Tuesday, March 17, 2009
FINALS at a Glance.........
Finals
AMAZING WORLD
1. Brainchild of Harry Lumsdar, first used in the 52nd Regiment, Got popular later on.
A. Khakhee (eldrich got this one from the audience)
2. Initiative called Mood Consulting from the world of Godrej
A. Funda answer, something to do with mood modulated homes by Godrej properties and they give you houses based on moods etc etc (kickass crack by Christ University on Table 5)
3. Delsey Boyle, 105,000 Dollars, team of 11, one vote
A. Best job in the world by Queensland Tourism (no one cracked it)
4. Developed in 1980 by Mehboon Ul Haq, another british professor and Lord Meghnad Desai
A. Human Development Index (cracked by IIM B)
5. Rengade and Renaissance have replaced two others.
A. Basically renegade and renaissance are codenames for Barack and Michelle and two others were for George and Laura Bush
6. Business - Moving from Corking and Tainting
A. Related to wines and champagnes
ROUND 2
AMAZING IDENTITY
1.Logo of Mohan Meakins (cracked by yours truly)
2.Logo of Nobel Foundation, pic of the floormat was there on which winners accept the award
3. Pic of Carla Zletkin on a stamp. She gave the world WOMEN's DAY, which is incidentally today
4. Pic of Ashok Kapur(repeat question from another campus round this year)
5. Pic of TELSTAR ADIDAS FOOTBALL. Funda is the football was named thus because it was the official football of the WC Football which was going to be telecasted on TV, thus from television star it became TELSTAR
6. Pic of Steve Jobs with "It's True" in the backdrop
Cracked by RVCE, it's basically to denote that they were changing their systems to Intel.
Round3
Tata World
1. Taj changin its name
A. Gateway
2. Titan watches under 500 rs.
A. Super Fibre
3. TCS has a strategic tie up with which superbike manufacturer?
a. Ducati
4. Tata Tea could not get OBV as the domain so they registered wat?
a. Jaagore.com (obv stands for one billion votes)
Round4
Lateral Pickbrain Connect
1. Raghav Bahl, Dilip Sardesai, Dainik Jagran & Akshay Kumar's CC2C song played in the background.
a. TV18
2. Manoj Bagdale, Bajaj Allianz, Tata AIG & Ringa Ringa played in the background
a. Rajasthan Royals
3. Allianz Group, Manipal Group,ING Vysya Bank & Indigo Nation and song from Meerabai Not Out
A. Anil Kumble
4. Nimbuzz, Mandi Bazaar, Second Life
a. tata indicom
Final Round
3 clues
1. Rand Corporation
2. Michael Porter's 5 force model (IIMB gave the answer on the 1st clue)
3. Economies of Scale, again IIM B cracked it on the first clue
AMAZING WORLD
1. Brainchild of Harry Lumsdar, first used in the 52nd Regiment, Got popular later on.
A. Khakhee (eldrich got this one from the audience)
2. Initiative called Mood Consulting from the world of Godrej
A. Funda answer, something to do with mood modulated homes by Godrej properties and they give you houses based on moods etc etc (kickass crack by Christ University on Table 5)
3. Delsey Boyle, 105,000 Dollars, team of 11, one vote
A. Best job in the world by Queensland Tourism (no one cracked it)
4. Developed in 1980 by Mehboon Ul Haq, another british professor and Lord Meghnad Desai
A. Human Development Index (cracked by IIM B)
5. Rengade and Renaissance have replaced two others.
A. Basically renegade and renaissance are codenames for Barack and Michelle and two others were for George and Laura Bush
6. Business - Moving from Corking and Tainting
A. Related to wines and champagnes
ROUND 2
AMAZING IDENTITY
1.Logo of Mohan Meakins (cracked by yours truly)
2.Logo of Nobel Foundation, pic of the floormat was there on which winners accept the award
3. Pic of Carla Zletkin on a stamp. She gave the world WOMEN's DAY, which is incidentally today
4. Pic of Ashok Kapur(repeat question from another campus round this year)
5. Pic of TELSTAR ADIDAS FOOTBALL. Funda is the football was named thus because it was the official football of the WC Football which was going to be telecasted on TV, thus from television star it became TELSTAR
6. Pic of Steve Jobs with "It's True" in the backdrop
Cracked by RVCE, it's basically to denote that they were changing their systems to Intel.
