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Tata Crucible Corporate Quiz Mumbai 2010-Finals- Non-Tata Track

Tata Crucible Corporate Quiz Mumbai 2010-Finals- Non-Tata Track

Courtesy: Team Bizdom

http://bizdom.blogspot.com/2010/09/tata-crucible-corporate-2010-mumbai_20.html

HUL – Pradeep, Dushyanth (50)
Questa Software – Amit Pandeya, Manish (25)

Kotak Life – Shambhu Shankar, Prasad Shetty (20)
Deustche Bank – Rajiv Rai, Vibhendra (15)
IMRB – Ameya, Ashish Pandey (0)
Sun Microsystems – Mitesh, Ankit Didolkar (-20)

Wild Card questions (for the selection of the 6th team)

1) Who in this world is; “Committed to improving the state of world”?

2) Who is LTD on NYSE?

3) Which celebrity is associated with Plan B entertainment?

4) Who is the 1st non-Britisher on a British stamp?

5) In 1847, Liverpool associate, Jacobsen J C

6) Layali festival-1996, 3 million people

7) Rosen enterprise, David Rosen

8) Geophysical

Answers:

1) World economic forum
2) Limited brands
3) Brad Pitt
4) Mahatma Gandhi
5) Carlsberg
6) Dubai Shopping festival
7) SEGA
8) Texas Instruments

IBM & Kotak Were tied at this stage with 2 answers each.

9) Paris comedian… Murder… jack Collins..Retail giant.. neither of the team went for the buzzer.

Ans: Tesco

10) Qs on Teri.. It was but obvious that the answer was Teri, Prasad and team showed the guts to go for the buzzer and deservedly went on stage as the 6th team.

Vishwajeeth Navrekar and yours truly (Rohit Jain) representing IBM missed out.

  • Dating back to the 1400s, this word stemmed from the Latin word , meaning “sleeping area” (completely apropos). It became obsolete after the 16th century, but it was revived in the 19th century as a word for “dormitory sleeping compartments.”
  • Mohanlal Dayal Chauhan, set up the initial business of this famous Indian company in 1929. Later on the three sons divided into two business groups, Jayantilal Group and Kantilal and Pitambar group. A dispute arose in 2007 about the ownership of the brand and in 2009 Bombay High Court has ruled that this brand is a family name and hence both groups have equal right to use the trademark brand name. Identify the brand name.
  • His great-grandfather, Lala Shankar Das Chopra, was the ‘Nagar Shet’ of Kashmiri Chopras at Lahore. In 1947, he had to flee to Indian with his family, almost Penniless. In 1950, he launched his own production company and by the 2003 his company used to contributes nearly Rs 3-4 million per month to Prasar Bharati in terms of telecast fees. Name this trend-setter-media-moghul .
  • This concept originated at the turn of the 20th century in the writings of sociologist and economist, Thorstein Veblen. The term describes an apparently irrational and confounding form of economic behaviour. Veblen’s scathing proposal that this unnecessary consumption is a form of status display is made in darkly humorous observations.
  • Identify the logo.
  • Whose brand mascot is this?

Tata Crucible Corporate Quiz Mumbai 2010-Finals- Tata Track

Tata Crucible Corporate Quiz Mumbai 2010-Finals-Tata Track

Courtesy: Team Bizdom

http://bizdom.blogspot.com/2010/09/tata-crucible-corporate-2010-mumbai_20.html

Tata Track

Tata Power – Sidharth M, Pankaj k (30)

Tata Capital – Govind Grewal, Preeti Shankar (40)

Tata Teleservices – Vishwanathan, Sridhar (10)

TCS – Suresh Kumar, Aniruddh Dutta (65)

Tata Communication – Atulya, Jamshed (0)

TCS – Pravin Varma, Ankit (10)
Cryptology

  1. Safe hair dye
  2. As a writing instrument brand, it got delayed approval because its name is derived from a profession which doesn’t speak about its actual function at all.
  3. What’s M in MSD, a company of German Origin?
  4. Blue agave based
  5. Who is the youngest division chief in the World Bank’s history?
  6. 1385, flatplate trademark
  7. David Novak Chairman

Answers:
1) Loreal
2) Pilot pens
3) Merck
4) Tequila
5) Montek Singh
6) Xerox
7) Pizza Hut

Audience Q

Cerf’s up- Whose car nameplate

Ans: Vinton cerf

Pictology
1. Whose hat is this?


