SCMHRD Questions – Paper 1

Directions for questions 1 to 40: Select the correct 12. Which corporate group owns Madura Garments,
alternative from the given choices. one of India’s biggest apparel companies?
(a) Reliance Group (b) Bombay Dyeing Group
1. What is the targeted fiscal deficit as part of the (c) ITC Group (d) A V Birla Group
GDP for FY2003-04?
(a) 5.6% (b) 6.1% (c) 6.5% (d) 6.9% 13. Which auto major currently owns the bankrupt
Daewoo Motor Company?
2. Where was the World Seed Congress held in (a) Honda Motor (b) BMW
June 2003? (c) General Motor (d) Volkswagen
(a) Pune (b) Anand
(c) Bangalore (d) Chennai 14. Which of the following countries is not a member
of the Association of South East Asian Nations
(ASEAN)?
3. Which of the following is the world’s largest non-
(a) Brunei (b) Laos
American auto company?
(c) Sri Lanka (d) Vietnam
(a) Hyundai Motor (b) Toyota Motor
(c) DaimlerChrysler (d) Fiat Motor 15. What is the name of the space rocket that carried
China’s first manned space mission?
4. Which Indian pharma giant is headed by (a) Long March 2F (b) Long March 2G
D.S Brar? (c) Long March 2I (d) Long March 2K
(a) Cipla (b) Ranbaxy
(c) Wockhardt (d) Dr.Reddy’s 16. Which media company owns the FM radio
channel, Radio Mirchi?
5. According to the CMIE, what was India’s trade (a) News Corporation India
deficit as percentage of its exports for 2002-03? (b) NDTV
(a) 17% (b) 21% (c) 24% (d) 28% (c) Bennett, Coleman & Co.,
(d) Living Media
6. Naina Lal Kidwai has been selected by Forbes
magazine as one of the 50 most powerful 17. Who is the author of the book, ‘The Future of
businessmen women in the world. She is Freedom’?
associated with which leading corporate group? (a) Samuel Huntington
(a) Morgan Stanley (b) PepsiCo (b) Fareed Zakaria
(c) HSBC (d) A V Birla (c) Humphrey Hawksley
(d) Tariq Ali
7. Which NGO has launched ‘Karm Mitra’, a unique
fund raising programme? 18. Which of the following banks is not a part of
(a) Child Relief and You (b) Asha ‘MITR’, a shared ATM network?
(c) Helpage India (d) Action Aid India (a) UTI Bank
(b) Indian Bank
8. Where is the headquarters of Nestle, the world’s (c) Global Trust Bank
largest food group? (d) Centurion Bank
(a) Vevey, Switzerland
19. What is the project codename of the multi-billion
(b) Rotterdam, The Netherlands
project launched by ONGC in 2003, to explore
(c) Vienna, Austria
deep-sea oil and gas?
(d) Munich, Germany (a) Sagar Samrat
(b) Sagar Khoj
9. According to Transparency International (c) Sagar Samriddhi
Corruption Index 2003, India ranks as the ___ (d) Sagar Amrit
most corrupt nation.
st
(a) 51 (b) 69th (c) 78th (d) 83rd 20. Which television news channel’s holding
company is named Media Content and
10. Anna Lindh, who was killed in September 2003, Communication Services (MCCS)?
was the foreign minister of (a) NDTV India (b) Aaj Tak
(a) Belgium. (b) Ireland. (c) CNBC (d) Star News
(c) Sweden. (d) Norway.
21. Which of the following stock indices has become
11. Which Indian telecom company has purchased India’s first to adopt the free float market
FLAG Telecom, an international network capitalization methodology?
interlinking company, for $207 million in October (a) NSE S&P CNX Nifty
2003? (b) BSE Sensex-30
(a) Tata Teleservices (b) Reliance Infocomm (c) NSE S&P CNX Nifty Jr
(c) Bharti Televentures (d) BPL Mobile (d) Both (a) and (b)
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22. Grasim has acquired the cement division of 33. Who among the following is the European
Larsen & Toubro (L&T). Grasim is the flagship Union’s Trade Commissioner, its chief negotiator
company of at the Fifth Ministerial Conference of the WTO at
(a) Gujarat Ambuja Group. Cancun?
(b) Aditya Vikram Birla Group. (a) Robert Zoellick (b) Pascal Lamy
(c) India Cements Group. (c) Wim Duisenberg (d) Chris Patten
(d) J K Industries Group.
34. Which of the following is incorrectly matched
23. Which of the following companies is the world’s about the Ramon Magsaysay Award 2003?
largest by sales revenue according to Fortune Award Category Winner
500 for 2003? (a) Government Service – J M Lyngdoh (India)
(a) General Motor (b) Exxon Mobil (b) Public Service – Shanta Sinha (India)
(c) Wal-Mart Stores (d) Ford Motor (c) Emergent Leadership – Aniceto Guterres
(East Timor)
24. From which country has India acquired the (d) Journalism, Literature – Shiela Coronel
Firefinder series of radars? and Creative (The Philippines)
(a) Israel (b) Britain (c) Italy (d) USA Communications

