Best Of TATA CRUCIBLE

Level – 1
            This set contains 251 questions of moderate level of difficulty. Most of these
questions were asked in the prelim round of Tata Crucible over the years.

Questions:

1. What is the title of Colonel Harland Sanders’ autobiography?
2. FACUNDO DA ______ gave the world which Brand?
3. Which company's name is derived from Voice Data & Phone?
4. Which airlines parent company is called Interglobe Airlines?
5. Which entertainment company publishes an annual report called 'KIDSENSE'?
6. Which beverage giant gives out 'Wodruff Awards' annually?
7. Which Microsoft hardware product, launched in 2000, was created by Seamus Blackley and Kevin
     Bachus ?
8. "Interpret the world" is the tagline of which magazine?
9. Which brand of tea is named after its founders Mallik and Dilhan?
10. What is Bacon mail?

Answers:
1. Finger Lickin' Good 2. Bacardi 3. Vodafone 4. Indigo
5. Disney 6. Coca Cola 7. XBOX 8. The Economist 9.Dilmah Tea

10. Mail for which you have subscribed but get filtered as SPAM.

Questions:

11. Which Hasbro toy line, manufactured by Takara Tomy, is divided into heroic autobots and evil

decepticones?

12. Which R&D organisation started Projects Garuda, Setu, Veda, Vyasa, Vidwan, Vidur?

13. Who authored the book, “India: From Midnight to the Millennium” in 1997?

14. Which Padma Vibhushan awardee was the editor of Fortune magazine from 1943-48?

15. If Michelle Obama is one of the two US first ladies to feature on the cover of Vogue, name the other

one?

16. Which US director agreed to an out of court 5 Million dollar settlement with an apparel company for

using his picture in their ads?

17. Prestige pressure cooker and Kohinoor condom belongs to which company?

18. “A Double Tall Tale of Caffeine, Commerce, and Culture” book is on which organisation?

19. Leaden hall Street in the City of London in England was the headquarters of which organisation in 1729?

20. What did William Ramsay create which is now popularly used as an advertising tool?

Answers:

11. Transformers 12. Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)

13. Shashi Tharoor 14. John Kenneth Galbraith 15. Hillary Clinton

16. Woody Allen 17. TTK 18. Starbucks 19. East India Company

20. Neon Glow Sign Board

Questions:

21. At the request of Mohd Ali Jinnah this person started the building ship ports/shipping industry?

22. Virginia House is the headquarter of which company?

23. What did Robert Wood create after getting inspired by a speech by antisepsis advocate Joseph joined

brothers James Wood and Edward Mead?

24. Which Company has a logo called Joe and the ad line - “Change your body, Change your life”?

25. The Italian company Barilla is the world’s largest maker of what?

26. The Indian arm of which company traces its history to the accounting practice of Marc Merengue and

W.A.Brown in Calcutta in 19th century?

27. In food and FMCG category marketing, what is LUP?

28. The Codex Leicester (also briefly known as Codex Hammer) is a collection of largely scientific writings by

Leonardo da Vinci. Who purchased it in 1994 for 30.8 Million $ making it the costliest book ever?

29. Born at 10, Downing Street, London. He is the second son of Prime Minister Fredrick John Robinson. He

was an authority in Self and Local governance. Who is this, in whose name a landmark stands at

Chennai?

30. What was founded by Narayana Ranga Rao in 1948 as “Mysore Products and General Trading Company”

producing soap nut, turmeric and agarbathis, its presence in 40 countries.?

Answers:

21. Walchand Hirachand 22. ITC 23. Johnson & Johnson 24. Gold’s Gym

25. Pasta 26. Price Waterhouse Coopers 27. Low Unit Packaging

28. Bill Gates 29. Lord Rippon 30. Cycle Brand

Questions:

31. Which company did Dominic Chacko Kizhakemuri create in 1974?

32. What is Tilaknagar Industries most famous brand?

33. Which product appears on the International space station menu, was created by Edward McIllhyney?

34. Expand TAN as in taxation term?

35. Which brand of Bosch, started with the name that means or is "Ideal”?

36. Name of which Cookie Brand is also a slang for a Black who acts or thinks like a White because of its

black exterior and becomes white as you go inside?

