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General Awareness

  1. Algebra
  2. Progressions
  3. Averages
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  23. General Knowledge
January 10, 2003
The General Awareness questions for the day are given below.

1. What is the marginal rate of tax for Indian corporates as proposed in the Union Budget 2002 (Inclusive of surcharge)?
(1) 34.5%
(2) 36.75%
(3) 42%
(4) 31.5%
   
2. Who is the Chairman and CEO of McCann-Erickson India?
(1) Sushil Khanna
(2) Ritujoy Chakraborty
(3) Sanjay Mukherjee
(4) Ritesh Singhal
   
3. Who is the Chairman of Hindustan Lever Limited?
(1) MSV Banga
(2) Keki B Dadisheth
(3) Arun Adhikari
(4) Harish Manwani
   
4. Who is the chairman of HDFC?
(1) Deepak Parekh
(2) Y M Deosthalee
(3) Janki Ballabh
(4) Samir Arora
   
5. Who is the chairman of State Bank of India?
(1) Janki Ballabh
(2) Deepak Parekh
(3) Rajendra Pawar
(4) None of these
   
6. Who is the chairman of NIIT?
(1) Jerry Rao
(2) John Reed
(3) Rajendra Pawar
(4) Harish Menon
   
7. What was Reckitt & Coleman renamed as?
(1) Reckitt Benckiser (India) Ltd
(2) Reckitt Switzer (India) Ltd
(3) Reckitt Bayer (India) Ltd
(4) It was not renamed
   
8. Who is the chairman of ICICI Bank Ltd?
(1) N Vaghul
(2) K V Kamath
(3) Y C Deveshwar
(4) Lalit Gupte
   
9. Who is the chairman of ITC Ltd?
(1) Y C Deveshwar
(2) Deosthalee
(3) Madhu Singhania
(4) Pratap C Reddy
   
10. Who is the US ambassador to India?
(1) Jack Straw
(2) Robert Blackwill
(3) John Ashcroft
(4) Peter Warburg

Answer Key
(1) 2  (6) 3
(2) 2  (7) 1
(3) 1   (8) 2
(4) 1  (9) 1
(5) 1  (10) 2
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