Tata Crucible Corporate Quiz 2014 Chennai

Tata Crucible Corporate Quiz 2014
Chennai Prelims

1.       French football hero. Ooh Aah ____.

Ans. Eric Cantona

2.       Gene Roddenberry drafted a proposal for the science fiction series and publicly marketed it as a “Western in outer space.”

Ans. Star Trek

3.       Conté grading system is used to measure the hardness of a ______.

Ans. Pencil

4.       Charles Dow, Edward Jones, and Charles Bergstresser. Huge name in the world of finance started this famous journal.

Ans. Wall Street Journal

5.       The name of Romanian and Moldovan leu translates into ____ in Romanian language. It’s an animal. (Giri: Some teams wrote peacock, parrot :-) )

Ans. Lion

6.       After gamification, this recently coined term refers to learning resources for people below 12 yrs.

Ans. Kidification

7.       The first of this machine was built for concentration camps in Nazi Germany (1940) built by German companies I.A. Topf and Sons of Erfurt, and C.H. Kori GmbH.

Ans. Crematoria

8.       This company is said to have gone from cars to kitchens.

Ans. Premier

9.       (Ans) Kosher

10.   ____ _____ said that his work in advertising ‘taught me to write like a job. If you have the client coming in that afternoon for his new campaign, you can’t not have it. You have to have it. What’s more, it has to be good.’ Name this world famous author.

Ans. Salman Rushdie

11.   In 1965 this Ford product won the Tiffany Gold Medal for excellence in American design, the first automobile ever to do so.

Ans. Mustang

12.   Print ad. Clue: Two words. H_____ & N_____.

13.   William Scott Pinckney, CEO of which direct selling company was arrested by Andhra Pradesh police recently?

Ans. Amway

14.   (Ans) Chess

15.   This canned foam was in news during the 2014 football world cup.

Ans. Vanishing spray

16.   This Russian, son of a farmer, invented something that is popular in today’s world, especially Pakistan (Giri: Pak was a giveaway).

Ans. Mikhail Kalashnikov

17.   ____ acquired Harlequin Enterprises from Torstar Corporation, the largest newspaper in terms of supply in Canada. (Giri: This business head continues to acquire newspapers across the world).

Ans. News Corp headed by Rupert Murdoch

18.   This big diversified company acquired Bangalore-based Balan Natural Foods B, a natural juice brand, for about 100 crore.

Ans. ITC

19.   Image of Vishal Sikka

20.   Image of Ray Ban print advert- Never Hide