Tata crucible corporate Quiz 2014,BHUBANESWAR EDITIONThis year there is lot more curious about the format of Tata crucible this year but the formats is more interesting than its previous format. Let check out the format of Tata crucible of this year.

PRELIMS FORMAT

No TATA Round this year Total 10 teams can make to stage i.e.4 top team can qualify to stage directly & rest 5-10

teams can battle in the wildcard entry (2 teams can make it into final round) Total 20 questions with no * marks questions.

PRELIMS Q1)It has been also referred by BBC as “India’s largest museum” with 6000 pieces of India art forms from 8th century to 19th century the area will surpass the no. of visitors to the Louvre. What is that has been architecturally designed by Skidmore ,Owings & Merills?

ANS)T-2 Terminals of SHIVAJI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT ,Mumbai

Q2)Dial soap which originated in 1948 was originally an off show of Chicago based meat processor Armour & company and was America’s first ______________ soap.?

ANS) FRAGRANCE SOAP

Q3)Its various name around the world was Brush or Ice –shaver ,Tortoise ,Navel, Little cockroach ,Frog little flea. What is that represent al l insects or bugs in the movie car?

ANS)BETTLE (VOLKSWAGEN BETTLE)

Q4)FITB …(Hint-most iconic slogan of independent India)

ANS)

Q5)In 1993,which Harrow educated man and a self- confessed admirer of Napolean Bonaparte did the PM of India ,Shri PV Narshima Rao appointed,as Joint Chairman of INDIAN AIRLINES & AIR INDIA.?ANS)RUSSI MODY

Q6)What term ,first coined in Newzelandin 2004 is used for arts ,jewellery,fashion,& object for the home created from used thrown out ,& recycled elements?Ans)TRASHION

Q7)The first one was called ACTA DIURNA and the people who helped run it were called “ACTUARII).The first American one in 1960 was called PUBLIC OCCURENCES.What is it ine most world called acta diurna?ANS)NEWSPAPER

Q8)IDENTIFY THE PERSON (PIC WAS NOT THE SAME ONE THAT SHOWN IN QN)Hint—this man invested in sports now ,he owns the team Orlando Magic.Has investment or runs a group of chain care on BEAUTY,HOMECARE,HEALTH PRODUCT).GIVE me the company that he runs.

Ans)ROBERT DEVOS of AMWAY

Q9)Companies from which country are represent the most in the list of world’s largest private employers ? (hint --list means “FORTUNE 500 list)ANS—CHINA

Q10)What was formed by TIME co-founder Henry Luce as “the IDEAL SUPERCLASS MAGAZINE”?ANS-FORTUNE

Q11)Which brand launched at the Sydney Royal Easter show in 1934 was originally sold in green coloured tins as Nestle’s fortified tonic food?Ans)MILO

Q12) IDENTIFY THE PRINT AD OF THIS FAMOUS COMPANY

Q13)What bank helped the California wine Industryget started ,created a motion picture loan division that helped Charlie chaplin,Mry pick and others to start UNITED ARTIST and helped walt Disney with huge loan when the movie snow white went $2 million over budget?ANS)BANK OF AMERICA

Q14)Expand Tantea which was established in 1968 to help rehabilitate srilankan repatriates.ANS)TAMIL NADU TEA

Q15)Coinciding with 96th birthday of Late Indira Gandhi ,PM Dr. Manmohan Singh had inaugurated the first of this bank with 7 branches .what is unique about this bank?Ans)bharaiya mahila bank…all women employee bank

Q16)IDENTIFY THE LOGO (HINT—more to do with the changing air of indian politics)

ANS)

Q17)Along with he wife ,Anupama ,he started Sampark Foundation in 2004 .The former executive of a leading IT company is loving every moments of his new role and development in the organisation working to improve the lives of under privileged children and farmers?

Ans)VINEET NAYAR ,FORMER CEO HCL

Q18)Loui Vuitton has invested in which Pondicherry based company in 2007?

Ans-HIDESIGN

Q19)Which company introduced a social networking service in 2011 called MH buddy?

Ans)MALAYSIAN AIRLINES

Q20)This man name is MOHAN.T. ADVANI he created something in India which we all can see in our homes and offices .His category of products deals with conditioning of water.Thus what entity did he created?

