3. Fastest Fingers First
Buzzer round
10 Questions
20 for each correct answer. Sorry, -10 for oops !
4. In 1830, Mr. Joshua M Heath had set up an iron
plant near Madras coast. The remarkable aspect
was that it was the singular large-scale iron and
steel factory in the whole of India then. Nothing
matched with it in size and capacity with state-of-
the-art facilities of that time
Name the Company
5. Name this business person
He served as a director of the Oriental Insurance
Company & later become the first Commerce
Minister of India. Resigned from cabinet in 1950.
6. Name the cricketer
CEAT Ltd. announced its association with her, one
of most prolific all-rounders for last 2 years. Until
now, CEAT only had male cricketers as their brand
ambassador- Rohit Sharma, Ajinkya Rahane and
Ishan Kishan but CEAT said that she will also be a
valuable addition to their endorsement plans.
7. This initiative has selected 54 startups from tier two cities of
Gujarat, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Kerala and Telangana which
include Spider G, NeuroTags, Genrobotic Innovations, AI
Aeronautics, Synersense, Dealshare and NanoHealth. Which
organization’s initiative?
8. Name the IT company
“Without extensive IT deployment and development of
solutions like digitized legacy data development,
document segregation and metadata entry,
micromanagement and business development tools for
daily appraisal of performance of 2500 centers, 157 Tehsil
offices and 27 districts, implementation of this Supreme
Court-monitored project would not have been possible
within short timelines. No other IT project of this scale
has been implemented in Assam that covered 100%
households in the state.”
Prateek Hajela, IAS
Commissioner and Secretary, Home and Political, Government of Assam and
State Coordinator, NRC Assam
9. Name the Company
This is the first company to find the vulnerability
in Face ID in iPhone X, only 2 weeks after this
Smartphone officially went on sale in November
2017. The photo of the mask made by it to bypass
Face ID in iPhone X was chosen by Reuters to be
among the images of that week.
10. Name the corporate group
On 9th January 2020, Odisha CM inaugurated a
residential school, which will provide free
education to 15,000 tribal students of
Mayurbhanja, Odisha. This has been built by KISS
partnering with a leading corporate.
11. Shri A.Muruganantham, a social
entrepreneur from Coimbatore is also owner
of Jayaashree Industries. His business is
present in 23 of the 28 states of India and
currently plans to expand it to 106 nations.
In 2014, he featured in Time magazine's list
of 100 Most Influential People in the World.
By what other name he is more famous?
14. Name Delhi’s first-ever oxygen bar
Founded by Aryavir Kumar & Margarita Kuritsyana,
this bar offers 15 minutes of 80-90 % pure oxygen
starting from Rs 299 in seven flavours
17. Every second counts !!
30 seconds to each team. 5 questions for each team
The Round travels from Team F to Team A
Each correct answer gets you 5. No negatives
Keep answering till the timer ticks on !
18. “Stay Fresh”- Associate the tagline
Which SAIL unit’s Safety Excellence Centre is named
Suraksha Kavach?
‘Helpful businesses’ which operate on the basis of the
Rochdale Principles formulated in 1844
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19. “See what’s next”
What is the name of the Knowledge Management Portal of
CPSEs?
In e-commerce, this is a person who speaks favourably of the
brand to other people by passing word-of-mouth messages.
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20. “Tann. Mann. Dhan”
What is the name of SAIL’s Rajbhasa magazine?
This allows a company to assess the opportunities they may have
for improving in any of its functions by establishing baselines.
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21. “All the news that’s fit to print.”
Which SAIL unit recently supplied IRS Grade-B plates for Diving
Support Vessels for Indian Navy?
A form of employee development whereby a trusted and respected
person uses his or her experience to offer guidance,
encouragement and support to another person
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22. “Science. Applied to life.”
Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) recently presented in
Parliament that SAIL’s acquisition of this steel manufacturer in
Amethi has turned an ‘idle investment’. Which company?
A measure of deviation from the mean in a sample or population.
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23. “New Frontiers. New Dreams.”
On which day, every year, worldsteel celebrates Steel Safety Day?
