Prelims and Finals questions via Anirvan Bhadra
- Indian Raliways – premium production unit named after a patriot who defended Aurobindo Ghoshe in the Alipore Bombing case? Chittaranjan Locomotive Works
- Coco Chanel’s LBD was first released in which magazine? Vogue
- Exceptions to which theory related to business – 1989 US Panama invasion; 2008 South Ossetia War; Nato Strike on Serbia etc. – Golden Arches Theory
- Rajendra Pawar – new chairman of which organisation – showed the pic of Harsh Manglik – did not name him? NASSCOM
- Adman worked at Clarion Mackann and publicity division of Air India – now designs clothes for his wife’s labels with the name of ‘Kotwara’ – name of his house in Lucknow? Muzzafar Ali
- MD of BigDaddy Productions – owned by Indian sports celebrity – part of a celebrity couple – Mahesh Bhupathi
- Junior, Standard, AP, Super are brands of Porsche – which product category? Tractors!!! Best Question
- RED – Real Estate Destination – which company’s brand – HDFC
- Which auto company has all its brands ending with an ‘O’ and with which brand did it recently make this change? VERITO/LOGAN
- Which management guru changed the rules of baseball leading to pitchers throwing overarm rather than underarm – father of scientific management – Fredrick Taylor
- Religious text publisher (Hindu) – Gorakhpur – Jaya Dayal Goyandaka – 1923 – Sanatana Dharma principles – GITA PRESS
- Pic of a mascot in yellow with a small h on its torso – auto brand whose all communication is yellow based – mascot for their new dashboards to help their passengers – HERTZ
- Armani Casa – description of products sold by them – what is casa translation – HOME/House
- Japanse digital imaging solutions company – direct competition to Xerox – own OCE based in Netherlands – CANON
- Which brand ran a NAME GAME for finding the name of its new logo for its customers – final shortlist was Hug/Curve and the chosen name – WAVE/Airtel
- Pics of Yuvi and Dhoni holding man of the series and man of the finals trophies of WC 2011 – Name their desginer – SWAROWSKI
- History of Traf-o-data – Paul Gilbert and 2 men – name them – history of a start of a large corporation – MICROSOFT
- That calls for a ————–? Beer brand – earlier positioning was ‘Probably the best beer in the world’ – CARLSBERG
- Earl——— former landscape gardener worked for Dupont founded what – TUPPERWARE
- Management Guru pic – Gave talks in Jamshedpur and Kolkata – was not present physically for these talks – SETH GODIN
- Latin America – HARLISTAS? Who? Harley Davidson riders
- Person started vodka to compete with Grey Goose – failed – said his vodka got fired – Donald TRUMP
- TENVIC – whose sports + education initiative – KUMBLE
- Divya Yoga Mandir and Patanjali Trust run science camps? Who – BABA RAMDEV
- Prosearch Consulants run by 2 IIM A Alumni couple – Anita the wife – Husband – HARSHA BHOGLE
Cutoff for TATAs – 14 on tie break and Non TATA 15
ROUND One – CROSSWORD
1. .CH whose domain name – Switzerland Funda – Confederation Helvetica
2. Lt. McCready – Rayban
3. ‘Pitch Invasion’ – Book chronicling which 2 brothers business life – Dassler Brothers
4. Scurry Award Winner – 2010 Change Leadership award for creating a new category – GINGER Hotels
5. US Ambassador to India (1961 – 63) – Galbraith
6. Project Pink by Microsoft – KIN mobile phone
ROUND Two – PICTURES
1. Picture of Mid Summer Cut Price Sale at Indian City which inspired Big Bazaar’s sale strategy – HIGGINBOTHAMS
2. Picture of Marathi Daily cover – Founded by BAL THACKERAY
3. Predecessor to L’EQUIPE holds which event – TOUR DE FRANCE (L’Auto)
4. Logo of SILK AIR
5. Prince Arthur – 3rd son of Queen Victoria – Something in India named after his title – CONNAUGHT PLACE (Duke of Connaught)
6. Ratan Tata pic – Inauguration of TATA MEDICAL CENTRE
CONNECT
1. Logos of MICROSOFT products – Silverlight/Visual Studio/ProSynth or something like that
2. Pictures of all yesteryear heads of ITC
3. All brands of Britannia- Timepass/NiceTime/
4. Pictures of magazine covers of MAN and The Week and Radio Mangoes – MALAYALAM MANORAMA
One round with MCQ – Pick the wrong one – very basic questions
One good nuggett – NRN Murthy declined the offer to be IT Adviser to Guv Arnie!!!!!!
BUZZER
1. ‘Out of Crisis’ – Author – Big name in QC – DEMING
2. HQ called Bush House – BBC
3. Full form of RS in Skoda RS – Rally Sports
4. Farokh Engineer/Kirmani/Kapil Dev were rejected – Pakistani picked finally for what? CINTHOL (Imran Khan)
5. Jasper & Jinx????? – TOM and JERRY
MJUNCTION and ITC Winners