CHENNAI REGIONAL ROUND PRELIMSMarch 13, 2009

PRELIMS

20 QUESTIONS

The answer to each question is in the slide just after the question

Question 1

Which city hosted this years Pravasi Bharathiya Diwas?

Answer 1

Chennai

Question 2

Identify the logo

Answer 2

NABARD Bank

Question 3

SBI Launched a branch in Lucknow named “Vasundhara”. What’s special about this branch?

Answer 3

Exclusive all-for-women branch

Question 4 (In-built Tie Breaker) Which Hollywood director owns

Wingnut Films and also a three time Academy award winner?

Answer 4

Peter Robert Jackson

Question 5

Identify the Advt. (A print ad was shown).

The answer was LIC India.

Question 6

Which group launched the “Happinezz Ice cream Parlour”?

Answer 6

Vadilal Group

Question 7

Which entertainment channel has entered into an agreement with Wrangler jeans to sell their jeans?

Answer 7

MTV

Question 8

Identify her.

Answer 8

Sangeeta Reddy – Executive Director, Apollo Hospitals

Question 9

Which fashion designer launched the “le smoking” clothing? Hint: He died last year.

Answer 9

Yves Saint Laurent (YSL)

Question 10

Which company was founded by Cecil H. Green, J. Erik Jonsson, Eugene McDermott, and Patrick E. Haggerty in 1951?(Clue given: IC suppliers to mobile phone manufacturers)

Answer 10

Texas Instruments

Question 11

Identify.

Answer 11

R.Subramanian, Managing Director of Subhiksha

Question 12

Which Actress replaced Aishwarya Rai as brand ambassador for Nakshatra Diamonds?

Answer 12

Katrina Kaif

Question 13

A former CEO, President & Chairman of ‘Silicon Spice’ was an independent director of the Satyam Board. Name him.

Answer 13

Vinod Dham

Question 14

This company introduced the first combination portable radio and cassette recorder which is marketed as the "radiorecorder". Some picture shown ---- Jubilee 4.

Identify the company.

Answer 14

Philips

Question 15

Indian Company launched branded T – Shirts under the brand name “Ginger Lemon”?

Answer 15

Archies

Question 16

Name the new CEO of Yahoo.

Answer 16

Carol Bartz

Question 17 (In-built Tie Breaker)

Identify the Logo.

Answer 17

Thyssen Krupp AG

Question 18

Which mobile service company launched the ‘New Thumb Rule’ SMS offer?

Answer 18

Virgin Mobile

Questions 19 and 20

Two Video advertisements were shown. The belonged to Kent-O Water Purifiers and the Yellow Pages respectively

Wild Card Round-1

Question 1

Who is the world’s largest Manufacturer of Vertical Transportation?

Answer 1

OTIS

Question 2

Sociologist, author & financial consultant Alfred W. Jones is said to be the first founder of a modern fund. Which fund?

Answer 2

Hedge Fund

Question 3

From 1st April 1957, India has rupee paisa system. What was before?

Answer 3

The Anna system

Question 4

Which Auto industry Veteran has set up Carnation Auto?

Answer 4

Jagdish Khattar

Question 5

Which global company introduced world’s first transistorised cardless portable television in 1960?

Answer 5

Motorola

Question 6

Men’s Active is a fairness cream brand of which company?

Answer 6

Emami

Question 7

Name the term used to describe a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to investors from their own money or money paid by subsequent investors rather than from any actual profit earned?

Answer 7

Ponzi Scheme

Question 8

This organization was formed in 1947 and lasted till 1994, till it was replaced by the WTO. Which organization?

Answer 8

The GATT

Question 9

Columbia Pictures was sold in 1989 by Coca-cola to whom?

Answer 9

SONY

Question 10

What task was first performed early 1987, which later on became a common feature in desktops?

Answer 10

AntiVirus Fixing

Question 11

Name the MD & CEO of Hindustan Unilever Limited.

Answer 11

Mr. Nitin Paranjape

Wild Card Round-2

Question 1

Which Group in India is headed by Samir Jain & Vinit Jain?

Answer 1

Bennett Coleman & Co.

Question 2

In which Auto major does the Private Equity firm Cerberus Capital Mgmt holds a majority stake?

Answer 2

Chrysler Corporation

Question 3

Expansion of STAR (as in STAR TV)

Answer 3

Satellite Television for the Asian Region

Question 4

What is the Term or Phrase used to describe financial transadction that involves tax evasion?

Answer 4

Money Laundering

Question 5

Which famous family runs a business with HQ at Lausanne, Switzerland, and operates 4 business units worldwide?

Answer 5

Bata Shoes

Question 6

What product was developed by Australia-based Scottish-born inventor William Ramsay, who named it as a homage to his New-Zealand born wife, Annie Elizabeth Meek Ramsay?

Answer 6

Kiwi Shoe Polish!

Question 7

Pratichi Trust was set up in 1999 with the money came out of which Indian nobel prize winner?

Answer 7

Amartya Sen

Question 8

Precision optical Instruments Laboratory is now known as what?

Answer 8

Canon

Question 9

Ursula Burns serves as the President of which company?

Answer 9

Xerox Corporation

Question 10

This pharma company founded in Bunnythorpe, New Zealand in 1904. The main product was believed to have innocently created for a mother who was unable to breast feed her child.

Answer 10

Glaxo Ltd.

Question 11

This brand of soap has been made in India since 1934 and is market leader in its segment. The name of the brand comes from a arabic word meaning “public bathing establishment”.

Answer 11

Haman, from the word “Hammam”