Tata Crucible Campus Edition 2008 Kolkata Round

Yesterday Crucible saw a new record...As per Giri the Banglaore round saw a turnout of more than 250 teams...But after he checked the prelims, the turnout for Kolkata was 275 and expectedly so, being the home of Quizzing in India

Well as expected, 4 teams were chosen directly for Finals and 2 Wild Card rounds were held to give chance to maximum possible teams..so rest 2 teams were chosen from rest 12 teams...

But first the PRELIMS:

1. A unique channel was launched in 2001 which initially showed daily lottery results. But contrary to designs of promoters, the channel had a flying start & has now become a prominent music channel (HINT: SPICE of South)

2. Who has recently launched 3rd edition of its calendar "Girls on ____" (name of a channel) with a "Green on" theme in India

3. Identify


4. In 1969, German co. Henkel invented this product after studying convnience of lipstick applicators (Oft repeated question by Giri: last repeated at SCMHRD Neev)

5. Original Bond drove this marquee.In Die Another Day, 007 drove V12 Vanquish. Name the Brand.

6. Stan Shih & a group of university friends founded Multitech in 1976, becoming one of the pioneers of Taiwan Industry. How do we know it today?

7. Ragner Frish gave a important term in economics. What?

8. Mortein originated in which Country (Hint: A good cricketing nation)

9. What did S S Goenka, founder of Peurotronics, set up s/w business in 1986 gave the world this Indian software. What?

10.Co.'s primary product was underwear before moving into sportswear in 1970, initially endorsement was done by tennis player Bjorn Borg. Which Company

11.His name is Don Facundo _____ Masso (Hint: Liquor)


12. George Washington first marketed this product as the RED E Coffee. Which Product

13. NYSE Ticker: UN

14. 1st commercial video game PONG launched in 1972. Which co. was responsible for this

15. A print ad was shown (Sorry dint get that) it was of LIFEBUOY

16. This co. obtained Certificate of Commencement of Business on 5th Jan 1983 as Empire Holdings being Promoted by the Essel group (Hint: [A total Giveway]: A media giant now)

17. Brand promoted by Vivek Oberoi sporting retro look with Elvis style and sound of "Wakao"

18. Title Track of Johnny Gaddar was played. Who is the producer?

19. Video: New neighbours coming in adjoining building but the wife starts crying after sensing something. Veteran actors Soumitra Chatterjee and Madhavi Chatterjee were shown sharing some food cooked in oil. Identify the brand

20. Video: A taxi cab giving bribe to a traffic policeman and the note after moving hands comes back to the Cab driver (Hint: A day in the life of ________)

ANSWERS:

1. SS Music
2. Channel [V]
3. GIC (General Insurance Corporation)
4. Gluestick
5. Aston Martin
6. Acer
7. Macroeconomics
8. Australia
9. Tally
10.FILA
11.Bacardi
12.Instant Coffee
13.UNILEVER
14.Atari
15.Lifebuoy
16.ZEE group
17.Vanilla Coke
18.Sriram Raghavan
19.DHARA oil
20.Times of India


The Prelims were followed by 2 Wild Card rounds

Wild Card 1: Teams standing on positions 5,7,9,11,13,15 th after prelims

Teams: IIMC, IEM Kolkata, Techno India, Jadavpur Univ., NIMS, IIFT Kolkata

1. Co. with whom u associate Kindel?

2. Which NRI entered upper house of British Parliament.. (stopped in between by IIFTK) but the final part of Q was: from the world of Beer?

3. Which politician coined the term "CHINDIA"

4. Who said "Nothing comes between me & Calvin Jeans"

5. Which search engine was found by Anand Rajaram and Venky Narayanan?

6. Who recently took over the position of CTO of Cisco?

7. Person with his wife Anuradha formed BAD films. Also is one of the prominent members of BCCI

ANSWERS:
1. Amazon.com
2. Karan Billimoria
3. Jairam Ramesh
4. Brooke Shields
5. (Forgot this one)
6. Padamshree Warrior
7. Rajiv Shukla

Wild Card 1 Qualifier: IIMC (1 point) IIFT (-2 points)

Wild Card 2: Teams standing on positions 6,8,10,12,14,16th after prelims

Teams: Ashutosh College, IIMC, IIFTK, IEM, St. Xaviers, Praxis BSchool

IEM was disqualified as the team had only 1 member... But 1-2 teams protested citing their calculated score is more than the Wild Card selected teams...But the dispute dint linger much

1. Automative leader who wrote "Where have all the leaders gone"

2. This Italian family owns 67% in Autogrill, road side restaurant chain

3. Willioanka (only this much was said and IIMC answered on Table2) the full Q: & what movie was produced...

4. Who owns Duracell

5. Shantanu Narayan heads what?

6. In 1992, this Indian industrialist awarded UN populist award & Bharat Ratna (To Giri's amazement, no one evn tried this one)

7. Old Spice was acquired by P&G in 1990 from whom

8. What principle explains 1990 observation which states that companies systematically promotes least competent employees

ANSWERS:
1. Lee Iacocca
2. Benetton (Another repeat: last yrs TC Corporate Mumbai Prelims)
3. Chocolate Factory
4. P&G
5. Adobe
6. J R D Tata
7. Shulton Corporation
8. Dilbert principal

Wild Card 2 Qualifier: IIMC (2 points) Ashutosh (1 Point)


THE FINAL LINEUP:

1. Arnav and Vijay (IIMC)
2. Siddharth and Vikas (IIMC)
3. Manjit and Nishith (KIIT Bhubaneshwar)
4. Nilotpol and Dr. Jinu Matthew (IISWBM)
5. Shankar and Siddharth (IIMC)
6. Nikhil and Pranay (BIT, MESRA Ranchi)

ROUND 1 : CRYPTIC GAMES

1. (Audience to start off the grid) Indian writing device named after Egyptian City
2. Brand "India on the Move"
3. From Wonderwoman to Deepika
4. DKW Wonderer Horch
5. Python Rubi Groovy are varieties of this
6. "Confidence in a connected world--Stay Unaffected"
7. William Peres was 1st CEO outside family

ANSWERS:
1. LUXOR
2. INDIGO
3. MAYBELLINE
4. AUDI
5. JAVA
6. SYMANTECH
7. WRIGLEYS


ROUND 2: TATA WORLD (4 Questions on Buzzer)

1. Tata Conswood is from which Tata Company? Tata Coffee
2. New concept from Tata Indicom "MEDUCATION". What? Education on Mobile
3. Which Brand is Golden Harvest from Tatas? Tanishq
4. These subsidiaries are form which Tata co.--- APOnline, CH, Diligenta, CMC: TCS


ROUND 3: DOMAIN GAMES

1. (ONLINE) What is this


2. (FINANCE) What is common to : Starry Nights, Royal Bank of Scotland and Ajax FC

3. (FMCG) During 1950, Kodak came up with internal flash & it was developed thus. What?

4. (INVENTION) John Walker invented in 1927 and called it "Congraves" But sales never took off and he died with little money. But it is regularly used today. What?

5. (INNOVATION) Sanjay Kohli came up with idea of using this on the hook of stick to make it smoother and strong. What?

6. (PUBLISHING) (Typical Kolkata Q) Found in 1936 by D. Mehra at College Street Kolkata with 2 slim volume of Bong Poems. Logo was designed by Satyajit Ray

ANSWERS:
1. SCRABULOUS (Facebook version of Scrabble)
2. ABN AMRO
3. Duracell
4. Match Stick
5. Condoms (used on hockey sticks)
6. Rupa Publishing


ROUND 4: LATERAL GAMES (CONNECT ROUND) (Again 4 Qs on Buzzer)

1.

Along with these pics: A song from RANG DE BASANTI

2.

Along with these pics: The song "Aashayen" (specific) from IQBAL

3.

Along with these pics: The song "ITS MY LIFE"

4.

Sorry I dint get the other pics: Other hints were: Finnish Defence Forces and a song from Jhoom Barabar Jhoom

ANSWERS:
1. Jamshedpur (Kalimati Rly. Stn., Lord Chelmsford was behind the naming of Jamshedpur, the laser shoe @ Sentosa Island is the inspiration behind the one at Jamshedpur Jubilee Park, and Madhavan from RDB is from Jamshedpur)

2. Maruti OMNI (Dil Se is a scheme for NRIs to gift OMNI to relatives in India, Aashayein was OMNIs ad song some days back, and True Value is the valuation chain of OMNI for 2nd hand cars)

3. MITSUBISHI (Ecstacy MIT sis means Mitsubishi, Its My life song was used by Mitsubishi in their ads and he is the founder of Mitsubishi---Yataro Iwasaki)

4. NOKIA (OVI is a service by Nokia, Was one of the brands endorsed or marketed at JBJ and has some connection with Finnish Defence Forces..its a Finnish Co.)


ROUND 5: NANO GAMES (All on buzzer)

1. Iconic brand will travel around India in next couple of days has a special Olympus Camera Edition, Acer Computer edition etc...

2. "We are the ones who encourage copying" Which company?

3. Who said: "Summing Across & only paranoid survives"

ANSWERS:
1. Ferrari
2. XEROX
3. Andy Grove of Intel

Now at this point, before the last question of the day, the Nano Meter was like this:

1. Arnav and Vijay (IIMC)---------------- 25 points
2. Siddharth and Vikas (IIMC)------------ 15 points
3. Manjit and Nishith (KIIT Bhubaneshwar)- 25 points
4. Nilotpol and Dr. Jinu Matthew (IISWBM)- 30 points
5. Shankar and Siddharth (IIMC)----------- 30 points
6. Nikhil and Pranay (BIT, MESRA Ranchi)-- 15 points

The Final Question: 4. Giri only said "Billion Beats" and KIIT pressed the buzzer
and bang came the answer: The paper by A P J Abdul Kalam

And thus we get the Kolkata Campus Champs winning by 5 points : KIIT Bhubaneshwar represented by Manjit Mohanty and Nishith Ganatra..CONGRATS guys

But thats not the end of the day

A tie breaker was held to identify the Runners who will bag a booty of 30K (IIMC vs IISWBM)

1. One of largest banks in this location gives its name to a Index-- evergrowing in Chinese : No one answered: Hangsen Index

2. Marriage of 2 sisters-- Olivia & Elizabeth--was extremely important in the world of business as their respective husbands created a mighty conglomerate Who?

IIMC pressed the buzzer and their answer was: Colgate Palmolive...which made IISWBM the Runners as the correct answer is: PROCTER & GAMBLE

So this was the Tata Crucible Campus edition 2008 Kolkata Round... Wait for next Showtime..will be posted in next 2-3 days

Till then

Happy Quizzing

TG