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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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Dawood Ibrahim - India
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Semion Mogilevich - Russia
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Felicien Kabuga - Rwanda
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Joaquin Guzman - Mexico
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Matteo Messina Denaro - Italy
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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.
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Robert Zoellick
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Dominique Strauss
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Pascal Lamy
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Tom Sayer
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Jim Yong Kim became the 12th President of the World Bank in 2012, succeeding Robert Zoellick.
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Gil Amelio
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Steve jobs
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Steve Wozniau
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John sculley
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Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, created the US Festival in 1982 and 1983. The name is misspelled as Wozniau in the option.
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The inventor of COBOL
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Bill Gate's 1st secretary
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The person who gave IBM the nickname
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The designer of ENIAC computers
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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.
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Guy Kawasaki
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Amartya Sen
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Paulo Coelho
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Ratan Tata
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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.
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Dalton
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Mike Lucich
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Angela Merkel
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None of these
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Sunil Alagh
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Carlo Donati
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M.S Banga
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None of these
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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.
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Rupert Murdoch ---------------------- News Corporation
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Richard Parsons ---------------------- Time Warner
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Li Ka-Shing ------- ----------- Honda MotorCompany
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Shinzo Nakanishi --------------------- Maruti Udyog
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Li Ka-Shing is a business magnate associated with CK Hutchison Holdings, not Honda Motor Company.
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Wim Duisenberg
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Jagdish Bhagwati
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Joseph Stiglitz
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Raghuram Rajan
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Raghuram Rajan served as the Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 2003 to 2006.
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Azim Premji
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Ratan Tata
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K. V. Kamath
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N. R. Narayana Murthy
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Keshub Mahindra
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N. R. Narayana Murthy, the co-founder of Infosys, was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the NDTV Profit Business Leadership Awards in 2010.
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South Korea
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China
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India
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Singapore
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Japan
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In the 2015 Forbes Asia Fabulous 50 list, China dominated with the highest number of companies listed, reflecting its significant economic presence in the region at that time.
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Laurent Therond
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A. Abdul Hannan
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Suresh Narayanan
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Valerio Nannini
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Shobinder Duggal
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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.
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Ratan Tata
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L. N. Mittal
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Kumar Mangalam Birla
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Mukesh Ambani
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Ratan Tata was awarded the NASSCOM Global Leadership Award in 2008 for his contributions to the IT and business sector in India.
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IBM
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Satyam
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Infosys
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Microsoft
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IBM was a pioneer in developing early computing standards, including the use of Binary Coded Decimal (BCD) in machines like the IBM 702.
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Steve Fosett
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Kevin Cannon
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James Cayne
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Jim Clark
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Steve Fossett was a famous American aviator and adventurer who disappeared in 2007. He was declared legally dead in February 2008 after extensive searches failed to find him.