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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

Via Viraj Morabia

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)

Tata Crucible Corporate Quiz 2013 Kolkata Prelims

Prelims

1. What in Gujarat is known as Chaar Bangadi?

2. Which book published in 1859 is the largest selling single volume book ever? (Clue: It sold 2 Million copies till date)

3. Which beautiful consort wrote a book titled ‘The Sandwich Swap’ in 2011? (Clue: Think Royalty)

4. Rellure a brand owned by the Reliance Life Science Pvt Ltd., is associated with which fruit?

5. Who’s the author of the book?

6. First there were Harmony, Tempo and Allegro & then came Puma, Jaguar, Snow Leopard. What are these?

7. In gaming what does RMG stands for?

8. Which actor aspired to be a professional photographer & started his career as an apprentice in A. Das & Co., Delhi? (Clue: We’ve lost him recently)

9. Who has unveiled the new search engine named PLUS D (The Public Library of United States Diplomacy)? (Clue: Very much in news)

10. Who’s the advertiser?

11. What is jointly owned by Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Essar and Idea Cellular?

12. AP market which of this coffee brands? (Options given: Araku/Tirumala/Telengana)

13. What unique thing has been started by Samoa Air?

14. Satya Rajpurohit, calligrapher and co-founder of Ahmedabad-based design firm Indian Type Foundry, says he arrived at the perfect ‘L’ after trying more than 400 strokes over 2-3 weeks. And they’ve trademarked the letter ‘L’. Whose logo? (Clue: Hospitality)

15. Id her? (Clue: CRISIL)

16. Which series has inspired Martin Copper to conceive the idea of Mobile Phone in 1973?

17.After which everyday product this Hyundai’s this vehicle E4U designed?

18. By exporting which fruit from the national tree of Bangladesh, India got INR 800 Cr Revenue?

19. This is a list ……per capita. What?

Monaco: 3/35,427

St Kitts and Nevis: 1/53,051

Guernsey:1/65,573

Hong Kong: 39/7.1 Million

Belize: 1/356,600

Cyprus: 3/1.1 Million

Israel: 17/7.8 Million

20. Which Indian Group’s next generation are these?

21. Which job people who liked globetrotting wants, Heinrich Kubis was first in the world in 1912?

22. Which future Senator was the first to orbit the Earth in Mercury

23. A simple __________ from the White House wipes billions off US markets in the month of April, 2013?

24. Which adventurist Indian Businessman is the founder of the Super Car Club in India & set the record for the fastest lap at the Buddh International Circuit in Ferrari 458 Challenge?

25. Younger age Pic of which head of a Global Financial Institution?

Answers:

Audi
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Queen Rania of Jordan
Mango
Benjamin Graham
Apple OS
Real-Money Gaming
Pran Krishan Sikand
WWF
IndusTowers
Julian Assange
Araku
Charging Passengers by their Weight
the Leela Group
Roopa Kudva
Star Trek
Egg
Mango (two questions on Mango in the Prelims itselfL)
Billionaires
PARLE (Chauhans)
Flight attendant
John Glenn
Tweet
Gautam Singhania of Raymond Group
Christine Lagarde of IMF

Tata Crucible Corporate Quiz 2013 Trivandrum Finals

Via Mr. K T Rajagopalan

Round One

Who was instrumental in Britain shifting from the silver standard for currency to gold standard in 1861? [Sir Isaac Newton
All products/services offered by Richard Branson bear the Virgin tag – except one. Which is that? [Condoms. It is called Mates.
Sports lovers in the US, hassled by the vagaries of nature, covered the stadium where games were played. This resulted in a new product. What was it? [Artificial grass
What is choppy, fanning, golden fanning, flower and tippy varieties of? [Tea
Which character with filthy and unpleasant habits in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s travels is a popular name on the internet? [Yahoo
What was introduced by William Pitt (Junior) to raise funds for fighting Napoleon? [Income tax

Audience Question: Income tax gets abbreviated to IT. In that context, what is UT? [Urine Tax

