TATA Crucible Quiz @ Navi Mumbai Edition with Prelims Questions by Quiz Reporter Viraj Morabia

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The Navi mumbai round started with a pretty easy set of questions as the turnout of teams was not more than 50.
There was no wild card around.
Cut off for prelims must be  13 and more.

Finals started with my main opponent taking negative and i getting a free hit on it!
But after 2nd question onwards he buzzed almost every question and got it right.
After 1st round scores were like, I am on 60 and he is on 180.

From 2nd round i started pushing buzzers after reading 1 word i know anything distinctly about and that's when i outscored him.

Evey time when i pressed buzzer either i knew ans or invented one.
Meanwhile my opponent was taking rash shots which brought him to near -150.

Pickbrain took a pun on him by saying "Way to come back in game is Keep Going, which may get you few more minuses!" to which every one chuckled.

My partner took some unwanted negatives to make game interesting.

Before 2 questions to spare it was clear that i am going in Western Zonals.
Thank God there was no last question pressure on me.

RESULTS: 

WINNER:ICAI – Viraj Morabia and Apeksh Porwal

PFB(Please Find Below) the prelims questions.

Preliminary Round Questions:

1. Identify this person known as  “ RJ ” in the financial world ?

(Rakesh Jhunjhunwala younger days pic with shown)

A. Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

2. Identify the company from the logo “MP” –“Fresh Ideas, better Life”?

A. Milton Plastics

3.  Name the actor who owns this company along with Ritesh Sidhwani?(Excel entertainment logo shown)

A. Farhan Akhtar

4. “The Winning WAY” is a book by which IIM-A graduate?

A. Harsha Bhogle

5. Identify the bank headed by this lady. (Arundhati Bhattacharya, first woman to head SBI photo shown) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arundhati_Bhattacharya

A. SBI

6. Identify this company owned by an Indian Group. (Corus group logo shown)

A. Corus

7. What is the financial connect between these countries?

A. Rupee as currency(Decent question)

8. Sonata is a car from which South Korean company, launched in 1985?

A. Hyundai

9.  “Without Reserve” is the in house journal of which Government?

A. RBI

10.  Internet.org has partnered with which company in India?

A. Reliance communications (Aamchi Navi Mumbai ke paas hein naa koparkhairnar mein Reliance ka office,Reliance jio-4G)

11. The US based company headquartered in Brisbane, California was founded by an audiophile and engineer, Noel Lee, in 1979 by experimenting with different ways to build audio cables, a series of its  products for the Chinese market were co-branded with basketball player Yao Ming. (Hint : Which campus aspirational company ?)

A. Monster Inc.

12. Benjamin Careathers, a regular consumer of this company, sued the company $13m for false advertising, arguing that after 10 years of using this product hasn’t enhanced his athletic or intellectual performance.

A. Red Bull

13. Identify this American comedian who owns as much as 42 Porsche’s . (Picture of jerry was shown)

A. Jerry Seinfeld

14. Bas Bajna Chahiye _____.( FIB ). This music broadcasting company is owned by Times Internet.

A. Gaana

15. What was launched by NPCI on May 8, 2014 ?

A.  Rupay

16.  French word “brimber” which means to rob or extort gives its name to what common english term extremely used in India?

A. Bribe (Decent koschin)

17. Katrina kaif is the Brand Ambassador of which airline started by a royal decree issued by Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan ?

A. Etihad

18. Logo of which Mumbai based company’s app? (My partner said m-Indicator  which is a cult in Mumbai, I was not sure so went with it)

A. Mumbai Metro

19. This company formerly called Tandy Corporation was the sponsor of Lance Armstrong.

(Hint:It is a bankrupt company.)

A. RadioShack

20.  This is the first issue of which magazine? (most of us must have seen this in so many blogs & quizzing sites) 

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/Time_Magazine_-_first_cover.jpg)

A. Time Magazine