connect Archives - Page 6 of 8 - The Business Quiz

Tata Crucible Corporate 2011- Kochi- Questions

Tata Crucible Corporate Quiz 2011- Kochi- Questions

Winners: Arun Thomas Abraham and Ranjith K Wilson ( Malayala Manorama )

Runners ups- Vishal Vighnesh and Arun Kumar (Swadisht Foods, Bangalore)

———————————————————————————–——————————–————————————————————————

TBQ Classic: Set of 310 quizzes (each Set with 10 questions)- Rs. 7875/-Frequency: 5-6 sets of questions per week on an average. Mail us at thebusinessquizATgmailDOTcom for more info.

That’s not all. We are now offering TBQ Classic Archives. Lucky, you folks are. 1050 questions in one shot. Rs. 3725/- only.Mail us at thebusinessquizATgmailDOTcom for more info.

——————————————————————————————————–————————————————————————

For some of the finals questions, click here.

For prelims questions, head to Rohit Nair’s blog.

Tata Crucible Primer – Tata Question #1

This company dates back to 1764 when a young Scot named John set foot on the shores of Mumbai. In search of a living, John was destined to lay the foundations of the company in India. The port of Mumbai had already gained renown as the doorway to India. It was in this background that a young Scot walked the deck of the trader ship, the ‘Asia’, carrying with him fifty bolts of canvas as merchandise.

In 1903, it merged with Ritchie Stuart & Company. In 1957, the Tata group came in when a bulk of its stake was divested.
In 1992, <<<A>>> Campbell & Company was amalgamated with <<<B>>> Patel Volkart, and was rechristened as <<<AB>>>. In 2001, the Tatas exited this company. Name it.

———————————————————————————–——————————–————————————————————————

TBQ Classic: Set of 310 quizzes (each Set with 10 questions)- Rs. 7875/-Frequency: 5-6 sets of questions per week on an average. Mail us at thebusinessquizATgmailDOTcom for more info.

That’s not all. We are now offering TBQ Classic Archives. Lucky, you folks are. 1050 questions in one shot. Rs. 3725/- only.Mail us at thebusinessquizATgmailDOTcom for more info.

——————————————————————————————————–————————————————————————
Answer: <<<AB>>>= Forbes Gokak | Forbes & Company

———————————————————————————–——————————–————————————————————————

TBQ Classic: Set of 310 quizzes (each Set with 10 questions)- Rs. 7875/-Frequency: 5-6 sets of questions per week on an average. Mail us at thebusinessquizATgmailDOTcom for more info.

That’s not all. We are now offering TBQ Classic Archives. Lucky, you folks are. 1050 questions in one shot. Rs. 3725/- only.Mail us at thebusinessquizATgmailDOTcom for more info.

——————————————————————————————————–————————————————————————

WikiLeaks’ Brilliant MasterCard Commercial Parody

#Incaseyoumissed 🙂

Tata Crucible Corporate Quiz- 2011- Schedule

Source: Tata Crucible Official Website

What?! Not yet a TBQ Classic customer?! The whole world s buying. Don’t be left out. Buy TBQ Classic.

TBQ Classic: Set of 310 quizzes (each quiz with 10 questions)- Rs. 7875/-

Shoot us an email at thebusinessquizATgmailDOTcom if you wish to know more. We are open 24*7.

Biz/Infra Quiz 4 Questions- Samvit School of Infrastructure Business

Samvit School of Infrastructure Business

Building Blocks-Quiz 4

1) Had you been to Ankleshwar in the late ’80s, you would have met a gentleman running a textile sizing unit, under the name Sulzer. Which businessman’s early story would you connect this to?

Ans: Tulsi Tanti
The Suzlon Group commenced its operations in the year 1987 when Sulzer Synthetics Pvt. Limited set up a sizing unit in Ankleshwar.

2) A question on a common observation.
While travelling on trains, you would have seen a yellow board that says W or W/L. What do they stand for? Clue: No, Waitlist is not an acceptable answer.

Ans: Whistle/Level Cross(ahead) or Whistle
The train whistles after the driver sees this signal.

3) How was the company, popularly known as the Extension in the late 1800s, known officially as?
Clue is within the question.

Ans: EasternExtension,ChinaandAustralasiaTelegraph Company

4) What in Lucknow was built by a company that traces its roots to the gentleman in this picture?

‘Ans: Lohe Ka Pul
Pic: William Jessop of Jessop & Co.

5) This company started selling something at Re 1 in 1899 inCalcutta. The price of this ‘commodity’ inLondonwas also something similar during this time period. What was thus sold to the people ofCalcutta?

