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TBQ-Tata Sample#5

Here’s a set of 2 questions. Want more? TANSTAFL, folks!
1) This brand was the brainchild of P T John. John won the confidence of Jal Nowroji, during a short voyage and persuaded Nowroji to accept his idea. Which brand came into being due to this meeting?
2) This soap brand was launched in 1931 by J.A.D Nawroji who himself chose the brand name. Which brand from TOMCO are we talking about?
Ans1 : 501 soap- the TOMCO factory in Ernakulam was started
Ans2: Hamam

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TBQ-Tata Crucible Quiz-Current Affairs-Sample-7

1) Name the movie/video game rental store business founded by David Cook in 1985 and is in a near-bankrupcy state.
2) Identify him/the company he founded that’s in news now.
Identify.
Identify.
Ans1: Blockbuster Inc.
Ans2: Mike Lazaridis, RIM(Blackblerry)

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TBQ-Tata Crucible Quiz-Current Affairs-Sample-6

1) Identify this company/personality. They are in news again.
Identify the company/person
Identify the company/person.
2) Identify this personality who has stepped down as the CEO/MD.
Identify.
Identify.
Who/which company?
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Ans1: Liang Zhang, Chairman of Synutra. This is one of the tainted companies in the infant food adulteration controversy. This company is back in news.
Ans2: Atul Sobti, Ranbaxy
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TBQ-Tata Sample#4

Now that Tata Crucible dates are out, let’s focus on the Tata group. Here you go.

1) This TVC was shot around the Nashik countryside in Maharashtra by advertising film-maker Kunal Kapoor of Adfilm Valas. Rediffusion Dentsu Young and Rubicam Pvt. Ltd is handling the creative advertising account.The television commercial will have the same positioning as the print campaign with the tag line “Now You Can.” . Which Tata brand?

2)With which company has Tata Steel entered into an agreement to run three daily charter flights between Jamshedpur and Kolkata?

3)Which footbal club has signed a three-year agreement with the Tata Football Academy (TFA)? recently? The club is nicknamed ‘The Blades’ because of its history of steel manufacturing.

And 2 questions from the group’s history.

4) Name the Tata company that was renamed  as Tata Business Support Services in March 2008.

5) This company began in 1920 as Gahagan Paints and Varnish Co. Ltd at Lower Parel. From 1976 to 1999 it was part of the Tata (Tata Forbes) group. Which company?

Ans1: Nano
Ans2: Deccan Charters
Ans3: Sheffield United Football Club       (SUFC)
Ans4: SerWizSol
Ans5: Goodlass Nerolac Paints Ltd(now Kansai Nerolac Paints Ltd.)
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Tata Crucible 2010-Corporate- Schedule

The dates have been announced. Good luck one and all.

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Source:  Tata Crucible website

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TBQ-Tata Crucible Quiz-Current Affairs-Sample-4

Today’s questions. Straight from news.

1) Identify this company that has filed for bankruptcy protection.

Identify this company.
Identify.

2) “I was first forced into prostitution when I was 11 years old by a 28-year-old man,” she wrote. “I am not an exception.”, said MC’s open letter published as newspaper ads in August,2010. Against whom was this ad issued?

Ans1) Mexicana Airlines
Ans2) Craiglist’s ‘adult services’ section

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TBQ-Tata Crucible Quiz-AdWorld-Sample-1

Two visual from the world of advertisements. See if you can crack them.

1) Identify the advertiser.

Which brand?
Identify the brand.

2) Identify this personality.

Identify this creative genius.
Identify this creative genius.

Ans1: Sprite

Ans2: David Abbot of Abbott Mead Vickers (BBDO)

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TBQ-Tata Crucible Quiz-Current Affairs-Sample-3

Here are two current affairs questions.
1) Identify this personality.
Who is she?
Identify
2) The most valuable piece among the set is Andreas Gursky’s New York Mercantile Exchange 1991 photograph. Others in the collection include Gary Hume’s Madonna, a signed etching by Lucian Freud, and the ship Frankfield off Table Bay by Samuel Walters. Which collection?
Ans1: Cathie Lesjak, interim CEO of HP
Ans2: Works of art that adorned the Lehman offices. They are soon going to be auctioned off.

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TBQ-Tata Crucible Quiz-Current Affairs-Sample-2

Too much trouble viewing PDFs? Questions inline this time.

1)  “Pleased, But Not Satisfied” is written and published by – David Sokol who is long considered a possible heir to X.

This is what David has to say on M&A pitfalls: “Someone once said that when a man chooses the women of his dreams and proposes marriage, he does so with the expectation that she will never change. And when a woman selects a man for marriage, she does so after assessing all the things about the man she assumes she can change once they are wed….after the wedding, both realize their assumptions are incorrect.” Who is X
2)      The new consulting service is part of a general trend at Y to solve relevant problems faster. On July 29, Y launched a shorter-term contest that will serve as a model for its corporate contests. In this inaugural challenge, entrepreneurs are being asked to develop better technology to skim oil off of the surface of ocean water. The purse is smaller — the winner of the Challenge will get $1.4 million — and the competition will end in a year. What is Y?
3)      The franchise has been sold to a group led by Hall of Fame pitcher and Nolan Ryan and Pittsburgh lawyer Chuck Greenberg. This baseball team was owned by Liverpool FC Co-owners Tom Hicks & George Gillett. Name this team which was owned by a group led by former US President George W Bush in the early 1990s before he became governor of Texas.

Ans:

1: X is Warren buffett. Sokol is chief executive of Berkshire’s MidAmerican Energy Holdings , a large utility with $12.7 billion in annual revenues and 16,800

2: Y is ‘X Prize’  and  the X Challenge,

3: Texas Rangers Baseball team

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