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

TATA CRUCIBLE NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL FINALS-2009

Semi Finals 1

DOMAIN EXPERTISE

1)some ques about Sunil Bharti Mittal & his adopted surname BHARTI

2) Identify:
















A) David Ogilvy


3) Identify this person (someone from the world of fashion)?



A) Satya Paul

4) Identify the author? ( the cover page one more book was also shown)




A) Sudha Murthy

5) The first in the world was in Japan and was titled as "Deep Love", by its creator Yoshi.The Indian first was "Neelakannukal" meaning (Blue Eyes) by P R Harikumar. What are these?

A) Mobile Novels

6) What is Slumpometer?

A) Something used to measure the severity of Recession. It takes in account the Gross Domestic product (GDP) and Gross Domestic Income (GDI).

7) Print Ad Identify the campaign?

A) DOn't drink and Drive.

iii) TATA WORLD

1) How do you know the coffee shop of Westside?

A) Cafe West.


SEMI FINAL-2

1) Identify the logo?



A) Election Commission Of India.

2) something related to RBI

3) Print Ad of Voting in USA

iii) TATA WORLD

1) Identify:














A) Girish Wagh

2) ques on Land Rover

3) ques on Blue Scope

4) Identify the logo?












A) TATA NEN


FINALS

I) THINK GLOBAL

1) ques on the Shamiana in the Taj

2) ques on LEE Cooper

3) What is project Roshini in Rashtrapati Bhavan?

A) Using alternative source of Energy in Rashtrapati bhavan other than Electricity.

4) ques on RTI

5) ques on ivory trading in india

6) In the world of Apparels what are Lock,Chain,Over lock & Cover? These are the four main categories?

A) Sewing Machines

7) ques on barack Obama's Campaign Yes we Can

8) ques on Ceat Cricket Ratings.

II) THINK PICTORIAL














With what would you credit the above person with?

A) JAIPUR FOOT (Dr. P.K.Sethi)

2)What did I give this world?













A) ATM (John Shepherd)

TATA CRUCIBLE (CAMPUS EDITION)- MUMBAI

TATA CRUCIBLE (CAMPUS EDITION)- MUMBAI

What better than to spend a lazy sunday afternoon attending the tata crucible Mumbai Edition. It was a nail biting finish till the last.The teams NMIMS vs IIT Bombay were giving a tough fight giving a flash back of previous year where the former had won in a tie breaker but this year it was the other way round with IIT Bombay winning in the tie breaker.The Quiz couldn't have been better than this with three questions in the tie breaker.

Winner: IIT Bombay

Runner's up: NMIMS


PRELIMS:

1) Which company is the official sponsor of the Mumbai Marathon?

A) Standard Chartered Bank

2) Logo of Thomson Reuters

3) missed out few ques for walking in late

6) This word meaning "Flower of Persia" means gift of god? (don't remember the exact ques)

A) JASMINE

7) Spiderman recently said "If you get to be on my cover,can i be on the dollar bill? who is he saying this to?

A) Barack obama on spiderman Magazine

8) Identify this partner of Farhan Akhtar?



A) Ritesh Sidwani

9) I'm is a range of office furniture launched by which company?

A) WIPRO

10) Which actress has signed her first endorsement deal with L'oreal as brand ambassador for its products targeted for the youth?

A) Sonam Kapoor

11) From the world of Mirc Electronics? Identify the gentlemen?

12) Which jewellery chain created the trophy presented to Sachin Tendulkar by BCCI to commemorate his scoring 12000 runs?

A) AURA

13)Which Japanese company has the ad line " Inspire the next " ?

A) HITACHI

14)Ad of Spark

15) This product was first used in 1890. It was used by more than 25 countries throughout the 20th century acquiring nick names such as Sizzlin,Sally, old Smokey,Old Sparky, Yellow Mama & Gruesome Gertie. What am i referring to?

A) ELECTRIC CHAIR

16)Which auto giant withdrew from F1 for the 2009 season?

A) HONDA

17)Print Ad showing Freedom from Protective Gear. WHich footwear giant?

A) LIBERTY

18)Which word came to English from french, derived from the greek word which means "Fruit of the Carob" ?

A) Carat ( used for measurement of gold)

19) Song: Pappu can't dance? Identify the production house?

A) Aamir Khan Productions

20) Ad campaign of Denim