Business Quiz conducted on Twitter- @Kweezzz

 Business Quiz conducted on Twitter- @Kweezzz – Oct 16, 2011

1) Identify this brand endorser

2) Once, Bill Gates got to know about Job’s comment on being a Windows developer (iTunes for Windows) – “It’s like giving a glass of ice

water to someone in Hell.”  What did Jobs do to cool down Gates?

3) Identify this person/company. – Recent news for wrong reasons.

4) Evangelical Christians in Brazil felt that this symbol was connected to Satan and banned it sometime in 2010. What did they ban?

5) Identify these gentlemen from the financial world.

6) Identify the advertiser. No, not Surf. 😀

7) What’s this? And to whom was it sold?

8) What happened to a certain John Davis who responded to this ad?

9) Identify this PSU.

10) Barthelemy Thimmonier was one of the first successful developers of sewing machines. He was working on a major order using his machines and workers felt threat to their livelihoods. They attacked his factory. Who was Barthelemy’s client?

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Answers:

Ans1: Fauja Singh

Ans2: Gave him a glass of water

Ans3: Burrup Fertilizers & Pankaj Oswal | Accused of one of Australia’s biggest corporate frauds for siphoning an additional 113 million dollars out of his Burrup Fertilisers

Ans4: USB http://goo.gl/oovaA

Ans5: Henry Varnum Poor & Luther Lee Blake | Org: Standard & Poor’s

Ans6: Persil

Ans7: Henry Woodward’s bulb – sold to Edison

Ans8: Nothing happened. This was an April fool prank.

Ans9: Hutti Mines

Ans10: French Army (Uniforms)

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TBQ –361

1) One way authors can protect themselves from libel suits is to say that a character has a _______    _______.  No male is going to come forward and say, ‘That character with a very _______    _______, that’s me!’ Fill in the blanks. What’s this rule known as? (5, 5)

2) Oyu Tolgoi, or Turquoise Hill, is the world’s largest mining exploration project – it is even bigger than Florida. When development of this Copper-Gold mine is finished in a year or two, its output will account for more than 30 per cent of this country’s economy. Where is this located?

3) Who is a posturbator in internet jargon?

4) Peter Rehra is a vehicle assembled locally in just Rs 10,000, and is equally popular in both villages and cities. If in rural areas a motor pump used for drawing well water is used as an engine, then in cities an old Bajaj scooter engine gives it the necessary power to overtake you. Why is it called *Peter* Rehra?

5) Identify this organization that’s behind a huge infrastructure project.

6) Which company, founded by, Barry Sternlicht in 1995, is registered as HOT on the NYSE?

7) The names that came for ‘pick a codename’ votes for this product were so terrible that everyone was pretty happy when one of the leads overrode it and declared that the codename would be ‘_____’, presumably because he liked fast cars. When the  time came to pick a real name for the product before shipping, they ended up sticking with ‘______’.

They continued with the name because they were in love with it deeply, and more people in the team started associating it with fast cars. Another reason had to do with design terminology, where ____ referred to a set of parts of this category of products – and the product was focussing more on content, not on _____. Some cheekiness there. Which product is this?

8) Here’s a guessable one:

What did George de Hevesy do to the Nobel medals of German physicists Max von Laue (1914) and James Franck (1925) to save them from the inavading Nazi forces?

9) This is the name which the Philadelphia Police Department gave to a certain day, for the first time in 1966. It was not a term of endearment to them. It was named so as it usually brings massive traffic jams and over-crowded sidewalks as the downtown stores are mobbed from opening to closing. What’s the term? [There is an another popular explanation of the origin of the term.]

10) When this company was born in 1901 with an oil discovery in Spindletop, Texas, the primary commercial fuel was coal. The largest investor was William Larimer Mellon of the Pittsburgh Mellon banking family. It became one of the world’s largest companies before being purchased by Chevron in 1984. Before his death in 1949, William Larimer Mellon proclaimed the company to be “so big I have lost track of it.” Name the company.

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Answers:

Ans1: Small Penis Rule

Ans2: Mongolia | Though this project is recent, copper smelting used to happen from rocks here even during Ghengiz Khan’s times.

Ans3: Someone who posts content on the interwebz and ‘Likes’ it himself(on Facebook), views it multiple times to increase view count and so on.

Ans4: During the ’60s, Petter diesel engines were popular in Punjab were they were used for these Rehras.
Petter is the same company that gave rise to Westland Aircrafts.

