Tata Crucible Corporate Quiz 2010

Ahmedabad recently held Tata Crucible: Corporate edition a few days bad, and Akshay Nitin and me had gone to see. Here are some of the good questions that we can remember. Note that almost all are google-able, so try to avoid that itch.

Some of the elims questions:

1. What is the name given to genetically modified foods?

2. How do we better know "hooked velvet"?

3. In the olden times, Roman soldiers were paid salary so that they could buy what substance? Alternatively, what was salary most often used to buy?

4. What runs between Broadway and South st.?

5. What Indian institution was started by Chunnilal Devkaran Nanjee in 1938?


6. What word was dropped from the Olay brand by P&G in 2000?


7. Where in India would you find the "Rotunda", which was built in 1992?


8. Identify:

9. Identify this chap and his contribution to India's budget:

10. Which company is the creator of the Ovi suite?

What place is this?

These were constructed without windows and have no clocks inside. The rationale is that the people inside should lose knowledge about the time of the day. What am I talking about?

Indian television

Fairly simple. Which Indian TV series was inspired from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes?

connect.how r these related?

who?

Connect these to a person.

1)

This popular snack was invented in 1853 by George Crum, a native American , a cook at Moon Lake Lodge, New York.A guy complained that the snack Crum had cooked was too thick & in retaliation for what he considered supercilious request the chef made it thin.This dish became a rage at restaurants throughout America in the late 1850’s.It is known for its curves.

2) Which was the first rockband to be featured on MTV when it fist entered India in 1992?

Q. 28

There two gentlemen served as the inspiration for which famous fictional villan?
Hint:

Q. 27

Identify him.

Q. 26

Identify the Delhi based band.

Q. 25

This detective has become synonymous with the hard boiled detective genre, but ironically appears only once in in any literary, a novel by Dashiell Hammett. Who?

PS- Try avoiding google or wiki for this question.

Q. 24

Identify the logo.
Hint: it is a static initial image of the organization, this logo when 'unfolded' renders the name of the organization.

Q. 23

Identify the lady above or her claim to fame.

Q22.

To make up for the long hiatus this is another one for the day:

By 1956 it had diverse businesses from cheese to glass packaging and in 1980s it collaborated with different companies to make batteries, plastic containers/products and home appliances along with cheese and as a matter of fact this company invented the pasteurized processed cheese which did not need refrigeration. Later it dissected its non-food business (except the batteries one) and sold it to a different firm. In 1999 its very famous brand of batteries was sold to a private equity firm and was later bought by another very famous men’s accessories brand but that is not the main question is (although if you can tell the names of these battery and men’s accessories firm along with the name of the MNC which finally owns them it would be bonus), the question is by which name this firm which has got Warren Buffet to invest 8% in it, is known today? To make it simpler (although I know you guys will crack it right away) this firm was in news for a hostile takeover (of another very delicious MNC!!) recently.

Q21.

After a long slumber the Nirma Quizzing Club is finally awake, hope it stays this way in future!!

Identify this management guru and the bestselling author. Hints later.