Tata Crucible Corporate Quiz 2015 Chennai prelims

1.      John D Rockefeller’s Standard Oil- set up in 1863 to refine oil for what special purpose?

Ans. Lighting lamps

2.      What essential part of celebrations & parades come from the Italian word for “small sweet?”

Ans. Confetti

3.      The ______ ceremony marks the beginning of printing of budget documents of India’s budget?

Ans. Halwa

4.      Farida Khambata – what first in the world of Tata?

Ans. First woman director on Tata Sons

5.      Name the car in India which is also the highest male singing voice.

Ans. Alto

6.      Originally made from buffalo- hide & thread, 1^st worn as early as 13^th century- earlier called Kapashi, Kachkadi.

Ans. Kolhapuri Chappal

7.      Whose co., MPL Communications owns copy rights to more than 3000 songs including Buddy Holly.

Ans. Paul McCartney

8.      Composer of Raag- Darjeeling?

Ans. Niladri Kumar

9.      SJM Holdings Ltd, with 9.7 bn in 2011, followed by LV Sands Corp, and Caesars Entertainment, top 3 cos in which category? (Giri: Focus on LV to get the ans)

Ans. Casinos

10.  Tax literally meaning ‘according to value’ in Latin- based on real estate (clue: 1^st word has only 2 letters)

Ans. Ad Valorem

11.  Euromonitor estimates the business to be $2 bn. 1^st in China, it has an atomizer, LED, battery and vaporizer (Giri: It’s the future of the world)

Ans. E-cigarettes

12.  Business leader, engineer, chemist, scientist, inventor. Founded Nitroglycerin Aktiebolaget AB in Sweden.

Ans. Alfred Nobel

13.  In 1963, who was the 1^st head of government to have appeared in famous Playboy interview series?

Ans. Jawaharlal Nehru

14.  Whose creators envisioned him in a 1933 short story as a bald & telepathic villain seeking world domination?

Ans. Superman

15.  Which brand that was started due to a hit to meat & pie sales. Slogan- Stop me & Buy one.

Ans. Wall’s ice cream

16.  Identify [logo]

Ans. Versace

17.  Famous hyphenated brand – noun & verb. I am stuck on _____ because  ____ is stuck on me.

Ans. Band-aid

18.  First version of what item, used of war – Korean placed it next to telephones to note messages.

Ans. White Boards

19.  Brand owned by Kimberly – Clarke – gets name from St. Andrews Mill.

Ans. Andrex

20.  Bharat Airways (1947), now non-operational, was owned by which renown business house?

Ans. Birla

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

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