37. What term was given by Lou Montalli in 1994 of Netscape communications which is also a food items?

38. From 1990 until 1996, which brand used geographic, such as Africa, Alaska, Java, Nevada, and Inca to

name its variants?

39. Which brand of clocks was started by O.R.Patel, Jaysukh Patel and Manubhai Patel?

40. Which Game is also known as Literati, Alfapet, Skip-A-Cross, Spelofun, Palabras Cruzadas?

Answers:

31. D C Books 32. Indian-Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) 33. Tabasco sauce

34. TAN or Tax Deduction and Collection Account Number is a 10 digit alpha numeric number required to be

obtained by all persons who are responsible for deducting or collecting tax.

35. Blaupunkt 36. Oreo 37. Cookies 38. Axe deodorant

39. Ajanta clocks 40. Scrabble

Questions:

41. The film’s Adina’s deck, Odd Girl Out and Shredderman Rules create awareness about which internet

phenomenon?

42. Which Grammy winner owns Destino, Southern Hospitality and tequila 901?

43. Whose authored "Identity and Violence - The Illusion of Destiny"?

44. What annual prize is given at Sundance Film Festival for movies that focuses on science or technology as

a theme, or depicts a scientist, engineer, or mathematician as a major character?

45. Which publication aims "to take part in a severe contest between intelligence, which presses forward,

and an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing our progress."?

46. Which airlines name means ‘united’ and has different classes like diamond, coral, and pearl?

47. Which bubblegum belongs to “Topps Company” and is packaged in red, white and blue colors?

48. Which manufacturer of steel barrels started in Kolkata was founded by two Scotmen - George Stephen

Balmer and Alexander Lawrie?

49. Complete the quote by Harry Truman ‘Its …… when your neighbour loses his job, its ……. when you lose

your job’?

50. ‘A Space’ – in Facebook is a social networking site for which category of people?

Answers:

41. Cyber Ragging 42. Justin Timberlake 43. Amartya Sen

44. Alfred Sloan 45. The Economist 46. Etihad Airlines

47. Bazooka 48. Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd 49. Recession, Depression

50. Espionages / Spies

Questions:

51. Which automobile manufacturer also produces high-end accessories like the P9521 mobile phones & the

P8400 sun-glasses?

52. What did Alexander McRae start as the McRae Hosiery Co.?

53. Which consulting major has a networking platform called D-Street?

54. The book From Bankruptcy to Billions by Sudhir Kumar & Shagun Mehrotra is the story of the

turnaround of which Indian organization?

55. What was created for the German Army due to petrol shortages in World War I and became very

popular in rural India?

56. Which computer industry billionaire owns Valley Crest Companies, Americas largest landscaping firm?

57. Who said, “Keeping liquidity and not investing in low market is like saving up for sex in old age"?

58. Which MNC is nicknamed "The Big Australian "?

59. Which management guru said “Today’s problems come from yesterday’s solutions"?

60. Which maverick tycoon was briefly given the post of "litter Tsar" by Margaret Thatcher charged with

"keeping Britain tidy"?

Answers:

51. Porsche 52. Speedo 53. Deloitte 54. The Indian Railways

55. Paraffin 56. Michael Dell 57. Warren Buffet 58. BHP Billiton

59. Peter Senge 60. Richard Branson

Questions:

61. Founded by W.S.Borne in 1791, which is world’s oldest Sunday newspaper?

62. Which multiplex chain has in house food and beverage counter called Refuel?

63. Which is India’s first company to sponsor a car in the NASCAR Nationwide Series?

64. Which company began its Indian operations in 1928, closed down in 1959 and returned in 1994 with a

JV with CK Birla group?

65. Whar was first introduced in USA during 1930 depression by Albert an unemployed architect?

66. “Billion Beats” is an e-newspaper started by which famous Indian?

