Tata Crucible Campus Edition 2008 - Delhi Round

The questions were okayish. The prizes were definitely good. Harkirat and SMS from IMT Ghaziabad went on to win the Delhi round of Tata Crucible Campus Edition 2008.

Here are the Questions:

Prelims:
1. Which confectionary brand is named after a village near Malegaon, Nasik where its factory was originally based.

2. It is a block that houses addresses in NYC. It is named after a newspaper/media house.

3. Identify the logo -

4. Mehnga Ram works for Beat-All Sports. What is his contribution to Indian Sports?

5. This product was invented in 1846 from healing tea and witch hazel to heal cuts and bruises. Used today commonly as a cosmetic. (Pickbrain: I bet that someone in the hall has one right now.)

6. This automobile company entered the US motorcycle market in 1964. A chart-topping song of 1964 called Little ________ paid tribute to this product. Name the Company.

7. Award winning ad for which brand?


8.The first demo for this 'accessory was carried out in 1968 by Joint Computing in San Francisco. The name was coined at Stanford Research Institute. What?

9. Robert Townsend gave this cheeky ad campaign with a 3 word punchline. It is one of the famous ones in the transportation Industry.

10. Which Indian company or group is associated with Kiwi Shoe Polish?

11. Identify the Brand

12. This management guru is famous for his 14 principles of management. He wrote the book, Administration industrielle et generali which was published in 1917. Who?

13.Which character was named after Mr.Segale, landlord of Nintendo's US Office?

14. Balmer and Lawrie and Co., engaged in packaging of LPG cylinders is a ____ enterprise by?

15. World of travel Accesories. Identify.

16. He is the MD of Labour India Magazine based in Kerala. He is famous because he will be the first Indian to do something. What?(Name of the person is optional)

17. Chaudhry Raghuvendra Singh founded the company in 1946 and in 1961, his son-in-law joined the company and is at the helm of affairs now. Name the Company.

18. Who is the Distributor of the movie "Sunday"? [Audio clip was played from the movie. Hint: it is ________ Entertainment]

19. Identify the product.- Liril Soundtrack

20. Whose ad campaign? [ Video- Happydent White ]

Questions from the Wildcard Rounds:

1. Which newspaper from Times Of India, Indian Express and Hindustan Times had its office inaugurated by Mahatma Gandhi?

2. What was inaugurated on 19th November, 1984 by Rajiv Gandhi?

3. Italian fashion giant Armani has a joint Venture with which Indian Company?

4. Nintendo:Mario as Sonic: ???

5. "Chala Change ka Chakkar" [buzzers]?

6. Passat... (buzzers)[ sigh...]

7. Reliance Entertainment sold a 3% stake to whom?

IIT Delhi qualified in the first wild card.

8.Titan, Vodafone and Reliance Energy Limited lost. Who won?

9. Body structure of tata nano has been designed by which NRI Designer's company?

10. "Kya aap 5th pass se zyaada tez hain?" is associated with which actor?

11. Barabarians at the Gate is about?

12. Called the Briley Group, the Joint venture was called BJETS. Which is the other company?

13. Company founded as a thought which occurred to Baba Kalyani?

14. Full form of NTPC. [sigh...]

15, India's first virtual credit card was by?

16. Glenn originally thought of a golf course,but eventually settled for hotdogs and burgers and Mexican food, right next to a McDonalds. Which chain?

MDI Gurgaon went through on the tie-break on Q16.

Some Questions from the Finals:

1. ALL(A little larger) was created for which company?

2. IATA Code BZ.

3. Name of Tata Tea outlets opened recently.

4. Trimotor, one of the first successful airlines in US. Which company ran this 12 seater passenger plane ?

5. Phrase originated from newsletter published by "Arelene and Jose Ramos". It came into use in the printing press industry after 3 years of publishing and was sold to Stanford Research Institute in California. What phrase?

6. What is common to military.com, Tickle.com, fastweb.com, Telephone Marketing programs and Yellow Pages Advertising?

7. Logo of?

8. This Indian Entertainment and distributor was established as Garnet Paper Mills and renamed in 2002. Chairman is Ashok Pamani.

6. Identify [Hint- World of Inventions]


Connect Round ( I will give the answers and spare all of you the trouble, how- you can find out )

1. Hrithik Roshan, Godrej, Vinod Khanna, Imran Khan and audio "Breathless" by Shankar mahadevan. [Cinthol]

2. "The next episode in Entertainment", NAVTEQ, N way, enpacket.[Nokia]

3. Timex, EK,photos of George Eastman and flash structure. [Kodak ]

4. "Just in TIme", Dalgen, photo of Brijmohan Munjal and song from Krrish. [Honda]

Nano Games

1. Celebrity associated with Angel Networks.

2. "Thodi si Pet pooja"- tagline of ?

3. Ninja, Scout, Kids Club are vaieties of?

4. "Eveready Mechanical Pencil made by Us". Which Company?

Answers will be put up soon.[ or you can give your answers in the comments and spare us the bother. :) ]