This quiz was hosted as a part of Genesis '21.

1. BIZ-TECH
QUIZ
Put together by,
Prabhjot Singh a.k.a. Prabhi

2. GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
1.> There are 22 questions in total.
2.> The entire quiz will be on pounce. There is no bounce in this quiz.
3.> The scoring will be as follows :-
i. For questions that have a single answer (eg:- Apple) = +10/-10
ii. For questions that have various parts (eg:- X=Apple, Y=Steve
Jobs) = +5/-5 for each part attempted (yes you can attempt for
any number of parts on pounce).
iii. If the team gets all the parts in questions of type ii. correct,
they’ll get an additional +5.
4.> Scores will be revealed after the 10th question and also after the 20th
question.
5.> The quizmaster’s decision is final in all matters of this quiz.

4. Q1.
X is a agricultural chemical and seed company that is headquartered
in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A. It is the biggest stand alone
agricultural organization in the world.
The name X is derived from a combination of words meaning heart
and nature. The company was the agricultural unit of Y prior to being
spun off as an independent public company.
In March 2019, X was criticized by the Humane Society of United
States for testing a new fungicide on beagle dogs as such testing is
required by regulatory authorities.
Identify X and Y.

5. AND THE
ANSWER
IS ->

6. ANSWER :- X =
CORTEVA
AGRISCIENCE ;
Y = DOWDUPONT

7. Q2.
In 1884, John Henry Patterson and his brother Frank Jefferson Patterson
bought a company and renamed it X. Significant figures in the early history of
the company Edward A. Deeds, Charles F. Kettering and Y.
Y worked his way up to become the general sales manager. At a sales meeting,
Y interrupted saying “The trouble with everyone of us is that we _______________.
We don’t get paid for working with our feet – we get paid for working with our
heads.” Y then wrote Z on the easel.
Signs with this motto were later erected in the X factory buildings, sales offices
and club rooms. Y was later fired from X in 1914 after which he joined a
company which later evolved into a huge multinational company. Z became a
widely known symbol of this new company.
Identify X (the company), Y (the person) and Z (what Y wrote).

8. AND THE
ANSWER
IS ->

9. ANSWER :- X = NATIONAL
CASH REGISTER COMPANY
; Y = THOMAS J. WATSON ;
Z = THINK

10. Q3.
In X technology, the phrasing “COCOM Limits” is also used to refer to a
limit placed in X devices that should disable when the device realizes itself
to be under certain physical conditions.
This was introduced to avoid the use of X in certain type of non-
commercial and dangerous scenarios illegally.
Some manufacturers apply this limit literally (disable when both limits are
reached), other manufacturers disable when either of the limits is
reached.
Identify X and tell me what are COCOM limits?

11. AND THE
ANSWER
IS ->

12. ANSWER :- X = GPS ;
HEIGHT AND SPEED
LIMITS TO PREVENT
BEING USED IN ICBM.

13. Q4.
Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 is an online action role-playing video
game developed by Massive Entertainment and published by
Ubisoft. The sequel to Tom Clancy’s The Division, it is set in a
near-future X, in the aftermath of a genetically engineered virus
known as “Green Poison” being released, and follows an agent of
Strategic Homeland Division as they try to rebuild X.
Released in March, 2019, this game was in news very recently for
the eerie parallels being drawn between the game and Y.
Identify X and Y.

14. AND THE
ANSWER
IS ->

15. ANSWER :- X =
WASHINGTON
D.C. ;
Y = U.S.
CAPITOL
RIOTS

16. Q5.
This team competes in the fifth tier
of the English football league
system. Formed in 1864, their home
stadium is the world’s oldest
international stadium that still
continues to host international
games.
It was a supporter-owned football
club before being bought by two
Hollywood actors Rob McElhenney
and X in November 2020.
Identify the football club and X.