67. The book “Against all Odds” was about which Japanese giant?

68. Olivero Toscani, an Italian photographer, is famous for designing controversial advertising campaigns for

which brand?

69. What was invented by Lawrence and Lambert and it is now available in flavours like mint and citrus?

70. Which company was founded in Mumbai in 1938 by two Danish engineers, Henning Holck-_____ and

Soren Kristian ______?

Answers:

61. The Observer 62. Inox 63. Mahindra and Mahindra 64. General Motors

65. Scrabble 66. APJ Abdul Kalam 67. Toyota 68. United Colors of Benetton

69. Listerine 70. Larsen & Toubro

Questions:

71. Which management guru of Indian origin has emerged as the most influential management guru in

recent times of recession?

72. In which landmark building is the restaurants XEX, Diamond tony & Shin Yeh located?

73. Which landmark was designed by David Rockwell of the Rockwell group & is now owned by the CIM

group?

74. Who authored Rationality & Freedom?

75. Which Actor joined Hindi service of BBC in 1939 after taking the blessings of Mahatma Gandhi?

76. Shepton Dash, Fernville Lord Digby and Gambit are the names of which brands mascots?

77. Identify the company which divides its values into Engaging you, Achieving Together, Passion for

Innvovation, Very Human?

78. Which foundation runs four high level awards in the field of literature, the Saraswati Samman, Vyas

Samman, Bihari Puraskar and Vachaspati Puraskar?

79. MIT professor, Dr. Y. W. Lee invested his life savings in which company in 1964?

80. The logo of which company, started by Joseph Cyril Bamsford, is off-set at 18 degrees from the

horizontal and 22 degrees from the vertical? The company makes yellow-and-black engineering vehicles.

Answers:

71. Ram Charan 72. Taipei 101 73. Kodak Theater 74. Amartya Sen

75. Balraj Sahini 76. Dulux; they all are the names of Dulux dogs 77.Nokia

78. KK Birla Foundation 79. Bose Corp. 80. JCB

Questions:

81. Which management guru severed in the United States Navy, worked in White House and authored Reimagine!

Business Excellence in a Disruptive Age?

82. Which American public corporation’s data centre is located at Area 71?

83. He argued “if people take full accountability of taxes, they can reduce the burden of government.”

Ronald Reagen was greatly inspired by this economist. Identify?

84. What was invented by 29 yr old Felix in 1899 when working in a chemical factory?

85. For which brand of champagne did Sir Winston Churchill famously say "In victory, deserve it. In defeat,

need it!"?

86. This company was originally founded as Shokosha Watch Research Institute in 1918 and currently

known as the manufacturer of CINCOM precision lathe machine tools and what else?

87. Who, in one of his flirtations with journalism started the 'Asian Travel Writers Association' with two of

his friends in 1982 to promote Indian writing on travel and tourism?

88. Planet Waves is a brand of wine available in Europe. It is the signature label of which Music icon?

89. Who in 1936 published a book called “The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money”?

90. Which company was started as a shipping firm by Yataro Iwasaki in 1870?

Answers:

81. Tom Peters 82.Wal-Mart 83.David Ricardo 84.Aspirin 85.Pol Roger

86. CITIZEN watches 87. Dewang Mehta 88. Bob Dylan

89. John Maynard Keynes 90. Mitsubishi

Questions:

91. Finish the advertising slogan “Don’t just book it, _______ ____ it!”?

92. Which company was founded as the Swallow Sidecar Company in 1922?

93. What is Istituto per le Opere di Religione commonly known as?

94. NetWeaver is a product from which IT Giant?

95. Which company founded by Ralph Roberts and Daniel Aaron in 1963 gets its name from the words

"Communication" and "Broadcast"?

96. Which brand was advertised with the slogan "You will wonder where the Yellow went" in the 60's and

70's? –

97. In 1922, which car became the first to sell over a million units?

98. A manufacturer of high performance sports cars based in a small Italian village of Sant’Agata Bolognese

near Bologna. This company was founded in 1963 by Ferrucio ___________. Name this company.

