TATA CRUCIBLES NATIONAL FINAL CAMPUS QUIZ 2008

Hey Quizzers!!!!It was great attending the national finals.Rightly said by my dear friend Siddharth Misra…….it was a really nail-biting finale….going down to the last questions to determine the national champions!!!!

Q1.During WW2,British introduced “Shadow Factories”—they came up with two factories.Solihul setup became the home for what?

Ans:LandRover

Q2.In 1853,Tword of Kent listed the ingredients Hem,Brown Oat,Swift,Elam,Dragon blood production of what??

Ans: The 1st ever cricket ball.

Q3.RITES Ltd is an ISO 9001-2000 multidisciplinary organization.Was founded in 1974….cudnt complete the questions!!

Ans: Indian Railways

Q4.Cairos Technology in co-operation has started the smart version of what product?

Ans:Camera on the ball

Q5.Measuring 5ft high,8ft long weighs over a tonne created by Baghwan Rampuri……lifted straight out of ET!!!

Ans: Bull outside the stock exchange

Q6.Rene Lacoste made a bet with the captain of French Davis Cup team……..led to what?

Ans:Lacoste Brand

Q7.Close to 40 years,a gentlemen named Manish Boradiya’s contribution to India?

Ans: He made the Modi Mask

Q8.TISSOT in 1991 launched ‘Ceraten’ promoted by sponsoring Tour de Spain.Why the name Ceraten?

Ans:Watch made from Ceramic & Ten represents Lithium battery longevity of 10 years.

Q9.Started in 1960s,have 520 odd people,they produce 300 kilos of chips,2.5 lakhs-4.5 lakhs of hreads and namkeens.The brand is known as T-Namkeens.What so special abt this?

Ans:Pdts made by inmates of Tihar Jail.

Q10.PTFA was prepared in 1955 March for run-out fishing net.Inspired by this his wife used for something else….??

Ans: Teflon coated cooling pipes

Q11.Latin comes back—-veniore

Ans: Revenue

NANO GAMES:

Q1:’Warning’—-Japanese word?

Ans: Atari

Q2.Generic pdts Rauss David in 1840 in Cuba?

Ans: Peanut Butter

Q3.Cashew,Big Boss,Reals are brands of what?

Ans:Fenny

Q4.John and Jacob?

Ans:Schweppes

Q5.Garage start?

Ans:Naukri.com

Q6.British Bankers Association publises this?

Ans:LIBOR

PICTO GAMES:

Q1.Pic of Dove logo……why?

Ans: Made exclusively for military people

Q2.Pic of 2 gentlemen with 2 suitcases?

Ans:Results of Oscars contained in their suitcase by people of PWC

Q3.Patent pic?

Ans: iPod

Q4.Second career option started by?

Ans: Tata initiative

Q5.Pic?

Ans: Johari Window

Q6.Cloud of promise….pic of olympic torch

Ans: Lenovo

Q7.Pic of a finish to a race?

Ans: Henry Ford winning the race & then decides to made racing cars.

Q8.Pic of colour coding of Indian Flag

Q9.Pic of balance sheet depicted on a stone.

Q10.Pic of a cartoon:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_bear

Q11.Pic of notes replacing gold standards.

Q12.Pic of Ring shawl.

Ans:Shawl passing through a ring

LATERAL CONNECT (sorry 4 missing out on couple of questions,Buzzer Rd)

Q1.Star+Mahabharat pic+sloka from bhagwad gita:

Ans: Indian Army

Q2.Tata+JWT+Swanpic+Song of Sun God:

Ans:Air India

Q3.BULGA+Rony Ash+Leather Briefcase+pic of Dr.Shanmugam Chetty+Voice of Dr.Manmohan Singh

Q4.Ad of Coca-Cola+Benjamin Graham+Woodstock of Capitalism

Ans: Warren Buffet

TATA WORLD (BUZZER RD)

Q1.Began in Mumbai on Oct 9,2006 they have literally zipped acrosss India?

Ans:Croma

Q2.Launched on Aug 08,2006,ISRO are associated with

Ans:Tata Sky

Q3.Brain child of C.K.Prahalad,launhed in June 2004,a low cost hotel?

Ans: Ginger Hotels

Q4.Idea institute?

Ans:Nano

Results:

1)IIM Ahmedabad

2)NMIMS

3)ICAI Bangalore

4)SLS,Pune

Regards,

Anubhav & Vijaykrisha

Brand Equity 2008 (Delhi)

Q1.How do we better know the group of eight plants—Ridhi,Vridhi,Jeevak,Kakoli,Ksirkoli,Meda and Mahameda as?

