This document summarizes the format of the 2014 Tata Crucible corporate quiz in Bhubaneswar. It discusses the prelims format which involved 20 questions across various categories. It then discusses the format of the finals which involved 6 questions in the first round, 9 questions in the second round, and 8 questions in the third round, across gold, silver, and bronze categories. It lists the 6 teams that made it to the finals.

1. Tata crucible corporate Quiz
2014,BHUBANESWAR EDITION
This year there is lot more curious about the format of Tata crucible this year but the formats is
more interesting than its previous format. Let check out the format of Tata crucible of this year.
PRELIMS FORMAT
 No TATA Round this year
 Total 10 teams can make to stage i.e.4 top team can qualify to stage directly & rest 5-10
teams can battle in the wildcard entry (2 teams can make it into final round)
 Total 20 questions with no * marks questions.
PRELIMS
Q1)It has been also referred by BBC as “India’s largest museum” with 6000 pieces of India art forms
from 8th century to 19th century the area will surpass the no. of visitors to the Louvre. What is that
has been architecturally designed by Skidmore ,Owings & Merills?
ANS)T-2 Terminals of SHIVAJI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT ,Mumbai
Q2)Dial soap which originated in 1948 was originally an off show of Chicago based meat processor
Armour & company and was America’s first ______________ soap.?
ANS) FRAGRANCE SOAP
Q3)Its various name around the world was Brush or Ice –shaver ,Tortoise ,Navel, Little cockroach
,Frog little flea. What is that represent al l insects or bugs in the movie car?
ANS)BETTLE (VOLKSWAGEN BETTLE)
Q4)FITB …(Hint-most iconic slogan of independent India)

2. ANS)
Q5)In 1993,which Harrow educated man and a self- confessed admirer of Napolean
Bonaparte did the PM of India ,Shri PV Narshima Rao appointed,as Joint Chairman of
INDIAN AIRLINES & AIR INDIA.?
ANS)RUSSI MODY
Q6)What term ,first coined in Newzelandin 2004 is used for arts ,jewellery,fashion,& object
for the home created from used thrown out ,& recycled elements?
Ans)TRASHION
Q7)The first one was called ACTA DIURNA and the people who helped run it were called
“ACTUARII).The first American one in 1960 was called PUBLIC OCCURENCES.What is it ine
most world called acta diurna?
ANS)NEWSPAPER
Q8)IDENTIFY THE PERSON (PIC WAS NOT THE SAME ONE THAT SHOWN IN QN)
Hint—this man invested in sports now ,he owns the team Orlando Magic.Has investment or
runs a group of chain care on BEAUTY,HOMECARE,HEALTH PRODUCT).GIVE me the
company that he runs.

3. Ans)ROBERT DEVOS of AMWAY
Q9)Companies from which country are represent the most in the list of world’s largest
private employers ? (hint --list means “FORTUNE 500 list)
ANS—CHINA
Q10)What was formed by TIME co-founder Henry Luce as “the IDEAL SUPERCLASS
MAGAZINE”?
ANS-FORTUNE
Q11)Which brand launched at the Sydney Royal Easter show in 1934 was originally sold in
green coloured tins as Nestle’s fortified tonic food?
Ans)MILO
Q12) IDENTIFY THE PRINT AD OF THIS FAMOUS COMPANY

4. Q13)What bank helped the California wine Industryget started ,created a motion picture
loan division that helped Charlie chaplin,Mry pick and others to start UNITED ARTIST and
helped walt Disney with huge loan when the movie snow white went $2 million over
budget?
ANS)BANK OF AMERICA
Q14)Expand Tantea which was established in 1968 to help rehabilitate srilankan repatriates.
ANS)TAMIL NADU TEA
Q15)Coinciding with 96th birthday of Late Indira Gandhi ,PM Dr. Manmohan Singh had
inaugurated the first of this bank with 7 branches .what is unique about this bank?
Ans)bharaiya mahila bank…all women employee bank
Q16)IDENTIFY THE LOGO (HINT—more to do with the changing air of indian politics)
ANS)
Q17)Along with he wife ,Anupama ,he started Sampark Foundation in 2004 .The former executive of
a leading IT company is loving every moments of his new role and development in the organisation
working to improve the lives of under privileged children and farmers?

