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Here are few qts ( as told by Souvik dada)

1. Mystical colours are the rural development initiatives of which tata co.?
2. Nicholls & steyn associates is a firm tht is in d news nowdays. y?
3. which brand got its name from gold star sweet?
4. An alumnus of london school of economics, he was one of the founders of penguin books in india. who?
5. From the world of apparels, what are lock, chain, overlock & cover?
6. What did a man name john shepherd baron give the world?

After watching a record-breaking-TC quiz, I was so excited that I lost my notebooks, hence I am giving you guys keyword kind qts.

Note: Q1a means from Prelims 1 and Q1b means Prelims 2

Q1a. Tagline of Rajasthan tourism
Q1b. Tagline of UP tourism

Q2a. Logo of Union Bank
2b. Logo of HSBC

3a. Thaksin Manu connection
3b. Vijya Mallya

4a. expand PAN
4b. expand TDS

5a. from the visual id the TV channel : TimesNow
repeated

6a. Anita Rodick pic shown , what was founded by her
repeated

7a. Nuclear energy France India deal
7b. Expand IAEA

8a. Kishore Biyani

9a. CITI
9b. Chairman of TCS

10a. History of Forbes
10b. History of Fortune

11. Ex Finance minister of India ( picture shown)
a. Pranab Mukherjee
b. Venkat raman

12a. Who endorse KIIB
12b. WHo sell chota recharge

13a. B in BRIC

14a. Economics Times Ad
14b. Picture of a company getting an award ( tata steel)

15a. TAJ ad

16a. History of Facebook
16b. History of Orkut

17a. Ad of eveready
17b. Ad of Bunny

18a. SRK's Idiot Box
18b. First movie produced by Amir Khan production

19a. Rohan Shippy
19b. On whose novel was Slumdog been made

20a. TV Ad of Century Plywood
20b. TV ad of LIC

Record No.1- Maximum no.of teams participated in the quiz . A total of 314 teams.

Record No.2 – First time in the history of TC , 2 prelims had to be conducted. Each prelim consisted of 165 teams.

Record No. 3 – Maximum Number of Institute, 78 in all total.. anyway this is a normal number of team participating form Pune ( as per the trend from last 3 years), and we all know how Pune boost of being a Educational city.

Record No. 4 - First time in the history of any Tata quiz, a team scored 20/20 in the prelims.

Anyway for me the most amazing thing was a team from Gorakpur, who qualified for a wild card. Final saw good battle between two IIM team and a IIT, Amity Bio tech team and Lucknow's very own BBD.

Giri’s concluding words best captured the magnitude of quizzing cult in lucknow.

“ Today, its not IIML who has won. Its Lucknow who has won”. How often you see venue like Taj be such a place, with no empty space at the venue and also at the parking lot.

Next time they need to move at a bigger place.

Great work done by Giri ( & his Graycaps) Tata's esp TCS...

Anyway another update is that the National ( as well as the International ) final will be on 5th of April at Taj Place Mumbai and if all goes well Chief Guest will be Mr. Ratan Tata

Prelims
Q.1.Which journalist is the author of the book “The story of my assasins”?Hint : businessman in the world of media.
Tarun Tejpal
Q.2.Logo – “schutzr,was gut ist”
Tetrapak
Q.3.Which newspaper appointed Raju Narseti former deputy managing editor of wall street as its managing director?
Washington Post
Q.4.The copyright on which great Indian’s books expired on Jan 1 , 2009
Q.5.Ad – I cannot undo the past but u help keep memories intact
Coca Cola
Q.6.Which telecom company agreed to sponsor the Srilankan cricket team for a period of three months when the main sponsors Dilmah tea backed out
Dialogue Communications
Q.7.Along with shilpa shetty who did acquire a stake in rajashtan royals?
Raj Kundra
Q.8.Indentify the business man : A flag shown and hint given businessman with huge investments in sports
Roman Ibrahamovic
Q.9.Which consulting firm launched an initiative called International Financial Reporting Standards.
KPMG
Q.10.Cancer hospital chain health care global enterpriseshas roped in which actress and social activists to spread awareness about breast cancer.
Shabana Azmi
Q.11.Idenity
Phil Knight
Q.12.Which F1 team organised a roadshow at the famous rajpath, Delhi
Renault
Q.13.This place in Uttar Pradesh is to be home to a state of art rail coach factory but more in the news for Sonia Mayawati stand off.Which place
Rai Bareilly
Q.14.Ad
Mid Day
Q.15.CP Krishnan Nair is the head of which Indian hotel chain.
Leela Kempinski
Q.16.Which Indian sports women will endorse herbalife energy products.
Saina Nehwal
Q.17.Logo
Adani Group
Q.18.Song played : Massakalli from delhi 6.Name the producer
Ronnie Screwala
Q.19.Which Olympic gold medallists was dropped by kellogs as its brand ambassador saying his recent behaviour is not consistent with their values
Michael Phelps
Q.20.Ad
Bose speakers