99. Dilip Kalra founded which successful Indian travel company?

100. The Priceless campaign of Master Card was envisioned by which ad agency?

Answers:

91. Thomas Cook 92. Jaguar 93. The Vatican Bank. The name translates to Institute for Works of

Religion.

94. SAP 95. Comcast 96. Pepsodent 97. Ford Model-T

98. Lamborghini 99. Make My Trip 100. McCann Eriksson

Questions:

101. Name the famous strategist who has also written the following books – “The Next Global Stage”, “The

Mind of Strategist” and “The Borderless World” among others.

102. What are the 4 Ps of marketing – Product, Price, Promotion, Place collectively known as?

103. Originated from a force of Special Agents created on July 26, 1908, by Attorney General Charles Joseph

Bonaparte during the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt. At first it was named the Bureau of

Investigation (BOI.

104. Jeff Johnson and Steve Prefontaine were the first to be associated with which brand?

105. Who is the president on 1$ US note?

106. Yasui Sewing Machine Co., a company that sold and repaired sewing machines, was established in 1908

by Kanekichi Yasui, the father of the founders of?

107. What was created in 1929 by County Chemicals at the Chemico Works in Bradford Street, Birmingham,

England?

108. Sameer Gehlaut, IIT D graduate, is the founder and chairman of which online trading firm?

109. Who wrote the popular trilogy on economics, American Capitalism (1952., The Affluent Society (1958.,

and The New Industrial State (1967.?

110. Tailwinds is the parent company of which airline?

Answers:

101. Kenichi Omahe 102. Marketing Mix 103. FBI

104.Nike. Jeff was the first full time employee and Steve was the first track star to endorse it.

105. George Washington 106. Brother 107. Brylcreem

108. India Bulls 109. John Kenneth Galbraith 110. Jet Airways

Questions:

111. Which is the world’s most expensive spice by weight?

112. Danjaq, LLC is the holding company responsible for the copyright and trademarks to the characters,

elements, and other material related to what?

113. “Business as unusual” is the autobiography of which business lady?

114. Whose final book published in 1993 was titled 'The New Economics for Industry, Government and

Education'?

115. It was the production of which substance that really kick-started Pfizer's growth in the 1880s?

116. Who wrote, “My years at General Motors”?

117. The 24 signatories to which document were known as “Founding and subsequent fathers”?

118. The retail outlets for what are known as “Scoop Shops”?

119. Santhosh George Kulangara, MD of Labour India Publications is the first Indian to do what?

120. Which brand currently owned by Insight Pharmaceuticals is colloquially known as “Hari Patti”?

Answers:

111. Saffron 112. James Bond 113. Anita Roddick (Body Shop)

114. Edward Demming 115. Citric Acid 116. Alfred Sloan

117. Buttonwood Agreement on May 17, 1792. It led to formation of NYSE.

118. Ben and Jerry’s 119. Space Tourist 120.Anacin

Questions:

121. What was surpassed as the world’s tallest structure by Chrysler Building on May 28, 1930 when it added

a spire?

122. Old Monk, world’s third largest Rum selling brand and the biggest IMFL brand, is produced by which

company?

123. Who manufactured the first fluoride containing toothpaste in 1955 called CREST?

124. Agilent is a company which designs and manufactures electronic and bio-analytical measurement

instruments and equipment for measurement and evaluation. It is a successor of which company’s

engineering division?

125. Which insurance company has a mirror, arrow and serpent in their logo?

126. Otto Beisheim is a German businessman and founder of?

127. In 2003, Phillip Morris renamed itself to?

128. The Discover Card is a major credit card, issued primarily in the United States. Who first launched it?

129. Who is the world’s largest digital camera maker?

130. Which brand means destiny in Latin?

Answers:

121. Eiffel Tower (Empire State Building beat Chrysler 11 months later)

122. Mohan Meakin 123. Proctor and Gamble 124. Hewlett Packard

125. Prudential 126. Metro 127. Altria 128. Sears

129. Nokia 130. Lotto

Questions:

131. Which company's chairman is Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., whose family has controlled the paper since

1896?

