TATA Crucible took place in my college a few days back. It is good to see TATA so zealous to organizing this quiz across the country. There is obviously something right with quizzing in general, because TATA could have spent all that money on advertising instead. But, it chose to invest all that into Crucible. So here we are.
This time it was 36 cities. The quizmaster, Pickbrain(Giri Balasubramaniam) is probably the most prolific quizmaster in India and has conducted quizzes all across Asia. That guy is like a legend. The quiz was really enthralling. The finals ended up in a face-off between two colleges, three teams from my college i.e. IIT BHU and three teams from MNNIT Allahabad. The cut off was 16 with a tie breaker on 15.
The winners were IIT BHU(no surprises there) who have been winning this for six years running, runners up being one team from MNNIT Allahabad.
Just like always, I missed finals by one mark.
Fun Fact: The TATA Crucible Youtube videos have more views than Femina Miss India. People certainly have got their priorities right. :P
I am uploading a few questions asked in the quiz, as far as I can remember.
Prelims
1. Panthera onca is a big cat, a feline in the Panthera genus, and is the only extant Panthera species native to the Americas. Which company is named after this big cat ?
2. X is a group creativity technique by which efforts are made to find a conclusion for a specific problem by gathering a list of ideas spontaneously contributed by its members. The term was popularized by Alex Faickney Osborn in the 1953 book Applied Imagination. What is x ?
3.The product began life as a solid block called pasta gianduja which could be sliced and served on bread, but later evolved into a spreadable version called Supercrema.
4.Id
5.Id.
6. In 1801 Pellegrino Turri, an Italian inventor, invented X to provide the ink for his mechanical typing machine, one of the first typewriters. Ralph Wedgwood who was a wax engineer obtained the first patent for X in 1806.
Id X.
7.Who is the famous Indian cricketer who along with Gareth Bale collaborates in Sports Convo ?
8.Id the Nobel prize winning author.
9. Before Mahindra & Mahindra it was called _________&Mahindra. The company decided to go with Mahindra so that they didn't have to change their logo again. FITB
10. Id the company with which these are associated with.
11.Something to do with "Harley Davidson" back on black.
12.Which type of card is used in Olympic venues ?
13. GST now stands for "Goods and Services Tax". What did it stand for before ?
14. Repeat question on Dabur(Daktar Burman).
15.On whose death was this released ?
16. Which company bought Gold Spot and then dissolved it ?
17. Who was the first PM to have his signature on the Indian currency note ?
18. Image of the book Guts Grit and Gumption. Which state owned bank is it based on?
19. Question on Lakshman Rekha.
I couldn't remember one question. If anyone does, please contact me through email.
Finals
1. In USA, it is banned for products to be imported which have a non-nutritional value. Which famous foodstuff cannot be sold there because of this ban?
2. Which famous philanthropist from New Zealand funded the airport shown in the next figure? It is considered the most dangerous airport in the world.
3. This is the creation of which well known personality ?
4. Identify the name of the processor.
5. Where was this café located ? Only premium people were allowed in this cafe.
6. An X is a business professional who analyzes the financial consequences of risk. X use mathematics, statistics and financial theory to study uncertain future events, especially those of concern to insurance and pension programs. ID X.
7. Arvind Kejriwal, Nitish Kumar, Narendra Modi, all were contenders for the Yahoo Personality of the Year 2015. Who actually won?
8. Connect
9. What is this the symbol of?
10. The ________ effect is the term used when somebody talented is ignored for most of his life and then gains immense popularity very fast. Hint: Grimm's Fairy tales
12. The area is 658 sq. metres long and is made of 670 kgs of pure silk. For embroidery 15 kilos of gold threads are used. It consists of 47 pieces of cloth and each piece is 14 Mts. long and 101 cms broad. What are we talking about ?
13. This was asked to be made by Nehru for a specific purpose. Who made it and what was it used for?
This time it was 36 cities. The quizmaster, Pickbrain(Giri Balasubramaniam) is probably the most prolific quizmaster in India and has conducted quizzes all across Asia. That guy is like a legend. The quiz was really enthralling. The finals ended up in a face-off between two colleges, three teams from my college i.e. IIT BHU and three teams from MNNIT Allahabad. The cut off was 16 with a tie breaker on 15.
