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Business and Tech Leaders
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Business and tech leaders covers prominent founders, chief executives, and economists who shaped global industries. This section features questions on leaders of major technology corporations and financial institutions. It is a highly scoring topic in general awareness.
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Business and Tech Leaders Questions
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Lack of Environmental Conciousness
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Dressing sense
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Lack of Philanthropic activities
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Aggressive Salesmanship
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Jobs faced genuine criticism for Apple's environmental record (later improved) and minimal public philanthropy compared to peers like Bill Gates. His signature turtleneck and jeans were iconic, not criticized, and aggressive salesmanship isn't a standard critique.
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Bill Gates
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Michael Dell
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Warren Buffet
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Mark Zuckerberg
B
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Michael Dell famously suggested in 1997 that Apple should be shut down; Jobs led Apple's remarkable turnaround, eventually surpassing Dell in market cap. 'Won' refers to this vindication. However, 'face off where he WON' is ambiguous phrasing.
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Geek
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Nerd
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Aggressive Salesman
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ICON
C
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Jobs was known as an aggressive salesman and marketer with his 'reality distortion field', legendary persuasive ability. 'Geek' and 'nerd' understates his business acumen; 'ICON' is too vague for top circles.
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Suresh Kalmadi
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Melinda Gates
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Barack Obama
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Mark Zuckerberg
D
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Mark Zuckerberg was named TIME Person of the Year 2010 for connecting over half a billion people through Facebook and fundamentally changing how people socialize and communicate. Barack Obama won in 2008, not 2010. Suresh Kalmadi and Melinda Gates were not Person of the Year.
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GE
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Microsoft
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East India Company
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Barrings
C
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The East India Company is often described as 'the corporation that changed the world' due to its immense impact on global trade, colonization, and the rise of British imperialism. GE and Microsoft are modern corporations, and Barings was a British merchant bank but none had the same world-changing historical impact as the East India Company.
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Steve Wozniak
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Paul Allen
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Vinton Cerf
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Steve Ballmer
B
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Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft together with Bill Gates in 1975. Allen was instrumental in the early development of Microsoft and played a key role in the company's success before leaving in 1983. Steve Wozniak co-founded Apple, while Steve Ballmer joined Microsoft later as CEO.
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RIM (Research In Motion), the company that created BlackBerry, is headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The company was founded and remains based in Canada, not in the US, Germany, or Japan.
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Dennis Ritchie & Ken Thompson
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Vint Cerf & Robert Kahn
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David Filo & Jerry Yang
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Steve Case & Jeff Bezos
C
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Yahoo was founded by David Filo and Jerry Yang, two Stanford graduate students, in 1994. Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson created Unix, Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn developed TCP/IP, and Steve Case founded AOL - none founded Yahoo.
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Microsoft
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LIC
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SOTC
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Bharti Airtel
C
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SOTC (Sawn Tours & Travels Company) uses 'You Look the World, We Look After You' to position its travel services as comprehensive care. LIC uses 'Zindagi ke saath bhi, zindagi ke baad bhi', Microsoft has 'Your potential, our passion', and Bharti Airtel uses various campaigns but not this tagline.
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GoogleMan.
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Larry Page.
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Sergey, you know, the other guy who made Google.
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Dennis Hwang, a 23 year old Web designer.
D
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Dennis Hwang, a 23-year-old web designer at Google, was responsible for creating the special Google doodles (logo variations) for holidays and celebrations during Google's early years. This began in 1999 and became a Google tradition. The other options are incorrect: Larry Page and Sergey Brin were Google's founders, and GoogleMan is not a real person.
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Mark Zuckerberg
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Founder of Twitter
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Anil Ambani
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Lakshmi Mittal
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Bill Gates
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Martin Cooper
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Orkut Buyukkokten
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Mark Zuckerberg
D
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Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in 2004 while he was a student at Harvard University. It has grown to become the world's largest social networking platform.
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Larry page
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Eric Schimdt
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Steve jobs
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Steve Ballmer
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Bill Gates
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Jerry Yang
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Gordon E. Moore
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Sergey Brin
C
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Gordon E. Moore was co-founder of Intel alongside Robert Noyce in 1968, and famous for Moore's Law. Bill Gates founded Microsoft, Jerry Yang co-founded Yahoo, and Sergey Brin co-founded Google - none associated with Intel's founding.
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Alan Kay
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Tim Berners-Lee
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Jack Kilby
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Robert Noyce
B
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Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989 at CERN. Alan Kay pioneered object-oriented programming, Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit, and Robert Noyce co-founded Intel - none developed the web.