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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

Multiple choice general knowledge
  1. Mukesh Ambani

  2. Anil Ambani

  3. Vijay Mallya

  4. Nita Ambani

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Anil Ambani headed Reliance Natural Resources Limited after the Reliance empire split between brothers Mukesh and Anil. Mukesh leads Reliance Industries, while Vijay Mallya and Nita Ambani are unrelated to this specific company.

Multiple choice general knowledge
  1. Indra Nooyi

  2. Sunil Mittal

  3. K V Kamath

  4. Kumar Mangalam Birla

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

K V Kamath was the CEO of ICICI Bank during its growth phase in the 1990s-2000s. Indra Nooyi led PepsiCo, Sunil Mittal founded Bharti Airtel, and Kumar Mangalam Birla leads the Aditya Birla Group.

Multiple choice general knowledge
  1. Sarath Babu

  2. Ramalinga Raju

  3. N Srinivasan

  4. Suhas Gopinath

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Suhas Gopinath founded Globals Inc at age 14 and became one of the world's youngest CEOs of a multinational IT company. Sarath Babu is a food entrepreneur, Ramalinga Raju founded Satyam, and N Srinivasan is associated with India Cements.

Multiple choice general knowledge
  1. Rahul Bajaj

  2. Rathan tata

  3. N Srinivasan

  4. Suhas Gopinath

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

N Srinivasan was the Managing Director and Vice Chairman of India Cements. Rahul Bajaj leads Bajaj Group, Ratan Tata led Tata Group, and Suhas Gopinath founded Globals Inc (an IT company, not cement).

Multiple choice general knowledge
  1. March 1998, Larry Page

  2. January 2001,Sergey Brin.

  3. February 2004,Mark Zuckerberg

  4. August 2005, Mark

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Facebook was launched in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg while he was a student at Harvard University. The other options (Larry Page, Sergey Brin) are Google founders, not Facebook. Option C is factually correct.

Multiple choice general knowledge
  1. 1) Dennis Ritchie & Ken Thompson

  2. 2) David Filo & Jerry Yang

  3. 3) Vint Cerf & Robert Kahn

  4. 4) Steve Case & Jeff Bezos

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Yahoo was founded in 1994 by David Filo and Jerry Yang, two Stanford graduate students who created a directory of websites called "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web." The other pairs are incorrect: Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson created Unix, Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn developed TCP/IP, and Steve Case founded AOL while Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.

Multiple choice general knowledge
  1. December 18, 1932

  2. December 8, 1932

  3. December 28, 1932

  4. December 2, 1932

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Dhirubhai Ambani, founder of Reliance Industries and one of India's most successful entrepreneurs, was born on December 28, 1932. He built Reliance from a small textile trader into a massive conglomerate.

Multiple choice general knowledge
  1. Bill Gates

  2. Martin Cooper

  3. Orkut Buyukkokten

  4. Mark Zuckerberg

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg in 2004 while he was a student at Harvard University, along with Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. It became the world's largest social networking platform. Bill Gates founded Microsoft, Martin Cooper invented the mobile phone, and Orkut Buyukkokten created Orkut (a Google social network).

Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology
  1. Dennis Ritchie & Ken Thompson

  2. David Filo & Jerry Yang

  3. Vint Cerf & Robert Kahn

  4. Steve Case & Jeff Bezos

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Yahoo was founded in January 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo, who were graduate students at Stanford University at the time. They originally named it 'Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web' before renaming it to Yahoo. Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson developed Unix, Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn developed TCP/IP, and Steve Case founded AOL while Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.