Ans5: Yamuna Expressway Authority

Ans6: Starwood Hotels

Starwood Hotels is a fully integrated owner, operator and franchiser of hotels and resorts with seven internationally renowned brands, including: The St. Regis, The Luxury Collection, W Hotels, Sheraton, Westin, Le Meridien and Four Points by Sheraton, as well as Starwood Vacation Ownership, Inc., a premier developer and operator of vacation ownership resorts.

Ans7: Chrome (Browser)
In design parlance, Chrome refers to the toolbars, tabs and buttons.

Ans8: Medals were dissolved in aqua regia and later made and presented again

Ans9: Black Friday

The more popular explanation has to do with the colors of ink accountants traditionally used for noting profit and loss. A company “in the red” is recording loss, red ink being the traditional color for noting negative finances. “In the black” means just the opposite; thus the notion that Black Friday will force those bookkeepers to put away the red ink, and get out the black.

Ans10: Gulf Oil

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National Finals 2011 Tata Crucible- Semi Finals 1- Corporate Quiz

 

National Finals 2011 Tata Crucible- Semi Finals 1- Corporate Quiz

Courtesy: Samrat Mukherjee

1)      Designer of modern cubicles- Herman Miller

2)      Trend broken by Quest communications…listing in NYSE in 2000…Why were co’s shying away from ticker symbol Q? Q list : bankrupt co’s

3)      Origin of term..English bobbies..Performing certain act/crime…1st law 1863 in US-False claims act   : Whistle blowing

4)      Moody’s rating system (John published his manual etc)

5)      Quesn on designer of Volvo logo

6)      Health officials in Rajasthan gift to citizens for sterilisation..Tata Nano

7)      ½ a million followers , unit of following in Twitter , best described as “Geeky Hollywood actor”, 1st used by John Kovalik in 2009 : Will Veeton

8)      In the late 1800s , the most heavily traded stocks generally had a single letter ..Why?

To ensure transmission of message through tickers was fast enough

9)      Quesn on Moonstone (Afro Seline, Afrodyte from God of Love etc)

10)   Cartoon saying : He said that …..Buffet tax ..Obama says I did’nt , Buffet said

11)   Dear fellow citizens , I love my country etc: Howard Schultz

12)   Chicken tax : Full Bright

13)   Co logo Lindstrom :Cares for your image …Speciality ? Provides uniform management for military sector etc (Branded uniforms)

14)   Pic of person who conceptualised PGA…Dean Bemon (spelling may be wrong)

15)   Connect : Teesta Low Dam,West Bengal Assembley House,Supreme Court ,logo:Simplex

16)   Pic of NC Das..Rassogolla

17)   Pic of a Virgin flight..speciality ….1st to allow tweeting

18)   Pic of a road which says “Dreaming tree and Barn”…Walt Disney

19)   Quesn on Daimler (Mauser Rifles)

20)   Quesn on Scripps (spelling contest…tag line and logo)

The Brand Equity Quiz Classic 2011 – (Derek.in)

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The Brand Equity Quiz Classic 2011

1. “Ab-i-rawan” (Flowing water), “Baft-Hawa” (Woven air), and “Shabnam” (Evening dew) were a few poetic names for …
a) Persian perfumes
b) Persian carpets
c) Muslin
Ans: Muslin

2. What does Google call its new employees?
a) Newgies
b) Nooglers
c) Xooglers
Ans: Nooglers

3. When Arthur Heinman built the first ever motel in the USA, what appropriate name did he give it?
a) Highway
b) Milestone
c) Sleep over
Ans: Milestone

4. Who was the first female Fellow of the Statistical Society of London (now the Royal Statistical Society)?
a) Florence Nightingale
b) Marie Curie
c) Queen Victoria
Ans: Florence Nightingale

5. In 1889, they referred to themselves as “The ___ Brothers” for the first time, when they started their own printing firm at the ages of 22 and 18. Fill in the blank.
a) Wright
b) Warner
c) Lehman
Ans: Wright

6. Which is the first management book to reach the national best-seller lists in America?
a) The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
b) Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind
c) In Search Of Excellence
Ans: In Search Of Excellence

7. After being mesmerised by his acting of a drunkard, who renamed Badruddin Kazi after Johnny Walker?
a) Shammi Kapoor
b) Guru Dutt
c) Raj Kapoor
Ans: Guru Dutt

