TATA Crucible 2008 - CorPOrate

TATA Crucible's round updates
With the more bang & bucks TC touched the battle ground in Coimbatore. Here is the closer look to thr diferent rounds.
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1. Normal Round(Visual/Dry)

2. TATA Round (Buzzer)
TATA related questions

3. Connect Round
Jst connect all the shown ones & come with a final answer.

4. Formula Round
Same as in the last year.

5. Clue Round
On 1st clue crack:- 15
On 2nd clue crack:- 10
On 3rd clue crack:- 5

Update from Sneha.VM

Hi
Round details given by you are right. Prelim was not very tough. 25 questions with 5-6 visuals and 2ads as video.

Final was very good. Infosys won with Bhansali Associate a CA firm from here and Robert Bosch Engg third.

Audience prizes are very good and Pickbrain's humour was the best as always.

Tata crucible’ is a hot trends

Without much marketing effort from Tata’s, the sheer involvement of quizzers around the country (and few outside the country), has put ‘tata crucible’ search at 77^th position as on 4^th August (i.e just one day after the 16 cities voyage started in Coimbatore)

Now, the question is can it broke into top 50 or beyond that…..

TATA CRUCIBLE CORPORATE QUIZ 2008- Coimbatore

Won by: infosys Bangalore, represented by Harkirat (This year TC Student finalist, IMT, Ghaziabad.
Second: S. Bansali & Associates

Few Qts

LIC Logo

HSBC Logo

Which Indian airline has named its inflight magazine to reflect its unique seating arrangement.

Paramount Airways. magazine - Aisles & Windows as it has no middle seats, provides all business class 2x2 seating

Known as ASDA in UK, Seiyu in Japan....?

Walmart

First company to manufacture tractor in India?

Eicher

Nano Effect

Call it the Nano effect! The ultra-affordable “people’s car” might have launched India as a hotbed of ideas.

For instance, Godrej & Boyce is developing a Rs 2,500 refrigerator for Dharavi slum dwellers. Then Chennai-based Brakes India has found out a way to convert slag into construction material. Similarly, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of digital & analog offset plates, TechNova Imaging Systems, has invented a digital plate that can cut down the cost of commercial printing by almost 90%.

And, the list just doesn’t end there! Surinder Kapur, CMD of India’s largest manufacturer and supplier of steering systems, Sona Koyo Steering Systems, cites his own example. “We have managed to develop an indigenous steering system for off-highway vehicles for the US market at half the cost of what other international manufacturers quoted. We plan to use a similar approach to create an ultra-low cost steering system for the Nano as well.” Mr Kapur believes that innovation is contagious.

India’s largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki’s latest ‘one component, one gram’ drive seems to have taken a leaf out of the same book. The $3.7-billion vehicle manufacturer, along with its suppliers, has worked out a strategy to reduce one gram of weight per each component of a car. The mission to subtract 2.6 kg from a car would translate into a minimum annual saving of Rs 10-crore for the company, and better performance and fuel efficiency for the customer who would be driving a lighter vehicle.

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The World’s Worst Olympians

And…the honours goes to ….INDIA, well that’s what US’s foreign policies website is saying , to quote them:
“Think of India as the Washington Nationals of Olympic sport. India is by far the worst-performing Olympic country—no matter how you slice it. It’s not for lack of trying. A games participant since 1900, India still ranks behind Nigeria, a country with an economy one twentieth India’s size, in total medals. The country’s athletic ineptitude is so profound that a parliamentarian called for two minutes of silence to “lament the demise of Indian sports” after the squad failed to win any medals in Barcelona in 1992.”
Read rest of our Honour story