Tata Crucible Corporate Quiz 2010-Cochin Finals

Courtesy: Anil Raghavan
1)Rene lacoste brand origin-funda on lacoste played like____ which led
to brand name
2)In 1820 jean jacques perot found a product based on joiners plane/razor blade
3)computer programmers writing pages of coding earlier days invented
something when they went back to terminal/login
4)john cover inspired to create this product on crowd control/stun gun
5)marcus fernandez in 2009 invented something
small,powerful,ferocious/mongoose bat6)book cover of bill quinn ‘how
— is destroying america/walmart
visuals of eiffel/samuelson
visual of cartoon promoting amaron batteries
8)kevin gilbertson from unicycle got the idea for-url shortening
90vetri park/by tatas–tower parking system
10)chennai superkings/sponsors/connect question
11)pic of dhoni/sakshi talwar serial/fresenius kabi-dabur(audience
prize for yrs truly)
12)hero of alexandria created the first model for vending machine to
dispense what/holy water
13)ipc292/milken test/hicklin test/detect pornography
14)wink&store /started by dc books
15)charles lachman gave rise to which brand/revlon
16)pic of gandhi/sukumar azhikode&song in the background/promoters of
khadi17)t600,t800,t1000–terminator series

regds
anil

Tata Crucible Corporate Quiz 2010-Pune Finals

Tata Crucible Corporate Quiz 2010-Pune Finals

Courtesy: Samrat Mukherjee

WILDCARD ROUND

1)      Which brand changed its positioning recently to ‘Your Move’?

Ans- Reebok

2)      In the range of sunglasses, what does M in MDG stand for? (DG-Dolce & gabbana)

Ans- Madonna

3)      Baby Shop. Iconic brand. Lifestyle stores

Ans- Landmark Group

4)      Tech support of stores- ‘Genius Bar’

Ans- APPLE

5)      Record label- SICO Music headed by

Ans- Simon Cowell

6)      Deccan Queen became the 1st train to be offered what?

Ans- ISO certification

7)      In 1984, this country’s govt.- celebrated 450th anniversary of Canada’s discovery- Kirk Soleil

Ans-Quebec Group

8)      Vice chairman of TCS

Ans- S Ramadorai

9)      Darjeeling tea. 1st in India to get what?

Ans- GI

EXTERNAL TRACK

Round 1

1)      Demonstrated at Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia. Emperor Alcantara-‘To be or not to be’ –Line 42 in Hamlet

Ans- Telephone- Alexander graham bell

2)      He accepted the Webby award with the speech-‘Every character counts. Thank you.’

Ans- Jack Dorsey of Twitter

3)      This was created at Sun Shadows in 1956. Titled ‘Million dollar quartet’- Johnny Cash, Jerry Lewis and the most famous being..

Ans- Elvis Presley

4)      He is acknowledged by the world as architect of bi-racial trade house. Opium trade in China- burnt in England

Ans- Dwarkanath Tagore

5)      This sport popularized by David Attenborough in 1960s to explain superior aspects of color TV

Ans- Snooker

6)      How do we know the humanized version of the Turing test?

Ans- CAPTCHA

Round 2

1)      ‘Yaari Dosti’ Hindi print ad.

Ans- Durex

2)      Firm behind desi version of ‘America’s Next Top Model’

Ans- Red Chillies Entertainment

3)      Identify 2 companies in the logo

Ans- ADANI WILMAR

4)      Tic-Tac is a brand from which confectionary major.

Ans- Ferrrero Roche

5)       What started through these 3 cartoon characters

Ans- Kelloggs

6)      PEPSI A.M. Reason for branding.

Ans- Drink in the morning to get over a hangover

Round 3

1)      Which world leader in carbonated drink category- used the services of Tata Elxsi

Ans- Coca Cola

2)      What is the specific name of add-on package in Tata Sky having WB,MGM,TCM,Lumiere

Ans- Tata Cosmo Pack

3)      In June, Croma Zip opened at which International airport

Ans- Delhi

4)      Scandia & Arvind Group- Agent to handle tableware marketing in North india

Ans- Tata Ceramics

Round 4

1)      Ja-Ri Corp., Cristiano ronaldo ad, product pic

Ans- Amway

2)      Jump the q, prahlad kakkar,

Ans- Kyazoonga.com

3)      WOW, IKNO, Capstan, krazzy 4 song

Ans- ITC

4)      V3, 20-20, Signore Felice ____,

Ans- PARLE

Round 5

1)      Started in Chicago-1928 with a battery eliminator

Purchased patents for automatic radio. Gets current name from William Lear

World’s 1st walkie talkie in 1940

Ans- Motorola

2)      Instrument-1930s – radio comedian Bob Bruno – inventor 20 yrs. Earlier

Portable anti-armor rocket launcher

Ans- BAZOOKA

3)      Started in 1899 by Swiss, English and Catalan men- Joan Gamper.

