Tata Crucible Quiz 2010 :: Campus Edition at Bhubaneswar

The teams in the finals were that of-

KIIT University, Bhubaneswar
XIM, Bhubaneswar
DRIEMS, Cuttack
Utkal University, Bhubaneswar
NIST, Berhampur
Silicon Institue of Technology, Bhubaneswar
Winners: DRIEMS
Runners up: Utkal University

Twenty Prelims Questions - 

1)Which international food company in India uses the original Coat of Arms of its founding family asits company logo which consists of a bird feeding its children in a nest?

Ans. Nestle

2)Calvin Klein is owned by which international company?

Ans. Van Heusen

3)Identify her

Ans. Kiran Mazumdar Shaw. India's richest woman and CEO of Biocon

4)Which famous businessman has been ranked as the Businessman of the Century by Fortune magazine?

Ans. Henry Ford

5)Which is the only railway station to be named after a business group?

Ans. Tatanagar

6)Identify the company

Ans. Puma

7)The logo was designed by Carol Davison for a mere fees of
$35.The logo is now the trademark of a very famous company.
Name the company

Ans. Nike

8)Which city is known as the diamond capital of India?

 Ans. Surat

9)Who is the author?

Ans. Robin Sharma

10)Which company’s campaign?

Ans. Idea Cellular

11) Which company makes these products?

Ans. Marico

12)Name the economic daily of The Hindustan Times.

Ans. Mint

13)Which company was known as Racal Telecom in 1984? (Clu: UK based company)

Ans. Vodafone

14)Who is she?

Ans. Carol Bartz (CEO of Yahoo)

15)In 1921 Howdy Chicago became the first to achieve this.It then after
set a trend.What was the achievement??

Ans. First movie to be screened in the flight

16)Which brand?

Ans. Nirma

17)This very widely used gadget is manufactured by a canadian
company Research in Motion

Ans. Blackberry






18)It was called ‘Pinwheel’ when it was introduced in Dec 1, 1977 and owned by QUBE channel. What’s this kids channel now known as?

Ans. Nickelodeon


19)Which is the largest prescribed drug in India which comes in flavours of mint, mix fruit and orange? (Clu: Choices given: Saradon, Digene, Hajmola)

Ans. Digene






20)Song from Kaminey played. Tell the producer/production house





Ans. Ronnie Screwaala (UTV Motion Pictures)

Tata Crucible Campus 2010 Schedule

Feb 20      - Nagpur

Feb 21       - Indore

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Feb 24      - Coimbatore

Feb 25      - Cochin

Feb 27      - Panaji

Mar 5        - Jaipur
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Mar 6        - Chandigarh

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Mar 7        -Delhi

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Mar 9        - Lucknow

Mar 13      - Chennai
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Mar 14      - Kolkata

Mar 15      - Bhubaneswar
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Mar 18      - Ahmedabad

Mar 20      - Hyderabad

Mar 21      - Bangalore

Mar 23      - Ranchi
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Mar 25      - Guwahati

Mar 27      - Mumbai
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Mar 28      -  Pune
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Mar 31      - Manipal
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Tata Crucible '10 Campus Format

As usual Pick Brain has decided to make this revolve around 20-20 cricket.

Progressive Increments (called overthrows) - where the value of a direct question is 6, if it passes to the next team the value becomes 7 and so on. The logic is if you can answer a question passed by 5 teams you deserve more than the base value of the answer.

PowerPlay - which can be deployed by a team only on direct questions and it gives you the chance to do a super six (double your score) but with a negative if you are wrong.

Tata Crucible Campus Quiz '10 Delhi - Prelims

1. Which clothing company has Omini as their logo?

Ans. Kappa

2. Miramax films is the art house film division of which company?

Ans. Walt Disney

3. This person in many ways in news in India for the split in Family business. Name the Business Group?

Ans. Bajaj

4. Name Mira Nair’s Film Company for a 1989 movie?

Ans. MiraBai Films

5. World’s largest digital camera manufacturer?

Ans. Nokia

6. Id the publishing company

Ans. Harper Collins

7. Name the Indian hockey team sponsors?

Ans. Sahara

8. Which Insurance company has Rock of Gibraltar in their logo?

Ans. Prudential

9. ID Author

Ans. Ayn Rand

10. Ad for?

Ans. Unicef

11. Campaign for?

Ans. PETA

12. 14% alcohol by volume in samich lans(santa clause) is one of the strongest beers, originally brewed in zurich.Name the only country other than zurich which also claims the same?

