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