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1) The founder of a famous brand said this about what, ‘This is a fresh animal, shy, vivacious, jumping. First it smells you, then it escapes, then it comes back, and you feel like caressing it, playing with it.’?

A) Playboy Bunny by Hugh Hufner

2) Identify the advert of which country to promote tourism?

A) Romania

Tata Crucible Corporate 2014 Chennai Prelims and Finals

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5. [Bronze] He is claimed to have developed the first practical fountain pen, Ornoto in 1881, and is now in an altogether different line of work. Who?

A. De La Rue

6. [Bronze] Vodafone in 2009 received the first PETA India Glitter Box Award. Why?

A. For using the ‘ZooZoo’ creatives and stopping the use of the pug dog (seen in the Hutch ads).

7. [Bronze] In 1813 was one of the first recorded descriptions of sailors’ uniforms by Commodore Stephen Decatur. What specific item?

A. Bell bottoms

Tata Crucible 2014 Corporate Gurgaon Prelims and Finals

Q1) Charles Revson of Revlon found inspiration into the idea of segmentation of markets through the practices of an automobile giant. Which enterprise?

A) General Motors

Q2) FITB: Hutber’s law states that _____________ means deterioration. Continuous _____ means.

A) Improvement.

Q3) Patricia Campbell, grand daughter of a newspaper magnate?

A)William Randolph Hearst

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Tata Crucible Corporate 2014 Ranchi Prelims and Finals

1. For this post, Rs.15000/- is deposited with RBI. Rs. 1.5lacs is the salary but $3.8 million is spent per annum for this post. T.N. Seshan & P.A. Sangma failed. Which post?

A. President of India.

2. Co-branded products with Ferrari; Name is the latin word which means acute, sharp, able & facile. Which company?

A. Acer

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5. Dennis Gabor invented something in 1940s which was widely relevant in India last year.

A.Holography

6. HMS Birkenhead capsized in 1852, this has led to a protocol which is still is followed all over the world.

Allowing the women and children to board the life boats first.

7. She is Rebecca Webb Carranza, someone who invented/popularized something that is liked by all. What?

A. Tortilla Chips

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Tata Crucible 2014 Corporate Coimbatore Prelims and Finals

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3. Some predictions suggest the amount of oil present here could be 200 billion barrels, far more than Kuwait or Abudhabi. Though it is extremely difficult and at the moment, prohibitively expensive to extract oil here but its important to predict what the global economy will look like in 2048, when the protocol banning exploration comes up for renewal. Where?

A. Antartica

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6. What is common to Suzuki market in Melbourne, Huaxi Street market in Taipei, Sat bazaar in Arpora (Goa), Chiang Mai market in Thailand, Ratchada Bazaar in Bangkok and Yua Tei (Temple Street in Hong Kong)?

A. Night Markets

7. What term is claimed to have originated from an NBC documentary in 1944 due to the phenomenon of children being left home alone becoming common due to and after WW II , when one parent would be enlisted into the armed forces , so the other would have to get a job?

A. Latchkey Kids

Tata Crucible Corporate 2014 Delhi Prelims and Finals

Q1) Famous rapper behind Bad Boy Entertainment, Blue Flame, and Justin’s restaurants. Who?

A) Puff Daddy (Sean Combs)

Q2) Started his career as a professional lawyer and in 1951 joined All India Radio as a journalist. He edited a famous weekly thereafter. Who?

A) Khushwant Singh

Q3) C. Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics at Cornell and is currently on Leave. He is a proponent of development economics and is the Chief economist at a place right now. Who?

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Q2) Who is the Bollywood actress behind the “Dark is Beautiful” campaign?

A) Nandita Das

Q3 ) Which Indian company bought a 26% stake into Indonesian coal miner Baramulti?

A) Tata Power

Q4) Liberty Teller is a start-up associated with?

A) Bitcoin ATM

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Tata Crucible Corporate 2014 North Zone

Q5) Studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at Brasenose College, Oxford, gaining a first-class honours degree. Director of Corp Affairs for 7 years at Carlton Communications. Employed for 3 months as a ship jumper at Jardine Matheson. Resigned from corporate career in 2001 to fight for Parliament. Who?