Ans. Austria

13. Claudia Schiffer first jeans advertisement?

Ans. Guess

14. Id this American Billionaire.

Ans. Carl Icahn

15. Which Pharmaceuticals company's name in latin means "New Skills"

Ans. Novartis

16. Ad for?

Ans. Boeing AD

17. Neck and Tie is a retail store in Airports, Which company runs it?

Ans. Raymonds

18. Parent Company of Random House?

Ans. Bertelsmann

19. Bird in the Swarowski Logo?

Ans. Swan

20. Id the Produer of this movie? (Song from Bachna ae Haseeno)

Ans. YRF

Tata Crucibles Corporate Edition - Pune 2009 - Main Round

General Questions

1)Donald T. "Don" Valentine is an influential venture capitalist who concentrates mainly on technology companies in the United States. He has been called the "grandfather of Silicon Valley venture capital". He founded which venture capital. This firm also provides venture capital to YouTube, Paypal, Google etc -------- Sequoia Capital

2)Several presidential candidates used this during the elections this year, especially the Nader – Gozalves and the Obama – Biden group. It claimed to have increased its membership by 43% during that period. What???--------- Twitter

3)According to an Atlanta Magazine article published in May 1963, Coca-Cola’s marketing department used its IBM 1401 computer to generate a list of over 250,000 four-letter words with one vowel, adding names suggested by the company's own staff. The list was stripped of any words deemed unpronounceable or too similar to existing trademarks. From a final list of about twenty names, X was chosen, influenced by the possible play on words. What is X? ---------- TaB

Crossword

1)BooProo, Spout, and other such chewing gums. Which company -------- Lotte

2)Le Meridien was established in 1972 by X "to provide a home away from home for its customers." ------Air France

3)It is now the largest e-marketplace for steel in the world, having sold over 4 million tonnes of steel for its clients and currently selling at an average rate of 150,000 tonnes per month. What? ---------Metal Junction

Dry Round

1)Former CEO – Douglas Baillie

New CEO – Nitin Paranjpe

Which company ----------- HUL

2)How did Venture Bay Consultants come in the news recently? -------TechM’s arm which bought Satyam

3)Connect - Ship, Homelites, Tekka, Horsehead, Three Mangoes, Cheeta Fight, -------WIMCO match boxes

4)It is wordplay based on grassroots democracy efforts – truly spontaneous undertakings largely sustained by private persons – as opposed to politicians, governments, corporations, or public relations firms. What? ------------- Astroturf

5)It was designed by Charles Sykes and carries with it a story about a secret passion between John Walter Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu and his secret love for Lady Eleanor. This resulted in the emblem. What?------Rolls Royce Spirit of Ecstacy

Visuals

1)Identify the ad

Exide Battery

2)Identify him

Harsh Goenka

3)Who is she?

Christie Heffner (Hugh’s daughter, Playboy CEO)

4)Worldwide merchandise which is ‘outside the world’. Who is this for?

Prisoners

5)What is this car’s claim to fame?

Peugot Eclipse. World’s first hard top. When the top went up and down, it resembled an eclipse. Hence the name.

6)Who is she?

Milan Vohra. Mills & Boons first Indian writer

7)Identify him

Jagdish Bhagwati - Indian Economist

World of TATA

Questions on TATA Tele trans India, TATA Tea, and TIS

Different Gears (4questions common to the 6 teams on stage)

1)Connect – Nike, AIG, Budweiser, Hublot Geneve, Betfred (all visual) ------ Man U

2)Connect Phillips, Reebok, Kingston , JJB, Emirates (Ad) ---------- Stadium names

3)Connect K3G ( background music---Karan Johar is what they were looking for), Prachi Desai, Lalit Modi, Pathans --------------all endorse Tata indicom

Final Round - Cruise Control (3 questions, 60 seconds, 3 clues per q. If able to answer in 1^st clue – 15pts / -10, 2^nd clue 10 pts / -10 and 3^rd clue 5pts /-10…all 3 qs common to all teams)

Q1

Clue1—JL Baird TV Demo done here

Clue2 – The customer is always right

Clue3 – Flagship store in London is 2^nd biggest in UK after Harrods.

Ans – Selfridge’s Dept store

Q2

Clue1 – Its origins go back to 1863, when a group of New York City businessmen raised $100,000 to found the National Union Life and Limb Insurance Company.

Clue2- It lent money to build the Rockefeller and the Empire State Building

Ans – MetLife

Q3

Clue1 - It was founded by Zavary and his brother in 1966. They sold horses to raise the initial $12,000 needed to start the company. Using the money and a 12-acre (49,000 m²) lot used to bury horses, the brothers founded the company

Clue2 - Because they had no science background, they hired 10 doctors and scientists from the Haffkine Institute of India. After a number of legal hurdles, the company finally received permission to produce vaccines. Sales finally began picking up when the company won contracts to supply state governments and hospitals.

Ans – Serum Institute of India. The other brother being Cyrus Poonawalla