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Tata Crucible Primer – Tata Question #1

This company dates back to 1764 when a young Scot named John set foot on the shores of Mumbai. In search of a living, John was destined to lay the foundations of the company in India. The port of Mumbai had already gained renown as the doorway to India. It was in this background that a young Scot walked the deck of the trader ship, the ‘Asia’, carrying with him fifty bolts of canvas as merchandise.

In 1903, it merged with Ritchie Stuart & Company. In 1957, the Tata group came in when a bulk of its stake was divested.
In 1992, <<<A>>> Campbell & Company was amalgamated with <<<B>>> Patel Volkart, and was rechristened as <<<AB>>>. In 2001, the Tatas exited this company. Name it.

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Answer: <<<AB>>>= Forbes Gokak | Forbes & Company

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TBQ Classic Sample 14

”]A free photo sharing application that has been called “the hottest iPhone startup right now,” this company operates out of Twitter’s old office at 164 South Park St. in the South Park neighborhood of San Francisco. The company, founded without a business model or any specific financing in mind, has quickly grown: It now has more than four million users sharing photos through the app and posting them to a variety of social networks such as Foursquare, Twitter and Posterous. It has just four employees.

Identify this company.

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Ans: Instagram

TBQ Classic Sample #12

1) It is the oldest Russian aircraft company,and was founded and headed for a long time by Andrey N.T – a prominent aircraft designer of the XX-th century.

Andrey N.T- Founder

At the turn of the century, the company, then known as Design Bureau was incorporated into a new structure, comprising besides the Design Bureau test facility and serial aircraft manufacturing plant “AVIASTAR” in Ulianovsk. How do we know this company now?

2) Brothers Charles and Jeremiah started out their working careers as ironmongers in Portsmouth.
In 1818 Jeremiah invented and patented their famous product as a result of a Government competition to create a fool-proof product in this category. It was constructed so that if attempts were made to break it, the detector mechanism came into operation and rendered it inoperable. It remained fool-proof until the Great Exhibition of 1851. Name the company that they founded.

Founder- Charles Chubb

3) One of the earliest commodity markets in India was that of raw jute and hessian, set up in Kolkata. That is where the Marwaris first made their money and jute came to be known as the golden fibre. Speculation in raw jute was called ___ which became the generic word for speculation. Most of the speculators were traders and suppliers of raw jute to the jute mills. So successful were some of them that they turned from suppliers to jute mill owners from the 1940s. Fill in the blank.

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Ans1: Tupolev

Ans2: Chubb | Famous product- Chubb `Detector Lock`

Ans3: Fatka

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TBQ Classic Sample #11

An easy one. Identify the speaker.

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Ans: Subramanian Swamy

TBQ Classic Sample #10

Identify the advertiser.

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Ans: MTV
Watch the full ad here- http://goo.gl/NZPAf

TBQ Classic Sample #9

This company is a manufacturer of suitcases and travel luggage, and is based in New Jersey, USA.

Started in 1975, it takes its name from a Peruvian god known to its founder from his Peace Corps days in South America.

The company name also is a Peruvian ceremonial knife generally used for sacrifices.

Also the founder, Charlie Clifford had a dog by the same name and he joked that he named the company after the dog.

Which company are we talking about?

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Ans: Tumi

TBQ Classic Sample #8

AR Saunders from this company’s purchasing department designed the first ____ mark, winning an employee competition in 1920. He drew the two letters in ‘boxy’ style with wings on their edges, set into the outline of a shield. The shield represented the company for the next 80 years, albeit with minor changes. Which company?

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Ans: BP

TBQ Classic Sample #7

1) A mill engineer without equal in the late 19th and early 20th century, Stuart W. Cramer was responsible for the design of 150 mills -nearly one-third of the textile mills built in the South during that period. Cramer graduated as a naval
engineer from the US Naval Academy at Annapolis. At age 20 in 1888, fresh from that program, he elected to study mining engineering at Columbia in New York City. He was appointed chief assayer at the United States Mint in Charlotte, where he worked for four years analyzing gold and silver ores. After serving a two-year apprenticeship with D A Tompkins, Cramer formed his own company in the mid-1890s and began designing and building cotton textile mills.

Working with D.A. Tompkins and the Westinghouse Electric Company, he joined with James B. Duke of the famous tobacco family to establish Duke Power Company. His crowning achievement was the affiliation with the Mayes Manufacturing Company in Gaston County along the south fork of the Catawba River. Eventually, he bought a controlling interest and began putting his unique stamp on the mill and the mill village, which later became known as Cramerton and Cramerton Mills.

Identify.

This gentleman is credited with a term- something that’s a household term now. What?

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Ans: Air-conditioning

Biz/Infra Quiz 4 Questions- Samvit School of Infrastructure Business

Samvit School of Infrastructure Business

Building Blocks-Quiz 4

1) Had you been to Ankleshwar in the late ’80s, you would have met a gentleman running a textile sizing unit, under the name Sulzer. Which businessman’s early story would you connect this to?

