Tata Crucible 2010 Campus Preps #7

Question 7

Which company that started as Pacific Aero Products on July 15, 1916 is today the largest exporter in terms of value for the United States?

Answer

Boeing Corporation

Tata Crucible 2010 Campus Preps #6

Question 6

Known as Tahtirevan in Turkey , jiao in China , Gama in Korea and Palki( or palanquin) in India, the english equivalent of this lends its name to a class of automobiles. What is the good word?

Answer

The english equivalent for this was the Sedan-Chair from which we get the Sedan

Tata Crucible 2010 Campus Preps #5

Question 5

What is the significance of a cycle company , originally established in Dayton in 1892 , located first at 1005 West Third Street?

Answer

This was the cycle repair shop of the Wright Brothers and the place were the idea for the first aircraft was worked upon.

Tata Crucible 2010 Campus Preps #4

Question 4

If

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Then



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Answer

Youtube -- The first person is Elon Musk , who started Tesla Motors , the first Electric Supercar company and the person in the second picture is Chad Hurley. Both of them were Paypal Employees and these were their first major startups after their time at Paypal

Tata Crucible 2010 Campus Preps #3

Question 3

Which word meaning Palms in Arabic was all over the news earlier this year?

Answer

Nakheel -- One of the companies under the Dubai world umbrella and the builder of the Palm Jumeira and the Palm Islands.

Tata Crucible 2010 Campus Preps #2

Question 2

He is the only person to have won the Nobel Peace Prize , Padma Vibushan , Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional gold medal. Who is he?

Answer

Norman Ernest Borlaug

Tata Crucible 2010 Campus Preps #1

Just like last years' preparatory questions for Tata Crucible Corporate, planning a series of questions for the college folks along the lines of old Tata Crucible Questions. Hope this helps all the folks , who are preparing for the quiz.

Oh!! A slight change from the format of last time... The questions will be posted once every hour .. but the answers will be posted only at the end of day/ week ( my schedule permitting) to ensure that folks , have time to respond to the questions in the comments section.

Question 1

Which person who grew up in a low income housing project called The Baruch Houses in New York City , became the first African-American lady to head a S&P 100 company?

Answer

Ursula Burns -- The CEO of Xerox Corporation

K! Biz Quiz 2010

A very very long overdue post on the Kurukshetra biz quiz. Been a hectic few weekends with a jam packed quizzing schedule. Gopal did the Biz quiz at Anna University on 23rd of January ( as he had done over the last 3 years as well) and as usual it was a great quiz.

The prelims was a common prelims for the college and the Corporates. 8 teams made it to the stage and there was a separate finals for College Teams and another one for Corporates. Prelims was 30 questions.

Just remember the teams that qualied in corporates .. dont remember the college teams

1. Cody and team -- unilever

2. Samanth -- Mint

3. Shubham + Myself -- CTS

4. JK and team -- Google

5. Fing and Ashwin -- Citibank

6.Anish and team -- Nokia

7.Siddarth ,Srihari -- TCS

8. Sumo and team -- Ebay

Shubham and I finished first -- by answering the last question. Samanth -- the lone wolf -- came in second and JK and Team came in third.

Few questions from the ones in my notes

1.This company's slogan which ironically goes " The best a man can get" recently announced that they would not be airing ads featuring Tiger Woods anymore. Which company?

Gillette

2. Picture of Neville Tuli

3.Which bank helped underwrite the IPO of Coke and received some shares for the same?

4.Ad for Viagra

5. What is sukuk?

Islamic Bonds

6. Picture of an airline tail was shown . Airline showcased diversity -- the specific tail design was by Meera Mehta . Id the Airlines and the art form showcased

British Airways and Paithani Sarees

7.Peabody Energy, the world's largest private sector coal mining company. What is the NYSE ticker?

BTU ( British Thermal Unit)

8. Who likened investing in stocks to a beauty contest , where the prize went to the entrant who guessed which girl others would judge the prettiest?

John Maynard Keynes

9.Which word meaning " Great Lord" was popularized by publishing magnate Henry Luce of Time Inc?

Tycoon

10.Which snack with sales of over one billion USD , was modeled in 1968 as a hyperbolic paraboloid?

Pringles

Claim to fame

Camille Gutt , a Belgian Jewish Economist is believed to have been responsible for the saving of the Belgian Franc before and after World War II. Before the war, he saved the Belgian currency by secretly transferring the gold reserves of the Belgian National Bank out of Nazi reach. After the war, he stabilized the Belgian franc and forestalled inflation, with what still is known as the Gutt operation. However his claim to fame comes as being the first person to be something. What?

First president of IMF

Aima Quiz 2009 Chennai Questions and Review

A few questions from the prelims of the AIMA quiz

1. Satyam, Sharam, Scandalam -- Who ran this ad?

Amul

2. Showed the picture of a green and purple train -- Non Stop Air Conditioned from city to city -- what is the name of this train?

Duranto

3. Cineblitz cover -- With which Airline would you connect this magazine

Kingfisher

4. Google Doodle of the 40th year of Moon Landing -- ID

5. Complete the tagline --- There are somethings money can buy -- for everything else there is -----------------

Mastercard

6. Q5,Q7,TT,R8 are brands of which automobile company?

Audi

7. Pic of Devi Shetty

8. Pic of Arvind jaadhav

9. Pic of Lord Megnad Desai

10. Territorial Army's Lieutenant --- South Indian Actor -- Who?

Mohan Lal

11.Who will be replacing David Backham as the Global Ambassador of Motoralo for a contract of 23 Crores?

A.R.Rahman

12. CISF Logo shown -- which Indian Private company is the first company to get protection from this agency?

Infosys

13.askforOriginal.com is whose website?

Microsoft

14. Snow Leopard is the new OS from which company?

Apple

15. Connect Ruchi, Chinni, Maa , Coty?

CavinKare

Had participated in last years quiz and had been on stage last year -- but was totally disheartened by the cheesy presentation and the "either you know it or you don't know it" questions.

Due to shift in companies -- Didn't participate in quiz (the quiz entry fee was 6k) and sat peacefully in the audience and started attempting the questions. Half way through the quiz , I realized that the same cheesy presentation had to be endured this year as well. However the questions were surprisingly decent. In fact didn't mind sitting thru the quiz.

The cutoff for the prelims was 19 on 30 -- And I think CTS with Shubham Roy and Venkatesh NA topped the prelims with 26. A relatively easy prelims but kept everyone interested.

Just a couple of things that the quizmaster probably have to take care

-- The Length of the quiz -- With just 5 round of quizzing -- the quiz is extremely short and is totally unfair to the participants who spend 6k for the quiz. The quiz should definitely be longer.

-- The Scoring system -- Was extremely skewed -- having 20 points in one round and 10 points for each buzzer basically ensures that you win the quiz -- if you are awake through just two rounds.

Questions in rounds 1 and 3 in the finals ( the Bonus round and Killer Fields Round) might give immense pleasure to the QM but if the questions are archane -- it is pure luck -- not quizzing.

Especially in the Killer Fields round -- after the grids for the first four teams , I think the 5th and 6th teams were stunned to get lists that you wont get even if you mugged.

Overall a better show compared to last year with respect to the questions -- but a lot of improvement is still possible.