This document contains 20 multiple choice questions that were used in the prelims round of the Tata Crucible Campus Edition 2012 quiz competition held in Guwahati. The questions cover a range of topics including business, history, sports, and popular culture. They are intended to test the general knowledge of the quiz participants. The document also provides some additional context by mentioning that visual questions and connections can be found on a particular Northeast India quiz blog.

1. TATA CRUCIBLE CAMPUS EDITION 2012 – GUWAHATI ROUND
Compiled by- Maharnav Gogoi, Q-Factor Quizzing Solutions
(www.aecqfactor.com)
Prelims
1/The movie Manthan by Shyam Benegal is based on which famous revolution? (or name the person
involved)
White Revolution. Verghese Kurien
2/ Which car brand means cheerful or energetic in Italian?
Hint: Honda’s. 4 letter word.
Brio
3/ Identify him or the bank he is associated with

2. Anshu jain, Deutche bank
4/ The logo of what is a pectam? (incomplete)
Hint: Pectam is something that you find in oceans.
Shell (Sea-shell ;-) )
5/Which U.S. president once worked in a Baskin Robbins parlour?
Barrack Obama
6/The name of which PC manufacturer means small valley?
Dell
7/ Name him or name the famous NGO that he founded.

3. Rippan kapur. CRY
8/Who is the chairman of Balaji Telefilm. (A team wrote- Ratan Tata)
Jeetendra
9/ Name the first commercial flight carrier to operate on a 50% mixture of biofuel & regular aviation
fuel.
KLM/Lufthansa/British airways
KLM
10/ 1 ton of 100% recycled version of which product saves, 17 trees,390 gallons of oil,7000 gallon of
water, 4100 kwh of energy enough to power the average home for six months, 60 pounds of air
pollution & 2.5 cubic yards of landfilled spaces?

4. Paper (it was a googly in the sense that many teams answered something different finding it too
obvious)
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11/ What was first produced as the sulphuratted peroxide strikables? (Mind it- Crucible is Crackable)
Matchbox
12/ Logo of
American Tourister
13/ Neville house is the headquarter of which Indian brand?
MRF/ Bombay Dyeing/ Jet Airways

5. Bombay Dyeing
14/The proposal of the increasing role of Indians in the governance as promised in the Montague
Declaration of 1917 made the Europeans uneasy. Whish apex body of European trading come up in
1921, largely for growing relation between European and Indian business?
Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM)
15/ In 1921, the Lambert company decided to use the term halitosis to promote which product?
Listerine
16/

6. This book was written by a famous Indian leader in IT industry.Name him
Vineet Nayar
17/ Which cricketer has a player management company called Tenvic?
Anil Kumble
18/ To high-profile corporate honchos, what is ‘G-Five’?
Owning private airlines
19/ “We needed a girl who would warm her way into a housewive’s heart and who better than a
little girl” Who about what?
About AMUL girl
20/ One of the earlier version of logo of what?

7. Yamaha
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