Singapore’s biggest quiz is back. Tata Crucible Singapore is here.
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Date
Friday, October 29, 2010
Time
Registration – 4:00pm onwards
Prelims – 5:00pm onwards
Finals – 6:45 pm onwards
Venue
Rock Auditorium,
3 Temasek Boulevard, #03-063/065
Suntec City Mall, Singapore 038983
Register at
www.tatacrucible.com/sg
Savoir Faire, Goa wins it! Well deserved. Congrats to the champions.
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Savoir Faire, Goa (Harshavadhan and Rajiv D’Silva)- Winners
Madras Metallurgical Services (Gopal Kidao and Team)- Runners up.
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TCS Mumbai(Aniruddha Datta and Suresh Kumar)- Winners
mjunction (Debashish Mukherjee and Subhasish De)- Runners up
Updates soon.
Tata Crucible Corporate Quiz 2010-Coimbatore Prelims via CQC
1.in 1932 which newspaper was started ,free press journal and the founder delivered the newspaers himself by van?-Indian Express
2.inventor of an improved stock printer?called the Universal STock printer?T.A.Edison
3.Which brand is associated with the tems “Thedapan”,hindi for crookedness?kurkure
4.Man of the 20 the century?by FICCI-Dhirubhai Ambani
5.full form of OLPC?one laptop per child
6.Which brands visiosn is “to organize the worls information and make it universally accessible and useful?-Google
7.who advocate the policy of Employee First customer second(ECFS) and the book was released by Harvard press?Vineet Nair [Edited]
8.Brand which deals with role reversal between man and monkeys?Alpenliebe
9.Captain Gopinaths Autobiography?Simplifly
10.A pharma giant with an APIS BULL in the logo and the largest producer of Insulin,two danish companies merger?Novo Nordisk
11.US army developed Multi Purpose wheeled Vehicle?Humvee
12.Which brand was used a germicidal during the plague?Lifebuoy
13.What product has the Bhavani region got a GI for?Jhamakalam / carpets/blankets
14.A photo shown of the evolution of World wildlife fund(WWF) logo?
15.Ananda Vikatan magazine mascot?? photo shown
16.photo of CTS President and CEo-Francisco d’souza was shown?
17.Ram Charan -management Guru ,author photo was shown?
18.Pontiac Logo shown
19.Vinai thaandi varuvaiya-movie still shown and distributor asked to identify?red Giant movies-udaynidhi stalin
20.Finger print shown and this newspaper is coming into coimbatore recently?Times of India.
Thanks, Ashok (Arul).
Winner:
The Chennai Silks, Yogesh Pai and Arul Saravanan
Runner-up
NTPC wins! Accenture came second. Updates to follow.
Info via Ranjeet Varma
Tata Crucible Corporate 2010 – Bhubhaneswar Round
Winner: XIMB
Runner up: Vizag Steel (Rahul Kumar and team)
Questions coming up soon.
Tata Crucible Bangalore- Corporate 2010
Tata External
Winners: Yahoo
Runner’s up HSBC
Other Teams on stage- IBM, Axis Risk Consulting, Wipro, Onmobile
Tata Internal Track
Winners: Tata Elxsi
All other teams on stage were from Titan
Cut offs- believed to be around 14
Prelims
1) In 2010 this personality over took Obama to become the 1st living person to have more than 10 million fans on facebook. Who?
2) While teaching at which institution did Amartya Sen write the book ‘Collective choice & Social Welfare’ in 1970?
3) Brand name- 1st person singular of the present tense….to wind, to turn, ‘roll’, or to turn over the mind
4) Trip Hawkins graduated from Harvard…MBA Stanford.. company’s previous name ‘Amazing software’
5) We sell _________, not just ice-cream. Quote by Irv Robbins.
6) Victorinox _________ Swiss Army Knife
Wenger _____________ Swiss Army Knife
7) Which company’s 1st ever toy sold was – Dr. Doodle?
8) To cleanse the Absolut bottle before Vodka is poured, what is used to rinse and clean? – ‘Completely pure and perfect’
9) Which US President once worked as a cover model for Cosmopolitan?
10) MGM… 1st pic with sound- 1928 movie ‘White shadows in the south seas’, had only one spoken word. Which one?
11) This brand was the sponsor of the Man of the Match in 2010 FIFA world cup. Which brand?
12) Which company was formed by the joint venture between Maini group & AEV LLC of California?
13) Which film shot in Karnataka …Music rights bought by Polydor for the first time in India..paid an advance royalty of 5 lakhs?
