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”.
What’s 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

39. Wild Card Round-1

40. Question 1
Who is the world’s 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 world’s first
transistorised cardless
portable television in 1960?

49. Answer 5
Motorola


50. Question 6
Men’s 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


62. Wild Card Round-2

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”