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QuiZZInG for Beginner (QFB) By Srishti Jain Part -4
2. What was Yahoo! Originally called?
3. With which company has Reliance Industries recently tied up with to pursue opportunities in homeland security?
4. Which company was founded before HCL leading to HCL’s formation?
5. What is the name of Jet Airways’ parent company?
6. Which global business newspaper was launched as the London Financial Guide in 1888?
7. Which company tops the WWD Beauty Inc’s list of world’s top 100 beauty companies for 2010?
8. Who was recently fired over the phone by Yahoo Inc chairman Roy Bostock?
TATA CRUCIBLE 2011 CORPORATE EDITION CHENNAI REGIONAL ROUND
Compiled by: G.B.Jayakumar, Chennai
Prelims:
1. 500 millionth piece manufactured by Nokia s Chennai facility signed by whom?
2. Chandramogan - born in Thiruthangal in Tirunelveli started business named the company after a
common person name - he likes playing badminton and has won veteran's championship for two years. Name the brand.
3. River Noyyal is at receiving end of all pollutants from industrial units in the region. Name this town,
units of which are currently involved in a legal tangle with environmental organizations.
4. Whose ad campaign? [Be Stupid]
5. Origin of word meaning Path / route
6. During Warren Buffet s visit to India he was asked If you were to be reborn, what would you like to be
reborn as? . He replied Probably I could be reborn as ___________ s boyfriend .
7. Which company did Chad Hurley & Steve chen recently acquired from Yahoo!?
8. Which international airlines renamed it s airline name in Nigeria as Air Nigeria ?
9. Which country has the Game Rating Board which has legal powers to ban any computer game?
10. World of Diamonds, to choose the price of diamond 4C s are used? Colour, Clarity, Cut & ___
11. Company started in 1887, It s well known credo , a 303 word statement that has helped define
company culture since being crafted in 1943 by founding family descendant is carved in Granite at
company HQ new employees master the credo.
12. Maggi Ad
13. Which Group s entry into finance when Dr.Parvinder singh acquired Empire finance in 1995. Now a
financial super market.
14. When Thomas Wakley founded The ______ in 1823, he announced "A ______ can be an arched
window to let in the light or it can be a sharp surgical instrument to cut out the dross and I intend to
use it in both senses". This philosophy remains at the heart of the journal today. Which Journal?
15. Bank founded in Chennai in 1907 by Krishnaswamy Iyer.
16. Principal sponsors of this Team? [Dutch Cricket Team]
17. Started by Sai Ramakrishna in 1994 in Bangalore world s largest flower exporter
18. Kumaravel is Co-founder & managing director of unisex beauty salon chain, Naturals. He integrated
Naturals with his brother s Limelite, Green Trends under a Chennai based Group. Name it.
19. Trevor Beattie s famous 4 letter fashion brand?
20. Identify them?
21. Founded by Kodandaraman, Chandrasekar, Srinivas in Chennai. They named their company in
tribute to Swami Vivekananda. Identify the company.
22. Started under the leadership of A.K.Gopalan in 1957 restaurant chain with over 400 outlets.
23. The Babylonians developed a system which was practised by early Mediterranean sailing
merchants. If a merchant received a loan to fund his shipment, he would pay the lender an
additional sum in exchange for the lender's guarantee to cancel the loan should the shipment be
stolen or lost at sea. Which concept?
24. Product of Hicks India with baseline The right degree of truth .
25. Initial product name Rocky Soldier / marine , Skip Sailor and Ace Pilot .
Prelims:
1. 500 millionth piece manufactured by Nokia s Chennai facility signed by whom?
2. Chandramogan - born in Thiruthangal in Tirunelveli started business named the company after a
common person name - he likes playing badminton and has won veteran's championship for two years. Name the brand.
3. River Noyyal is at receiving end of all pollutants from industrial units in the region. Name this town,
units of which are currently involved in a legal tangle with environmental organizations.
4. Whose ad campaign? [Be Stupid]
5. Origin of word meaning Path / route
6. During Warren Buffet s visit to India he was asked If you were to be reborn, what would you like to be
reborn as? . He replied Probably I could be reborn as ___________ s boyfriend .
