Apocryphopolis – The Open quiz will be unearthed this October at Unmaad. A challenge to quizzers everywhere, this edition of the Unmaad Open quiz is even bigger, with prizes worth Rs. 32,500 up for grabs… This contest is open to all citizens of the planet, regardless of age, gender, caste or creed. Questions will be trivial, general, and apocryphal… Just get together a team of 4, come down to IIM Bangalore, and prepare to be stumped
Date: 2nd October, 2009
Time: 2.00 pm
Venue: IIM Bangalore
Registration on the spot
For any further queries, visit www.unmaad.com or call Vernon Fernandez at 9739308901
The Ahmedabad edition of Tata Crucible 2009 was won by Mudra Communications followed by Triton advertising.
Find the questions from this edition here
Godrej represented by Kumar Vaibhav and team won the Tata Crucible 2009 Jaipur Edition.
TCS won the Tata Track of Delhi while Accenture took home the Non Tata Track.
Find the prelims from Delhi here
Find the questions from the finals here
Details of the Tata Crucible Chandigarh edition here including prelims.
Questions from the finals here
Possibly the biggest battle this year in the country, Mumbai proved to be just the battle expected to. (although questions seemed easy)
With both the defending champions- Tata Track and Non Tata Track participating from Mumbai, the final was more than closely contested.
In the Tata Track, defending champions TCS were given a run for their money by Tata Capital and the Non Tata Track saw a 3 way battle between Deutsche Bank, HUL and defending champions Sun Microsystems. The other stage teams were Questa, Crisil and defending Mumbai champions IMRB. (All regional and national champions themselves)
But in the end, the defending champions SUN Microsystems won the close battle, to defend their title at the National Finals in a couple of weeks.
Find the prelims questions here
Find the finals questions here
Review and Questions thanks to Debasish Mukherjee (mjunction-the Tata Track winners)
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On a wet & windy Saturday afternoon all roads led to the GD Birla Sabhaghar to witness the 6th edition of the TATA crucible quiz. Hundreds of quizzing aficionados landed up at the venue to witness a nerve wrecking evening of quizzing
As usual we started off with a 25 question prelim after which 6 teams were selected to appear in the internal track of quiz. The teams that qualified for the internal track were TCS 1,Virgin mobile, TCS 2 ,TCS 3(represented by 4 time national champion Sabyasachi Chandra & 2 time National winner Biswabijoy Sen), mjunction services limited & TCS 4.After a stiff competition mjunction represented by Debasish Mukherjee & Subasis Dey emerged the winners defending their title in the process. TCS 1 represented by Sudip Kalyan Dey & Abhishek Das were the runners up.
In the external track that followed the teams which qualified for the finals were CTS, Telegraph, Vizag Steel, R.B.I ,Standard Chartered Bank & Electro zavod. In a low scoring final the teams were all bunched together before the last round where Vizag Steel represented by Rahul Jayanti & AGK Murthy surged forward with 2 breathtaking answers. Vizag Steel have now won this quiz 5 times in a row. Truly an outstanding achievement. Telegraph represented by Rishin & Devdan Mitra had to remain content with second spot for the second year in a row.
The prelims questions were as follows
1.Which management guru of Indian origin has emerged as the most influential management guru in times of recession?
1. Ram Charan
2. In which landmark building is the restaurants XEX, Diamond tony & shin ye located?
2. Taipei 101
3. Which landmark was designed by David Rockwell of the Rockwell group & is now owned by the CIM group?
3. Kodak Theatre
4. Term for standardization , efficiency & productivity coined as a pun on a major fast food chain?
4. Mcdonalist
5. Book cover-Rationality & Freedom written by
5. Amartya Sen
6. Why was 1964 called the year of the tiger on madision avenue?
6. Esso-Put a tiger in your tank
7. Which Actor joined Hindi service of BBC in 1939 after taking the blessings of Mahatma Gandhi.
7. Balraj Sahni
8. Bhiwadi produces 70% of this countrys production of this item.It alleviates pain.What?
8. Dental chair for dentist
9.Which brands mascot is shepton dash?
9. Dulux
10.Pic- Micheal Dell
11. Which media groups venture into Internet is called firefly e ventures?
11. HT group
12. Which company has tied up with the US Govt in a venture to identify missing children?
12. Poloroid
13.Which company has overtaken saregama to be the largest music company in India?
13. Airtel
14. Warran Buffets quote on how ———— could be a source of endless losses?
14. Newspapers
15.Pic- Rajat Gupta
16.Tied up with SBI for maintainance of 1200 ATM’s.
16. Daibold
17.Brand Ambassador of Asian heart institute?
17. Akshay Kumar
18.Which film had a hotline in which you could abuse the lead characters?
18. Dev D
19.Name of lottery game in IPL?
19. Six up
20. New Brand launched by Frito lays ?
20. Aliva
21.NIIT has tied up with which company to provide training to future BPO employees
21. Genpact
22. Something to do with a networked world?
22. CISCO
23.Which bank has issued credit cards to only 100 persons in the world?
23. Koots
24. Ad-Bank of India
25. Ad-Centrefresh
Questions from other cities below:
The complete schedule of the Tata Crucible 2009 Corporate Edition here
Questions thanks to Abhishek from CSC. Thanks a lot..
Satyamitra Seva Sansthan won the quiz.
1.Who was the only minister of disinvestment in India?
– Arun Shourie
2.Fevicol brand belongs to which company?
–Pidilite
3.Hit the hut ad campaign by which company?
–Pizza hut
4.A billion heart beats is an e-newspaper started by which famous Indian?
–APJ Abdul Kalam
5.Who was appointed RBI governor in September 2008
– D Subbarao
6.Google Earth Logo
7.Viewty is a mobile from which company?