5. Ans)VINEET NAYAR ,FORMER CEO HCL
Q18)Loui Vuitton has invested in which Pondicherry based company in 2007?
Ans-HIDESIGN
Q19)Which company introduced a social networking service in 2011 called MH buddy?
Ans)MALAYSIAN AIRLINES
Q20)This man name is MOHAN.T. ADVANI he created something in India which we all can see in our
homes and offices .His category of products deals with conditioning of water.Thus what entity did
he created?
Ans)BLUESTAR
WILDCARD ROUND questions.
RULES
 TOTAL 8 QUESTIONS
 2 TEAMS CAN MAKE INTO FINAL S
1)which oat mills acquired Fischer price in 1969?
ANS) QUAKER OATS
2) TEPES,PONY LIGHT,ISTHMUS 34 is type of which commodity that balances the world economy?
Ans) TYPES OF CRUDE OIL
Q3 ) TRANSUNION picked up 7% stakes in which credit rating companies?
a) CRISIL B)CIBIL
ANS )CIBIL

6. Q4) Their online initiative is LEVEL.in is an e-commerce contain companies platform in lifestyle
named after a famous French king?
Ans) LOUIS PHILLIPE
Q5)which pharma company has acquired 100% of RANBAXY ?
Ans-SUN PHARMA
Q6) INTERNET.org ia an venture of which company?
Ans) facebook
Q7) Olivia and Elizabeth Norris were the daughter of founder of which giant corporation of the
world?
Ans)P&G
Q8)WHICH FASHIONLINE WAS MADE BY MARIO & MAURICIO IN ITALY?
ANS)PRADA
After the wildcard 4 TEAMS were on tie battling for two spot , then GIRI resolved the tie by sudden
death#
SUDDEN DEATH # QUESTIONS
Q1) The Button wood agreement leads to the formation of which institution in the world?
Ans) NEWYORK STOCKXCHANNGE
Q2)U-plus is a south Korean mobile owned by which giant company which originally consider to
name its name as LUCKY”?
Ans-LG
Teams in the BHUBANESWAR FINALS
1. LOKESH PAL & SITIKANTA PARIJA,VODAFONE
2. ABHIKSHAT DASH & SUDAMAYA SINGH ,TCS
3. DEBASHISH DASH & MANIK RAVI ,NALCO
4. Prof. SUBHASHIS RAY & Prof. SOUMIK SARKAR,XIMB
5. ABHISEK KUMAR & MR.KUSHAGRA ,P&G
6. SAMPAD PATTANAIK & SANTOSH SHUVANKAR MISHRA ,TCS
FORMAT FOR FINALS
 3 CATEGORIES OVERALL

7.  1ST ROUND 6 QUESTIONS
 2ND ROUND 9 QNS
 3RD ROUND 8 QNS
 QNS HAVE BEEN CATEGORIZED INTO-GOLD,SILVER,BRONZE
 GOLD CATEGORY QUESTIONS—75 POINTS ,3 ATTEMPT PER QNS,NEGATIVE -75 .IF ONE
TEAM ANSWERS WRONG THEN THE VALUE OF QN BECOMES 60 POINTS IF AGAIN ANY TEAM
PRESSES BUZZZER WRONG THEN THE QNS VALUE SUBDUES TO 50 POINTS.FOR EVERY
CORRECT ANSWER +75/-75
 SILVER CATEGORY QNS—60 POINTS ,NEGATIVE - -60, IF ONE TEAM ANSWERS WRONG THEN
THE VALUE OF QN BECOMES 50 POINTS .CORRECT ANSWER +60/-60 .2 ATTEMPT ON THIS
CATEGORY OF QNS.
 BRONZE CATEGORY QNS-EASY QN 1 ATTEMPT ON THIS QNS. IF CORRECT +50/-50
 ALL QUESTIONS ON BUZZER
ROUND-1(THOUGHT LEADERS)
Q1)bronze category
This brand traces its history 1851,created by Williams in London.In 1875 he requested its color The
Infant Hercules painted by sir Joshua Reynolds was today .Name the brand and the category that he
trademarked.
Ans)woodward gripe waters
Q2)silver category
It was launched by Thomas J.C.Mrtyn in 1933 after he came from ww1 ,he could create a ride
magazine which was still exist today.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Ans)newsweek
Q3)GOLD category
In the 1630s a sailor was thrown in a Dutch jail FOR EATING WHAT HE THOUGHT WAS A ONION THE
COST OF THIS SAILORS GLUTTONY WAS EQUIVALENT TO THE COST OF FEEDING AN ENTIRE CREW
FOR TWELVE MONTHS .WHAT DID HE EAT?
ANS)tulip
Q4)CONNECT….(DO’T ABLE TO FIND THE CONNECT PIC)(GOLD CATEGORY)
ANS)ABOUT INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION IS NOW USED FOR MARKETING PURPOSE LIKE
AD,HOME CAN BE BOUGHT IN THE SPACE

