I was late to the quiz. I hated it as I never like to go to a quiz late. It’s all because of the invite which said 3.30. I was right in time for the wild card rounds ( there were 2 as there a lot of teams on same score). There was a team from Symbiosis Law School, Pune. They were allowed to participate from Chennai as they are going for official Geneva trip on Pune Round date.

I got only the final round questions and I hope someone posts the prelim. Forgive me for any spello errors. This is what I could get …

Wild Card 1

1. How does the world better know the Waterbury clock company?
Timex

2. Maheshwar Hydro Electric project is a diversification project of which textile major in India?
SKumars

3. With which chocolate maker you will associate the tagline “the sweetest place on earth”
Hersheys

4. Found in 1907 by Eugene Schuler -Loreal

5. Which auto major is a major investor in Juventus?
FIAT

6. Which organisation known for pioneering industrial standards was started in Feb. 1947 I. Geneva

ISO

Tie Breaker

One Italian word for maker of coffee – Barista

Wild Card Round 2

1. Not in the business of publication – who publishes Brew Print – Barista again ( back to back)

2. RS Owens & Company – Oscar Statuttes

3. Your lungs, your heart, your legs, your will. Running isn’t a team sport – Adline for what ?
Nike

4. Forever. New Frontiers – Boeing

5. Whole world steps asidefor thean who knows his way- Johnny Walker

6. Dev Karan Nanji – Dena Bank

Tie Breaker

First of their creation was Vasar – Wrigleys

Finalists

1. Deepak and Avinash – College of Engg
2. Vijay & Srinivas – KCG Tech
3. Chinmay & Karthik – IIT Doms
4. Sathyathi Shekar & Francis Anto – Loyola
5. Manikandan & Kashyap – Vivekananda
6. Sachin & Raghav – Symbiosis Law School

Round 1 – Let’s Toss

1. Theory propagated by a famous business leader during his tenure at GE called One-Two theory of Mgmt. Who and explain?

Jack Welch – if GE is not in number 1 or number 2 – they will exit the business

2. This term coined by Gifferd and Elizabeth gives the description of an employee who contributes to the business success of the organisation and innovation culture. – intrapreneur

3. Term was coined in 18th century – comes from the French word of quarter master – extensively used in military management – logistics

4. Believed and accepted to be first done by Simon Stevin from Belgium as early as 16th century -called it as “the Fair statement”
Balance Sheet

5. 1955- directors of this company thought that the length of the name was longer – so they had an acronym TTK – then they changed to a name of Latin origins to make a short and crisp name

Sony

6. Originally a term – become a theory – evolved in to a human behaviour – now a pre requisite in an organisation – Developed by Ivel Murell in UK 1949 – encompasses human interaction along with technology – ergonomics

Round 2 – Stumpvision

1. Visual of Nicola Tesla
2. Use a stop sign to start something – adline – Tata Jagriti Yatra
3. Cycle Agarbathis Logo
4. Pioneer Car Stereo Ad
5. Color Next – lead free India – Asian Paints
6. A lady’s Photo – significance of this millionaire – First millionaire in Second Life

Tata World

1. Adjudged the best ecommerce company in 2009 – mjunction – metal junction
2. Capex award winner for export and imports – Tata Refractory
3. Doctorate Funding program – TCS
4. Partnered with Wildlife Trust of India to free the forests from chemicals – Tata Chemicals

Third umpire

Connect – Sisley,Paris – Rugby – a video ad – United Colors of Benetton

Connect – Pokkiri Song – Indus league – Cosmos – Dove logo – Future Group

Connect – Nutrine, Ballot Box, Hrithik Roshan, Star Spangled Banner – Godrej

Connect – Argos, Crossword, Timezone and Shoppers Stop ad – Raheja Group

Slog Overs

Clue 1: Pic-famous owner of this corporation – quite a threat and security for us

Clue 2: prime suppliers to US Army

Clue 3: Logo

Berreta

Clue 1: Tea Mails

Clue 2: International ethical tea practioners association

Clue 3: Associated British Products Plc

Twinings

Clue 1: Peachpit Press

Clue 2: BBC Active

Clue 3: Longman

Pearson

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Ask the value of not pressing a buzzer, JK and DP will tell you. Ask the value of pressing the buzzer at the right time – Venkatesh and Shubam will tell you. Ask the value of one question – three teams including mine will tell you.

Back from the Tata Crucible Chennai Edition and Chennai proved once again why it’s the toughest quizzing destination in India. The prelim was tricky as usual and it was touch and go for most of the teams.

