TATA CRUCIBLES corporate edition held at Taj Palace, Delhi on September 26,2010

Top six teams in the prelims were-
1. Indiatimes
2. Accenture
3. DTZ
4. MINT
5. NTPC
6. Genpact

Winners- NTPC
Runners up- Accenture




 Questions from preliminary round-

1.only pvt co during ww2 to supply fighter aircrafts luftwaffe (german air force)
Ans.Messerschmitt

2. What in the financial world is said to have been first conceptualized by the roman emperor Diocletian
Ans. Budgeting

3. First line of which book"business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50 years.
Ans.Business @the speed of thoughts .

4. Which singer has a clothing line called "house of dereon".
Ans. Beyonce Knowles

5.This organization get its name from the term R & D,invented the telecommunication technology that was the basis for modern computer networks.
Ans.Rand corp.

6. Which company whose name means two seas was the first arab country in the region to strike oil in 1932.
Ans.Bahrain

7. What word is derived from the french for 'one who undertakes'
ans.Entrepreneur.

8. Which co.Sponsored the first limited overs cricket tournament (an english county cricket tournament in 1963.
Ans.Gillete

9. In 1999 who sold his ready to wear & beauty business to francois pinault whose empire included the italian label ,gucci.
Ans.Y.S.L

10. The opening ceremony of which newspaper was performed by mahatma gandhi on september 15,1924.
Ans. H.T

11.Name of this place is derived from two hamlets 'idla' and 'padla', today is a home of a largest selling brand in the world.
Ans. Parle g

12.This restaurant chain is run by the direct descendant of the nobleman john montagu who in 1762 invented a particular foodstuff.
Ans. The sandwich

13.What is common to the books "conspiracy of fools" & 'the smartest guys in the room' ?
Ans.The Enron scandal

14.Identify the pic.

15.Identify the pic

Ans. Sanjeev Bhikchandani

Brand Equity Quiz held at Hotel Ramada Plaza New Delhi on May 08th 2010

Today , a big day for delhi quizzers because of BRAND EQUITY QUIZ which is the most awaited quizzing event in INDIA. Derek o Brien was there as a quiz master with his best sense of humour. I kept on laughing the whole quiz. Great quizzing and wonderful research by Derek's team. Questions were really superb. 

Winers of Delhi round

Rohan Khanna & Sandeepan Chaudhari (Accenture)

There were 30 questions in the preliminary round.The top six teams who made it to the quiz-

1) NTPC (Sujit & Prashant)

2) Accenture(Rohan & Sandeepan)

3) NTPC (Chandan Shahi)

4) Bates

5) Contract

6) HT Media

1)We know big 4s(Delloitte,E n Y, KPMG, PWC). Then who are big 3s

Ans. Ford, GM, Chrysler

.

2)Baburam devidayal (Paranthe wale)offered Rs 1100 if anyone could prove that -

Ans. They were not using Desi Ghee

3)Who is the man behind Diamond Music Company?
Ans. Neil Diamond


4)Where would you find first writtten rule for apprenticeship ?
Ans. The Code of Hamurabi


5)What is No. 9 famous for(Doctors order)?
Ans. WWII laxative pills


6) In 1970s Alan Greenspan said that if economy is doing well then sale of which product rises.
Ans. Underwear


7)Identify the company.

 Ans. Burger King


8)Identify

Ans. Wiki Bus

9)Identify the ad

Ans. "Walk Tall as a Daredevil.....

Note: The person who wrote the above headline was himself present in the quiz & also he was among the top 6 teams who qualify in the preliminary round.

10)Identify the author

Ans. Frederick Forsyth

11. Song "Tu paisa paisa karti hai". Which Movie?
Ans. De Dana Dan

Note:- NTPC(Sujit & Prashant) were not able to identify the movie after having topped the prelim round. On this Derek quoted- "These type of questions are not meant for NTPC because of there reputation in Quizzing".Bad luck for NTPC due to this question and they were out of the race.

