TATA CRUCIBLE CORPORATE EDITION -2015(BHUBANESWAR PRELIMS & FINALS)(All the care has been taken to put the original questions that were asked in this quiz. If there is any spelling mistakes or pics don’t match please pardon me)

PRELIMS

1)Name the internet company that launched the “LOOK UP”campaign.

Ans)Housing.com

2)Which automobile brand derives name from an animal whose scientific name is “Panthera onca”?

ANS)Jaguar

3)This company which is one of the largest player in the construction and infrastructure industry launched their brand Oris in the consumer electrical space in 2013?

Ans)L&T

4)Identify this person or which group he heads (HINT-this person heads a footwear company)

Ans)khadims

5)The company has launched a carpooling app called Ryde.Unlike some of its competition like Bla Bla cars and Tripda.Ryde offers both Intracity and Inter-city rides?

Ans)ibibo

6)Identify the organisation whose new rebranding logo is this(hint- aluminium).

Ans)NALCO (NOT INDIAN COMPANY)

7)This began as Shriram fibres in1970 when the parent company DCM decided to setup a separate entity to manufacture nylon type cord fibres?

Ans) SRF

8) Identify this person or which company did he belonged to ?(who went on to Pakistan and part of a respectable company from India)

(note-the pic shown by Giri is Jagdish Chandra Mahindra)

Ans)MAHINDRA AND MAHINDRA

9)Aerospatale and Aerotalia merged this two separate but similar regional aircraft merges into a single effort in 1981.what was formed?

Ans)ATR

10)Identify this businessman in India.

Ans)Dilip Ray

11)Identify the person who is currently holding a portfolio in India Government.

ANS)RAJYAVARDHAN RATHORE

12)Whose new branding is this?

Ans)Air India

13)WROGN is a brand from which celebrity?

Ans)Virat Kohli

14)Which pharma company was named after the Saldhana Brothers?

Ans)Glenmark

15)David McConnell , a bookseller turned perfume entrepreneur on 1888 would offer women the opportunity to create and manage their own business through what taker became known as direct selling .Name the business he created?

Ans)AVON

16)Whose logo is this?

Ans)National Egg Coordination Committee

17)Bhavish Aggarwal and Ankit Bhatia founded this radio cab service?

Ans)OLA cab

18)This brand was launched in Thailand as a soap where King Ramanna V asked Unilever to supply his household with soap. Name the brand. (name derives from valour or vigour).

Ans)Vim

19)It was patented in 1902 by Fredrick William Lanchester and used successfully on Lanchester car Italian company BremboSPA is one of the largest manufacturer of the part?

Ans)Disc Brake

20)Identify the company whose new logo is this?

Ans)FOURSQUARE

Finalists for the quiz1.MINDFIRE SOLUTION

Abhijit Panda & Kaushik Sahoo

2.Mothers public school

Bivash Rath Attreya & Jayanta

3.TCS

Sudhamaya Singh & Abhikshit Das

4.Infosys

Saransh Mohapatra & Subroto J Mukherjee

5.XIMB

Prof.Subhasis Ray & M N Triparthi

6.IIFCO

D.K..Jena & Vipin Pourush

Finals

ROUND-1 (SPRINT )

1)SILVER POINTER (60)

This gentleman namely Johan something whose surname is quite famous and associated with a moped company India?

Ans)PUCHQ2)Bronze (50)What beer brand founded as the Osaka brwery in 1889 lterally means “morning sun” in Japanese?

Ans)ASAHI beer

Q3)SILVER (60)

Lateral thinking

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Ans)Careera

Q4) Bronze?

Which famous 1987 movies has the tagline” A young and impatient stockbroker”?

Ans)WALL STREET

Q5)GOLD (75)

Which famous name was inspired from the fact that the first stores resemblance the boudoirs (Bedroom) of a 19th century monarch who was a notorious prude?