Ans)BLUESTAR

WILDCARD ROUND questions.

RULES

TOTAL 8 QUESTIONS 2 TEAMS CAN MAKE INTO FINAL S

1)which oat mills acquired Fischer price in 1969?

ANS) QUAKER OATS

2) TEPES,PONY LIGHT,ISTHMUS 34 is type of which commodity that balances the world economy?

Ans) TYPES OF CRUDE OIL

Q3 ) TRANSUNION picked up 7% stakes in which credit rating companies?

a) CRISIL B)CIBIL

ANS )CIBIL

Q4) Their online initiative is LEVEL.in is an e-commerce contain companies platform in lifestyle named after a famous French king?

Ans) LOUIS PHILLIPE

Q5)which pharma company has acquired 100% of RANBAXY ?

Ans-SUN PHARMA

Q6) INTERNET.org ia an venture of which company?

Ans) facebook

Q7) Olivia and Elizabeth Norris were the daughter of founder of which giant corporation of the world?

Ans)P&G

Q8)WHICH FASHIONLINE WAS MADE BY MARIO & MAURICIO IN ITALY?

ANS)PRADA

After the wildcard 4 TEAMS were on tie battling for two spot , then GIRI resolved the tie by sudden death#

SUDDEN DEATH # QUESTIONSQ1) The Button wood agreement leads to the formation of which institution in the world?

Ans) NEWYORK STOCKXCHANNGE

Q2)U-plus is a south Korean mobile owned by which giant company which originally consider to name its name as LUCKY”?

Ans-LG

Teams in the BHUBANESWAR FINALS 1. LOKESH PAL & SITIKANTA PARIJA,VODAFONE2. ABHIKSHAT DASH & SUDAMAYA SINGH ,TCS3. DEBASHISH DASH & MANIK RAVI ,NALCO4. Prof. SUBHASHIS RAY & Prof. SOUMIK SARKAR,XIMB5. ABHISEK KUMAR & MR.KUSHAGRA ,P&G6. SAMPAD PATTANAIK & SANTOSH SHUVANKAR MISHRA ,TCS

FORMAT FOR FINALS 3 CATEGORIES OVERALL 1ST ROUND 6 QUESTIONS 2ND ROUND 9 QNS 3RD ROUND 8 QNS QNS HAVE BEEN CATEGORIZED INTO-GOLD,SILVER,BRONZE GOLD CATEGORY QUESTIONS—75 POINTS ,3 ATTEMPT PER QNS,NEGATIVE -75 .IF ONE

TEAM ANSWERS WRONG THEN THE VALUE OF QN BECOMES 60 POINTS IF AGAIN ANY TEAM PRESSES BUZZZER WRONG THEN THE QNS VALUE SUBDUES TO 50 POINTS.FOR EVERY CORRECT ANSWER +75/-75

SILVER CATEGORY QNS—60 POINTS ,NEGATIVE - -60, IF ONE TEAM ANSWERS WRONG THEN THE VALUE OF QN BECOMES 50 POINTS .CORRECT ANSWER +60/-60 .2 ATTEMPT ON THIS CATEGORY OF QNS.

BRONZE CATEGORY QNS-EASY QN 1 ATTEMPT ON THIS QNS. IF CORRECT +50/-50

ALL QUESTIONS ON BUZZER

ROUND-1(THOUGHT LEADERS)Q1)bronze category

This brand traces its history 1851,created by Williams in London.In 1875 he requested its color The Infant Hercules painted by sir Joshua Reynolds was today .Name the brand and the category that he trademarked.

Ans)woodward gripe waters

Q2)silver category

It was launched by Thomas J.C.Mrtyn in 1933 after he came from ww1 ,he could create a ride magazine which was still exist today.

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Ans)newsweek

Q3)GOLD category

In the 1630s a sailor was thrown in a Dutch jail FOR EATING WHAT HE THOUGHT WAS A ONION THE COST OF THIS SAILORS GLUTTONY WAS EQUIVALENT TO THE COST OF FEEDING AN ENTIRE CREW FOR TWELVE MONTHS .WHAT DID HE EAT?

