The Official GK Thread for B-School Entrances 2007-2008

[abhay agarwal]

Originally Posted by akipush

• What is SAIl and who is its chairman? STEEL AUTHORITY OF INDIA LTD.,SUSHIL KUMAR ROONGTA

• Where is the world’s largest , second largest and third largest FOREX market? UK, THE US AND JAPAN respectively

• The Second Largest commercial vehicles company in South Korea? TATA DAEWOO COMMERCIAL VEHICLE COMP.

• Who is the founder and chairman on Caparo Group? LORD PAUL

• Which company is worlds largest manufacturer in transport sector? It is subsidiary of which company? ?????????????/

• Author of “THE DECLINE OF THE WEST”? OSWALD SPENGLAR

• Chairman and managing director of Rasna? Mr. Piruz Khambatta

• CEO of FUTURE Group? Kishore Biyani

cheers !!!!

[junoonmba]

Originally Posted by kondapalli

..........................

Konda bhai 6 countries hai........
Pak
China
Bhutan
Nepal
Burma
Bangladesh

Tibet ko bharat sarkar China ka part manti hai
The Largest commercial vehicles company in South Korea? TATA DAEWOO COMMERCIAL VEHICLE COMP

Tell different waves with their relative wavelenghts and frequency

i.e Gamma /X/Beta/Uv

[ANGY]

8. According the world food organisation(WFO), The top 3 food donors in the world are? Japan, South Korea and the United States


according to the information i hv the third largest food donor is China
it is given in times magazine

[diablorulez]

aillaa sry for missing the action lately..
new set


1. The headquarters of the Indian Petrochemicals Corporation is located at ……
(a) Mumbai (b) Guwahati
(c) Vadodara (d) Visakhapatnam

2. When was the Coal Industry nationalized?
(a) 1972 (b) 1974
(c) 1973 (d) 1971

3. When did the world trade organization, which sets out rules for World Trade,
come into force?
(a) 1948 (b) 1951
(c) 1954 (d) 1995

4. Who was the master mind of 2000 stock market scam?
(a) Ketan Parekh (b) Roopal ben Panchaal
(c) Arvind Sharma (d) Harshad Mehta

5. When was the Jawahar Rozgar Yojana launched?
(a)On 28th April, 1987 (b) 28th April 1988
(c) On 28th April, 1989 (d) On 28th April, 1986

6. Which is the highest body that approves Five-Year Plans in India?
(a) Planning Commission (b) Finance ministry
(c) Parliament (d) National Development Council

7. What was invented by Ray Tomlinson of Bolt Beranek & Newman
a Cambridge firm of Consulting engineers to allow a network of
Computer users to share information?
(a) E-Mail (b) Internet
(c) World Wide Web (d) Video-Conferencing

8. What has been voted by the "Advertising Age" as the marketing icon
of the 20th century?
(a)The Marlboro man (b) The complete man
(c) The Lee Cooper macho (d) Fido Dido

9. The Government has proposed to dis-invest how much percentage of
Coal India Ltd(CIL).
(a) 10% (b) 5%
(c) 30% (d) 20%

10. As per the National Readership Study 2006, press reach in urban India is
(a) 40% (b) 60%
(c) 45% (d) 50%

[13thwarrior]

1)

A software giant got this nickname from a race of creatures in a TV series on
account of the criticism of its lousy security and stability features in the software and on
account of being charged for “unlawful monopolism”. What are the nick name and the
name of the TV series?

2)

On April 3, 1989, during a routine aerial surveillance, enemy activity was noted in
the area south of NL-614526. To counter this, what operation was launched?

3)

Apart from Arjun, Sanjay (charioteer of Dhiruthrastra) and Dhiruthrastra (through
narration of Sanjay) who was the only other one to have seen the Vishwa Roop of Lord
Krishna while his narration of Bhagavat Geeta?

4)

Published by Dc books the first Desi translation of this book is in
Malayalam done by two Delhi based journalists Jomy Thomas and
Gopalakrishnan. which book?

5)

X is perhaps the most murderous avtar the world (may not be the one we
live in) has ever seen. To avenge his father’s murder by the king and because
X’s mother beat her chest 21 times in agony, X vowed to exterminate 21
generations of a particular clan and did so. X also makes appearances in two of
the most famous epics of the world, both the times as angry as he always was.

cheers!!

[13thwarrior]

Originally Posted by diablorulez

aillaa sry for missing the action lately..
new set


1. The headquarters of the Indian Petrochemicals Corporation is located at ……
(a) Mumbai (b) Guwahati
(c) Vadodara (d) Visakhapatnam

c) Vadodra

2. When was the Coal Industry nationalized?
(a) 1972 (b) 1974
(c) 1973 (d) 1971

c) 1973

3. When did the world trade organization, which sets out rules for World Trade,
come into force?
(a) 1948 (b) 1951
(c) 1954 (d) 1995

d)1995

4. Who was the master mind of 2000 stock market scam?
(a) Ketan Parekh (b) Roopal ben Panchaal
(c) Arvind Sharma (d) Harshad Mehta

a)ketan parekh
5. When was the Jawahar Rozgar Yojana launched?
(a)On 28th April, 1987 (b) 28th April 1988
(c) On 28th April, 1989 (d) On 28th April, 1986

c)On 28th April, 1989

6. Which is the highest body that approves Five-Year Plans in India?
(a) Planning Commission (b) Finance ministry
(c) Parliament (d) National Development Council

d)National Development Council


7. What was invented by Ray Tomlinson of Bolt Beranek & Newman
a Cambridge firm of Consulting engineers to allow a network of
Computer users to share information?
(a) E-Mail (b) Internet
(c) World Wide Web (d) Video-Conferencing


a) email

8. What has been voted by the "Advertising Age" as the marketing icon
of the 20th century?
(a)The Marlboro man (b) The complete man
(c) The Lee Cooper macho (d) Fido Dido