Brand Equity Quiz Delhi Edition

Brand Equity Quiz Delhi Edition @ RAMADA PLAZA on May 8th, 2010

Media Quotient Quiz held at Hotel Eros Intercontinental, New Delhi on May 05th 2010

Media Quotient Quiz Delhi regionals was conducted by media honchos Sam Balsara & Vikram Sakhuja. The knowledge guide was B.Sridhar. It was a wonderful quiz. There were six teams who made it to the prelims. After first round two teams were eliminated. The four teams were -

Ranjeet Verma (Underdogs)

TOI + Big Synergy

Two Idiots

Madison 1

Good show by Ranjeet Verma & his teammate. They won delhi regionals second time in a row. TOI+Big Synergy (Kunal Malhotra) were the runners up.

1) Expand RODP as used in the media planning & buying parlance.
2) “Kacchhi umar ke pakke rishte” is related to what ?
3) Who is the publisher of Sunday Indian, 4PS business magazine?
4) The Observer of business & politics is a newspaper by which Indian business group?
5) Who is the celebrity editor of the magazine “Meri Saheli” & “New Woman” ?
6) “Nation shall speak unto nation” is the motto of which company?
7) Which company owns majority stake in NBC network?
8) Tomato FM- Which media house bought it?
9) Which TV channel launched as a 50:50 venture by Turner International & Alva brothers?
10) Which TV channel aired the superbowl 2004 halftime show during which janet Jackson had a wardrobe malfunction?
11) AIR for long has had a station for the youth. Which radio station?
12) Identify the logo

13) Identify the person.

IQUATION Corporate Quiz 11th edition held at Taj Ambassador New Delhi on April 17th 2010

11 th anniversary of Iquation 2010 went well at The Taj Ambassador , New Delhi. The Quizmaster for the day was Mr. Krish Banik. Teams on the stage were-

1) Anil Kuthori & Nimesh (CITI BANK)

2) Sujit & Prashant (NTPC)

3) Shubhendu (DTZ)

4) Siddhartha Shankar & Chandan Shahi (NTPC)

5) Manoj & Sanjay (SAIL)

6) Rishab Banthia (Ernst & Young)

7) Rohan Khanna & Sandeepan Choudhari (Accenture)

8) Mitesh Aggarwal & Amit ( Sun Microsystems)

Winners were Rohan, Sandeepan (Accenture) however Mitesh Aggarwal’s team (SUN) were the runners up. Winners took away loads of prizes with Rs.20,000 / cash , round trip to Singapore and other cool prizes.

Questions from the preliminary round:-

1) Credit Lyonnais South Asia(CLSA) describe the two markets, which compliment each other & which are both “ must haves “ in the portfolio of any business which considers itself global.

Ans.Chindia

2) Amartya Shiksha Yojana Policy is for-

Ans. Orphaned student

3) Ad – Godrej Interio

4) Business professional who deals with the financial impact of risk and uncertainty in Insurance business are known as-

Ans.Actuaries

5)Expand RONW- Return on Net Worth

6) Some trivia about-

Ans.Geely

7) Thermax entered in a joint venture with which U.S Co.

Ans. Babcock & Wilcox

8) Identify-

 .

Ans. IRDA Chairman J Hari Narayan

9) Who won the P R Excellence Chanakya Award for 2010 ?

Ans.Coca Cola India

10) Bougette – little bag, what term originated from this?

Ans. Budget

11) What is Captcha ?

Ans. "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart."

12) French businessmsn Francois-Henri Pinault has married –

Ans. Salma Hayek

13)Identify the author?

Finals

1) What was George Clooney’s profession in the movie Up in the Air ?

Ans. To layoff people

2) Costliest ad ever. Identify the brand ?

 

Ans. Chanel No. 5

3)Identify the ad-

Ans. VIP NUOVo

4) Who is the sexiest man alive according to People Mag ?

Ans. George Clooney

5) Who received best actor award for the 56^th National Film Award for 2008?

Ans. Priyanka Chopra for the film “ Fashion”

6) Ruby for energy , Green for Innovation & Blue for growth. Identify the brand?

Ans. Godrej

7) Expand BMR ?

