HTNI #26

The Speed limit on the campus is set to 18 Miles per hour in honor of its most famous quarterback. He is however more famous these days as the father of two Superbowl winning Quarterbacks. Who is he and in which campus would you find this speed Limit?

Answer to previous question


Shaquille O neal was the conductor of the Boston Pops. Anantha , Tezeshwar , Quzzerix , sourabh got it right.

CEAT Quiz 2011

The CEAT Open Quiz, 2011 is back. 

 

Date: Jan 26th 2011
City: Chennai
Venue: Tapovan Hall, Chinmaya Heritage Centre, No.2, 13th Avenue,
Harrington Road, Chetput
Time: Be seated by 2:00 PM . Prelims will begin at 2:30 PM
Finals: 4:30 PM (Top 8 teams from the prelims make it to the finals)

 

No registrations required. First come first seated.

 

Format: Open quiz with teams of 3

 

Attractive CASH prizes for top three teams!

 

1st Prize: Rs. 18,000
2nd Prize: Rs. 15,000
3rd Prize: Rs. 12,000

All finalists will be awarded Rs.1500 per team.

 

Best College Team & Best School Team Prizes

 

Quiz Research: Praveen Goday, Gopal Kidao, Diwakar Pingle & Rajiv Rai and friends.

Tata Crucible Collection -- Part V

1)In 1982, an accountant named Ramachandran was carrying out chemical trading for his clients, when he was left with unpaid bills and unutilized stock. What company did he create to utilize the chemicals that he was in possession of?

2)In 1997, an Indian entrepreneur convinced Antoine Bagche from Vienna to invest in his ‘bread business’ in India, thus creating a well-known brand in the food business. Which one?

3) Identify this person

4) She is the daughter of a famous Real Estate investor and is an heir to his legacy. Who is this person?

5) It was founded in 1927 by Americans Bennett Cerf, Christopher Coombes and Donald Klopfer. they are the world’s largest English-language general trade book publishers.

6) Which Soap is named after Turkish Community bathrooms?

7) When Introduced introduced in 1890, It is nicknamed as ‘Old Smoky’, ‘Sizzling Sally’, ‘Yellow Mama’… What?

8) Which word in business is derived from ‘The fruit of Carob’?

9) Which retail company founded by Otto Bershem has the tagline "Spirit of Commerce"?

10) Which alumni of Osmania Univeristy and co founder of Pictra India replaced Bruce Chizen at Adobe as its CEO?






Answers


1) Jyothi Laboratories
2) Pizza Corner
3) C.B.Bhave
4) Ivanka Trump
5) Random House
6) Hamam
7) The Electric Chair
8) Carat
9) Metro AG
10) Shantanu Narayanan


All the other parts in this compendium

Tata Crucible Collection -- Part IV

1) In 2009 SunPharma replaced which company on the BSE Sensex?

2) Identify this Media man

3) Kasturi & Sons are the parent company behind which famous newspaper?

4) “Better Sound Through Research" is the motto of which company?

5) What term comes from the Latin phrase meaning “course of life”?

6)  In 1925, an architect named Arthur Heineman designed something that started of a new concept in the travel and hospitality business. What?

7) Name the mascot and which company's mascot is he?

8) Which company that has a large base at coimbatore was originally part of Dun&Bradstreet?

9) Which channel was a long time sponsor of Lance Armstrong and shark week is one of its most popular show?

10) What is the name of the IRS (Indian Remote Sensing) image portal by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in competition to Google Earth?







Answers
1) Satyam
2) Ted Turner
3) The Hindu
4) BOSE
5) Curriculum Vitae
6) The First Motel
7) Tux the penguin for Linux
8) Cognizant
9) Discovery
10) Bhuvan



Tata Crucible 2009 Preps
Tata Crucible 2010 Preps

Tata Crucible Collection -- Part III

1) Which product was Pfizer’s biggest product in 1880 due to the high usage in cola drinks?

2) Whose New Logo is this?

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

4) 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''?

5) Identify this business man

6) 'Better Pizza through quality and innovation" is the motto of which company?


7) Which was the first Indian movie of which Singapore Airlines bought rights to broadcast it in the plane?


8) Which Indian was the richest man in the world in 1937 and appeared on the cover of Time magazine?


9) Which international voluntary organization was founded by the present French minister for foreign affairs Bernard Kouchner?


10) In the mid 40s I signed on for the Blue Books three month modelling course and was hired by Holga Steel (for some host party i think). Who am I?































