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 "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 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