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TBQ-Tata Crucible Quiz-Current Affairs-Sample-14

1) This retailer will start selling Facebook Credits gift cards soon and will be the first brick-and-mortar store to offer the cards. Name the store.
2) A question-and-answer service from Google was launched less than two weeks ago in Hong Kong and China. Apparently, this site has been blocked in China now. Name this service.

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Ans1: Target
Ans2: Wenda
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Tata Crucible Quiz Bangalore- Corporate 2010

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 Quiz Chennai- Corporate 2010

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

TBQ-Tata Crucible Quiz-Current Affairs-Sample-13

Who is rumored by TechCrunch to be putting $100 million into Pandora- the online music station

Ans:Elevation Partners, the venture capital firm most famous for its rockstar co-founder, Bono,

Which Indian footwear major has tied up with Israel-based Runcom Technologies to offer WiMax mobile broadband and communication services?

Liberty group

TBQ-Quickie#2

This independent non-profit, is working with Coca-Cola to open their distribution channels in developing countries to carry ’social products’ – oral rehydration salts, high-dose vitamin A, water purification tablets – to save children’s lives. Name this organization.

Ans: Cola Life

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TBQ-Quickie#1

1) Which company has announced that it will fully acquire Bangalore-based Premier Tissues India for a consideration of Rs 76.52 crore, a deal that will make it the largest player in the domestic tissue paper market?

Ans: Ballarpur Industries (BILT)

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TATA Crucible Quiz Corporate Hyderabad 2010

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)

1. What was originated via the partnership of scientist Samuel Ruben and businessman Philip Rogers Mallory, who met during the 1920s. A famous brand connected with photography.
2. Li Ka-Shing, the Hong Kong based business tycoon, was referred to as which famous comic character?
3. United Artists was founded by D. W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and who else?
4. What version of Band-Aid was specially developed keeping the Indian market in mind?
5. Who is the ET Global Indian of the year 2010?
6. What is the name given to the system of financial incentives designed to keep an employee from leaving the company?
7. Who was the master of mint in England in 1717?
8. In the early 1900s, what did a New York socialite by the name Mary Phelps Jacobs develop?
9. What is the name given to a stock market crash where the loss is in excess of $ 1 billion?
10. What was established in 1972 by Air France “to provide a home away from home for its customers.”
11. Picture of Bindeswar Pathak
12. Pic of Capt Krishna Nair
13. Logo of Natwest Bank
14. An ad for Jockey
1. Duracell
2. Superman
3. Charlie Chaplin
4. Turmeric
5. Ram Charan
6. Golden Handcuffs
7. Newton
8. Bra
9. Flash Crash
10. Le Méridien

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TBQ-Tata Sample#7

1) The Pepsi project began in India in 1985 when Pepsi-Cola International submitted a proposal to the Indian government, which immediately rejected it. Pepsi then joined with a state-run company, Agro-Industries Corp., and the privately owned Tata Group. What was the name that was decided earlier for Lehar Pepsi?

Ans1: Pepsi Era
Extra: It was changed because Era wasn’t considered sufficiently “Indian.” The action cost Pepsi $150,000 in bottle fees.

2) Identify this brand. Absolute sitter.

Identify.
Identify.

Ans2: Moti Soap

3)The event was started in 1996 with Gold Flake as the title sponsor and in 2002 the Tatas became the title sponsor. Later,during the 2005-2009 period TN Govt. sponsored the event. Now, Aircel is the title sponsor. Which once coveted Tata ‘property’ is being discussed here?

Ans3: Tata Open, now Aircel Open

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