Round Two – Visual

Ad showing a royal procession with slogan ‘Milk richest in cream’ [Nestle
Ad showing a man on a motorbike [Royal Enfield from Eicher Motors
Mugshot of Sudipto Sen. Now in the news for …? [Sharda Chit Fund scam
Mugshot of Dr Anji Reddy. Which company does he head? [Reddy’s Lab
Image of a series of photographs of the same object from the same angle. What method of photography is this? [Burst mode of photography
Mugshot of Dhruv Shringi. Which company is he associated with? [yatra.com

Audience Question: Which product has the ISI code 1? [The Indian national flag

Which institution had a no-moustache policy for its employees from 1957 till 2000? [Disneyland

Round Three – Buzzer

Which campaign inspired Shah Rukh Khan to pledge that in his films, his name would follow (and not precede) that of the heroine? [Jago re bhai
Which company is Fakir Chand Kohli associated with? [TCS
Other than the IndiraGandhiInternationalAirport, which airport has been provided with wi-fi connectivity by Tata Do Co Mo with GMR group?
Which famous person who was the trade union leader in the Tata group in the late 1930s and early 1940s left the company because he believed that his life’s mission was something more important?

Connect the images: logo of MCF (Mangalore Chemicals & Fertilisers), Picture of UB Towers, NDTV, Pirelli and Siddharth Mallya [Kingfisher/Vijay Mallya. He has stakes in MCF, Kingfisher and Pirelli calendars have similar visuals. I did not get the NDTV connection.

Round Four – Buzzer

Connect the images: Durex, Airwick, Paras and two mugshots. [RBIL
Connect the images: Ethos water, Tata, Gordon Bowker, Zev Siegel, Jerry Baldwin [Starbucks
Connect the images: Salomon Brothers, Heinz, The Washington Post, Mugshot of Warren Buffett Berkshire Hathway

Round Five – Buzzer

(The numbers within brackets indicate the number of letters as in a crossword.)

01. Who is the owner of Artex Jewellery? (6, 5) Robert Vadra

02. Which expression came from the operation of saving a vessel from sinking by taking out water from it by using a smaller bucket? (7, 3) Bailing out

03. Which company entered Fortune 500 in May 2013, occupying the 482nd position? (8) Facebook

Tiebreaker: What instrument was originally called the X-Y indicator? The computer mouse

Tata Crucible Corporate Quiz 2013 Trivandrum Prelims

Via Mr. K T Rajagopalan

PRELIMINARY ROUND

Name the philanthropist who donated USD 1 billion to the UN Foundation and was/is its Chairman. [Ted Turner
When introduced in the market in the early years of the 20^th century, it was called Sunlight Flakes but soon its name was changed to a Latin word meaning ‘light’. Which existing soap brand are we talking about? [Lux
What was Axis Bank called when it was set up in 1994? [UTI Bank
Which was the first toothpaste to be packed in collapsible tubes? [Colgate
Which entity came out with the ‘Hang me again’ referring to the farmers’ suicide in Maharashtra? [Times of India
Which is the media company set up by Harish Thawani which shares its name with the broom stick in the Harry Potter series? [Nimbus
Who is the sponsor of the jersey of FC Barcelona? [Qatar Foundation
Which hospitality chain was named by Capt C P Krishnan Nair after his wife? [Leela
Which watch company brought out a segment of watches called the G-Shock that failed in Japan but was a success in India? [Casio
Visual – Time magazine cover: Who was recently on the cover page of Time Magazine with the theme ‘Woman Rising’? [Cheryl Sandberg
Which energy drink was developed by the University of Florida for proving instant energy to its sportspersons? [Gatorade
Which product comes in 57 varieties? [Heinz
Who owns the Kodanad Tea Estates in Nilgiris? [Dr J Jayalalithaa
By what name do we know the London Financial Guide? [Financial Times
Visual – mugshot: Nike Oppenheimer owns which company? [De Beers
Who was the Finance Minister of India in 1991 who presented the budget in tough times – when we had the forex crisis, 1999 when the Pokhran blast was done, 2000 when the Kargil War took place and in 2001 when Gujarat riots took place? [Yashwant Sinha
Which publishing company was set up in 1844 as a building and construction company and now has the slogan ‘Always learning’? [Pearson
Which whiskey producer died of an infection from a wound he received on his leg when, in a rage, he kicked a safe that would not open? [Jack Daniels
Which company has recently added a plus sign as a tagmark to indicate that it is ‘more fun, more music, more exciting’? [VH1+
Visual – Two-part print ad (1) one showing a kid watching TV and (2) the kid seeing the mother at the door turning the TV off using the remote and peering into his book. Which product? Hint: it is supposed to reflect the quick response of the product. [Fevikwick