132. What is now featured on the Nepali Rupee notes?

133. Who had served as President of the Board of Trade in UK in 1908?

134. Which Indian conglomerate has the in-house magazine called Namaste?

135. What term first appeared in the book, “Mathematics and the imagination”?

136. Which book on competition theory was inspired by Ronald Reagen’s policy?

137. HMH Publishing Co. was created in 1953 for what purpose?

138. What started when in 1826. The Duke of Savoy gave his permission to start bottling water from the

spring?

139. Founded in 1896 by Fritz Hoffmann, the company was early on known for producing various vitamin

preparations and derivatives. Which company?

140. Calisto Tanzi founded which Italian company as a 22 year old dropout?

Answers:

131. New York Times 132. Mt. Everest (It replaced King Gyanendra’s image)

133. Winston Churchill 134. ITC 135. Googol

136. Michael Porter’s Competetive Advantage of Nations

137. To publish Playboy 138. Evian Mineral Water

139. Roche (Swiss Pharma Giant) 140. Parmalat

Questions:

141. Name of which brand in Indonesian translates to “Salt Warehouse”?

142. Who is the CEO of Dynamatic Aerospace?

143. Expand NOIDA.

144. “You press the button, we do the rest” adline for?

145. This term was first coined by Sir Walter Scott in his famous novel 'Ivanhoe'. It is widely used in business

and journalism these days. What is it?

146. Who is the author of the book, “Confessions of a Swadeshi Reformer”?

147. Who began his business career by publishing a weekly magazine 'TV week' at the Southdown Press in

Melbourne in 1956?

148. Which famous pharmaceutical company was formerly known as 'American Home Products'?

149. Which Hong Kong based apparel company has the tagline, “Color our world”?

150. 4810 is a recurring theme in products of which company?

Answers:

141. Gudang Garam 142. Rakesh Sharma 143. New Okhla Industrial Development Authority

144. Kodak 145. Freelancer 146. Yashwant Sinha 147. Rupert Murdoch

148. Wyeth (Now it is owned by Pfizer) 149. Bossini 150. Mont. Blanc

Questions:

151. If it is the Big Mac index for Mc Donalds, what is it for Starbucks?

152. Bottled for business: the less gassy guide to entrepreneurship is a book by?

153. Who inspired Barbie's Wild Concert Tour Fashions line of dolls?

154. In 1986, Body Shop formed an alliance with Green Peace to campaign for safety of which creature?

155. Which company owns currently the trademark “Eau De Cologne”?

156. For whom did IBM build Harvard Mark I, first large scale automatic digital computer in US?

157. Which private firm was the first to report Abraham Lincoln's death in Europe?

158. “Successful habits of visionary companies” is the tagline of which book by Jim Collins?

159. Ezra Cornell and Hiram Sibley were financers to Samuel Morse’s telegraphic experiments. They founded

which company in 1857?

160. “Facts of life” is a book which gives basic, clearly-expressed advice about child health. Who publishes it?

Answers:

151. Tall Latte Index 152. Karan Billimoria (Cobra beer) 153. Madonna

154. Whales 155. Procter and Gamble 156. US Navy

157. Reuters 158. Built to Last 159. Western Union 160. UNICEF

Questions:

161. Which corporate entity is the largest shareholder in Exxon Mobil?

162. With which watch making company would you associate Calvin Klein jewellery?

163. Which brand of instant tea and coffee shares its name with a state in the US?

164. Which company’s logo is often referred to as the Hexagon?

165. Which communication company was founded by the founders of the peer to peer sharing network

Kazaa?

166. He was born to Florence Spellman, an unwed mother at the age of 17. His adoptive father was a Jew

who came from Ellis Island. Name this business tycoon.

167. Which hotel occupies the first 37 floors of Burj Khalifa?

168. Which famous economist once said, “There is no art which one government learns of another fast than

that of draining money from the pockets of the people”?

169. Which Japanese company’s name literally means “The Rising Sun”?

170. In 1853, Compende General d'Eaux was licensed to bottle and market mineral water. How is the

company now known?