Round3
Tata World
1. Taj changin its name
A. Gateway
2. Titan watches under 500 rs.
A. Super Fibre
3. TCS has a strategic tie up with which superbike manufacturer?
a. Ducati
4. Tata Tea could not get OBV as the domain so they registered wat?
a. Jaagore.com (obv stands for one billion votes)
Round4
Lateral Pickbrain Connect
1. Raghav Bahl, Dilip Sardesai, Dainik Jagran & Akshay Kumar's CC2C song played in the background.
a. TV18
2. Manoj Bagdale, Bajaj Allianz, Tata AIG & Ringa Ringa played in the background
a. Rajasthan Royals
3. Allianz Group, Manipal Group,ING Vysya Bank & Indigo Nation and song from Meerabai Not Out
A. Anil Kumble
4. Nimbuzz, Mandi Bazaar, Second Life
a. tata indicom
Final Round
3 clues
1. Rand Corporation
2. Michael Porter's 5 force model (IIMB gave the answer on the 1st clue)
3. Economies of Scale, again IIM B cracked it on the first clue
FINALS
Finalist teams were :-
1.TEAM 1 RVCE = HARISH & SAMARTH
2.TEAM 2 IIMB = RAHUL R. & SIDDHART VIJ
3.TEAM 3 CHRIST UNIVERSITY = ANIRUDH & ABHINAV
4.TEAM 4 BMSCE = BALRAM S, SANTOSH S
5.TEAM 5 CHRIST UNIVERSITY = SANHARSHAM & KULDEEP
6.TEAM 6 IIPM = DIXIT & JAY
1.TEAM 1 RVCE = HARISH & SAMARTH
2.TEAM 2 IIMB = RAHUL R. & SIDDHART VIJ
3.TEAM 3 CHRIST UNIVERSITY = ANIRUDH & ABHINAV
4.TEAM 4 BMSCE = BALRAM S, SANTOSH S
5.TEAM 5 CHRIST UNIVERSITY = SANHARSHAM & KULDEEP
6.TEAM 6 IIPM = DIXIT & JAY
TIE-BREAKER
It happened for the first time in history of CRUCIBLE that there was a tie-break between 4 teams. Anyway to sort out this, PICKBRAIN give a q's:
1.It was something like this...
My brand name comes down under daughter of mythology god MYTHERIAL(dere may be errror in my spelling)...a local brand under coverage
NANDINI
even after this tie-break persisted so
2.Punchline "Together we can" belongs to?
CANARA BANK
1.It was something like this...
My brand name comes down under daughter of mythology god MYTHERIAL(dere may be errror in my spelling)...a local brand under coverage
NANDINI
even after this tie-break persisted so
2.Punchline "Together we can" belongs to?
CANARA BANK
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
WILD CARD ROUND -2
Q1. This leading multiplex chain in india is part of Gujarat florochemicals ?
INOX
Q2. Which media group is associated with video magazine "pu mallav/y?
SUN TV
Q3. It is a film production house and is conducting a campaign
"pen uthao. bollywood hilao"
TIMES GROUP(MIRCHI MOVIES)
Q4. Carol bartz ,CEO of YAHOO was previously CEO of ?
AUTODESK
Q5. Dettol is owned by ?
RecKITT BENCKISER
Q6.Pepsi to apple ?
JOHN SEARL..
Q7. PRO. vaughenburt at stanford university designed this ...
SUN's LOGO
INOX
Q2. Which media group is associated with video magazine "pu mallav/y?
SUN TV
Q3. It is a film production house and is conducting a campaign
"pen uthao. bollywood hilao"
TIMES GROUP(MIRCHI MOVIES)
Q4. Carol bartz ,CEO of YAHOO was previously CEO of ?
