XAT Important Organizations Questions

IIP (Index of Industrial Production) defined 8 core industries in India. They are

1.Coal
2. Crude oil
3. Natural gas
4. Refinery products
5. Fertilizers
6. Steel
7. Cement 
8. Electricity

Therefore, option B is the right answer.

The RPG group was founded by R.P.Goenka. The group initially started with companies such as Philips Carbon Black, Asian Cables, Agarpara Jute and Murphy. Therefore, option C is the right answer. 

Gillete is a subsidiary of Procter and Gamble (P&G).
Surf Excel is a brand owned by Hindustan Unilever.
Saffola oil is owned by Marico India. 
Aashirvaad atta is owned by ITC. 
Good Knight is owned by Godrej. 

Therefore, option B is the right answer.

The International Court of Justice is located in the Hague, Netherlands. Therefore, option B is the right answer.

SAARC stands for South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation.  Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, the Maldives, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka are the members of SAARC. Myanmar is not a member of SAARC and hence, option B is the right answer. 

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD - world bank) are known as the Bretton Woods twins. Both of these institutions were conceived at the Bretton woods conference which took place in 1944. Therefore, option E is the right answer. 

The given options give the new name of the company and its old name. 
The word before ':' gives the old name and the word after ':' gives the new name.
KPMG consulting was renamed bearing point. Option E gets the relationship the other way around. Therefore, option E is the right answer. 

Allen Solly is owned by the Aditya Birla Group. 
La Opala is an Indian tableware company based out of Kolkata.
Monte Carlo is owned by the Oswal wools company based out of Ludhiana, Punjab.
Royal Enfield is owned by Eicher motors based out of Delhi.
Dettol is owned by Reckitt Benckiser, an MNC based out of Netherlands. 

Therefore, option B is the right answer. 

IMF and World bank are known as the Bretton woods twins. The decision to form both the institutes arose out of the conference held at Bretton woods on July 1944.Therefore, option A is the right answer.

The options given give the countries and their respective stock exchanges or indices. 
Shenzhen stock exchange is located in China. 
Both BSE and NSE are located in India. 
SGX stands for Singapore Exchange Limited.
DAX is the index of the top 30 German companies. 
All the exchanges are correctly matched in option A. 

NASDAQ is a stock exchange in the US. FTSE is the index of the 100 countries listed in the London Stock Exchange. Therefore, we can eliminate options B, C, D, and E. Therefore, option A is the right answer.

Kindle is the e-book reader released by Amazon. 
Angry birds is a product of Rovio.
Wii is the video game console released by Nintendo.
Nook is the e-book reader released by Barnes and Noble. 
Castle Ville is an online game released by Zynga. 
Adsense is a product of Google. 

All the products and the companies are correctly matched only in option B and hence, option B is the right answer. 

Mr. Rajat Gupta, the former chief of Mckinsey, is one of the founders of ISB. Therefore, option E is the right answer.