Answers:

161. Barclays 162. Swatch 163. Georgia 164. HSBC 165. Skype

166. Larry Ellison of Oracle 167. Armani 168. Adam Smith

169. Hitachi 170. Vivendi

Questions:

171. In one of his books, Dom Moraes defined a character called Bodke which means 'somebody who walks

with long strides. How is this family known as today?

172. Jean-Baptiste Say coined which word first in about 1800 meaning "one who undertakes an enterprise”?

173. Which word comes from the roman term meaning “cooked twice”?

174. Which legendary CEO owns a restaurant chain called Koo Koo Roo?

175. What is the best known tenet of the Salic law?

176. When first invented it was called the “Pappin’s Digester”. How do we know it today?

177. Which international voluntary organization was founded by the present French minister for foreign

affairs Bernard Kouchner?

178. Which Indian was the richest man in the world in 1937 and appeared on the cover of Time magazine?

179. Which Indian fashion designers said 'We don’t make garments, we make heirlooms'?

180. Which Hollywood superstar owns a production house called Play Tone?

Answers:

171. Dempo 172. Entrepreneur 173. Biscuit 174. Lee Iacocca

175. Excluding females from the inheritance of a throne or fief.

176. Pressure Cooker 177. Doctors without borders 178. Nizam of Hyderabad

179. Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla 180. Tom Hanks

Questions:

181. Which management guru explained Synergy as 2+2 = 5?

182. Which media conglomerate did Lowry Mays and Red McCombs found in 1972 and focuses only on

radio?

183. Which Indian film director, who owns Shayadri films, once worked as an ad executive for Lintas?

184. Whose quote, “Roti, Kapda, Makaan, Bijli and Bandwidth”?

185. Ad campaign for what, “Separate Men from Boys, not from Girls. Strike Now!”

186. What was the theme for the Tom Perkins book, “Mine’s bigger”

187. In which legendary campaign did American character actress ” Clare Peller” at the age of 81 acted in

1984..”Where is the Beef”?

188. Complete the quote by Ted Turner, “Early to bed, early to rise – work like hell and _______”

189. What was first published on Oct 19, 1918 in New York Globe which is now owned by Jim Pattison

Group?

190. Who said “There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all” ?

Answers:

181. Igor Ansoff 182. Clear Channel Communications 183. Shyam Benegal

184. Devang Mehta 185. Lucky Strike 186. Building a yatch

187. Wendy’s 188. Advertise 189. Ripley’s Believe It or Not

190. Peter Drucker

Questions:

191. Listed as VED on LSE, this Indian metal giant is named after the mother of its founder?

192. Which airline company headed by Gopal Goyal is named after his father and son?

193. From Mediocristan to Extremistan – and Back is a chapter in which book?

194. In personal care business F&F industry supplies the essential ingredients for making perfume. If one F

stands for Flavour, what does the other one stand for?

195. Which departmental store was started as “The Golden Rule” and its current slogan is “Everyday

Matters”?

196. Which popular skin care brand was invented by Ivan Combe in 1950 and contains Benzoyl Peroxide,

Triclosan and salicylic acid?

197. What is symbolic expression in Sanskrit known as?

198. Who left Motorola to join Cisco as a CTO?

199. Till 2008, which company used to market Top Ramen in India?

200. Which company is known as the "Time-maker" and its name means exquisite, minute, Success in

Japanese?

Answer:

191. Vedanta 192. Murli Dhar Lakh Ram 193. Black Swan by Nicholas Taleb

194. Fragrance 195. J. C. Penny 196. Clearsil 197. Mudra

198. Padmasree Warrior (Probably Indian with highest number of twitter followers above Big B, Tharoor, SRK,

Sachin, etc.

199. Marico 200. Seiko

Questions:

201. Which American Business woman said "First god, Second family, Third My Ashes”?

202. Ivar Coulson, a soda jerk for a Walgreen's drug store, invented what in 1922 and called it Malt?

203. Which company was in the business of making Japanese aircrafts in World War 2 and is now famous in

the automobile sector?