8. After Morarji Desai, which Indian finance minister has presented the maximum budgets?
a) Manmohan Singh
b) Yashwant Sinha
c) P Chidambaram
Ans: P Chidambaram

9. In 1939, Professor Alexandre Horowitz designed Philishave after being inspired by the shape of which bird?
a) Bald Eagle
b) Penguin
c) Kiwi
Ans: Penguin

10. Which icon did Art Paul create?
a) The Playboy Bunny
b) The Nirma Girl
c) The Lacoste Crocodile
Ans: The Playboy Bunny

11. Swarovski is to crystal what the brand Royal Selangor is to …
a) Cigars
b) Silver
c) Pewter
Ans: Pewter

12. Fill in the blank to complete this Peter Drucker quotation: “90% of what we call _____ consists of making it difficult for people to get things done.”
a) Marketing
b) Accounting
c) Management
Ans: Management

13. What did Nur Jahan portray on the coins that had her name on it?
a) Zodiac Signs
b) Her pet cat
c) A rose
Ans: Zodiac Signs

14. Fill in the blank to complete the Edward De Bono quote ‘ ______ is space for everything’.
a) Nothing
b) Internet
c) Mind
Ans: Nothing

15. In 1961, which logo replaced the ‘Speedee’ logo?
a) The Golden Arches
b) The Nike ‘Swoosh’
c) The Michelin Man
Ans: The Golden Arches

16. Architect Fariburz Sabha along with forty engineers and eight hundred labourers, constructed what at a cost of Rs 1 crore?
a) Bahai Temple
b) India Gate
c) Parliament Hose
Ans: Bahai Temple

17. ‘Operation Undersea’, the first show on Disney Channel was a behind-the-scenes preface on the making of which film?
a) Titanic
b) Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea
c) Moby Dick
Ans: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea

18. Lloyd’s of London have insured supermodel Heidi Klum’s …
a) Hair
b) Eyes
c) Legs
Ans: Legs

19. In December 2007, Air France became the first to offer _________________ on international flights.
a) Inflight personal valets
b) Robot assistants for differently abled people
c) In-flight mobile phone service
Ans: In-flight mobile phone service

20. Sunalini N Menon is India’s first woman …
a) Stock broker
b) Coffee taster
c) Beer brewer
Ans: Coffee taster

21. When Michael Bloomberg published his autobiography, what did he call it?
a) Bloomberg by Bloomberg
b) Son of Bloomberg
c) To B or Not to B
Ans: Bloomberg by Bloomberg

22. Barricade is one of the world’s largest selling brands of …
a) Tennis shoes. Manufactured by Adidas
b) Surfing boards
c) Men’s supporters
Ans: Tennis shoes

23. Which bank printed Thailand’s first currency notes?
a) RBI
b) HSBC
c) Bank of Thailand
Ans: HSBC

24. BrickFest is a convention for adult fans of which toy?
a) Lego
b) Barbie
c) G.I. Joe
Ans: Lego

25. To buy Radium, President Herbert Hoover presented whom with a bank draft for $50,000 in 1929?
a) Thomas Alva Edison
b) Albert Einstein
c) Marie Curie
Ans: Marie Curie

26. Which of these is officially available in only nine different sizes in India?
a) Basmati rice
b) National Flag of India
c) Newspapers
Ans: National Flag of India

27. The reverse side of Euro coins shows the denomination. What does the obverse side show?
a) Map of Europe
b) It is blank
c) National image
Ans: National image

28. Which industry remains the largest customer for robotics?
a) Automotive industry
b) Agriculture industry
c) Chemical industry
Ans: Automotive industry

29. In which Shakespearean work does the phrase ‘Neither a borrower nor a lender be’ appear?
a) Macbeth
b) Hamlet
c) King Lear
Ans: Hamlet

30. After which Indian is the Overall Award category at the European Case Awards named?
a) Sumantra Ghoshal
b) Amartya Sen
c) CK Prahalad
Ans: Sumantra Ghoshal

31. In 1914, where was the largest electric installation in the world done by GE?
a) Niagara Falls
b) Pyramids of Egypt
c) Panama Canal
Ans: Panama Canal

32. Which profession would you be in if you used a ‘pancake tutu’?
a) An Opera singer
b) A chef
c) A ballerina
Ans: A ballerina

33. Which brand name did Richard Branson choose to launch a range of condoms to challenge Durex?
a) Virgin
b) Intimate
c) Mates
Ans: Mates