Wild Card Round 1
Q.1.Established in 1946 as a toy balloon manufacturer by Mammen Mapillai ....
MRF
Q.2.Its headquarters is in Aurangabad and was founded by Nandlal Madhavlal
Videocon
Q.3.It is one word that defines this strategy : Minimise business risks as a sharp contraction in demand in inventory
Hedge
Q.4.Garuda is the flag carrier of which country.
Indonesia
Q.5.The company was founded as pharmacy in Kolkata
Dabur
Q.6. Why were the stock markets in wall street named the way they were named.
Dow Jones – Named after te founders
Q.7. This gentleman is believed started this company because of dissatisfaction over frequency
Amar Bose
Q.8.For a sum of $ 5.6 billion who purchased a wall street journal from the Bancroft family
Rupert Murdoch
Tie breaker
This brand of soap get its name from the Arabic word for bathing......
Hamam

Round 2
Q.1.In latin it means “to lay open”
Q.2.This business management strategy started off as a strategy to minimise defects
Six sigma
Q.3.The first product was liquid organic cleaner
Amway
Q.4.Founded in 1907 by Jim Casey & Claude Rayan
UPS
Q.5.Which brand in India has the logo as double helix
Biocon
Q.6.This OTC brand was started in 1890 lunsford Richardson
Vicks
Q.7. I left school at 16....moved to London and started magazine called student
Richard Branson

Finals
A-Mazing world
Q.1. Pic shown – of Mozilla’s cheif lizzward officer!
Q.2.Pic shown of the first male model for Lux question who is next in the sequence
Q.3. PETA ad – Pamela Anderson
Q.4.Carnation an initiative by whom
Jagdish Khattat
Q.5.Stock market terminology – Lame Duck
Q.6. Bombay Dost + Humsafar trust
First gay magazine
Q.7. Pic shown question asked what TM is this
Google algorithm

TATA world
1.Some question about Neo tel
2. Vitax is a brand from
Tata Tea
3. Tata markets plywoods as
Konswood
4. Smart Basics – Please help yourself
Ginger
Reason A-mazingly
1.Kapil Dev – Zee network – song played disco dancer
ICL
2.Shiv Nadar – Westinghouse-LnT – UPS – Song from parineeta
Toshiba
3. Flyte – Mahindra – Formula for kinetic energy – Song played from Omkara
Kinetic
4. Force 10 – Spice – Funda candies – Song played from Kabhi Alvida na kehna
Godfrey Phillips

A-mazing deductions
1.Delhi Metro
2 Wrigley’s history
3.Q about IMDB
Tie breaker for 2nd place
1.What is given on a daily basis to the president of America printed on a credit card size entity in terms of a gold biscuit.......
Nuclear Gold code ......
Winner IMT Ghaziabad
Pls note the question are not reproduced as in their original form.Editing has been done for convenience purpose

Contributed by Pranay airan

hii i again make to wild card round quiz was good moderated questions... here are some of questons from prilimanary round...

1) Name of 10th generation sedan launched by corola in India
ans.

2 which actress endorse sugar free
ans. Bipasha basu

3. which soap brand saif and madhvan endoses
ans. Santoor (wipro)

4. Amir khan endorses which biscuit
ans. Parle G

5. Picture of Warren buffet

6. 365 days on holiday is tagline of which holiday destination
ans. Goa

7. Logo of Renault

8. Picture of Sunil Bharti mittal

9. which airline is started by Naresh Goel
ans. Jet airways

10. how we know Minnesota mininig and ..... corporation
ans. 3M

11. Tagline Of channel-V

12. which corporation say By women, For women ....
ans. Lijjat Pappad

13. Advertisement of Ambepure

14. Advertisment of CISCO

Here is a look to thePrelims TC @ Pune.
Contributed by:- Rahul (He missed me in TC & i missed TC)

1. This maker of Nutrela, recently launched the drink named – “N’Rich”?

2. Identify this in India?

3. This brand of Vodka from the stable of Radico Khiatan group is endorsed by Hritik Roshan?
4. After over 100 years the Gherkins would be replaced by what in the logo of Heinz Ket-up?
(Hint: Think basic……Ketchup……..)

