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)

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