–LG
8.Kaya spas started by which hotel group in Agra
–ITC
9.In Insurance term expand MAT
–Marine Aviation and Territorial
10.Sydney herald and WWF initiated an event. Aamir khan was brand Ambassdor in India
–Earth Hour
11.Deliciously Mangolicious .Which brand
–Slice
12.Who owns the trident hotel attacked in 27/11 attack?
–Oberoi
13.In management parlance what is MBO
– Managemnet by Objective
14.Which brand sells 31 flavours signifying 31 days of the month
– Baskin Robins
15.Interlock is a new logo of which bank
– Union bank of India
16.Sunsilk print ad.
17. Fevicol video ad
18. Union bank of India video Ad
The complete schedule of the Tata Crucible 2009 Corporate Edition here
Festival: CARMA 2009 (Career Management 2009)
Event: Quizzeria – The Biz Quiz
Organiser: The Management Society – Thadomal Shahani Engineering College
Date: 18th September, 2009 (Friday)
Time: 4:00 pm onwards
Team Composition: 2 Members Per Team (Both Members should be from the same institution)
Registration Fee: Rs. 40/- per team (On the spot registrations are allowed)
Eligibility: All undergraduate and postgraduate students in India
Format: Written elimination plus four rounds in the Finals
Prizes: Certificates, cash prize and gift vouchers for the top two teams
Venue:
Seminar Hall, Old Building,
Thadomal Shahani Engineering College,
Near R.D. National College,
P.G. Kher Marg, TPS III,
Bandra (W), Mumbai – 400 050.
For details, visit www.cama.ms-tsec.org.in
For Registration, Contact:
Salil Pawar (TSEC Quiz Club) – +91-9892118027
The Karnataka Quiz Association takes pleasure in inviting you to
PERSIFLAGE
The Blossom’s Book Quiz
DATE: 20 September 2009
VENUE: Institute of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road
SCHEDULE: Prelims at 1530hrs, Finals: 1700-1830hrs
RULES
Open to all
Teams of four
Entry Fee: Rs. 50/-
PRIZES
Rs. 4000/-, Rs. 3000/- and Rs. 2000/- plus audience prizes, all sponsored by Blossom Book House.
The KQA Blog will feature a week of book-questions, with prizes, from the 13th onwards.
ALSOC, the alumni association of St. Xavier’s School, Kolkata, is organising an Alumni Quiz on 12 Sept 2009 as part of the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the founding of St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata.
The salient details are as follows:
1. Teams of three from the same school or college from anywhere in India. of which at least one must be an alumnus of that institition. Of course, all the members may be alumni. Alumni of different colleges from the same Univ will not be allowed to participate as a team.
2. There is no entry fee; registration at the venue-St. Xavier’s College Auditorium- commencing from 3 pm. Prelims from 4 pm. 8 teams qualify for the final
3. QM-Gautam Ghosh; Guest QM-Neil O’Brien
4. Entry restricted to the first 40 teams.
5. Attractive prizes in cash and kind for the top 3 teams. Dinner for all finalists.
Interested teams are requested to send their entries to coolghosh@vsnl.net
For any clarification, pl call Mr Ghosh at 098300 44093.
SSN School of Management and Computer Application conducts a National Level Technical Symposium called REBOOT 09 on September 11th,2009.
Main event is Quiz:
On 8th September Online Quiz
For further details contact A.Arokya Samy(Mobile:9786130582)
On the day of REBOOT 09, Sept 11.
Main Quiz.
Round:1: prelims for 30 minutes.
Round 2: In the Main auditorium at 3 o Clock.
Prize:
First prize:3000, Second prize:2000
For Online Quiz:
First prize:MP3 player
Second prize:fast track watches.
For more details:
visit:www.reboot09.info
Arokya samy
9786130582
Date: 12th and 13th September
Venue: Triguna Sen Memorial Hall, Jadavpur University
Quizzes: Qriosity 2009 will have three quizzes.
Official Website: http://qriosity.webs.com/
Event Schedule
| Quiz | Date | Time | Quiz Master |
|
Biz Quiz |
12thSeptember |
10.30am onwards |
Mr. Shounak Chakrabarti |
|
Be A Sport |
13thSeptember |
10.30am onwards |
Mr. Ranadurjay Talukdar |
|
JU Open |
13thSeptember |
3.00pm onwards |
Mr. Joy Bhattacharjya |
NB.: Registrations for the quizzes can be done online OR on the spot.
On Spot registrations will start at 10.00am for the first two quizzes and2.30 pm for the Open Quiz i.e half an hour before the scheduled start of the quiz. Online registration is preferred and therefore encouraged.
Rules & Regulations for the Sports Quiz & Biz Quiz:
1. All teams should consist of a maximum of 3 members only.
2. Teams are only allowed from schools & colleges.
3. Forming of cross-teams is permitted in the sense that you can team up with a college student only if you are a college student yourself.
4. 8 teams make it to the stage from written prelims.
5. 1 stage spot in both quizzes is reserved for the highest scoring school team if no school team makes it in the top 8 from the prelims.
6. Students are requested to bring their ID cards along for verification.
7. In case of any dispute the decision of the organizing committee will be final.
8. There is no registration fee.
Rules & Regulations for The JU Open:
1. All teams should consist of a maximum of 3 members only.
2. Everyone is free to participate.
3. 8 teams make it to the stage from written prelims.
4. 2 stage spots are reserved for the highest scoring school team & a college team if none make it in the top 8 from the prelims.
5. Students are requested to bring their ID cards along for verification.
6. In case of any dispute the decision of the organizing committee will be final.
7. There is no registration fee.
Vizag Steel won the Tata Crucible Bhubaneshwar 2009 Edition.
Thanks Manas.
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