7. Which company did Chad Hurley & Steve chen recently acquired from Yahoo!?
8. Which international airlines renamed it s airline name in Nigeria as Air Nigeria ?
9. Which country has the Game Rating Board which has legal powers to ban any computer game?
10. World of Diamonds, to choose the price of diamond 4C s are used? Colour, Clarity, Cut & ___
11. Company started in 1887, It s well known credo , a 303 word statement that has helped define
company culture since being crafted in 1943 by founding family descendant is carved in Granite at
company HQ new employees master the credo.
12. Maggi Ad
13. Which Group s entry into finance when Dr.Parvinder singh acquired Empire finance in 1995. Now a
financial super market.
14. When Thomas Wakley founded The ______ in 1823, he announced "A ______ can be an arched
window to let in the light or it can be a sharp surgical instrument to cut out the dross and I intend to
use it in both senses". This philosophy remains at the heart of the journal today. Which Journal?
15. Bank founded in Chennai in 1907 by Krishnaswamy Iyer.
16. Principal sponsors of this Team? [Dutch Cricket Team]
17. Started by Sai Ramakrishna in 1994 in Bangalore world s largest flower exporter
18. Kumaravel is Co-founder & managing director of unisex beauty salon chain, Naturals. He integrated
Naturals with his brother s Limelite, Green Trends under a Chennai based Group. Name it.
19. Trevor Beattie s famous 4 letter fashion brand?
20. Identify them?
21. Founded by Kodandaraman, Chandrasekar, Srinivas in Chennai. They named their company in
tribute to Swami Vivekananda. Identify the company.
22. Started under the leadership of A.K.Gopalan in 1957 restaurant chain with over 400 outlets.
23. The Babylonians developed a system which was practised by early Mediterranean sailing
merchants. If a merchant received a loan to fund his shipment, he would pay the lender an
additional sum in exchange for the lender's guarantee to cancel the loan should the shipment be
stolen or lost at sea. Which concept?
24. Product of Hicks India with baseline The right degree of truth .
25. Initial product name Rocky Soldier / marine , Skip Sailor and Ace Pilot .
TCS IT WIZ 2011 BHUBANESWAR
Contributed by Ayush Sinha
1. NIC is a premiere S&T institution of the Government of India, established in 1976, for providing e-Governing/e-Governance Solutions adopting best practices, integrated services and global solutions in Government Sector. What does NIC stand for?
National Informatics Centre
2. Metcalfe left Xerox in 1979 to form 3Com . He convinced 3 tech-giants to promote Ethernet as a standard . It was so called DIX. If “D” is for DEC and “X” is for Xerox, then what is it for “I”?
Intel (Not IBM as mentioned in last year’s TCS IT Wiz book)
3. What great innovation was done by August Dvorak and his brother-in-law William Dealey, that is now a historical achievement as of now?(Specific answer required)
Keyboard(Dvorak layout)
4. Identify the logo?
Sony Playstation Move
5. John Walker founded this company with 12 other engineers in 1982, Which aims at providing brilliant 3D design software for use in architecture, engineering and building construction, manufacturing, and media and entertainment. What is the company?
Autodesk
6. It is a semiconductor device used to amplify and switch electronic signals . It was jointly developed by William Shockley, Walter Brattain, John Bardeen. What are we talking about?
Transistor
7.This famous book depicts which great personality in the world of IT?
Alan Turing
8. In computing , X is any small application that performs one specific task that runs within the scope of a larger program , often as a plug-in . What is X?(Options given Applet/Crash/Flog) Applet
9.What is the name of the mascot of Yahoo!Mail?(Hint- Its a cryptic word somewhere in the question)
Liam
10. Ludicorp, a Vancouver -based company, launched in February 2004. It is a video and web hosting site.The service emerged out of tools originally created for Ludicorp's Game Neverending, a web-based massively multiplayer online game .What?
Flickr
11. In 1941, Jorge Luis Borges created a novel based on that style. It is the underlying concept which defined the World Wide Web?