34. In the 1960s, the marketing team at P & G consulted which book to come up with the name Pringle (chips)?
a) Telephone directory
b) The Bible
c) A dictionary
Ans: Telephone directory

35. The Asian fleet operating under the ‘Star Cruises’ brand is mostly named after …
a) Explorers
b) Zodiac Signs
c) Seas
Ans: Zodiac signs

36. Who became the first customer to deposit gold under the State Bank of India’s Gold Deposit Scheme?
a) Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams
b) Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board
c) Ashtavinayak Temple Authority
Ans: Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board

37. Which was the first company to offer paperless proxy voting to employee shareholders?
a) Xerox
b) Facebook
c) Microsoft
Ans: Microsoft

38. In 1950, because the president of a company refused to be on the cover of it, what appeared on the Time magazine?
a) Coke
b) Computer
c) Hydrogen bomb
Ans: Coke

39. Once, as a mark of appreciation, for what did Motilal Nehru award MS Oberoi with RS 100?
a) Best kitchen practice
b) Flawless typing
c) Most cleaned hotel room
Ans: Flawless typing

40. Plume is the official name of the paper that sticks out of the top of …
a) Hershey’s Kiss
b) Post-it Notes
c) Band-Aid
Ans: Hershey’s Kiss

41. What was promoted in India with the tagline ‘Daz doorstep challenge’?
a) Harpic
b) Vim
c) Tide
Ans: Tide

42. The first U.S. commemorative coin was produced in 1892 and featured which explorer?
a) Amerigo Vespucci
b) Christopher Columbus
c) Marco Polo
Ans: Christopher Columbus

43. Toggle, Selector, Joystick, Proximity are types of…
a) Electrical switches
b) Keyboards
c) Computer mouse
Ans: Electrical switches

44. Which designer created six flags for the 1995 Year of Tolerance for UNESCO?
a) Yves Saint Laurent
b) Christian Dior
c) Pierre Cardin
Ans: Pierre Cardin

45. In Bareilly district about 25000 families are engaged in manufacturing activities related to which type of type of embroidery work?
a) Zardozi
b) Kalamkari
c) Chikankari
Ans: Zardozi

46. Which is the first Indian company to be assigned the highest Corporate Governance Rating CGR1 from ICRA?
a) Wipro
b) Infosys
c) Tata Group of Companies
Ans: Infosys

47. Who has started the tradition of ringing the ceremonial gong to mark the listing of a company on the Bombay Stock Exchange?
a) Subhash Ghai
b) Azim Premji
c) JRD Tata
Ans: Subhash Ghai

48. Who among these was Lakme’s first model?
a) Parameshwar Godrej
b) Maureen Wadia
c) Tina Munim
Ans: Maureen Wadia

49. Who has developed the India centric management idea called ‘Theory ‘i’ Management’?
a) Sumantra Ghosal
b) CK Prahlad
c) Arindam Chaudhuri
Ans: Arindam Chaudhuri

50. Now what is the official trade name of ‘Simplo-Filler Pen Company’?
a) Cartier
b) Parker
c) Montblanc
Ans: Montblanc

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National Finals- Tata Crucible Corporate Quiz 2011- External Track

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Tata Crucible National Finals 2011 Corporate – External Track

1) Pics…Verna Saappaat….Finska… whose early shoe products?

2) Visual..Barbie… what?

3) Furr Bishop Inc..applied for this ticker symbol…but was rejected. which ticker?

4) Gauls …390 bc… a word came out of the warning…geese. Which word?

5) What’s so special about this http://goo.gl/D2971

6) Whose symbol?http://goo.gl/zEj29

7) Royal Dutch mint…what innovation on the coin?

8) Entry fee buy this firm…gave rise to a term…

Ans

1) Nokia

2) To choose her next profession as Computer engineer

3) FBI

4) Money from Juno Moneta

5) Guiness Book of records for Capital Gate – ‘World’s Furthest Leaning Manmade Tower’

6) Kosher

7) QR codes

8) Nickleodeon- Nickle

Round2

1) Pic-Rose variety…dedicated to?

2) Govt of Malta… 1 kg silver coin..dedicated to the ‘1st thinker’

3) Slates, Jackie, Tanner…What?

4) Logo  http://www.telluridefoundation.org/ why in news?

5) Schweppes Commander… what was his name?

6) Miguel Caballero only makers of designer wear of  what?