AUTODESK
Q5. Dettol is owned by ?
RecKITT BENCKISER
Q6.Pepsi to apple ?
JOHN SEARL..
Q7. PRO. vaughenburt at stanford university designed this ...
SUN's LOGO
PRELIMS
Q2 Logos of FIAT in the given years.. [the latest logo gave us the clue]
Q4 Largest book publishing company....... ans: Random House
Q5 ans: Times Now
Q6 ans: hp [quite easy]
Q11 The entertainment company started by Chris More, Matt Damon & X . Identify X.
Ans: Ben Affleck [a sitter]
WILD CARD 1
Q1 This man registered his company at the Isles of Man.
Ans: Naresh Goyal [jet airways] a sitter again..
Monday, March 9, 2009
TATA CRUCIBLE 09 @BANGLORE
Dear friends i don't know how many of you know about TATA CRUCIBLE CAMPUS QUIZ which
is being held since 2004.Well it has a great name and we came to know about it as we entered the venue of quiz.Its a city of great managers,technocrats and corparations as well.
It was a tough job for our team after working for REVELS and we were just able to take bus around 9 p.m. to BANGLORE on 7th of march.Registeration for quiz started about 2:00 pm in the NIMHANS convention hall,BANGLORE.As far as i can make a good guess ,more than 500 teams had applied online for the quiz and about 270-280 teams had arrived there.TATA CRUCIBLE CAMPUS QUIZ @ BANGLORE received a huge response of public marking the highest number of teams participating from a centre till now(in 2009 quiz).
Well quiz started a bit late, but PICKBRAIN(quizmaster)took up the speed and we all went for the PRELIMS ROUND.Here i would like to share some q's that i still remember.
Q1.A ice-cream punch-line "count the flavours where the flavour counts"
Baskins & Robbins
Q2.They had given 3 pics each with a year 1907,1925,1968;respectively.
We had to identify the connecting brand.
Fiat
Q3.Its a apparel company which has launched one stop for NECKTIES & **...
Identify the company
RAYMOND
Q4.It is a very big book compnany..q's was much longer ..can't take it down fully
Q5.Which channel had launched the obama campaign with head-line
"when a nation voted for change"
"a new leader emerges"
Q6.which computer major has taken initiatives to take back old computers at some
of its stores and thus going towards green environment.
Q7.which company has made a tie-up with CN for use of BOB the builder & DOEMAN on
its school bag brand BUDDY.
VIP
Q8.pic
Q9.Japanese company -deals with optics and imaging-name comes from god in greek
mythology
OLYMPUS
Q10.pic of a management guru (foreign one)
Q11.don't hav full q's but
chris moore + moot demon+XX = something was here written
wht is x?
Q12.MOM & ME is the store of which one of most popular automobile comapanies ?
this company has started moving to electronic market as well now.
MAHINDRA & MAHINDRA
Q13.pic = ?
Q14.It is a multi-brand watch store by TITAN in BANGLORE?(oops,local one)
Q15.Tim cook is acting as CEO of which company as its original CEO is not well.
APPLE
Q16.A company's red and white can design have been taken from the colors of CORNELL
football team.which company?
Q17. pic=?
This was the PRELIMS round.After this 16 teams were selected, 1-4 were reserved to play in final, while 2 groups were made :1)5,7,9,11,13,15 & 2)6,8,10,12,14,16.
Out of each of 2 groups , one team was to be selected to be played in finals.
WILD CARD ROUND 1:-
IT was completely a buzzer round with +1\-1 as scores.
Q1.
ANSWER was NARESH GOYAL
Q2.Jaiprakash described this moment as a master stroke in political sarcasm
NATIONALIZATION OF BANKS
Q3.It is a 1 word/term ;capital expenditures of certain assets under accounting rules, particularly intangible assets, in a manner analogous to depreciation.
AMORTIZATION
Q4.This word can be traced back seed work-person who manages his household
ECONOMICS
Q5.....
Q6.This was created by MFS investments in 1927.