Ans. Body Mass Ratio

Microsoft Advertising presents-Digital Quotient Quiz ,an exchange4media group initiative on March 19 th at Hotel Taj Ambassador, New Delhi

Great Quizzing, best teams from the country and on the top of that high profile quizmasters judging the business acumen of these young quizzers-

1)Zapak.Com

2)Ranjeet verma,

3)Sun microsystems led by Mr.Mitesh aggarwal,

4)Team yahoo &
5)IMT gaziabad.

                   After a hectic schedule we somehow managed to reach hotel taj ambassador. We missed the prelims and the first two rounds of delhi regionals. Regional round delhi was won by ranjeet verma. They also won some cool prizes.Final round was started at 7 pm. Great questions, intelligent connects kept everyone hooked to there seats. Mp3 players were given as audience prizes. Mitesh's team and team Yahoo(Tejaswi Udupa and Shamanth Rao) were at their best as expected. Finally team Yahoo won the quiz with a slight margin from Mitesh's team.


Quiz masters for the day-

Sanjeev Bhikchandani CEO- Naukri.com
Deep Kalra CEO Makemytrip.com
Mahesh Murthy Pinstorm
Rishi Khiani CEO Indiatimes


Some of the questions from the quiz-

1) Who are we talking about ?
a) __________ patel
b) Age 26 years
c) Hobby- Kitty Parties
Ans. Savita from Savita bhabhi dot com

2)Whose official profile is this?

Ans. Satya Prabhakar CEO Sulekha dot com

3) This is the address of which company ?

Ans. Apple

4) Identify ?

Ans. The Second Life version of the Barack Obama campaign HQ.

5) Whose initiative ?

Ans. P & G

6) Identify the Pic?

Ans. First Mouse

7) What is this ?

Ans. MRI Scan Image of a brain

8)What does this image depicts?

Ans. Visualization of internet

9) Which social networking site is no. 1 in spanish countries run by this indian entrepreneur ?

Ans. Ramu Yalamanchi and he founded Hi5

10. Identify the logo ?

Ans. Metacafe

11. Logo of-

Ans. Pirate Bay dot com

12) He founded two internet websites ?

Ans. Blogger dot com & Twitter dot com

13) Which website address is this Kirtu dot com ?

Ans. Savita bhabhi dot com

14) In internet lingo A/S/L stands for Age, Sex , Location . What does B/S/L stand for?

Ans. Bisexual, Straight, Lesbian

TATA CRUCIBLES DELHI EDITION, QM GIRI PICK BRAIN

Wonderful evening at Taj Mahal Palace, 250 + teams, and great quizzing. IMT Ghaziabad was at its best. They topped the prelims also they won it with huge margins. In Giri's own words, this team was calm and composed from the beginning and finally they won it. Today's center of attraction was a team from SSCBS(Undergraduates). I saw them last years's crucibles as well. Giri pointed out and said it is one of the youngest team which qualifies for the finals like TATA Crucibles. Delhi once again showed its true spirit and made many records, be it terms of no. of  participating teams or the youngest team ever in the history of  TATA Crucibles. In one of the audience questions which was answered by TATA Crucibles Indore winner Debashish (IIM-I). Giri noticed it and announced that people started travelling from one cities to another just to see who is their competitors in National finals, scheduled to take place at Taj Hotel Mumbai.  This time first in the history of quizzing in India a new concept is introduced- During each pass the weightage of the question will increase rather than decrease which is usually the case till yet. Teams which were on the stage -

IMT G
SSCBS
IIFT
FMS
IMT
IIT- DMS




1.Which Clothing uses a logo known as omini ?
Ans.Kappa

2.Miramax films is an art house/independent film divison of which co.?
Ans.Walt disney

3.Which Film production co was founded by director Mira nair in 1989.But it ended up in a controversy due to its name.But finally she won.Which co ?
Ans.Mirabai films

4.Which co has its logo on indian hockey team's t-shirt ?
Ans.Sahara

5.14% alcohol by volume in samich lans(santa clause) is one of the strongest beers, originally brewed in zurich.Name the only country other than zurich which also claims the same?
Ans.Austria

6.Claudia schiffer made her american debut in the advertisement of which jeans?
Ans.GAS JEANS,  Guess Jeans 

7.Which pharma co.s name derived from latin for 'new skills' ?
Ans. Novartis

8.Neck n tie are exclusive outlets at airports from which clothing co.
Ans.Raymond

9.Which bird is the symbol of swarovski ?
Ans.Swan

10.Song from bachna e hasino.Identify the producer.
Ans.Yash raj films

11.Identify the ad?

