TATA CRUCIBLE CORPORATE EDITION 2012 CHANDIGARH

Runners up: Bharat Petroleum

Winners: Cavin Care

PRELIMS QUESTIONS:

1] During this company’s early days in 1684, it received an impressive order of 357 mirrors for the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles. Name the company as we now know it.

2] Which brand has roped in Gautam Gambhir, Vijender Singh, Sushil Kumar, Mary Kom and Saina Nehwal  as brand ambassadors?

3] Fill in the Blank.

4] Complete the tourism promotion ad line “AMAZING ................ ALWAYS AMAZES YOU.”

5] Vibha Rishi , who is currently is an executive director, Customer Strategy at Future group created which famous campaign for PepsiCo during 1996 Cricket World Cup when Coca Cola was the official sponsor.

6] Dinesh Kumar Mehrotra took over as the chairman of an Indian Financial Institution in June 2012.Which one? (Clue: He could be in the news for the next round of FDI discussions in India)

7] ID the Company from this ad.

8] The iMac was codenamed C1.What did C stand for?

9] In hotel business, what is RevPAR?

10] What is the Sanskrit word for SILVER which has also led to an English word? (Hint given :connected  to SHER SHAH SURI)

11] Id this  Ad Campaign.

12] Numismatics is the hobby of collecting what?

13] Which word was first published in 1960s by Frederic C Billingsley to describe the photographic elements of a television image?( The term is quite popular in the computer and digital era)

14] Expand GPRS.

15] In 1969 Neil Armstrong spoke the famous words,”one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind” from the moon on a ..................... transceiver. Which transceiver company?

16] Id the Brand from these characters.

17] Name the laptop (specific name) modelled after Japanese BENTO Tiffin boxes.

18] What does IBIBO stand for?

19] What modern term is used to describe a type of digital media consisting of an episodic series of audio files that can be either downloaded or streamed online through a computer or a hand held device?

20] Identify this business tycoon.

Cut off was 14.Final 6 teams were as follows

1.Cavin Care -Nishit and Abhilash

2.Pioneers & Partners- Syed Rahman & Samir 

3.SBI- Sachin Luthra & Karan

4.Infosys-Jasmeet & Vibhor

5.Bharat Petroleum-Nagendra & Nagesh

6. Zscaler- Lalit & Sandeep

Tata Crucible Corporate edition 2012  winners-

Chandigarh 2012 Champions- Cavin Care (Nishit and Abhilash)

Chandigarh 2012 runner up-Bharat Petroleum (Nagendra and Nagesh )

ANSWERS:

1] Saint Gobain

2] Emami Fast Relief

3] P.Chidambaram (sequence being that of Finance ministers of India)

4] Thailand

5] Nothing Official about it

6] LIC (Life Insurance Corporation Of India)

7] Sony Cyber shot

8] Consumer/Customer

9] Revenue per Available Room

10] Rupiya  (Historically, the first currency called "rupee" was introduced in the 16th century by Sher Shah Suri.   The term is from rūpya-, a Sanskrit term for silver coin.]

11] Liril

12] Coin collecting

13] Pixel

14] General Packet Radio Service

15] Motorola

16] Amaron

17] ThinkPad

18] I Build I Bond

19] Podcasting

20] Aditya Mittal

TATA CRUCIBLE CAMPUS EDITION 2012 DELHI

Winners-IIFT Delhi

Runners up-Dept.Of Commerce DU

Questions from Prelims::

1] The green and yellow Malaysian outfit known until now as team LOTUS will now be renamed as CATERHAM, while the_______ team will be cleared to use the LOTUS name. Which (automobile) company will use LOTUS as their team name in the world of formula one.

2] In the television series MAD MEN which businessman's fictionalized avatar was played by Chelcie Ross. The businessman name was called "Connie" by his friends (the word "connie" in some ways had an inference to his real name).Who is this great businessman known for starting a huge international hotel chain.

