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Mumbai Tata Crucible 2011 Corporate Quiz-Finals

Mumbai Tata Crucible 2011 Corporate Quiz-Finals

Teams on stage: Deloitte, Deutsche bank, BPCL, Questa, Axis & IndusInd

1) Sahara Blend, Iran Heavy, BasraLight, Bonny Light, Arab light.. What are they?

2)  It is modelled on the Tennessee Valley Authority of the USA. Jawaharlal Nehru, prime minister of India, Dr. B.C.Roy, chief minister of West Bengal and Sri Krishna Sinha, chief minister of Bihar, took personal interest to ensure early success of the project…. Act of 1948…

3) Britannia question

4) Rustomji- Director General then.. “Duty onto death’

5) Born in Uganda, San Francisco residence, Bungalow..maple wood flooring…Lamborghini

6) The term originally came from concealing hip flasks..everyday wear…trouser

Ans1) OPEC basket

Ans2) Damodar valley corp

Ans3) Britannia

Ans4) Border Security force

Ans5) Chatur Ramalingam from 3 idiots

Ans6) Bootlegging

Round 2

1) Image: CHOAM- What’s the specialty?

2) Visual… Sugarpova

3) Old logo of BBC

4) Image:

5) Werner Von Siemens…concept..one of the earliest for something- what?

Ans1) World’s largest Fictional corporation

Ans2) Sugarpova..Maria Sharapova’s candy brand

Ans3) Old logo of BBC

Ans4) Peter Benenson-Amnesty

Ans5) 1st prototype of an Electric car

Round 3- Tata World

1) 80 year old book retailer is now using TCS’ iON offering to move to digital environment..

Oxford

2) Heritage collection… Mangala, Stambha, Konark

Titan

3) Project Tejaswini- Tata Steel

4) Florida based..private planes.. with which Tata group is having discussions now.

Avantair

Round 4- Connect

1) Highroad, S3 graphics, Couple dancing…. Telecom

Ans: HTC (Slasa)

2) VISA, Meril Lynch, Pic

Ans: Bank of America (founder Amadeo Giannini pic)

3) Hub, transformer theme song, Trivial pursuit

Ans: Hasbro

4) Accel, American farm bureau… theme music of ‘Social network’

Ans: Facebook

Round 5

1) Paris..  Madeleine Odette .. 1st woman economic affairs

Ans: Christine Lagarde

2) Wallace Flint…1932..punched card

Bernard Silver, Joseph woodland

Ans: Bar code

3) D Mehra co.

Satyajit Ray

Ans: Rupa Books

Mumbai Tata Crucible 2011 Corporate Quiz-Prelims

 

Mumbai Tata Crucible 2011 Corporate Quiz-Prelims

Winner: Rajiv Rai & Team- Deutsche bank

Tata Track: Aniruddha and Team

 1) F W Stevens – World heritage…progress..engineering..science..Shipping and commerce

2) Torreal, Sholemay Ltd Trading… 3 brothers, London. 4 lettered brand

3) Sponsor of “Delivery Man Award’..MLB

4) Book ‘Grit, Guts and Gumption’ by Rajesh Chakraborty. About which PSU?

5) BOCTATOE- But Of Course There are Obvious Expectations…. Philostainment. Terms by whom?

6) Nike ‘SB’ …range for new Trend..for new area..indulgence/sport. Expand SB

7) Only Indian to feature in the eighties…BBC show… He is from the world of Tata

8) Visual- ‘Write Something’… Headquarter of which company?

9) ‘Digital Domain’… global filmmaker. Who?

10) Victorian Novel… Mr. Jarvis Lorry…a Clerk at Tellson’s bank in London. Which book?

11) Dec 31, 1970.. ‘Tonight Show;…Last cigarette commercial, which brand?

12) Bag with a ‘RF’ Logo

13) 1st book…series…Mysore based..Indian thought publication

14) Pumice, Chlorine.. Rifle Jeans

15) Locomotive- allegorical to Queen Elizabeth 1…Kitson Thompson & Hewitson for East India Railway

16) Book cover… “The ___________ way’

17) Type of wine…all the grapes froma specific year

 18) Hitchcock cameo… model for a newspaper ad.. 3 options given

Man who knew too much, Psycho, Lifeboat

 19) ‘The watch that made dollar famous” … Hint: Mahatma Gandhi

20) Pic – Pankaj Advani ‘Take the cue’

21)  More than 100 million missing…1990

22) Silver coin ..mint..estd there in 1612..during EDO period… name this upscale area

23) Famous place ..Int’l financial centre .. ‘Fragrant harbour’

24) Copyrighted ‘Seal Team 6’..which company?