17. AND THE
ANSWER
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18. ANSWER :- WREXHAM
A.F.C. ;
X = RYAN REYNOLDS

19. Q6.
The X Company was founded in 1919, as a joint venture of Walchand
Hirachand along with Narottam Morajee, Kilachand Devchand and
Lallubhai Samaldas all of them being businessmen from Gujarat.
To start the company, Walchand Hirachand, and others bought the SS
Loyalty in 1919 from the Y royal family. The vessel was originally the RMS
Empress of India (1890) bought from the Canadian Pacific Railway and
paid for by the Maharaja of Y as a hospital ship for Indian troops in WW1.
The company was recognized as the first Swadeshi shipping company in
the true sense of the term and was referred to widely in Mahatma
Gandhi’s columns in Young India and Harijan.
Identify X and Y.

20. AND THE
ANSWER
IS ->

21. ANSWER :- X = SCINDIA
STEAM NAVIGATION ;
Y = GWALIOR

22. Q7.
X-equator is the border between the territories of two discount
supermarket chains with one having 35 independent regional branches
and approx. 2500 stores while the other has 31 branches and approx. 1600
stores.
X was founded by brothers Karl and Theo Albrecht in 1946. The business
was split into two separate groups in 1960.
The American chain of grocery stores, Trader Joe’s is the part of the X
owned by Theo Albrecht.
Identify X, the name of the company which is the stylized form of
founder’s name and the type of supermarket chain they are.

24. AND THE
ANSWER
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25. ANSWER :- X = ALDI ;
(AL)BRECHT (DI)SCOUNT

26. Q8.
What common name do all the three share?

27. AND THE
ANSWER
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28. ANSWER :- MERU

29. Q9.
Discussing his rivalry with X, Y said: Listen, I’m not surprised because
they are my creations, but it strikes me that even though people
thought I was ridiculous at the time – at X, incidentally – I am the only
one who is still relevant, whereas the others are outmoded. What is the
X style? There is no style. There is style at Courreges, there is a style at
Chanel, there is a style at Y.
What is the style at X? An elegant woman. And elegant woman is not a
style, it’s a behaviour.
Hint:- Y was denied work at Balenciaga and the company X is under the
same parent company as Balenciaga.

30. AND THE
ANSWER
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31. ANSWER :- X = YVES SAINT
LAURENT ; Y = PIERRE CARDIN

32. Q10.
Identify the company which is known for some other product than wine.

33. AND THE
ANSWER
IS ->

34. ANSWER :- DIESEL

35. Q11.
Recently in UK, a certain company came up with a pre-release stunt to mark the
launch of their new product. Below you can find one of the iconic designs, they
gave the London underground signs an upgrade in their product’s own unique style.
What is the inspiration behind such designs?

36. AND THE
ANSWER
IS ->

37. ANSWER :- PLAYSTATION PS5
CONTROLLER

38. Q12.
X is a brand of flavoured drink mix owned by Kraft Heinz based in Chicago,
Illinois. The powder form was created by Edwin Perkins in 1927 based upon a
liquid concentrate called Fruit Smack.
In 1978, at Jonestown, Guyana, the religious lunatic Jim Jones convinced his
fanatical followers to drink a mixture of X, cyanide, and prescription drugs
Valium, Phenergan and chloral hydrate.
Kraft Foods, the maker of X, stated that the beverage was not X but a product very
similar and manufactured by The Jel Sert Company was used.
Nevertheless, the phrase “Drinking the X” is still in use and when applied to
business it means any situation where managers demand employees hold an
unquestioning belief in their corporate strategy.
Identify X.

39. AND THE
ANSWER
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40. ANSWER :- X =
KOOL-AID

41. Q13.
In the 3rd season of the American TV Series, House of Cards, President Frank
Underwood appears on The Colbert Report to promote his proposal for a
controversial job-generation scheme called America Works.
Underwood: “Look, I don’t let polls like that bother me. I think once the nation sees
AmWorks in action, they will change their attitudes.”
Colbert: “I’m sorry, AmWorks? I didn’t realize it was called AmWorks. Is it like X? Is
it a pyramid scheme? Is that what you’re selling to the American people?”
Underwood: “No, it’s actually just an abbreviation to make it easier to say.”
X capitalized on the joke by using the attention as a springboard to explain the
difference between an illegal pyramid scheme and its business model.
Identify X.