2 teams missing out in Tata track and it was simply battle royale between two TCS teams ( Siddharth’s Tean and JK’s Team). If BILT was a cracker from Siddharth, Jyothi Laboratories from JK equalled it.. At last it has to end in a tie-break rightly so. Siddharth and Sri Hari will be representing the Tata track from chennai and tough luck JK

3 Teams missed out in Non-Tata Track including mine ( Thanks Aparna, we did a good job but not enough), Yaggyand Karthi (Infosys) and KalaiSelvam’s team ( ASAP Productions). Tough luck guys. The finalists are Venkatesh ( Aka Matti) and Shubam Roy ( Cognizant), Ramkumar Shankar and Deepesh ( Sanmar), team from Irevna Research, Sivaraman and Samit Kaul ( Cognizant), Vishwajeeth and Rohit Jain ( IBM), Kiran and Srinivas (Wipro).

Although Venkatesh was cursing himself for missing Cycle Agarbathis, they scored some crackers in the second round. I havent’s figured out till no how Ramkumar cracks these questions with spinning stories – Yahoo was wonderful. But they will definitely curse themselves for answering Portugese for the currency question and Venkatesh lapped it up because we asked the same question in our India Quiz, a year back. Of course, he was part of the research team. Vishwajeeth missed out on Nokia, which he should have cracked knowing his calibre. I think what separated the first team from the rest was the question they answered in the last round on Ronnie Screwala – although i cracked it from the audience, I would not have pressed the buzzer if i was in the stage. Guys, you thoroughly deserve the crown. The runner ups were decided on tie-breaks. Painfully, once again Ramkumar and Deepesh have to be with the runner-up crown. All the best for next year

It was a wonderful quiz altogether with Giri in his usual self and with some fantastic questions. That Amul poppet girl was certainly question of the day.  Hats of Venkatesh and Shubam for winning the quiz, bring back the crown to Chennai on October 4th.

One irking fact was  that the organisers should have thought about the demand of quizzing in Chennai. A whole lot of people had to stand and witness the whole quiz because of the lack of space. I dunno how they could even think of such a small hall for a quiz of that order in Chennai.  I think its because of the postponement. Taj Coromandel would have been better. We understand but Guys we fill up the Chinmaya Auditorium for every Tata Crucible quiz and of course what else you can expect from the Quizzing Capital of India….

Prelims Questions and Answers

1. Joe is the logo of the company – tagline is “Change your body, change your life”?

2. Barilla an italian company is the world’s largest maker of what?

3. Indian arm of which consulting firm was started in calcutta in 19th century by WA Brown and Marc

4. Vineet Nayar’s Pic

5. Patented in 1949 as a classifying apparatus used for article classification through the medium of identifying patterns

6. 1904 – started from the parent – monkey brand of soaps – name synonymous – force and vigour

7. What is LUP in the packaging world ?

8. Deccan chronicle hoarding in chennai

9. Condition of flowing – Latin word – in the world of finance

10. Four Armenian sarkies brothers – hotel in South Asia – light of the south ?

11. Aura – 1.11 Lakh phone – which mobile manufacturer

12. Takeitlightly.com is the marketing campaign from which snack bar manufacturer ?

13. Life the great challenge – marketing campaign – world’s biggest jigsaw puzzle from which unilever beverage brand

14. United India Assurance logo

15. Ellen Kullman is the first woman CEO of which 200 year old company

16. Which former ICICI employee has been inducted in to the Infosys board

17. What’s the low cost airline of Jet called – started in May 2009

18. Adamo is a laptop from which computer manufacturer

19. Magcloud is a cloud sourcing for publishing your own magazines – started by which computer giant

20. Keep riding is the tag line for the new ad campaign from which comeback automobile manufacturer in India

21. Who owns the patent of Leonardo Da Vinci – and related funda
Bill Gates

22. Question on Hamburger University

23. Born in 10 Downing Street, later sent to India for governing the Indian authorities – chennai landmark named after him -

24. Nescafe audio

25. Dinamalar video ad

Answers

1. Gold’s Gym
2. Pastas
3. PWC
4. Vineet Nayar
5. Bar Code
6. Vim
7. Low Unit Packing
8. Deccan Chronicle
9. Currency
10. Raffles, Singapore
11. Motorola
12. Perk
13. Lipton
14. United India Assurance
15. Dupont
16. KV Kamath
17. Jet Konnect
18. Dell
19. HP
20. Royal Enfield
21. Bill Gates
22. Hamburger University
23. Lord Rippon – rippon building
24. Nescafe
25. Dinamalar

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A relief on a Sunday with a nice quiz. A tough prelims, giving the Chennai Quizzers a wonderful exercise of minds. Even more tougher, nicely fought finals (both the tracks). I think the way it goes the quizzes will shrink in size ( like Cricket is shrinking). It would have been better if there has been more rounds.