7) CrawDaddy. Who are behind it?

8) Explain http://goo.gl/Ze5rA

Ans:

1)  Kate Middleton

2) Mahatma Gnadhi

3) MGM Lions

4)  Rio Olympics 2016 logo controversy http://goo.gl/4gnWr

5) Commander Whitehead

6) Bullet Proof Vests

7) Cindy Crawford and Puff Daddy

8) Barbara Streisand Effect

Round 3

1) Raja Manmatha Nath Chowdhury…departmental store..Red and gold colour…

2) 1775…British Authority- Fort william… Kolkata…Pune..Ministry of defence. What?

3) Book ‘A D.Shroff (Titan of Finance and Free Enterprise) ‘ by whom?

4) Dhanbad…Board of Crisil… who?

Ans:

1) Colours of East bengal Club

2) Ordnance Factory

3) Sucheta Dalal

4) Deven Sharma

Round 4

1) Pic- Coin…gave rise to what?

Ans

1) Sher Shah’s coin… term-

2) Pic- parveen Bobby- endorsing what?

3) Advaith foundation. Who is behind it?

4) Pic – Identify http://goo.gl/x6h5A

Ans

1) Ruppee/Rupaiah

2) Bombay Dyeing

3) S D Shibulal

4) Badri Seshadri of Cricinfo

 

Round 5 Connect/lateral

1) Suprabhatam song… a painting, Shawl pic, Chillies, Tea leaves

2) Viva, Blue Frog, Divas Rock, music

3) Airtel, Song Buddham Sharnam…

4) Devil Wears Prada, Vogue, Tamara Mellon pic

Ans:

1) GI status ( Suprabhatam- Tirupati laddoos)

2) Taj Vivanta

3) India F1

4) Jimmy Choo

Audience qns

1) What are Moth parties?

Where people identify each other by Smell (perfume)

2) What is Viagratising

Where you put all your money ….

Last Round

1) Born 1968…IIT Kharagpur…Tata Steel

2) Born 1844… President of AIndian national Congress

President of  Indian Merchant Chambers. Who?

3) Assistant engineer…Bombay Govt service…Advocate of Private investment

Key member of TISCO-27 years ( resigned at the age of 93)

Mysore soap factory, Mysore Chambers Of Commerce

Ans

1) Arvind Kejriwal

2) Dinshaw Edulji Wacha

3) M Visveswarya

 

National Finals- Tata Crucible Corporate Quiz 2011- Tata Track

National Finals Tata Crucible 2011- Tata Track

Winners: JK & Sreekanth

1) TBWA Egypt..came up with this idea… to spread the message of rebuilding Egypt..Which brand was behind the campaign?

 2) In 2000… permanent internet connection… founded by Dries Buytaert… Dutch word for ‘Drop’. Which website?

3) 2002…Anirudh Bulwaka…manufacturing facility, Gujarat…2005-Trucks, Dentors. Which company?

4) It is a world leader in sports collectibles…Cricketatax..which company?

5) An alumni of Yale University, USA, he has also to his credit designing of such striking logos as of the Indian Airlines, ECIL, Airports Authority of India, Trade Fair Authority of India (Now ITPO), Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) to name but a few. Who?

 6) In 2001, The Sun, a British tabloid newspaper reported that Queen Elizabeth II has this in her bathroom that wears an inflatable crown. It was spotted by a workman who was repainting her bathroom. The story prompted sales of it in the United Kingdom to increase by 80% for a short period.What?

7) Hindi Term… Economist… What?

8) What’s TAC in Motorola’s dynaTAC
 Ans

1) Henkel Bril- To clean the city walls etc

2) Drupal

3) AMW

4) Topps…based on IPL…Cricketattax

5) Shri Binoy Sarkar

6) rubber duck

7) Jugaad

8) Total Area Coverage

 Round 2

1) Pic of Two guys…A term coined by them

2) What innovation by Pizza hut? http://goo.gl/LX7Xv

3) Who? http://goo.gl/4xDBU

4) Logo- MW

5) Pic Govinda restaurants

6) Pic Blue Box

7) Pic..Hitler, Bin laden, Zarqawi, Saddam & 2 founders

8) Graph- What is it? http://goo.gl/xdc2E

Ans

1) Business Process reengineering- Michael hammer, James Champy

2) Reverse count down timer on the box .. People behind thebike know how much time left for the delivery person to do his job

