TBQ-Tata Sample#6

1) On April 22, 1948, Dr. SP Mukherjee, the then Min. of Industries & Civil Supplies launched the first Telco first road-roller named ______?

2) Titan Industries Ltd recently launched the first of its small format retail stores. It was launched in Chennai. What’s it called?

Ans1: City of Delhi
Ans2: Titan One
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[Announcement] TBQ Current Affairs for prelims

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TBQ Current Affairs for prelims: 3 sets of 165 questions each covering recent news and current affairs from the world of business:national and international-Rs.2250. Set 1 will be mailed immediately on subscription.

Obligatory questions:

1) Who is being sued now by Hairtech International Inc for breaching her contract to wear and promote their product when she wore the extensions of a competitor in 2008.

2) It has come up with a new campaign, ‘Freedom to Touch’ to create awareness about its new hand sanitizer. To start the campaign in Mumbai, the ‘Freedom to Touch’ van was flagged off by actor Raveena Tandon and Dr Anjali Shetty, consultant microbiologist, Hinduja Hospital. Which company

3) Which company launched VFR1200F bike in India recently?

Ans1 : Paris Hilton

Ans2: Godrej Protekt

Ans3: Honda

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1) Godrej Protekt

TBQ-Tata Sample#5

Here’s a set of 2 questions. Want more? TANSTAFL, folks!
1) This brand was the brainchild of P T John. John won the confidence of Jal Nowroji, during a short voyage and persuaded Nowroji to accept his idea. Which brand came into being due to this meeting?
2) This soap brand was launched in 1931 by J.A.D Nawroji who himself chose the brand name. Which brand from TOMCO are we talking about?
Ans1 : 501 soap- the TOMCO factory in Ernakulam was started
Ans2: Hamam

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TBQ-Tata Sample#4

Now that Tata Crucible dates are out, let’s focus on the Tata group. Here you go.

1) This TVC was shot around the Nashik countryside in Maharashtra by advertising film-maker Kunal Kapoor of Adfilm Valas. Rediffusion Dentsu Young and Rubicam Pvt. Ltd is handling the creative advertising account.The television commercial will have the same positioning as the print campaign with the tag line “Now You Can.” . Which Tata brand?

2)With which company has Tata Steel entered into an agreement to run three daily charter flights between Jamshedpur and Kolkata?

3)Which footbal club has signed a three-year agreement with the Tata Football Academy (TFA)? recently? The club is nicknamed ‘The Blades’ because of its history of steel manufacturing.

And 2 questions from the group’s history.

4) Name the Tata company that was renamed  as Tata Business Support Services in March 2008.

5) This company began in 1920 as Gahagan Paints and Varnish Co. Ltd at Lower Parel. From 1976 to 1999 it was part of the Tata (Tata Forbes) group. Which company?

Ans1: Nano
Ans2: Deccan Charters
Ans3: Sheffield United Football Club       (SUFC)
Ans4: SerWizSol
Ans5: Goodlass Nerolac Paints Ltd(now Kansai Nerolac Paints Ltd.)
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Tata Crucible 2010-Corporate- Schedule

The dates have been announced. Good luck one and all.

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TBQ-Sitters Sample#2

1)This car was designed as communist East Germany’s answer to the people’s car-Volkswagen Beetle, and rolled off assembly lines in November 1957. The name meant “fellow traveler,” and was named in honor of the Soviet Union’s earth orbiting satellite “Sputnik,” which was launched the same year. Which brand ?

2) “Hydrate responsibly”. Which brand says this?

3) His production company was named The Malpaso Company, after a creek that ran through some property he had purchased in Carmel, California.
Malpaso is the Spanish word for “bad step” or “misstep”. When he agreed to take the role of the Man with No Name in the now classic “Dollars trilogy” his agent told him that it would be a “bad step” for his career. And so he chose this ironic name for his company. Who?

Ans1: Trabant
Ans2: Glacéau
Ans3: Clint Eastwood

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TBQ-Tata Crucible Quiz-Current Affairs-Sample-4

Today’s questions. Straight from news.

1) Identify this company that has filed for bankruptcy protection.

Identify this company.
Identify.

2) “I was first forced into prostitution when I was 11 years old by a 28-year-old man,” she wrote. “I am not an exception.”, said MC’s open letter published as newspaper ads in August,2010. Against whom was this ad issued?

Ans1) Mexicana Airlines
Ans2) Craiglist’s ‘adult services’ section

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TBQ-Tata Crucible Quiz-AdWorld-Sample-1

Two visual from the world of advertisements. See if you can crack them.

1) Identify the advertiser.

Which brand?
Identify the brand.

2) Identify this personality.

Identify this creative genius.
Identify this creative genius.

Ans1: Sprite

Ans2: David Abbot of Abbott Mead Vickers (BBDO)

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TBQ-Tata Crucible Quiz-Current Affairs-Sample-3

Here are two current affairs questions.
1) Identify this personality.
Who is she?
Identify
2) The most valuable piece among the set is Andreas Gursky’s New York Mercantile Exchange 1991 photograph. Others in the collection include Gary Hume’s Madonna, a signed etching by Lucian Freud, and the ship Frankfield off Table Bay by Samuel Walters. Which collection?
Ans1: Cathie Lesjak, interim CEO of HP
Ans2: Works of art that adorned the Lehman offices. They are soon going to be auctioned off.

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TBQ-Tata Crucible Quiz-Current Affairs-Sample-2

Too much trouble viewing PDFs? Questions inline this time.

1)  “Pleased, But Not Satisfied” is written and published by – David Sokol who is long considered a possible heir to X.


This is what David has to say on M&A pitfalls: “Someone once said that when a man chooses the women of his dreams and proposes marriage, he does so with the expectation that she will never change. And when a woman selects a man for marriage, she does so after assessing all the things about the man she assumes she can change once they are wed….after the wedding, both realize their assumptions are incorrect.” Who is X

2)      The new consulting service is part of a general trend at Y to solve relevant problems faster. On July 29, Y launched a shorter-term contest that will serve as a model for its corporate contests. In this inaugural challenge, entrepreneurs are being asked to develop better technology to skim oil off of the surface of ocean water. The purse is smaller — the winner of the Challenge will get $1.4 million — and the competition will end in a year. What is Y?

3)      The franchise has been sold to a group led by Hall of Fame pitcher and Nolan Ryan and Pittsburgh lawyer Chuck Greenberg. This baseball team was owned by Liverpool FC Co-owners Tom Hicks & George Gillett. Name this team which was owned by a group led by former US President George W Bush in the early 1990s before he became governor of Texas.


Ans:


1: X is Warren buffett. Sokol is chief executive of Berkshire’s MidAmerican Energy Holdings , a large utility with $12.7 billion in annual revenues and 16,800


2: Y is ‘X Prize’  and  the X Challenge,


3: Texas Rangers Baseball team

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