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Chennai Prelims

Nikhil Verma
Nikhil Verma

This document summarizes the questions and answers from a regional prelims competition held on March 13, 2009 in Chennai, India. It includes two rounds of questions - one with 20 general knowledge questions about business, entertainment, and current events, and another "wild card" round with 11 additional questions. The questions are multiple choice or require identifying people, companies, logos, advertisements. The answers are provided on slides immediately following each question.

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CHENNAI REGIONAL ROUND PRELIMS March 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. Whats 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 quot;radiorecorderquot;. 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 worlds 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 worlds first transistorised cardless portable television in 1960?
Answer 5 Motorola
Question 6 Mens 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

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Chennai Prelims

  • 1. CHENNAI REGIONAL ROUND PRELIMS March 13, 2009
  • 2. PRELIMS 20 QUESTIONS The answer to each question is in the slide just after the question
  • 3. Question 1 Which city hosted this years Pravasi Bharathiya Diwas?
  • 4. Answer 1 Chennai
  • 5. Question 2 Identify the logo
  • 6. Answer 2 NABARD Bank
  • 7. Question 3 SBI Launched a branch in Lucknow named Vasundhara. Whats special about this branch?
  • 8. Answer 3 Exclusive all-for-women branch
  • 9. Question 4 (In-built Tie Breaker) Which Hollywood director owns Wingnut Films and also a three time Academy award winner?
  • 10. Answer 4 Peter Robert Jackson
  • 11. Question 5 Identify the Advt. (A print ad was shown). The answer was LIC India.
  • 12. Question 6 Which group launched the Happinezz Ice cream Parlour?
  • 13. Answer 6 Vadilal Group
  • 14. Question 7 Which entertainment channel has entered into an agreement with Wrangler jeans to sell their jeans?
  • 15. Answer 7 MTV
  • 16. Question 8 Identify her.
  • 17. Answer 8 Sangeeta Reddy Executive Director, Apollo Hospitals
  • 18. Question 9 Which fashion designer launched the le smoking clothing? Hint: He died last year.
  • 19. Answer 9 Yves Saint Laurent (YSL)
  • 20. 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)
  • 21. Answer 10 Texas Instruments
  • 22. Question 11 Identify.
  • 23. Answer 11 R.Subramanian, Managing Director of Subhiksha
  • 24. Question 12 Which Actress replaced Aishwarya Rai as brand ambassador for Nakshatra Diamonds?
  • 25. Answer 12 Katrina Kaif
  • 26. Question 13 A former CEO, President & Chairman of Silicon Spice was an independent director of the Satyam Board. Name him.
  • 27. Answer 13 Vinod Dham
  • 28. Question 14 This company introduced the first combination portable radio and cassette recorder which is marketed as the quot;radiorecorderquot;. Some picture shown ---- Jubilee 4. Identify the company.
  • 29. Answer 14 Philips
  • 30. Question 15 Indian Company launched branded T Shirts under the brand name Ginger Lemon?
  • 31. Answer 15 Archies
  • 32. Question 16 Name the new CEO of Yahoo.
  • 33. Answer 16 Carol Bartz
  • 34. Question 17 (In-built Tie Breaker) Identify the Logo.
  • 35. Answer 17 Thyssen Krupp AG
  • 36. Question 18 Which mobile service company launched the New Thumb Rule SMS offer?
  • 37. Answer 18 Virgin Mobile
  • 38. Questions 19 and 20 Two Video advertisements were shown. The belonged to Kent-O Water Purifiers and the Yellow Pages respectively
  • 40. Question 1 Who is the worlds largest Manufacturer of Vertical Transportation?
  • 41. Answer 1 OTIS
  • 42. Question 2 Sociologist, author & financial consultant Alfred W. Jones is said to be the first founder of a modern fund. Which fund?
  • 43. Answer 2 Hedge Fund
  • 44. Question 3 From 1st April 1957, India has rupee paisa system. What was before?
  • 45. Answer 3 The Anna system
  • 46. Question 4 Which Auto industry Veteran has set up Carnation Auto?
  • 47. Answer 4 Jagdish Khattar
  • 48. Question 5 Which global company introduced worlds first transistorised cardless portable television in 1960?
  • 49. Answer 5 Motorola
  • 50. Question 6 Mens Active is a fairness cream brand of which company?
  • 51. Answer 6 Emami
  • 52. 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?
  • 53. Answer 7 Ponzi Scheme
  • 54. Question 8 This organization was formed in 1947 and lasted till 1994, till it was replaced by the WTO. Which organization?
  • 55. Answer 8 The GATT
  • 56. Question 9 Columbia Pictures was sold in 1989 by Coca-cola to whom?
  • 57. Answer 9 SONY
  • 58. Question 10 What task was first performed early 1987, which later on became a common feature in desktops?
  • 59. Answer 10 AntiVirus Fixing
  • 60. Question 11 Name the MD & CEO of Hindustan Unilever Limited.
  • 61. Answer 11 Mr. Nitin Paranjape
  • 63. Question 1 Which Group in India is headed by Samir Jain & Vinit Jain?
  • 64. Answer 1 Bennett Coleman & Co.
  • 65. Question 2 In which Auto major does the Private Equity firm Cerberus Capital Mgmt holds a majority stake?
  • 66. Answer 2 Chrysler Corporation
  • 67. Question 3 Expansion of STAR (as in STAR TV)
  • 68. Answer 3 Satellite Television for the Asian Region
  • 69. Question 4 What is the Term or Phrase used to describe financial transadction that involves tax evasion?
  • 70. Answer 4 Money Laundering
  • 71. Question 5 Which famous family runs a business with HQ at Lausanne, Switzerland, and operates 4 business units worldwide?
  • 72. Answer 5 Bata Shoes
  • 73. 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?
  • 74. Answer 6 Kiwi Shoe Polish!
  • 75. Question 7 Pratichi Trust was set up in 1999 with the money came out of which Indian nobel prize winner?
  • 76. Answer 7 Amartya Sen
  • 77. Question 8 Precision optical Instruments Laboratory is now known as what?
  • 78. Answer 8 Canon
  • 79. Question 9 Ursula Burns serves as the President of which company?
  • 80. Answer 9 Xerox Corporation
  • 81. 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.
  • 82. Answer 10 Glaxo Ltd.
  • 83. 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.
  • 84. Answer 11 Haman, from the word Hammam