25. What is the growth ratio of India’s GDP for 2003- 35. Which of the following NGOs made public its test
04 as forecast by Moody’s Investor Services? results of pesticide residues in soft drinks?
(a) 6% (b) 6.5% (c) 7% (d) 7.5% (a) Centre for Food and Drugs Administration
(b) Centre for Clean Health
26. Which of the following F-1 Grand Prix was not (c) Centre for Science and Environment
won by Michael Schumacher in 2003? (d) Centre for Science and Technology
(a) European Grand Prix
(b) San Marino Grand Prix 36. Which city hosted the Inter-State Council Meeting
(c) Canadian Grand Prix in July 2003, the first meeting of ISC, held outside
(d) Spanish Grand Prix of New Delhi?
(a) Bangalore (b) Gandhinagar
27. What was the venue of AdAsia 2003, Asia’s (c) Kolkata (d) Srinagar
largest advertising and marketing event, held in
October 2003? 37. Amitabh Bachchan is not a brand ambassador for
(a) Bangalore (b) Hyderabad (a) Nerolac Paints. (b) Parker Pens.
(c) Chennai (d) Jaipur (c) ICICI Bank. (d) Mercedes Benz.

28. Which among the following is the 19th language 38. Which bollywood celebrity owns a film production
to be included in Schedule VIII of the Indian company called Reel Life Entertainment?
Constitution? (a) Anupam Kher (b) Shah Rukh Khan
(a) Tulu (b) Bodo (c) Maithili (d) Nepali (c) Rani Mukherjee (d) Raveena Tandon

29. Sergio Vieira De Mello, who was killed in a 39. Which organization publishes the World
suicide bombing in Baghdad in August 2003, was Investment Report?
(a) the US-appointed administrator of Iraq. (a) World Bank (b) IMF
(b) the UN High Commissioner for Human (c) UNCTAD (d) WTO
Rights.
(c) the Special Envoy of UN Secretary-General 40. Who among the following world leaders is
to Iraq. nicknamed ‘Butcher of Beirut’?
(d) both (b) and (c) (a) Saddam Hussein (b) Ariel Sharon
(c) Yasser Arafat (d) George Bush Jr
30. Where was the Simhasta Kumbha Mela held in
2003?
(a) Rajahmundry (b) Srisailam
(c) Nashik (d) Amarkantak

31. Find the incorrect match.

(a) World Human Rights Day – December 10
(b) World Habitat Day – October 3
(c) World Thrift Day – October 31
(d) World Telecommunications Day – May 17

32. Who among the following is the American

Ambassador to India?
(a) Robert Blackwill (b) Strobe Talbott
(c) Larry Pressler (d) None of these
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 Key for SCMHRD Paper-1
1. a 11. b 21. b 31. c
2. c 12. d 22. b 32. d
3. c 13. c 23. c 33. b
4. b 14. c 24. d 34. b
5. a 15. a 25. c 35. c
6. c 16. c 26. a 36. d
7. d 17. b 27. d 37. d
8. a 18. d 28. b 38. d
9. d 19. c 29. d 39. c
10. c 20. d 30. c 40. b

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