Ahmedabad edition 1. Name the cosmetic co.

which has been featured frequently on TV recently and was founded by Darshan Patel who was co-promoter of Paras Pharma. Vini 2. Which auto major tied up with Defiance Tech of Hinduja Group to setup a dedicated social media center? Hint : Its sales received a 12% jump after this and its a global co. Nissan 3. Which co. has scholarship program called turning point? Hint: One of the largest computer educators in India and uses a sports person as brand ambassador. NIIT 4. Which Indian IT CEP has charity called sampark? Hint: Was recently in news for authoring a book, among the top 5 IT co.s, started in a garage in Coimbatore. Vineet Nayar 5. Device pic: Nokia Luna headset 6. Mumbai based The shirt co. is exclusive franchise in India for which iconic clothing range and a legendary toy range associated with it which is a huge global rage? Barbie 7. Which brand launched the Madagascar 3 series of watches in India? Zoop from Titan 8. Which union minister leads Ceejay Group and so consequently is referred to as Bidi Maharaj? Praful Patel 9. In 1899 a patent was given to William Middlebrook for the design of X. He sold the patent to American firm, Cushman and Denison who trademarked it in 1904. Today X is a generic product. Hint: It is found without fail in each and every office. Paper clips 10. Logo of Victorinox 11. This magazine was founded in 1892 by Princeton Graduate Arthur Baldwin Turnure and backed by wealthy NYC residents. Magazine aimed to be a dignified, authentic journal of society and fashion. It was primarily pictorial and not textual. Vogue 12. Name the co. whose 100 products dating between 1946 and 1958 are housed in the Smithsonian Institution. Its first invention was The Wonderlier Bowl. Hint: Cook in kitchen. Tupperware 13. Two women are part of the Forbes 2012 list of highest paid sports stars. First is Maria Sharapova. Name the second one who is an Asian. Li Na 14. Martin Nodell the creator of the Green Lantern is credited with creating a famous ad icon which is known for the tummy poke. Hint: Every ad featuring this character ends with a tummy poke and the character going into giggles. Pillsbury Dough Boy 15. Picture of Rock of Gibraltar. Asked to identify the logo inspired from it. Prudential Financial 16. What in India was named after the first spacecraft to land on the moon reflecting the promoters vision of the enterprise being the first and foremost in all its chosen fields?

Apollo Hospitals 17. Kenneth Daigneau, an actor from NYC won 100$ for suggesting a name to Hormel Food. Hint: Hormel foods own this 4 letter word thats popular in the modern world Spam 18. How do we know the dry goods store, The Golden Rule Store which was previously owned by T.M.Callahn. (Hint: The store gave discount on cash and confusion on name comes from James Cash) JC Penny 19. Abram Games is famous for logo of the Festival of Britain. He also created first identity of a media conglomerate that was earlier known as Bats Wings. BBC 20. Pic of LN Mittals Son 21. It was the brainchild of Lt. Gen. Harry Lumsden and was first used by the Corps of Guides which was the most famous of the regiments of the Indian army during British rule. Hint: It is still used in India. Khaki 22. SS Nadkarni, RH Patil and Ravi Narain gave up their jobs in IDBI bank in 1992 to find and promote a financial institution as a corporate body. Which institution? NSE 23. It was started in 1980 by Prakash Lakhani with 4 stitching machines and was registered as M/S Ganga and Co. Hint: Created a huge vertical for kids in the word of apparel. Gini and Jony 24. Daniel M Lewis founded this in 1998 with his Prof. F Tom Leighton and fellow graduate Jonathan Seeling. Daniel died in 9/11 aboard the American Airlines flight. Akamie Technologies 25. The scooter model Yamaha Ray is promoted by which Indian actress. Hint: She was chosen for agility and fitness. Deepika Padukone Finalists were: 1. Anand Ladgaonkar and Nikhil Shah Thermax Ltd 2.Sumit Bengali and Kaushik Ghosh Gujarat Gas Co. Ltd. 3.Mohit Raj and Sashwat Omar Petronet LPG 4.Sushim Mohanty and Nikhil Soni Vodafone 5.Mahesh Manjawala and Mayur Rana Triton Communications 6.Kushan Patel, S Meghashyam Endeavour Careers Pvt Ltd. For the finals Pickbrain had made another change. Every city was to have a different format in the finals. This was done to ensure that contestants prepared for a quiz and not a particular round. The first round in Ahmedabad was Tips and Tricks. It was a 12 question round with 6 clockwise and 6 anticlockwise. As a question is being read, any team can hit the buzzer and try for it. The buzzer hitting team will get the question at scoring pattern +10/-5. If nobody hit the buzzer it would go to the team that it was intended for a +10. Passing was +5. No negatives if you didnt hit the buzzer. Round 1: 1.Name the billion dollar cloud computing business started by Marc Benioff, who is a former Oracle executive. Ans: Salesforce.com 2. Connect: Bruce Lee, Singapore $10, Bhawani Textiles and Rowdy Rathore. Ans: Dollar Club Hosiery.

