TATA CRUCIBLE CORPORATE EDITION 2015 – PUNE – PRELIMINARY ROUND QUESTIONS

Contributed by Prashant Singh Chauhan

1.A copy of Interview magazine, an Interview t-shirt, and a bottle of the Estee Lauder perfume "Beautiful" was dropped into his grave after his death. He had so many possessions that it took Sotheby's nine days to auction his estate after his death; the auction grossed more than US$20 million.

Ans. Andy Wharole

2.Which common Hindu/Indian surname derives from 'a piece of land' and referred to a
landowner/tenant farmer?

Ans. Patel

3. The Lok Sabha passed the 2011 budget proposals minus the 5% service tax on healthcare and diagnostic services provided by high-end hospitals that was withdrawn following widespread
criticism. What name was given to that tax?

Ans.Misery Tax

4.Question of John Nash

5.B.K.Modi brought global firms like Xerox, Disney, Olivetti, Guardian, Continental Tyres and Telstra to India before liberalization began in 1991.
What nickname did he earn because of this?-

Ans. JV Modi

6.Which is the world's most sold copyrighted book?-Guiness book

7.Hyderabad in Pakistan is the largest producer of these items in the world. Moradabad is India’s largest producer.-Bangles

8.Pic of Sarah Lee

9.What brand, first produced as a new bar soap, talc powders, was launched in 1954 by Henkel-subsidiary Dreiring?

Ans.FA

10. What portmanteau word for a type of lowpowered motorcycle was coined by Swedish journalist Harald Nielsen in 1952?

11. What was formed as Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Company of Australasia Ltd in 1899, when the Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Company of the United Kingdom incorporated its Australian branch, formed in 1893, and floated it on the Australian stock exchanges?

Ansell corporation

12.Which famous ex RED now a BARCA star is
behind this online game?

-Gerard Pique

13. 1000 skyshot comes in a three-foot long box and is worth Rs 12,000. There is a smaller version too, it's called the 500 sky shots and is priced at Rs 7,000. It is one of India's most costliest______

Costlist Cracker of India Ques

14. What trademarked color motion picture process was founded in Boston in 1914 by Herbert Kalmus, Daniel Frost Comstock, and W. Burton Wescott?

Techni Color Corporation

15.First Indian Female CEO of fortune 500 company-SBI Cheif

16.New browser of Microsoft-Edge

17.What iconic design inspired by an Encyclopedia Britannica illustration was described by Andy Warhol as the design of the decade in 1960s, although it was already 50 years old at that time?

Coca Cola Logo

18.Percy Pig is a brand of pigshaped gummy raspberry, strawberry, cherry, and grape-flavoured confectionery products made under license in Germany for which company?

19.This University of Texas dropout earned $2000 at 12 years in his first business venture selling stamps. At 16, he earned $ 18000 selling newspaper subscriptions to The Houston Post. At 27, he achieved a great feat by going on top of a well-known list. Who?

Mr. Dell

20.Safe Roads CSR initiative by

-Mercedes Benz