Tata Crucible Corporate Indore 2012 Prelims

Tata Crucible Corporate Indore 2012 Prelims

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1. This huge company launched “Discover new” campaign this year targeted at the summer vacation of school going children. Which co.?-BATA
2. A helpline, called National Tobacco Cessation Quit Line, at the toll-free number: 1800-227787 has been started by this company in India, which has long been in pharma business?- Johnson and Johnson

3. The European wing of this Indian company is producing “silent tracks” for railways and is going to implement it across Indian very soon leading to soundless tracks. Which co.?- Tata steel(corus)

4. This famous celebrity went nude to launch a perfume named after her called “NUDE”?—Rihanna

5. PIXAR logo

6. Project glass trivia, Which company is behind Project glass?-GOOGLE

7. TERI has partnered with this company to recycle waste at schools as kids buy a lot of this in school and throw them away after consumption. This co. is a major packaging giant?- TETRAPAK

8. In 1935, it was designed to commemorate the silver jubilee of King George V. It was also called K6. It is found in almost all streets of London. What?-Red Telephone booth

9. This international automobile major which has been doing very well in India off late has launched an innovative finance scheme called “ Mobility Max”. Which co.?-VOLKSWAGEN

10. “Quietly brilliant”- whose punchline?. (hint:mobile phone manufacturere)

11. The tweet by this person was on Jan 23,2012 read “ we are proud of you”. It was about the bravery award recipients. Who or whose office debuted on twitter thus?-Manmohan singh or PM office

12. Kazuo Hirai has replaced Howard stringer as the CEO fo which famous electronics giant?- SONY

13. Audi bought over the iconic bike business of which famous company?-DUCATI

14. Who is the Urban development minister of India now?-KAMAL NATH

15. Ramesh chauhan of Bisleri pic standing with Thums-up and goldspot

16. Invented by Christopher scholes in 1862, Mark Twain described this as curiosity breeding little joker. He also used it. What?-Typewriter

17. Invented in 1890’s and called as Clasp locker. It’s improvised version in 1905 was called C-curity. What invention that was initially for shoes but is now mainly used in apparels.—ZIPPERS

18. Which brand started as Deluxe green Label in 1962 and became an instant hit?-BRU

19. Barron Larrey, Napolean’s personal doctor invented this keeping in mind that Napolean may need this any moment. What so common in healthcare that it is even available in rural areas as well as urban areas.?-AMBULANCE

20. DABUR logo. Id

IQuation Business Quiz Prelims 2012- Kolkata

IQuation Business Quiz Prelims 2012- Kolkata Corporate
Courtesy: Anirvan Bhadra- HSBC

1. Ad showing all the Olympics athletes – Omega ad – Identify the rock song playing in the background and the band.
Rolling Stones – Start it Up

2. What came after Celeron & Pentium – answer was Xenon and Core

3. Dark Side of All American Meal – tagline of which book
Fast Food Nation

4. Zee Digital Media – Soap broadcast for tablets/smartphones – name of brand
DITTO TV

5. Full form of ICS

6. YB Afraid Foundation – whose
Yohan Blake

7. Who sponsored Mclaren for 23 yrs
Marlboro

8. Hayabusa is in the news – why or what
Luxury Bullet Train with Business Class

9. Slang for a fast food worker
McJobs

10. Developer of Yamuna Expressway
Jaypee Infratech

11. Acquired by Dunhill and now owned by Richemont Group – owner of Cartier, Baume Mercier, Chloe and Van Cleef & Arpels – which brand?
Mont Blanc

12. London Olympics Beat Box – who made?
Coca Cola

13. Forbes 500 no1
Exxon Mobil

14. Baba Kalyani – which company
Bharat Forge

15. HQ of Research in Motion
Waterloo

16. One of the better airlines financially during recession – called the Flying Bank?
Swissair

17. Olympics where the Dream team played for the first time – professional NBA players?
1992 Barcelona

18. Google Doodle on Amelia Earhardt

19. Who was fined $22.5m for spying through Safari browser?
Google

20. Raghu Ram Rajan pic

21. 4 or 5 banks were in the list of the strongest banks in the world, from Singapore. Named 3/4 asked for the 4th/5th.
DBS

22. UK Olympics funding was done via the Lotto. Same funding pattern is being followed by whom in India
Mittal Champions Trust

