Tata Crucible Chennai Campus 2007- PrelimsQuiz code…2534

Quiz code…2534

Tata Crucible Chennai Campus 2007- Prelims

Tata Crucible 2007- Campus EditionChennai Round9^th February 2007QM: Giri Pickbrain

1) How do we know ‘The Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited’?

2) Which stock exchange in the world is referred to as ASX?

3) Which company did Henrry Brayan. Dr J Budd, Harmon Cable, Will McGonaggle and John Dwan start on the North Shore of Lake Superior at

2 Harbors, Minnesota in 1902?

4) Which famous TV or radio network in the US is referred to as the Alphabet Network?

5) Who acquired Macromedia in Dec 2005?

6) High Performance. Delivered is whose promise?

7) Front Row, Sports Grill, American Bar are all brands owned by which company?Launched in 1958 by Bank of America as the white, blue and gold revolving credit. It was known as Bank Americard. How do we know it today?

9) Whose famous ad slogan was- “ The Milk Chocolate melts in your mouth. Not in your hands “

10) Who is the shirt sponsor of Manchester United?

11) Whose product is Minute Maid- a fruit punch?

12) John Jacob and Henry founded which optics company in 1853?

13) Get Gorgeous, On the Run, Freedom Express aand Launchpad are programmes on which channel?

14) Who produced the movie ‘Guru’?       

BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT QUIZ Quiz code…2533

 Quiz code…2533

1) If its Dacia for Romania, Somaca for Morocco, RDB for Brazil, Avtoframos for Russia, Sofasa for Columbia, Saipa & Iran Khodro for Iran, who (which company) is it for India?

 

2) The company was started way back in 1971 with a paid up capital of Rs 50 lakh. The company then named Maschinefabric Polygraph (India) had a technical collaboration with Veb Polygraph, Germany. However the collaboration came to an end in 1991 post the unification of Germany. The company was re-christened to its present name in 1992. It was named after the founder’s father Manubhai Shah who came to Mumbai from a small village near Baroda in 1918-19 and set up a retail business of stoves, batteries and petromaxes. How do we know this company today?

3) When Vahid Berenjian, a swede of Persian descent met Akbar Khwaja in Bangalore in 1994, a new brand was born. After a successful venture in India, the brand will make its first foreign foray in Kuwait in February 2007 and Bangladesh in June 2007. Which brand?

4) The now Rs 700 crore group was born in the bylanes of Kolkata in 1974 when two young men R.S Agarwal and R.S Goenka chucked their jobs with the Birlas to turn entrepreneurs with an initial capital of Rs 20,000. Which group?

5) In the year 1932, Theodore Baumritter and Nathan Ancell had a dream to create high quality Colonial Style furniture. They named their first line of products after a legendary Revolutionary War hero, which became the brand name. What brand?

SIBM Transcend Quiz code…2532

 Quiz code…2532

Domain Expertise Inquisition

 SIBM Transcend

23 February 2007

QM: Giri ‘Pickbrain’

1) Arvind mills, one of the foremost producers of denim & jeans- the world is the flagship company of which group?

2) Which major tyre maker is also famous for its Red & Green travel guides? 

3) Which company gets its name from portions of the words “communication” and broadcast” ?

4) Fredrich Wilhelm August Frobel creating the first of a type ‘education institution’?

5) Globosports, a sports management company run by whom,has signed leading pace bowler Zaheer Khan?

6) Pramod Mittal is currently the owner of which premier Bulgarian football club?

7) The first foreign exchange transaction in euro was between ABN-AMRO and which other bank?

Which company launched a new range of premium car care products called motomax?

9) Pilani investments & industries corporation ltd., is the investment arm of which Indian corporate house?

10) Which company has been given the show cause notice for “its tough being a west Indian in India”, ad campaign?

11) Which latin term is used to refer to duties that are levied on commodities/products as a certain percentage of their price, these are different

from specific excise duties that are levied on products?

12) Bernard Arnault is the chairman & CEO of which French clothing retailer?

13) Who tells you there is “Fortune at the bottom of the pyramid” ?

14) Renault has tied with Mahindra & Mahindra in India to release which car?

15) What was the profession of the seven dwarfs in Snow White?

16) If Apple=iPod, then Microsoft=?

17) If you are in the business of importing & exporting Beverlly Hills,Cats head,English Beauty, Lord Nelson etc. what are you doing business in?