3) Gabriela Sabattini

4) Miss World

5) ISKCON

6) Tiffany’s

7) Time Magazine… only time when they have featured people with a “X” mark

8) Gartner Hype Cycle

Round 3- TATA

1) Logo… Powerfly- JV with capt Gopinath

2) Logo..offering from Taj- Jeeva Spa

3) Pic of a car- Tata Pixel

4) Riversdale- Tata sold the stakes to? Rio Tinto

 Round 4- Connect

1) Golden harvests, Divine Chants, Conversations, Amitabh Song

2) Pics- Stefi Graf, Gorbachev, James Bond Song

 3) DTC, Twist and Turns,  ‘for a special togetherness’

4) Astro, Amul, Song -Ek Do Teen (Madhuri)

Ans:

1) Tanishq

2) LVMH (Sean Connery)

3) Gitanjali ( mehul Choksy’s Pic)

4) Food Show

Round-5

1) BIL- Bhor Industries…1943 making Army … sold this to Pidilite

2) Book “Humankind’ by which ad agency’s  CEO?

3) Mocha & CCD- have a drink called Twister. Speciality?

4) TASIS on BSE- What?

5) Symonds Steven (??) invented this. What?

Ans

1) Steelgrip

2) Leo Burnett -Tom Bernardin

3) Colour of drink changes- AXE

4) Shariat compliaint

 5) Balance Sheet

 

National Finals Tata Crucible 2011 Mumbai- Semi Finals #2- Questions & Answers

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Winners:

Accenture – Rohan Khanna & Anish Raju

2nd- Savoir Faire

National Finals Tata Crucible 2011 Mumbai- 2nd Oct

Semi Finals -2

1) WW2…Cold war..International co-operation…Argentina, France, 14th May 1951… A strip

in Las Vegas  is a tribute to it

2) This Internet radio company…2000..Music genome project…2011 IPO

3) Invested in Vallares…with Rothschild…

4) New design chnage in Boeing… what innovation?

5) Sandy Bridge..all names must be from existing Geos

6) Vince Camuto…. Gerome Fisher driving along.. sign post..direction symbol

7) Jalandhar based- Apeejay Surrendra… how does it get its name

8) Mine…heavy clouds..gorge..walls..More than 2%… “Flying Prospector”

9) 1970…rural india transportation…Jagjivanbhai Karsanbhai Chandra...Saurashtra… modified an existing product..what?

Ans
1) Paris Club 2) Pandora ( Box opens now) 3) Tony Hayward of BP 4) Changing the place of the reading light… it leads to confusion when passengers press the air hostess call button mistakenly 5) Intel Microprocessors  6) 9 West 7) Amin chand Pyaare lal, J for Jalandhar   8) Len Hancock… Hancock Prospecting 9) Chhakada..used motorcycles

Round 2

1) Pic- patent design of?

2)

3) Identify

4) Coca cola ..tied up with this company..centenary

5) ad… 2 handscampagin in france.. what is it about?

6) Walmart…Asquith dairies

7) Pic Raghuram Rajan

8) Logo

9) R B Productions

Ans:

1) Oreo cookies 2) Corning Gorilla 3) Gopal Goyal of MDLR 4) Selfridges 5) Campaign against covering of human faces 6) Asda                   7) Raghuram Rajan 8) Canongate- publisher of Julian Assange’s book 9) Ritu Beri

Round 3

1)

a)Gave the concept of ‘Opportunity cost’

b) Pic

 

2)

a) CAGE framework…distance between countries…

b) World 3.0…

Ans: 1) John Stuart Mill 2) Pankaj Ghemawat

 

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TBQ –351

1) Stamps were originally cut from a sheet using scissors. Some clerks took to doing something to make them easier to separate. Since 1847 Henry Archer had been working on a machine to mechanize this concept. Archer’s machine was too unreliable to be granted a Post Office contract, but his work pointed the way for others, and the Post Office purchased 4 of those machines from David Napier & Son in 1854. What did the clerks resort to and what’s this idea?

2) It’s cash that’s given to help get people to the polls. The money can go toward perks like coffee and doughnuts for door knockers, gas for volunteers to chauffeur elderly voters, or pocket money for kids who distribute fliers and sample ballots on Election Day. Also known as “walking-around money” or “get-out-the-vote money,” it’s most common in poor areas of Philadelphia; Chicago; Newark, N.J.; Baltimore; Los Angeles; and other big cities. Both parties use it, but it’s more common among Democrats, who tend to be better represented in the areas that rely on it. How do we know this better?