Ans: Tulsi Tanti
The Suzlon Group commenced its operations in the year 1987 when Sulzer Synthetics Pvt. Limited set up a sizing unit in Ankleshwar.

2) A question on a common observation.
While travelling on trains, you would have seen a yellow board that says W or W/L. What do they stand for? Clue: No, Waitlist is not an acceptable answer.

Ans: Whistle/Level Cross(ahead) or Whistle
The train whistles after the driver sees this signal.

3) How was the company, popularly known as the Extension in the late 1800s, known officially as?
Clue is within the question.

Ans: EasternExtension,ChinaandAustralasiaTelegraph Company

4) What in Lucknow was built by a company that traces its roots to the gentleman in this picture?

‘Ans: Lohe Ka Pul
Pic: William Jessop of Jessop & Co.

5) This company started selling something at Re 1 in 1899 inCalcutta. The price of this ‘commodity’ inLondonwas also something similar during this time period. What was thus sold to the people ofCalcutta?

Ans: Electricity, Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation Limited

6) Connect these images

Ans:KrishnapatnamPort

Krishnapatnam is a port town in Muthukur Mandal of Nellore District, the southernmost coastal district in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India. The history says that Vijayanagar Emperor, Sri Krishnadevaraya operated this port, hence the port was named as Krishnapatnam Port. The port operated small boats through BuckinghamCanal, which runs behind the port and was used as a waterway for transportation between Chennai in the south andKrishna river delta in the north. Later in 1960’s iron ore was exported by wooden boats from this port and in early 1980’s Government of India declared this port as a minor port.

Krishnapatnam Port logo and Navayuga Engineering Company’s Logo (They own the port)

7) Identify this building. Clue: It’s inIndia

Ans:ChandigarhAssemblyBuilding

8) Which Chennai based institution was formed as per the recommendations of the report shown in the image below?

Ans: IDFC

9) Connect these two personalities. The former saved the latter.

Ans: The Bailey bridge is a portable pre-fabricated truss bridge. It is named after Donald Bailey. Army built a Bailey Bridge after a CWG bridge collapsed.

10) What built in the Pir Panjal range by a Alfred Kunz and C Barsel between 1954 and 1960, was lauded as an infrastructural marvel?

Ans: Jawahar Tunnel

Biz/Infra Quiz 3 Questions- Samvit School of Infrastructure Business

Samvit School of Infrastructure Business

Building Blocks-Quiz 3

Q1) Lutyens wanted the full courtyard of Rashtrapathi Bhavan to be seen from Vijay Chowk. Viceory Lord Hardinge, along with another architect, who was working with Lutyens, dismissed this as an expensive idea. The friendship between the architects ended thus. How do we know this battle?

Ans: Bakerloo or Battle of the Gradient

http://www.forbes.com/2007/06/20/072a.html

Q2) Connect.

Ans: Aswan Dam

a) Aswan Dam-

b) Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein-president of Egypt after whom the reservoir of the dam “Lake Nasser” is named.

c) High Dam Burg Memorial Wall, Aswan, Egypt

d) Logo of Arab Contractors Company which was involved in the construction of the dam

Q3) Connect these images to a material.

Ans: Maraging Steel

Pic1- Adolf Martens
Pc-2 PSLV rocket- it uses this steel
Pic3- fencing blades- uses this steel
Pic 4: Used in golf club heads

Q4) This celebrated Indian author’s father-in-law played a major role in building Delhi. Along with the author’s father and others who were contractors, the father-in-law amassed a lot of wealth from this project. Name the author.

Ans: Khushwant Singh
Father: Sobha Singh
FIL: Sardar Bahadur Teja Singh Malik, Chief Engineer of CPWD

5) Claim to fame?

Brazil has smashed Chile’s record by completing the world’s largest Lego tower.
The tower erected at a Sao Paulo shopping center — reaches a height of 102 feet and 3 inches, breaks the previous record set in Santiago by 25 centimeters (9.84 inches).

6)Connect

Ans: Autobahn

Pic1- Hitler shoveling the earth for the ceremonial groundbreaking, his entourage of top Nazi leaders looking on. Dr. Todt grins behind him.

Pic2- For his work on the autobahnen, Hitler awarded Todt with the German National Prize for Art and Science. The award was a replacement for Nobel Prize which Hitler forbade Germans from accepting in 1936

Pic3- Alfred Nobel

Pic4- The First Reich Autobahn (RAB), From Frankfurt am Main to Darmstadt ( photographed in 1935)

7) It’s called Vembanad. This has put Nehru in the back seat. What?

Ans: Vembanad- India’s longest railway bridge (8.86km), inaugurated recently.
Till recently, Nehru Sethu over River Son (3.065 kms) was the longest rail bridge in the country.

8) This mining town and the PSU that operates out of the town are named after an animal, its face to be specific. Though the said animal is nowhere present in the area, the area is rich and is known for a lot of other species. Name the town.

Ans: Kudremukh

9) Identify

Ans: Kiran Grandhi- GMR

10) But laid in two years, O! man.

Make a 7 word phrase

Rome Was not built in a day