Tata Steel VT Quiz'13 (Prelims+Mains)

TATA STEEL VT QUIZ 2013
Quiz Masters: Srijan, Sourav, Sneha & Shikha

PRELIMS

It means ―raised platform around an ancient arena," also
"projecting base of a pedestal,― in Lating and in Greek it
is πόδι, "foot of a vase‖.
Q3

Connect the following pictures
Q4

Voice Actor for Howard‘s mother in TBBT
MARY ANN SUSI

The Gurjars, pratihars, solankis and people of various casts
settled in North India around 6th century. One village near
modern day Delhi houses a landmark derives it‘s name from
one of these clans.
In the village is a very famous landmark, famous because of
the number of VIPs that visit there!
Which landmark am I talking about?
Q6

This line was famously said by Cap‘n Vikram Batra
when interviewed by Barkha Dutt. Cap‘n Batra
played a fundamental role in operation ‗Vijay‘.
These lines were also used by a company, and it
became a nation-wide commercial success.
What were the lines said by Late PVC Vikram batra
?
Q7

It is one of the Internet's largest sites devoted entirely to investing education.
The site was started by Cory Janssen and Cory Wagner in June 1999 as an
unbiased resource.Based in Edmonton in Alberta, Canada, In 2007, the site
was purchased by U.S. publishing company Forbes which sold it
to ValueClick in 2010 for $43 million.
Q7

How many laws of cricket are there anyway?
Q8

She was found, roaming about in darkness, by an American on
Feb 18, 1930. Though he wished to name her Minerva, she was
finally named X, after the suggestion given by Venetia Burney, a
eleven year old schoolgirl. She enjoyed being part of a big family,
until on August 24,2006 she was unceremoniously banished from
the family.
Identify X.
Q9

Born in Bhidausa in Madhya Pradesh, he was an Indian athelete who went on
to represent India at the 1958 Asian Games in Tokyo, Japan. He also served in
the Indian Army. He was killed on October 1st, 1981 in a police ambush.
Who?
10

Gunter's Chain is a measuring device used for accurate
land survey by triangulation. It consists of a chain
formed of 100 long wire links, with brass tags along the
chain for intermediate measurement. One of its lasting
legacies is as a very well-known length.
Of what?
Q11

The kilogram is the only such remaining base SI unit.
What differentiates it from other SI base units?
Q12

Defined in terms of an artifact, instead of a fundamental constant like all the
others.

He was born as James Howlett, but you don‘t know him by his
actual name. He has also served in the Vietnam war.
A myth goes around him is ―You can‘t kill him, but you can
definitely hurt him‖. Contrary to popular belief, he is actually very
old and is ―scientifically‖ obese. Who am I talking about?
Q13

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains is a list of the 100
greatest screen characters (50 of both the hero and villain
category) chosen by American Film Institute in June 2003. It is
part of the AFI 100 Years… series.
NOW,
Which is the only character to be featured on both the
villain and the heroes list?
Q14*

Complete the passage- "It's almost like a powder.
(The) ground mass is very fine. I'm going to step
off the LM now.
.____________________________________."
Q15

Small step for [a] man, Giant leap for mankind
LEAP OF FAITH

This person was asked why numbers kept appearing in
the titles of his works. He alluded to his earlier
profession by way of a reason. Who?
Q16

Chance Furlong and Jake Clawson were members of the
Paramilitary Law Enforcement Agency, known as the
Enforcers. Unfortunately, the Enforcers were
commanded by a certain Commander Feral, a power-
mad and overbearing but hopelessly incompetent
Enforcer. In his anger, Feral discharged Chance and Jake
from the Enforcers and reassigned them to work at the
city's military salvage yard to pay for the damage to the
Enforcer Headquarters.
What does this result in?
Q17

When asked the reason for naming the show thus, J.D
Majethia, the producer of the show was quoted as saying
that, ―The show was written with a Bania family in mind,
preferably a Gujarati one. We briefly considered the
names Shah, Mehta and Desai, but eventually settled for
________.‖
FITB
Q18