23. Fortune is a JV between Time and —–
ABP

24. Who bought Hancock coal properties in Australia
GVK

25. Bug Bounty – Funda
Hacker gets rewarded for pointing out flaws in a system

26. Company which owns Sesa Goa and Sterlite
Vedanta

27. Marvin Traub founder of department store famous with tourists/queens/royalty/presidents
Bloomingdales

Tata Crucible 2012 Corporate Quiz

DateDayCityTrackTimeVenue
4-Aug-12SaturdayRanchiExternal only10.30 a.mHotel B N R Chanakya
5-Aug-12SundayJamshedpurInternal only2.30 p.mRabindra Bhawan
12-Aug-12SundayIndoreExternal only2.30 p.mRadisson Hotel
23-Aug-12ThursdayCoimbatoreExternal only5.00 p.mVivanta by Taj Surya
25-Aug-12SaturdayAhmedabadExternal only2.30 p.mIIM - Indian Institute of Management
26-Aug-12SundayHyderabadExternal only2.30 p.mTaj Deccan
30-Aug-12ThursdayNagpurExternal only5.00 p.mRadisson Hotel
1-Sep-12SaturdayBangaloreTwin Track2.00 p.mRoyal Orchid Plaza
2-Sep-12SundayDelhiTwin Track12.30 p.mTaj Palace Hotel
8-Sep-12SaturdayBhubaneshwarExternal only2.00 p.mMay Fair Convention Centre
13-Sep-12ThursdayGoaExternal only5.00 p.mNational Institute of Oceanography, Cardium Auditorium
15-Sep-12SaturdayPuneTwin Track2.00 p.mRadisson Hotel
16-Sep-12SundayMumbaiTwin Track12.30 p.mTaj Lands End Ball Room
22-Sep-12SaturdayLucknowTwin Track1.00 p.mTaj Residency
23-Sep-12SundayGurgaonExternal only2.30 p.mTo Be Confirmed
24-Sep-12MondayChandigarhExternal only5.00 p.mTaj Chandigarh
26-Sep-12WednesdayCochinExternal only5.00 p.mThe Gateway Hotel
27-Sep-12ThursdayTrivandrumExternal only5.00 p.mVivanta By Taj Trivandrum
29-Sep-12SaturdayKolkataTwin Track2.00 p.mKala Mandir
30-Sep-12SundayChennaiTwin Track3.00 p.mChinmaya Heritage Centre
To Be ConfirmedTo Be ConfirmedGuwahatiTo Be ConfirmedTo Be ConfirmedTo Be Confirmed
7-Oct-12SundayMumbaiTaj Mahal Palace

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Tata Crucible 2012 Campus Schedule

Tata Crucible 2012 Campus Schedule

IIM L Manfest 2012 Business Quiz Mitesh Agarwal

IIM L Manfest 2012 Business Quiz Mitesh Agarwal

1. Question regarding Seveso treaty : Hint chemical disaster led to the making of the treaty.
2. MovenPick icecream : origin of the name when the founder saw seagulls picking food in mid air
3.Allan Pearson and Fujita formed company in technology space: F5 networks
4. Connect Queen emblem , Zodiac watch logo and Zodiac garments founder : Ans- Zodiac
5. Intel Xeon and the Indian connection : Whitefield
6. Hutchison Whampoa and 3 : Connect question had “Why this kolaveri “ referring to the movie 3
7. “Innovators Dilemma “ TOC was given and asked to identify the Harward publication
8. Coffee dispenser inventor and instituted an award “Trieste Science Prize” for the innovation in technology : Illy Coffee
9. Agfa corporation, Deutsche Bank and Russian Tsars : Mendelssohn Family
10. Daily Me is a customized newspaper by MIT Lab : Tell the promoter
Ans : Nicolas Negroponte (OLPC)
11. French press company , commonly found in any 3-4-5 star hotels in India- Ans: Bodum
12. Astra Zeneca and the funding for nobel media and nobel web : hint controversy regarding 2008 Nobel medical
13. Which country was primarily responsible for the formation of Hong Kong ? Jardines Matheson ( Clue : Indian connection referring to Tatas)
14. Astalift is the brand promoted by which company and why ?
Ans: Fuji Film ( the anti oxidants from film production is used for skin preservation also)
15. Denmark-based sportswear company. Clue : Sponsors of South African cricket team = > Hummel
16. Question related to “Ogg format’s” history
17. Toy brand owned by Lesney Products. Clue : The brand was so named as the original die-cast __ toys were sold in boxes similar in style and size to that of another product Ans: Matchbox
18. Question related to the ubiquitous Uhaul real estate’s Orange line
19. Question related to Yakult yogurt : Clue- Kajol
20. Unit of currency used in Indian province: Clue Scrotum Ans: Goan Currency Escudo
21. Girl scout biscuit logo
22. Identify : Shocking Pink by Schiaparelli
23. Grauniad is a nickname of UK paper guardian. The domain grauniad.co.uk is registered to the paper and redirects to their website. What’s the significance
Ans: The Guardian’s reputation for frequent typographical errors, such as misspelling its own name as The Gaurdian
24. Soup bowl and duct tape are the solutions suggested for this problem faced by air travelers in the pre 9/11 era. After the terrorist attacks this has become impossible to do . What is it ? Ans: Smoking inside plane , bowl to close the smoke detector in the bathroom
25. Carbon credit logo
26. Ricordian rule in economics
27. Robert Mundell: father of Euro
28. The all-metal Stout 2-AT “Air Transport” trimotor plane : Ford motors
29. Nandlal Madhavlal Dhoot and connection to sugarcane and cotton industry.
30. Bibendum (Michelin) started as a lean figure and over the years became a fat one. Reason?

