TCS IT Wiz Bengaluru Prelims - 2016

      NOTE:   We do not have all the questions and have tried to compile as many as possible. 
      
1. X was founded by David Back and Greg Moran in February 2013 in Bangalore, India. X is a car  rental service

Ans.  Zoomcar

2. X is a self-contained, open hardware Linux-based handheld computer, first released in 2002. Developed in, and primarily distributed within India, the product was envisioned as a low-cost alternative to personal computers. It was developed by Dr Swam Manohar

Ans. Simputer

3.  Google doodle on whom?



Ans. Pandit Ravishankar

4.Larry Ewing created Tux for what?


Ans. Linux

5.Media players like I-Phones, I-Pods and other hand-held devices started going missing in the US and the sudden rise in robbery of such goods was given a particular term. What is this term?

Ans. I-Crimes

6.This is the Photograph of the first X created by Douglas Englebart?



Ans. Computer Mouse

7.  Old logo of what?(Of course the name blanked out)


Ans. Nokia

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9. The word from the world of Hike, which is equivalent of Poke on Facebook?

Ans. Nudge

10.Applying thought is associated with which company?
(Not really sure about this question)

Ans. Wipro

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Ans Buzz Aldrin

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TCS IT Wiz Bhubaneshwar Prelims - 2016

1.Which city, after Mumbai would have the honor of having free Wifi at Railway stations, powered by Google?

Ans. Bhubaneswar

2.Which app was founded by Sean Rad in 2012, whose basic concept was swipe right for liking something, and swiping left to skip. Its one of the most used dating sites today.

Ans. Tinder

3.Previously known as Leshi Internet Information & Technology, it is engaged in myriad of businesses, spanning from Internet TV, video production and distribution, smart gadgets and large-screen applications to e-commerce, eco-agriculture and Internet-linked electric cars,

Ans. LeEco

4.Which company is being portrayed in the picture below :

                          

Ans. lyft

5.The first-generation Zune device was created by X in close cooperation with Toshiba, which took the design of the Gigabeat S and redeveloped it under the name Toshiba 1089 as registered with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) starting in 2006.

Ans.Microsoft

6.X was a semiconductor technology corporation based in Markham, Ontario, Canada, that specialized in the development of graphics processing units and chipsets. Founded in 1985 as Array Technology Inc., the company listed publicly in 1993. Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) acquired X in 2006.

Ans. ATI

7.Buddy is a mobile app launched by which Nationalized Bank in India?

Ans. State Bank of India

8.A word quite commonly used by  services offered by Dropbox, Evernote, etc. where they give it to you free for a while and then charge a premium on the services.

Ans.  Freemium

9.Launched on October 1, 2003, its boards were originally used for posting pictures and discussing manga and anime, as the site was modeled on Japanese imageboards.

Ans.4Chan

10.Which project by Ninetendo was codenamed revoloution?

Ans. Wii

11.The Murty Classical Library of India, which publishes classics of Indian literature, was established through a $5.2 million gift from X?

Ans. Not Narayan Murty but his son Rohan Murty

12.Unified Payments Interface is an architecture and a set of standard APIs to facilitate the next generation online immediate payments. It has been created by which corporation?

Ans. National Payments Corporation of India

13.Identify this Project for a Browser, by Microsoft.

                                             

Ans. Spartan

14.Which game are we talking about?
                                                         

Ans. Donkey Kong

15. Which antivirus company has launched a browser called SafeZone?
Options given by quizmaster :- Kaspersky, Avast, Mcafee

Ans Avast

16.What symbol does this refer to?
                                         


Ans. Escape Key

17.It is a multinational networking and telecommunications equipment and services company headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. It’s logo consists of Three Horizontal Lines.It is also credited with the invention of bluetooth.


Ans. Ericsson

18. Which computer would you relate to this?

                                        

Ans Macintosh

19. “If this was jewelery, this is how you would protect it”
<Inserts Play station controller case picture>

Ans. PS

20.He has partnered up with a Dutch company, Spil games, to enter the mobile game scene. He is considered the father of modern video games.

Ans. Nolan Bushnell

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TCS IT Wiz Coimbatore Prelims 2016

Q.1 
First tweet by whom?

Ans. His highness, Rajnikath!

Q2. Kevin Gilbertson is credited with introducing what to us, useful to "compress" things.


Ans Tiny URL

Q3. Bangalore tiger is a book written by which company?
Ans Wipro

Q4. Originally created by a company named Lifescape. The name is a blend of  is a blend of the name of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, the phrase mi casa. Google "its then owner" decided to discontinue it in 2015. What am I talking about?


