8. The Bollywood movie
'Chak De India' is a
tribute to which
sports personality?
Hockey player Mir Ranjan Negi
9. Who is the current
coach of the Indian
cricket team?
Duncan Fletcher
10. Which city is likely to
host the 2012 summer
Olympics?
London
11. The third seed Indo-
Serbian pair of Leander
Paes and Janko
Tipsarevic is famous for
which recent victory?
Won the tennis doubles crown in
the Aircel Chennai Open 2012 held
in the first week of January 2012
12. Which food chain has
been the official
sponsor of the
Olympic Games since
1976?
i) McDonald's ii) Subway
iii) Kentucky Fried Chicken iv) Pizza Hut
McDonald's
13. In which city are the
20th Commonwealth
Games to be held in
2014?
Glasgow, Scotland
14.
15. What is the name of
Shah Rukh Khan's
production company?
Red Chillies Entertainment
17. Name the actor and actress to
win the ETC Bollywood
Business Most Profitable
Actor (Overseas) and the Most
Profitable Actress Award?
Shah Rukh Khan and Kareena Kapoor
18. This was her first visit
to India and she was
here to film her
world famous talk
show. Name the
celebrity. Winfrey
Oprah
19. Which is India's most
expensive movie so
far?
The Tamil movie Endhiran (dubbed in Hindi as Robot)
20. Name the famous Bollywood
actress who has contracted with
Universal Music Group (UMG) to
release her debut music album
worldwide?
i) Katrina Kaif ii) Kareena Kapoor
iii) Priyanka Chopra iv) Aishwarya Rai
Priyanka Chopra
21. Name the first
Bollywood film to be
completely shot using
3D cameras?
Joker (to be released on 30 August 2012)
22. Who is the famous Hollywood
actress who came to India to
shoot for her film and ended
up converting to Hinduism?
Julia Roberts
23. Name the director of
the 2008 movie
Slumdog
Millionaire, that was
nominated for 10
Oscars and won 8?
Danny Boyle
24. Name the production
house owned by Ekta
Kapoor, daughter of
yesteryear
Bollywood star
Jeetendra?
Balaji Telefilms
25. In which year did
Bollywood officially
come into existence?
1899
26.
27. How far is the newly
discovered planet Kepler
from earth, as NASA
scientists have discovered?
i) 200 light years away ii) 400 light years away
iii) 600 light years away iv) 800 light years away
600 light years away
28. Earth takes 365 days to orbit
around the sun. How long
does Kepler take to orbit
around its sun?
i) 365 days ii) 290 days
iii) 350 days iv) 500 days
290 days
29. How many potentially
habitable planets have
been discovered in our
solar system so far?
i) 139 ii) 100
iii) 1 iv) None
139
30. Which planet was first
discovered by scientists
as being largely
habitable?
Mars
31. What is the name given to the
apparent contradiction between the
high probability of existence of
extraterrestrial civilizations in our
universe and the lack of contact with
such civilizations?
i) Supernova ii) The Fermi Paradox
iii) Autumnal Equinox iv) Evershed Effect
The Fermi Paradox
32. Name the famous 2009
movie that depics life
on the fictional moon
Pandora?
Avatar directed by James Cameron
40. In which city was
Steve Jobs born?
i) San Francisco ii) Mountain View
iii) New York iv) Los Angeles
San Francisco
41. Which public speech is
Jobs famous for?
Stanford University commencement speech
42. What was the last
product from the
Apple stable that
Steve Jobs introduced
before his death?
The iPhone 4S
43. What did Steve Jobs's
parents do for a
living?
Father Paul Jobs was a machinist for a
laser company and his mother Clara
Jobs worked as an accountant
45. Where did Steve Jobs
meet his wife Laurene
Powell?
i) University of Pennsylvania ii) Harvard University
iii) Stanford University iv) Oxford University
Stanford University
56. Name the gadget that fits
on top of standard pill
bottles and illuminates
when it is time
to take your
dosage?
