Tata Crucible 2010- Corporate Quiz- Ahmedabad

Complete Quiz questions- Courtesy: Samrat Mukherjee

Tata Crucible 2010 Corporate Quiz Ahmedabad

Winners: ITC-Anindya Sen

Runner Up: – Thermax
Other Teams on stage- IBM, Triton communication, Vodafone, Endeavour careers

Cut-off 11, Highest 14

Prelims:
1) Fundamental principal of any economic activity is that no man you transact with lose,then you will not.
This is from the work from the PM of Mauryan empire. Which book?

2) Gentically modified foods also called… It comes fromt he comic character , Victor____________

3) From French word for hook, velvet

4) Which French entrepreneur was the 1st to fit a pneumatic tyre to a motor car in 1895

5) Term used to describe neither bullish nor bear

6) What two words would connect “Much sort after enterprises which a bidder/also company wishes to acquire” connect to a

tower of london

7) Salary was original given to roman soldiers to buy what?

8) What in USA originally stretch from Trinity Church to east river

9) What was started by St Pranlal Denakaran naji

10) wHAT WORD did P&G drop from olay in 2000

11) Born in Sadalpur village, in Chiru district of Rajasthan, he is presidently non-exec dir of GS and ICICI bank, EADS.

12) 1938, while working with DU Pont, Roy Plunkett

13) Where would u find a circular annexe known as Rotunda, which was built in year 1992

14) World’s 1st collegiate business school, 1881, and is a brain child of Philadelphia entrepreneur.

15) Patented in 1906, this apparatus was originally intendede for machinery and industrial purposes. This person who patented

this, also defined the word cool.

16) Pic- R K Shanmugham chetti

17) David Ogilvy-pic

18) Tower kinda pic.. Ovi map from?

19) Producer of peepli live

20) Pic of a ship..sinking…Titanic is unshinkable.
Ad campaign by which insurance co.

Ans:

1) Arthashastra, Chanakya

2) Frankenstein

3) Velcro

4) Michelin

5) Chicken

6) Crown Jewel

7) Salt

8) Wall street

9) DENA

10) Oil

11) L N Mittal

12) teflon

13) BSE

14) Wharton

15) carrier

18) Nokia

19) Aamir khan

20) Iffco tokyo

Finals

1) phrase-1800 in us which describes unscrpulous, product at attractrive price, but in reality it is not
Bait and switch

2) japaenese term which means money clique- used to describe 4companies, Kawasaki, Nomura..
Zaibatsu

3) In jan 2008, despite great resistance, they adopted Voleru Fuerte,..kind of inflation concurrent currency
Venezuela

4) Gold vending Machine, Abudhabi, German entrepreneur

Liquid bullion

5) Stride, 4 year old brand from cadbury..introduced a chewing gum stride shift. This
chewing gum was inspired by 1971 movie, willy wonka choclate factory.

flavour gets better..more u chew

6) Ludhiana based co.is the sole supplier of buns to MCds.
Cremica

2nd round

1) Book cover- ‘Startup nation’ The story of ___________ economic miracle by Dan Senor and Saul Singer.
all was in blue… start up nation..above flag
Israel

2) Logo shown- old identity of BOB

3) small factory pic. Two brothers one location.
Dominoes

4) Pic shown. Street is named after him, which houses a famous building.
London stock exchange- St Nicholas Throb martin

5) Pic of Nandan Nilekani sitting with a person. What is happening here?
Head of LIC- Lic is providing the data base

6) Zain logo

3rd round- Tata

1)  Tata Sky’s Active English mainly aimed at housewives who feel uncomfortable talking in English is a partnership with?
British council

2)  Meri Dilli Meri Yamuna campaign initiated by the Art of Living Foundation to clean the ghats of Yamuna. Which co. behind it?
NDPL

3) Poltrona Frau Group of Italy, Jv with Tata.. Furnishings

Casa Decor

4) Weathermaker- subsidiary of
Voltas

connect

1) preity zinta, deepika padukone, unity is our strength
BSNL

2) Bipasha, Mahindra flyt
kinetic

3) Dlf logo, pic, MEL,
IPL- pic sundar raman

4) Preity zinta, funda mint, club spice, force 10
Godfreyphilips

1) Touring, softel, dyna, sportster

5% from iconic logo

1921, ridden by otto walker

Harley davidson

2)  11 sep 1961, founded in Morgus, in switzerland

WWF- fund

3)  Trick and Treat
UNICEF

Tata Sky’s Active English mainly aimed at housewives who feel uncomfortable talking in English is a partnership with?

