Biz Quizzard 330

Presenting the current affairs quiz for the week July 19 - 24. Hope you enjoy it.

1. Which Indian business personality has been named by United Nations to a key advocacy group on Millennium Developments Goals (MDG), whose mandate includes finding ways to fight socio-economic evils like poverty?

2. Which MNC has said it will buy Metaweb Technologies, an internet information database start-up, for an undisclosed amount?

3. Which MNC will buy Motorola’s telecom network equipment business for $1.2 billion?

4. Which leadership position is being claimed by Parle Products?

5. Global household and personal care products major Reckitt Benckiser will buy England-based SSL International in all cash deal worth $2.54 billion. Which well-known brand does SSL own?

6. Which celebrity has been signed on to endorse sports channel ESPN for the upcoming Champions League T20 tournament to be held in South Africa in September?

7. Which milestone has Facebook crossed recently?

8. Which MNC last week said in US that it would acquire local auto finance company AmeriCredit for about $3.5 billion?

9. Actors Saif Ali Khan and Bipasha Basu can be seen in the television commercial (currently on air) for which mobile handset brand?

10. Which brand is being advertised on television (TVC currently on air) with the positioning ‘Go Babelicious’?

Please mail your answers on or before next Sunday to rajeevkondapalli@gmail.com with Biz Quizzard 330 as the subject.

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