2. A picture of Books and Beyond
3. Identify the logo. 


4. With whom you can associate “Independent Evaluation Group”?


5. Identify the advertiser.


6. Who is advertising?

Ans
1) Pondicherry Police
2) RPG
3) IGNOU
4) WOrld Bank
5) Tata Jagriti yatra
6) Accenture

Tata World

  1. Founded in 1924, passionate in retail, has some connection with Croma.
  2. K M Garda, Chairperson, IT solution company
  3. Mitsubishi security…
  4. Optical frame for women.

Answers:

1) Woolworth
2) Nelito
3) Tata Capital
4) Enigma

Round 4:

1) GS, Zenith…

2) Legend, ideapact

3) ‘World’s biggest family’, Amby valley logo

4) Navteq…

Answers
1)
2) Lenovo
3) Sahara
4) Nokia Siemens

Speedology

  1. Which famous entrepreneur said; “I endorse my favorite bag……..”.
  2. Malcom Glaze
  3. Model for Burberry
  4. This word’s English mean is ‘immediate/instinct’; this particular service generates enormous revenue for a government organization.

Answers:

1) Branson- Samsonite
2) Man U
3) Ema Watson
4) Tatkal

Tata Crucible Corporate 2014 Cochin Prelims

Tata Crucible Corporate 2014 Cochin Prelims

Courtesy: Anil Raghavan

1)company shareholders liability is restricted to the original capital. Indicated by which term?
LTD

2)Mentholated cough drops owned by warner lambert & cadbury.
Halls

3)Company famous for aerial ads using blimps
Goodyear

4)Logos of thomas & uber cup.id the main sponsor
lining

5)financial tool used by banks to improve economy
Quantitative easing

6)MAC cosmetics was started by Frank toscan & frank angelo. MAC stands for?
Make up artists

7)Andrew tan is the 4th richest man in philippines. What is the liquor brand owned by him(relate to kings)
emperador

8)poster of 1942 movie starring bing crosby & fred astaire.Gave rise to what
Holiday inn

9)TTK’s 2012 condom brand
Skore

10)Third powerful indian according to some forbes list
Mukesh ambani

11)This forum is held in vienna in November from 2009.named after
peter drucker

12)old logo of uti bank

13)Devised by jimo’neill based on 6 emerging economies egypt,indonesia,s.africa,vietnam,columbia &turkey
CIVETS

14)Idiom concerning excess regulation of bureaucrats
Red tape

15)When dow jones started in 1885 the top firms belonged to
rail road

18)pic ben&jerry founders

17)Mobile phone named after replicants in blade runner
Nexus

18)question on kokuyo which became camlin

19)pic B.Ashok
IOC

20)pic jack ma

Tata Crucible Corporate 2014 Nagpur Prelims

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11) Founded in Bangladesh by Radhyashyam Roy in 1932, along with KK Chatterjee. Identity this emerging insurance group in India.

A) Peerless Insurance

12) X originated in South Africa as the oil of X. Graham Wulff, an ex Unilever chemist from Durban started it in 1949. The name ‘Oil of X‘ was chosen by Wulff as a spin on the word Lanolin as a key ingredient in the item. Which beauty product?

A) Olay

13) The first of its kind was established at Shannon Airport in Ireland by Brendan O’Regan in 1947.

A) Duty Free Shops

Tata Crucible 2014 Corporate Chandigarh Prelims Finals

Prelims

Finals

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?

1

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 Corporate 2014 Vizag Prelims

1) “How pleasant a world would be in which no man was allowed to operate on the Stock Exchange unless he could pass and examination in economics and Greek poetry, and in which politicians were obliged to have a competent knowledge of history and modern novels.” Is the quote by?

A. Bertrand Russell in Praise of Idleness and Other Essays

2) Which is the official magazine of the English football club Manchester United; issues are published every four weeks, resulting in 13 issues per year. The editor is Ian McLeish, who became editor-in-chief for the February 2006 issue, after the title was purchased by the Haymarket Network from Future plc?

A. Inside United

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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 Jamshedpur Prelims

1) What term has a meaning to have or work in  a secondary job has been derived from the practice of “carrying out of cattle-maiming, murders, etc, during the night”?

A. Moonlighting

2) In 1996, D&B spun off and sold their credit monitoring and management business to a newly formed company. Which market research firm?

A. AC Nielsen

3) Hrithik had partnered with which Bangalore based e-commerce firm to launch a brand called HRX?

A. Myntra

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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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