Consumer Products 42 Royal challenge is a premium brand of which one of the following spirit makers? Vinbros & Co United Spirits Shaw 43 Which one of the following car brands do not belong to Maruti-Suzuki? Versa Alto Verna 44 Who amongst the following celebrities has been detained for two hours at Newark airport in the US? Salman Khan Aamir Khan Saif 45 Allah Rakha Rahman is an Indian film composer, record producer, musician and singer. He has won Film Fare Best Music Director Award for all of the following movies EXCEPT: Yuva Rangeela Dil 46 Which one of the following companies will launch in India its FLO TV, which is size of an iPhone and currently available in the US? Apple Inc. Qualcomm Sony 47 Which one of the following companies plans to launch 3D TVs next year in a move to spur sales amid slowing growth in flat TV demand? Sony Corp. LG Electronics Philips 48 Which one of the following video websites is in discussions with Hollywood studios to start an online movie rental service? MetaCafe YouTube Bing 49 The high-end Xbox 360 video game is a product of which one of the following companies? Microsoft Corp. Apple Inc. Sony 50 Play Station3 is a brand of which one of the following companies? Apple Inc. Sony Corp. Qualcomm 51 Which one of the following Life Insurance Companies has launched its latest advertisement campaign with Amitabh Bachchan as the brand ambassador? ICICI Pru Life Max New York Life ING 52 Van Heusen is a brand of which one of the following apparel manufacturer? Arvind Mills Mudra Garments Aditya Nuvo 53 Which one of the following Bollywood icon has been given a role of what Colors calls a PopPhilosopher in Bigg Boss-3? Amitabh Bachchan Rekha Shah 54 Which one of the following movies would be the first Hindi film to be released on both in theatres and the DTH platform simultaneously? Samantar Aagey Se Right Chintuji 55 Eon is a television brand of which one of the following companies? Godrej Appliances Videocon Onida 56 X-Trail, a sports utility vehicle is a brand of which

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one of the following Japanese auto makers? Hyundai Motors Honda Motors Nissan 57 __________plans to launch 3D TVs next year in a move to spur sales amid slowing growth in flat TV demand. Sony Samsung Philips 58 Out of the mentioned hotel groups, name the one which is owned by the Indian Hotels? Taj Group Oberoi Group Leela 59 Public Sector lender, Punjab National Bank (PNB) is planning to launch two subsidiaries to enter new areas of business . It is set to foray into Investment Banking & Factoring Factoring & Leasing Measing Insurance 60 Name the e-commerce site that owns Skype Internet calling Unit and is planning to sell its 65% stake for reviving its sales. Rediff Yahoo EBay 61 Leading consumer durables retail chains such as Next and Planet M belongs toTata Videocon Birla 62 Unilever, the maker of Dove soap, agreed to buy Sara Lee s _____________unit for 1.28 billion ($1.88 billion). Coffee & Food Cosmetics & Perfumes Food European Cosmetic 63 Name the Toyota s new SUV that is setting the sales chart on fire. Captiva Fortuner Pajero 64 Name the company that has launched the world s first full-touch screen handset. Samsung Nokia Motorola 65 The 3G spectrum is essential for offering valueadded services mentioned below except forVideo conferencing Defense activity Ultra-internet mobiles 66 Name the Denim company that is planning to come up with bandhini saree and salwar kameez in denim. Levi's Wrangler Arvind 67 Name the whisky brand that is poised to displace Johnnie Walker as World's top selling brand. Bagpiper Charbay Chivas 68 Name the company that will buy Grasim s cement division in a deal worth more than $2 billion and this transaction will create India s single-largest entity in the cement industry. Gujarat Ambuja ACC JP 69 Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam (MTNL) have outlined their terms for being part of an attempt by an IndoMalaysian consortium to buy stakes in Kuwait s_______ Telecom group. Al-Bukhary Vavasi 70 Indian advertisers seem to have shifted their loyalties from One Day Internationals (ODIs) toTele soaps Reality Shows T

