The One and Only post on this blog - Ahmedabad Tata Crucible 2010

This post is dedicated to

• All you nice people who put up Tata Crucible questions on their blogs. I never thought I'd be one of you, but this time around, I actually did read most of them :) ; and hence this is my way of saying Thank You.
  
• All my cash-hungry juniors here who never turn up for one of my quiz-for-quiz's-sake quiz :)
  
• My dear teammate, our very own girlfriend :) with a placecomm alter-ego, the speaker of micaaa speakers jaa, GeeBeeTwo a.ka. Gaurav Banerjee. This is for our last salvo as a team :). I am glad our greatest achievement as a team was not runners-up at DA-IICT, or ending up 4th in a Gautam Bhimani 'quiz', or ending up 4th in a quiz where the QM called us Meeka. See you across the board from now, Cheers!
  

Ok. So here's what happened at Ahmedabad today. 97 teams, crappy auditorium, no AC, sweaty quizmaster, sweaty teammate and lots of lights. 20 Q Prelims. Doing my best to reconstruct them here. Highlight for answers.

• Which company manufactures/owns Lycra? Dupont
• In 1973, a special Emmy was given to this innovations-led company for making Trinitron. Id comapny. Sony
• Photo of a guy with salt hair and pepper beard :) . Sam Pitroda.
  
• Which person [ who started a famous brand] went and convinced Jesse Owens in the 1936 Olympics to wear his spikes? Adi Dassler
• Which union minister owns a company manufacturing beedis like no. 7 and Monkey Face (or something like that)? Prafful Patel
  
• Logo of a writing instruments company. Luxor.
  
• AS Ganguly and 2 other names - were former CEOs of which company? HUL
• What is the Paris Stock Exchange index called? Seriously, I dont care, and I dont know :)
  
• An ad of a kid between two mannequins with the tagline "Every Child needs a Family" . Which organization? UNICEF
• A pic of a lady with a torch [olympic torch like torch] , and a pic of a winged horse. Combine the two to give the name of a company. Columbia Tristar.
  
• This company started as Galvin Manufacturing Company, did something with batteries blah blah. ? Motorola
• Connect the name of a record label started by The Beatles to a tech giant today. Apple
• Ad for an insurance company. Bharti AXA
  
• Ad for a gems company. Bunch of diamonds in the ad. De Beers.
• This product category came into being when some guy called William who was in a hospital tried to make something out of Wheat beat, around 1885. What? Corn Flakes/Breakfast Cereal
• 3 Names. Delsey, L... and H.... Founders of? DHL
• This investment company started as Valley Falls Corporation. Which one? Berkshire Hathway
• Soundtrack from Ajab Prem ki Gazab Kahani (!). Production company? Tips
  

Winners: Nirma Uni.

So long, and thanks for all the fish.