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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
  1. Bill Gates

  2. Dennis Ritche

  3. Bill Joy

  4. Linux Torvalds

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

Bill Joy was the principal creator of BSD Unix while at UC Berkeley. He developed key utilities like vi, csh, and wrote much of the original TCP/IP stack for BSD. While BSD involved many contributors, Joy was its most influential figure.

Multiple choice
  1. Ratan Tata is a car-buff.

  2. Ratan Tata received three prestigious awards.

  3. Ratan Tata was raised by Naval Tata.

  4. Ratan Tata made Tata Group a global brand.

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

"He was raised by his grandmother, Navajbai."

Multiple choice
  1. Case of the blind leading the blind

  2. On the bleeding edge

  3. Rest on one's laurels

  4. Actions speak louder than words

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

It means what you do is more significant than what you say. This is true because it is given in the passage, "But Ratan Tata answered them with achievements and not words."

Multiple choice
  1. Hutchison

  2. Thomson

  3. Ferrari

  4. McDonalds

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

Charlie Bell was the CEO of McDonald's who died of cancer in 2005. He was an Australian who started as a crew member and rose to become the global CEO of McDonald's Corporation before resigning due to his illness.

Multiple choice
  1. Satyam

  2. Arzoo

  3. AOL

  4. Infi

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C Correct answer
Explanation

AOL (America Online) was the first Internet company to figure in the annual Fortune 500 list in 2002. This marked a significant milestone recognizing the growing importance of Internet and technology companies in the global economy.

Multiple choice
  1. Steve Jobs

  2. H.N. Hansen

  3. Koontz o’donnel

  4. Joseph Schumpeter

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

Steve Jobs has given 7 principles largely responsible for success through innovation. These are described in his book, “The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs”.

Multiple choice
  1. BMW

  2. Honda Motors

  3. Nestle International

  4. None of these

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D Correct answer
Explanation

Richard Zennore is not associated with BMW, Honda Motors, or Nestle International. The name does not correspond to a known CEO of any major automobile or food corporation.

Multiple choice
  1. Cafe Coffee Day

  2. Barista

  3. Costa

  4. Coffee World

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

Kaushik Roy served as the CEO of Coffee World, a coffee chain operating primarily in South India. Coffee World was known for its cafes and coffee retail outlets.