GlowCap
57. Name the soon-to-be
launched Blackberry
device rumored to run the
BBX OS?
i) The Blackberry Bold ii) The Blackberry Storm
iii) The Blackberry London iv) The Blackberry Torch
The Blackberry London
58. Name the company
that pioneered the
creation of a suitcase
trolley that charges
mobile devices on the
go? Yanko Design
59. Name the innovative water-
powered fuel cell charger
launched by Sweden-based
myFC?
i) PowerTrekk ii) Dynario DMFC
iii) Fuel Cell Module iv) None
PowerTrekk
62. According to a 2011 global
survey, which Indian city is
touted as the best Indian city
to live in?
i) Delhi ii) Mumbai
iii) Chennai iv) Bangalore
Bangalore
63. Which is the costliest
Indian city, according
to Mercer’s 2011
annual survey of 214
cities around the
world? Delhi
64. Name the top 3 Indian
cities housing the
maximum number of
software companies?
Bangalore (242) followed by Hyderabad (178) and
Pune (127)
65. Which is the largest
metropolitan city of
India?
Mumbai
66. Mumbai orginally was a
cluster of seven
separate islands; what
was the name of the
southernmost island?
Old Woman’s Island
67. In which Indian city can
you find the oldest
European church and
synagogue?
i) Panaji ii) Cochin
iii) Trivandrum iv) Pondicherry
Cochin
68. Which is the oldest
inhabited city in the
world today?
Varanasi (Benaras)
69. Which city is known as
the 'Bangle city' of
India?
Hyderabad
70. Which Indian city is called
the 'Detroit of India' due
to its automobile industry
producing over 40% of the
country's auto parts and
vehicles?
Chennai
71. Which city has the
highest number of
pubs in India?
Bangalore
72.
73. Who has Warren Buffett
nominated to take over the
chairmanship of insurance
giant Berkshire Hathaway
upon the aging magnate's
eventual retirement?
His son Howard Buffett (owner and operator of a
large-scale industrial corn farm in the Midwest)
74. To which family does
Cyrus Mistry, heir to
the Tata empire
belong?
Cyrus Mistry is the youngest son of construction tycoon
Pallonji Shapoorji Mistry
75. Name the person who
founded Paramount
Airways in 2005 and
went on to become the
youngest airline CEO in
the world?
M Thiagarajan
76. Who took over as
Wipro's Chief Strategy
Officer in January
2011?
Rishad Premji
77. Name the banker who
took over as Chairman
of Infosys in 2011?
K V Kamath
78. Name the powerhouse
corporate wedding
that took place in
June 2011?
Rohan Murthy, son of Infosys mentor Narayan
Murthy married Lakshmi Venu, daughter of TVS
Motor CMD Venu Srinivasan
79. This famous corporate
personality's daughter's
wedding was touted as the
world's most expensive
marriage in the 20th
century. Name the tycoon.
Lakshmi Mittal
80. Who is the CFO of the
ArcelorMittal group?
Aditya Mittal
85. Name the famous Hollywood
movie series that brilliantly
captured the concept of artificial
intelligence?
i) The Terminator, Terminator ii) Judgment Day, Terminator
iii) Rise of the Machines, Terminator iv) Salvation
The Terminator, Terminator
86. What is the name of the future
computing technology that will
harness the power of atoms and
molecules to perform memory
and processing tasks?
i) Cloud computing ii) Robotic technology
iii) Quantum computing iv) None
Quantum computing
87. Who created the first
robot?
i) Karel Capek ii) Charles Babbage
iii) George Charles Devol iv) Joseph F. Engelberger
Karel Capek
88. Who is known as the
father of artificial
intelligence?
British mathematician Alan Mathison Turing
89. Name any 2 of the new
television
technologies that are
likely to hit the
market in 2012?