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71 Coca-Cola is gearing up to reposition its 38-yearold which soft drink with a view to bring freshness to the brand and to make it more contemporary to suit the taste of youngsters? Fanta Limca Maaza 72 Name who is planning to launch a smartphone with Google s Android mobile software on carrier AT&T s network, marking the PC maker s first foray into a cut-throat US cell phone arena? Dell Zenith IBM 73 Which one of the following auto companies is planning to launch it's sports car 370Z in India by January 2010? Ford Motors BMW Nissan 74 French car maker Renault likely to set up an engine and transmission facility with which one of the following Japanese auto companies? Hyundai Motors Toyota Motors Honda 75 Infiniti is a luxury brand of which one of the following car makers? Nissan Motors Hyundai Motors Toyota 76 Who amongst the following has been renewe d his contracts with Tag Heuer as brand ambassador? Salman Khan Shah Rukh Khan Saif 77 Which one of the following companies announce d a series of Team USA athlete marketing alliances that will extend through the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver? P&G Sony Corp. Apple 78 Latitude Z, a notebook with a 16-inch HD display and that runs Intel Core 2 Duo processor is a brand of which one of the following companies? Hewlett-Packard Co Acer Dell 79 Which one of the following will be the latest feature in the Latitude Z business laptop? Always ON Virtual Keyboard Virtual 80 Sports and lifestyle brand Puma belongs to which one of the following countries? US Germany UK 81 Who amongst the following celebrities has brand value at over Rs 700 crore at present? Shah Rukh khan Akshay Kumar Amitabh Bachchan 82 Which one of the following Sports and lifestyle brand has recently launched it's line of kidswear? Adidas Nike Reebok 83 Although his wealth has fallen by $7 billion dollars in a year, he has retained his title as the richest American for the 16th year in a row. Name the person? Bill Gates Steven Ballmer Warren 84 Which one of the following cities has become the first city in South America to host Olympics that will be held in 2016? Santiago, Rio de Janeiro Sao 85 GoAir, the budget carrier is promoted by which one of the following Corporate groups? Hinduja Group Aditya Birla Group Wadia 86 Z4 (a convertible) the most awaited luxury brand will soon be launched in the Indian luxury car

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market. Z4 is a brand of which German car maker? BMW Volkswagen Mercedes 87 Ashok Leyland is a flagship brand of which one of the following corporate groups? Mahindra & Mahindra Hinduja Group Aditya Group 88 Which one of the following social networking sites has announced its first ever online reality show called "Bharti ki Khoj"? Facebook.com Ibibo.com Bigadda.89 Which one of the following Japanese drug maker s announced a global marketing deal with it's Indian subsidiary Ranbaxy Laboratories? Eisai Daiichi Sankyo Chugai Pharmaceutical Co. 90 Yash Raj Films (YRF) has formally announced its entry into the television space, by joining hands with which one of the following : STAR TV ZEE TV Sony Entertainment Television 91 The most-awaited 250cc sports bike Kawasaki Ninja 250R recently launched at price Rs 2.7 lakh. It is a brand of which one of the following motorcycle companies? Hero Honda Motors TVS Motors Ltd. BMW 92 India bulls Retail, part of the India bulls group, has rebranded its loss-making lifestyle stores, India bulls Megastore as: Bull One Mega One One 93 Who amongst the following has won the Nobel Peace Prize 2009? Barack Obama Vladimir Putin Nicolas 94 Through which entity does Saudi Telecom o perate in India? Aircel Vodafone Idea 95 Which Group is in talks with Malaysia s national carmaker Proton Holding to make passenger cars in India, currently the fastest-growing market in the world? Fiat Hero Mahindra Mahindra 96 Which one of the following airways flight has become the first commercial passenger aircraft to fly on natural gas? AQatar Airways Jet Airways 97 Who amongst the following is on top in the list of CEO's in terms of salary? Sunil Bharti Mittal Brijmohan Lall Munjal Mukesh 98 Manza is a brand of which one of the following passenger vehicle makers? Toyota Motors Hyundai Motors Mahindra Mahindra 99 The famous channel MTV India is owned by which group? Star TV HBO India Network 100 Aliva is a snack cracker manufactured by __________ Britannia Parle Pepsi 101 What is Parle's new venture in nonfried and

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healthy snack segment? Aliva Monaco Smart Chips Must 102 Parle forayed into non-biscuit snacks with__________ Lays Bingo Little 103 Which company is launching probably the first non fried chips in India? Britannia Parle Pepsi 104 Which is the only actor who has ever endorsed for any brand of Parle Biscuits? Shahrukh Khan Aamir Khan Hrithik 105 General Motors launched Chevrolet Cruze die sel in which one of the following type of segment? Executive Segment Small Car Segment Segment 106 What is the main point of discussion in Doha Round of WTO talks? Depletion of Ozone Layer Global Warming 107 What is meaning of Informal workers? People on Work From home Do not have secure employment contracts employment contracts 108 Which of the following is the major factor which is not letting world Trade boom reach the poor countries? Informal workers Subsidy Custom 109 World Trade Organization (WTO) world's large st trade forum is based in which European City? Zurich Doha Geneva 110 Which one of the following is India s third biggest manufacturer in passenger vehicle Segment? Eicher Motors Maruti Suzuki General

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