TATA CRUCIBLES Delhi edition held at Hotel Taj Palace on September 25 th

A sunny afternoon with lots of quizzing friends battling for TATA Crucibles at HOTEL Taj Palace,and this year team ACCENTURE has shown its metal and team ERNST and YOUNG missed it as runners up.
In finals teams on stage were-
1.ERNST & YOUNG
2.OBC
3.ICICI  Bank
4.GENPACT
5.ACCENTURE
6.GODREJ & BOYCE


PRELIMS-

1.Place in delhi got its name when the britishers decided to apply a system to separate british military building from others.


Ans.Civil lines

2.Aug 3.1960 which american exported a no. Of textile products through a small company 'india loomcraft' located in the shanker market area of new delhi.

Ans.Fabindia

3.For which airline once owned by shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, did coco chanel and pierre cardin design uniforms.

Ans.Olympic airlines

4.Identify.

Ans.Charles ponzi

5.Which indian entrepreneur who returned to india in 1977,teaches students at auroville in international affairs.

Ans.Dilip kapur -hidesign

6.Which financial services co has the tagline"the heart of commerce"

ans.Mastercard

7.Which famous businessman backed john logie baird financially and helped him in his experiments to invent the television?

Ans.
8.Identify the logo

ans.The qatar foundation

9.Which upmarket brand has a limited run of 77 units with delivery that started around october 2010?

Ans.Aston martin

10.Which famous co markets the donald trump range of perfume?

Ans.The Estee Lauder
11.In 1906 ,39000 of the 41000 of opium produced was consumed in which country?

Ans.China

12.Identify the browser.

Ans.Epic

13.In indian publishing if the first T in TTT stands for tinkle ,what do the other two T's denote.

Ans.
14.Its a term describing people who spend their days wandering throuph shopping malls ?

Ans.Mallrats

15.The editor in cheif is r jaganatthan ,the semantic techno partner is 'daylife' and the special images and cartoons are provided by ny times.What am i talking about.

16.

17.Published in 2002,the book is the subject of a popular bbc documentary and the author is a former ceo of proctor and gamble india.Businessweek describe it as the international bestseller.

Ans.Gurusharan das-india rebound

18.Kokuyo co of japan is buying 50.3% stake in which famous indian co.They are big with kids.

Ans.Camlin

19.Ashok chawla the former secretary of the commerce ministry is appointed as the chairman of which regulatory body in the country .

Ans.Competetion commission of india.

20.Logo.

Ans.Viewsonic

21.Which indian co trades on the NYSE as IBN.

Ans.ICICI BANK

22.Which is the worlds largest integrated film studio complex spread at over 2000 acres of land.It is also a popular tourism and recreation centre.

Ans.Ramoji rao

23.Famous actress who first appeared on a hollwood screen as a 9 yr old in 'theres one born every minute. She died in march 2011.

Ans.Eligabeth taylor.

24. This field of progress among other offerings houses a movie theatre called shakuntalam known for its better ticket prices.How do we know this place.

Ans.Pragati maidan

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

IMI Quiz Inc.

1.Founded in 1917 by Larry Valenstein and Arthur Fatt, Grey Global Group began as a direct marketing company named Grey Studios, reflecting the color of the wall or its original quarters, changing to Grey Advertising in 1925.

2. Identify

"Each floor will have its own watering and nutrient monitoring systems. There'll be sensors for every single plant that tracks how much and what kinds of nutrients the plant has absorbed.

3. Unstick your style

4.Identify

Climate Change Chocolate comes with a verified TerraPass offset of 133 pounds of carbondioxide reductions, the average American’s daily carbon impact. We hope this small offset will be the first taste of a lower-carbon lifestyle for Whole Foods shoppers who decide to take responsibility for their climate change impact.

5.Identify

Fart pack

A company called The Pond Inc. is now selling a product called "Subtle Butt", billed as a fart neutralizer, to eliminate smelly flatulence.
It's an activated carbon fabric pad, measuring 3.25" x 3.25" square, and adheres to the inside of your underwear with two self-adhesive strips.
As the wind breaks, Subtle Butt filters the flatulence, absorbing and neutralizing its odor. Now you can eat as many burritos you want and still have a social life

6.Identify

Biometric chip on a British passport

7. Identify

Dean Kamen’s human segway transporter

8. Identify

Braille Interpreter

9.Identify

Digital scarecrow

10.The term originated in an article by Mark Simpson published on November 15, 1994, in The Independent. Which term?

Metrosexual