Ans:Chyawanprash

Q2.Which company had the fastest entry into the dictionary of new words as a commonplace verb?

Ans: Google

Q3.The strenght of which product is indicated by SPF?

Ans:Sunscreen Lotion

Q4.According to London Financial Times,which was a virtual company with virtual profits?

Ans:Enron.

Regards,

Anubhav & Vijay.

BRAND EQUITY 2008 (Ahmedabad)

Q1.What is the answer to WAL-MART’S cheer ‘Who’s number one’?

Ans:Customer

Q2.A village in Gujarat is called Gati Nagar—why?

Ans:Because Cargo company GATI adopted and rehabilitated the village in the aftermath of Bhuj earthquake of 2001.

Q3.Which company patented a purple colour Pantone 2685 C?

Ans: Cadbury

Q4.Why was ice-cream brand HaagenDazs so named despite it being an American brand?

Ans:Because the company wanted a Swiss-sounding name.

Q5.Till the State Bank of Pakistan was established in 1948,which institution acted as the central bank of Pakistan?

Ans: Reserve Bank of India

Regards,

Anubhav & Vijaykrishna.

BRAND EQUITY 2008 (KOLKATA)

Hello Quizzers!!! Cud get hold of only few questions of d brand equity quiz held at kolkata on 12thMarch.Questions are in random order!!!

Q1.Which company was founded by brother Ambrogio and Egidio in 1946?

Ans: Perfetti

Q2.Who made the first cover design of Jawaharlal Nehru’s “The Discovery of India”?

Ans:Satyajit Ray

Q3.During WW2,what did the British call “Tatanagars”?

Ans: The armoured vehicle built by the Tatas

Q4.What is ‘Sundown Rule’ that Wal-Mart strives to achieve?

Ans:Dealing with customer request by the close of business on the day they are received.

Q5.Every year Kolkata Municipal Corporation buy 400 tonnes of at a cost of Rs.50 Lakh?

Ans:Broomsticks

Q6.Whose designation reads managing director,LeftWord Books?

Ans: CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat.

Regards,

Anubhav & VijayKrishna

TATA CRUCIBLES CAMPUS EDITION 2008 (PUNE)

Hello Quizzers!!!Hope everyone is doing great !!! The month doesnt get bigger than appearing 4 a crucible.The last regional round of Tata Crucibles was held in Pune on 9th March.And DIRFT-Do It Right The First Time or else it may happen to you also what happened to us.. we played too cautiously at the end losing the quiz but God sometimes gives a second chance we played cautiously and that fetched us the cheque for 30k yes the second prize at TC Pune ‘08…

Many good teams missed out from reaching the finals which made our trip quite easy but we threw it away in the last two rounds not attempting any Qs but life is like this you wont always get everything you look for but quite happy to b the runners up atlast we won something… congrats to the winners…;)

Q1.Imagine Cup is by which technological giant?

Ans:Microsoft

Q2.Baby’s day out is a concept by which I.T company?

a)Infosys b)Mindtree c) Wipro

Ans: Mindtree

Q3.Pic of Sumantra Ghoshal

Q4.A term from soccer used by company in giving VRS to its employee?

Ans:Golden Boot

Q5.Pulitzer Prize………dont remember d question!!!

Ans:Andy Chandler

Q6.Punchline of Canara Bank.

Q7.UB Groups tie up with a heavyweight Maharastra Politician.

Ans:Sharad Pawar

Q8.Jeff Taylor started what…….the ques was bit long:

Ans:Monster

Q9.Publishing company……..dont remember d questions.

Ans:World Economic Forum

Q10.Logo of Leyland

Q11.Metcafe’s law

Q12.1st U.K retail store to earn a revenue of 1 billion pound?

Ans: Marks & Spencer

Q13.Eli Lily’s weekend pill?

Ans: Prozac

Q14.A pic of currency of Russia.

Q15.Amul started its retail outlet branded as ATM.What does ATM mean?

Ans:Any Time Milk

Q16. Bipasha Basu—–lend her name to a mobile game.

Q17.Pic of cow with an elephant tusk.

Ans: Landrover

Q18.A song from the movie Race was played…..we had to identify the producer?

Ans:TIPS

Q19.Ad of Motorola.

Q20.Anatomy of Greed is a book abt which company?

Ans:Enron

Regards,

Anubhav&Vijay.

Final Standings for the Pune round:

1) SSLC (SUVAJIT & SHUBHODEEP)

2) ICTM (ANUBHAV & VIJAY)