Q 01/05

Bata, which built Batanagar near Kolkata in the 1930s, was founded in 1894 in Zlín, a town in which country?

A) Netherlands

B) Germany

C) Czech Republic

D) Switzerland

Answer · why

C) Czech Republic

Czech Republic: Tomáš Baťa and two siblings started the firm in Moravian Zlín, then part of Austria-Hungary, and after Czechoslovakia nationalised the...

Q 02/05

Which IT giant was incorporated in 1945 at Amalner, Maharashtra, as a maker of vegetable cooking oil?

A) Tech Mahindra

B) HCL Technologies

C) Wipro

D) TCS

Answer · why

C) Wipro

Wipro began as Western India Vegetable Products; Azim Premji took charge at 21 when his father died in 1966 and steered the oil firm into computers in...

Q 03/05

Which tyre maker did K. M. Mammen Mappillai start in Madras in 1946 as a toy-balloon workshop?

A) CEAT

B) MRF

C) Apollo Tyres

D) Birla Tyres

Answer · why

B) MRF

MRF stands for Madras Rubber Factory; Mammen Mappillai moved from toy balloons to tread rubber in 1952 and only then into tyres, with America's Mansfi...

Q 04/05

Which washing powder, priced at ₹3.50 a kilo against Surf's ₹13 in 1969, did Karsanbhai Patel name after his daughter?

A) Wheel

B) Ghadi

C) Rin

D) Nirma

Answer · why

D) Nirma

Nirma is short for Nirupama, Patel's daughter; the government lab chemist mixed the yellow powder at home and sold it by bicycle around his office hou...

Q 05/05

Which cola, created in 1977 after Coca-Cola quit India rather than disclose its formula, was sold to Coca-Cola in 1993?

A) Thums Up

B) Double Seven

C) Gold Spot

D) Limca

Answer · why

A) Thums Up

Thums Up went to Coca-Cola in 1993 along with Parle's Gold Spot and Limca, and the returning giant ended up selling the rival that had been created to...