What can be defined as ―an indentationcaused by a
structural variation in the facialmuscle Zygomaticus
Major‖?
Q19

What are the Arabic words for spring and autumn
known across the length of the subcontinent and
something which we all learnt via our high school
textbooks?
Q20

MAINS

Tata Round
Quiz Master: Sourav & Sneha

It consumed 26,500 tons of steel, out of which 23,000 tons of high-tensile
alloy steel, known as Tiscrom, were supplied by Tata Steel. The main tower
was founded with single monolith caissons of dimensions 55.31 x 24.8 m
with 21 shafts, each 6.25 m2 square.
The fabrication was done by Braithwaite, Burn & Jessop Construction
Company. What are we talking about?
1

During his tenure as the president of the workers’ union at the Tata Steel
plant in Jamshedpur, he fought with the management to appoint more
Indians in key positions. He also forced the management to implement
maternity benefits for employees. On his call, the company also
witnessed its first and last strike in 1928. This is a lesser known side of
which famous Indian?
2

Video
3. “WE ONLY DO WHAT’S RIGHT
FOR YOU”

Tata Capital, the financial services arm of the Tata group, recently
launched the Do Right initiative, a campaign aimed at inspiring and
inculcating the right values in children from a young age.

4. A VENTURE BY WHICH COMPANY?

Titan Industries has claimed to have manufactured the world's slimmest
wrist watch. Produced indigenously after four years of research and
development, it has a total thickness of 3.5 mm. Identify the brand.
5

Roots Corporation (RCL) operates the _______ chain of hotels. This wholly
owned subsidiary of Indian Hotels Corporation (IHCL) was established in 2003
and runs the first-of-its-kind Smart Basics hotels across India.
6

This person was born into an OBC family. He inculcated patriotic
feelings since the 1965 war, where he volunteered to serve for the
soldiers in transit at Railway station.
He ran away from home to Himalayas for two years, and did odd
jobs like running a tea stall. He refrains from practicing the
―minor vices‖, and is an ardent follower of Swami Vivekananda.
Who am I talking out?
1

Burma – 1969
Sri Lanka - 1972
Nepal – 1975
India – 1975
Bangladesh – 1975
Somalia – 1977
As a result of this, what announcement was made on 9th Dec,
1979?
2

This chemical formula was shown as series of
advertisements by a company. Please explain this
formula and name the company.
4

The formula is 3.5 shots of gin and half shot of vermouth
with four cubes of ice. Stir it thrice and martini is ready.
MARTINI, PARKER

You probably might have heard of this place but you have never seen it.
5

X is an informal term for consumer touch-screen devices
with screens that are between five and seven inches. These
devices combine the capabilities of a smartphone and mini
tablet — and occasionally incorporate a stylus. A X is larger
than most smartphones, but not as large as a tablet or mini-
tablet.
6

She was born in 1957, caught in December 1957 in Sichuan, and moved
to the Beijing Zoo in January 1958.
It went on a journey to Tierpark Berlin, the zoo in the eastern part of the
then divided city. By then She had already been sold to a zoo in the United
States, but the American government had ceased all trade with
communist China for political reasons. Thus, she was refused entry to
the USA.
F died on 22 July 1972 and was mourned by the nation. A post mortem
was conducted. Her remains, now a stuffed exhibit, sit in a glass case,
at London's Natural History Museum.
7

X originally started in the baking powder business. With
baking powder, he offered free Y. He later abandoned
the baking powder business when he realized that people
were buying it just for the Y.
8

What makes X such a fantastic character becomes
evident when you look at the world from his point of
view. He's not necessarily trying to rule the world; in his
eyes he's saving it. Think about that for a second - X is
trying to save the world from Y. This man craves to be
the world's savior, yearns to have "his" people worship
the ground he walks on and refuses to see that birthright
seized by another.
9