Ans: Electricity, Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation Limited

6) Connect these images

Ans:KrishnapatnamPort

Krishnapatnam is a port town in Muthukur Mandal of Nellore District, the southernmost coastal district in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India. The history says that Vijayanagar Emperor, Sri Krishnadevaraya operated this port, hence the port was named as Krishnapatnam Port. The port operated small boats through BuckinghamCanal, which runs behind the port and was used as a waterway for transportation between Chennai in the south andKrishna river delta in the north. Later in 1960’s iron ore was exported by wooden boats from this port and in early 1980’s Government of India declared this port as a minor port.

Krishnapatnam Port logo and Navayuga Engineering Company’s Logo (They own the port)

7) Identify this building. Clue: It’s inIndia

Ans:ChandigarhAssemblyBuilding

8) Which Chennai based institution was formed as per the recommendations of the report shown in the image below?

Ans: IDFC

9) Connect these two personalities. The former saved the latter.

Ans: The Bailey bridge is a portable pre-fabricated truss bridge. It is named after Donald Bailey. Army built a Bailey Bridge after a CWG bridge collapsed.

10) What built in the Pir Panjal range by a Alfred Kunz and C Barsel between 1954 and 1960, was lauded as an infrastructural marvel?

Ans: Jawahar Tunnel

Biz/Infra Quiz 3 Questions- Samvit School of Infrastructure Business

Samvit School of Infrastructure Business

Building Blocks-Quiz 3

Q1) Lutyens wanted the full courtyard of Rashtrapathi Bhavan to be seen from Vijay Chowk. Viceory Lord Hardinge, along with another architect, who was working with Lutyens, dismissed this as an expensive idea. The friendship between the architects ended thus. How do we know this battle?

Ans: Bakerloo or Battle of the Gradient

http://www.forbes.com/2007/06/20/072a.html

Q2) Connect.

Ans: Aswan Dam

a) Aswan Dam-

b) Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein-president of Egypt after whom the reservoir of the dam “Lake Nasser” is named.

c) High Dam Burg Memorial Wall, Aswan, Egypt

d) Logo of Arab Contractors Company which was involved in the construction of the dam

Q3) Connect these images to a material.

Ans: Maraging Steel

Pic1- Adolf Martens
Pc-2 PSLV rocket- it uses this steel
Pic3- fencing blades- uses this steel
Pic 4: Used in golf club heads

Q4) This celebrated Indian author’s father-in-law played a major role in building Delhi. Along with the author’s father and others who were contractors, the father-in-law amassed a lot of wealth from this project. Name the author.

Ans: Khushwant Singh
Father: Sobha Singh
FIL: Sardar Bahadur Teja Singh Malik, Chief Engineer of CPWD

5) Claim to fame?

Brazil has smashed Chile’s record by completing the world’s largest Lego tower.
The tower erected at a Sao Paulo shopping center — reaches a height of 102 feet and 3 inches, breaks the previous record set in Santiago by 25 centimeters (9.84 inches).

6)Connect

Ans: Autobahn

Pic1- Hitler shoveling the earth for the ceremonial groundbreaking, his entourage of top Nazi leaders looking on. Dr. Todt grins behind him.

Pic2- For his work on the autobahnen, Hitler awarded Todt with the German National Prize for Art and Science. The award was a replacement for Nobel Prize which Hitler forbade Germans from accepting in 1936

Pic3- Alfred Nobel

Pic4- The First Reich Autobahn (RAB), From Frankfurt am Main to Darmstadt ( photographed in 1935)

7) It’s called Vembanad. This has put Nehru in the back seat. What?

Ans: Vembanad- India’s longest railway bridge (8.86km), inaugurated recently.
Till recently, Nehru Sethu over River Son (3.065 kms) was the longest rail bridge in the country.

8) This mining town and the PSU that operates out of the town are named after an animal, its face to be specific. Though the said animal is nowhere present in the area, the area is rich and is known for a lot of other species. Name the town.

Ans: Kudremukh

9) Identify

Ans: Kiran Grandhi- GMR

10) But laid in two years, O! man.

Make a 7 word phrase

Rome Was not built in a day

Biz/Infra Quiz 2 Questions- Samvit School of Infrastructure Business

Samvit School of Infrastructure Business

Building Blocks-Quiz 2

1) Identify the brand and the company. Clue: Talk about diversification!

Ans1: Sobha Restoplus Mattress

Original Ad:

2) Connect.