204. “Local roots global reach” is the tagline of which French brewery?

205. In tire industry, what are OTR tires?

206. In the moving and packaging industry, what is PBOs?

207. What was the old name of Legend Computers?

208. The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future. – Which

famous economist’s quote?

209. Which group owns the Necker Islands, a holiday destination for couples?

210. What was the first mobile by Motorola?

Answer:

201. Mary Kay Ashe 202. Milkshakes 203. Mitsubishi 204. Pernord Ricard

205. Off the road 206. Packed by owner 207. Lenovo

208. John Maynard Keynes 209. Virgin 210. Dynatac

Questions:

211. What is a reverse merger?

212. What is the 419 Fraud?

213. Which American Shoe Company is named after a corn dish used to feed pet dogs?

214. The motto for which organization is "nullius in verba", is Latin for "Take nobody's word for it"?

215. Which term used in trade union negotiations was coined by Beatrice Webb in 19th century?

216. Along with Prof. Krishnan, who authored “The New Age of Innovation”?

217. Who wrote the words ''Satisfaction Guaranteed'' on the first Wal-Mart sign and said that they were the

two most important words of his life

218. Which group owns the retail brands Food World, Books & Beyond and Music World?

219. Which non-government, not-for-profit, industry-led and industry-managed organization was set up as

Engineering and Iron Trades Association (EITA. in 1885?

220. What was accidentally invented by Roy Plunkett of Kinetic Chemicals, later acquired by Dupont, in New

Jersey in 1938?

Answers:

211. A listed company acquiring an unlisted company which automatically ends up listing the unlisted company

212. Nigerian Email Scam 213. Hush Puppies 224. Royal Society of London

215. Collective Bargaining 216. C K Prahalad 217. Sam Walton

218. RPG 219. Confederation of Indian Industry (CII. 220. Teflon

Questions:

221. Which company has the rotating propeller logo and was earlier in the aircraft business?

222. Which brand gets its name from the Japanese god of mercy?

223. Cash Cow and the growth share matrix are ideas by which company?

224. Which product first made by Joseph Lawrence & Jordon Lambert as a medicine in 1879 is now available

in flavors like original, fresh, cool mint, natural?

225. Which brand, currently owned by Wrigleys, that has existed since the turn of 19th century used the

slogan "The Original Celebrated Curiously Strong (insert flavour here. Mints" for a number of years?

226. What was co-invented in 1965 by Donald L. Elbert, James M. Faria, and Robert T. Wright, employees of

Monsanto Company and sold under the brand name Chemgrass?

227. Which Ludhiana based company owns the brand Monte Carlo for woolen wear?

228. About what did Indira Gandhi say in 1975 "a Government organ, it is going to remain a Government

organ”?

229. In technical parlance of commercial dishwashers what is PPH?

230. Which political party adopted the bicycle as its political symbol after a survey showed the bicycle as a

very important tool in the rural areas?

Answers:

221. BMW 222. Canon from Kwanon 223.BCG 224. Listerine

225. Altoid 226. Astro Turf 227. Oswal 228. All India Radio

229. Plates Per Hour 230. Telugu Desham

Questions:

231. Who said, “Be the change you want to see”?

232. The term was coined by Sher Shah Suri & used by subsequent mughal emperors for a silver coin which

was used as currency?

233. Which certification denotes that child labour has not been used in the manufacture of carpets?

234. Which car was also known as the Fiat Millecento in Italy?

235. What came into existence on November 29, 1945 as Bachraj Trading Corporation Private Limited?

236. Which company started as Haloid Corporation?

237. What started as International Bank for Development and Reconstruction?

238. Which character debuted in Le Petit Vingtième on 10 January 1929?

239. Where in India would you find vehicles registered under the code DD?

240. "Tel Bhavan" is the corporate headquarter of which Indian PSU in Dehradun?