Prelims

1. Which F1 team that later became Renault F1 and with which Michael Schumacher win his first Championship?

Benetton

2. Which sports good company started in 1887 and a subsidiary of K2 Sports is the official ball supplier of Major League Baseball?

Rawlings

3. Famous Ad Campaign – Pic – ” You Shouldn’t need support to move”?

Calcium Sandoz

4. Which American pop Singer has a record label call Jay Tee Records?

Justin Timberlake

5. In tyre industry, what are OTR Tyres?

Off the Road

6. In moving and packaging industry, what are PBOs?

Packed by Owner

7. Which automobile launched in India in 2007 and was developed as Project X90 in Romania?

Logan

8. Which Major magazine launched a initiative called “Red Stripes” to start new business units?

The Economist

9. Which popular American TV Series ended with a dialogue “Goodbye, Farewell and Amen”?

M.A.S.H

10. What first appeared on Dec 6th 1768, ( a long question) ?

Encylcopedia Brittanica

11. Pic of Noel Tata

12. What special loan will be given by the bank started by Adeshwar Puri?

Art Bank for loans to rent paintings and artefacts

13. Which state govt. has started Roots Norka initiative for their non- resident population?

Kerala

14. Which state decided to mark a yellow strip on all houses below poverty line?

Haryana

15. Logo of Ingersol Rand

16. Which Indian state has become a big exporter of roses on brand names like Cherry lady, circus, corvette and White Cloud?

Meghalaya

17. Which chennai automobile giant exhibited iBus, a hybrid bus variety?

Ashok Leyland

18. According to statistician Aaron Levenstein ” Statistics are like _______ , they hide the essentials but reveal the interesting?

Bikini

19. A quote on negotiation. Which Great film had this quote?

God father

20. The Yandaboo treaty gave British to annex what in 1826, which was turn in to agricultural estate of tea?

Assam

21. What was the old Name of Lenovo?

Legend Computers

22. Whose campaign is Korbo Lorbo Jeetbo?

Kolkata Knight Riders

23. The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future. – Which famous economist’s quote?

John Maynard Keynes

24. Nokia – Ad

25. Parle G Ad

TATA TRACK FINALS

Round I -  Only the Paranoid Survive

1. This convention is not so popular in India.It is not currently practiced in India. When it was implemented, it was during war years. It was started by William Willet in the year 1904. Useful during teleconferencing..

Day Light Saving Time

2. This is how they used to keep accounts in the medieval period. Its essentially made of wood. They split the wood vertically. One half is kept by the borrower and the other by the lender. How do we know this popularly in the world of software.

Tally

3. Peter Minuit bought something from the native Indians worth 60 guilders?

Manhattan

4. In the construction Industry, its a collection of 6 companies, one of them was Bechtel. They essentially became 6 companies inc. to build what?

Hoover Dam

5. 24th May 2004, on the 160th Anniversary of Morse Code, something was added as a tribute?

@ Symbol

6. In the world of Stephen King, who are “Dollar Babies”?

The film Makers to whom he sold his rights for the books at $1

Round 2 – Horizons – Buzzer

1. Their new positioning “Engineering Creativity” and they are in to visual computing.

Tata Elxsi

2. ISP business of Tata TeleServices – Tata Nova

3. This Tata was a great fan of hockey – Naval Tata

4. Watwala – JV of Tata Tea in which country- Sri Lanka

Round 3 – Built to Last – Crosswords

1. This group owns the Necker Isalnds , a holiday distination for couples

Virgin

2. If you are able, you will love

Loveable

3. Explore more is the tagline after they were continously blocked by Discovery Channel

Woodlands

4. A Idea that took us over.

Spice

5. Leading Innovation – Toshiba

6. A typo in the application for rights. COKEH20

Kinley

Round 4: Straight From the Gut- Buzzer – Visuals

1. B-Active – Mother Dairy

2. Good to Great , Author – Jim Collins

3. Pic of Ronnie Screwala

4. Is she a bengali? Campaign – Brooke Bond Red label

Round 5: Business at the Speed of Thought

1. Which Network’s tagline – Enable.Enlighten.Entertainment

TV18

2. My Predecessor is Kiran Karnik – Som Mittal

3. Dynatec – First Mobile Phone from Motorola

4. Which Platform did Tanishq chose to promote their Bridal wear?

Jodha Akbar

Winners : Siddharth and Sri hari ( TCS)

Runners: JayaKanthan and Devi Prasad ( TCS) … All were TCS teams on Stage.