Tata Crucible 2010-Corporate-Quiz-Jamshedpur

Tata Crucible 2010-Corporate-Quiz-Jamshedpur

Courtesy The official quizzing Club of BIT Mesra http://qbitmesra.blogspot.com

1) Which word in the current business world what is derived from latin for “patere” meaning to lay open?
2) Which retail giant is Asda in UK and Seiyu in japan?
3) The chairman of Mahindra and Mahindra landed up in trouble because of his association with Bhopal Gas Tragedy?
4) Logo of

5) Who according to forbes is the richest African American ?(hint:a lady from entertainment)
6) Which antiseptic cream was started by launched in 1929 in Kolkata by GOUMOHAN DUTTA a Bengali merchant?
7) Which organisation has the catchline “edge is efficiency”?
8) Signifies what


9) Who designed the logo MRF tyres?(very famous in advertising)
10) Amitabh Bachchan has lent his voices to many ads..(but its has always been sung by voice-likes).The first ad he sang was for a company in 2009.which company?
11) Which ketchup company had a tagline “weight watchers”?
12)

He came up with a publishing house(with a cute name) and changed from hard bound covers to paper back.which company?
13) What resulted Maastricht treaty in the year 1992?
14) Which clothes brand often mistaken as an international brand actually is an INDIAN
Brand known as Charlie clothing company initially? Is publicised by the symbol K
15) Which calendar started in 1964 was brought as a sensational one by one of very famous tyre companies?(the tyre company even wanted to patent the smell of the tyre manufactured by it)
16) What is this a joint venture of Microsoft and HP called

17) Logo of google wave
18) Kamasutra is a 50:50 joint venture between 2 companies. One is J.K ANSELL pharmaceuticals.the other??
19) Which Indian online travel company started online holiday reservation packages with a DESIRE to bring people back home to India?
20) Photo of

1) Patent
2) Walmart
3) Keshubhai Mahindra
4) Samsonite
5) Oprah Winfrey
6) Boroline
7) BSE
8) Silk mark
9)Alyque Padamsee
10) Humani navratna tel
11) Heinz
12) Penguin publishing
13) Euro
14) Koutons
15) Pirelli
16) Slate
17) Logo of google wave
18) Raymonds
19) Aarzoo.com
20) Photo of C.B bhave

Tata Crucible 2010-Corporate-Quiz-Guwahati

Tata Crucible 2010-Corporate-Quiz-Guwahati

All together 62 teams took part for the 1st ever Tata Crucible Corporate Quiz in Guwahati on 09.09.2010

Winners: Syed Burhanur Rehman(Delhi)  and Manzilur Rahman (Guwahati Branch)  – Green Shield (NGO)

Runner Up: Rudra Deka & his partner from BHARTI AIRTEL

Other teams on stage- LIC, Vodafone, M&M, J.THOMAS

Few prelims qs

1) Who is India’s Pickle king

2) What does C in J.C Penny stand for?

3) Latin word for little tail

Ans1: Lakhubhai Pathak
Ans2: Cash
Ans3: Pencil

Find the updated review from Abhra Das

1.Recently which corporate house has started a campaign for promoting indian junior Tennis players ,their trainning etc Apollo Tyre

2.PIC- Identify the media baron-Ted Turner

3.Identify the car recently launched in india-Mahindra Xylo

4.pic-DDLJ FILM and identify the production house- Yashraj Films

5.pic of one executive from HERO motors – Pawan Munjal

6.More is the retail chain from which business house -A.Birla group

7.The official time keeper of olympics-Omega

8.if Invisible hand : Adam smith  what is to chandler – visible hand

9.one question of negative Tv ad character that gave an positive impact in advertising a brand- ONIDA Devil 1982

10.Absolutely mangolesious -whose slogan -SLICE

11.which whisky brand has a name that gives a negative impact in indian lifestyle- TEACHERS

12.hoteliar recently came in to controversy-chatwal

13.founder of sandwich brand Subway

14.How is Brad’s drink better known as -pepsi

It was good mix of questions , i was one of the participants ( just missed the final by 1 points ,this is the 1st ever of Tata crucible Corporate Quiz here in Guwahati ,thanks to TBQ for helping with a great preparation.