Tata Crucible Corporate Quiz 2013 Navi Mumbai Prelims

Via Viraj Morabia

Prelims:

1. Malhotra committee-Irda

2. Which American Academy award winning actress is the face of American Brand Coach?

Gwyneth Paltrow

3. Which British clothing brand established in 1908 is owned by REd Diamond Holdings?

Lee Cooper

4 Which iconic Npo founded by Revered John Flymn provides healthcare to people in remote areas of Australia?

Royal flying Doctor service

5. Author of A Better India, A Better World?

Narayan Murthy

6. The total income of a person in India is segregated into how many heads for income tax purposes?

7. Which company traces its history back to July 20,1841,which the formation of the Mercantile Agency of New York City by Lewis Tappan?

Dun&Brad street

8. By what term is the practice of purchasing enough shares in a firm threaten a takeover,thereby forcing firm to buy those shares back at a premium order to suspend takeover?

Green mail

9. Which tyre company introduced a service programme ” Worry free service” for Indian consumers?

Goodyear

10.Logo of Nautica

11.Whom did the great economist Ernst Schumacher describe as the greatest “People’s Ecnomist”?

Mahatma Gandhi

12.The logo which construction company is off set at 18 degrees from horizontal and 22 degrees from vertical?

JCB

13.What was created by Gordon Foster of Trinity college, Dublin for the booksellers in 1965?

Isbn

14.Which direct Marketing that created the “As seen on Tv” logo and category of trade was founded by Ajit Khubani in 1983?

Tele Brands

15. Pic of Raghuram Rajan

16.Which actress,recording artist and designer is the new style icon & designer of Adidas leo label?

Selena Gomez

17. Which internet company described in the book “The patent store”?

Ebay

18.Which 6 letter word connects a Web Browser, a vehicle and a style of Indian clothing?

Safari

19. What began in the 17th century in Europe where they used to announce the impending arrival of prosperous aristocratic people to their local town even their home?

Visiting cards/Business cards

20. Logo of Google hangout

Tata Crucible Corporate Quiz 2013 Ranchi Finals

Via Mr. S.S. Panda & Sampad Mishra

Ranchi Finals:

Round#1 Think Global

1.Photos of few coins shown.Indian Mint recently came out commemorating 60years of some thing.Ans:Alipore Mint

2.Which popular tourist destination promotes itself as “What happens here stays here.”Ans:Las Vegas.

3.First nation to create this was Great Britain.The largest in terms of money is in Japan.The most no.of branches is in India.What is it?Ans:Post office banks

4.RIBA in Islam,what is the significance in the world of Business.Ans: The word “riba” means interest.In islam Shariah,this is not permitted the Customers are made Stake holders and given dividends in place of Interest.

5.Introduced in 1948 first as RUDA,what is its present name.Ans:PUMA

6.What is Project Gutenberg?Ans:Digitisation of all books in US

Round#2

1.Which century old company’s logo,.

Ans:GOKAK Textile

2.Logo of which co.products widely used.

Ans:SANDOZ

3.This gave rise to a two letter word in 1957.

Ans:Naya Paisa

4.Identify this Self made Indian entrepreneur.