5. Samsonite's ad.

6. Name the grammy award winner rapper owns the rights of Bad Boy records, a clothing line & restaurants?
7. Adam Cohen’s book – “The Perfect Store” is a story of which internet enterprise?
Many thought it as Amazon but ………………….
8. Baba Kalyani's pic.

9. This company has recently launched world’s first matrimonial channel ….name it?
10. This world famous Ice-cream Chain Company celebrates “Free cone day” each year name it?
11. JAY engineering works ltd. manufactures which famous Fan brand?
12. In 1982 what was created by Mitch kapor & Jonathan Sachs for IBM PC’s?
13. “Fem” brand is owned by which Indian business group?
14. Identify this Battery manufacturer? (Print Ad)
15. Mahachocco is the brand endorsed by which Indian cricketer?
16. This company owns the kiosk by name “Devils workshop” and plans to retail its tea under the brand “Bollywood Chai”….Name it? (Think of your summer vacations………..beverage)
17. Identify the group (A lady holding a child) ? (Hint: If u r in Poona then u must know it……..)
18. India’s first 3D action PC game is based on which super hit bollywood movie?
19. Clip of an Ad for Colgate
20. Clip of an ad for Fair & Lovely

Won by Varun Nair & Sharan Basavraj (National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal)

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Prelims qts: (20 questions)

1. Visual – Kamal Nath
2. Raj Kundra was in the news recently for acquiring a stake in which IPL team? – Rajasthan Royals
3. Glucon D is a brand owned by which company? – Heinz
4. Visual of print campaign featuring Beyonce Knowles – L’Oreal
5. Kasturi & Sons are the parent company behind which famous newspaper? – The Hindu
6. “Better Sound Through Research” – Bose
7. Logo – Obama Campaign
8. Frito Lays, Quaker Oats, Gatorade are all owned by which company? – Pepsico
9. Whose book is Straight From The Gut? – Jack Welch
10. Logo (Tux the penguin) – Linux
11. Aveo is a car from which global giant in India? – Chevrolet
12. Ngultrum is the currency of which country? – Bhutan
13. Visual of cover of Newsweek. – Donald Trump
14. Visual – Varghese Kurien
15. If Samsung is to Chelsea, who is to Liverpool? – Carlsberg
16. Visual of an online banner ad. – Bharatmatrimony.com
17. Kings and Leela’s Rio are new entrants into which business in Goa? – Casinos
18. Which airport in India operates from a military airbase calledINS Hansa? – Dabolim/Goa Airport
19. TVC – HSBC
20. TVC – LIC

1. "CAC 40" is a benchmark index of which country?
2. Tom Monaghan founded which work famous eatery chain?
3. WHat was formed on Feb 23, 1905 by Paul P. Harris Chicago?
4. WHich brand gets its name from Ishibashi, which means 'stonebridge' in japanese
5. Which celebrity owns the production house "Cross Over Films"?
6. Which pharma major is listed as PFE in NYSE?
7. Which company owns GI Joe and another list of toys?
8. ”American Way” is the in flight magazine of which American Major airline ?
9. Which car company is the official car supplier to the Manchester United football club?

1. What is Gautier, the chain of furniture stores now known as ?
2. What is Mascot Systems now known as?
3. What is the number mentioned on the licence of JRD?
4. Which airline’s in-flight mag is known as Krisworld?
5. ‘Money plant’ is the ATM network of which bank?
6. Where would you find a publication by the name Brew Print?
7. What mag was started by Bob Guccione in 1965?
8. Kosbi is a popular index of which country?
9. “A lot can happen over coffe” says who?

PS: Please don't reply back, I am just helping those new-comer, who in the past have mail me to give 'a taste of Tata Crucible', so do the googling yourself....

1. Who published David Beckham’s book “My side”?
2. Which French company owns the brand Evian?
3. 'Tiger Airways' is a subsidiary of which airline company?
4. In the day of "British Raj" What was "Company Kagaz" issued by East India Company?
5. Antrix is the commercial/marketing wing of which Indian organization?
6. What was originally called "McLaughlin's Belfast-Style ginger Ale" after its creator John McLaughlin, a Canadian chemist?
7. “Obsessed with Quality. Since 1895” is the baseline of which brand?
8. Aquafresh toothpaste, Nicoretter, Lucozade and Ribena are products from the stable of which company ?
9. Branded diesel 'Turbojet' is owned by which oil company?

