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CHENNAI REGIONAL ROUND PRELIMSMarch 13, 2009
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PRELIMS
20 QUESTIONS
The answer to each question is in the slide just after the question
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Question 1
Which city hosted this years Pravasi Bharathiya Diwas?
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Answer 1
Chennai
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Question 2
Identify the logo
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Answer 2
NABARD Bank
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Question 3
SBI Launched a branch in Lucknow named “Vasundhara”. What’s special about this branch?
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Answer 3
Exclusive all-for-women branch
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Question 4 (In-built Tie Breaker) Which Hollywood director owns
Wingnut Films and also a three time Academy award winner?
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Answer 4
Peter Robert Jackson
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Question 5
Identify the Advt. (A print ad was shown).
The answer was LIC India.
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Question 6
Which group launched the “Happinezz Ice cream Parlour”?
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Answer 6
Vadilal Group
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Question 7
Which entertainment channel has entered into an agreement with Wrangler jeans to sell their jeans?
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Answer 7
MTV
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Question 8
Identify her.
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Answer 8
Sangeeta Reddy – Executive Director, Apollo Hospitals
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Question 9
Which fashion designer launched the “le smoking” clothing? Hint: He died last year.
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Answer 9
Yves Saint Laurent (YSL)
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Question 10
Which company was founded by Cecil H. Green, J. Erik Jonsson, Eugene McDermott, and Patrick E. Haggerty in 1951?(Clue given: IC suppliers to mobile phone manufacturers)
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Answer 10
Texas Instruments
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Question 11
Identify.
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Answer 11
R.Subramanian, Managing Director of Subhiksha
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Question 12
Which Actress replaced Aishwarya Rai as brand ambassador for Nakshatra Diamonds?
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Answer 12
Katrina Kaif
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Question 13
A former CEO, President & Chairman of ‘Silicon Spice’ was an independent director of the Satyam Board. Name him.
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Answer 13
Vinod Dham
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Question 14
This company introduced the first combination portable radio and cassette recorder which is marketed as the "radiorecorder". Some picture shown ---- Jubilee 4.
Identify the company.
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Answer 14
Philips
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Question 15
Indian Company launched branded T – Shirts under the brand name “Ginger Lemon”?
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Answer 15
Archies
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Question 16
Name the new CEO of Yahoo.
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Answer 16
Carol Bartz
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Question 17 (In-built Tie Breaker)
Identify the Logo.
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Answer 17
Thyssen Krupp AG
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Question 18
Which mobile service company launched the ‘New Thumb Rule’ SMS offer?
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Answer 18
Virgin Mobile
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Questions 19 and 20
Two Video advertisements were shown. The belonged to Kent-O Water Purifiers and the Yellow Pages respectively
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Wild Card Round-1
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Question 1
Who is the world’s largest Manufacturer of Vertical Transportation?
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Answer 1
OTIS
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Question 2
Sociologist, author & financial consultant Alfred W. Jones is said to be the first founder of a modern fund. Which fund?
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Answer 2
Hedge Fund
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Question 3
From 1st April 1957, India has rupee paisa system. What was before?
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Answer 3
The Anna system
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Question 4
Which Auto industry Veteran has set up Carnation Auto?
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Answer 4
Jagdish Khattar
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Question 5
Which global company introduced world’s first transistorised cardless portable television in 1960?
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Answer 5
Motorola
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Question 6
Men’s Active is a fairness cream brand of which company?
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Answer 6
Emami
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Question 7
Name the term used to describe a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to investors from their own money or money paid by subsequent investors rather than from any actual profit earned?
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Answer 7
Ponzi Scheme
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Question 8
This organization was formed in 1947 and lasted till 1994, till it was replaced by the WTO. Which organization?
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Answer 8
The GATT
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Question 9
Columbia Pictures was sold in 1989 by Coca-cola to whom?
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Answer 9
SONY
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Question 10
What task was first performed early 1987, which later on became a common feature in desktops?
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Answer 10
AntiVirus Fixing
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Question 11
Name the MD & CEO of Hindustan Unilever Limited.
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Answer 11
Mr. Nitin Paranjape
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Wild Card Round-2
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Question 1
Which Group in India is headed by Samir Jain & Vinit Jain?
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Answer 1
Bennett Coleman & Co.
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Question 2
In which Auto major does the Private Equity firm Cerberus Capital Mgmt holds a majority stake?
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Answer 2
Chrysler Corporation
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Question 3
Expansion of STAR (as in STAR TV)
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Answer 3
Satellite Television for the Asian Region
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Question 4
What is the Term or Phrase used to describe financial transadction that involves tax evasion?
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Answer 4
Money Laundering
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Question 5
Which famous family runs a business with HQ at Lausanne, Switzerland, and operates 4 business units worldwide?
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Answer 5
Bata Shoes
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Question 6
What product was developed by Australia-based Scottish-born inventor William Ramsay, who named it as a homage to his New-Zealand born wife, Annie Elizabeth Meek Ramsay?
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Answer 6
Kiwi Shoe Polish!
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Question 7
Pratichi Trust was set up in 1999 with the money came out of which Indian nobel prize winner?
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Answer 7
Amartya Sen
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Question 8
Precision optical Instruments Laboratory is now known as what?
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Answer 8
Canon
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Question 9
Ursula Burns serves as the President of which company?
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Answer 9
Xerox Corporation
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Question 10
This pharma company founded in Bunnythorpe, New Zealand in 1904. The main product was believed to have innocently created for a mother who was unable to breast feed her child.
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Answer 10
Glaxo Ltd.
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Question 11
This brand of soap has been made in India since 1934 and is market leader in its segment. The name of the brand comes from a arabic word meaning “public bathing establishment”.
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Answer 11
Haman, from the word “Hammam”