Ans Picassa

Q5. He is Kevin Sullivan, the CEO of which company?


And. CTS

Q6. X is the practice of offering people the right to freely distribute copies and modified versions of a work with the stipulation that the same rights be preserved in derivative works down the line.We all have heard the "chiral" version of this word. What is X?


Ans. Copyleft

Q7.Daniel Lewin Co-founded which company, famous in the world of IT?

Ans. Akamai

Q.8 Lyf series of Smartphones is a brand from which famous business Conglomerate?

Ans. Reliance

Q9.Which famous Multi-National Mass Media Company is the owner of the Tech-Blog Techcrunch?

And. AOL

Q 10.The term X was coined by Televoice International for introduction of the first US wide  service in 1980 which they offerred.  Although VMI trademarked the term, it eventually became a generic term used for referring to virtually all automated voice services employing a telephone.What is X?

Ans. Voice mail

Q11. How do we better known Alexander Telephone and Telegraph, among the very first in the world to provide telegraph services, founded by Alexander Graham bell himself?
Ans. AT&t

Q12.Old logo of which otherwise famous browser today?


Ans. UC Browser

Q13.X's first products and services included the OmniTRACS satellite locating and messaging service, used by long-haul trucking companies, developed from a product called Omninet owned by Parviz Nazarian and Neil Kadisha, and specialized integrated circuits for digital radio communications such as a Viterbi decoder and now it is one of the leading processor makers for smartphone companies.It was initially founded by Cornell and MIT alumnus and UC San Diego professor Irwin M. Jacobs, USC, MIT alumnus Andrew Viterbi, Harvey White, Adelia Coffman, Andrew Cohen, Klein Gilhousen and Franklin Antonio.

Ans. Qualcomm

Q14. Which company launchced a "Smart Belt" called welt?


Ans. Welt



Q15.





Ans. Accenture

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TCS IT Wiz Prelims, Hyderabad - 2016

1.Which hyderabad startup's name when translated to English means "our right"? <Some More Clues>

Ans. SaddHaq

2.The term was originally coined by Michael Mauldin.It's a software which generates an instant reply. It is designed to answer like a Human.

Ans. Chatterbot

3. Who wrote the book Business @ the speed of though?

Ans. Bill Gates

4. Formed originally to offer research and analysis to United States Armed forces,  this company literally gets its name from research and development?

And. RAND

5.The inventor , John Shepherd-Barron, had at first envisioned a six-digit numeric code, but his wife could only remember four digits, and that has became the most commonly used length in many places, although banks in Switzerland and many other countries require a six digit X. What am I talking about?

Ans. ATM Pin.

6. Id
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Hint: He is the founder of Naukri.com

Ans. Sanjeev Bhikchandani

7. Founder of which very big news app in India?


Ans. inshorts

8.Which country joined the internet in 1996 with three networks namely Raphael, Miched,  Gabriel?
Hint :  Focus on the name

And. Vatican City

9.Richard Wurman is credited with the Idea of what? This site is mainly credited with discussions on Hot Topics and "Ideas worth spreading" ?

Ans. TED

10.If  a startup valued at One Billion $ is called a unicorn, what is the name given to startups valued at over 10 Billion $?

And. Decacorn

11. One of the great creation legends of game design is that Toru Iwatani, while eating a pizza, looked down at the pie with a missing slice and used the outline as inspiration for  distinctive shape in the game. The story was furthered by Iwatani himself; when the game's  fever was at its height, he even posed with a half-eaten pizza for a publicity photograph. "In Japanese, the character for mouth [kuchi] is a square shape. It's not circular like the pizza, but I decided to round it out," he said. And thus, the game was born. Which game?

And. Pacman

12. Beth Comstack, Jason Kilar created which online service? It also derive The name  from two Mandarin Chinese word "calabash; bottle gourd" and of which The secondary meaning is "interactive recording". The founders saw both definitions as appropriate bookends and highly relevant to the mission of.

Ans. Hulu

13. Which controversial website publishes new leaks, secretive and confidential government information and has been held responsible for leaking of many of the secrets of Worldwide governments? It has been highly criticized by the US Government and many other governments worldwide. (Incomplete Question)

Ans. Wikileaks 


14. Who's first tweet?s
 
Ans. Pope Francis (The name wasn't displayed though)

15.


Hint : If you use apple, you definitely should know this one.