MUTUAL FUND
Q7.In 1975,Ogilve launched the ad-campaign "Don't Leave Home Without It" .
AMERICAN EXPRESS
Q8.Indian political statesman who called himself pilot (in 1946).he also started KALINGA AIRLINES...
Really a very gud q's...BIJU PATNAIK...
is being held since 2004.Well it has a great name and we came to know about it as we entered the venue of quiz.Its a city of great managers,technocrats and corparations as well.
It was a tough job for our team after working for REVELS and we were just able to take bus around 9 p.m. to BANGLORE on 7th of march.Registeration for quiz started about 2:00 pm in the NIMHANS convention hall,BANGLORE.As far as i can make a good guess ,more than 500 teams had applied online for the quiz and about 270-280 teams had arrived there.TATA CRUCIBLE CAMPUS QUIZ @ BANGLORE received a huge response of public marking the highest number of teams participating from a centre till now(in 2009 quiz).
Well quiz started a bit late, but PICKBRAIN(quizmaster)took up the speed and we all went for the PRELIMS ROUND.Here i would like to share some q's that i still remember.
Q1.A ice-cream punch-line "count the flavours where the flavour counts"
Baskins & Robbins
Q2.They had given 3 pics each with a year 1907,1925,1968;respectively.
We had to identify the connecting brand.
Fiat
Q3.Its a apparel company which has launched one stop for NECKTIES & **...
Identify the company
RAYMOND
Q4.It is a very big book compnany..q's was much longer ..can't take it down fully
Q5.Which channel had launched the obama campaign with head-line
"when a nation voted for change"
"a new leader emerges"
Q6.which computer major has taken initiatives to take back old computers at some
of its stores and thus going towards green environment.
Q7.which company has made a tie-up with CN for use of BOB the builder & DOEMAN on
its school bag brand BUDDY.
VIP
Q8.pic
Q9.Japanese company -deals with optics and imaging-name comes from god in greek
mythology
OLYMPUS
Q10.pic of a management guru (foreign one)
Q11.don't hav full q's but
chris moore + moot demon+XX = something was here written
wht is x?
Q12.MOM & ME is the store of which one of most popular automobile comapanies ?
this company has started moving to electronic market as well now.
MAHINDRA & MAHINDRA
Q13.pic = ?
Q14.It is a multi-brand watch store by TITAN in BANGLORE?(oops,local one)
Q15.Tim cook is acting as CEO of which company as its original CEO is not well.
APPLE
Q16.A company's red and white can design have been taken from the colors of CORNELL
football team.which company?
Q17. pic=?
This was the PRELIMS round.After this 16 teams were selected, 1-4 were reserved to play in final, while 2 groups were made :1)5,7,9,11,13,15 & 2)6,8,10,12,14,16.
Out of each of 2 groups , one team was to be selected to be played in finals.
WILD CARD ROUND 1:-
IT was completely a buzzer round with +1\-1 as scores.
Q1.
ANSWER was NARESH GOYAL
Q2.Jaiprakash described this moment as a master stroke in political sarcasm
NATIONALIZATION OF BANKS
Q3.It is a 1 word/term ;capital expenditures of certain assets under accounting rules, particularly intangible assets, in a manner analogous to depreciation.
AMORTIZATION
Q4.This word can be traced back seed work-person who manages his household
ECONOMICS
Q5.....
Q6.This was created by MFS investments in 1927.
MUTUAL FUND
Q7.In 1975,Ogilve launched the ad-campaign "Don't Leave Home Without It" .
AMERICAN EXPRESS
Q8.Indian political statesman who called himself pilot (in 1946).he also started KALINGA AIRLINES...
Really a very gud q's...BIJU PATNAIK...
REVELS 2009
Sorry people just too late to write something about our cultural fest REVELS-09.Well done the REVELS TEAM, it was a very well organized effort from your side. This was a four day event ,from 4-7 march. EVERGREEN band rocked on 5th march in the battle of bands .I had an equally good time while acting as an organiser.
Well keep it up MIT.
Well keep it up MIT.
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