Answers
1) Citric Acid
2) Murugappa Group
3) Vasco Da Gama
4) Gillete
5) Venu Srinivasan -- TVS Group
6) Pizza Corner
7) Sivaji The Boss
8) Nizam of Hyderabad
9) Docters without Borders
10) Marilyn Monroe

Tata Crucible Collection -- Part II

1) In 2000, With which film maker did Lego Team up to create the movie maker set?

2) United Artists was founded by D. W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and who else?

3) What was established in 1972 by Air France “to provide a home away from home for its customers.”

4) Identify this famous Management Guru

5) Identify the logo

6) Which Brand from the Frito Lays Stable , gets its name from the Spanish word for "Little bits of Gold"?

7) Who heads the Music Record Label -- SICO?

8) Tic Tac is a brand from which major Confectionary Company?

9) Which brands vision is “to organize the worlds information and make it universally accessible and useful"?

10) What Word is used to describe a market that is neither Bullish nor Bearish?






Answers

1) Steven Spielberg
2) Charlie Chaplin
3) Le Meridien
4) Ram Charan
5) Natwest Bank Logo
6) Doritos
7) SICO
8) Ferrero Rocher
9) Google
10) Chicken Market

2009 Preps series 
2010 Preps Series

Tata Crucible Collection -- Part I

Inspired by Ravi Handa’s Best of Tata Crucible PDFs, I am posting a set of questions that were asked in Tata Crucible since the year it started -- 2004. This is a collation of all the material that I have been able to find on the net from 2005 and from the quizzes that I attended in 2004.  Since the quiz is highly visuals based, the compilation also includes the logos, CEOs etc that are still relevant.

Set 1

1.       Which word in the current business world what is derived from latin for “patere” meaning to lay open?

2.       Fundamental principal of any economic activity is that no man you transact with lose,then you will not.
This is from the work from the PM of Mauryan empire. Which book?

3.       In 1932 which newspaper was started as Free press journal and the founder delivered the newspapers himself by van?

4.       In the range of sunglasses, what does M in MDG stand for , if DG stand for Dolce & Gabbana?

5.       Who accepted the Webby awards in 2009 with the speech-‘Every character counts. Thank you.’

6.       Which was the first product in India to review a Geographical Indicator Status?

7.       Identify the Logo

8.       Who is this and which company’s CEO is he?

9.       What in USA originally stretch from Trinity Church to East river?

10.   Which Person famous in the world of Advertising created the logo for MRF Tyres?

  

Answer

1.       Patent

2.       Arthashastra – by Chanakya

3.       The Indian Express

4.       Madonna

5.       Jack Dorsey of Twitter

6.       Darjeeling Tea

7.       Pontiac

8.       Frank D’Souza – Cognizant

9.       Wall Street

10.   Alyque Padamsee

HTNI #25

HTNI reaches its quarter century today.. Do leave any feedback that you have about the series in the comments section.

Question 25.....
As part of the holiday season in Boston, on the 20th of December , introduced as Maestro Shamrock , he made his debut as the conductor leading the Boston Pops Orchestra and Tanglewood Festival Chorus at the Holiday Pops Concert. Starting with the christmas staple of "Sleigh Ride" and finishing with Queen's we are the Champions, who conducted this session?


Answer to previous question.


As expected lot of you got it right... It is Thalaivar Rajnikant's puch dialogues which are used as a tool to explain the concepts in the book. and the book is Rajni's punch tantra. Sriram Mohan(a.k.a Ramki) , Ashwin , Vidya , Anubhav Chaterjee , Sourabh and kaushik get it right. Nice job folks.

Business Quizzes Index

Tata Crucible

Ran a prep series before the 2009 corporate quiz and the 2010 corporate quiz as well.

Tata Crucible 2009 Preps

Tata Crucible 2010 Preps

AIMA NMQ 2010

Coverage of the quizzes at Mumbai , Delhi and chennai + the Infosys eliminations

Mitesh Quizzes

UVCE 2010

IBS 2010

This post can be reached through the navigation menu below the header as well in the Biz Preps Section.

HTNI #24

Written by Raja Krishnamoorthy , a director at TalentMaximus and P C Balasubramaniam , a chartered accountant , who founded Matrix Business Services India Pvt Ltd, a leading Verification Company in the country, the book deals with management mantras in corporate as well as daily life settings, highlighting their relevance across the spectrum of Governance, Motivation, Leadership, Commitment, Foresight, Social Responsibility, Value, Timelines, Quality, Reputation, Sharing, Selflessness. A foreword presented by Seshasayee of Ashok Leyland , what does the book use as 'a tool' to explain these concepts? And what is the name of the book?


Answer to previous question


The Hundred Guilder Print -- Dinesh , Divya , Kaushik , Ramki , Anubhav Chaterjee , Sourabh got it right.