Hypertext
14.This company also called “Integrated Electronics” though initially founded in 1968 ran much popular in 1990s. What significant company are we talking of?
Intel
15.Edwardo Saverin, Dustin Muskovitz, Chris Hughes and one another boy found what significant site in the IT world?
Facebook
16.Acronym as PDF in general. What is the full form?
Portable document format
16. Which cricketer is the brand ambassador of the very popular for Optical and imaging products, Canon?
Sachin Tendulkar
17.This is the old logo of?
Nokia
18. A privately-held, online gaming portal, with browser games in India (services provided Globally), promoted by the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group's subsidiary company Reliance Big Entertainment. Which is this famous gaming portal?
Zapak
19.Identify.(Clue given-First storage automatic Calculator)
EDSAC
20. Google celebrated this doodle on the 115 th discovery of what in the world?
X-Ray discovery
For visuals visit here
1. NIC is a premiere S&T institution of the Government of India, established in 1976, for providing e-Governing/e-Governance Solutions adopting best practices, integrated services and global solutions in Government Sector. What does NIC stand for?
National Informatics Centre
2. Metcalfe left Xerox in 1979 to form 3Com . He convinced 3 tech-giants to promote Ethernet as a standard . It was so called DIX. If “D” is for DEC and “X” is for Xerox, then what is it for “I”?
Intel (Not IBM as mentioned in last year’s TCS IT Wiz book)
3. What great innovation was done by August Dvorak and his brother-in-law William Dealey, that is now a historical achievement as of now?(Specific answer required)
Keyboard(Dvorak layout)
4. Identify the logo?
Sony Playstation Move
5. John Walker founded this company with 12 other engineers in 1982, Which aims at providing brilliant 3D design software for use in architecture, engineering and building construction, manufacturing, and media and entertainment. What is the company?
Autodesk
6. It is a semiconductor device used to amplify and switch electronic signals . It was jointly developed by William Shockley, Walter Brattain, John Bardeen. What are we talking about?
Transistor
7.This famous book depicts which great personality in the world of IT?
Alan Turing
8. In computing , X is any small application that performs one specific task that runs within the scope of a larger program , often as a plug-in . What is X?(Options given Applet/Crash/Flog) Applet
9.What is the name of the mascot of Yahoo!Mail?(Hint- Its a cryptic word somewhere in the question)
Liam
10. Ludicorp, a Vancouver -based company, launched in February 2004. It is a video and web hosting site.The service emerged out of tools originally created for Ludicorp's Game Neverending, a web-based massively multiplayer online game .What?
Flickr
11. In 1941, Jorge Luis Borges created a novel based on that style. It is the underlying concept which defined the World Wide Web?
Hypertext
14.This company also called “Integrated Electronics” though initially founded in 1968 ran much popular in 1990s. What significant company are we talking of?
Intel
15.Edwardo Saverin, Dustin Muskovitz, Chris Hughes and one another boy found what significant site in the IT world?
16.Acronym as PDF in general. What is the full form?
Portable document format
16. Which cricketer is the brand ambassador of the very popular for Optical and imaging products, Canon?
Sachin Tendulkar
17.This is the old logo of?
Nokia
18. A privately-held, online gaming portal, with browser games in India (services provided Globally), promoted by the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group's subsidiary company Reliance Big Entertainment. Which is this famous gaming portal?
Zapak
19.Identify.(Clue given-First storage automatic Calculator)
EDSAC
20. Google celebrated this doodle on the 115 th discovery of what in the world?
X-Ray discovery
For visuals visit here
Tim Morse in, Carol Bartz out in Yahoo
Yahoo has fired Chief Executive Officer Carol Bartz, who was brought on board two years ago to turn around the company’s troubled fortunes, and named Chief Financial Officer Tim Morse as interim chief executive.
In an e-mail message to employees titled ‘Goodbye’, Ms Bartz, 62, said she is “very sad to tell you that I have just been fired over the phone by Yahoo’s chairman of the board’’.“It has been my pleasure to work with all of you and I wish you only the best going forward,” she wrote.
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