QOTB – Quiz on the Beach – 2012 – Prelims – Giri Pickbrain


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Answers

  1. ANIL AMBANI NAMED AFTER TINA AND ANIL
  2. CITIBANK
  3. INTERNET
  4. SATYA PAUL
  5. EVELYN LAUDER
  6. EXAMINER OF COINS
  7. HINADLCO
  8. APOLLO HOSPITALS
  9. MONISHA KALTENBORN OF TEAM SAUBER
  10. N.R. NARAYANA MURTHY
  11. AL CAPONE
  12. ANAND MAHINDRA
  13. UNIQUE PERCEIVED BENEFIT
  14. COCA COLA
  15. ABSOLUT
  16. RUPERT MURDOCH
  17. SPORTS ILLUSTRATED SWIMSUIT EDITION
  18. AVON
  19. CIPLA
  20. BERNARD ARNAULT
  21. BAJAJ ELECTRICALS
  22. SINGAPORE
  23. WENDT
  24. RED TAPE
  25. MARIO MIRANDA
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Quiz on the Beach QOTB 2012 Giri Pickbrain – TAPMI

Round 1

1) Connect Giriraja, Kalinga Brown, Grama Laxmi, Grama Priya and Vanaraja
2) Started in Netherland, 1436. Termed as a painless form of taxation. Elizabeth 1 used it in 1556. It was used to raise money for public good. What?
3) Missionary Church in Sweden- Kopimism. What is unique about them?
4) Niveo Symbolo in Jalndhar. What first in India?
5) US department of energy… restricted the sale of this luxury item… 9.5 litres of water/min
6) Company named ‘Celestis’ is the biggest in this business. Provides service to us human beings. What?
7) Chewed in African culture, led to stained teeth. It was used to treat cough, asthma. Broncho dilator. Which company’s name is derived from this?
8) In US it is legally allowed to sell only 5 times a year. It is said that the banks charge only the processing fee. But actually it is worth over 100 thousand of business. What?

Answers:
1) All brands of Chicken
2) Lottery
3) Advocates Copyig/Piracy
4) 1st International football maker
5) Shower
6) Burial in space/distribute ashes in space
7) Coca cola | Kola Nut
8) Sale of Blood

Round 2

1) This country launched the Postal stamp of migration of the first Indian labour around 150 years ago. …Ship S S Truro
2) Memebrs of Laclef. Known as holders of the golden keys. Who?
3) Venge- Carbon fibre- racing cycle. Which F1 team is behind it?
4) Whose quote ‘But sometimes I think it’s just like an on-off switch. Click and you’re gone. And that’s why I don’t like putting on-off switches.’

Answers:
1) South Africa
2) Concierge service
3) McLaren
4) Steve Jobs

Round 3

1) Pic of Brownie Mae Humphrey. First woman to appear in the Business week cover. What’s her claim to fame

2) Logo-PrimeMinister of this nation himself has expressed a great deal of interst in this


3) Pic of a person- Thomas____________ & a diamond. Connect


4) Pic- great gambler


5) Logo
6) Swiss Franc features Palace of Justice India. Dedicated to whom?
7) Pic…BahnHof owns it… stored at this secret location.What?


8) Pic-

Answers:
1) Tupperware parties
2) National Skill Development council
3) Cullinan diamond named after Thomas Cullinan
4) Steve Wynn
5) Census
6) Le Corbusier
7) Wikileaks server
8) Walt disney

Audience qns
1) Who are Sexocrats?
Ans Presentable buraucrats

Round 4
Audience
Arthur Wayne- Ans: Crosswords
Nano’s 1st International market- SriLanka
Raghuram Rajan- FaultLines

1) Ingka holdings – Ikea
2) In the guiness book of records as ‘the biggest family ownded chain’ Which Indian brand? Country Club
3) Cher Wang- HTC
4) Levi’s Citizen- Denizen
5) 204/20 6th Avenue, New York…1858- 5 lettered – Macy’s
6) Thomas Stemberg- Staples
7) From greek for inspiration and knowledge. Which 4 lettered brand? Asus

Round 5

Connect:

