Tata Crucible Campus Edition 2015 – Patna – Preliminary Round Questions

Tata Crucible Campus Edition 2015 – Patna  – Preliminary Round Questions

RESULTS: 

• WINNER:
  NIT Patna – Rohit Kashyap and Sayondeep Sadhu
• RUNNER UP:
  Chanakya National Law University – Deepesh Kumar and Areeb Amanullah

 

Preliminary Round Questions:

1. Identify this person.

A. Anil Agarwal

2. Name the popular retail chain for mobile from Essar Group, which participated in GOSF this year?

A. The Mobile Store

3. Identify the popular News Channel started by this famous personality.

A. CNN (Ted Turner)

4. ETV Network recently aired a relality show, Sales Ka Baazigar, for hiring professionals with winners getting a job offer of 10 lpa. Name the company who sponsored it.

A. Su-Kam

5. Identify this bank from its old logo.

A. Bank of England

6. Name the Water brand that will be launched by Tata in association with Pepsico for The Global Indian

A. Himalayan

7. “Rufiyaa” is the currency of which nation?

A. Maldives

8. Tatas manufacture buses in Joint Venture with this Brazilian manufacturer?

A. Marco Polo

9. Identify this advertiser.

A. ICICI Bank

10. IIN is from?

A. Idea

11. Yoga range of tablets are from whom?

A. Lenovo

12. Identify this FMCG manufacturer from the image.

A. Marico

13. Identify this gentleman.

A. Warren Buffett

14. Amazon started its Indian operations by acquiring this e-Commerce price comparison portal.

A. Junglee.com

15. What is term associated with clause in an executive employment contract that provides the executive with a significant severance package in the case that the executive loses his or her job through firing, restructuring, or even scheduled retirement.

A. Golden Handshake

16. Identify the program from its logo.

A. NRHM

17. Identify the airline.

A. Lufthansa Airlines

18. On 10^th Feb, Price of a commodity rose alarmingly from 30-40 Rupees to 200-300 Rupees for a particular reason. Name it.

A. Broom

19. What is the common thing in these three gentlemen?

A. Bansals

20. Who is the writer of this book?

A. Adam Smith

 

Questions contributed by Rohit Kashyap and Sayondeep Sadhu. Rohit is a third year B.Tech student at NIT Patna. As per him, he is a geek and avid quizzer.He is also the winner of TCS IT Wiz, Lucknow, Mahindra AQ, Patna and now Tata Crucible. He is also a Google Student Ambassador and Microsoft Student Partner.

Tata Crucible Campus Edition 2014 – Patna – Regional Finals Questions

Tata Crucible Campus Edition 2014 – Patna – Regional Finals Questions

RESULTS

• WINNER :

IIT BHU – Aditya and Ashwin

• RUNNER UP :

IIT BHU – Adhithyan and Ashlesh

Wild Card Round:

1. Which company owns the brand “Tang”?

A. Kraft Foods

2. Which ad maker played a role in movie Gandhi?

A. Alyque Padmasee

3. Asa Griggs Candler was an American business tycoon who made his fortune selling what?

A. Coca Cola

4. Question on Fosters.

5. Which Indian actor would you associate with Coca Cola and Suzuki?

A. Salman Khan

6. Which company owns “Tiger Airways”?

A. Singapore Airlines

7. How does the world know Sahara Airways now?

A. Jet Lite

8. Prem Watsa acquired Blackberry and what else in India?

A. Thomas Cook

9. Everyday was a dairy whitener by?

A.  Nestle

Tie- Breaker:

1. Question on the invention of Velcro.

2. Which famous principle was given by Joseph Juran who propagated a principle named after this man who said that if 80% of world profits from something it’s 20% of people who work for it?

A. Pareto Principle

3. Which award show became the most watched program on television in Japan?

A. Deming Award

4. Which award is named after a man who went on to become a senator, this award is commonly known as The Malcolm Inspiration?