3) [Tata Question] Identify this distinctively packed Tata Coffee brand.

Tata Coffee Brand

4) In 300 BC China, according to the Guanzi proposal, this commodity was taxed – not just the earliest written evidence of such taxation system, but the first known instance of a state-control monopoly on a vital commodity. The idea behind this was to import and sell it at a higher price – the revenues were used for building armies, and even the Great Wall. What was this taxation all about?

5) This numbering system traces its roots to the 1920s, and began as an introductory course number in University of Buffalo’s course catalogue. Many colleges and universities began to switch to this numbering system. In 1935, two researchers from Kent State published a paper celebrating the efficiency of the new system: “Recently college catalogues have revealed a commendable trend toward a logical arrangement of course numbers,” they wrote. “The loose hodgepodge of former years is giving way to systematic arrangement.”

Kent State came up with a different system, but later schools standardized the Buffalo system. The standardization got a shot in the arm when Charles W. Eliot, then-president of Harvard, began the system of electives and adopted the Buffalo catalogue system. Later, these three digits got into popular culture and began to be used to refer introductory courses in any area. What’s the three digit system?

6) The Pune of yore has a set of administrative regions named after days of the week when the local market would set anchor in that area. How do we know these places, significantly different from one another?

7) This Indian genius was born in 1895, and discovered the first of tetracycline antibiotics, aureomycin and polymyxin while at working at Lederle Laboratories (Now part of Wyeth). He co-discovered, while working with Cyrus Fiske at Harvard, the two chemicals – phosphocreatine and adenosine triphosphate (ATP) – that store energy in our body. Identify this scientist who, many say, should have won a Nobel in Medicine.

8) Henry Brown was an inventor who saw a convenient and secure way to store money, valuable and important papers. He developed something that was patented in 1886. What did this African American inventor invent?

9) Today the term simply refers to large financial institutions that offer multiple services in various locations, such as a bank. The term typically refers to full-service brokerages that offer research, order execution and investment advice all under the same roof. The term originated because of an advanced communications system they employed. What?

10) Identify the advertiser.

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Ans1: Pricking the imperforate stamp margins with a pin – this is what the clerks were doing. This was the beginning of stamps with perforated sides.

Ans2: Street Money

Ans3: Aveon (Yes, it’s very much available in Indian super markets.)

Ans4: Salt

Ans5: 101 [eg. History 101]

Ans6: Peth | eg. Budhwar Peth

Ans7: Dr. Yellapragada SubbaRow

Ans8: Strongbox

Ans9: Wirehouse

Ans10: TVS Motors

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TBQ –344

1) The development of this profession, as a separate entity from medicine, started in Islam under the patronage of Abbasiyyah caliphs of Baghdad. The first clear cut separation of this from medicine, and the recognition of this stream as an academically oriented entity happened during the Middle Ages. Al Rahzi was one of the few early contributors, in an era when most of Europe was still under the Dark Ages. What was this stream that came up?

2) Aman Nath is a historian by education. He is an award winning author and was the youngest founder-member of INTACH. Two of his books are used as the official gifts of the President and the Prime Minister of India. Actively involved in the restoration of India’s lesser-known architectural ruins, he is the co-founder of hotel chain.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Francis Wacziarg, the French Indophile, now an Indian citizen, co-author of one of Nath’s books, set up this hotel chain along with Aman. Name this chain of hotels named after an ancient town in Rajasthan.

3)  This company was established in Hyderabad by a UK company, A, as B in 1948. In the 1950s, Raja Rameshwar Rao (pic below)  took over B. He renamed the company to C and brought in the Patwardhans of Pune and Khushwant Singh on the board. In 2006, C ran into trouble with its name when the new owners of the brand name, A, sued them. An out-of-court settlement happened, as C changed its name to D. What are A, B, C and D?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4) It was named after its inventor Thomas Edmondson, a trained cabinet maker of Lancaster, United Kingdom in the 1830s.  It spread from England to rest of the world. What’s this invention which you would have used for sure, not once, not twice, but at least a hundred times till it was phased out from India in 2008? ( We use the computerized version now and not the version that Thomas made)

5) Identify the advertiser.

