TATA CRUCIBLE- MUMBAI EDITION

TATA CRUCIBLE,MUMBAI- 2009


The Tata Crucible of Mumbai saw a fierce battle as giri rightly said the "Mother of all battles" with the national champions of 2006,2007,2008 & the defending champions of Mumbai round coming up on stage.It was no less than the National Finals being witnessed with Sun Microsystems emerging as the winner followed by HUL in a tie-breaker.

The teams on stage (Non Tata Track)

1) IMRB (defending champion, Mumbai-2008)

2) Sun Microsystems (Mitesh Agarwal & team), National Champion-2008

3) Questa Software (Manish Tandon & Amit Pandeya),National Champion-2006

4) CRISIL (Dhananjay & team), a well known quizmaster

5) Deutsche Bank (Rajiv Rai & Sudipta Roy), National Champion- 2007

6) HUL (Pradeep & team)


TATA TRACK

Winners: TCS (M Suresh Kumar & Anirudha Dutta)

Runners up: Tata Capital (Govind & team)


PRELIMS


1) What is common to "Engaging you,Acheiving together,passion for innovation,very human?

NOKIA

2) Which company founded by Ren Zhengfei is the largest applicant under WIPO patent cooperation treaty displacing Philips from the first place?

A) HUAEWEI

3) Which foundation confers the prestigious Saraswati Samman & Vyas Samman awards to promote literature?

BIRLA FOUNDATION

4) MIT prof. Dr. Y W Lee invested his life savings in 1964 to fund which company?

BOSE CORPORATION

5) BOSSENI logo

6) Which company was founded to fend off 'regret minimization frame work'?

AMAZON

7) Which construction & mining equipment manufacturers logo in Black & Yellow is offset at 18 degrees to the horizontal & 22 degrees to the vertical founded by Joseph Cyril Bamford. What are we taling about?

JCB

8) Which management guru who reimagines, once served in the US Navy & later worked as a senior drug abuse advisor in the White House?

TOM PETERS

9) The Shot Show is the worlds longest exposition of firearms,archery,cutlery,outdoor apparel,camping and related procedures. If OT stands for OUTDOOR TRADE. What do S & H stand for?

SHOOTING & HUNTING

10)Identify: Nick Leason pic (Cover page of the book: Back from the brink coping with stress)

11) Which chain of Hotels founded by Kemmons Wilson takes its name from a Bing Crosby movie?

HOLIDAY INN

12) Area 71 is the unofficial title for which public corporations data center?

WALMART

13) Which magazine has the tagline "Where fashion gets personal" ?

HAPERS BAZAAR

14) Segway & who launched a tiny electric car as new carbon transport vehicle called 'PUMA'(Personal urban mobility & accessibility)?

GENERAL MOTORS

15)Identify: Pepsi's mascot

16) Which global pharma giant makes "Pegasys" the first drug to be given patent in india after the the adoption of the new patent regime?

ROCHE

17) Which billionaire became the only repeat space tourist till now?

CHARLES SIMONYI

18) Which Indian Cricketer sold licensing rights to his name as a brand to Delhi based license India?

HARBAJAN SINGH

19) Which global giant introduced a new container called "Plant Bottle" made from Sugarcane & Mollasses that is completely recyclable?

COCO-COLA

20) Which famous personality wrote the poem 'is baar nahin' after the Mumbai terror attacks in 2008?

PRASOON JOSHI

21)Which country recently announced plans to become the first carbon neutral county in the world?

MALDIVES

22) Which Computer maker joined hands with UTVi to bring out some of the success stories of lesser known entrepreneurs through "TAKE YOUR OWN PATH" campaign?

DELL

23) With a Security blanket of Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), they became the first private firm to be protected by the force,which usually guards govt. institutions ?

INFOSYS

24) video ad of SBI

25) video ad of Itch Guard