A. Malcolm Baldridge

5. Blaupunkt is a subsidiary of which company. It is known by the name MICO in India?

A. Bosch

6. What is the claim to fame of Lord Chelmsford?

He renamed Sakchi to Jamshedpur

Regional Finals:

Round 1:

1. Which company owns the 5x Airlines?

A. UPS

2. This person was instrumental in starting United Artists?

A. Charlie Chaplin

3. Which company was started after its parent company was broken into 34 companies in 1911, the company has a double S in its name?

A. Esso

4. The mother ship of SS1 is named White Knight. It was developed by Mojave Ventures which is Joint Venture between Scaled Composites and the company of which famous personality?

A. Paul Allen

5. Which automobile brand traces its history to the company Laurin & Klement?

A. Skoda

6. “For everything else, there’s MasterCard.” Which ad agency created this ad?

A. McCann Erickson

Round 2:

1. What is the given graph all about?

A. Moore’s Law

2. The given image is the Optic logo of which brand?

A. Swarovski

3. Which company has come up with the Fast Card mosquito coils?

A. Good Knight

4. This animal is an inspiration for the logo of which brand?

A. Playboy

5. Which chocolate brand was earlier known by the name Marathon?

A. Snickers

6.Which brand uses the “Quiltvent Technology”?

A. Band Aid

Questions contributed by Vishwajeet Singh. Vishwajeet is a student of Geology at BHU. He is an avid quizzer and has been participating in quizzes for a long time now. He was the runner up at Tata Crucible Patna, 2013 and Tata Mutual Fund Simply Finance Quiz, 2013. He also won the 3rd prize at Mahindra Auto Quiz, Lucknow.

Tata Crucible Campus Edition 2014 – Patna – Preliminary Round Questions

Tata Crucible Campus Edition 2014 – Patna – Preliminary Round Questions

RESULTS

• WINNER :

IIT BHU – Aditya and Ashwin

• RUNNER UP :

IIT BHU – Adhithyan and Ashlesh

Preliminary Round:

1. Which brand was recently taken over by Sprite as India’s largest selling soft drinks brand?

Thums Up

2. Who is the world’s first billion dollar author?

J K Rowling

3. Which Indian company recently tied up with the Finnish brand Chempolis which works towards converting cellulose to ethanol?

ONGC

4. Which financial institution was started by Devkaran Nanjee?

Dena Bank

5. Identify the logo

Airports Authority of India

6. Which brand recently came up with the Gum Charades Ads?

Centre Fresh

7. Which automobile brand has the tagline “Made like a bullet”?

Royal Enfield

8. Question on Cafe Coffee Day.

9. Which famous investor once said ‘In the business world, the rear view mirror is always clearer than the windshield.’?

Warren Buffet

10. Sivakasi is famous for the fireworks and cracker industry. Which other business originated from the byproducts of the cracker industry?

Printing Industry

11. Identify.

Rohan Murthy

12. Pawan Hans Helicopters Limited provides helicopter services to which Indian company for travelling to its off-shore locations?

ONGC

13. Identify the person who runs Hrudayalaya Hospitals in India?

Devi Shetty

14. Which technology was invented by Ajay Bhatt, an Intel employee?

USB

15. Who is the Chairman Chairman of 21st century fox?

Rupert Murdoch

16. Identify the award.

Webby Awards

17. Expand PAL?

Phase Alternating Line

18. Which financial institution was originally known by the name “Schweizerische Kreditanstalt”?

Credit Suisse

19. Which Indian brand has the tagline “Jo biwi se kare pyaar, woh _______ se kaise kare inkaar”?

Prestige

20. Identify.

Richard Branson

Questions contributed by Vishwajeet Singh. Vishwajeet is a student of Geology at BHU. He is an avid quizzer and has been participating in quizzes for a long time now. He was the runner up at Tata Crucible Patna, 2013 and Tata Mutual Fund Simply Finance Quiz, 2013. He also won the 3rd prize at Mahindra Auto Quiz, Lucknow.