3. David A Pendlebury is a history graduate. He has been predicting Nobel winners since 2002 on the basis of number and influence of papers, citations etc. for a particular company. Which co.? Ans: Reuters 4. At Detroit Auto Show, Tatas EMO was on display. Where does the word EMO come from? Ans: Electric Motion 5. Photo of Vineet Nayar (HCL CEO) and Vineet Nayar (MAHINDRA-SATYAM CEO). Id both. 6. Which e-commerce giant partnered Tata Docomo to launch Deal Zone? Ans: Snapdeal 7. ID the device. Steve Jobs holding aloft an envelope. Ans: Macbook Air 8. X went public in 1971. Y also went public on the same day. One year later Xs share prize was twice of Y. The stock market analysts observed that Wall Street has spoken: Its memories over mammaries. Id X and Y. Ans: X-Intel, Y-Playboy 9. Visual Connect leading to answer as Ashok Leyland. 10. Which is the first Indian jewelry brand to be sold at Harrods, London? Ans: Amrapali 11. The CEO of which company tweeted: Todays my last day at ____. Ill miss it. Seems only fitting to end on a #haiku. Ans: Jonathan Schwartz of SUN Microsystems. 12. Ad for the coolest job in the world. References to going to pubs, parties and like. Which co.? Ans: Sab Miller Round 2: Business Appraisal It was 8 questions all straight on buzzer. 1. Connect: Purple club, Subroto Roy Sahara, Tokangi and Jack Fruit. Ans: Durian , durian is another name for jackfruit. 2. Tata entered which country with 4*4 trucks recently? Options: Malaysia, South Africa or Singapore? Ans: Malaysia 3.Students of Ecole Centrale, Paris collected this object from the streets. Many doing so after intense drinking and these objects then became the inspiration for what? Ans: VLC logo. 4.Count Francesco Bracca was an Italian who was world war 1 ace. What was his contribution to business in Italy? Ans: Ferrari logo. 5. X approached Dr. B C Roy for financing. B C Roy took out money from the funds of the public works department citing that the project would benefit roads as its name sounded such. Which project which was not even remotely associated with roads? Ans: Financing of Pather Panchali. 6. Visual connect on Chupa Chups logo. 7.Borgeaud is a marquee Swiss watch maker which developed a special watch which had Indian influence in one of the things it could tell. What was the Indian thing that it could tell? Ans: Rahu Kaalam Round 3: A round of 3 questions. No. of blanks in the answer told how many letters the answer it had. If answered within 30 seconds, then score is +15 else +10. On buzzer and wrong answer is -5. 1. Connect: Rakesh Malhotra, Navneet Kapoor, Sunil Bhalla, Schneider Electric, Sachin Tendulkar.8 letter answer. Ans: Luminous 2. Connect: Divya, Fastest Growing, US Army guide. 8 Letter answer. Ans: Pinterest 3. Connect: Leslie Scott, 1970s, Swahili for to built. 5 letter answer. Ans: Jenga After 2 hours grueling quizzing the results was out. The team from Endeavour careers created a record by being the first team to cross 100 points in a city round with 115 points. The second team was Petronet LNG at 15 points.

Jamshedpur edition PRELIMS:1. Which production company has recently made great profits from its two moviesDabangg and Dabangg 2 ? Ans: Arbaaz Khan Productions 2. Which MaharAtna company in India began in 1975 as a holding company and has the following subsidiaries: Bharat Coking Coal Limit ,Central Coalfields Limited, Western Coalfields Limited,Eastern Coalfields Limited,Central Mine Planning and Design Institute Limited. Ans:- Coal India 3. Book by?

Ans : Howard Schultz 4. Nelson Rockfeller founded a oil distribution company in 1870 that grew to be the worlds first major MNC. The company controlled 90% of the oil trade in America by the 1890s and caused the US government to create antitrust laws to breach its monopoly. Which company? Ans: Standard Oil 5. Identify the logo

Ans:- Pidilite 6. Versatile by Nature is the tagline of which automobile major? Ans:- BMW 7. When asked by a HUL employee he said, I dont want to start a flurry of excitement by saying I use Pears soap or whatever it is. I might get some of your

brands wrong and mention the dishwasher liquid we use and find its made by your competition. Who said these words? Ans:- David Cameroon 8. What is the Full form of FRMB Act Ans: Fiscal Responsibilty and Budget Management Act 9. What is named after a German word for hear and was started by August Horsch? Ans: Audi 10. Identify the person

