PRASHNATANTRA-THE IIITG QUIZ CLUB

1. BUSINESS,SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY QUIZ
PRASHNATANTRA-THE IIITG QUIZ CLUB
QUIZ MASTER-PARIKIRT JHA

2. • THIS QUIZ IS BASED ON BUSINESS,SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY:-ANY THING
AND EVERYTHING RELATED TO THE SAME CAN BE ASKED
• THERE ARE 37 QUESTIONS WITH EACH CARRYING 1 MARK FOR THE CORRECT
ANSWER
• IN CASE OF A TIE THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS WILL BE CONSIDERED-
2,4,7,12,16,17,18,19,20,25,36
• Please star mark the same
• THE QUIZMASTER IS A LOT OF THINGS,BUT NOT A GRAMMAR NAZI-
SPELLING ERRORS AND GRAMMATICAL ERRORS WILL NOT LOSE YOU MARKS
UNTIL AND UNLESS IT MAKES SENSE.
• THE QUIZMASTERS DECISION WILLL BE FINAL.

3. ADAM MOSSEIRI, INSTAGRAMS RECENT VP OF PRODUCT
AND A FORMER HIGH RANKING PRODUCT EXECUTIVE AT
FACEBOOK,TOOK OVER AS “HEAD OF INSTAGRAM” VERY
RECENTLY. WHO DID HE REPLACE (2 PEOPLE)?

4. • NARINDER SINGH KAPANY IS AN INDIAN BORN AMERICAN
PHYSICIST.HE WAS NAMED AS ONE OF “SEVEN UNSUNG HEROES”
BBY FORTUNE IN THEIR “BUSINESSMEN OF THE CENTURY” ISSUE.
• FORTUNE WROTE THAT “ONCE IN SCHOOL A TEACHER TOLD
KAPANY THAT LIGHT ONLY MOVES IN A STRAIGHT LINE.HE SET
OUT TO PROVE HIM WRONG.”
• WHAT DID HE EVENTUALLY INVENT WHICH HAS HUGE
APPLICATIONS IN THE MODERN WORLD.HE IS ALSO TERMED AS
THE FATHER OF THE SAID FIELD.

5. WHAT IS SO SPECIAL ABOUT THIS HP FAN
FICTION?

6. EXCERPT FROM THE NEW YORKER.WHAT CAN
THESE ARTISTS BE CHOSEN FOR?
• Damien Hirst would be the obvious choice, having already sent a dot painting to Mars, in
2003, which was designed to double as a calibration chart for scientists back on Earth.
(The space probe on which the three-inch piece travelled, the Beagle 2, missed its landing
date and was presumed lost in space, until 2015, when both it and the art were
recovered.) A more interesting guest would be the Latvian-American photorealist Vija
Celmins. The painter has been making sublime drawings of night skies and the lunar
surface since the nineteen-sixties.
• Tom Sachs has been suiting up for the job for years, staging ambitious bricolage “space
missions” using Home Depot materials. Or the Polish sculptor Aleksandra Mir could
restage the ten-hour performance, from 1999, that helped launch her career, in which
she planted an American flag on a mountain of sand and declared herself the “First
Woman on the Moon.” More boldly, to pay homage to the space race of the Cold War, he
might invite the husband-and-wife team of Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, former Soviet artists

7. WHAT CONSEQUENCE DID THIS LETTER
HAVE?

8. IDENTIFY X
• THE X SYSTEM WAS INVENTED IN 1994 BY THE JAPANESE COMPANY DENSO
WAVE.ITS PURPOSE WAS TO TRACK VEHICLES DURING MANUFACTURING;IT
WAS DESIGNED TO ALLOW HIGH SPEED COMPONENT SCANNING.X IS NOW
USED IN A MUCH BROADER CONTEXT,INCLUDING BOTH COMMERCIAL
TRACKING APPLICATIONS AND CONVENIENCE ORIENTED APPLICATIONS
AIMED AT MOBILE PHONE USERS(TERMED MOBILE TAGGING).
• THERE ARE ALSO A PLETHORA OF X GENERATOR APPS AVAILABLE MAKING X
ONE OF THE MOST USED SOFTWARE TOOLS IN THE WORLD.

9. WHAT IS X
• X WAS INVENTED BY DUTCH ELECTRICAL ENGINEER JAAP
HAARTSEN,WORKING FOR TELECOM VENDOR ERICSSON IN
1994,IT WAS ORIGINALLY CONCEIVED AS A WIRELESS
ALTERNATIVE TO DATA CABLES.
• IT WAS NAMED AFTER DANISH KING HERALD X,WHO ORGANISED
DISSONANT DANISH TRIBES UNDER ONE KINGDDOM.THE
IMPLICATION IS THAT X UNITES COMMUNICATION PROTOCOLS.