25) 1984…RS Kamath… Icecream..fruits

Tata Crucible Pune Corporate Quiz 2011

Pune Tata Crucible Corporate Quiz 2011

Courtesy: Samrat Mukherjee

External Winners: Samrat Mukherjee & Team- DCB Bank

2nd-e-clerk

Internal tata Track

Winners: Tata chemicals

2nd: Tata Motors
Teams on Stage-CTS, e-clerk, john deere, Amdocs, Pickleminds-Ravi Handa, DCB bank

Prelims 

1.”Garv Se Kaho Ki Hum Kanjoos Hain”- This is a quote by which famous businessman. Future Group
2.”Wear The Pants”- tagline of which brand. Dockers
3.Which famous businessman led the restoration of Statue of Liberty by the private sector in 1986 on request from Ronald Reagan. Lee Iacocca
4.The online game “Urban Thrill” is owned by which company. Reckitt Benkiser
5.Demi Moore spends around 36000 dollar per year on this particular product for grooming her hair.Which product. Evian
6.This famous chain of environment friendly cosmetic products collaborated on working for the safety of whales.Which company. Lush Bodyshop
7.Which famous fashion designer claims direct desendence from Scottish poet Robert Burns and opened his first store under the name The People’s Place. Tommy Hilfiger
8.Identify this personality. Amit Mitra

9.The MTV movie awards are designed after what? Grammy Awards Popcorn Awards
10.Which bank became the first bank to achieve 1 billion dollar in assests in 1919. CITIBANK
11.What is FILOFAX.
12.”Inside Magic Kingdom” is a book based on which company. Disney
13.This company was founded in 1953 in collaboration with Oerlikon Machine Tools Works, Buchrle & Co., Zurich. Aftab Rai was its first MD. Which company. HMT
14.This company which had about 40% market share in wireless handset market recently renamed its music and maps offering service to the name of the company. Nokia re-branded Ovi
15.The first colour TV in India was produced by which company. Videocon
16.Identify this famous strategic consulting guru. Ram Shriram

17.This company was founded by Alvin B Philps, a Motorola employee in 1970.It rapidly became a speciality semiconductor maker. Its first product in the market was WD1402A UART. Western Digital
18.What does NEO stand for in the Airbus A320 NEO planes which have been recenlty been in news for being ordered by Spicejet.
19.This is what the website of this corporate enitity says about its logo- New Engine Option
“As a corporate entity, our new logo reflects our new mission… smoother, seamless, and efficient, whichever way you look at it.” Which entity. BSE
20.Identify the logo. NABARD

21.Apple filed a patent infringement lawsuit on this company over a product for it being similar to its Ipad in design. Which product. Samsung Tab
22.What do you call a person who is a minority investor in a private equity fund or a venture capital fund. Limited Partner
23.This company had about 80% of the market share in gaming but its fortune dwindled once it came up with a game based on the movie E.T. Atari
24.FreshHome, Birds & Blooms and Best You are some of the magazines from which famous publishing house. Reader’s Digest
25.Which prime minister led the nationalization of banks in India in 1969. Indira Gandhi

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External Track-Finals

Round 1

  • 1) Special Drawing Rights
  • 2) Sunglasses concept US army
  • 3) Apron while operating patients
  • 4) 3rd hand smoke
  • 5) I-Mark in India, like G-Mark in Japan
  • 6) Schneider electric

Round 2

  • 1) EPFO logo
  • 2) Pic of Dupont
  • 3) Jitendra pic- 30+
  • 4) Shriram group cover- bankcruptcy
  • 5)Book cover..Killer co…Matt peacock- banning of Asbestos
  • 6) What’s common to baidu, youku.com

Tata Round

  • ION- Chief Artichect- Chandrasekharan
  • Tata chemicals- Africa tie up- Olam
  • Taj- hotel tie up

Connect

  • 1) Home brew computers, Apple
  • 2) Donear
  • 3) Hyosung
  • 4) BJN

 

Last round-3 clue

  • 1) Born in Kenya….Francis D Souza
  • 2) Tropicana

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Tata Crucible 2011 Corporate Guwahati Quiz Questions

 

Tata Crucible 2011 Corporate Guwahati Quiz Questions

Courtesy: Mridul Kalita and Others from the ‘Assam Quiz Association’

http://www.facebook.com/groups/assamquizassociation/

Guwahati prelims

1.Why Nike took back its shoes in1996?
Islam Controversy
2.What prize is given for impossible projects?
Ignobel

3.Name the leading brand founded in 30s(?) has elaphant as its logo?
Boroline

4) What brand can u relate wid operation golden flow?
Dhara
5) there was a qsn on green revolution

6) The Gods Must b crazy part 1- the story revolves around an empty coke bottle thrown off an empty coke bottle thrown off a plane

John Pemberton’s statue in Atlanta

 

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Tata Crucible 2011 Corporate Quiz- Hyderabad Prelims & Finals

