1) This metalworks company was created as a state-owned company in 1941 by U.S. investment as a policy of Washington to get Brazil to the Allied side during World War II. Later privatized, its main plant is located in the city of Volta Redonda. Identify (Topical)
Answer: Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional
2) ‘The great untapped resource of technical and scientific knowledge available to India for the taking is the economic equivalent of the untapped continent available to the US for 150 years.’ This was a memorandum sent to the Indian Government in November 1965. Who wrote it? (Topical again)
Answer: Milton Friedman (1912-2006), passed away on Nov 17,2006
3) It all started off with ‘Poomaalai’- a Tamil video newsmagazine.
He was also the recipient of the International Young Business Achiever award in 1999 (from the Worldcom Group, New York).
Today, this Scranton University MBA has landed himself in the Forbes Indian Billionaire list. Who?
Answer: Kalanidhi Maran, Managing Director of Sun Networks
4) Blue Sky, Collection I, Elaichi, Fashion Sation, Gen M and Got It are some of the lesser-known stores of which Indian Group?
Answer: The Future Group. The more famous being Pantaloons, Big Bazaar, aLL etc
5) Founded in 1919 by Isaac Carasso in Barcelona as a small factory producing yoghurt, it took its name as a diminutive of the name of his son. Which company?
Answer: Danone- his son’s name was Daniel
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