Ans. Hon Hai (Foxconn)

16. X was launched on August 12, 1998, as a spare-time project by Senh Duong. His goal in creating X was "to create a site where people can get access to reviews from a variety of critics in the U.S.

Hint : It uses the name of a vegetable

Ans: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/

17.This award is given to the best startups. Techcrunch sponsors it. Which awards?
 

Ans. Crunchies

18.This company was founded by two former employees from XEROX Parc as InterPress?We use a lot of their softwares for designing purposes.

Ans. Adobe

19. Which company?



Ans. Free Software Foundation

20. Logo of?

Ans : Apple Inc.

I have tried to compile questions as per the details given by Syed, the Winner of the Hyderabad Rounds and tried to make it as close as it was. Do write to us if you find any corrections. 

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Tata Crucible Campus Quiz 2014 Jamshedpur edition

Which Broadcaster in India had the motto “Bahujan Hitaya; Bahujan Sukhaya” ?

The name of which company coined by Nichole Lopez is a contraction of Secondary Watch.

Modern Warfare

 World at War

 Black Ops

Ghosts.

Connect the following terms to something famous in the field of entertainment.

What is so unique about Kafee HAG ?

 Which alumnus of the LSE and a law minister in the Nehru Cabinet wrote Problems of the Rupee in 1923, and Evolution of Provincial Finance in British in 1924?

With which India would you associate Dharma Productions with ?

Which person said,"I can calculate the movement of the stars but not the madness of men",when he lost 20000 pounds?

A Rhodes Scholar and Oxford Alumnus, he was one of the youngest Division Chief of the World Bank, was later on the board of IMF, and replaced K.C Pant to hold an important economic position in India. Who ?

What is the full form of BHEL.

Whose Neighbour to Neighbour program in 1990s was one of the first viral marketing campaign which involved intelligent email response ?

Who said on losing 20,000 pounds that  I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men.

 What is a loan that is a monetary loan that is repaid in regular payments over a set period of time. These  loans usually last between one and ten years, but may last as long as 30 years in some cases. This kind of loans usually involve an unfixed interest rate that will add additional balance to be repaid.

Which British confectionary subsidiary is assosciated with Mondalez international.

The US Coinage ACT of 1864 mandates the presence of which inscription on all coins made in US ?

Who is the title sponsor of India’s Premier Football League (I-League) ?

 Which company was founded by Ezra Cornell and Hiram Sibley in 1856? (Hint: Morse Telegraphic Experiments )

Cohiba translates to tobacco and it is a brand which provides cigars to which famous person who only uses this particular brand of cigars?

Identify the entity.

Which company is behind the scheme My junior account?

This ad is by which famous company? ( names were blanked out)?

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Tata Crucibles Campus Quiz -2014 Hyderabad

Q1

What "farm-land" was sold in 1868 by a guy named Charles II to the East India company at a price of 10 pounds per (forgot unit of measurement) ?

Giri's hint : Its an indian city today, and you can't really get food there in 10 pounds these days  

Ans. Mumbai

Q2. A brazilian aviator, with the name Alberto Santos-Dumont complained to the founder of this watch company with the impracticability of using watches while flying so the founder designed a watch for him. Now these watches are today kept at the Paris Air Museum, which was made by which founder(and hence the company is) ? Ans. Cartier Watches Q3. 

What analgesic(i.e. painkiller) combination, today marketed by Piramal in India, was actually invented by a guy named Roche in Switzerland in 1933?

Ans.Saridon Q4 Project Loon sponsored by? Ans Google Q5.

So the word bandwidth has 2 meanings. one is the internet logic, 2nd is the way used it business/marketing/HR. What does "not having a bandwidth" in HR mean?

Ans.lack of Manpower Q6.

What logo came from a double mohur released by the East India Company which had a lion but was later replaced by a tiger?

Ans Reserve Bank of India Q7.

Which airport recently installed India's tallest ATC control tower?

Ans Mumbai Q8.
Who is it in the picture?

Ans Pranav Mistry, who else :P

Q9. 

A UK-based guy with the name of Bruno Iksil had brought JPMorgan to losses in the credit derivatives index, as a result of which he earned the nickname :

a) British Bull b) Scottish Squirrel c) London Whale Ans. c) Whale Q10.

X was founded in London on 11 March 1744, when Samuel Baker presided over the disposal of "several hundred scarce and valuable" books from the library of Rt Hon Sir John Stanley.