Tata Crucible Corporate Quiz 2011 – Hyderabad Prelims

1. To whom did Balasaheb Pant Pratinidhi, ruler of Aundh Saunsthan donate land to establish a factory and subsequently a town?  LAKSHMAN RAO KIRLOSKAR

2. Three commercial banks authorised to issue HK DOLLARS? Two are bank of China (HK) and HSBC, who is the third?  STANDARD CHARTERED

3.  Two separate boutiques that Pierre Cardin divided his house into in 1959. He tried Trademarking them, but couldn’t as the words were too common. He quoted “I would like to believe that this was the genesis of a lot of fashion and advertising trends”? ADAM and EVE

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Tata Crucible Corporate Quiz 2011 – Hyderabad Finals

1. What is Rachet Effect

2. Who is a 99er

3. What is the difference between Vintage Champagne and a Champagne according to french laws

4. Question on origins of 360 degree appraisal

4. Abbreviation of Chinese auto company, BYD

Build Your Dreams

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Tata Crucible Corporate Quiz 2011 Jamshedpur Prelims & Finals

Tata Crucible Corporate Quiz 2011 – Jamshedpur

1) She set up Vidya Bharati Shikshan Prasarak Mandal, an educational institute which runs a chain of schools and colleges in Western India. Which female Indian citizen? Pratibha Patil
2) Which brand has launched a merchandise called SUBSTORE? Subway
3) With which organization would you associate Antrix to? ISRO
4) Identify this logo.

Android OS
5) For which entity is Anand famous? Amul
6) Which brand of shoes was common for Pele, Lothat Matheus, Diego Maradona?
7) What was introduced by French engineer Louis Réard and fashion designer Jacques Heim in Paris in 1946?Named after an Island. Bikini
8) Identify.

Ingvar Kamprad
9) An Italian brand of scooter manufactured by Piaggio. It has evolved from a single model motor scooter manufactured in 1946 by Piaggio & Co. S.p.A. of Pontedera, Italy—to a full line of scooters and one of seven companies today owned by Piaggio—now Europe’s largest manufacturer of two-wheeled vehicles and the world’s fourth largest motorcycle manufacturer by unit sales. Vespa
10)Which metal gets its name from the Roman God of trade? Mercury
11)What analysis was named after this Italian gentleman?

Pareto Principle
12) Which game means “number place” ? Sudoku
13) Ownership has changed many times, past owners including the Scottish publisher A & C Black, Horace Everett Hooper,Sears Roebuck and William Benton. The present owner of this Encyclopædia. is Jacqui Safra, a Swiss billionaire and actor. Brittanica
14)Who is psephologist? One who analyses election results
15) Yahoo mail logo’s name- LIAM
16)What is a Japanese for “FAIL SAFE”? Pokayoke
17)Tiger Airlines is a part of which airlines? Singapore Airlines
18)He was a Scottish-American industrialist, businessman, and entrepreneur who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. He was also one of the most important philanthropists of his era. Also founded a famous institution. Andrew Carnegie
19) Google doodle on whose birthday?

Jules Verne

 

Some questions from the final round:
1) Which place witnessed fall in real estate prices and was named after Major James Abbott? Abottabad
2) Only LUX model to become a Chief Minister? Jayalalitha
3) Who was born as Rama Krishna in Haryana and started Patanjali Life Sciences? Baba Ramdev
4) Identify this personality after whom a bank was named. Salmon P Chase

 

 

 

5) John Harmsworth designed something in distinctive green bottles. The shape was that of the Indian clubs Harmsworth used for exercise. What? Perrier

6)The face was airbrushed.Which first male model of Christian Dior? Zinedane Zidane


7) Which unlikely agency designed a game, Moonbase Alpha, for kids? NASA

8) Name the brand that’s connected to this painting.

Godiva Chocolates [ Lady Godiva]
9) Connect on Firefox
11) Connect on RBI governors
12) Connect on Mobile Operating systems
13) Connect on ITC products
14)Connect on apple
15)Connect on AR Rahman
16) What new product is TVS King? 3-Wheeler
17)Which brand gets its name from sandal and turmeric? Santoor

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Tata Crucible Ranchi 2011 Finals questions

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For prelims questions, go here.

Round 1:
1.Ridge to valley , Nirbhay Bano
Whose books are they? Anna Hazare

2. Statements about a personality:
Shahnaz Hussain

3.Which term Benjamin Disraelli used in his book…?
Dark Horse

4. W recession . What is it?
Double dip recession

5 Movie maker produced 40 documentaries etc..  Identify.
Edison

6.Meaning of Auturkey
Self sufficient countries. No export import

Round 2:
1.Oryx FM radio channel:
Al Jazeera

2.Duo photo:
Saatchi and Saatchi

3.Stride shift chewing gum logo . What’s so special?
Changes flavour while chewing

4.photo
ATM gold vending

5. Pencil sketch photo of house fetched huge in recent auction identify:
Adolf Hitler

6.Photo Indira Gandhi handing something to a Sikh person
Ist maruti launch

Tata Round

1. Indian One’s new name
Ginger hotels

2.Trak it software
Tata motors GPS tracking system of trucks

3. Tata chemical new salt;
Samundar se

4. Bonsai manager
R. Gopalakrishnan

Connect round.