Regards,

Abhra Das

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Tata Crucible Kolkata Corporate 2010 Prelims

Tata Crucible Kolkata Corporate 2010

Winners: Telegraph

Runner Up-CTS

Other teams- Salwa resources, West Bengal state electricity, ITC, HSBC

Tata Internal

Winners: MetalJunction

Q’s will be updated soon

1) family of jew ethnicity..’We never buy low, never sell high.. we always end up selling soon, never making enough profit’

2) Nirmala joshi, 1997, Mary Prema was elected to succeed  in 2009. Which organization?

3) silverbullet- beer brand..bottle- temperature.. indicator. Which brand?

4) ‘free from care’- latin. Which financial instrument

5 ) He designed clothes for this actor in “American Gigolo’. Which fashion designer?

6)  Rollys Royce- Number Plate-Au1. For which character?

7) He first appeared in the daily King Features comic strip Thimble Theatre on January 17, 1929. Which cartoon character?

8) 1869, banke de paris

9) which mag- global 2000..sales.. started in 2003

10) Which thinker and statistician- 5 year plan.. Founder of a great institution in this parts.

11) 2010 football world cup official time keeper

12) Peter Eigen founded this ngo-fights corruption

13) MBA from Stanford University, U.S. in 2001 and went on to work as an investment banker for Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley. He also gained some development experience with the UN Economic Development Cell. He interned with the UN Economic Development Cell.

14) 17th century, electrical goods… based Pirus…

15) telecom austria- telephone booth- for what purpose

16) Anand kumar, did not have money to do a PHD in Mathematics from cambridge. What did he start?

17) 2010- ferari world theme park. Where?

18) poker site- Indian

19) rbs logo

20) badmash co. prod co?

Answers:

Ans1: Rothschild

Ans2: Missionaries Of charity

Ans3: Coors

Ans4: Securities

Ans5: Giorgio Armani

Ans6: Goldfinger

Ans7: Popeye

Ans8: BNP Paribas

Ans9: forbes

Ans10: P C Mahalanobis

Ans11: Hublot

Ans12 : Transparency International

Ans13: Jyotiraditya Scindia

Ans14:

Ans15: EV recharging stations

Ans16: Super30

Ans17: Abu Dhabi

Ans18: Anurag Dikshit?

Ans19: Rbs logo

Ans20: Yash Raj Films Production

Tata Crucible Bhubaneswar Prelims Corporate 2010

Courtesy: Manasa Nayak

http://kwizpakodah.blogspot.com/

BHUBANESWAR TCQ PRELIMS QUESTIONS:-

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1. Who handed over first Maruti 800 car to Harpal Singh?

2. In mandarin, it is ke-ko-ke-le which means Happy Feelings in your mouth. What am I talking about?

3. What symbol is used in India for a non polluting and environmental friendly product during manufacturing and usage?

4. In the movie, Dil Se Srk Khan was working with which organisation?

5. This term was coined by Ben Hamersley which means “audible revolution” etc…..what am I talking about?

6. The name of the company comes from a biblical character, it means a container, it is something to do with travel accessories etc….what is it?

7. See the USA in your _________.

8. Which is the only state to have three stock exchanges?

9. Stamped coin in Sanskrit is a currency of a nation. What is this?

10. Kavita Choudhury acted in the DD serial UDAAN. She is famous in the advertising world as what?

11. Maurice Wilks & Spencer Wilks started something in 1947 etc…….

12. We can associate Elliot Handler, Bentley Bradley with this brand of toy, kids love it the most and demand for it from their parents. What is this?

13. A wax model of this commercial symbol was first to be placed in Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum in 1994.it is the first ever commercial symbol to get a place in tussaud”s….

14. Carta blanca, eristoff vodka, greygoose…which bigger brand name is missing from the group?

15. Lumix Digital camera, viera plasma belongs to whom?

16. Minister Anand Sharma’s picture given and asked to identify

17. PNX is the ticker symbol of trading? This company is there in India now. Name the huge conglomerate?(Best question. stumped all..)