It was a beautiful sunny day [26 April 1986]. My daughter and me
were sitting in our yard. A soft spring wind was blowing.
Suddenly a huge military truck stopped right in front of us. A
man wearing a gas-mask and a protective costume jumped out of
the truck and began to walk around us gazing at some device that
was hanging on his chest… Then he looked at us, fastened a little
sign with a symbol that we had never seen before, got back into
the truck and drove away. Everything happened in complete
silence. No word was pronounced. We were just looking at the
sign and the truck and had no idea what was going on… The day
was not that beautiful any more…
10

X pioneered the India soft drink industry when it introduced
Coca-Cola into India in 1949, and were the sole manufacturers
and distributors of Coca-Cola till the 1970's when Coke was
asked to leave.
X then created Yand virtually monopolized this section of
the market in absence of foreign competition
11

X – Pure Drinks Group
Y – Campa Cola
ANSWER

What‘s so special about this?
12

West Bengal joins R-day parade after 13 years
After over a decade, West Bengal has sent a tableau to participate
in the state procession at the Republic Day parade, ending the
previous Left Front government‘s policy of staying away from the
event.
In 1999, a year after the Pokharan nuclear test, the Jyoti Basu
government had drawn a plan to send a tableau highlighting
nuclear non-proliferation — a move eventually prevented by
South Block amid much acrimony.
ANSWER

This word, derived from the Latin genitive plural form
of 'who', refers to the minimum number of members
necessary for an assembly to function. A similar but
unrelated word is the name of a Palo-Alto-based
question-and-answer website. Give either word.
1

The Victoria police in Australia said they have been called to
rescue of a number of distressed motorists over the past several
weeks who got lost in Australia's Murray-Sunset National Park.
The police told people that they are "extremely concerned," as
there is no water supply within the park, and temperatures can
reach as high as 114.8 degrees Fahrenheit, "making this a
potentially life threatening issue."
Some of the people saved by police had been stranded for up to
24 hours without any food or water. Others walked long distances
through dangerous terrain to try to get phone reception and find
their way out.
What was responsible for this?
2

2000 - Tehran
2007 - Mexico City
2008 - Bonn
2010 - Sofia
2012 - Moscow
What are we talking about?
Hint: Sporting Connection
3

Vishwanathan Anand’s world championship victories.
VISHWANATHAN ANAND

In meeting terminology, what is a topless
meeting?
4

A meeting in which participants are not allowed to use
laptops. A topless meeting organizer can also ban the
use of smartphones, cellphones and other electronic
devices. The purpose of this is to create an
environment free from distraction, to foster enhanced
focus and to generate more discussions.
MEH

India Today called the film a "dead ember" and added,
"Thematically, it's a gravely flawed attempt."
Filmfare said that the film was an unsuccessful mincing
of Western style with Indian milieu, making it a
"imitation western—neither here nor there.―
Declared as the "Film of the Millennium" by BBC India
in 1999.
5

Each year, The American Dialect Society selects its Word of the Year. For
2012, the winner was a bit of a surprise.
It wasn't fiscal cliff, the ubiquitous term in the news from Capitol Hill. And it
wasn't YOLO, the youthful acronym for "You Only Live Once" that quickly
rose (and just as quickly fell) this past year.
It wasn‘t even Gangnam Style.
The official announcement reads:
―This was the year when Q became a ubiquitous phenomenon in online
talk,” Zimmer said. “Q have created instant social trends, spreading
bite-sized viral messages on topics ranging from politics to pop
culture.”
What is Q?
7

Today I bake.
Tomorrow I brew my beer.
The next day the queen's only child will be mine.
Not even the census taker knows
that ______________is my name . . .
8

Mr. SanjivMehta is a London-based Indian
entrepreneur, who migrated to London in
1989 to focus on international trade and
marketing, after completing his studies in
gemmology and jewellery.
•He catapulted to fame in early 2010 due to
his takeover of a $15 million business, about
which he said, ―….as an Indian, when you
think with your heart as I do, I had this huge
feeling of redemption -this indescribable
feeling of owning a company that once
owned us.―What company did he take over?
9

Organizations/Agencies who have been awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize
International Peace Bureau
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
League of Red Cross Societies
European Union
ANSWER

Thomas Alva Edison, Nikola Tesla Nobel Prize
ANSWER

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