Tata Crucible Corporate Quiz - 2013 (Tata track final - Delhi)
Complete Preliminary Round and Final Round questions with detailed analysis of questions along with trivia.
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1. TATA CRUCIBLE CORPORATE QUIZ - 2013
The Business Quiz
Tata track final - Delhi
(6th
October, 2013 – Taj Palace, Delhi)
Compiled by Adarsh Abhinav
Tata track final results – Delhi
Winners
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
Abhinav kishore
Anurag Krishna
Runners up
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
Jaganathan
Mira Farhan
Crucible Quotient:
Team – 1: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) - 25 Points (Runners up)
Team – 2: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) - (-)05 Points
Team – 3: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) - 85 Points (Winners)
Team – 4: Tata Power – DDL - 15 Points
Team – 5: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) - 00 Points
Team – 6: Voltas - (-)05 Points
2. Finalists for Tata track final - Delhi
Team - 1
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
Jaganathan
Mira Farhan
Team – 2
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
Tanuj Sethi
Shiv Kumar
Team – 3
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
Abhinav Kishore
Anurag Krishna
Team – 4
Tata Power - DDL
Chandan Singh
Ashit Mehta
Team – 5
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
Guneet Bharaj
Rinkesh Garg
Team – 6
Voltas
M. Rafi
Dhiraj Chadha
3. Final Round (Tata track - Delhi)
Round 1: Business Basics
(Total questions – 6; +10 for each question)
Q1. It is a division of Bloomsbury. Since 1899, it owns the publishing right to range of scholarly edition of
something or someone. Whose scholarly works are we talking about?
Answer: William Shakespeare
Q2. In 1973 it was originally just a weekend roadside stall on the Portobello Road Market located in west
London established by three brothers: Nitin Shah, Arun Shah and Milan Shah.
Which company did they create?
Answer: Pepe Jean London
Q3. If somebody while working wears a toque as part of his/her attire, what profession is that?
Answer: Chef
Q4. This term comes from French language meaning “Free from servitude”. This was demanded by
feudal system, as the head of Roman Catholic church gave the right to collect taxes locally. Today it is a
very important business option that companies exercise. Which term is that?
Answer: Franchise (franchising)
Q5. Coca-Cola GmBH were the German bottlers for Coca-cola. Importing Coca-Cola syrup into Nazi
Germany during World War II due to a trade embargo was difficult. To circumvent this, Max Keith, the
head of Coca-Cola Deutschland (Coca-Cola GmbH) during the Second World War, decided to do
something. As a CEO, he didn’t wanted the sales to drop. What did he do?
What got created?
Answer: Fanta
Q6. This founder business man learned the art of chocolate from his mother. This was essentially to give
him a job as he suffered from Polio which is sedentary. Which great enterprise born out of it?
Answer: Mars, Inc.
Round 2: Infocus
(Total questions – 6; +10 , -5 for each question)
Q1. What profession is this?
4. Answer: Pawnbrokers / Money lenders
(The universal symbol for pawn shops is three balls suspended from a curved bar. The "three balls" were
originally part of the coat of arms of the Medici family, who established the Medici trading and banking
empire in Florence, Italy. Legend has it that one of the Medicis (in the employ of Emperor Charles the
Great) fought a giant and slew him with three sacks of rocks. The three balls or globes later became part
of their family crest, and ultimately, the sign of pawnbroking.)
Q2. What is this unique club of which Sachin is part of?
Answer: Club X by UFO moviez
(Sachin also signed the first IPL theatre ticket for UFO movies. He received honorary Lifetime
membership of Club X, a division of Valuable Group and parent company of UFO Moviez.)
5. Q3. Which company ran this ad campaign saying “Everything in USA”?
Answer: Motorola – a Google company
(Motorola for its Moto X smartphone ran a campaign as ‘The first smartphone designed, engineered and
assembled in USA is coming.’)
6. Q4. Identify this personality.
(Clue: He has donated all his Royalty to charity.)
Answer: Mario Miranda
Q5. Identify this personality.
Answer: Bernard Arnault – Chairman and CEO of LVMH.
(Bernard Jean Étienne Arnault is a French businessman and an art collector. He is the chairman and CEO
of LVMH since 1989. In 2013, Forbes ranked him the 10th richest person in the world with a net worth of
$29 billion.)
7. Q6. Who is she and what did she create?
Answer: Ruth Handler. She is credited with the creation of Barbie.
(American businesswoman Ruth Handler is credited with the creation of the doll using a German doll
called Bild Lilli as her inspiration.)
Round 3: Tata World
(Total questions – 4; +10, -5 for each question)
Q1. Tata Steel recently made a new leadership structure and executive leadership appointments to lead
into it’s future. Whom did they appoint?
Answer: TV Narendran
(TV Narendran has been appointed as MD-designate Tata Steel for India and Southeast Asia wef from
November 1st
, 2013)
Q2. Which Tata Group company campaigned for conserving whale sharks?
(Clue: The group came out with watches of panda and WWF.)
Answer: Tata Chemicals
Q3. Casual corporate eye ware brand by Tata Eye Plus.
a) Bandana
b) Cabana
c) Dantana
Answer: Cabana
8. Q4. Which company on NYSE trades as TTM?
Answer: Tata Motors
(Tata Motors is one of the first Indian companies to trade on NYSE.)
Round 4: Quick Fix
(Total questions – 4; +10, -5 for each question).
Q1. Knowledge graph concept which maps relationships between things and people. Who created this
concept?
Answer: Google
Q2. Which industrial group owns the “Open” magazine?
Answer: RPG (RP Goenka group)
Q3. Which famous bank’s headquarters is named “Credit” and “Debit”?
Answer: Deusche Bank
Q4. Who officially gives Nobel prize in Economic sciences?
Answer: Central Bank of Swedish (Sveriges Riksbank)
9. Round 5: Look Beyond
(Total questions – 3; +15, +10, +5, constant -5 for each question)
Q1.
[Clue-1] He gave the largest donation in the history by anyone to his alma mater of $105 Million to
Stanford Graduate School of Business.
[Clue-2] He resigned as chief executive in 2004 while retaining as chairman of the company.
[Clue-3] He was named as “Corporate crook” in the book “Downsize this” by Michael Moore.
Answer: Phil Knight (Founder of Nike)
Q2.
[Clue-1] It was launched in 1983. In 1998, a group of individuals advocated that this term to be used.
[Clue-2] It generally allows anyone to create modifications of it, port it to new operating systems and
processor architectures, share it with others or, in some cases, market it.
Answer: Open-source software
Q3.
[Clue-1] This was founded by Hans Wilsdorf and Alfred Davis.
[Clue-2] Their low cost brand is named “TUDOR”.
[Clue-3] It is the official time keeper for The Wimbledon Open.
Answer: Rolex
10. Compiled by
Adarsh Abhinav
(Mechanical Engineer by profession, Part time excessive drinker, Dreamer, Movie/Anime buff, Adventure
sports enthusiast, Insomniac.)
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