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Tata
Crucible International creates waves in Singapore
October 25, 2007
Tata Crucible, a live action
blockbuster quiz that had Singaporeans on the edge of
their seats.
Singaporeans were on the edge
of their seats last night at the NUS University Cultural
Centre in the final thrilling moments of the Singapore
debut of the Tata Crucible, ‘India’s most
challenging business quiz’. Two young student warriors
from the Singapore Management University (SMU), Bhavya
Khanna, 20, and Anirban Datta, 19, emerged triumphant,
to a thunderous applause, at the inaugural Tata Crucible
quiz in Singapore.
From a total of 318 participants who signed up, Khanna
and Datta beat eight other teams to take home the grand
prize of S$7,000. A total of S$12,000 in cash prizes
was given away last night, with the first runners up
from Singapore Institute of Management (SIM) being awarded
S$3,000 and the jointly tied second runners up from
SMU taking home S$2,000.
The winners Khanna and Dutta said, "The opportunity
to participate in such a challenging and popular quiz
like the Tata Crucible in Singapore is simply marvelous!
Sitting on stage made us feel sitting right at home.
The questions were very challenging and we were very
entertained by Pick Brain’s style of quizzing.
Having won $7,000 we intend to travel to Europe or South
America and perhaps go an exchange study overseas. Thank
you Tata for bringing this exhilarating experience to
Singapore."
Singapore’s minister for community development, youth
and sports and second minister for communications, information
and the arts, Dr Vivian Balakrishnan was the guest of
honour for the evening. He congratulated the winners last
night and added "I think all the participants have
done well. You are young and bright people with wide interests,
and capable of lateral thinking. Your future will be good.
So, congratulations to all of you and especially to the
winners."
A total of 159 teams from Singapore participated in
the Tata Crucible last night, as eight teams reached
the final rounds hosted by celebrity quizmaster, Giri
Balasubramaniam fondly nicknamed "Pick Brain".
He challenged teams on areas pertaining to international
business and economy, including corporates, personalities,
brands, markets. Pick Brain, famous for his quick-witted
questions cheered participants through the finals with
his wit and show stopping expression.
Oo Soon Hee, president and chief operating officer
of NatSteel Asia Pte Ltd, a Tata Steel group company
highlighted the importance of Singapore being a launch-pad
for the Tata Crucible International when he added, "In
keeping with the Tata Group’s focus on globalisation,
Singapore was identified as the first international
market outside of India to be the launch pad for the
Tata Crucible. With several Tata Group companies regionally
headquartered here, this is closely aligned with the
Group’s emphasis on education, recruitment and
internationalisation. Apart from being a significant
Asian economic centre, Singapore is also the focus of
international education. There are a number of high
quality educational institutions which prepare students
for international business in a highly conducive learning
and development environment. Given the overwhelming
response from Singapore, we are strongly encouraged
to host the Tata Crucible in other markets as well."
Thousands of tertiary students interested in pursuing
business as a career as well as corporates have participated
in one of India’s biggest and reputedly most challenging
business quiz since it was first launched in India in
2004. Besides huge participation, the quiz in India
has become famous for its sheer quality. This is the
first time it is being held in Singapore.
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