ANS)tulip

Q4)CONNECT….(DO’T ABLE TO FIND THE CONNECT PIC)(GOLD CATEGORY)

ANS)ABOUT INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION IS NOW USED FOR MARKETING PURPOSE LIKE AD,HOME CAN BE BOUGHT IN THE SPACE

Q5)silver category

It was founded as Timely Publication

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

ANS)MARVEL COMICS

Q6)BRONZE CATEGORY

IT was introduced in December 9, 1997, Digital Equipment Corporation and SYSTRAN S.A and was developed by a team of researchers at Digital Equipment. 2012.The web address changed yet again, this time to www.microsofttranslator.com when Microsoft's Bing Translator replaced .

ANS)BABLE FISH

ROUND-2 (GAME CHANGER)BRONZE CATEGORY

Q1) Asked to provide the identities of its customers in 2012, X sent regulators a convoy of 127 trucks with 32,000 cartons of chaotically ordered documents which officials are still sifting through. Another view is that X’s customers are real, but that the group is either illiquid or insolvent and unable to repay them in cash, using other financial instruments instead.WHAT IS X?

ANS)SAHARA GROUP

Q2)IDENTIFY THE ENTITY(BRONZE)

TITAGARH WAGON LIMITED

Q3)SILVER

In 1995,Chief Executive Officer Jonathan Klein c0-founded to bring the fragmented stock photography to this Digital Age.

Ans)getty images

Q4)This is the identity of the man which the world witness this year ?

Ans)silvio gazzaniga the man wh designed world cup football trophy

Q5)CONNECT…(gold category)

____________________________

ANOTHER VIDEO …………….NATION 1 A

Ans)concept of swatch internet time

Q6)SILVER CATEGORY

Meaning “one” in Sanskrit .waht is ranked 58th in the world

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Ans)EKA

Q7)GOLD CATEGORY

IDENTIFY THE COUPLE (ITS THEIR HONEYMOON PIC) THEY FORMED SOMETHING WHICH HEPLED THEM TO CREATE MONEY)

ANS)LONELY PLANET(MAUREEN WHEELER & HER HUSBAND)

Q8)BRONZE QUESTION

The phone booth of this country are now rarely used so the govt. decided to turn it into aquarium to commemorate it.WHIch country has take this step?

Ans)japan

Q9)In the context of towels this world comes French word “tirer”, means to pull out. It refers to pile loops which were pulled out by hand to make the product absorbent traditional Turkish toweling. ?

Ans)terry cloth

ROUND -3(X-FACTOR)Q1)SILVER

Who was recognised by Ripleys as the one person who has established the most of educational institution anywhere in the world?

Ans)T.M.Pai

Q2)GOLD question

As per labour court in june they are now mandatory when temp. reach 32 degree Celsius (89.6 degree faharenhite) in the wet bulb globe temp. index which takes into account facts such as time of play,cloud cover ,wind humidity and location.The court ordered them to be placed around the 2/3 rd of the each half.what are we talking about?

Ans)SPRINKLERS ON THE FOOTBALL FIELD

Q3)BRONZE

WHAT STYLE DOES ORIGINATED FROM THIS MAN?

ANS)SIDEBURN

Q4)IDENTIFY THE MAN WHO HAS MADE MILLIONS FROM HIS BRAND

ANS)JIMMY CHOO

Q5)WHAT ‘S IT PRESENT FORM .THE EARLIER ISSUES OF THE FAMOUS MAGAZINE TARGETTING MALES?

ANS)GQ magazine

Q6)CONNECT…

_

ANS)

ANS)SPACE JAM

Q7)GOLD CATEGORY

CONNECT.

___________ ___________-

Ans)Hasselblad

Q8)Sizes 25,30,40cm it is free of logos and was reputed for having the longest wait for any product in its category in the history.what am I talking about which have a famous celebrity who is the great admirer of this product?

Ans )HERMIS BERKIN BAG

FINAL STANDING

WINNER: Prof. SUBHASHIS RAY & Prof. SOUMIK SARKAR,XIMB

RUNNERS-UP: LOKESH PAL & SITIKANTA PARIJA,VODAFONE