TATA CRUCIBLE COIMBATORE PRELIMS 2017

TATA  CRUCIBLE COIMBATORE 2017 PRELIMS

1.       Identify this gentleman

2.       Steve  jobs in his visit to India visited Kanchi Ashram. On his advice which other software guy visited the same ashram in later years

3.       This is Alex Ohninan the boyfriend of Serena Williams which website is he a co founder?

4.       This word is an inducement offered to an unwanted separation or retirement. It is also an coveted thing in several football tournaments? What term?

5.       The original title of this book was Four Flushes . why the title?

6.       Who is appointed the latest appointed Vice chairman of Niti Aayog?

7.       What product are these Koreans using to float? Regular consumed product. We all use?

8.       This plaque is in memory of a disaster in USA due to a company failure. The same company had a disaster years later. Which Company?

9.       A famous shopping area is named for this due of …. What was he duke of? A very famous area of India?

10.   Dutch Media End mol is behind which famous program often touted as a nonsensical TV show in India? Famous in TN?

11.   French Global insurance giant whose name is not an abbreviation and is in Capital letters.. Named so that in can be easily pronounced across the world? Famous in India.

12.   This car from FIAT is named after an Italian contest that pits the local residents with or towns against each other?

13.   Jyoti structures became the first in India to get proceedings from Z score. What was this about?

14.   16 century French used “Claquers” in opera house. What was their job? Used regularly.

15.   The Polaroid camera company by Edwin land was making which product earlier to making cameras? Related industry.

16.   Hongkong has a different race where people race in a different scenario. What is this race called? We use the term don’t run the - -?

17.   Dorothy sayers wrote advertisement for which Beer company If he can say as you can

'X  is good for you'
How grand to be a Toucan
Just think what Toucan  do. .what is X

18.   Original logo of this company was represented a family had 4 members but reduced to three now to show nuclear family. Famous logo we see everyday. Think chocolates and milk?

19.   Haagen daes releasing this flavor for a sporting event. Which sporting event? 

20.   In 1897, Pratap Singh wore and won the hearts of Victorian societies in London with his smart dress. He and his team mates inspired which particular fashion? Named after a city?

TATA Crucible Corporate Edition 2016 – Navi Mumbai – Preliminary Round Questions

1. Which global beverage company has been running the campaign #TasteTheFeeling?

2. Which equity is the ownership’s interest or increase in value that is created as a direct result of hard work by the owner?

3. Which business group owns the online grocery Nature’s Basket?

4. Which famous School of Business Management?

5. Which founding club of the I-league football was started as Varca Club in 1988 and later bought by a former Chief Minister of Goa?

6. If you are flying to Japan in an ANA Flight, what airline would you be in?

7. What is the name of the in game currency that is used in the game Kim Kardashian-Hollywood?

8. Identify her.

9. This phrase means a type of internet based computing where different services such as servers, storage and applications — are delivered to an organisation's computers and devices through the Internet.

10. Which company has been discussed in this book?

11. Expand LTE in telecom technology.

12. Identify the author.

13. Which apparel company recently had to recall its ‘Premier Slam’ wardrobe after complaints that the skimpy outfits reveal too much flesh?

14. Who was the Finance Minister of India when Dr. Raghuram Rajan took over as Governor of RBI?

15. Identify the brand from its old logo.

16. Identify the brand.

17. Today, there are more than 850 stores in 22 countries. The company employs more than 60,000 staff from 80 different nationalities. It is one of the world's largest sporting goods retailers, started with a store in Lille, France in 1976, founded by Michel Leclercq. Name it.

18. Which online retail major has forayed into traditional brick and mortar retail outlets in partnership with Chinese real estate company Dalian Wanda Group?

19. R. K. Laxman created a famous naughty boy mascot for Asian Paints. What was his name?

20. Which famous city is being referred in this book?

TATA Crucible Corporate Edition 2015 – Navi Mumbai – Final Round Questions

1. What life saving instrument she invented?

2. Which group in 2007 announced  its plan to purchase an island called Sealand and become an independent nation?

3. Connect: Sher Shah Suri - Mario - D Udaya Kumar - Zelda - Title song from Sabse Bada Rupaiya

4. The origin of this can be traced back to an Italian monastery in 1792. As befits something made from a simple paste of sugar, almonds and free-range egg whites, they take their name from the Italian word for 'paste'.

5. Who is the author of this book?

6. Name the floriculture business set up by the Tatas in 1990.

7. What is vaping?

8. Connect: Amitabh Bacchan - United Nation

9. Oklahoma City, USA was the site for the world's first of such devices, where it was installed in July 1935. An invention of Gerald A. Hale and professor H. G. Thuesen of Oklahoma State University, the first person to be arrested for an offence related to this was the Reverend C. H. North of the third Pentecostal Church of Oklahoma City in August 1935. What are we talking about?

