OREANDA-NEWS. August 29, 2011. In a thumping victory, Tata Steel bagged the first three positions at the India’s biggest corporate business quiz – the Tata Crucible Quiz-2011, Jamshedpur round, held at Rabindra Bhavan today. The third position was also shared by Tata Motors.

Six teams qualified for the finals after clearing the preliminary 20-question round. The list of winners from Jamshedpur is as follows:


 POSITION COMPANY POINTS NAMES
01st  Tata Steel 60 Siddharth Mishra & Amit Agrawal
02nd  Tata Steel 40 Mohit Bhatt and Nirmal Tenneti
03rd Tata Steel &
Tata Motors 30 G E Khan & Saurav Das
Ms Lavleen Mishra & Mr Bismoy Ranjan


 The chief guest for programme, Mr M G Singh, Chief (Administration), Corporate Services, Tata Steel, awarded the winning team a cash prize of Rs. 75,000 and Rs. 35,000 to runners-up team.

In this quiz where the ‘winner takes it all’, the duo from Tata Steel, Siddharth Mishra and Amit Agrawal in a hard-fought final, toppled the other teams to emerge victorious, displaying their sharp skills and great quizzing acumen. They will now compete with regional winners from across 18 other cities, at the Grand National Final scheduled to be held in Mumbai on 02nd October, 2011 for a grand prize of Rs 4 lakhs.

The quiz was hosted by ace quizmaster Mr. Giri Balasubramaniam a.k.a. Pickbrain who tested the speed of thought and the ability of logical reasoning of the participating teams with interesting questions.

The Tata Crucible corporate quiz after Jamshedpur will now move to Bangalore (Sept 4), Chennai (Sept 10), Pune (Sept 17), Mumbai (Sept 18), Ahmedabad (Sept 19), Goa (Sept 22), Lucknow (Sept 24), Delhi (Sept 25) and Chandigarh (Sept 26). The winning teams from the regional rounds will qualify for the National Finals, which will be held in Mumbai on October 2, 2011.


To be a part of this quizzing extravaganza, log onto www.tatacrucible.com

About Tata Crucible:

'Tata Crucible Quiz' seeks to bring together sharpest young minds in India to take on the heat of the toughest business quiz in India. Youth is a key audience cluster which the Tata group is focusing its communication at and Tata Crucible is one of the key initiatives towards this engagement. Tata Crucible was started as a key initiative in 2004, and was successful in generating a huge response in the very first year itself. It has now become an annual event. In a commissioned research, Tata Crucible Campus Quiz has been judged highest rated ground quiz by the students of participating colleges.


The Tata Crucible Business Quiz is a team-based contest (2 participants per team) and is held separately for Tata companies, Non-Tata Corporates and for Campus students. Six editions of Corporate Crucible and five editions of Campus Crucible have been held successfully so far. The Tata Crucible Campus Quiz made its international foray with the Singapore edition in 2007. Till date, 3 editions of the quiz have been held in Singapore and 2 editions in the UK. As an added attraction to the finale of the quiz, for the first time in 2009 a grand international final was held wherein the winners and runners-up from the Indian edition as well as those from the Singapore and UK editions of the Tata Crucible Campus Quiz competed with each other for the International Crucible Championship.