Ans)Victoria SecretQ6)SILVER(60)

Which popular term originated in the 1980s when accounting practices would retailers traditionally operated at a financial loss for most of the year (January through November) and made their profit during the holiday season, beginning on the day after Thanksgiving.?

Ans)Black Friday

ROUND-2 LEAP OVER

Q1)(GOLD-75)

The salesman once got into trouble when the pen he handed over an insurance applicant gushed out ink .In 1883 ,at the age of 46 ,he came up with a pen applying the principles of capillary action?

Ans)Waterman

Q2)SILVER(60)

HINDUSTAN TWYFORDS LTD.-------

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ANS)Somnay Tiles

Q3)silver(60)This company courted controversy for the North Korea –mocking movie “The Interview” which had "touched a nerve" within the North Korean government, as they are "notoriously paranoid about perceived threats to their safety." The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), the state news agency of North Korea, reported that their government promised "stern" and "merciless" retaliation if the film was released.The next month, North Korea's United Nations ambassador Ja Song-nam condemned the film, describing its

production and distribution as "an act of war" and because of Kim's assassination in the film,"the most undisguised sponsoring of terrorism". The Guardian described Song-nam's comments as "perfect publicity for the movie.Name the company.

Ans)SONYQ3)GOLD(75)

AD from kimberlay clark (didn’t find the print ad)

Q4)Gold(75)

The TATA company’s “PARADOX PANEL “ think tank publishes the Millema Paradox Quarterly?

Ans)TITANQ5)Silver

Whose joint -venture is this?

Ans)Volvo-eicher motors

Q6)BRONZE(50)

Which famed investors in 1932 bequeathed his house and$2 million endowment to the University of Rochester ,donated a large sum of money to the dental dispensaries across the city and left $200,000 for his beloved Elle?

Ans)George EastmanQ7)75(GOLD)

Siriux Cybernatics corporation produces various products like Nutrimatics Drinks,Dispenser,Kill-o-zap,blaker pistol,crisis Inducer,Joo janta,Zoo super-chromatic .Percil sensitive sunglasses and towels .where would one regularly finds this company?

Ans) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyQ8)SILVER(60)

Who owns this company?(extremely famous company)

Ans)TATA GroupQ9)SILVER(60)

CONNECT

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Q10)SILVER(60)

What term derives itself from 15th century from the Netherlands , when workers would throw their sabots (wooden shoes) into the wooden gears of the textile looms to break the cogs, fearing the automated machines would render the human workers obsolete?

Ans)Sabotage

Q11)BRONZE (50)

Kareena Kapoor endorses this brand with adline

“’Inside Walaah Snaan”

Ans)Tetley

R0UND-3(DASH TO THE LINE)

Q1)SILVER-60

In 1962 ,which brand became the first Swiss Watchmaker in space when John Glenn wore its stopwatch when the piloted the Mercury Atlas 6 space craft on the first US manned sspace flight to the earth?

Ans”)Tag Heur

Q2)GOLD(75)

Connect(give me a specific connect)

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Ans)DD KISAN

Q3)silver(60)

Which prominent angel investors of silicon valley has invested in more than 100 startups including flickr,Groupon,Zynga has done his Masters in Philosophy from Oxford University and had his own start-up SOCIAL .NET ,a social media site that predated Facebook by years?

Ans)Reid Hofmann

Q4)GOLD(75)

FITB (NAME THE AMERICAN ENERGY GIANT)

ANS)EXXON MOBILL

Q5)GOLD(75)

KAMAALA KHAN IS FIRST OF SOMETHING?IDENTIFY WHY IS SHE FAMOUS?

ANS)She is first Islamic Suoerwomen from MARVEL comics

RESULTS—WINNER-XIMB

RUNNERS-UP-INFOSYS

COMPILED BY

Dr.Rashmi Ranjan Swain

MVSc. Scholar

College of Veterinary Science & Animal Husbandry,

O.U.A.T