10. Which retail chain he founded?

11. The TATA brand has partnered with Sony Music Entertainment to reveal unique 'My Land, My Music' collaboration to create a powerful celebration of music and cultural divesity across the Arab region.

12. Who gave the United Nations a USD 8.5 million cheque to pay for the land site for its headquarters?

13. What he co-founded?

14. It was invented by English engineer Richard Clyburn in 1842. Then known as an English key, the design was improved upon by Johan Petter Johansson and marketed by the bacho company of Sweden in 1892. Which tool?

15. This Tata Steel subsidiary was earlier known as Rawment Ferrous Industries Pvt. Ltd.?

16. This guy's wife lent him Rs.50,000 to set up a garage in Andheri. He realized that business is what he wanted to do. In 1999, he started a garage named Elite Class. He used to offer vehicle repairs and annual maintenance services to customers. Name the businessman and his most popular business.

17. Connect: Varun Dhawan - 'Move in style' - John Abraham - Deepak Pirmal

18. Which magazine began as Hara-Kiri in 1960, founded by Georges Bernier and Francois Cavanna?

19. ATM outsourcing service provider, Tata Communications Payment Solutions, plans to provide value-added services to make WLAs more viable. Expand WLAs.

20. Which company he formed?

21.

22. In 1918, Ford Edison, Burroughs and Firestone set off on a lengthy camping trip from Pennsylvania to Tennessee through the Great Smoky Mountains. What did they call themselves?

23. What is he drinking?

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

TATA Crucible Corporate Edition 2015 – Navi Mumbai – Preliminary Round Questions

1. Which annual parade associated with a departmental store started in 1924 and was suspended between 1942-44 during World War-II, owing to need for rubber and helium in the war effort?

2. What does FS stand for FSI index?

3. What was test marketed as Exton and some believed its a portmanteau of two cities?

4. Identify this businessman.

5. TAG Heuer's 'Seafarers' had a special dial-with blue, green and yellow patterns for what two purposes?

6. In 1864, what did Webster's dictionary refer as "a coarse cotton drilling used for overalls" etc?

7. Kolkata based J. Thomas & Co. formed in 1851 as Thomas Marter & Co is the world's oldest auction house of what?

8. What is this?

9. In 1882, American Express started its expansion in the area of financial services by launching what business to compete with the United States Post Office?

10. Which pharmaceutical company's logo is made up of a capsule and two pills?

11. V. Balakrishnan, former CEO of Infosys came up with the idea to raise funds for AAP. He called the campaign selfie with what?

12. Which brand can be associated with this gentleman?

13. Which organization is responsible for cleanliness of the famous Kashi Viswanath temple at Varanasi?

14. What is the term used to denote the practice of doing business with clients by meeting them in Gyms, Fitness Centers or doing a Jog, Run or Marathon called?

15. What invention that revolutionized retail world was patented in 1949 as 'Bulls Eye'?

16. Which country has this currency?

17. What is the Persian word for "Place of prices'?

18. What cleaning brand by Unilever was first produced in 1929 by Wilfred Handley and sold door-to-door by salesman who refilled stoneware jars bought by the customers?

19. Which Bollywood actress owns "Kaema Sutra"?

20. Name the tea brand.

TATA CRUCIBLE CORPORATE EDITION 2015 – RAIPUR – PRELIMINARY ROUND QUESTIONS

Questions contributed by Ramani, who was the runnerup 

1.    What  was founded by Jonathan Gay, used in web page designing, animations etc ?
FLASH

2.    What was introduced by a Syrian at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair by Ernest A. Hamwi?
ICE CREM CONE

3.    What was known as  PAD a moniker for a very popular vehicle  brand of India ?
PREMIER PADMINI

4.    Identify the logo of this Indian air line, no more in operation ?

 DAMANIA AIRWAYS

5.    Whose  initiative is “U” Education ?
Ronnie Screwala of UTV fame

6.    The name of which brand of India means “Limitless Expanse”?
VISTARA

7 .  Makus Persson also known as Notch, whose company Mojang  founded this video game, later sold it to Microsoft?
MINECRAFT

8.    The ________ World, a book by Porter Erisman. Identify ?
ALIBABA

9.    In internet lingo in ‘TIL” if T is Today, I is I, what is L. TIL is Kaizen of internet.
Learned

10.    What was set up under “Young Plant” after WWI/
Bank of International Settlements


11.    What was founded by Richard Drew of 3M ?
Scotchtape

12.    Which chocolate brand names comes from the surname of the founder ? Has connection with the mountains?
TOBBLERONE  (Theoder Tobler)