The winners were IIT BHU(no surprises there) who have been winning this for six years running, runners up being one team from MNNIT Allahabad.
Just like always, I missed finals by one mark.
Fun Fact: The TATA Crucible Youtube videos have more views than Femina Miss India. People certainly have got their priorities right. :P
I am uploading a few questions asked in the quiz, as far as I can remember.
Prelims
1. Panthera onca is a big cat, a feline in the Panthera genus, and is the only extant Panthera species native to the Americas. Which company is named after this big cat ?
2. X is a group creativity technique by which efforts are made to find a conclusion for a specific problem by gathering a list of ideas spontaneously contributed by its members. The term was popularized by Alex Faickney Osborn in the 1953 book Applied Imagination. What is x ?
3.The product began life as a solid block called pasta gianduja which could be sliced and served on bread, but later evolved into a spreadable version called Supercrema.
4.Id
5.Id.
6. In 1801 Pellegrino Turri, an Italian inventor, invented X to provide the ink for his mechanical typing machine, one of the first typewriters. Ralph Wedgwood who was a wax engineer obtained the first patent for X in 1806.
Id X.
7.Who is the famous Indian cricketer who along with Gareth Bale collaborates in Sports Convo ?
8.Id the Nobel prize winning author.
9. Before Mahindra & Mahindra it was called _________&Mahindra. The company decided to go with Mahindra so that they didn't have to change their logo again. FITB
10. Id the company with which these are associated with.
11.Something to do with "Harley Davidson" back on black.
12.Which type of card is used in Olympic venues ?
13. GST now stands for "Goods and Services Tax". What did it stand for before ?
14. Repeat question on Dabur(Daktar Burman).
15.On whose death was this released ?
16. Which company bought Gold Spot and then dissolved it ?
17. Who was the first PM to have his signature on the Indian currency note ?
18. Image of the book Guts Grit and Gumption. Which state owned bank is it based on?
19. Question on Lakshman Rekha.
I couldn't remember one question. If anyone does, please contact me through email.
Finals
1. In USA, it is banned for products to be imported which have a non-nutritional value. Which famous foodstuff cannot be sold there because of this ban?
2. Which famous philanthropist from New Zealand funded the airport shown in the next figure? It is considered the most dangerous airport in the world.
3. This is the creation of which well known personality ?
4. Identify the name of the processor.
5. Where was this café located ? Only premium people were allowed in this cafe.
6. An X is a business professional who analyzes the financial consequences of risk. X use mathematics, statistics and financial theory to study uncertain future events, especially those of concern to insurance and pension programs. ID X.
7. Arvind Kejriwal, Nitish Kumar, Narendra Modi, all were contenders for the Yahoo Personality of the Year 2015. Who actually won?
8. Connect
9. What is this the symbol of?
10. The ________ effect is the term used when somebody talented is ignored for most of his life and then gains immense popularity very fast. Hint: Grimm's Fairy tales
11. Connect
12. The area is 658 sq. metres long and is made of 670 kgs of pure silk. For embroidery 15 kilos of gold threads are used. It consists of 47 pieces of cloth and each piece is 14 Mts. long and 101 cms broad. What are we talking about ?
13. This was asked to be made by Nehru for a specific purpose. Who made it and what was it used for?
14. X is an open-source , content-filtering and ad blocking extension developed by Eyeo GmbH (Wladimir Palant), a German software development company. The extension has been released for Mozilla Firefox (including Firefox for mobile),Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari, Yandex Browser and Android.
Yeah. That's about it. Comment the answers down below.
And I was also thinking that instead of Quiz of the Week, we can have a QOTD session, i.e. Question of the day. It will be more consistent and easier to discuss.
Yeah. That's about it. Comment the answers down below.
And I was also thinking that instead of Quiz of the Week, we can have a QOTD session, i.e. Question of the day. It will be more consistent and easier to discuss.
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