Ans:- Donald Trump 11. Which company was formerly known as RACAL telecom with Arun Sarin as its Ex-Ceo? Ans: Vodafone 12. ColdFusion ,Dreamweaver are products created by this company. The word means sun dried bricks or buildings made from such bricks. Identify the company. Ans:- Adobe 13. With which ayurvedic major in India would you associate the brand Narayani? Ans:- VEECO 14. Who is iGate corporations CEO? Ans:- Phaneesh Murty 15. Bubblegum, Mentos, Centrefresh are owned by which company ? Ans:- Perfetti Van Melle 16. The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going. Id the ad campaign Ans:- Jhonnie Walker 17. Banks in India are moving towards CTS. What is CTS ? ( in the context of cheques) Ans: Cheque Truncation System 18.Indias first monorail was successfully tested and would become operational in August in which city? Ans:- Mumbai 19. Which global media company owns the Penguin group? Ans: Pearson Media Group FINALS:Rapid Quotient: 1. Bajate Raho is the tagline of which radio station?

Ans: Red FM 2. Whose registered office is called as Cement House? Ans: ACC 3. x is the flagship company of the Wadia Group engaged mainly into the business of Textiles. Ans: Bombay Dyeing 4. Which company makes Monopoly? Ans: Hasbro TATA QUOTIENT:1. What is iShakti? Ans:- Fortified Dals by Tata Chemicals 2. Which company, promoted by TATA, has adopted a strategy called Big Bang to transform its business? Ans: Voltas 3. Club West is a rewards programme designed by which retailer? Ans: Westside 4. Who is the Head of Tata Global Beverages? Ans: Harish Bhat ROUND 3:Q1. X was started out as Dial Square in 1886 by workers in Woolwich, south-east London, and was renamed Royal ________ Ans: Arsenal FC Q2. The company was founded in 1946 as a producer of wooden floats for fishing nets. Its products are known as vcore, arc saber, voltic 80. Ans: YONEX Q3. Marble white, pebble blue, garnet red , titanium grey are the different colours available in which instrument? Ans: Samsung Galaxy S3

Guwahati edition 1. Connect Mark Hurd, Leo Apotheker, Meg Whitman. Ans: HP 2. Who is the person behind the designing of the Coca Cola ad campaign Thanda matlab Coca Cola with Aamir Khan? Ans:- Prasoon Joshi 3. In 2009, News Corporation restricted which T.V. group into 4 units _India, _Greater China, _select and Fox International Channels Asia Ans:- STAR 4. In July 2011, which company bought the US based managed Ethernet and apps delivery service company Yipis enterprise service for a cash amount 1200 crore? Ans:- Reliance 5. The Interpublic Group Publics, Omnicom and which other company are considered as the big four agency (advertising) holdings corporate Ans:- WPP 6. Which company has the punch line First in Business Worldwide? Ans:- CNBC

7 . Whose flagship online music portal Gaana.com is now available as an app for android, IOS, Blackberry? Ans:- Indian Times 8. Which internet major closed Buzz, My Blog log and numerous other products on 21st April 2011? Ans:- Yahoo 9. Which Indian stationary company began with the horse brand? Ans:- Camlin 10. What is common to a famous landmark bridge in the USA and an IT company? Ans:- CISCO (the landmark is the Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco) 11. Which company supplies tyre for NASCAR car rally? Ans:- Goodyear 12. Welcome Break is the tagline of which company? Ans:- ITC 13. Which Indian media and entertainment company was founded by Ronnie Screwala? Ans:- UTV 14. In 1979 which company came up with Free Cone Day? Ans:- Baskin and Robbins 15. Bharat Swatis are training planes built by which heavy electrical company in India? Ans:- BHEL 16. Is this the only thing you can leave behind was used by Ans:- Incredible India Few questions asked in the FINALS:1. VEYRON 16.4 is a mid engine grand car by which company? Ans:- Bugatti 2. BORSE is a stock exchange in which European nation? Ans:- Germany 3. How do we better know Canary Yellow Stickies? Ans:- Post it notes 4. In 1881 an A.C. alternator was powered for street lighting in UK. Who were the manufacturers? Ans:- Siemens 5. Work in Progress is the autobiography of? Ans:- Walt Disney 6. Which company technically means ROLL? Ans:- Volvo 7. Benkin, Shaggy tunes were made popular by which brand? Ans:- Levis 8. Which consulting firm trademarked learning curve? Ans:- Boston Consulting Group 9. Powerfly is a new aviation initiative by Taj with which person? Ans:- Capt. Gopinath 10. Banker to every Indian is the tagline of which bank? Ans:- State Bank of India 11. Which Arabic word meaning tower was trademarked? Ans:- Burj 12. Dinesh, Ashok Arora, Raghavan are co-founders of which company? Ans:- Infosys