Ans:Laxman Rao Kirloskar

5.Photo of

Mark Andressen,Netscape.

Round#3 TATA WORLD:

1.InCircle is a Customer loyalty programme of Ans:Titan Company

2.Star India and Tata group jointly promoted Ans:Tata Sky

3.Tatas”involving thousands of school children in India-Ans:Building India school Essay contest

4.In TPDDL,what is DD.Ans:Delhi distribution

Round#5 Connect

1.Book:In search of WOW,McKinsey and Co.,Nixon Pic.,Pentagon pic..Ans: Tom Peters

2.Photos/logos of P & G,KKR,Kodak camera:Ans:Duracell Batteries

2.Photo of John Shaw (Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw’s husband)

,and subsidiaries promoted by Biocon etc.Ans:BIOCON

3.Photos/logos of Madurai templke,Aditya brla group,Van Heusen.Ans:P Van Heusen

Round#6 :Business world word to fit in boxes:

1.Trivia about You tube

2. Trivia about sulekha.com

3.snakes mobile game

4 Unwrap the gold :Cadbury chocolates

WINNER: ROURKELA STEEL PLANT(S.S.PANDA & SAMPAD MISHRA),RUNNERS UP:VODAPHONE

S.S.PANDA ,BSc.Engg,ME,MBA,CFA is an Alumni of NIT,ROURKELA.

& SAMPAD MISHRA,BE is an Alumni of NIT,ROURKELA.

Past achievements: Winners:Tata Crucible Corporate At Ranchi:2013,2012,2011,BrandEquity,Kolkata Zone 2012:3^rd, & Finalists at AIMA Quiz,East Zone 2012,2012,2011,Runners up SAIL Udaan QUIZ 2012,Jt.Winner Kolkata Quizzing Festival 2012.

Tata Crucible Corporate Quiz 2013 Ranchi Prelims

Via Mr. SS PANDA & Sampad Mishra

TATA CRUCIBLE CORPORATE –RANCHI ROUND 21/09/13

TOTAL TEAMS:28.

PRELIMS:

1.This travel company opened its office in India in 1949.Later acquired by Zurich based Kuoni Travel . How do we know this outbound travel Company ?Ans:SOTC

2.A stock market condition which is neither bullish nor bearish is known as ___.Ans:Chicken Market

3.Gmail as we know was earlier derived from another free service named after a cartoon character.Ans:Garfield.

4.Khuswant Singh wrote in 1970’s :”Soon little__ will be seen running all over India ,from Kashmir to Kanyakumari etc.Ans:Maruti cars

5.Identify the Brand?

Ans:Landrover

6.Trivia abou Jacquar bathroom fixtures. Old namr,promoter’s name given.Ans:Jacquar

7.Quote by Sam Walton given and was asked to identify him? Ans: Sam Walton

8.Latin for Pebble ,abacus,something dear to TinTin.modern name in Mathematicas.Ans:Calculus

9. Originally the company was to be called Pequod, after a whaling ship from Moby-Dick, but this name was rejected by some of the co-founders. The company was instead named after the chief mate on the Pequod, Ans:Starbucks

10. Identify the product from morphed photo? Ans:Duracell

11.First made by Vic Wills in 1961 for his newborn grandchild identify this brand of baby product now marketed by P&G.Ans:Pampers

12.Made by Stephanie Kwolek in 1971,this product was five times stronger than steel. finds wide application in security industries nowadays.Ans:Kevlar

13. We couldn’t improve the product so we improved the tube”,was the ad in 1908.Which product?Ans:Colgate

14.Expand PAN.Ans:Permanent account number.

15.She is worth $12.7bilion dollars,identify this lady from the world of business.

Ans: Abigaile Johnson,Fidelity Investments

16.Roger Federer,Thiery Henry & Rahul Dravid endorsing a Product.Ans:Gillette

17. It is an investment position intended to offset potential losses/gains that may be incurred by a companion investment in Currency market.Ans:Hedge

18.What in the Indian Sports changed ownership from Deccan Chronicle to the Sun Netrwork last year.Ans:Deccan Chargers IPL team

20.This $75billion dollar corporate spilit into two parts.News Corp and ___.Ans:21^ST Century Fox.