10. IDENTIFY HIM

11. • “YOU CAN TELL IT IS REAL BECAUSE IT LOOKS SO FAKE”.WHO
SAID THIS VERY RECENTLY?

12. WHAT IS BEING TALKED ABOUT?
• IT IS MATHEMATICALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO TRANSLATE THE
SURFACE OF A SPHERE ONTO A PLANE WITHOUT SOME FORM OF
DISTORTION.
• TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM,MATHEMATICIANS AND
CARTOGRAPHERS HAVE DEVELOPED A LIBRARY OF PROJECTIONS
OF ______.EACH DISTORTING A CERTAIN ATTRIBUTE AND
PRESERVING OTHERS.

13. • FILL IN THE BLANKS
• _________________ is a problem proposed by ancient geometers.
It is the challenge of constructing a square with the same area
as a given circle by using only a finite number of steps
with compass and straightedge. In 1882, the task was proven to
be impossible, as a consequence of the Lindemann –
Weierstrass theorem which proves that pi (π) is a transcendental,
rather than an algebraic irrational number; that is, it is not the root of
any polynomial with rational coefficients.

14. WHAT IS BEING TALKED ABOUT?
• “EACH PIECE BEARS A GLYPH,OR GLYPHS,SYMBOLISING THE
MULTILINGUALISM OF X.AS WITH THE LATIN LETTER “W”,THESE
GLYPHS ARE IN MOST CASES THE FIRST GLYPH OR GLYPHS OF
THE NAME X RENDERED IN THAT LANGUAGE.THE EMPTY SPACE
ON THE TOP RREPRESENTS THE EMPTY NATURE OF THE
PROJECT"

15. • IT IS OFTEN MISTAKEN THAT THE ICONIC IMAGE OF APPLE
LOGO,WITH THE APPLE BEING HALF EATEN IS A HOMAGE TO
X.THE MAN RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DESIGN HAS SAID THAT THE
APPLE WAS BITTEN JUST TO MAKE SURE PEOPLE DIDN’T MISTAKE
IT FOR A CHERRY.
• ACCORDING TO STEPHEN FRY,ALTHOUGH JOBBS ALSO
CONFIRMED IT WASN’T AN INTENTIONAL REFFERENCE TO X,HE
ADDED “GOD,WE WISH IT WERE”.

16. IDENTIFY THE FAMOUS GLOBAL CHAIN
FROM AD

17. THIS IS A VERY FAMOUS MACHINE.IDENTIFY THE
PURPOSE OF THIS MACHINE AND WHERE WAS IT
MADE.(SPECIFIC ANSWERS REQUIRED)

18. THIS CONTROVERSIAL AD LED TO A HUGE SURGE IN
NIKE’S ONLINE SALES.IDENTIFY THE PERSON ON THE
POSTER

19. • The X’s Y is an economic index that can supposedly detect the
beginnings of a recovery during an economic slump. The
premise is that X’s Y are a necessity in normal economic times
and sales remain stable. During a severe downturn, demand for
these goods changes as new purchases are deferred. Hence,
men's purchasing habits for Y (and that of their spouses on
their behalf) is thought to be a good indicator of discretionary
spending for consumption at large especially during
turnaround periods.
X,Y?

20. • AS AN IMMIGRANT HOTEL WORKER IN PARIS AND LATER
LONDON,THE COMPANY’S YOUNG FOUNDER WAS IMPRESSED WITH
THE LUXURIOUS BAGGAGE HE SAW URBAN GUESTS BRING WITH
THEM.BEFORE LEAVING,HE VISITED THE MANUFACTURER H.J Cave &
sons. UPON RETURNING TO HIS BIRTHPLACE OF FLORENCE,A CITY
DISTINGUISHED FOR HIGH-QUALITY MATERIALS AND SKILLED
ARTISANS,HE ESTABLISHED A SHOP IN 1920 THAT SOLD FINE
LEATHER GOODS WITH CLASSIC STYLING.ALTHOUGH HE ORGANIZED
HIS WORKROOMS FOR INDUSTRIAL METHODS OF PRODUCTION,HE
MAINTAINED TRADITIONAL METHODS OF FABRICATION.
• WHICH COMPANY’S EARLY YEARS ARE DESCRIBED ABOVE?