13. Famous invention of which company include magnetic strip, artificial intelligence, hard disk drive? Ans:- IBM 14. To commemorate the centenary birth anniversary of Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru what did Indian Railways do? Ans:- Started Shatabdi Express 15. Beautiful you, today, tomorrow is the tagline of? Ans:- ITC Fiama Di Wills 16. What term, that was used as a suffix in the naming of the trains, was implemented by Indian railways when the country started progressing? Ans:- Mail 17. Which company innovated and created a new type of talking shoes? Ans:- GOOGLE 18. In telecom world what does LTE stand for? Ans:- Long term Evolution 19. Which organisation would you associate Arctic Sunrise, Rainbow Warriors, Esperanza? Ans:- Green Peace 20. Which word is a synonym for high yielding coffee? Ans:- Mocha chino 21. Anything constructed can be taken apart. How to construct and reconstruct is the tagline of? Ans:- Lego Toys 22. Fashion starts here is the tagline of? Ans:- Provogue 23. What does TMT stand for in TISCON TMT? Ans:- Thermo Mechanically Treated 24. Which company from TATA is to manufacture biometric cars in West Bengal? Ans:- TCS 25. Vriti are online courses for management offered by? Ans:- TATA McGrawhill

Ahmedabad edition 1. Which pharmaceutical company gets its name from Latin for new sciences? Novartis 2. Which premium sanitary and bath accessories manufacturing company has a tagline Too good to resist? Jaquar 3. Ad for?

Lufthansa 4. Which recently launched product was released with the tagline Create the best group photo, use a ________? Nokia Lumia 920 5. What portfolio does Manish Tiwari hold in in the central government? Information & Broadcasting 6. Who is the Deputy Governor of the RBI? Anand Sinha 7. Which luxury brand showcased all their products on Twitter before actually displaying on runway? Burberry 8. Polaroid launched a set of camera sunglasses with two embedded 1.5 LCD displays as a part of its Grey Label collection. Which artist has been asked to assist in its creation? Lady Gaga 9. Logo of?

SEWA 10. What is the name of Indias premier online movies on demand service? Bigflix.com 11. Haribhai V Desai initiated the business operations of which leading pickle manufacturing brand in 1901 from Pune? Mothers Recipe 12. Straight from the Gut and Winning are books by which management thinker? Jack Welch 13. Wonderbook is an augmented reality book launched by which gaming equipment manufacturer? Sony PlayStation 14. Always Amazes You is the promotional slogan for tourism department of which country? Thailand 15. Logo of which automobile major?

Saab 16. Which company having a Roman Gladiator as its logo has a 13.55% stake in it owned by Berkshire Hathway? American Express 17. Who owns Grupo Carso, Telmex and Amrica Mvil? Carlos Slim 18. Which studio is the developer of Temple Run? Imangi Studios 19. Which brand started by selling truffle balls and has appointed Roger Federer as its brand ambassador in 2012? Lindt

Chandigarh edition 1. What is the full form of PDF ? Ans:- Picture Document Format. 2. Which tech giant ran a campaign titled Life without wall? Ans- Microsoft 3. Identify the personality

Ans:- Ingvar Kampard- founder of IKEA largest furniture retailer 4 . The township of Menlo Park, New Jersey was renamed in 1954 to honour which American Inventor ?

Ans:- Thomas Edison 5. Identify this managment guru

Ans:-Philip Kotler 6 Which low cost airline has its headquarters in Gurgaon ? Ans:- Spicejet 7. This company traces its origin to 1945 when it was started by 3 people, including Gulam Mohammad who went on to become the 1st Finance Minister of Pakistan. Which company are we talking about? Ans:- M&M 8. Expand IEEE Ans:- Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers 9. Natty Narwahal is the latest version of what Ans:- Ubuntu (Now the new version is Oneiric Ocelot) 10. Which country would you link with the following slogan:- I care less about the GNP and more about the gross national happiness Ans:- Bhutan 11. Which famous Indian is planning to launch 500 schools under the name ABAPS ? Ans:- Abhinav Bindra 12. Which city has overtaken Las Vegas in term of Revenue from Casinos? Ans:- Macau 13. India comes home in ___________ Ans:- Maruti 14. Known as Omini, it is a silhouette of a man and woman sitting back to back to nude. What are we talking about? Ans:- Logo of Kappa 15. Jaspal Bhatti, an electrical engineer, became a cartoonist for which daily ? Ans:- The Tribune 16. How do we better know Badruddin Jamaluddin Kazi? Johnny Walker (the actor) 17. Identify the author

Ans:- Jim Collins 18. If Currency of China is Yuan then what is the currency of Hong Kong ? Ans:- Hong Kong Dollar

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