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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

Who overtook Li Ka-Shing as Asia's richest person?

  1. Azim Premji

  2. Karl Albrekt

  3. Lakshmi Mittal

  4. Ingvar Kamprad
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Lakshmi Mittal, the steel magnate, gained significant global wealth in the mid-2000s, which led to him overtaking Li Ka-Shing as the richest person in Asia at that time.

Multiple choice

Sam Palmisano is the CEO of

  1. Exxon Mobil

  2. General Motor

  3. IBM

  4. PepsiCo
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Samuel J. Palmisano served as the CEO of IBM from 2002 to 2012. The other companies listed were led by different individuals during that period.

Multiple choice

The team at Intel that built the First Microprocessor was headed by

  1. Seymour Cray.

  2. Victor Poor.

  3. Stan Mazor.

  4. Marcian E (Ted) Hoff.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The Intel 4004 microprocessor team was led by Federico Faggin, but Victor Poor is often cited for his early architectural contributions to the 8008 and the concept of the microprocessor.

Multiple choice

Steve Ballmer is the CEO of:

  1. Microsoft

  2. Apple Inc

  3. Dell computers

  4. IBM
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Steve Ballmer served as the CEO of Microsoft from 2000 to 2014.

Multiple choice

In Oct 2008, Andreas von Bechtolscheim (Co-founder of SUN) resigned from his position to focus on his new company called

  1. Asiana

  2. Asienet Tele

  3. Arista Networks

  4. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Andreas von Bechtolsheim (question misspells as Bechtolscheim) co-founded Sun Microsystems and resigned from his position in 2008 to focus on Arista Networks, which he co-founded. Arista Networks (initially called Arastra) focused on high-performance data center networking equipment.

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the appropriate answer from the options given below.

Who is the new CEO of the Seagate technology replacing Mr. William Watkings?

  1. Stephen Luczo

  2. Martin Jose

  3. Nikhil Antony

  4. Joseph George

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

Stephen Luczo took over as CEO of Seagate Technology, succeeding William Watkins. This leadership transition occurred in the late 2000s, reflecting changes in the data storage company's executive leadership.

Multiple choice

Eric Schmidt is the chairman / CEO of

  1. Yahoo!

  2. Google

  3. Hp.

  4. IBM
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Eric Schmidt served as CEO of Google from 2001 to 2011, and as Executive Chairman until 2015. He was hired by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to provide adult supervision to the young company. Yahoo, HP, and IBM had different leaders during this period.

Multiple choice

Who was Google's Chief Executive in 2008?

  1. Eric Schmidt

  2. Peter Kerger

  3. Sanjive Sethi

  4. Govind Bhai Patel
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Eric Schmidt served as the Chief Executive Officer of Google from 2001 to 2011, covering the year 2008.

Multiple choice

The chairman of the Hyundai motors?

  1. Chinng Jong

  2. Rones Miamng

  3. Paim kain

  4. Chung Mong-ko
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Chung Mong-koo is the long-time chairman of Hyundai Motor Group, a major South Korean conglomerate.