18) Dialpad communications Inc,Kelkoo SA, and Ludicorp Research & Development Ltd. Are all subsidiaries of which company?

19) Magicbricks.com is a property portal launched by which company?

20) Which organization primary ad slogan reads “the future for britain”?

21) Which company owns picasa?

22) Sachin Tendulkar has recently sold his personal rights to the newly formed marketing branch of Saatchi & Saatchi.Name it?

23) Identify this Swedish brand that was founded in 1967 by Jones and Robert af Jochninck?

24) For which event in India between 22 feb & 25 feb would international brands such as Azimuts,Beneteau,Ferretti and Funseeker be seen in action?

25) Sir Joseph Lister gave the world which brand?

 

TATA Crucible Campus 2007 Bangalore Edition.Quiz code…2531

 Quiz code…2531TATA Crucible Campus 2007Bangalore Edition25 February 2007

QM: Giri ‘Pickbrain’

 1) Which brand of shirts gets its name from the fact that the first batch after production was over dyed?

2) Which media group is using the tagline- ‘Just Imagine’ for its new campaign?

3) To honor whom did United India Insurance name one of its policies as Cinemukta Policy?

4) Transelektra Domestic Products created a brand in 1984, which has 62 % market share. Which brand?

5) Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner is the CEO of which software application?

6) Who is the main sponsor of Zimbabwe cricket team?

7) What is the national airline of UAE?

8 Expand ABB

9) Zanusi, Eureka and Frigidair are/were brands from which home-appliance company?

10) Which company would you associate Ingvar Kamprad with?

11) Founded as a drug for athlete’s foot and sore feet, it is now a big brand (especially during summers). Which one?

12) ‘Proudly South African heroes’ is a branding exercise by which organization/company/brand?

13) The first automobile out of their factory on 14 April 1927 was called OV-4. Which company?

14) ‘Protects whats good’ is the way this company positions itself. Which food business related company?

15) With which company would you associate the name Jack Cohen?

Quiz code…2530

Quiz code…2530

1. There are 27 of them in India and Karnataka tops with 12 in the list in which Mysore accounts for 7 of them. Tamil Nadu follows with 5. The registration is for a period of 10 years. Renewal is possible for further periods of 10 years each. The Textile industry dominates the list with 13. What are we talking about?

 2. In the older days, the Arabians believed that the entrance to hell was somewhere in or near which geographical landmark?

3. It is taken from an Aramaic form which roughly means “what I speak is destroyed,” and is influenced by the Latin word for “corpse”. It is also said to be inspired by Aramaic for “I will create as I speak,” which is thought to be in reference to God creating the universe. Which are these two words?

4. He has a great admiration for Joseph Stalin, whom he describes as both “strong” and powerful. A journalist by profession, he attended the Astana University, where he studied English, journalism, and plague research. He also claims to have worked as a computer technician, saying that he was the one who would remove dead birds from the computer’s pipes. In his free time he indulges in activities such as jumping on the trampoline and sitting on comfortable chairs. Who is this colourful person?

5. Direction Software Solutions is a software services firm based in Mumbai and specializes in developing & implementing Internet strategies for businesses & providing high-end software development services for clients such as Sippy Films, Alex Cannon and Otto Versand. Why has the CEO of this company been in the news recently?

6. What’s common to these TWO matches?i. France Vs Italy-9th July 2006ii. Inter Milan Vs Sampdoria-29th January 2007  

7. It is a word used by Washington think-tanks to describe a hypothetical re-shaping of the Middle East.What word?

8. He worked for the Oxford English Dictionary from 1918, and is credited with having worked on a number of W words, including walrus.In 1920, he went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, where he claimed credit for raising the number of students of linguistics from five to twenty. He gave courses in Old English heroic verse, history of English, various Old English and Middle English texts, Old and Middle English philology, introductory Germanic philology, Gothic, Old Icelandic, and Medieval Welsh. When in 1925, aged thirty-three, he applied for the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professorship of Anglo-Saxon, he boasted that his students of Germanic philology in Leeds had even formed a “Viking Club”. Who?

9. He remains fiction’s second richest character despite ongoing strife with his labour force.They bemoan low-wages, lack of health care coverage and union-busting tactics. Factory operations also dogged by several documented instances of child-labor.But he says they don’t need health insurance,and says child-workers were being punished for being naughty. He is speculated to be tormented by infinite wealth.Who?