13.    Question about origin of Seven seas cod liver oil

14.    Which company has acquired Dr. Lavesh Bhandari’s Indicus Analyticals ?
NIELSON

15.    This German company has huge presence in Austria & NZ. Also its manufacturing facilities were in Pondichery,T.N. ? Which company? HENKEL

16.    Identify the manufacturer ?

SONALIKA

17.    The logo of this commercial vehicle manufacturer is  is the Griffin, the weapon of the Swedish region. Identify the company?
SCANIA

18.    Which Eye wear company has launched a Campaign “One Obsession” ?
OAKLEY

19.    Kenyes said  ““____________ should be like watching paint dry or watching grass grow”.
INVESTMENT

20.    Which Japanese gaming company has launched this game ? ( Hint: First product Playing card).

NINTENDO

TATA CRUCIBLE CORPORATE EDITION 2015 – JAIPUR – PRELIMINARY ROUND QUESTIONS

Questions contributed by Leena Piplani

 1.    Furniture retailer, founded by Rajiv sharma and Ashish goel where Ratan Tata had invested.Name the company.
          Urbanladder
2.    A pencil brand, a female spirit of the clouds and water in hindu and buddhist mythology.
        Apsara
3.    Launched in mumbai in 1969,glass bottle in two variants- bubbly and still,failing in the market FELICE soon decided to exit the business. name the brand.
        Bisleri
4.    Dr. fix it pic.
5.    Ajay singh,co founder of spicejet gave a very famous slogan which was very much popular in 2014.
        Abki bar modi sarkar
6.    Which comapny launched Nimin soap in 2004 and withdrew in 2005. with a tagline of "tandurusti ka josh har pal".
        Godrej
7.    Some organisation call them first impression officer ,some call them service ambassador. who?
        Receptionist
8.    Dil ki deal - a campaign by?
        Snapdeal
9.    Bansibhai vaghani and Dinesh vaghani  started a company in 1972 as a small unit producing plastic items-tumblers,mugs and boxes.
        Milton.
10.    Arthur fielding and marc chavannas set out to create a new kind of wallpaper. they instead invented this which is used in shipping of the parcels.
        Bubblewrap
11.    Till recently for  about four years Tokyo based Mt .Gox was the largest and most important of its kind.what?
        Bitcoin
12.    Shri LALCHAND ___________?  tell a pharmacy brand.
        DADA
13.    Company was co-founded by illustrator artist Margaret evans and two others in 1930.
        Fisherprice
14.    Name the brand founded in 1973 by caberlotto family who were the owners of the football club F.C.
        lotto
15.    Baron alexandre lamfaussy,the cosmopolitan banker-died on 9th May.known as  the father of the _______ Currency?
        Euro
16.    Anjan lahiri pic- co- founder of a company with Mr. Ashok soota?
        Mindtree
17.    This brand came in 1970.the founder Ravi khurana,head at escorts.he witnessed a fatal accident  involving several of his collegues during a test ride which prompted him to start a helmet manufacturing unit.
        STUDDS
18.    In june last year,the network adopted the ancient Indian phrase" vasudhaiv kutumbkam".
        ZEE TV
19.    Which country launched the million reason campaign to woo indian tourists. country name is same as a very famous dish.
        Turkey
20.    Jaipur pink panther is owned by whom?
        Abhishek bacchan

TATA CRUCIBLE CORPORATE EDITION 2015 – HYDERABAD – PRELIMINARY ROUND QUESTIONS

Questions contributed by Naveen, the winner of this edition


1) What was designed to depict a winged woman holding on to atom and the statuette "has since become the symbol of the TV Academy's goal of supporting and uplifting the art and science of television: The wings represent the muse of art; the atom the electron of science”? Emmy Awards

2) The beluga whale was created by Yiying Lu, on which site did it become world famous? Twitter

3) The ‘formal’ American legal term for what is an incomplete financial instrument? Blank Cheque

4)   Dennis Rodman - Bad Boy Premium Vodka

5) Which famous writer was a junior employee at HSBC's London office in Lombard Street from 1900 to 1902, and used the bank as an inspiration for some of his early work, especially his 1910 novel Psmith in the City? PG Wodehouse

6) In 1925, what was sold by con artist Victor Lustig for scrap metal on two separate, but related occasions? Eiffel Tower

7) What name has taken a generic meaning and has come to be associated with great wealth. Gemologists use this classification to denote a diamond with a complete (or almost-complete) lack of nitrogen; the material is also referred to as "2A"? Golconda

8)