OLED, 4k, Crystal Display, 8k
90. What is the name of
the world's first
cloned sheep?
i) Lily ii) Mary
iii) Betty iv) Dolly
Dolly
91. Name the tool that can unlock
critical insights from
unfathomable volumes of
corporate and external data?
i) Java ii) Apache Hadoop
iii) FrontPage iv) Hadoop MapReduce
Apache Hadoop
92. Who gave India her first
supercomputer Param
and is regarded as the
father of Indian
supercomputing?
Dr Vijay Bhatkar
93. Who created the first
electronic digital
computer?
John Vincent Atanasoff
94.
95. Name the first Indian company to be
rated by Standard and Poor as well
as Moody’s. (It is also the first Indian
company to show a profit of Rs.1000
cr)
i) Infosys ii) Wipro
iii) Tata Consultancy Services iv) Reliance
Reliance
97. What is an Infosys
employee referred
to as?
Infoscion
98. How did Sabeer Bhatia
come up with the
name 'Hotmail'?
He inserted vowels in between
HTML
99. Which Indian IT company won the 2011
Global Most Admired Knowledge
Enterprises (MAKE) Award - and is the
first and only Indian Company to win
the Global MAKE award eight times?
i) iGatePatni ii) Infosys
iii) Wipro iv) Mahindra Satyam
Infosys
100. Which company won the
'Company of the year'
Economic Times award in 2011?
i) Reliance ii) Tech Mahindra
iii) Bajaj Auto iv) Genpact
Bajaj Auto
101. Who won the 'Creative
Entrepreneur of the
Year' award at the 2011
NDTV Profit's Business
Leadership Awards?
Shah Rukh Khan
102. Who won the 'Business
Innovator of the Year'
award at the 2011 NDTV
Profit's Business
Leadership Awards?
Pawan Munjal
104. Which corporation was
built by three
youngsters Tushar Jani,
Clyde Cooper, and
Kushroo Dubash?
Blue Dart Express
105.
106. Which Indian political
leaders are among the
list of Forbes' most
powerful people in the
world?
Dr. Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India
and
Sonia Gandhi, President, Indian National Congress
107. Which two Indian
political figures have
been listed among
the 'Top 25 Political
Icons' of all time by
TIME magazine?
Mahatma Gandhi and Emperor Akbar
108. Who was the first
president of the
Indian National
Congress?
i) W.C. Banerjee ii) Mahatma Gandhi
iii) Jawaharlal Nehru iv) Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose
W.C. Banerjee
109. Who was the first Indian
Prime Minister who
resigned without
completing
the full term
In office?
Morarji Desai
110. Who is known as the
'Father of the
Indian
Constitution'?
Dr. B R Ambedkar
111. Which university awarded
the honorary Doctor of Civil
Law degree to Dr. Manmohan
Singh in July 2005?
i) Cambridge University ii) Harvard University
iii) Stanford University iv) Oxford University
Oxford University
112. Who was the first
President of India who
died while in office?
Dr. Zakhir Hussain
113. Who was the first
education minister of
India, whose birthday
is observed as the
National Education
Day?Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
114. Which Indian Prime
Minister holds the record
for continuously being in
the office for the longest
period?
Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime
Minister of free India (Aug. 15, 1947
to May 27, 1964)
115. Who was the first
Indian to receive the
Bharat Ratna award?
Dr. Radhakrishnan
116.
117. Which famous song went
viral all over YouTube
in the close
of 2011?
‘Why this Kolaveri di’ from the
Tamil movie 3
128. Who are the two
Indian business
tycoons who have
made it to the top 10
in the 2011 Forbes’ list
of billionaires? Ambani
Lakshmi Mittal and Mukesh
129. Who is the world's
richest Indian?