1. photo
logo song

sequioa capital

2. Mike jatania photo
Wipro logo
photo of a model

Yardley

3. Kapil Dev
logo
Emran Hashmi song
Microelectronics

Action shoes

4.Reagan letter
other3 clues cant remember

Levis

Final round;

1. History of a product
Rim Playbook
cracked in 3rd clue

2. History of a retail company
Woolworth
cracked in 2nd clue

3.History of an organization
:YMCA
cracked in 3rd clue

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Tata Crucible Ranchi 2011 Questions – Prelims

 

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Tata Crucible Ranchi 2011 Questions – Prelims

Courtesy: Debabrata Chowdhury

1. Which iconic store was opened on 14th December,1905 with active support from Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Manmohandas Ramji?

2. What was devised by Luis von Ahn, Manuel Blum, Nicholas J. Hopper, and John Langford (all from Carnegie Mellon University) that we invariably see on any e-commerce website today?

3. Which online yellow page website did VSS Mani, a chartered accountant, start in 1994?

4. Identify the logo. Flipkart

5. In 1907, a French chemist developed a formula called Aureole. This led to the establishment of which company?

6. Which firm has designed the new Hero Moto logo? (It had also designed the Tata logo.)

7. Which RCB player endorses Fastrack and Herbalife?

8. Identify. [Shibulal of Infosys]

9. Which management theory on cost control was first propounded in 1984 in a novel featuring Alex Rogo as the protagonist?

10. Which brand of battery does P & G sell?

11. Which airlines’ member lounge is called Maple Leaf?

12. For which apparel company did this legendary photographer create memorable advertisements?
Oliviero Toscani

13. What is the terminology for the acquisition of another company using a significant amount of borrowed money (bonds or loans) to meet the cost of acquisition?

14. Which brand name is derived from the combination of the German word for water (Wasser) and the Greek word for oil (elaion)?

15. Which IT company does Francisco D’Souza head?

16. Identify the TV channel from the logo. Geo TV of Pakistan

17. This company was founded by Henry Nook in 1772. Apart from inventing the ‘screw less lock’, this company later diversified into the manufacture of firearms and swords. How do we know this company today?

18. Which company made the ballot boxes for the first general election of India?

19. Who is 2nd in Time magazine’s 2011 list of Top Abusers of Power?

20. Identify the person (the surname will do). Gitanjali Kirloskar

Ranchi finals posted here

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Tata Crucible Kolkata Final (External) 2011

Tata Crucible Kolkata Final (External) 2011

Courtesy: Anirvan Bhadra

 

GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE

1. Brand held by Nestle now – founded by a baker in Chicago in 1970 based on a famous fictional character – Willy Wonka

2. Tim Berners Lee thinks which part of the web to be totally unnecessary and would change it if he had a chance to go back in time? double slash in http://

3. Economics funda – theory regarding average tax rates affecting tax revenues and revenues falling off after a breach of a certain tax rate – Laffer Curve

4. Group of journalists were called to USS Wilson off Manila – PR exercise – Funda? Ship used to bury Osama at sea

5. Long question on establishment of Jamestown in the Carribean. Funda? Slave Trade

6. 1846 – Irish immigrant – Marble Dry Goods Palace – new retailing strategy popular today – What? Fixed Price

PICTURES

1. Book cover of ‘Fistful of Rice’ – Author – Vikram Akula

2. Mohan Meakins Coat of Arms – Flagship brand? Old Monk

3. 150/- coin shown – released to celebrate 150 years of the tax departments – whose face is on the flip side? Chanakya

4. Picture of a colorful wagon – whose logo – Wells Fargo

5. Poster of a documentary on graphic design with all the alphabets – name of the movie – Helvetica

6. Newspaper pic of Project Gernonimo war room (Osama raid) – what was special about the pic – mentioned Jew paper – Women were photoshopped out of the pic

CONNECT

1. Word – ‘Seamhas’; Map shown; coat of arms; song having Saif – CHIVAS REGAL

2. Body Shop posters, Anita Roddick family picture, Dia Mirza song

3. Connect on Wella – Bipasha song, picture of Kanagawa wave which influenced the logo

Last round had questions on Kiosaki of Rich Dad, Poor Dad; Naming and facts about Gurgaon; Funda about Ramnath Goenka.