Tata Crucible Campus Quiz 2015 Chennai finals

Tata Crucible Campus Quiz 2015 Chennai finals

1.      [image] this painting portrays which modern day wedding tradition?

Ans. Gifting diamond ring

2.      In 1854 what was demonstrated for the first time at the New York Crystal Palace, the iron-and-glass exhibition hall at the center of the World’s Fair that changed the construction industry forever?

Ans. Lifts (by Otis)

3.      What did James Montgomery Flagg design which later went on to be called “poster of the century.” It was first depicted in the July 6^th, 1916 issue of the Leslie Weekly.

Ans. Uncle Sam

4.      Which company was founded in 1876 to provide a solution to the blisters that lumberjacks were experiencing caused by poor quality woollen socks?

Ans. Jockey

5.      How do we better know “South Asian Audio Visual Network?”

Ans. Saavn

6.      Complete the title of this book with a personality, on whose company this book is based on?

Ans. Murdoch

7.      Connect: Logo of a Tata company, pic of R. Ramanan, CEO and MD 

Ans. Tata CMC

8.      “Trade with Trust” is the tagline of?

Ans. MCX

9.      [image] of ships

Ans. Wadiya’s

10.  Which Tata company began its journey commissioning its first project in February, 1915 at Khopoli, Maharashtra?

Ans. Tata Power

11.  In February 1978 what magazine was launched and became India’s first business magazine that is still in print?

Ans. Business India

12.  An offshore investment fund, typically formed as a private limited partnership, that engages in speculation using credit or borrowed capital?

Ans. Hedge Fund

13.  In 1907, the California Fruit Growers Exchange went to see Albert Lasker at the Lord & Thomas advertising agency as one of the fruit crops they were growing in abundance but nobody was buying it, Lasker branded the Exchange as Sunkit and told Sunkit to popularise what to increase the sale of the fruit?

Ans. Orange

14.  Which company’s IT initiative is this? [image: logo]

Ans. India Cements

15.  Connect: Robert Bosch, Tata Nano and an ad.

Ans. Bosch

16.  Personality that appeared as Air Hostess in Air India ad. [image]

Ans. Parmeshwar Godrej (wife of Adi Godrej)

17.  Who is on the left [image]

Ans. Professor Simply Simple (fictional character by Tata Asset Managment)

18.  A company that was once making a takeover attempt but ends up discussing a merger with the target company is called _____ ______.

Ans. Yellow Knight

19.  What is a Google Tax?

Ans. A levy on company profits which have only online presence in a bid to divert funds deposited in tax heavens

20.  [Rare picture of a famous person]

Ans. Kasturi Rangan Iyengar, founder of Kasturi & Sons

21.  What in India was founded in 2000 as a website, changed itself to a tabloid-format newspapers in 2004 and switched to a magazine in 2007?

Ans. Tehelka

22.  Project Last Mile is an initiative from which MNC?

Ans. Coca Cola

23.  Connect: classmate ad, mint-o, Surya Nepal

Ans. ITC

24.  [image of a personality]

Ans. Gemini Ganesan/ Gemini Studios

Audience questions

1.      Who owns the site r.com?
Audience: Ronald Regan, Richard Nixon, Roosevelt, Richard Branson, Rahul Gandhi
Giri: Think cheeky. He is more powerful than all the US presidents put together :)

Ans. Rajnikanth

2.      Which entity had a clash with HSBC over the rights of using HSBC?
Giri: Think local.

Ans. Hotel Saravana Bhavan Corporation

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