Ans. A brand called sothebys Q11. Brownie Wise (1913–92), a former sales representative of Stanley Home Products, developed the strategy. During the early 1950s, X's sales and popularity exploded, thanks in large part to Wise's influence among women who sold X, celebrating the success of X ladies at lavish home themed parties. Ans.Tupperware Q12 Dedicated to

Ans Raghu Ram Rajan Q13.

In 2013, Switzerland signed(or rather forced to sign) a Multilateral Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters. This forced the Swiss Banks to bring about a huge change in their usual way of working.

What was the change? Ans. it is said the swiss banks had to allow transparency of accounts after the convention Q14.

Which magazine, published by a respected Indian daily newspaper, has the tagline "Leading the debate"?

Ans.Front Line, by Hindu Q15. TJ is a company selling shirts/pants/other products. TJ stands for? Visual :

.

Ans. Tihar Jail

Q16

Which brand was launched under the name "Tiodubbelt Renadt Brännvin" (Tenfold Purified Vodka), in 1877 in sweden? Ans. Absolute Vodka :P Q17.

A trivandrum based chemist, gopalkrishnan nair made a hair oil to prevent baldness and is today marketed by godrej, it is?

or rather cure for baldness as their page says

Ans.Anoop

Q18.Osborne smith was the 1st governor of?

Ans. RBI

Q19.

Ans. The rupee guy - Uday Kumar

Q20

X is an entirely Indian owned company. It owns a bookstore chain that was co-founded by Emile Moreau, a French author, T K Banerjee, an Indian businessman and others in Allahabad in 1887, operating from railway stations.

X is?

Even today this brand can be seen especially on railway stations.

Ans. Wheeler Question credits- Lucky Kaul

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Tata Crucibles Campus Quiz -2014 Bhuvaneshwar edition

Q1.Which company has sold its sub units Ribena and Lucozade to a Japanese company Suntory in order to lay more emphasis on its pharmaceutical sector?

Q2.Rocketbelt browser , wiki and xobini are acquired by which company?

Q3.Ananta luxury watches are a line of watches being produced by which iconic company?

Q4.At which city in India has Liverpool opened its International Football Academy ?

Q5.Name the movie which shows the arch rivalry between Niki Lauda and james hunt.

Q6.Which website uses the hummingbird algorithm to get better search results?

Q7.In China this is known as Weixin from Tencent holdings. How have we heard of it in India?

Q8.Which co-founder of Google has backed the artificial laboratory hamburger project?

Q9.Which airlines advertises itself as “Airlines of middle earth”?

Q10.The concept of flight nanny and fictional characters called Boo the panda , Jamool the camel and Zoe the bee are introduced by which famous airline company?

Q11.Who is the worlds richest football club owner having a stake in pachuro group?

Q12,Which magazine earlier owned by ABP was sold to investors including Vikram Jhunjhunwala and Anurag Batra?

Q13.Which entity acquired Tara news and Tara music? (Hint:It is not a common answer)

Q14.Rod Canion , Jim Harris and Bill Murto founded which company which was later acquired by HP?

Q15.Which famous IPL team owner authored the book how to not make money?

Q16.Who owns this production house?

Q17.Which company is behind this campaign?

Q18.Tom hanks is acting like which famous person?

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Tata Crucible Campus Quiz 2014-Patna edition

Q1. Which brand was recently taken over by Sprite as India’s largest selling soft drinks brand?

Q2. Who is the world’s first author to acquire the billion dollar status?

Q3.Identify the logo of this famous entity.

Q4. Identify this famous personality behind the Hrudalaya Hospitals.

Q5.Who is the current chairman of 21st century fox?

Q6. Which automobile brand has the tagline “Made like a bullet”?

Q7. Which Indian company recently tied up with the Finnish brand Chempolis which works towards converting cellulose to ethanol?

Q8.Identify this famous award in the world of technology.

Q9.What is the full form of PAL.

Q10.Which Indian brand has the tagline “Jo biwi se kare pyaar, woh _______ se kaise kare inkaar”?

Q11.Which financial institution was originally known by the name “Schweizerische Kreditanstalt”?

Q12. Which financial institution in India was started by a Gujarati by the name Devkaran Nanjee?

Q13. Which famous business magnate And investor once said that 'In the business world, the rear view mirror is always clearer than the windshield.’?

Q14. Ajay Bhatt an intel employee was behind which famous invention?

Q15.Which brand has come up with the concept of Gum Charades in its ads?

Q17.Identify this famous person.

