This round consisted of 16 questions which were on pounce and part of the technology & business quiz which was conducted as a part of Symbhav 2014 on 23 February 2014!

1. Biz Ipsa Loquitor
The College Corporate TechBiz Quiz
Potpourri – Mixed Bag
16 Questions on Pounce
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2. 1. Connect to an entity:

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5. 2.
• X, which is in a completely different
sphere of business, is arguably the
biggest client of Amazon cloud services.
• In Silicon Valley, X has become best
known for its so-called Simian Army, a
facetiously named set of applications
that
test/automate/configure
the
resilience of cloud systems.
• Applications
such
as
Chaos
Monkey, Chaos Kong and Asgasrd have
been used by eBay, Microsoft and even
the Obama campaign for their cloud
computing services.
• Just tell me which company is X?

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7. • At any moment, Netflix draws upon 10,000 to 20,000 servers
running in Amazon data centers somewhere.
• Netflix has been pushing Amazon to its limits. “We’re pretty
sure we’re using Amazon Web Services more efficiently than
the retail arm of Amazon is,” says Adrian Cockcroft, Netflix’s
cloud architect.

8. 3.
• This is generic stamp from a certain country.
What is special about stamps from this
country that apparently makes them
different from most stamps from other parts
of the world?

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10. • All Israeli postage stamps feature a
water-activated adhesive that is
certified kosher.

11. 4.
• How is the fact that a person who was
the 466th person to arrive at a UNESCO
World Heritage site which means
Dutch for “Sealed Island” in the year of
1964, immortalised in the world we live
in?

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13. • Mandela was imprisoned on Robben Island in
1964, and was the 466th prisonor to arrive that
year.
• The
prison
administration's
scheme
of
numbering prisoners was to follow the
sequence number of the prisoner (466 in his
case), with the last two digits of the year (64).
• 46664 (four, double six, six, four) was also a
series of AIDS charity concerts played in honour
of Nelson Mandela by South African musicians
in the 2000s.

14. 5.
• Connect to a personality and
identify what is missing?

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16. • Varun Agarwal

17. 6. Connect:
• Ziziphus spina-christi, the Christ's Thorn Jujube is an
evergreen tree native to northern and tropical Africa
and southern and Western Asia. It grows in Israel in
valleys up to an elevation of 500m. It has significance to
Jews, Christians and Muslims, and is by some traditions
the tree from which Jesus's Crown of Thorns was made.
The ripe fruits are edible and the flowers are an
important source of honey in Eritrea and Yemen.
• Sidrat al-Muntaha is a Lote tree that marks the end of
the seventh heaven, the boundary where no creation
can
pass,
according
to
Islamic
beliefs.
Muhammad, being the only one allowed, travelled with
the archangel Gabriel to the Sidrat al-Muntaha where it
is said that Allah assigned the five daily prayers to all
Muslims.

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19. • The logo of the Qatar Foundation is the
Sidar Tree.
• It is a symbol in connection with the
islamic Sidrat al-Muntaha and the
evergreen tree Ziziphus spina-christi
native in Qatar.

20. 7.
• This began in the popular “ rec.arts.movies ”
newsgroup on Usenet in 1989.
• The first project was a post simply titled "Those
Eyes" that, with the participation of all
readers, identified actresses with beautiful
eyes.
• The thread grew beyond the size of a typical
thread, newsgroup participants simply called
it "THE LIST”.
• What is this the origin of, which also happens
to be one of oldest websites on the internet?

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23. 8.
Connect
David Carpenter

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25. • Astronaut
Scott
Carpenter wore a
Breitling Cosmonaute
inside the Aurora 7
spacecraft on May
24, 1962.

26. 9.
• This book is a story of how
Chuck Feeney through his
foundation
Atlantic
Philanthropies, owns 38.75% of
a company he owns, funneled
$6.2
billion
into
education, science, health
care, aging and civil rights in
the
U.S., Australia, Vietnam, Bermu
da, South Africa and Ireland.
• What did he start?

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28. Duty Free Shops

29. • She started modeling at
15 years of age in South
Africa. At age 65, she’s
with LA Models, LA
Talent and 12 agencies
worldwide.
• Highlights include a
billboard in Time
Square, Elle Quebec
cover, jobs in
Amsterdam, Munich, Lo
ndon, Cape Town, The
Bahamas and Montreal.
• Just tell me surname or
who is most famous
son?
•
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10.

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34. 11.
• Ravijour from Japan
has developed a bra
which is supposed to
be very helpful for
women who tend to
get inebriated.
• A certain “function” of
the bra has made
raves in the technology
world.
• What is so special
about the bra?

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36. • The bra gets unhooked
only upon detecting
“True Love”.
• Ravijour is currently only
be a concept and not
for purchase.
• But the general idea is
that this bra connects to
a smartphone app via
Bluetooth, and can only
be
unhooked
when
sensors built into the bra
detect
true
love.

37. 12.
• Weave a story around the two images:

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39. • Pro-Teq
offer
a
patented
quick
drying, spray applied elastomeric coating
into which a wide range of mediums can
be added.
• They recently developed and patented
a world first for spraying a liquid based
product in combination with either soft or
hard media.
• They have created a solution that makes
pavement glow in the dark.

40. • This innovative pathway re-surfacing
methodology called Starpath is the
result of an extensive period of
chemical trials.
• Starpath is currently being tested in
Christ’ s Pieces, a well-known park in
the east side of the centre of
Cambridge
by
Cambridge
City
Council (as seen in the image).

41. 13.
• This is a German luxury group was founded
in 1976 by Wolfgang Ley, born in Germany
(1937), and Margarethe Ley, born in Sweden
(1933). The label took its name from a
racehorse and the company expanded into
the American market in 1982.
• It found mention amongst Indians when it
filed for bankruptcy in August 2009, and
since November 2009 has been associated
with an Indian.
• Identify the brand and the Indian.

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43. • Megha Mittal;
wife of Aditya
Mittal

44. 14.
• Algordanza is a company which in the
local Romansch language means
“remembrance”.
• They are the market leaders in the
production of something. What?

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46. • Algordanza
put their latest
technologies
to convert the
ashes of a
loved one into
a synthetic
diamond
thereby
creating
“memorial
diamonds”.

47. •
•
•
•
•
•
While filming Dazed and
Confused, this actor was struggling
with the passing of his father. It was
during this time that he was
overtaken by a saying that would
soon change his life: “just keep livin”
or “j.k. livin” as it’s called.
When he established his
foundation, naming it “just keep
livin” was a natural fit.
It captured so many aspects of
health and well-being and applies
to all facets of life.
He included his father, “Pop”, on the
logo in remembrance of the
saying’s origin.
Among other things, he also has a
clothing line styled as JKL.
Which actor are we talking about?
15.

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49. • Matthew McConaughey

50. 16.
• It is the oldest trademark or logo still in
use in its original form registered with
the
World
Intellectual
Property
Organization (WIPO) on July 19, 1880.
• The company/brand gets its name
from the local name given to the land
to the right bank of the River
Suze, which runs through the St. Imier
valley.

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