8. Q5)silver category
It was founded as Timely Publication
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
ANS)MARVEL COMICS
Q6)BRONZE CATEGORY
IT was introduced in December 9, 1997, Digital Equipment Corporation and SYSTRAN S.A and was
developed by a team of researchers at Digital Equipment. 2012.The web address changed yet again,
this time to www.microsofttranslator.com when Microsoft's Bing Translator replaced .
ANS)BABLE FISH
ROUND-2 (GAME CHANGER)
BRONZE CATEGORY
Q1) Asked to provide the identities of its customers in 2012, X sent regulators a convoy of 127 trucks
with 32,000 cartons of chaotically ordered documents which officials are still sifting through.
Another view is that X’s customers are real, but that the group is either illiquid or insolvent and
unable to repay them in cash, using other financial instruments instead.WHAT IS X?
ANS)SAHARA GROUP
Q2)IDENTIFY THE ENTITY(BRONZE)
TITAGARH WAGON LIMITED
Q3)SILVER
In 1995,Chief Executive Officer Jonathan Klein c0-founded to bring the fragmented stock
photography to this Digital Age.
Ans)getty images
Q4)This is the identity of the man which the world witness this year ?
Ans)silvio gazzaniga the man wh designed world cup football trophy

9. Q5)CONNECT…(gold category)
____________________________
ANOTHER VIDEO …………….NATION 1 A
Ans)concept of swatch internet time
Q6)SILVER CATEGORY
Meaning “one” in Sanskrit .waht is ranked 58th in the world
_ _ _
Ans)EKA
Q7)GOLD CATEGORY
IDENTIFY THE COUPLE (ITS THEIR HONEYMOON PIC) THEY FORMED SOMETHING WHICH HEPLED
THEM TO CREATE MONEY)
ANS)LONELY PLANET(MAUREEN WHEELER & HER HUSBAND)

10. Q8)BRONZE QUESTION
The phone booth of this country are now rarely used so the govt. decided to turn it into aquarium to
commemorate it.WHIch country has take this step?
Ans)japan
Q9)In the context of towels this world comes French word “tirer”, means to pull out. It refers to pile
loops which were pulled out by hand to make the product absorbent traditional Turkish toweling. ?
Ans)terry cloth
ROUND -3(X-FACTOR)
Q1)SILVER
Who was recognised by Ripleys as the one person who has established the most of educational
institution anywhere in the world?
Ans)T.M.Pai
Q2)GOLD question
As per labour court in june they are now mandatory when temp. reach 32 degree Celsius (89.6
degree faharenhite) in the wet bulb globe temp. index which takes into account facts such as time
of play,cloud cover ,wind humidity and location.The court ordered them to be placed around the 2/3
rd of the each half.what are we talking about?
Ans)SPRINKLERS ON THE FOOTBALL FIELD
Q3)BRONZE
WHAT STYLE DOES ORIGINATED FROM THIS MAN?

11. ANS)SIDEBURN
Q4)IDENTIFY THE MAN WHO HAS MADE MILLIONS FROM HIS BRAND
ANS)JIMMY CHOO
Q5)WHAT ‘S IT PRESENT FORM .THE EARLIER ISSUES OF THE FAMOUS MAGAZINE TARGETTING
MALES?
ANS)GQ magazine

12. Q6)CONNECT…
_
ANS)
ANS)SPACE JAM
Q7)GOLD CATEGORY
CONNECT.
___________ ___________-
Ans)Hasselblad
Q8)Sizes 25,30,40cm it is free of logos and was reputed for having the longest wait for any product
in its category in the history.what am I talking about which have a famous celebrity who is the great
admirer of this product?
Ans )HERMIS BERKIN BAG

13. FINAL STANDING
WINNER: Prof. SUBHASHIS RAY & Prof. SOUMIK SARKAR,XIMB
RUNNERS-UP: LOKESH PAL & SITIKANTA PARIJA,VODAFONE