Q18.Who is this famous person,son of a business personality.

Q19. Pawan Hans Helicopters Limited provides helicopter services to which Indian company for travelling to its off-shore locations?

Q20. Sivakasi is a town in Tamil Nadu which is famous for the fireworks and cracker industry. Which other business industry has originated from the byproducts of the cracker industry?

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Tata Crucible Campus Quiz-2014 Nagpur edition

Q1.Micromax has signed in which famous Hollywood actor to endorse their brand of products?

Q2.Identify this famous personality famous in the world of business.

Q3.His father’s name was George, a corporate executive in an auto industry and in 1954 became the president and CEO of American Motors. He was also elected the governor of Michigan. Whom are we talking about?

Q4.Who has came up with ” A Future Full of Energy “?

Q5.Identify the brand from the visual.

Q6. Which Media group has a campaign “Let’s Make News Better”?

Q7.Angela Ahrendts is the CEO of which retail company was hired by Apple to revive its network of Apple Stores?

Q8. The Terrano is a cross-badged product by Nissan and _______?

Q9.Arun Anant is the former CEO of which Media house?

Q10.Malcolm McLean in 1956 invented something that changed the logistics industry. What was the idea?

Q11.Identify the brand that has tied up with Crossfit for making sports apparels.

Q12.The DI Corp got profits as high as 800% in October 2012 due to something sensational. Which world famous person is the owner of this electrical circuit maker?

Q13.Which Indian automaker has 48% stakes in Austrian bike maker KTM?

Q14.What is COCO? 

Q15.Whose birthday is celebrated as Engineer’s Day in India He is assosciated with the tata group too.

Q16.Which brand has looked  to recreate the rhythm of the Rio carnival with a song by it  for the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

Q17 Calico is a new company started by which company with the stated goal of focusing on the challenge of combating aging and associated diseases?

Q18.In 1943, which company was founded by Mohan T. Advani and co.which dealt with air Conditioners.

Q19.Identify the mascot of FIFA World Cup 2014 in Brazil.

Q20.Which famous legend is signed as the brand ambassador for the travel based website Musafir.com?

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Times NIE Fundamentals , Times Quizomania , Hyderabad Rounds

1. The chowmahalla palace in hyderabad is believed to be modelled after a palace in which country ?
Ans. Iran

2. Park Geun Hye is the president of which country , she had been to India Recently .

Ans. South Korea

3. 26th January  is the official national day of this country , celebrated along with the Indian Republic Day. It marks the anniversary of the 1788 arrival of the First Fleet of British Ships at Sydney Cove, New South Wales . Which country ?
Ans. Australia

4. The question was weird , no one was sure of the answer, it was like which flower was named after some sort of assistant/descendant of James Cook .
Ans.Google this and win a Prize!

5. These special tribe of men , whose literal translation means "Able bodied People" in the local language. They are natives of Nepal.
Ans. Gurkhas

6. How do we better know "Made of orleans"
Ans. Joan of Arc

7. Which country's Lunar Rover named "Jade The Rabbit" stopped functioning properly on the moon(recently).
Ans. China

8. Who was the time person of the year 2013 ?
Ans. Pope Franscis

9. The RBI decided to withdraw the currency notes from which year ?
Ans. 2005

10. Which country has decided to host the 2022 Fifa world cup , making it the smalles ever country to do so ?
Ans. Qatar

11. The temple was built by the Khmer King Suryavarman II in the early 12th century in Yasodharapura , the capital of the Khmer Empire, as his state temple and eventual mausoleum .  Which temple am i talking about ? (Hint: Its not in India)
Ans. Angkor Wat

12.Painting of which cave ?

Ans. bhimbetka

13. Which Cricketer ?

Ans. Corey Anderson

14. Flag of which PLACE, remember a place not a country ?

Ans Tibet

15. Which oscar nominated movie 2013 has the characters of Dr. Ryan Stone and Matt Kowalski ?
Ans Gravity

16. Audio of a person saying - " Mere pariwar ko pata nahi tha ki mai IIT mein jayoonga , 76 % laane waala bacha , mere mata pita mein kai differences the , mujhe kya pata tha ki ispar ek movie banegi jo saare records todegi " .
Ans. Chetan Bhagat

17. A song sang by Loy Mensoda was Played

18.The Cuckoo's Calling is a crime fiction novel published by a writer known by another name but published under the pseudonym of Robert Galbraith . How do we better know this author .
Ans. JK Rowling

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