Tata Crucible -2010 Hyderbad round

This year TC begin with Hyderabad, and truely a grand begining, Hyderabad witnessed a Gladiators show with 6 powerfull teams on stage. (Mahindra Satyam, Vizag steel, Infosys, Microsoft, Google & IBM). It was first time in the history of TC that the stage was shared by current campus champion IIM-L (Mahinda Satyam), Defending National champions (Vizag steel) & defending Hyderabad round champions (Google). The battle was thrilling as expected but as you know that a quiz is alive untill the last question..... which was clinched by Infosys to emerge as a new team defeating the heavyweights.

Prelims – 25 Questions

1. This brand/product was created by Samuel Ruben & Phillip Rogers Mallory in 1964 as power substitute for cameras.
2. Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, D. W. Griffith & _______ teamed up to found United Artist Studio in 1919. (Famous all time entertainer, name him)
3. This refers to the sum of money that is added to the employee’s salary as a part of extra pay due to good performance, originated from a Latin word.
4. Li Ka Shing of Honkong , also named as Chiu yan – relate this to a great fictional character.
5. Bad-Aid is available in India in three different variants – Fabric, Wash-proof & ________ (think Indian way of remedy)
6. This 18th century engineer and explorer, was a British army soldier and one of the scientists who worked on Faraday’s Theory of Electromagnetic Induction led to form a big group in India – Name the company ( Famous Fan brand)
7. This business speaker, author was recently awarded as the Global Indian of the year 2010 – name him.
8. According to Conways Law: In every organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. That person must be “_______”
9. This famous car brand was taken over by GM in 1929, was initially famous for making Sewing machines, Bicycles & refridgerators – name the brand.
10. This two word expression is used to describe financial inducements used to persuade specialists to stay in a particular firm. – What two word term?
11. Which famous international hotel group was forced to drop its name in India by the court of Rajasthan against a Sirohi based hotel in Mount abu – Name the group of hotel.
12. Who was termed as England’s “Master of Mint” in 1717, when they took a decision of moving the pound sterling from silver to gold?
13. Mary Phelps Jacob the descendant of Robert Fulton the inventor of steam boat, was a inventor herself. What did she invented ( the product kept men fascinated since then)
14. This web based entity strongly rejected its departed co-founders accusation that the product served up child pornography.
15. In 1919 founded as Cohn-Brandt-Cohn Film Sales, by Harry Cohn, his brother Jack Cohn, and Joe Brandt is today known as. (_______pictures)
16. Elizabeth Arden created a new fragnance line based on this entertainer – Honey, Ribbon & Mine again. Name the entertainer?
17. In 1921 Gandhi was propagating the idea of boycotting foreign goods this man from AP who was involved in making lithographic blocks, methim came up with this product/brand which the Mahatma himself liked & used – name it.
18. Masincedane Sport was company formed in 2001 to mass-produce a product which sales has skyrocketed in 2010.
19. This rhyming name was given to the fall that occurred in May amounting to $ 1 trillion fall, at the Dow Jones Industrial AVG
20. Air france invented this to provide a home away from home for its crew & passangers in 1972.

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