In its domain- revenue of 365 mill from its 2008-09 season

Ans- Barcelona

Tata Crucible Corporate Quiz 2010-Coimbatore Prelims

Tata Crucible Corporate Quiz 2010-Coimbatore Prelims via CQC

1.in 1932 which newspaper was started ,free press journal and the founder delivered the newspaers himself by van?-Indian Express
2.inventor of an improved stock printer?called the Universal STock printer?T.A.Edison
3.Which brand is associated with the tems “Thedapan”,hindi for crookedness?kurkure
4.Man of the 20 the century?by FICCI-Dhirubhai Ambani
5.full form of OLPC?one laptop per child
6.Which brands visiosn is “to organize the worls information and make it universally accessible and useful?-Google
7.who advocate the policy of Employee First customer second(ECFS) and the book was released by Harvard press?Vineet Nair [Edited]
8.Brand which deals with role reversal between man and monkeys?Alpenliebe
9.Captain Gopinaths Autobiography?Simplifly
10.A pharma giant with an APIS BULL in the logo and the largest producer of Insulin,two danish companies merger?Novo Nordisk
11.US army developed Multi Purpose wheeled Vehicle?Humvee
12.Which brand was used a germicidal during the plague?Lifebuoy
13.What product has the Bhavani region got a GI for?Jhamakalam / carpets/blankets
14.A photo shown of the evolution of World wildlife fund(WWF) logo?
15.Ananda Vikatan magazine mascot?? photo shown
16.photo of CTS President and CEo-Francisco d’souza was shown?
17.Ram Charan -management Guru ,author photo was shown?
18.Pontiac Logo shown
19.Vinai thaandi varuvaiya-movie still shown and distributor asked to identify?red Giant movies-udaynidhi stalin
20.Finger print shown and this newspaper is coming into coimbatore recently?Times of India.

Thanks, Ashok (Arul).

Winner:

The Chennai Silks, Yogesh Pai and Arul Saravanan

Runner-up

Bureau Veritas : Kalai Selvam and P Saravanan

Tata Crucible Corporate Quiz 2010-Guwahati Finals

Galileo-devised instrument-prototype.. seismography
Thermometer

D Mehra-rupa

cartographer-wooden..fall..dismantled
jigsaw puzzle..john

french co. eugene – loreal

2nd round
pic-priyanka chopra..with a guy.. not jack dorsey
ans twitter

tribute to MJ, year of birth and death
Staedtler

3rd Round-Tata
1st public monument-electrified
Taj hotel

tata steel + sail
metaljunction
Q’s on Tcs

Serve urself-
ginger

4th Round- Connect

one gram, one component, Song
maruti

levi strauss pic, Song
levis

Logo, KILB, CEO Pic, Irrfan Khan song
Aegon Religare

Final round

pic- oscar troplovitz
nivea

denis compton,
brylcreem

hilton young commission
RBI

Tata Crucible 2010- Corporate Quiz- Ahmedabad

Complete Quiz questions- Courtesy: Samrat Mukherjee

Tata Crucible 2010 Corporate Quiz Ahmedabad

Winners: ITC-Anindya Sen

Runner Up: – Thermax
Other Teams on stage- IBM, Triton communication, Vodafone, Endeavour careers

Cut-off 11, Highest 14

Prelims:
1) Fundamental principal of any economic activity is that no man you transact with lose,then you will not.
This is from the work from the PM of Mauryan empire. Which book?

2) Gentically modified foods also called… It comes fromt he comic character , Victor____________

3) From French word for hook, velvet

4) Which French entrepreneur was the 1st to fit a pneumatic tyre to a motor car in 1895

5) Term used to describe neither bullish nor bear

6) What two words would connect “Much sort after enterprises which a bidder/also company wishes to acquire” connect to a

tower of london

7) Salary was original given to roman soldiers to buy what?

8) What in USA originally stretch from Trinity Church to east river

9) What was started by St Pranlal Denakaran naji

10) wHAT WORD did P&G drop from olay in 2000

11) Born in Sadalpur village, in Chiru district of Rajasthan, he is presidently non-exec dir of GS and ICICI bank, EADS.

12) 1938, while working with DU Pont, Roy Plunkett

13) Where would u find a circular annexe known as Rotunda, which was built in year 1992

14) World’s 1st collegiate business school, 1881, and is a brain child of Philadelphia entrepreneur.

15) Patented in 1906, this apparatus was originally intendede for machinery and industrial purposes. This person who patented

this, also defined the word cool.

16) Pic- R K Shanmugham chetti

17) David Ogilvy-pic

18) Tower kinda pic.. Ovi map from?

19) Producer of peepli live

20) Pic of a ship..sinking…Titanic is unshinkable.
Ad campaign by which insurance co.