6) This business was established in 1889 by A, whose family migrated from the famine prone Kutch to Madras. It began as a pavement ‘dukaan’, selling hurricane lanterns, bedroom lamps, chimneys and petromaxes to the large British and Anglo-Indian resident population of what was then known as ‘White Town’. Evening was the favoured time for shopping here, giving the place the name – Evening Bazaar. The store had a  small tin roof during those times, and A would take shelter under the nearby banyan tree to beat the summer heat.

WWI brought in a windfall. He supplied a consignment of hurricane lanterns to the British Army stationed at Fort St. George. By the time the war ended, there was a demand for imported enameled kitchen and tableware from the British and Anglo-Indian population. He was now a store owner and by the 1930s, he moved to the present premises. His store, then known as A Store, now became B, possibly an Anglicized version of the name. The end of the Second World War saw a demand for ceramics and porcelain.

Today they have stores in Evening Bazaar, Adyar and Pondicherry. Name the business.

7) Sitter: Identify this personality.

8) He went to what was then Ceylon and found that even they had this technology. He came back mortified and decided to usher in this technology. His idea was not welcomed back in India. The country’s scientific advisors thought that the new technology was not a good idea, and that it would make development communication non-serious. He convinced detractors that the new and old technologies coexisted in several countries. It is up to a user if he should be using the new technology. Till the older technology is phased out, Govt. would support that along with the newer one – this was his promise. And as they say, the rest is history.

What is this technology that came in during early 1980s? And also identify this person.

9) As Postmaster of the American Colonies, Benjamin Franklin had use of what is known as a “franking privilege.” This privilege allowed him to mail letters free of charge like Congressmen. What is unique about Franklin’s frank is that he signed his franking signature on outgoing mail as “_____.” Historians believe that this alludes to his commitment to gaining freedom and independence from the English government. What was Franklin’s franking signature?

10) Tarangini Mitra loved pirouetting – to dance on single foot. Her performance at her school annual day function – the first public performance she did – caught the attention of an ad-guru. This was in 1985. As they say, the rest is history. How do we know this girl better?

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Ans1: Pharmacy

Ans2: Neemrana Hotels

Ans3: A: Longman B: Longman Green C: Orient Longman D: Orient Blackswan

The brand name Longman is now owned by Pearson Plc.

Ans4: Edmondson Card Tickets – the good old card tickets used till recently by Indian Railways

Ans5: Morphy Richards Epilators

Today they have stores in Evening Bazaar, Adyar and Pondicherry. Name the business.

Ans6: A: Karim Bhai | The business is now known as CurrimBhoys

Ans7: Vinton Serf

Ans7: Colour Televisions, replacing Black & White TVs. Vasanth Sathe.

In the beginning, the import permit was  temporary, with the Union Government allowing the import of 50,000 colour television sets by November of that year. But by the end of it, the Indian viewer was ready to spend Rs. 8,000 on an Indian set and up to Rs. 15,000 on the imported version. The government raked in the money, earning  Rs. 70 crore in customs revenue from imported sets, with one lakh sets imported into the country.

Ans9: B. Free Franklin

Ans10: Nirma Girl. Ad-guru was Alyque Padamsee

Mumbai Tata Crucible 2011 Corporate Quiz- Tata Track

 

Mumbai Tata Crucible 2011 Corporate Quiz- Tata Track

Round1-Crossword

1) 2nd largest air cooling company

Daikin

2) Currency Khwanza- Which country?

Angola

3) Andrew Serwer, the managing editor of….

Fortune

4) Stock index of Greece?

Athex

5) Phanindra Sama

Redbus

6) Cotton….branded…Kerala city

Calico

7) 3 flagship hotels for commonwealth.. ITDC’s Ashok, Janpath and?

Samrat

8) family holdings…

Zaibatsu

 Round 2

1) Financial times rejected..ad against Shell..

Amnesty Int’l

2) Logo

Google Ventures

3) Tata Power ‘Go green’ logo

4) Pic- Raghu Pillai

5) LVMH ad-Sean Connery

Round 3

1) Grow more, Kisan Sansar, Knowledge…

Tata Chemicals

2) Ezio, Liquiflow…

Reynolds

3) Pics…Ramakrishna Hegde…

Dy CM Planning commission

 4) Littledrops, Patapata

Bata

Round 4

1) One ruppee note..

Ministry of Finance

2) stock exchange of Hog Kong

Hang Seng

3) Mr Frog, Nick Leeson

Barings bank

4) WagonR- Recreation

5) Poultrona- D’decor

6) World’s 1st professional grade Tablet..playbook

Wiron