SNAP 100 Most-Difficult GK Questions Asked PDF

100 Most difficult Questions asked in SNAP ever!

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100 Most Difficult SNAP Questions Ever Asked!!

1. Which company owns India's leading sweetener brand sugar free? 2. Which famous company was founded in 1985 following the merger of Houston Natural Gas and Inter North of Omaha, and was one of the fastest growing companies in the world in the last decade? 3. Which was India's first-ever free Internet service provider, which started operations in 1999? 4. With which company has Pepsi tied up to market a ready-to- drink range of iced tea

internationally? 5. Which automobile tycoon built one of the world's tallest skyscrapers at the height of the American Depression in 1929? 6. Which famous personality recently resigned from the board of the controversial dotcom Tehelka.com in 2001? 7. The book 'Only the Paranoid Survive' focuses on which famous techno company? 8. What was the significance about the purchase of a kilo of lychees on the French island of Reunion, located in the Indian Ocean? 9. When he founded his company in 1939 along with his partner Dain in San Francisco's Bay Area, he effectively created the trend, which led to the creation of Silicon Valley decades later. He was the CEO of his company till 1978 and died of natural causes in 2001. Who are we talking about here?

10. Which company has been associated with sponsoring different events from the Olympics to the Nobel Prize? Its chairman, Kun Hee Lee was also a member of the International Olympic Committee? 11. With which international restaurant chain would you associate Hollywood stars Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis? 12. Kia Motors was a large automobile manufacturer in Korea until taken over in the 1990s. Which company owns it now? 13. Which business group owns the brand Kirin, the largest selling beer in Japan? 14. Which country is home to Rolls Royce? 15. The name was adopted by the group of seven major industrial nations established in 1985 to discuss

the world economy, comprising the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan is G7. Name the missing country? 16. Big Blue is IBM, but who is Big Yellow?



17. This shoe tycoon's visiting cards carry the title 'Senior Shoe Salesman'. Name the person referred to. 18. Which brand did Farook Engineer the cricketer model for? 19. Who was voted CEO of the millennium? 20. Rajiv Menon being the director and rediff vision the producer for which product video 21. What is the meaning of the word MOTOROLA? 22. What is the logo of Indian railways? 23. In which British tax haven are 11 of Dhirubhai Ambani's companies registered? 24. In 2001 John Koegh of Australia filed a patent for "Circular transportation facilitation device". What is this?

25. What was launched in 1929 by the London Rubber company and derived its name from the qualities of "durability, reliability and excellence" 26. Which company used the following slogan to promote their brands 'Axor', 'Pharo' and 'Rendezvous': "With 'aqua' in our middle name, it's hardly surprising we draw our inspiration from water"? 27. Avinash Bajaj & Suvir Sujan, 2 Harvard Busines School classmates started this hugely popular website. Which website is this? 28. Popcorn industries suffered heavy loss in early 1950's.What was the reason? . 29. What are missionware? 30. The CEO of Wilshire Associates is a very famous man, but not as the usual businessman. Who is he?

31. State Bank of India was previously known as what? 32. Which company had insured the World Trade Center (WTC)? 33. "Let Truth Prevail" is the punch line of which newspaper and it is published by whom? 34. Which company has the patent for the CDMA technology? 35. Which Japanese electronics company started by manufacturing calculators but came off the market due to diminishing returns. It now regrets it as one of their biggest mistakes which kept them out of the computer business. Which company are we talking about? 36. These companies are collectively known as the Chaebols in South Korea. Name them 37. Expand NASDAQ 38. Which car indigenously made in India was originally adopted from the "Vauxhall Victor" (Vauxhall

is the British form of Opel), a British model? 39. What is common to Kapil Dev, Lisa Ray and Leander Paes in the context of brand endorsement? 40. What is common to the brands Rolex and Hallmark? 41. Which company was previously known as the Galvin Manufacturing Company? 42. Which biz leader's name means "enlightened prosperous rice fields" 43. Which company now owns the following car brands: Jaguar, Volvo, Aston Martin, Mazda, Land Rover, Lincoln? 44. What nickname was given to the day when over £100 billion was wiped off the value of shares in the city of London? 45. What product was originally named KdF Wagon (or Strength Through Joy Car) but was later on

changed by Hitler? 46. This brand appeared in the original black and white version of the Tintin adventure 'The Black Island". It was later replaced by "Loch Lomond" in the colour version. Name the brand? 47. The sports company Spalding promoted what major change in Lawn tennis to facilitate T. V. viewership? 48. Percy Holmes and Herbert Sutcliffe had a huge partnership for Yorkshire vs Essex (cricket match)in 1932. According to legend, what did this give rise to? 49. In 1978, Shudhabardhak bati was transformed into what? 50. In 1958, what did Dan Carney and Frank Carey of Wichita, Kansas do to pay for their college fees?