Ans:

1) Arthashastra, Chanakya

2) Frankenstein

3) Velcro

4) Michelin

5) Chicken

6) Crown Jewel

7) Salt

8) Wall street

9) DENA

10) Oil

11) L N Mittal

12) teflon

13) BSE

14) Wharton

15) carrier

18) Nokia

19) Aamir khan

20) Iffco tokyo

Finals

1) phrase-1800 in us which describes unscrpulous, product at attractrive price, but in reality it is not
Bait and switch

2) japaenese term which means money clique- used to describe 4companies, Kawasaki, Nomura..
Zaibatsu

3) In jan 2008, despite great resistance, they adopted Voleru Fuerte,..kind of inflation concurrent currency
Venezuela

4) Gold vending Machine, Abudhabi, German entrepreneur

Liquid bullion

5) Stride, 4 year old brand from cadbury..introduced a chewing gum stride shift. This
chewing gum was inspired by 1971 movie, willy wonka choclate factory.

flavour gets better..more u chew

6) Ludhiana based co.is the sole supplier of buns to MCds.
Cremica

2nd round

1) Book cover- ‘Startup nation’ The story of ___________ economic miracle by Dan Senor and Saul Singer.
all was in blue… start up nation..above flag
Israel

2) Logo shown- old identity of BOB

3) small factory pic. Two brothers one location.
Dominoes

4) Pic shown. Street is named after him, which houses a famous building.
London stock exchange- St Nicholas Throb martin

5) Pic of Nandan Nilekani sitting with a person. What is happening here?
Head of LIC- Lic is providing the data base

6) Zain logo

3rd round- Tata

1)  Tata Sky’s Active English mainly aimed at housewives who feel uncomfortable talking in English is a partnership with?
British council

2)  Meri Dilli Meri Yamuna campaign initiated by the Art of Living Foundation to clean the ghats of Yamuna. Which co. behind it?
NDPL

3) Poltrona Frau Group of Italy, Jv with Tata.. Furnishings

Casa Decor

4) Weathermaker- subsidiary of
Voltas

connect

1) preity zinta, deepika padukone, unity is our strength
BSNL

2) Bipasha, Mahindra flyt
kinetic

3) Dlf logo, pic, MEL,
IPL- pic sundar raman

4) Preity zinta, funda mint, club spice, force 10
Godfreyphilips

1) Touring, softel, dyna, sportster

5% from iconic logo

1921, ridden by otto walker

Harley davidson

2)  11 sep 1961, founded in Morgus, in switzerland

WWF- fund

3)  Trick and Treat
UNICEF

Tata Sky’s Active English mainly aimed at housewives who feel uncomfortable talking in English is a partnership with?

Tata Crucible 2010-Corporate-Quiz-Jamshedpur

Tata Crucible 2010-Corporate-Quiz-Jamshedpur

Courtesy The official quizzing Club of BIT Mesra http://qbitmesra.blogspot.com

1) Which word in the current business world what is derived from latin for “patere” meaning to lay open?
2) Which retail giant is Asda in UK and Seiyu in japan?
3) The chairman of Mahindra and Mahindra landed up in trouble because of his association with Bhopal Gas Tragedy?
4) Logo of

5) Who according to forbes is the richest African American ?(hint:a lady from entertainment)
6) Which antiseptic cream was started by launched in 1929 in Kolkata by GOUMOHAN DUTTA a Bengali merchant?
7) Which organisation has the catchline “edge is efficiency”?
8) Signifies what


9) Who designed the logo MRF tyres?(very famous in advertising)
10) Amitabh Bachchan has lent his voices to many ads..(but its has always been sung by voice-likes).The first ad he sang was for a company in 2009.which company?
11) Which ketchup company had a tagline “weight watchers”?
12)

He came up with a publishing house(with a cute name) and changed from hard bound covers to paper back.which company?
13) What resulted Maastricht treaty in the year 1992?
14) Which clothes brand often mistaken as an international brand actually is an INDIAN
Brand known as Charlie clothing company initially? Is publicised by the symbol K
15) Which calendar started in 1964 was brought as a sensational one by one of very famous tyre companies?(the tyre company even wanted to patent the smell of the tyre manufactured by it)
16) What is this a joint venture of Microsoft and HP called

17) Logo of google wave
18) Kamasutra is a 50:50 joint venture between 2 companies. One is J.K ANSELL pharmaceuticals.the other??
19) Which Indian online travel company started online holiday reservation packages with a DESIRE to bring people back home to India?
20) Photo of

1) Patent
2) Walmart
3) Keshubhai Mahindra
4) Samsonite
5) Oprah Winfrey
6) Boroline
7) BSE
8) Silk mark
9)Alyque Padamsee
10) Humani navratna tel
11) Heinz
12) Penguin publishing
13) Euro
14) Koutons
15) Pirelli
16) Slate
17) Logo of google wave
18) Raymonds
19) Aarzoo.com
20) Photo of C.B bhave

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