Ans2: Krupp (or Thyssen Krupp)

Images: Krupp’s logo

ChryslerBuildingwas built using steel from Krupp

Big Bertha howitzer named after Bertha Krupp, manufactured by Krupp

Iran’s coat of arms-Iranonce owned over 25% stake in Krupp

3) Connect

Ans3: DP World

Images: UAE flag and reef knot are the constituents of DP World logo

DP World owns P&O, whose flag is shown. Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem is the Chairman of DP World.

4) During war-time, we see army vehicles from across the country being taken on trains to border areas. How do we better know this hitchhiking?

Ans4: RORO – Roll On Roll Off

5) Connect

Ans5: Dum Dum airport

Sir William Boog Leishman- who identified the causative parasite of Dumdum fever, now known as Leishmaniasis/Kaala Azar. This fever is named after the place, Dumdum.

DumDumAirportis now named after Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose

Dumdum bullets, named after the place.

6) The year was 1919. She sat listening to her husband (Pic) about how his new venture needed money to make payments and explore newer areas in business. The little she could do was to offer her wedding ring. She did and he reluctantly accepted the offer. Her husband used the ring and that was a small beginning, as they say. Identify this couple in a Bollywood-ish incident. Also, name the company.

Ans: Erle and Vida Halliburtons| Halliburton

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0314-08.htm

7) Connect

Ans: BrooklynBridge

Emily Roebling (pic), along with her husband Washington, took over building theBrooklynBridgeafter the death ofWashington’s dad, John A. Roebling (image on stamp). The last image describes- Panic stricken people on theBrooklynBridge, May 30, 1883.

Ken Burns directed an Oscar nominated documentary on the bridge.

8) Connect

Ans: Ajinomoto Stadium

Tokyo Verdy and FC Tokyo are based out of Ajinomoto Stadium. The painting depicts a Japanese Tsunami. The stadium is being used as a refugee camp now. Dr. Kikunae Ikeda is the man behind the company, Ajinomoto.

9) A QuarrellingLotDead.

Unscramble to get an expensive shape.

Ans: Golden Quadrilateral

10) Connect

Ans:Grand Trunk Road

Images: Chandragupta Maurya- initiated the work.

Sher Shah Suri-carried on the work.

Kipling’s Kim is set on this road. The road is from Chittagong to Kabul. Poster is of Kabuliwala.

Biz/Infra Quiz 1 Questions- Samvit School of Infrastructure Business

Samvit School of Infrastructure Business

Building Blocks-Quiz-1

1) On 8th November, 1908, Sir Louis Dane wrote a note indicating that Suni and Badu gorges were favourable sites for a new project. Though a detailed report was submitted in March 1910, the project took off much later-post independence. What did Sir Louis Dane propose?

Ans1: Bhakra Nangal Dam

2) On his return to Scotland in 1783, John purchased an estate at Sauchrie, Ayrshire, and started experimenting with a new method of road construction. When he was appointed surveyor to the Bristol Turnpike Trust in 1816 he remade the roads under his control with crushed stone bound with gravel on a firm base of large stones. A camber, making the road slightly convex, ensured the rainwater rapidly drained off the road and did not penetrate the foundations. Who was he and what did he invent?

Ans2: John MacAdam , the man behind MacAdam Roads

3) If you go in search of Selangor Turf Club in its original site, what would you find today?

Ans3: Petronas Towers

4) They went to the same school and then joined the same company: F L Smith and Co. The company sent one of them in 1933-1934 to India to set up a cement factory in Coimbatore. The other guy joined in 1935. They set up a cement factory which later went on to be part of ACC. These men formed a partnership in 1938 and started importing and later manufacturing dairy equipments. What began thus? And who were these gentlemen?

Ans4: Holck-Larsen and Soren K Toubro or L&T

5) What was founded by A S Bhathena in 1966 as Wanson India Ltd?

Ans5: Thermax

6) This community migrated from Rajasthan to Saurashtra in early 7th century AD and would have probably contributed the most to India’s railway infrastructure development. They were pioneers in the laying and construction of line and bridges for the railways in hundreds of projects. Name the community?

Ans6: KGK- Kutch Gurjar Kashtriya

7) Unscramble this to come up with a name of the current head of a company, son-in-law of the founder.

AH! PINK SLUSH GAL

Ans7: Kushal Pal Singh

8) Connect these images.

Ans8: Willington

1) Lord Willington- former Viceroy and Governor-General of India.

2) Cochin Port Trust -Logo-

Willington Island was created from material dredged from the formation of Cochin Port.

It was named after him.