ROUND 1- Crossword
1.Vinod Khosla, ? , Jonathan Schwartz
Scott MC. Neally
2. ‘Where have all the leaders gone’
Lee Iacocca
3. Began in 1910 at Helsinki. They say ‘ we move the world, but vertically’
KONE escalators
4.person behind ‘Qualified learning systems’?
Shiv Khera
5. Which unit of currency is Portugese & Spanish for ‘shield’?
Escudo
6. ‘Ostro Sardinian War’ is my inspiration
Red Cross
7. Name & mascot named by one of the 1st salesman named James Gaylot Mayor
Hush Puppies
8. ‘_______ is a game people play in today’s marketplace’, this appeared in paper by someone
Positioning by Jack Trout
9. Das Auto(The Car)
Volkswagen

ROUND 2 – TATA World
1.Tata celebration of Indian Rhino
Titan WWF
2.Pic- Tiff Racker, 1st computer made in India by Tata
3.Pic- Pallonji Shapoorji Mistry
4. Incorporated in 1920, the site chosen was at Holmurri
Tinplate co. of India
5. X=2, Y=11, Z=22. What is this in India?
Manpower allocation for security in India

Contributed by :Nid

Contributed By Pranay Airan, Sai Kiran and Anil Singh..(anyway Sai was my partner last year at Indore...gud to see he is still quizzing ...lage raho don bhai...)

1. What is Brad's Drink? Pepsi
2. Yankee Doodle ,Merrwheater Food Products are from which co? Unilever
3. Which etrepreneur has stake in Harrods ? Md. Fahid
4. Oliver Toscani created contriversial ad campaign for which co.? Benetton
5. What did British Media sell to Charter House Development Capital? Sale of Madame Tussads,London
6. Biedenharm Canbay Co.,Griggs Chandler are brands of which co. in history? Coca -cola
7. Chemist Roy J Plunkett created on 6th april 1938 at DUPONT? Teflon
8. Which ad campaign "Every Road to success HAS A PASSING LANE Membership drives you there"? Amex
9. 1902 ,5 businessmen formed correndrum at harbour of minnessota,lake superior? 3M
10. Brands belong to M-seal,ranipal? Pidlite
11. Rationality and Freedom authored by which nobel prize winner? Amartya Sen
12. Logo Dunlop
13. In the US every year fourth thursday there is a huge shopping day,what occasion? Thanks Giving Day
14. Full form HBO
15. Pic of jeffrey immelt
16. Ad campaign "hit the hut"? Pizza Hut
17. Significans if 31 Baskin Robbins? 1 flavour for each day of the monthi.e.31 flavours
18. Rotating Propellor logo earlier in aircraft business? BMW
19. God of mercy in japan? Canon
20. Cash cow and ........growth given by which firm? BCG
21. Arnold Toynbee term 1740 to 1840 as what? Industrial Revolution
22. Ford sold till 1925 its car in which colour? Black
23. Logo union bank of india
24. AD video bigflicks
25. AD video of shine.com

1.Which brand has positioned itself as "start something new"
2.history of NOIDA
3.Which brand owned by Dabur means "digestion" in urdu?
4.What was started as Haloid Corporation?
5.Pic of Kris gopalakrishnan identify company.
6.Which telecom company has a plan called "true value"?
7.Pic ad - Times Jobs
8.International Bank for Development and Reconstruction?
9.Which fictional reporter started his career in 'La Petit' ?
10.Which word in chinese is known to be ever growing and also is a name of financial institution in China?
11.old logo of canara bank
12.Which brand says "find the Golden arches"
13.Monk who sold his Ferrari - Identify the Author
14.The govt. of India printed a series of currency notes "HA".these notes could not be used in India?
15.What full form of CNG?
16.vehicles with registration number DD is found in which city?
17.something to do with dandruff.
18.Pic of Ravi Kant.Identify the company
19.Pic of Lord Swaraj Paul.
20.Which steel plant was inaugrated by Jawaharlal Nehru on the banks of Damodhar river valley?
21."Tel Bhavan" is the corporate HQ of which oil PSU major that is situated at dehradun.
22.History CRPF
23. ad - incredible india!
24. ad - phillips
25. ad - Vicks

GIRI said in Pune, this is the toughest quiz of TC corporate 2008 for both TATA n Non TATA track.