42. AND THE
ANSWER
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43. ANSWER :- X = AMWAY

44. Q14.
Harvard Business School professor Anita Elberse had an exclusive
opportunity in 2012 to collaborate with X and analyze his approach and
enormously successful methods, resulting in a Harvard Business Review
article in 2013.
In 2014, X was appointed to a long-term teaching position in Executive
Education by Harvard as a part of the new “The Business of Media,
Entertainment and Sports” programme.
Elberse explains, “To have X there and for students to be able to see
him in action, see how he addresses a group and receive tips on
management at the highest level, there’s no replacement for that live
experience.”
Identify X.

45. AND THE
ANSWER
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46. ANSWER :- X = SIR
ALEX FERGUSON

47. Q15.
Connect all the pictures to a famous company.

48. AND THE
ANSWER
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49. ANSWER :-
KALASHNIKOV
GROUP

50. Q16.
Identify the
company
and also put
funda.

51. AND THE
ANSWER
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52. ANSWER :- IKEA ; GUIDE TO
ASSEMBLE THE LARGE
HADRON COLLIDER

53. Q17.
Connect these to a company and also give me the
name of the founder of that company.

54. AND THE
ANSWER
IS ->

55. ANSWER :- SERUM
INSTITUTE OF INDIA ;
CYRUS S.
POONAWALLA

56. Q18.
X was founded as Y in the year 1922, originally making Z before
developing passenger cars.
The name was changed to X after World War II to avoid the
unfavourable connotations of the Schutzstaffel initials.
X was spun off from British Leyland and was listed on the London Stock
Exchange in 1984, becoming a constituent of the FTSE 100 index until it
was acquired by Ford in 1990.
X has, in recent years, manufactured cars for the British Prime Minister.
It also holds royal warrants from Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles.
Identify X, Y and Z.

57. AND THE
ANSWER
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58. ANSWER :- X = JAGUAR
CARS LTD. ; Y = SWALLOW
SIDECAR COMPANY ; Z =
MOTORCYCLE SIDECARS

59. Q19.
Connect the pictures to a sponsored top-level domain.

60. AND THE
ANSWER
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61. ANSWER :- .LGBT

62. Q20.
X grew up on the family farm in the Qingshui District of Taichung,
Taiwan. After receiving his doctorate from Kansas State University, he
went to teach and work at the University of Tennessee.
In 1992 while at the University of Tennessee, X led a team attempting to
develop electrostatic filtration technology. Their research was successful
and led to the creation of Y. He continued his work into this technology
and in 2018 he developed a new technique which doubled the filtration
capacity.
X retired from University of Tennessee in 2019 but was soon brought to
work to tackle a new challenge regarding Y, the challenge he is currently
trying to solve.
Identify X, Y and the challenge X is facing these days.

63. AND THE
ANSWER
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64. ANSWER :- X = PETER TSAI ;
Y = N95 MASK ; CHALLENGE
IS TO DECONTAMINATE THE
N95 MASK AND MAKE IT
REUSABLE AS IT IS IN
SHORT SUPPLY

65. Q21.
Yet another connect question.

66. AND THE
ANSWER
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67. ANSWER :- THE
WASHINGTON POST

68. Q22.
The X index is an informal metric used by the Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA) to determine the effect of a storm and
the likely scale of assistance required during a disaster recovery. The
term was coined by former FEMA director Craig Fugate in May 2011,
following the 2011 Joplin tornado.
Most of X’s business takes place in the American south, which is
frequently battered by hurricanes and tornadoes, have good risk
management and disaster preparedness practices, which aid FEMA in
determining the scale of the disaster.
Identify X.

69. AND THE
ANSWER
IS ->

70. ANSWER:- X = WAFFLE
HOUSE

71. THANKS!