Saturday, September 7, 2013

Tata Crucible Corporate Quiz 2013



Tata Crucible Corporate Quiz 2013
Chennai Prelims


1.       Identify the personality


Ans. Sanjeev Goenka, Vice Chairman, RPG Enterprises


2.       Japanese term adopted by Shigeo Shingo that means “mistake proofing”.

Ans. Poka-yoke


3.       Very famous automobile giant that advocates use of original parts. Even as the Indian car industry is reeling under slowdown, this company’s car sales have grown phenomenally.
Ans. Volkswagen


4.       Name this leather co. listed as COH in NYSE.

Ans. Coach Inc.


5.       Their first book, Across Asia on the Cheap, was written and published by Englishman Tony Wheeler and his wife Maureen Wheeler in Sydney in 1973. Identify.

Ans. Lonely Planet Publications


6.       American financier, banker, philanthropist and art collector who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation during his time. He saved major New York banks from becoming bankrupt by personally taking charge, thereby resolving the 1907 crisis.

Ans. J.P. Morgan


7.       _______ is the phenomenon whereby an attempt to hide, remove, or censor a piece of information has the unintended consequence of publicizing the information more widely, usually facilitated by the Internet.

Ans. The Streisand Effect


8.       “My word is my bond” is its motto. Identify.

Ans. London Stock Exchange


9.       Name this Hong Kong-based club whose turnover jumped 12.3 per cent to a record HK$94.4 billion ((€9.27 billion/$12.16 billion).

Ans. Hong Kong Jockey Club


10.   Based in Dallas, Texas, name this intercity bus service, a common carrier of passengers serving over 3,700 destinations in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Along with its flagship Greyhound brand, and the subsidiary Greyhound Express brand, the company also operates or co-operates BoltBus, NeOn, and YO! Bus.

Ans. Greyhound



11.   First appeared in 1884, it contained nine railroads and two industrial companies that appeared in the Customer's Afternoon Letter, a daily two-page financial news bulletin which was the precursor to The Wall Street Journal.

Ans. Dow Jones Industrial Average


12.   First airlines to introduce online check-in. It’s also the name of the place (Pickbrain: not necessarily a country). The system was first offered on a limited basis starting in September 1999, and was available to the general public on selected flights the following month.

Ans. Alaska Airlines


13.   The founders of this co. had their first Free Cone Day, where they gave free scoops to their local community way back in 1978 - and we've done it every year since! Identify.

Ans. Ben & Jerry’s


14.   The paper's motto, "All the News That's Fit to Print", appears in the upper left-hand corner of the front page. Its website has adapted it to "All the News That's Fit to Click."

Ans. The New York Times


15.   _______ began as a family magazine, launched in 1886 by Schlicht & Field of New York.

Ans. Cosmopolitan


16.   ______ were introduced to the American public by the National Biscuit Company (now Nabisco) on March 6, 1912. Porcello held five patents directly related to his work on this cookie.

Ans. Oreo


17.   Name this imaging company that would have been humongous in size had leveraged on its strengths (patents). It sold 1,100 digital imaging and processing patents to an organized consortium of 12 tech companies — Adobe, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Fujifilm, Google, HTC, Huawei, Microsoft, RIM, Samsung and Shutterfly for $525 million. The portfolio was said to be worth around $2.5 billion, but Kodak settled for the $525 million.

Ans. Kodak


18.   Virgin Chairman Sir Richard Branson drove a _____ (military vehicle) into Times Square and crushed a bunch of Coke and Pepsi.

Ans. Tank


19.   Identify the CEO and majority owner of Semco SA, a Brazilian company best known for its radical form of industrial democracy and corporate re-engineering, also the Author of the international bestseller, and The Seven Day Weekend.


Ans. Ricardo Semler


20.   In 1942 Revolite, then a division of Johnson & Johnson, originally developed an adhesive tape made from a rubber-based adhesive applied to a durable cloth backing. This tape resisted water and was used as sealing tape on ammunition cases during World War II.

Ans. Duck tape
 

21.   Listed as DEO on the NYSE.

Ans. Diageo


22.   Popular youth icon

Ans. Justin Bieber


23.   ______ is a fictional cat, and the "evil director of human resources" in the Dilbert comic strip

Ans. Catbert


24.   “The Reach and Limits of Growth: Economic Recession, Development and Human Capability” insights by ________.

Ans. Amartya Kumar Sen


Thursday, August 15, 2013

Landmark Quiz 2013 Chennai prelims



Landmark Quiz 2013 Chennai round prelims


1. Central hall of Parliament House

2. The Bible (Gutenberg)
3. Device invented in 1873- Typewriter
4. MS Subbulakshmi
5. Apple
 
6. Ashes Urn (Ivo & Florence Bligh) 

7. McBabbar- Rs 12 burger
8. Walt Disney font

9. Pacific Rim Nations
10. 'I think it's utterly mad; but if you think, it will work, go ahead'- Mr Verghese Kurein
11. Aerospace city in France- Toulouse
It’s related to an Indian city- Jaipur
 
12. Central African Republic (Q: Identify the African country highlighted in the map)
13. (i) Akbar    (ii) Pandit
14. Brotherhood without banners
15. Jim Morrison
16. Yannick Noah
17. Viji Krishnan
18. Omerta- Code of silence
19. The Salvation Army
20. .gif file format (invented by Steve Wilhite at CompuServe in 1987)
21. Introduced in 1985 in F1 cars- Camera (for on-board TV footage)
22. The Pied Piper of Hamelin
23. Michelangelo (hand)- prosthesis
24. Mandakani river (means ‘calm’ in Hindi)
25. Priyanka Chopra (debut song)
26. Jews & Zoroastrians (reservation in Iran Parliament) 
27. Window Tax- 1696
Term derived out of it- Daylight Robbery (robbing you of daylight)
28. The Panama Hat
29. A) The well of death
      B) The Centrifugal force
30. Creatures with bragging right
     A) Atlantic Sail fish (fastest creature in water)
     B) Peregrine Falcon (fastest in air)
     C) Cheetah (fastest on land)
31. Shonen Manga
32. Minecraft
33. T9- Text predictive software
34. American progressive metal band- Dream Theater
35. Mid Day Meal Scheme logo
36. Bungalow
37. Bhima & Hanuman (siblings from Ramayana and Mahabharata who confronted each other. They had a common father)
38. A) Death Star (Star Wars movie)
B) Richard Wagner
39. Sericulture (rearing of silkworms for the production of silk)