  Frank Sinatra - Reprise Records

9) In 1969, what was coined by Jack Trout as a game people play in today’s me-too market place" in the publication Industrial Marketing? Positioning

10) Which traveler introduced the concept of banknotes to Europe in 13th century? Marcopolo

11) It became a fashionable brand of the era, and became associated with Frank Sinatra and the rest of the Rat Pack. Which Scotch whisky was requested by Sinatra, along with other spirits brands backstage at performances, also sponsored Frank Sinatra's Diamond Jubilee Tour in 1990? Chivas Regal

12) 

Mozilla Public License – Free Open Source

13) From 1947, when the first Indian budget was tabled to 1950, at which famous place were the budget documents printed? Rashtrapati Bhavan

14) Which company’s seven pointed star logo was inspired by a lone star in the sky which Captain Peter saw while praying when his wife was seriously ill? Maersk

15) "Cohn-Brandt-Cohn Film Sales" was founded in 1918 by brothers Jack and Harry Cohn and Joe Brandt. How do we know this company now? Columbia Pictures

16)

  Jahangir Khan – Unsquashable

17) Which company’s NYSE ticker symbol is TOM? Tommy Hilfiger

18) The Chinese name for what company founded by two former air force pilots comes from a Chinese idiom ‘Grand and Peaceful State’? Cathay Pacific

19)

  Celebration Florida – Developed by Walt Disney

20)

   Bellwether - Sheep that leads the flock

TATA CRUCIBLE CORPORATE EDITION 2015 – NAGPUR – PRELIMINARY ROUND QUESTIONS

Questions contributed by Gayatri Phadnis, the winner of this edition

Preliminary

1. Which brand states 'the road is full of idiots' and is endorsed by Irfan Khan in TV ads that also takes on the superstition of keeping 'nimbu mirchi' for security?

Answer- CEAT

2. Satya Prakash Mathur started this business of manufacturing mixers and registered it in the name of his wife Madhuri. What business did he start?

Answer- Sumeet Mixers

3. Logo of Quint magazine was shown and question was which magazine started by Raghav Bahl is this?

Answer- Quint

4. Which famous long distance runner from Addis Ababa has now started a coffee business from the proceeds of his running prize money. He has taken Ethiopian coffee to the world map. Which Olympic Gold Medalist is this?

Answer- Hile Gabrisalasi

5. Photo of an old gentleman (Heinz) was shown. Who is this gentlemen who created a famous Ketchup Brand?

Answer- Heinz

6. According to the movie “Rang Rasiya”, whose dream of making a film is funded by Raja Ravi Verma?

Which famous film personality after whom a prestigious award has been instituted are we talking about?

Answer- Dadasaheb Phalke

7. What does ED stand for in EDGAR (GAR stands for Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval) stand for in SEC filings?

Answer- Electronic Data

8. What does DCIM stand for in name of the folder in which photos get stored in a digital camera?

Answer- Digital Camera Images.

9. Which company that started in Ghariahat Calcutta owns the following brands “AND”, “Global Desi”, "Gini and Jony", "Spykar" "UMM" etc.

Answer- Pantaloons

10. Which thing saw its first use after a tragedy near Junnar in 1960s. It is essentially Orange or Fluorescent red in color but is named differently. What are we talking about?

Answer- Black Box

11. Oswal Chand M started a brand in 1960s which is one of the well-known brands in woolens today. Name the brand?

Answer- Vardhaman

12. Which Controversial undergarment ad featuring Ranveer Singh (Pickbrain mentioned Ranbir Kapoor by mistake) got in trouble with PETA for showing shark a being bitten?

Answer- Rupa

13. Which famous brand came out with an ad of a gay couple (men) who are partners in real life with the tagline “Will You”? This is the brand that had made Audrey Hepburn famous.

Answer- Tiffany

14. Logo of Tiny Owl was shown and question was to name the first part of the name of Indian start up.

Answer- Tiny Owl

15. SRF bought a range of medical propellants from this giant. Which chemical company are we talking about? Options Abott Labs, Solvay, DuPont

Answer- DuPont

16. A book on Elon Musk was shown "How the Billionaire CEO of Tesla and "----------" is shaping the future? FIB

Answer- Space X

17. Which famous Swedish company is more famous in bus segment in India than in Car? (The question was a bit different but this was the clue)

Answer- Volvo

18. Which video sharing company did Twitter acquire recently? The name of the company is synonymous with a piece of scientific equipment that we used in school.

Answer- Periscope Inc.

19. Who is the chairman of BRICS bank? Hint: Associated with Indian Private Bank

Answer- KV Kamath

20."The stripes are back" Which is the hashtag of a European club which changed its Jersey design back to stripes this year?

Answer- Southampton.