NON – TATA TRACK

Round 1: Business Horizons

1. Anna Jarvis started this campaign and was so disturbed when the concept was made commercial. She tried to copy right the concept but ended up without success. Its considered to be one of the most popular days for dining out in US and Europe.

Mother’s Day

2. This was created by a Royal Charter on 30 Dec 1697 by King James II by the advise of British East India company to have a Fort and a town not more than 10 Mile surroundings. This was instituted on Sep 29, 1668 when Aldemen then Mayor of the Town took oath.

Chennai Corporation

3. This firm wanted panelists – Single, married and Couples to ” Come out and Tell us the truth ” campaign. they were used as panel of testers and conisdered to be path breaking.

Durex Condoms

4. This started as a debate in a symposium held at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. Some of the speakers were Condellezza Rice and Mario Kuvo. What concept , sponsored by a Magazine?

Time’s list of Most Influential People

5. What is a Reverse Merger?

A listed company acquiring a Unlisted company in order to make it listed automatically

6. What is a 419 Fraud?

Nigerian Email Scam

Round 2: Nano Games – Buzzer

1. HQ of Jv between Tata Power and BP Solar – Bangalore

2. Tata Indica in London – Rover

3. To bring quality knowledge , Tata tied up with Publishing House - Mcgraw Hill

4. Tata Tele – CDMA- First introduced in which state? Andhra Pradesh

Round 3 : Lateral Thoughts

( Guys I am giving all the clues based on the answers. In reality it was tough to identify things)

1. Connect Song from Goal, Ryan Giggs, Adi Dassler ( Pic) and two other – Reebok

2. Connect ARM, Leap Frog, Barso Re ( Guru SOng), Green Finder – Blackberry

3. Connect Gitanjali, Solitaire, Lamhe, Cheeni Kum Song, I think its either Minisha Lamba or Kamna Jethmalani – D’Damas

4. Connect J.Hampstead, Pond’s, Hero Honda and Pepsi – Priyanka Chopra

5. Connect Maurice Greenberg, ILFC, The Strength to be there, Man U Song – AIG

6. Hooglee, Knight’s Picture, HDIL, Nokia – Kolkata Knight Riders.

Round 4: Code Busters ( Buzzer)

1.Suzuki             Unesco                 Religare          SamSonite

K-2                  C-2                      G+2                  T-3

ZERO

2. Dockers          No Fear                Zodiac            BMW

K+2                R-1                      C-1                W-1

RAAM

3. Mahindra        VIP                        MRF               Compaq

A-1                V+1                    F-1                  A-4

MIRC

4. Disney           Skoda                   Lacoste           Playstation

D+2               A-2                      C-1                    A-2

SOAP

Round 5: Crucible Quotient – 3 Clues

1. This is a product from a 200 crore Giant from Chennai – A Tamil Root word for Enjoy

2. Saravana Stores

Ans: Jamaai

1954, Omaha Nebraska. In the Board of Con- Agra Foods

Champion Conservationist – written books Balancong Earth’s Resources…

Eldest son of Warren Buffet. Named after his grand father – Howard Buffet and Teacher Benjamin Graham

Howard Graham Buffett

Setup in 1951 in Chennai as a accessory supplier to Swiss Elevator Manufacturing Corporation.

Started by Pandit Nehru in 1955 in Perambur with over 10,000 Employees

ICF

Tie Break for the 1st Place: This from world of Microsoft acquired from Fore Thought Inc.

PowerPoint

Winners: Rajan Prabu and G.Swaminathan ( Citibank)

Runners: Ramakrishnan and Lakshmi Narayanan ( KPMG)

Two glitches ( not regarding to the contents of the quiz):

1. The amount of time the teams were made to wait. They said the registration will start at 3 and it started at 3.30 (almost). The teams were made to fry out in the humid place outside the audi

2. The amount of mails that spammed my mail id from tatacruciblecorporatequizz@gmail.com. I got two mails every day for the past week and I even sent  mail back saying ‘I have already registered. Please Stop’. It continued the next day. Common guys one remainder is enough.

That’s it…So let us see who becomes the National Champion

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