51. Early in his career, Kishore Kumar modeled for a particular ad - the only product he ever modeled for.Name the product. 52. Who owns the registered trademark Lycos? 53. Which company's motto is - "Where the people meet the people"? 54. In which field of human enterprise was the 'marble' shaped invention of Hiram Codd, along with dozens of other contraptions, replaced by the 'crown' shaped invention of William Painter? 55. Name the brand launched by the movie "Gone with The wind" 56. Who were the first company to sponsor Man United's shirts? 57. Which Swedish car manufacturer once admitted price fixing in Britain? 58. In marketing terminology, who are known as the "Backseat Consumers"?

59. Which structure has a river at one end and a graveyard at the other? 60. The Japanese Prime Minister Tanaka and Prince Barrow of Netherlands were involved in which bribery scandal in 1974? 61. An organization with more than one million members in over 150 countries, it has no rules or entry requirements. Members, many of whom use only first names, cannot contribute more than $1000 to the organization. Which is this organization? 62. What was started in 1922 in a shop below an illegal bar in Greenwich Village, New York, with a capital of 5000 US Dollars? 63. Which product was advertised as "99.44% pure, it floats 64. What is the daily profit and loss statement system that Marwari companies in India follow called? 65. "Let the dance begin" was the ad-line for the launch of which product?

66. In the world of Sports, what is boot money? 67. Which fast food chain is named after a character from the comic strip featuring Popeye? 68. Who is supposed to have said the following and to whom "Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world"? 69. Kiran Seth is the founder of which organization? 70. What war or clash in the twentieth century came to be known as the "cartographic war"? 71. Why are the "Shatabdi" series of trains so called? 72. Who coined the term "Hinduism" to refer to the motley assortment of sects spread across India, with somewhat similar beliefs and practices? 73. What did Melville de Mellow do for over seven hours without a break that made him a national celebrity?

74. Why was 26 January selected as the Republic Day of India? 75. What did a Muslim pilgrim called Babu Budan introduce into India in 1695? 76. Which is the only teetotal state in the Union of India? 77. What is the name of the 1st civilian transport aircraft developed by HAL? 78. What national institution is located at Feroze Jeejeebhoy Towers? 79. Who took over Alexander the great in Egypt? 80. Discovered in the early 1980's by Brian Skiff and Edward Boswell, how are the asteroids 4147, 4148, 4149 and 4150 collectively known as ? 81. Where did the Great fire of London break out in 1666? 82. Who was the tyrant leader of the Khymer Rouge whose reign of terror killed some 3 million

people in Cambodia in the 1970's? 83. Where did the burglary that led to the resignation of an American President take place? 84. What political position did Ronald Reagan hold before becoming President of the United States? 85. The composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in 86. If Cynthia Cooper, Coleen Rowley and Sherron Watkins were the most recent, who was the first? 87. Which British duo were the first people to fly across the Atlantic Ocean non-stop? 88. Aboard which US warship did the Japanese sign their surrender in World War II? 89. Who was the only US president to be a University professor? 90. What was called 'Operation Polo' by the Indian army? 91. An English clergyman who emigrated from Cambridge to New England left half his fortune and his library of 300 books to the college of New Towne. This was renamed in his honour. Name the



college. 92. Subedar Khudad Khan was the first Indian recipient of which award? 93. What was kept on the top of the Eiffel Tower during WW I to detect approaching bomber aircraft? 94. In the Great Exhibition of 1851 at Hyde Park in London, engineer, George Jennings started a facility that was a new concept at that time. It became very popular and is found everywhere today. What? 95. Who was the only U.S. president to receive a patent for an invention (although it was never used), and what was the invention? 96. The first attempt to measure this was by Galileo, using people on two distant hills. Ole Roemer tried to do this by studying the movement of Jupiter's satellites. Hypolite Fizeau and Focault both

designed apparatus to measure it. What? 97. When it was originally designed/prepared by its inventor he called it a Convenience Food - and ate it when he was too busy gambling to leave the table for a meal. What is it called now, after its inventor? 98. The 13th century brothels of Paris were the first to have what, following a royal order that they should use something to demarcate themselves from normal houses? 99. Alexander Graham Bell brought a remarkable invention to the bedside of dying president James A.Garfield. What was it and why did it fail? 100. What invention of the confectioner George Smith was named after a famous race horse of the early 20th century?

