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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. Dawood Ibrahim - India

  2. Semion Mogilevich - Russia

  3. Felicien Kabuga - Rwanda

  4. Joaquin Guzman - Mexico

  5. Matteo Messina Denaro - Italy

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

Dawood, Bin Laden figure in Forbes' Most Wanted list: Underworld don and India's most wanted fugitive Dawood Ibrahim, mastermind of the 1993 Mumbai bombings, figures third on the Forbes' Most Wanted list which has been topped by AI-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden. The list, released in the May 2010 edition of the Forbes magazine, also has Mexico's most powerful drug trafficker Joaquin Guzman in no.2.

Multiple choice
  1. The inventor of COBOL

  2. Bill Gate's 1st secretary

  3. The person who gave IBM the nickname

  4. The designer of ENIAC computers

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

Grace Hopper was a computer scientist and US Navy rear admiral who was a pioneer in developing computer programming languages, including COBOL. The name is misspelled as Grape in the question.

Multiple choice
  1. Guy Kawasaki

  2. Amartya Sen

  3. Paulo Coelho

  4. Ratan Tata

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

Guy Kawasaki is a well-known author and marketing expert who wrote the book 'Selling the Dream', which focuses on the art of evangelism in business.

Multiple choice
  1. Sunil Alagh

  2. Carlo Donati

  3. M.S Banga

  4. None of these

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

Sunil Alagh served as the Managing Director and CEO of Britannia Industries for several years during the 1990s and early 2000s, playing a key role in the company's growth.

Multiple choice
  1. Rupert Murdoch ---------------------- News Corporation

  2. Richard Parsons ---------------------- Time Warner

  3. Li Ka-Shing ------- ----------- Honda MotorCompany

  4. Shinzo Nakanishi --------------------- Maruti Udyog

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

Li Ka-Shing is a business magnate associated with CK Hutchison Holdings, not Honda Motor Company.

Multiple choice
  1. Laurent Therond

  2. A. Abdul Hannan

  3. Suresh Narayanan

  4. Valerio Nannini

  5. Shobinder Duggal

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

Suresh Narayanan was appointed as the Managing Director of Nestle India in July 2015, succeeding Etienne Benet during a period of significant corporate transition for the company.