Lakshmi Mittal
130. Who won the 'Global
Indian of the year‘
Economic Times Award in
the year 2011?
i) Lakshmi Mittal ii) Vikram Pandit
iii) Anil Ambani iv) Vikram Chatwal
Vikram Pandit
131. Who is 2011's most
powerful Indian CEO and
top global Indian business
leader?
i) Ratan Tata ii) Azim Premji
iii) Mukesh Ambani iv) Lakshmi Mittal
Lakshmi Mittal
132. Which Indian is 2011 TIME
100's most influential
person in the world?
Cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni
133. Which international university
awarded a Honorary Doctorate to
Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan in
October 2011 for his outstanding
contribution to the world of
entertainment?
i) Arizona State University ii) Queensland University of Technology
iii) California Institute of Technology iv) Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Queensland University of Technology, Australia
134. Who was the first Indian to
have a wax statue at Madame
Tussauds London?
Mahatma Gandhi
135. Who was the first
Indian to act in
Hollywood?
Sabu Dastagir
136. Name the Indians who
joined US President
Barack Obama's team
in 2011
Vivek Murthy and Islam Siddiqui
137. Who was the first
Indian and Asian to win
the Nobel Prize?
AudioClip
Rabindranath Tagore
138.
139. What is Bajaj RE 60,
positioned as an
upgrade or
replacement for a
three wheeler auto
rickshaw? wheeler launched
The latest four
by Bajaj at the Auto Expo 2012
140. About what has Ratan
Tata said that it is not
a flop but it was a
lost opportunity?
Tata Nano
141. Which SUV was
recently launched by
Amitabh Bachchan?
i) Honda CRV ii) Force One SUV
iii) Chevrolet Captiva iv) None
Force One SUV from Force Motors
142. Which car group is likely to
replace Toyota as the
largest car manufacturer in
the world ?
i) Honda ii) General Motors
iii) Volkswagen iv) Hyundai
Volkswagen
143. Rolls Royce sources
only one item from
India. Name this item.
i) Rubber ii) Steel
iii) Aluminium iv) Malabar wood
Malabar wood
144. Name this luxury car
model that automobile
manufacturer Daimler has
decided to withdraw from
India?
Maybach
148. Which is the fastest
car in the world
today?
i) Bugatti Veyron Super Sport ii) McLaren F1
iii) Ferrari Enzo iv) Lamborghini Aventador
Bugatti Veyron Super Sport
149. Which is the world's
most fuel efficient
car?
'Toyota's new hybrid car called
'Aqua' in Japan and the 'Prius C'
overseas (35.4 km/litre)
150.
151. What alphabet is next
in this sequence?
M, A, M, J, J, A, S, O,__
N for November!
163. What is the event that
Nasscom conducts on a
yearly basis for the
gaming industry
professionals?
NASSCOM Animation and
Gaming India
164. In which Indian city did
Nasscom recently
open an office?
i) Pune ii) Trivandrum
iii) Mangalore iv) Coimbatore
Trivandrum
165. Which of these is not a
Nasscom publication?
i) India's Domestic IT-BPO Market: Winds of Change
ii) Casual Gaming in India
iii) Sustainable Tomorrow: Harnessing ICT Potential
iv) SETLabs Briefings
SETLabs Briefings
166. Name the Nasscom forum that was set
up to accelerate innovation within the
Indian engineering industry.
i) NASSCOM Infrastructure Management Summit
ii) NASSCOM Engineering Services Conclave
iii) Nasscom Emerge
iv) NASSCOM BPO Strategy Summit
NASSCOM Engineering Services Conclave
167. Name Nasscom's unique
initiative that is a national
database of registered
and verified knowledge
workers in the industry.
National Skills Registry
168. Which company won the
NILF 2011 Process
Innovation award?
i) Infosys ii) Wipro
iii) Genpact iv) Persistent Systems
Genpact
169. What is the current
membership of
Nasscom?
i) 250 ii) 600
iii) 1200 iv) 1350
1350
170. Who was the founder
member of Nasscom?
Harish Mehta