The state of being calmly and actively aware of what one is
feeling, thinking and doing and being attentive to the moment
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24. “Money can buy time”
Recently, Arcelor Mittal formed a JV with which steel major to
own and operate Essar Steel India Limited?
A bar chart that shows planned work and finished work in relation
to time.
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25. Cluetivity
30 for Correct on the first clue, 20 on the
second and10 on the third
No negatives
The round travels from A to F.
26. Identify the airline
1. Headed by CEO Koustav Dhar, this regional airlines
was founded in April 2013 based at Indira Gandhi
International Airport in Delhi.
2. The fleet size is only 4 using Bombardier CRJ200s.
3. Their first flight was from Delhi to Durgapur via
Kolkata in February 2017.
27. Identify the publication
1. The nameplate is unique in having a full stop at the
end.
2. When it first started in 1889, the editors began with
‘flimsies’ which were stock reports hand delivered to
traders throughout the day.
3. The journal is published six days a week by Dow Jones
& Company, a division of News Corp.
28. Identify the Company
1. This company angered Indian Bengalis for using
inappropriate symbols in an ad-series released during
World Cup 2019.
2. They were owners of Pune Pistons in Indian
Badminton League and Mumbai Magicians in Hockey
India League.
3. Started by Dr. S K Burman in Calcutta for selling his
own prepared medicines for cholera and malaria.
29. Which publishing house?
1. This newspaper, founded in 1888, ceased publication
in 1938 and was re-launched in 1947.
2. ‘The Week’ and ‘Radio Mango’ are its subsidiaries.
30. Which Product?
1. Started by Mohanlal Dayal Chauhan in 1929, the
parent company first launched an orange candy
before entering this product segment in 1939.
2. The iconic white and yellow wax paper wrap, created
by ad agency Everest has recently been changed to
plastic but the design remains same.
3. This product, which AC Nielsen in 2003 described as
the world’s largest selling brand in the segment, was
endorsed by kid’s superhero Shaktimaan.
31. Identify this start-up
1. This is a recent venture by an Indian cricketer and his
wife in luxury home decor, celebrating Indian art.
2. A left handed batsman and off break bowler, he plays
for Delhi in domestic cricket.
3.
32. This game is available to Google Chrome users when
there is no Internet connection. Why was this particular
game introduced?
33. It is the world’s fastest-growing city, recording a
44% increase in population between 2015 and
2020, according to The Economist
magazine based on UN data.
Name the city in India
35. Final Frontier
Buzzer round
10 Questions
20 for each correct answer. Sorry, -10 for oops !
36. Identify X (person) & Y(Company)
While X & Y maintain that he resigned, a
News agency cited X was forced out by the Board
after eroding investor confidence. Under X’s
leadership, Y ‘s shares declined by 90 percent in
value from approximately $300 to approximately
$30 per share, according to an analysis by Business
Insider on October 26, 2012. X is the present
chairman of The Orogen Group.
37. Identify the book
The launch of a book by Shri Sunil Munjal, published
by Harper Collins and organised by CII on 13th January
2020
39. Name the cricketer
Global energy drinks brand Monster Energy has
partnered with its first cricketer globally to be the
face of the brand in India. He will team up with
some of the world’s most accomplished sports
personalities like Conor McGregor, Valentino Rossi
and Lewis Hamilton.
40. Name the company
This company ventured into partnerships in 1911
with farmers of southern part of India for sourcing
the raw materials. Its factory at Munger was
equipped with printing facility in 1925, paving way
for its first non core business. It is today India's
most sophisticated packaging house.
41. Identify the term defined here
This is an approach to the management of
information that treats human attention as a
scarce commodity, and applies economic
theory to solve various information
management problems. The advertising
schemes based on it measures the number
of "eyeballs" by which content is seen.