21.Who wrote the book-Outliers.

Ans:Malcom Gladwell

Written cutoff: 12.Highest:19(RSP)

WINNER: ROURKELA STEEL PLANT(S.S.PANDA & SAMPAD MISHRA),RUNNERS UP:VODAPHONE

S.S.PANDA ,BSc.Engg,ME,MBA,CFA is an Alumni of NIT,ROURKELA.

& SAMPAD MISHRA,BE is an Alumni of NIT,ROURKELA.

Tata Crucible Corporate Quiz 2013 Guwahati Finals

Via Kapinjal Chowdhury

GLOBAL QUOTIENT

1. This kind of tax existed in 18^th and 19^th century and introduced in 1696 under William 3 because of the fact that people have more number of ventilation in their house and thus tax was levied. What?

Answer- Window Tax.

2. Which English word derived from the adjective ‘To form or gather into a mass or whole’?

Answer- Conglomerate

3. In the early 1900’s , exactly in 1907 ________ created in Gujrat by the Gandhi family. 2 years agothis was in news for a character Ranchod Gandhi and they used have a specialisation in fountain company. Fill in.

Answer- Vadilal Icecreams.

4. According to the trademark, it is defined as a means of scratch or group around to find, collect and put together. What?

Answer- Scrabble.

5. Famous car launched by this gigantic corporation means ‘sport of the kings’ that shared it’s name with a famous confectionary brand.

Answer- Polo.

6. Nencn Kona was the first officially allowed commercial from US to USSR. What?

Answer- Pepsi Cola.

1. Old logo of ICICI bank

2. Which company uses this image on their logo?

Answer- Texas Instruments . ( only company to use a flag in it’s logo)

3. ID her who recently been into a retail hospitality venture.

Answer- Shruti Shibulal daughter of S. D Shibulal of Infosys . she is into Tamara real estate holdings.

4. ID this Indian Ad guru.

Answer- Sam Balsara

5. Name the Indian.

Answer- Satyajit Ray

Which company in news wrt India?

Answer- POSCO steel, region is Pohang in south korea.

TATA ROUND

1. If F.C Kohli was the first to be choosen by JRD Tata, who was the second?

Answer – Nani paikekar. 2^nd ceo of TCS.

2. which Tata company funded lifeline Express ?

Answer- Voltas.

3. Which TATA Brand gets it’s name from “is an interstellar cloud of dust, hydrogen, helium and other ionized gases?

Answer- NEBULA from Titan.

4. Which TATA company launched ‘Ecoplus ‘ which is Acrylic Distemper water based,interior finish.

Answer- TATA pigments.

Lateral Connection

1. Mastricht treaty, flaf of EU, the person behind the whole concept

Answer- EURO

2. NDTV, pic of siddharth varadarajan, G subramanium iyer

Answer- the Hindu

3. pic of dove, Darwin, python and issac newton

Answer- Apple.

4. Maxtor, STX, Logo of Seagate, founder of Seagate

Answer- Seagate

Last round

1. Little People, Laugh & Learn, Imaginext, Loving family. Brands of which MNC?

Answer- Fisher price.

2. Grit, Guts and Gumption: Driving change in a state-owned giant is a book written by Rajesh Chakrabarti.

Which Indian Bank?

Answer- SBI.

3. The power of an Idea by Paul chutkow is described as the story of which untold company formed in America?

Answer- VISA.

Kapinjal Chowdhury graduated this year from Assam Engineering College, Guwahati and presently stays at Hyderabad. He is an avid quizzer and along with his twin kamanasish won several quizzes across the state and the country. He is the founder of ASSAM QUIZ ASSOCIATION and writes a quiz blog namely aecqfactor.com which is the first quizblog from northeast, India!