10. It is a Hebrew word meaning “teaching,” “instruction,” or “law”. It refers primarily to the Five Books of Moses, also known as the Law of Moses or the Pentateuch, Greek for “five containers,” which refers to the scroll cases in which books were being kept. What word              

Tata Crucible Corporate 2007 .Quiz code…2529

Quiz code…2529 

Tata Crucible Corporate 2007

ET in the Classroom Quiz 2007- The Bangalore Edition07 March 2007

QM: Giri ‘Pickbrain’

 1) What is Virgin’s low cost airline in Australia and the South Pacific called? 

 2) What ticks on NYSE as DPZ 

 3) Which company is the flagship company of Arvind Mills?

  4) Aqupod, Arrowhead, Ice Mountain andPure Life are all what type of products from Nestle?  

5) Powering a Greener Tomorrow is whose corporate motto?  

6) Gerber is a product from which Swiss pharma company?

  7) Who is the official timekeeper for the Olympics?   

8.)Link, Carrera and Monaco are products from which company?  

9) Triband is an Internet service from which Indian company?  

10) With which Nationalized bank would you associate O.P Bhatt to?  

11) With which company would you associate DIOS refrigerator?  

 12) Who is the main sponsor of the Chelsea football team?  

13) Which company gets its name from Kwanon- the god of mercy? 

 14) Which movie production house was earlier known as CBC Film Sales Corporation? 

 15) ‘Drums’ is a brand of Music instruments from which company? 

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Tata Crucible Corporate- Chennai Edition 2007 Quiz code…2528

Quiz code…2528

Tata Crucible Corporate- Chennai Edition 2007 Review

 (Questions from relative memory, need not be verbatim) 1) Which product was Pfizer’s biggest product in 1880 due to the high usage in cola drinks?

 2) Which brand is named after the daughter of Muzaffar Shah, the king of Firdaus in the book ‘Gulzar e- Nasin’?

 3) Which Indian company is the world’s largest R&D services provider?

 4) March 8-1817 called Founding and Subsequent fathers 

 6) Whose stores are called ‘Scoop Shops’? 

7) Which business was started by American Express in 1882 to compete with US Post Office? Which company operates the ISS? 

9) What first is Santosh Kulangar going to achieve?

 10) ‘My Years with GM’ visual- Who? 

11) Insight Pharma- ‘Harri Patti’

 12) Rights to what brand name was purchased by Sterling Drug from the US Govt in 1918? 

13) Roteiro the UEFA ball by Adidas is named after the memoirs of whom? 

14) What did Henkel launch in 1969 after the success of Lipstick applicators? 

16) What does Yuan, Won, Yen all mean? 

17) 1843- De La Rue family.. Today, which business? 

18) Chrysler Building in 1930 beat which structure as the tallest building? 

19) Japanese character for beauty is a range of products… Which company? 

 21) Who owns You Tube?

 22) Long story, basically who was the World Bank chairman who got into trouble? 

23) “Old Monk” from who’s stable? Identify the company. 

24) Which is the secondary Market where Indian companies are heading for finances or something like that…

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Tata Crucible Corporate- Chennai Edition 2007 Quiz code…2527

Quiz code…2527

Tata Crucible Corporate- Chennai Edition 2007 

1) Which commonly used word derives its origin from two greek words Oikou and nomos which means the rule or law of the household.

2) Lumaé, a tea based drink, is aimed at “active and image-conscious” women above the age of 25 who embrace the latest in health and beauty products. Which company is manufacturing it in association with L’oreal?

3) In the $1 billion copyright lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in New York, Viacom says this website “harnessed technology to willfully infringe copyrights on a huge scale” and had “brazen disregard” of intellectual property laws. Against whom was the lawsuit filed?

 4) After their Hear Music operation, which releases the Artists Choice compilation series that features musicians such as Sheryl Crow or The Rolling Stones selecting songs that influenced them, this company is now to expected sign, record and produce its own artists rather than licensing songs from other labels. Which company’s latest diversification plan involves starting a record company?

 5) First it was “Low prices, always,” a commitment to the least expensive bottle of laundry detergent. Then it was “Look beyond the basics,” an invitation to try more expensive products like 500-thread-count sheets. This company is now finding its raison d’être in the middle of these two extremes: “Saving people money so they live better lives.” Which very well known company?

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