Quiz won by:- Kotak Mahindra Bank( Samrat Mukherji & Ashit)
Runner up:- BMC Software
__________________________________________________
Few Qs are here

1. Which sports good company make cricket bats by the brand names Ballistic, Stealth, velocity & Atomic?
PUMA

2. Which beer is brewed at Mohan Rocky breweries in Maharashtra, mount Shivalik in Rajasthan, Impala Breweries in Goa, Iceberg in Bihar & Manav Breweries in UP?
Cobra Beer

3. Which company entered into the hospitality sector with its luxury resorts & Spa "The Serai"?
Cafe Coffee Day

4. Who sponsored the fairplay award in this year IPL?
Kingfisher

Won by: Questa with 60 points

Runner Up: Vodafone with 30

Few qts:

1. What name has Bharti given to its small format retail stores:

Easy Day

2. Godrej has tied up with the largest meat processor in the world for its poutry process. Name the company.

Tyson Foods

3. ISIS is the longest running magazine in the world dedicated to which icon of music?

Bob Dylan

Question sent by Rajiv D’Silva

Prelims:

1. Who wrote the words ''Satisfaction Guaranteed'' on the first Wal-Mart sign and said that they were the two most important words of his life? - Sam Walton

2. Which of these is the largest microfinance company in India – Sambandh or Bandhan? - Bandhan

3. Print ad - Shopper's Stop

4. Thyssenkrup is the world's largest manufacturer of auto parts. Which Indian company is the second-largest? Bharat Forge

5. Logo - VIP Luggage

6. Picture - Venu Srinivasan of TVS

7. Mirc Electronics recently witnessed a power struggle between Gulu Agarwal and his brother for control of the holding company of Mirc. What is the name of the holding company? - Guviso Holdings

8. The founder of which brand, now a part of P&G, once said, ''I have done more than anyone else to change the face of mankind''? - Gillette

9. Which country that became independent in 1946 was purchased by the US from Spain for $20 million? – Phillipines

10. Which country has recently started a TV channel called ‘Press TV’, the country’s first 24-hour English-language channel? – Iran

11. Which group owns the retail brands Food World, Books & Beyond and Music World? – RPG Group

12. Who replaced the legendary Meg Whitman as CEO of eBay recently? – John Donahoe

13. Lakme have tied up with which subsidiary of Henkel to use their products in their saloons? – Schwarzkopf

14. Whose frequent traveler programme is called Shubh Yatra? – Indian Railways

15. What kind of vehicles in India carry a CD licence plate? – Diplomatic vehicles, CD stands for Country Diplomat

16. Which hotel initially called itself the world’s first seven-star resort? – Burj Al Arab

17. TVC - D'Cold

18. TVC - Mirinda

The six teams that qualified on stage were – Splash Communications, Synapse, Savoir Faire, BETS, Vaz Consulting and Hindustan Unilever. The cut-off was 12.

Final standings:

Savoir Faire – 85

Synapse – 30

HUL – 25

Splash – 10

BETS – 10

Vaz - 0

Won By: Malayala Manorama
2)IOC
3)citibank
4)Idea
5)FACT
6)V-guard

a shivnadar pic,
first flight courier logo,
beige book published 8times a year(federal reserve),
question on financial firm est 1875which became popular due to a sponsorship entered after 100 years(prudential),
a commission set up under a former RBI governor(rangarajan),present pay commission for central govt.(sreekrishna )
a q on moser baer,
deutch bank etc.
prelim was of high std.

Thanx, Anil Raghavan sir for the update....

TATA Crucible's round updates
With the more bang & bucks TC touched the battle ground in Coimbatore. Here is the closer look to thr diferent rounds.
___________________________________________
1. Normal Round(Visual/Dry)

2. TATA Round (Buzzer)
TATA related questions

3. Connect Round
Jst connect all the shown ones & come with a final answer.

4. Formula Round
Same as in the last year.

5. Clue Round
On 1st clue crack:- 15
On 2nd clue crack:- 10
On 3rd clue crack:- 5

Update from Sneha.VM

Hi
Round details given by you are right. Prelim was not very tough. 25 questions with 5-6 visuals and 2ads as video.

Final was very good. Infosys won with Bhansali Associate a CA firm from here and Robert Bosch Engg third.

Audience prizes are very good and Pickbrain's humour was the best as always.

Without much marketing effort from Tata’s, the sheer involvement of quizzers around the country (and few outside the country), has put ‘tata crucible’ search at 77^th position as on 4^th August (i.e just one day after the 16 cities voyage started in Coimbatore)

Now, the question is can it broke into top 50 or beyond that…..

Won by: infosys Bangalore, represented by Harkirat (This year TC Student finalist, IMT, Ghaziabad.
Second: S. Bansali & Associates

Few Qts

LIC Logo

HSBC Logo

Which Indian airline has named its inflight magazine to reflect its unique seating arrangement.

Paramount Airways. magazine - Aisles & Windows as it has no middle seats, provides all business class 2x2 seating

Known as ASDA in UK, Seiyu in Japan....?

Walmart

First company to manufacture tractor in India?

Eicher