12. Identify the book,name the author?

Ans. Ayn Rand

12.Identify the logo?

Ans. Harper Collins


13.Identify the ad?

Ans. Unicef

14. Identify this billionaire/

Ans.Carl Icahn

15. Ad of -
Ans . Boeing


Wild Card Round


1. Which co. HQ is at-New Orchard Road Armonk, New York
Ans. IBM

2.N.S.A (national Security Agency) of America offers certificates like CNS 4001, for which white head certification?
Ans. Ethical hacking

3. Which is the only indian co which is sponsoring FIFA at technological front ?
Ans. Satyam

4. Mahatrooper champion, commando are tyre barnds of  which co. ?
Ans. Appolo Tyres

5.What is the full form of MRF ?
Ans. Madras Rubber Factory

6.Cerelac is owned by which Company ?
Ans. Nestle

More Questions Soon !!!!

Corporate Biz Quiz @ LBSIM as part of their annual fest TATVA 2010 on 22nd february [QM-Avinash Mudaliar]

Corporate Quiz at SSCBS's Crescendo 2010 on 6th Feb 2010

Some questions from the quiz

1) In 1998 Satya Prabhakar started which website?
Ans. Sulekha.com

2)Tagline - Pure reading pleasure
Ans. Mills n Boon

3)This coffee house company based in the United Kingdom founded in 1971 by Italian brothers Sergio and Bruno Costa, as a wholesale operation supplying roasted coffee to caterers and specialist Italian coffee shops.
In 1995, the company was acquired by, and is now a subsidiary of, the Whitbread company
Ans. Costa Coffee

4)Identify the HQ .

Ans. General Motors

5)This slang was originated in US Navy-
Ans. Happy Hours

6)French Connection exploited the controversy of the name, producing an extremely popular range of t-shirts with messages such as "_____ fashion", "_____ this", "hot as ____",  "lucky _____", "_____ on the beach"
. It was founded in the United Kingdom in 1972 which sells clothing and accessories in many parts of the world.
An. fcuk

7)Luca Pacioli had codify something specific in -"Summa de arithmetica". What did he codify?
Ans. Double entry book keeping

8)The phrase was featured on The Simpsons in the 1992 episode "Homer's Triple Bypass", with the characters Bart and Lisa referring to themselves as such, describing the ___________ as ones that "feel neither highs nor lows". When Homer asks what it's like, Lisa replies "meh."

Ans. MTV Generation

9)Identify;

Ans. Tatoo artist -Don Ed Hardy

10.The Company was set up by Ninan Mathai in 1887 atKozhencherry, a small town in the erstwhile Kingdom of Travancore (Kerala). It was then later taken over by his son M George ______ who incorporated the Finance division of the group which was till then primarily involved in wholesale of grains.

Quarter Finals (International level) held on 7th Feb, 2010 at IIPM Satbari Campus, New Delhi

1)Identify the logo-

Ans. APPLE Computers

2) Identify the logo

Ans. Firefox

3)Mascot of which company ?

Ans. Tony the tiger : mascot of Kellogs frosties breakfast cereals

4)What is pencil award for advertising creativity?

Ans. One Show Awards of Newyork

5)Who is the new global face of L'Oreal Cosmetics?

Ans. Freida Pinto

6)"Get an old lying around: Recycle it" print ad for what?
Ans. Nokia


7)Ad for what ?

CHEVRON

8)Identify the logo?

Ans.Enviornment Logo of Beijing olympics

9)Print ad for-

Ans. GREENPEACE

10)Print ad for-

Ans. Coleman's Mustard