It was a well contested Pune edition this year. Some new teams...some familiar faces...all in all a handful of questions came to the audience. Goes to show the level of the teams.
TATA Round - Winners TCS
This was decided after a tiebreak which lasted close to 10 questions
External Round - Winners CTS
Played brilliantly without taking risks...
The following were some of the questions -
Prelims
1)Was the designer for Great Gatsby. Signed with initials RL ---- Ralph Lauren
2)Japan's greatest invention of the 20th century (as voted by the people) ----- Noodles
3)When Pepsi entered India, they introduced their own brand of Bamati Rice. Name ----Mughal Basmati Rice
4)Its first published use is credited to Don Hoefler, a friend of Vaerst's, who used the phrase as the title of a series of articles in the weekly trade newspaper Electronic News. The series began in the paper's issue dated January 11, 1971. What phrase??? ------- Silicon Valley
5)Kunal Lalani started this Ad agency. He had naming issues as it was named after a generic item kids use, even to this day ----- Crayons Ad Agency
6)It means 'a high priest who performs rituals' in Greek ----- hierarchy
7)He is George Gilett. European Club he owns
LIVERPOOL
8)There are certain people (homeless)in Japan who spend their nights at Mc Donalds. Specific name-----Mc Refugees
9)Identify the logo....which bank
J & K Bank
10)Time Magazine recently named two Indian people in its list of most influential people in 2009
One was business background. The other wasn't. Name the former------- Nandan Nilekani
11)Identify him. Hint - Pharma
Khwaja Abdul Hameid --- Founder of CIPLA
12)iMiEV is an electric variant of a car being launched by which company----- Mitsubishi
13)MaxHealthcare in collaboration with which company is starting the Anti Smoking campaign in India ------- Pfizer
14)The word is derived from the french region because this covered compartment physically resembles the cloak hood worn by shepherds in that region------ Limousine
15)Which Bollywood Actor endorses Levi's Signature --------- Shahid Kapur
16)Which Indian Bank recently started the Nav Nirman scheme. They revamped their logo to show interlocking with their customers --------- UNION BANK
17)System S... We have access to Real Time Data....which company -------- IBM
18)Public Investment Corporation (state pension fund) is the primary stakeholder of this company. The Mikati family of Lebanon holds another 10% (2nd largest shareholder). Which 3 letter company--------- MTN
19)Visual AD----- Samsung (Cell tracker)
20)Visual AD------ Surf Excel
Cut - off was approximately 15. TATA teams outscored the external teams. The highest score they had posted in the prelims was 19.
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