TATA CRUCIBLE AHMEDABAD CAMPUS EDITION 2009 QUESTIONS

The teams who reached the finals were:
1) Institute of Management, Nirma University
2) Indian Institute of Maagement, Ahmedabad
3) MICA, Ahmedabad
4) SVNIT, Surat
The two teams from wild card entry were from IIM A.
THE ELIMINATIOS ROUND
1) Which State has its 19000 districts connected through some IT network which is proposed or something like that??
Answer: GUJARAT
2) India launched a unique stamp commemorating 60 th anniversary of what??
Answer: HUMAN RIGHTS
3) Author of ' HOT, FLAT & CROWDED'??
Answer: THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
4) What is common between Jack Niklaus, Sachin Tendulkar & Jackie Stewart??
Answer: RBS
5) Which bank lost its top management employee in the attack on The Taj Hotel, his name was Ashok Kapur??
Answer: YES BANK
6) Pic of back side of a specific Nobel Prize was shown??
Answer: NOBEL PRIZE FOR ECONOMICS
7) Pic of the shoe of 'The Devil wears prada', asking to identify the brand??
Answer: PRADA
8) WHich business school has celebrated its 100 years in 2008??
Answer: HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL
9) SUN Pharma has recently replaced which firm in BSE??
Answer: SATYAM
10) Carol Bartz has beenappointed CEO of which internet major??
Answer: YAHOO.COM
11) Logo of Murugappa Group.
12) WHich company has recently launched Exotica as its latest ice cream brand??
Answer: AMUL
13) Which hospitality chain has been awarded some prize (forgot the prize) ??
Answer: ITC
14) Which industrialist has written 'In the shadows of Mahatma'??
Answer: GD BIRLA
15) Which awards are given by Hollywood Foreign Press Association??
Answer: The Golden Globe Awards
16) Picture of Ted Turner.
17) Ad picture with Konkana Sen holding a cup??
Answer: Horlicks for women
18) AD of Close Up.
19)AD of Godrej Ezee.
There was one more question which I've forgotton. After that there were two wild card rounds comprising of 12 teams in all with 6 teams each in a round because the turnout was massive, with over 200 teams participating it turned out to be the most ever for a TATA CRUCIBLE QUIZ.
WILD CARD ROUND 1-
1) There was a conflict over Trade Mark issue over a particular stadium of Beijing Olympics with a particular firm, name the firm??
Answer: NESTLE and the conflict was over 'bird's nest'.
2) HE is MD of JK Paper to replace Rajiv Shekhar as President of FICCI??
Answer: HP Singhania
3) A global auto major being taken over by grandson with first name as Akiro??
Answer: Toyota
4) He is counsellor general of Denmark, recently conferred upon with Padma Vibhushan??
Answer: AM Naik
5) Which channel host TV serial named India's First Ladies by Abu Jani & Sandeep Khosla??
Answer: NDTV Good Life
6) Which firm has started a channel for its employees who have lost their jobs??
Answer: IBM

FINALS
ROUND 1
1)WHo owns Idiom Design which has won the branding contest for commenwealth games 2010??
Answer: Kishore Biyani of Future Group
2) Adolf Hitler banned it and so the pope, what it is??
Answer: Smoking
3) These two individuals when started to search a name for their organization, they come across the word DIMER which they thought would be a logical name for their brand, but it came to be known as something else, name it??
Answer: McDonalds
4) American Entrepreneur Charles Russell created the term 'corporate giants' along with an another term, what is it, in may be 1897??
Answer: Globalization
5) It came out of Sand Box model which says that you can create impossible low cost model when you create constraints, what in India resulted from it??
Answer: Ginger Hotels
6) Established i 1950 in honour of an American statistician and now it is in the top 5 TV serials in terms of viewership in Japan, what is it??
Answer: The Deming Awards

ROUND 2- (AMAZING IDENTITY)
1) Id the pic of Aditya Birla
2) Book cover of ' Be my Guest', by??
Answer: Conrad N. Hilton
3) Pic of a person and asked to id the brand??
Answer: The Indian Flag
4) Picture of lotus temple, etc.??
Answer: Incredible India Campaign
5) Pic of Mohd. Yunus
6) Book covers of 'Breaking Point', 'Total Zone' & 'Killer Instinct', id the person related??
Answer: Books authored by Martina Navaratilova.

ROUND 2- ( TATA WORLD)
1) What's there at North Coat Cattle Farm??
Answer: Name of the location for TATA NANO plant in Gujarat.
2) Arsenal tied up with which TATA company for trainig for children in 10-15 age group for football??
Answer: TATA TEA
3) In which city TATA Star Bazaar was first launched??
Answer: Ahmedabad
There were three more questions which have skipped my mind. After that there were two rounds on buzzer, third round was the connection round and mostly it was very much crackable, final fourth round were the successive clues round again on buzzer.

At the end MICA won the Ahmedabad elims with 50 points while IIIM A were runners up with 25 points. All in all the level of questions was comparatively easier than the previous year, but the best part was the prize for audience questions- a TITAN Watch unlike a boring book on TATA like last year!!