3] Identify the Pharma giant from the visual given::(Mark saldanha  & Glenn saldanha)

    

4] Which famous Indian company is planning to launch CHOTU WASH, a pocket friendly washing machine designed to ease  the back breaking chore of washing clothes by rural women.

5] This brand of Amrit Banaspati company is among the top 3 vanaspati brands in the country and ran a popular ad campaign "" KHAO ________ , RAHO MAGAN"

6] Which iconic American television talk show ended on 25th May 2011?

7] Logo of which famous Indian Public Sector development corporation?

8] Mohan Murjani, chairman of the MURJANI GROUP had partnered with a designer _________,in 1985 to launch the american designer's brand in the USA.The brand was launched in India in 2004 by Murjanis,who sub licensed apparel,footwear & handbags to AMB (Arvind Murjani  Brands).(The apparels especially the undergarment range of this iconic brand  has found many takers among Indian youth who of late has increasingly become brand conscious) ID the brand.

9] Which European company ,extremely well known till 1980s for their lighting solutions, supplied audio cassette tapes for India's first colour TV broadcast,1982 ASIAN GAMES and entered Indian market in a big way with their television & audio systems.

10] The VARALAKSHMI FOUNDATION is the CSR (corporate social responsibility) arm of which Indian company? This company has contributed in many ways to the changing face of the airports across India.

11] This business was founded by a family who were the traditional cooks to the Mughals. After the revolt of 1857,Mughal ruler Bahadur Shah Zafar II was dethroned & exiled. Out of employement the family fled to Farukhnagar in Ghaziabad and lived there under disguise.In 1911 when 'Delhi durbar' was held for the coronation of King George V ,the head of the family opened a 'dhaba' to cater to the guests who came from all over the world.Two years later the 'dhaba' inspired him to open a restaurant .How do we know this restaurant today.(....yummy)

12] Logo of whose tracking system in india known as "SIMRAN"

     

13] In 2011 , in an unusual move whom did NALCO appoint as its first brand ambassador.(Giri gave a hint here>>He is an artist from Odisha)

14] In the airline industry ,what is categorised  as JET A-1,JET AA,JET B,TS-1 among others?

15] Which beer brand gets its name from the archangel in christian & jewish mythology,who appears in the biblical book of DANIEL? Three options by PICKBRAIN 

(a) St.Peter's 

(b) San Miguel 

(c) Carlsberg ...........Delhi found this question to be a little tough with some "shareef" teams showing their complete ignorance to all the given brands....so Giri amusingly suggested them to go for AMUL as their answer.

16] ID this extremely famous soap brand which made a modification on the color white & created a name for itself.

17] A graduate from Government College Lahore,he began his career in military censors office (Bombay) in 1940s & then worked as a clerk in an accountancy firm with a salary of just Rs 80 before going on to become one of India's biggest bollywood star.Id this superstar whom the nation mourned not so long ago.....

18] Which handset maker launched unbreakable mobile handset A16  in association with MTV?

19] In 2005,this alumnus of IIT,Delhi was appointed as the U.N Secretary General Kofi Annan's special advisor on management reform.Who is this management 'guru'?

20] This lady from the BIRLA clan has brands named after her.It ranges from a popular tea brand to a textile brand.............._______TEA,_________TEXTILES.Fill the blank.

Delhi Champions 2012 -IIFT,Delhi {Aman Oberoi & Sriram Rajagopal}

Delhi Runners up 2012-MIB Dept. Of Commerce DU { Richa & Ankit}

ANSWERS::

1] Renault

2] Conrad Hilton

3] Glenmark

4] Godrej

5] Gagan

6] The Oprah Winfrey Show

7] NMDC (National Mineral Development Corporation)

8] Tommy Hilfiger

9] Philips

10] GMR group

11] Karim’s  in Delhi

12] Indian Railways

13] Sudarshan Pattnaik

14] Aviation turbine fuel

15] San Miguel

16] Ivory Soap

17] Dev Anand

18] Lava

19] Rajat Gupta

20] Jayashree Mohta Birla