(a)The Marlboro man

9. The Government has proposed to dis-invest how much percentage of
Coal India Ltd(CIL).
(a) 10% (b) 5%
(c) 30% (d) 20%

b) 5%

10. As per the National Readership Study 2006, press reach in urban India is
(a) 40% (b) 60%
(c) 45% (d) 50%

c)45%

cheers!!the answers are in red

[utsavmamoria]

Maaru take

1. The headquarters of the Indian Petrochemicals Corporation is located at ……
(a) Mumbai (b) Guwahati
(c) Vadodara (d) Visakhapatnam

2. When was the Coal Industry nationalized?
(a) 1972 (b) 1974
(c) 1973 (d) 1971

They were nationalised during the period 1971- 73 legislation

3. When did the world trade organization, which sets out rules for World Trade,
come into force?
(a) 1948 (b) 1951
(c) 1954 (d) 1995

4. Who was the master mind of 2000 stock market scam?
(a) Ketan Parekh (b) Roopal ben Panchaal
(c) Arvind Sharma (d) Harshad Mehta

5. When was the Jawahar Rozgar Yojana launched?
(a)On 28th April, 1987 (b) 28th April 1988
(c) On 28th April, 1989 (d) On 28th April, 1986

6. Which is the highest body that approves Five-Year Plans in India?
(a) Planning Commission (b) Finance ministry
(c) Parliament (d) National Development Council

7. What was invented by Ray Tomlinson of Bolt Beranek & Newman
a Cambridge firm of Consulting engineers to allow a network of
Computer users to share information?

(a) E-Mail (b) Internet
(c) World Wide Web (d) Video-Conferencing

8. What has been voted by the "Advertising Age" as the marketing icon
of the 20th century?
(a)The Marlboro man (b) The complete man
(c) The Lee Cooper macho (d) Fido Dido

9. The Government has proposed to dis-invest how much percentage of
Coal India Ltd(CIL).
(a) 10% (b) 5%
(c) 30% (d) 20%

10. As per the National Readership Study 2006, press reach in urban India is
(a) 40% (b) 60%
(c) 45% (d) 50%

[diablorulez]

AAAh!!! i know only one!!

Originally Posted by 13thwarrior

1)

A software giant got this nickname from a race of creatures in a TV series on
account of the criticism of its lousy security and stability features in the software and on
account of being charged for “unlawful monopolism”. What are the nick name and the
name of the TV series?

2)

On April 3, 1989, during a routine aerial surveillance, enemy activity was noted in
the area south of NL-614526. To counter this, what operation was launched?

3)

Apart from Arjun, Sanjay (charioteer of Dhiruthrastra) and Dhiruthrastra (through
narration of Sanjay) who was the only other one to have seen the Vishwa Roop of Lord
Krishna while his narration of Bhagavat Geeta?

4)

Published by Dc books the first Desi translation of this book is in
Malayalam done by two Delhi based journalists Jomy Thomas and
Gopalakrishnan. which book?

Da Vinci Code

5)

X is perhaps the most murderous avtar the world (may not be the one we
live in) has ever seen. To avenge his father’s murder by the king and because
X’s mother beat her chest 21 times in agony, X vowed to exterminate 21
generations of a particular clan and did so. X also makes appearances in two of
the most famous epics of the world, both the times as angry as he always was.

cheers!!

[getintoiimb]

moi take

1. The headquarters of the Indian Petrochemicals Corporation is located at ……
Vadodara

2. When was the Coal Industry nationalized?
1973 but i think it was in 1972 and 1973

3. When did the world trade organization, which sets out rules for World Trade,
come into force?
1995

4. Who was the master mind of 2000 stock market scam?
Ketan Parekh

5. When was the Jawahar Rozgar Yojana launched?
On 28th April, 1989

6. Which is the highest body that approves Five-Year Plans in India?
National Development Council

7. What was invented by Ray Tomlinson of Bolt Beranek & Newman
a Cambridge firm of Consulting engineers to allow a network of
Computer users to share information?
E-Mail

8. What has been voted by the "Advertising Age" as the marketing icon
of the 20th century?
The Marlboro man

9. The Government has proposed to dis-invest how much percentage of
Coal India Ltd(CIL).
5%

10. As per the National Readership Study 2006, press reach in urban India is
45%

[diablorulez]

@13thwarrior,utsavmamoria,getintoiimb:
Perfect!!!

13thwarrior from where u got those ques man!1 whew pretty tough