21. WHICH COMPANY AM I TALKING ABOUT?
• FOUNDED BY NOTHING LESS THAN A CULTURAL ICON,THIS
COMPANY IS ONE FOR THE EARLY PIONEERS FOR FUELLING THE
IDYLLIC CONCEPT OF “AMERICAN DREAM”.
• WITH ITS PRESENCE IN THREE COUNTRIES APART FROM THE
US,IT EMPLOYS CLOSE TO 200,000 PEOPLE AND GENERATES
REVENUE MORE THAN 50 BILLION USD.
• IT IS THE SECOND LARGEST PURCHASER OF EXPLOSIVES IN THE
US.

22. WHOSE “IDENTITY CARD” WOULD CONTAIN
ONE OR MORE OF THE BELOW DETAILS?
• DATE OF BIRTH: April 19,2015
• FATHERS NAME:DAVID HANSON
• HEIGHT: 1.17 feet
• CITIZENSHIP:SAUDI ARABIA
• INTERESTS:LOVES CONVERSATION,MEETING NEW
PEOPLE,BUILDING KNOWLEDGE
• HINT:VISITED IIT BOMBAY IN 2017

23. • FOUNDED AT PUNE IN MAHARASHTRA AS VENKATESHWARA
HATCHERIES PRIVATE LIMITED IN 1971 BY DR BV RAO,AND A
COUPLE OF HIS FRIENDS,JAGAPATI RAO CHITTURI BEING ONE OF
THEM
• COMPANY THAT SPECIALISES IN CHICKEN MEAT PROCESSING
AND PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS FOR BOTH POULTRY AND
HUMAN USAGE.
• THE FIRST OUTLET OPENED IN PUNE WITH AKON PERFORMING
AT THE OPENING.

24. • “DO YOU WANT TO SELL SUGAR WATER FOR THE REST OF YOUR
LIFE OR DO YOU WANT TO COME WITH ME AND CHANGE THE
WORLD?”
• WHO SAID THIS TO WHO?

25. • SANDEEP BAKSHI IS THE NEW CEO OF THE ICICI BANK,WHO DID
HE REPLACE?

26. • SHE RECENTLY QUIT AS THE CEO OF THE SECOND LARGEST
FOOD AND BBEVERAGE COMPANY WHILE STILL RETAINING HER
POSITION AS THE CHAIRPERSON.
• She has consistently ranked among the world's 100 most
powerful women. In 2014, she was ranked at number 13 on the
Forbes list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women, and was
ranked the 2nd most powerful woman on the Fortune list in
2015.
• In February 2018, the International Cricket Council announced
that SHE would join the ICC Board as its first independent
female director in June
• WHO IS SHE?

27. • WHEN IVANKA TRUMP,THE DAUGHTER OF THE AMERICAN
PRESIDENT,VISITED HYDERABAD FOR GLOBAL
ENTREPRENEURSHIP SUMMIT IN HYDERABAD;SHE WAS GREETED
BY A 5 FOOT TALL BOT MADE BY THE BANGLORE BASED
COMPANY INVENTO ROBOTICS
• INVENTO ROBOTICS IS OWNED BY BALAJI VISHWANATHAN,THE
MOST FOLLOWED PERSONALITIY ON QUESTION AND ANSWER
PLATFORM QUORA.
• WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE ROBOT?

28. IDENTIFY THE PERSON BELOW

29. THEY ARE THE WINKLEVOSS TWINS. THEY WON
65 MILLION DOLLARS IN A LAWSUIT WITH
FACEBOOK .
WHY DID THEY FILE THE LAWSUIT?

30. IN 1983 APPLE RELEASED A LINE OF DESKTOP COMPUTERS
NAMED AFTER STEVE JOBS DAUGHTER…...NAME THE LINE OF
COMPUTERS.

31. • Who has asked Elon Musk to step down as the Chairman of
Tesla Motors for 3 years ?

32. OF WHICH EVENT IS THIS A PARODY VIDEO
OF?

33. IDENTIFY THIS EQUATION

34. IDENTIFY THIS PERSON

35. FOR THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS
ASSOCIATE TAGLINES WITH COMPANY
•THERE IS NO FINISH LINE

36. •BETCHA CANT EAT JUST ONE

37. WHERE WAS THIS SPOTTED ON 9TH
AUGUST AND WHAT IS INNOVATIVE ABOUT
THIS CARTON ?

38. WHAT IS THIS GROUP OF GENTLEMEN
CALLED?

39. ON MAY 11,1997,THE CHESS CHAMPION GARY
KASPROV WAS DEFEATED BY A SUPERCOMPUTER.
NAME THE SUPER COMPUTER.