World Business Quiz - General Knowledge Questions and Answers

This is General Knwoledge Quiz on World Business Multiple Choice Questions with Answers. These questions are taken from previous happenings in Wolrd Business and these questions are reccmended for upcoming Compitetive exams like SSC, UGC NET, UPSC, TET and more.

1) US based global mass media giant Disney acquired another US based film production company Lucasfilm for nearly USD 4.05 billion. Which movie series is associated with the company Lucasfilm?

  1. The Batman
  2. The Toy Story
  3. Star Wars
  4. Shreak
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Answer = Star Wars

2) Well Known executive Rajat Gupta has been recently sentenced to 2 years in prison for his alleged involvement in Insider trading case. He is not directly associated with which MNC in the list?

  1. Goldman Sachs
  2. P&G
  3. Citibank
  4. Mckinsey
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Answer = Citibank

3) US coffee chain giant Starbucks with collaboration of Tata Global Beverages (TGBL) has opened their India’s first Starbucks coffee outlet in which city in October 2012?

  1. Hyderabad
  2. Bangalore
  3. New Delhi
  4. Mumbai
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Answer = Mumbai

4) Which global bank acquired ING Direct UK retail banking division recently in October 2012?

  1. Barclays
  2. UBS
  3. Goldman Sachs
  4. Citibank
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Answer = Barclays

5) Who has been appointed as the new CEO of Citibank after Vikram Pandit stepped down as CEO of the third largest US bank in Oct 2012?

  1. Mike Corbat
  2. John Havens
  3. Michael O�Neill
  4. None of These
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Answer = Mike Corbat

6) Which US Weekly magazine has recently announced to publish its final print edition on 31st December 2012 and to go for only digital format and distribution from January 2013?

  1. Time
  2. Forbes
  3. The Week
  4. Newsweek
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Answer = Newsweek

7) Which Company acquired Viewdle, which is a leading imaging and gesture recognition company recently in October 2012?

  1. Nokia
  2. Motorola
  3. Apple
  4. Facebook
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Answer = Motorola

8) Which global Telecom company has merged its business with US mobile carrier MetroPCS recently in October 2012?

  1. Vodafone
  2. AT&T
  3. Verizon
  4. T-Mobile
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Answer = T-Mobile

9) The world’s biggest payments network, Visa acquired which provider of electronic payment and risk management services for $ 2 billion?

  1. Cyber source
  2. Modulesoft
  3. VeriSign
  4. Paypal
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Answer = Cyber source

10) Which global mining group acquired Anglo American’s entire zinc business in Ireland and Africa?

  1. Sagar
  2. Baldota
  3. Kudremukh
  4. Vedanta
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Answer = Vedanta



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