1) H&A store logo, Weetbix, backyard Cricket, Travelex…song from Six and out

Ans: Bret Lee | H&A store owned by Alok Industries. Brett Lee brand ambassador

2) Tata Logo, London Olympics 2012 logo, AOL, song Hero- hum mein hai Hero
Ans: Wolf Ollins

3) Calrence Hotel, RED, Elevation Partner
Ans: Bono

4) White diamonds, passion, Violet eyes, flintstone
Ans: Elizabeth Taylor

Round 6

1) Hut Tax, University of Oxford
Ans: Cecil Rhodes

2) Yes madam Sir, Navjyoti, Ramon Megsasay award
Ans: Kiran Bedi

3) University of Chicago, Logo of Standard Oil and some quotr
Ans: John D Rockefeller

4) Midas Touch, Tyson, Apprentice
Ans: Donald Trump

Wildcraft TBQ Infinite Loop #3 – Answers and List of winners

Here are the answers and the list of winners for Wildcraft TBQ Infinite Loop Quiz #3

  1. Ammar 404 is the nickname Tunisian internet surfers use for the authority responsible for Internet censorship
  2. Saudi billionaire Prince Walid bin Talal and his Kingdom Holding Company
  3. Ambattur Clothing Limited
  4. Global Water Industry
  5. Motilal Oswal
  6. Ashok Leyland
  7. UPS
  8. Todi family
  9. Tranche
  10. Swarovski
The three winners who will receive prizes from Wildcraft worth Rs. 2000, Rs.1000 and Rs 500 are:
  1. Kalyani – Bangalore
  2. Saahil Sharma – TCS Chennai
  3. Vandana Sharma – Bhilai Sri Sankara Vidyalaya, Bhilai
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Wildcraft TBQ Infinite Loop #2 – Answers and List of winners

Here are the answers and the list of winners for Wildcraft TBQ Infinite Loop Quiz #2

  1. Mikhail Prokhorov
  2. Murugappa Group
  3. Elizabeth Taylor
  4. Berkshire Hathaway
  5. Paul Allen
  6. Resemblance to WTC being attacked
  7. West Bengal Cooperative Milk Producers Federation Ltd
  8. Thanksgiving Day
  9. Nokia’s Lumia
  10. Angelina Jolie Stock Index
These winners will receive prizes worth Rs.2000, Rs.1000 and Rs. 500 respectively from Wildcraft.
  1. Fakhruddin Attarwala, Kolkata
  2. Aditya Moraka, Nagpur
  3. A K Subramanian, Chennai
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TBQ –390

1) The first writing machine that printed in any way like a modern typewriter stemmed from the idea of a writing instrument for the blind. The laurels for this achievement go to Pellegrino Turri of Italy, who built his machine in 1808 as a favour for his girl friend, the Countess Caroline Fantonio da Fivizzonol, who, despite losing her sight as a child, conducted volumnious correspondence. Along with this, he invented something to provide ink to the machine. What? The same invention was simulatenously and independently done by an Englishman named Ralph Wedgewood.
2) The Portugese in Goa levied a capitation tax known as Pensao do Shendy in the 18th and 19th centuries. From whom where they levied?
3) What are supernotes?
4) DuPont’s foray into this business began in the 1910s when company officials suggested making this as an outlet for excess nitrocellulose. What business and what was the produce?
5) This test is a simple way to gauge the active presence of female characters in Hollywood films and to judge just how well-rounded and complete those roles are. It was created by _____ in her comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For in 1985. Name the test and the cartoonist.
6) Identify this logo.
7) These surnames are more common among the Vaishnava banias and Jains. They were derived from the word that meant “to examine”
for they were examiners of coins. What?
8) What is Songun policy of resource allocation in North Korea?

9) The term was originally coined by Ed Miliband when speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme presenter John Humphrys. This term refers to the section of society regarded as particularly affected by inflation, wage freezes and cuts in public spending during a time of economic difficulty, consisting principally of those on low or middle incomes. What?

10) What are these?

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Answers:

Ans1: Carbon Paper
Ans2: Hindus | Shendy was a long braid of hair compusalrily grown by Hindus
Ans3: High quality counterfeit US Dollar bills printed on cotton-fiber paper using the same expensive “intaglio” printing presses used by the U.S. government
Ans4: films and photographic supplies |film base
Ans5: Bechdel Test | Alison Bechdel
Ans6: RMS Titanic Inc, which is the the Titanic’s court-approved salvor
Ans7:  Parekh and the Parikh from Pariksha
Ans8: The songun, or “military first,” revolution refers to Kim Jong-il’s policy of focusing resources on the Korean People’s Army and using it to police the country and dictate foreign policy, often by raising tensions with other countries.
Ans9: Squeezed Middle
Ans10: Jack Kilby’s notebook from 1958, along with two of the original integrated circuits

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