3) The Willingdon Sports Club- founded by him

4) Scene from Tintin in Tibet

The scene happens at Willington Airfield (later known AS Safdarjung Airport)-this is mentioned in the strip.

9) Connect these images to a major infrastructure project.

Ans9: Mumbai-Pune expressway

1) Pula- PL Deshpande, Author. Mumbai -Pune Expressway was earlier to be named after him.

2) It is named after YB Chavan

3) MSRDC -runs the expressway

4) Konkan Railway built the tunnels on the expressway

10) Connect these images to a company.

1) Logo of Indus Towers

2) Pasupati Seal from Indus Valley Civilization

3) Constellation Indus: Indus, an Indian holding a spear and arrows

4) Bharti owns 42% of the venture, 42% with Vodafone-Essar and the rest with Idea (Aditya Birla)

TBQ Classic Sample #5

1) In the spring of 1846, Moses Yale Beach (1800-68), publisher of The New York Sun, established a pony express to deliver news of the Mexican War. His pony express carried dispatches ahead of the Great Southern Mail from Mobile to Montgomery, Alabama, where the mail coaches carried them 700 miles to the nearest telegraph point near Richmond, Virginia. In offering an equal interest in the express venture to the major New York City daily papers (four of whom accepted), Beach effectively organized this institution. Name it.

Ans: The Associated Press

2) The idea to form one company out of a union of various construction and engineering firms came from Harry Morrison of the Morrison-Knudsen construction firm of Boise, Idaho. Morrison had forged a profitable working relationship with Utah Construction and decided they, too, should be in on the Black Canyon — as it was called at the time — project. Added to the mix was Charlie Shea, a seat-of-the-pants builder of tunnels and sewers.
Half a million was just the amount Shea pledged toward the performance bond. Along with his colorful and boisterous personality, Shea possessed the necessary skills and connections to further the project. He enlisted the interest of the Pacific Bridge Company and Felix Kahn of the San Francisco firm, MacDonald and Kahn. Meanwhile, Harry Kaiser, an ambitious young road builder from Oakland, California, and his mentor Warren A. Bechtel, a powerful old-line San Francisco contractor had become interested in the project. Kaiser’s experience in the working world extended back to when he dropped out of school at age 11. The elder Bechtel had developed an admiration for Kaiser’s work ethic and drive. It was Bechtel who suggested that he and Kaiser join forces with the alliance being formed by Harry Morrison. Felix Kahn coined the name for this alliance.

It was constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression, and was dedicated on September 30, 1935.
Name the structure and the alliance.

Ans: Hoovers Dam | Six Companies

Want more such questions? The TBQ Classic subscription is for you!

Mail us at thebusinessquizATgmailDOTcom for more info.
——————————————————————————————————–————————

TBQ Classic Sample #3

1) Identify this international agency that was established on November 10, 1999 after a scandal rocked Tour de France. This agency was the result of the initiative taken by IOC to convene a conference, first of the kind, in Lausanne in February 1999.

Identify the logo.

2) An Electrical Engineer from Kerala, Kalyanaraman was working as a junior engineer at Batliboi in Mumbai when the entrepreneurial bug bit him. Soon he was a small distributor of ‘Vape’, a brand in a niche category. Later, he started a venture which launched its flagship brand in 1984 with a tie-up with Sumitomo Chemicals of Japan. This company and its brands were later acquired by Godrej. How do we better know this personality who is behind Shogun Organics and Shogun Films, a movie production company?

From Left to Right: Padmarajan(Malayalam director), Nitish Bharadwaj, Kalyanaranan

3) Which group traces its origins to 1783 when James founded a sugar cooperage and brokerage at 23 Harp Lane in the City of London? In 1784, the company won the exclusive contract to supply rum to the Royal Navy (a franchise the Company retains until 1970). In 2000, the company demerged its the agricultural commodities business and is now amongst the world’s largest providers of hedge funds and alternative investment solutions.

Want more such questions? The TBQ Classic subscription is for you!

———————————————————————————————–——————————–
TBQ Classic: Set of 310 quizzes (each quiz with 10 questions)-
Rs. 7875/-Frequency: 5-6 sets of questions per week on an average.
Mail us at thebusinessquizATgmailDOTcom for more info.
——————————————————————————————————–————————

Ans1: World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)

The scandal was a doping scandal. The conference: First World Conference on Doping in Sport

Ans2: R Mohan or Goodknight Mohan -the man behind Goodknight mosquito repellents.Vape was a mosquito repellent mat brand. The venture was called Transelektra Domestic Products.

Ans3: Man Group founded by James Man