14) Which management theory on cost control… 1984 book..written as a novel..story revolved around Alex Rogo?
15) Which magazine was launched in 1952 with an aim of providing ‘the 1st serious effort in film journalism’ in India?
16) In 1959, invented a rubber substitute… anagram of ‘Expands’
17) Means ‘beautiful’, ‘good’, ‘Wonderful’ in Arabic…Telecom..which brand?
18) Emirates… ATM.. what so special
19) ‘difference create value’… on this plank ..launched a campaign .. ‘yourpointofview.com’
20) Merger- Jaina group + Bangalore based UTC group…. Brand is affordable to many..
21) Pic.. Shyamala Gopinath-Deputy governor of RBI
22) Pic- Vikram Akula
23) Logo of Costa Coffee
24) Name the 2 co’s that produced ‘My name is Khan.’
25) Logo of Narayana Hrudayalaya
Answers:
Ans1: Lady Gaga
Ans2: Delhi school of Economics
Ans3: Volvo
Ans4: Electronic Arts
Ans5: Fun
Ans6: Victorinox – Original Swiss Army Knife
Wenger- Genuine Swiss Army Knife
Ans7: Fisher Price
Ans8: Absolut Vodka
Ans9: Gerald Ford
Ans10: Hello
Ans11: Budweiser
Ans12: Reva
Ans13: Sholay
Ans14:Theory of Constraints
Ans15: Filmfare
Ans16: Spandex
Ans17: Zain
Ans18 : Gold
Ans19: HSBC
Ans20: Carbon
Ans24: Red Chillies & Dharma
1) Brand name- 1st person singular of the present tense….to wind, to turn, ‘roll’, or to turn over the mind
Tata Crucible Chennai- Corporate 2010
Non-Tata Track Winners:
Madras Metalurgical- Gopal Kidao & team
Runner’s up- Irevna
Other teams on stage Sanmar,infy, wipro,(missed one team)
Cut-off arnd 14 for Non-Tata Track
Tata Track Winners– Jayakanthan (JK) and Deviprasad (DP)-TCS.
All 6 TCS team on stage
Prelims questions
1)little bits of gold-
doritos
2)Narayana Murthv venture-
Catamaran
3) Complete the quote “I want to give a woman a scent of_________ and not of a flower”
Woman
4) In 2000, Lego tied up with this film personality to create movie maker set
Spielberg
5) Gorur Ramaswami iyenger- first name of this businessman
Captain Gopinath
6) Blue lights special- which retail giant
K mart
7) Tobacco company- veni, vidi, vici
Philip Morris
8) Patent by Clyde coleman and Charles kettering
electric self starter
9) Started as PINWHEEL
Nikleodon
10) Steve Balmer in may 2009, unveiled- in San diego. What?
BING
11) Ashok Kumar, Saeed Jaffrey and Shami Kapoor
Pan Parag
12) Introduced in 1535, by King Henry VIII of England, Carl-Peter- tax
TAX on Beard
13) Charles Emile & Charles-Félicien-which watch brand
Tissot
14) Known as Company Bahadur in India
East India company
15) If you TBTF in credit market, where you lower your risk and add more attractive investment. What is TBTF
Too Big To Fail
16) Started by GRRL, founded by Ingrid Newkirk
PETA
17) Lion with wings on a pillar
Cannes Lion
18) Chennai based Star health insurance, insurance for a special group of people
HIV
19) Pic of jai prakash goel- J P Group
20) Pic Seth Godin
21) Mocha coffee logo
22) Thilla langadi- movie -distribution rights
Sun
23) Coin to Commemorate what? Thiruvalluvar pic –
World tamil conference
Results out
Infy has won Hyderabad leg- Sridhar Reddy & Surender Reddy.
Quiz Format in Hyderabad
Prelims- 26 questions. Top score 16, Cut off 13
Top 5 teams direct qualifier.
Teams 6-11 battle out for the 6th place – Wild card round. 8 qs on buzzer
Finals
5 rounds
-1 round of dry questions
-1 round of visuals
-Tata Round- on buzzer 4 questions
-Lateral Connect- Buzzer- 4questions
– Last round on Buzzer-3 questions
15,10,5 points format (Last round)
6 finalists- Infy, Google, Mahindra Satyam, IBM, Microsoft, VSP
Google came 2nd, with our good-old Murali Duggineni (Mahindra Satyam) coming 3rd
Will Post the questions in some time
Update: Questions via Murali Duggineni(quinkie)
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