Solutions !! 1. Cadilla

2 Enron 3 Caltiger.com 4 Lipton foods 5 Walter chrysler- empire state building 6 Amitabh bachchan 7 Intel 8 It was the first official purchase using the new currency, the Euro! 9 William Hewitt 10 Samsung 11 Planet holly wood 12 Hyundai

13 Mitsubishi 14 UK 15 Canada 16 Eastman Kodak Co. 17 Thomas J. Bata, Chairman-Bata Shoe Foundation. 18 Brylcream 19 Jack Welch (GE) 20 A.R. Rahman's airtel video 21 Motion of sound 22 Bholu the elephant 23 Isle of Man

24 Wheel, to show how flawed the patent system was 25 Durex condoms. 26 Jaquar 27 Baazee.com. 28 The invention of television.Movie attended dropped drastically



29 Products(T-shirt,Pen etc) with company logo given free of cost by a company to their employees for promotional purposes 30 Dennis Tito 31 Imperial Bank Of India 32 General Electric 33 The Times Of India published by Bennet & Coleman 34 Qualcomm 35 Sony 36 Hyundai,Samsung,Daewoo 37 National Association of Security Dealer's Automated Quotation

38 Contessa 39 All have endorsed RADO watches 40 Their logos are exactly the same 41 Motorola 42 Akio Morita 43 Ford Motors 44 Black Monday 45 Volkswagen beetle. Hitler suggested this name to Porsche 46 Johnny Walker 47 Changed balls from white to yellow 48 555, the name for the brand of cigarettes, since they had a 555 run partnership

49 Hajmola pills, the first time that a classical ayurvedic medicine was branded 50 They started selling Pizzas and thus founded Pizza Hut 51 Brylcreem

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52 Carnegie Mellon University 53 Madame Tussaud's

54 The bottling of carbonated soft drinks.(In India we still have soda drinks with marble shaped object in the neck of bottle. that was the original kind invented by Hiram codd) 55 Chesterfield cigarettes 56 Sharp 57 Volvo 58 Children 59 Wall Street 60 Lockheed 61 Alcoholics Anonymous 62 Readers Digest

63 Ivory soap 64 Parta 65 Viagra 66 Money paid to players for wearing specific pieces of kit, notably their boots. 67 Wimpy 68 Steve Jobs to John Sculley 69 Spicmacay 70 The series of clashes between India and China during the late fifties and early sixties, arising from a difference in agreeing on the legitimate boundary between the two countries

71 They were so named as a tribute to Pundit Nehru's centenary year, during which the first series of Shatabdi trains were launched 72 Raja Ram Mohan Roy 73 He gave the running commentary over the radio on Mahatma Gandhi's funeral



74 It was to honour the day on which the Congress Party gad adopted the Purna Swaraj resolution at the Lahore session in 1929 75 Coffee 76 Gujarat 77 SARAS 78 The BSE 79 Ptolemy 80 The Beatles 81 A baker's shop in Pudding Lane

82 Pol Pot 83 Watergate Building, Washington DC 84 Governor of California 85 1756 86 Charles Lindbergh (1927), Time Person of the Year 87 Alcock and Brown 88 USS Missouri 89 Woodrow Wilson....President of College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) 90 The police action against the Nizam of Hyderabad, to unite the old Hyderabad state with the Republic of India 91 John Harvard (Harvard University)

92 Victoria Cross 93 Parrots as they were considered good listeners 94 Public Lavatories 95 Abraham Lincoln, for a device preventing ships from getting stuck 96 The speed of light 97 The sandwich - invented by the Earl of Sandwich 98 Hang red lamps outside their doors - and hence, red light areas for brothels 99 Bell had a metal detector and used it in a failed attempt to locate the bullet in the assassinated president's body. It failed because the bed the president was lying on, unbeknownst to Bell, contained metal intersprings 100 Lollypop

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