18. Fiama di wills logo was given and asked to identify.

19. I hate Love Story’s one of the producer is UTV, Which other production house produced it?

20. Amul advertisement was shown with the pic of P.Chidambaram with a bread n butter. As sweet as ______, is the taste of AMUL.The print ad was shown.

We missed out some easy questions like Dharma, Samsonite and yet again missed the dias. Kamal Rathi,my partner answered an audience question which was one of the difficult questions and got an audience quiz. I left after the first round of the finals, cause I was about to host a quiz at Confidence Factory at Rotary Club, Bhubaneswar by 5PM.Final questions to be collected and to be posted soon. When I left the hotel, XIMB was way ahead followed by Vizag Steel, Vodafone, IOC .Finally heard that XIMB won and Vizag Steel runners-up. Last time the XIMB professors were there in the finals but missed the bus. This time they were in full form. As Giri said beautifully, the quiz was a tribute to Teacher’s Day tomorrow.

NOTE:-The questions are not framed properly in a hurry.. Bye.. All the best.. Excuse me for this.

Ans1: Indira Gandhi

Ans2: Coca Cola

Ans3: Matka or a Pot

Ans4: AIR

Ans5: Podcast

Ans6: Samsonite

Ans7: Chevrolet

Ans8: Gujurat

Ans9: Taka

Ans10 : Lalitaji of surf

Ans11: Landrover

Ans12: Hotwheels

Ans13: Singapore Girl of Singapore airlines)

Ans14: Bacardi

Ans15: Panasonic

Ans17: POSCO

Ans19: Dharma Productions

Ans20: Budget

Tata Crucible Quiz Chennai- Corporate 2010

Tata Crucible Chennai- Corporate 2010

Non-Tata Track Winners:

Madras Metalurgical- Gopal Kidao & team
Runner’s up- Irevna
Other teams on stage  Sanmar,infy, wipro,(missed one team)

Cut-off arnd 14 for Non-Tata Track

Tata Track Winners– Jayakanthan (JK) and Deviprasad (DP)-TCS.
All 6 TCS team on stage

Prelims questions

1)little bits of gold-
doritos

2)Narayana Murthv venture-
Catamaran

3) Complete the quote “I want to give a woman a scent of_________ and not of a flower”
Woman

4) In 2000, Lego tied up with this film personality to create movie maker set
Spielberg

5) Gorur Ramaswami iyenger- first name of this businessman
Captain Gopinath

6) Blue lights special- which retail giant
K mart

7) Tobacco company- veni, vidi, vici
Philip Morris

8) Patent by Clyde coleman and Charles kettering
electric self starter

9) Started as PINWHEEL
Nikleodon

10) Steve Balmer in may 2009, unveiled- in San diego. What?
BING

11) Ashok Kumar, Saeed Jaffrey and Shami Kapoor
Pan Parag

12) Introduced in 1535, by King Henry VIII  of England, Carl-Peter- tax
TAX on Beard

13) Charles Emile & Charles-Félicien-which watch brand
Tissot

14) Known as Company Bahadur in India
East India company

15) If you TBTF in credit market, where you lower your risk and add more attractive investment. What is TBTF
Too Big To Fail

16) Started by GRRL, founded by Ingrid Newkirk
PETA

17) Lion with wings on a pillar
Cannes Lion

18) Chennai based Star health insurance, insurance for a special group of people
HIV

19) Pic of  jai prakash goel- J P Group

20) Pic  Seth Godin

21) Mocha coffee logo

22) Thilla langadi- movie -distribution rights

Sun

23) Coin to Commemorate  what? Thiruvalluvar pic –
World tamil conference

TBQ-Tata Crucible Quiz-Current Affairs-Sample-12

Like.com allows users to search for jewelry, handbags, shoes, and watches. It has agreed to be bought over by which company?

Ans: Google

Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah issued a decree to appoint David J. O’Reilly to the board of directors of Saudi Arabian Oil Co., or Aramco.Of which company was he a former Chief Executive and Chairman?
Ans: Chevron Corp.

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1)TVS Electronic’s product Gold Bharat. Why is it in news?

Ans1: The first keyboard to have the Indian rupee symbol

2) Which company launched Cabriolet, a four-seater convertible with soft top, priced at Rs. 64.50 lakh?

Ans2: Mercedes Benz

3) Which operator launched a novel service, ‘Call n Tweet’?