A) David Cameron

Q6) Founded in 1828 as multinational risk advisor, insurance brokerage and reinsurance group. In 1898, merged with Faber Bros and later in 1928, merged with Duminy and Wylce. The company in 2009 got the naming rights to famous property in the US. Which?

A) Willis Towers

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TATA Crucible Corporate Quiz 2013 Chennai Finals (TATA Track)

Via Madanish Kanna

TATA TRACK FINALS

Symbol for a brand.. – called omni – etc etc – KAPPA
Highly caffeinated – citrus taste – coke – march 1979.. competition to mt dew. à MELLOW YELLOW
Film co owned by disney. .—etc – MIRAMAX
Internet magazine – unique list – franchise 500 – the entrepreneur
What change did BJP change in the budget from british raj – timing of the budget

2^nd round

VIRGIN airline – remembrance of steve jobs.. blanked out what – STAY HUNGRY STAY FOOLISH
Ancient characters named yahoo – pic
J Mehta – pic.. ID
Print ad.. – NIVEA – CIVILIZE YOURSELF
Roney jesus print ad – nike
Pic – jeff taylor – monster.com

3^rd round

TCS – CBFL – adult literacy
AGRICO – from TATA STEEL
Hotel used same as SANOI – TAJ kunnur
Quite supplier of crockery to rastrapathi bhavan – tata ceramics

4^th round

Irene Rosenfeld – Kraft
Fist full of rice – vikram akula
ChineseYuan bond – DIMSUM
Thanda matlab cocola – Prasoon Joshi

5^th round

Delivering lifestyle – rocket entertainment – jabong
Worked for CIA & NASA –Snowden
Willaim Rosenberg – Dunkin donuts

Tata Crucible Corporate Quiz 2013 Chennai Finals (External Track)

Via Madanish Kanna

1^st round

1. Ted turner during one of his famous speeches – mentioned that “there would be 2 things in the future that would make all happy”. ID the things
Mobile phones & aeroplanes

2. Greece govt- ancient – during wars – inorder to lower the expenditure, what specific idea did they follow – origin of BYOD – Bring your own device
3. Who runs/owns the hotel chain called LAYA, sister entity of SOBER Islands.. ?
SRILANKAN army
4. Bandev mittal – 1961.. started sweet shop, also a BAJAJ dealer.. what is he famous for now?
Lovely professional univ, Punjab
5. WANALO – social site for online shopping…funda on name?
Want Need Love..
6. What is Nokia Life tools used for?
FARMER SMS tool

2^nd round

Child hold pic of Kiran Mazumdar shaw – ID
Pic of an auto like tuk tuk.. whats so special of it?? Its official vehicle for ITALIAN PRESIDENT
Queen of time – London, id location – Self ridges
Logo of ZAIN telecom
Six flags.. theme park.. n USA.. explain funda on name? its in texas and texas was under six diff govts previously
Polska 1000 currency note – Copper nicus

3rd round

Indian hotels – INDI
Titan watch named after a word.. – Japanese..- Tycoon
Flavoritz.. what product..- tata salt
Tata LOG.. funda

4^th round

Steve jobs + TOPCOM à GLADWELL
FREE PRESS India + PREMIER padmini car + a logo à walchand hirachand
Apprecentice + mid summers night dreamà play boy mansion

5th round

Hamilton, prat & witne, wind power-UNITED TECH
SCALP care, hand book- HEAD & SHOULDERS
Founders name of BLUE STAR.. given..

Tata Crucible Corporate Quiz 2013 Navi Mumbai Finals

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Final round Questions (it’s not framed)
1.Hugh Hefner..500$-Marilyn Monroe
2.Dented 5 in Mobile phones-Concept introduced for blind People
3.Silver shortage led to-currency notes
4.A club sandwich in Thailand- Body Massage
5.Michelin Guide
6.Bitter lemon

Visuals
7.Milton Plastic
8.Shakuntala Devi
9.Satish Babu -Emi on phone

Tata Round
10.Taj Vivanta …call new employees Viva (Girls) & Aviv (Boys)

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Tata Crucible 2014 Corporate Chandigarh Prelims Finals