Answers:

231. Gandhi 232. Rupiyah (Rupee is derived from it) 233. Rugmark

234. Premiere Padmini 235. Bajaj Auto 236. Xerox 237. World Bank

238. Tintin 239. Daman and Diu 240. ONGC

Questions:

241. Which Sports Goods Company owns the range of products under the name Ballistic, Stealth, Atomic and

Velocity?

242. In 1952 what did Time describe as a "short-lived satirical pulp"?

243. Which historical novelist and poet is featured on notes issued by Bank of Scotland?

244. Which journal was first published & edited by Norman Lockyer in Britian?

245. Which private equity firm founded by Peter Peterson and Stephen Schwarzman in 1985 has the name,

which is a cryptogram of the founders’ names?

246. The invention of what has been attributed to Chapel S. Carter, son of a Connecticut Baptist church

deacon, in the year 1896?

247. What was founded by Curtis Priem(ex-SUN engineer., Chris Malachowsky(ex-SUN engineer.& Jen Hsun

Huang(ex-AMD. in 1993?

248. It started when companies belonging to four prominent business groups - Tatas, Khataus, Killick Nixon

and F E Dinshaw groups got together in 1936?

249. What first appeared in the UK market in 1968 with the suffix Ultra? In the 90s it was reformulated as

Futur.

250. What was constructed by engineer Wilson Greatbatch entered use in humans from April 1960 following

extensive animal testing?

251. Harrah's Entertainment, Inc founded on October 30, 1937 as a small bingo parlor in Nevada operated by

William F. Harrah, became the first company of which type of business?

Answers:

241. PUMA 242. MAD Magazine 243. Sir Walter Scott 244. Nature

245. Blackstone 246. Nail Clipper 247. NVIDIA 248. ACC

249. Ariel 250. Implantable Pacemakers 251. Casino

Tata Round

This set contains 20 questions from the world of TATAs.

Questions:

1. Expand TRF?

2. Which company was promoted in 1968 by Tata Steel, in collaboration with Yodogawa Steel Works and

Nissho Iwai Corporation (since merged with Sojitz Corporation), Japan?

3. Which company’s internal newsletter is known as TATEAN?

4. Launched in October 2006, Croma is India's first country-wide chain of consumer electronics and

durables. It is managed by?

5. Since 1964, which company has been manufacturing Tushar Water Coolers?

6. Who has the Director Identification Number DIN0001

7. John Portman and Sue Freeman designed which building?

8. Which city is named after the Gujrati name for salt?

9. How do we better know VSNL?

10. Visual Computing Labs (VCL) is an animation, visual effects and game asset building facility servicing

production for which Tata company?

Answer:

1. Tata Robin Fraser 2. Tayo Roll (India’s leading manufacturer and supplier)

3. Tata Tea 4. Infinity Retail 5. Voltas 6. Ratan Tata

7. Taj Wellington Mews 8. Mithapur (Tata Chemicals began its journey here)

9. Tata Telecommunications 10. Tata Elxsi

Questions:

11. Watawala Plantations is a joint venture between Tata Tea and Estate Management Services (Pvt)

Limited, a leading player from which country?

12. What is Tata Indica known as in UK?

13. To bring quality knowledge, Tata had tied up with which publishing house?

14. Which company was incorporated in 1955 Private Limited Company under the name of `The Commercial

Printing Press Ltd.'?

15. Pure, is positioned as India's first international restaurant with a focus in organic ingredients. Which

hotel chain runs it?

16. What are the cheap houses from Tata Housing, nicknamed Nano houses, formally known as?

17. The 15 year for Economic Development of India – an idea mooted by JRD is more commonly referred to

by what name?

18. Which was the first organization to place an order with TELCO / Tata Motors?

19. Which company was founded in 1972 by Fmali Herb Co. and was bought by Tata Tea in 1998?

20. Who said "You aim for perfection, you will attain excellence.If you aim for excellence, you will go lower”?

Answers:

11. Sri Lanka 12. Rover 13. McGraw Hill

14. Tata Infomedia 15. Taj Hotels 16. Shubh Griha 17. Bombay Plan

18. Indian Railways 19. Good Earth Tea 20. J R D Tata