The document provides 25 multiple choice questions testing knowledge across various domains including business, geography, history and pop culture. Some questions test recall of company names, products, people and events while others involve making connections between disparate pieces of information. The questions cover a wide range of topics on a global scale with no clear thematic link between them.
1. Prelims
1. 500 millionth NOKIA phone produced at Chennai factory was released by which celeb?
SRK
2. A man named Chandramogan from Sivakasi, founded a brand with a common household name
(agro product)
Arun Ice cream
3. River Noyyal runs through which industrial town, bearing the brunt of much of its output?
Tirupur
4. Whose advert?
DIESEL
5. What word takes its origins from the fact that people used to take the same “path/route” to
conduct business from one place to another?
TRADE
6. Warren Buffet when asked whom he’s like to be reborn as, he replied “As ________’s
boyfriend”.
Sophia Loren
7. What was acquired recently from Yahoo! By two men named Chad Hurley and Steve Chen?
del.icio.us
8. Due to local sentiment, which airline major operates with the name of AIR NIGERIA in the
African country?
Virgin
9. Country with a “Game Rating Board” to classify games as suitable for its citizens?
South Korea
10. 4Cs of a diamond -> Color, clarity, Cut and _______?
Carat
11. 1887 company, headquartered in New Jersey with a granite plating at entrance that has a 303
“credo” engraved on it for employees to memorise its policies.
Johnson & Johnson
2. 12. Ad campaign. Whose?
13. A small entry into the market in 1997, calling itself Empire Finance” started by Parminder Singh,
how do we know it today?
Religare
14. Journal founded by Thomas Wakely in 1823 name meant both as “Arched door for light to enter”
and “a surgical instrument”.
Lancet
15. A swadeshi bank founded by Annamalai and Ramaswami Chettiar in 1907. This was in response
to the financial crash faced by two leading trading companies in Madras.
Indian Bank
16. Some easy funda about AMUL.
17. Started by Sai Ramakrishna, world’s largest flower exporter from Bangalore.
Karuthuri
18. Kumaravels’ Naturals salon merged as umbrella brand of his brother’s corporate major. Which
one?
CavinKare
19. Four letter controversial acronym brand, retail store founded in 1972 in London.
FCUK
3. 20. How are these 4 collectively known as?
21. B.A Lakshmi Narayana Setty influenced by the ideals of Swami Vivekananda set up a small shop
of 200Sq.ft., at Mylapore Chennai, with an investment of only Rs.10,000 ( USD 230) to sell
electrical fitting and folding chairs.
Vivek’s
22. 1957, chain started by A.K. Gopalan, 500 outlets in India, favorite hangout/hub for journos and
intellectuals.
Indian Coffee House
23. Concept that started from Babylonian sailors when they pooled money in case of any disasters on
sea and paid as compensation for any remaining debts of that individual.
Insurance
24. Hicks India dominated a large part of the market with a product that went by the tagline “Right
degree of truth”. What was the item in question?
Thermometer
25. What product famous with kids went by certain tag names such as “Rocky” “Ace” and “Skip”
denoting the characters, before they took more suitable ones later?
GI Joe
Tata Track Finals
World Watch:
Crossword round
What brand went by the names Plus, Super, Rajshree before it got its present name when transferred from
L&T arm to Aditya Birla Group?
Ultra tech cement
4. Default TV system format in the USA?
NTSC
Parent company of T920 tea? – Starbucks
Key ingredient in their selling item is baking soda which lends to the “sparkling” color.
Happydent
Spain’s market index is called? IBEX
Italian word for milk.
LATTE
Started by Nozuma as A8 dynamic speaker, which was the first of its kind.
PIONEER
Venture in TN started by Annamalai and Parthasarathy.
KUMUDHAM
Visual Round:
1.
Devdutt Patnaik, Chief Belief Officer of Fortune Group
2. Initiative of?
Shankara Nethralaya
5. 3. Funda behind name?
European name cooked up by founder to attract everyone because of an abundance of Iyengar bakeries
4. Which group operates this?
Reliance
5.
International board for Narcotics control
6. Who’s behind this?
Karthi Chidambaram
Lateral World:
Mist + AME + Washington apples -> Pepsi
Satyam + Musco +Revo - > Mahindra
6. Remit2India + Simplypay+ Kannada Paper - > Times Group
Dash+ Cascade+ Vicks -> P&G
Quick World:
1. Japanese fellow. very influential contribution to industrial statistics. Key elements of his
quality philosophy include the following:
Loss function, used to measure financial loss to society resulting from poor quality;
The philosophy of off-line quality control, designing products and processes so that they
are insensitive ("robust") to parameters outside the design engineer's control; and
Innovations in the statistical design of experiments, notably the use of an outer array for
factors that are uncontrollable in real life, but are systematically varied in the experiment.
TAGUCHI
2. ISO 14000 for :Environment
3. Some connection between Scooby doo and Kellogs
4. Grand daughter of M. Bakthavatsalam, a prominent Congress politician and Chief Minister of
Tamil Nadu between 1963 and 1967. – Jayanthi Natarajan
Non Tata Track:
Global knowledge
1. Sol Kofler based on certain philosophies performed tests caleed “Drop, Jerk,Wheel and
Tumble” for the line of products.
American Tourister
2. What completes the following companies in chronological order?
EDF
Rossengtom
Excelom
KHNP
________
Ans: TEPCO (related to the tsunami nuclear power plant disaster somehow)
3. Sheikh Zayed set up a 70,000 Dhiram fund, a heritage fund as an incentive for something
unique in the middle east. What?
Marry local women from same tribe (for Arabic men) to reduce divorce alimony
4. What’s tail risk?
Calculate multiple probabilities and set up insurance for improbable risks at tail end.
Example is the insuring of the World trade centers.
5. After his solo Atlantic flight, Charles Lindbergh didn’t make it to the TIME cover. What
happened instead?
First “Man of the Year”
7. 6. Accidental creation in USA by Morris Mitchom and his wife, that required some special
permissions from the president, rage with kids.
Teddy Bear
VISUAL
Chulha range “Saral”, “Sampoorna” by whom?
Philips
Which person’s special edition is this?
Sachin Tendulkar
In.com’s ad campaign
What’s his contribution to India?
8. Hermann Tilke, the designer of the Buddh F1 circuit
Who?
Deepa Prahalad, CK Prahalad’s daughter
9. Who?
Jiddu Krishnamurthy
Tata World:
Murli Shastry - > Buisness Leader of 2011 -> Environment ministry -> what simple
product did he devise?
SWACH
Tata Chemicals + Impact India, an initiative in rural india
LIFELINE EXPRESS
Tata Power + Trust energy in Singapore venture in what?
Shipping Vessels
Huge awards for design of this wasp structure. Where?
TCS Siruseri,Chennai
10. Lateral:
Airtel + Adani + Deccan Chrnoicle + AP Govt+ CWG
Ans: Saina Nehwal
PC Mahalanobis+ Indian census logo+ counting device
Ans: Indian census
Bristle cone+ UWC+ Chetan Maini -> Mahindra Satyam
Arthur Brooke + Anupam Kher+ Chimps commercial
Ans: Brooke Bond
Depth of knowledge:
1)
a) COO of Olympic Gold quest (rest of the two parts were unnecessary after this )
Viren Rasquinha
2)
a) 1st in IAS batch of 1956, commercial stint at BHEL
b) co author of “How a public sector of a company in India is set up”
c)
Ans: R C Bhargava
3)
a) 1905 born in Tirunelveli , studied law in Lahore
b) Simpson group, c) elder son named Sivasailam -> Anantha Ramakrishna Iyer