43. Name this educationist from Tezpur
Co-President and Global Advisor
of China Europe International Business
School. Served as Dean of Sasin
Institute of Business Administration,
Chulalongkorn University Bangkok,
INSEAD business schools & Kellogg
School of Management. Serves as an
Independent Director on Board of RIL
44. Identify the Person
Tango and Tito are his two German
Shepherds. They passed away within 5 days
of each other in Feb 2018. In respect, he
cancelled a visit to the UK where he was to
be honoured by Prince Charles at a function
in London. He later created a special room
for stray dogs living in that area within his
global headquarters.
45. This Ad appeared on 30th January 1981 in
the New Delhi edition of Hindustan Times.
It said, “On 31st January, history will be re-
created. Will you be there?”
Ad guru, Alyque Padamsee calls it
“my most successful ad ever”.
What was the event?
49. The first mobile device to be called an
‘iphone’ was made by _______________ and
not Apple.
Which company?
Tie
50. From which company did they take over?
On 18th January 2008, Tata Motors
established Jaguar Land Rover Limited
as a British-registered, wholly owned
subsidiary, a holding company for the
acquisition of Jaguar Cars Limited and
Land Rover.
Tie
51. The car in this 1968 film was in news
recently for what ?
Tie
Notas do Editor
Cooverji Hormusji Bhabha popularly known as C. H. Bhabha
Harmanpreet Kaur, caption of Indian Women T20 team
Microsoft
Wipro
Document Segregation- about 6.6 crore , more than 8,000 data entry operators, 8,000 laptops and 6,000 scanners, 3,700 generators in the NSKs
Heavy data processing using more than 100 computers in parallel
Bkav corporation, Vietnamese security firm,
traced the master server in Britain of unprecedentedly massive DDoS attacks targeting US and Korean governments' websites in July, 2009. This is one of the biggest attacks in the history of cyber security and has been written out in a chapter of the famous book “Inside Cyber Warfare: Mapping the Cyber Underworld”
Adani Group
Padman -2018, Directed and written by R. Balki, featuring Akshay Kumar, Radhika Apte and Sonam Kapoor in lead roles. Inspired by the life of social activist Arunachalam Muruganantham
Sankar Mahadevan
Alia, ranvir and Kartik Aryan
Manyawar
Oxy Pure
Idea Cellular: The ‘Honey Bunny’ page on the company’s Web site recorded more than one million visits during the first nine days of the campaign’s launch. In 2012
Northern Kerala’s Malappuram (Can Tho, Vietnam at 37 %)
The other two Kerala cities that feature in the top 10 are Kozhikode and Kollam.
At 4.6%, Kerala had the lowest decadal population growth rate in the country, according to the 2011 census. This is much below the national rate of 17.6%. Bihar had the highest decadal population growth at 28.6%.
Vikram Pandit and City group
The Making of Hero: Four Brothers, Two Wheels and a Revolution that Shaped India
McDonald’s India Pvt Ltd (MIPL)
Amit Jatia - Westlife, McDonald’s south and west India licensee,
Vikram Bakshi-Connaught Plaza Restaurants Limited (CPRL), McDonald’s restaurants in North and East
all-rounder, Hardik Pandya,
'Virginia House' at Calcutta-ITC Lmited
Attention Economy, An attention-based advertising scheme may describe measuring the number of "eyeballs" by which content is seen.
Books on ENRON
Prof. Dipak C. Jain.
Ratan tata
Shooting of Gandhi’s funeral in the movie “Gandhi” by Attenbourogh
Mont blanc: A trademark identified with Montblanc is the white stylized six-pointed snowcap with rounded edges, representative of the Mont Blanc snowcap from above, the symbol being adopted in 1913. The number "4810", the mountain's height in meters, is also a commonly recurring theme.
cisco
Ford
Jaguar -1930s and Land Rover- 1940s – first coming together in 1968 as part of the British Leyland, later again independent of each other, and then as subsidiaries of BMW (in the case of Land Rover), and Ford Motor Company (Jaguar). Ford acquired Land Rover from BMW in 2000 and in 2008 Tata Motors from ford
Steve McQueen’s “hero car” from the movie “Bullitt“ went for auction, and the price $3.4 million - or at least far more than the $3,500 his father paid in 1974 ( speedy dark-green 1968 Ford Mustang fastback)