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1. CREDENZ ‘17
BIZ-TECH QUIZ PRELIMS
BY
PISB TEAM

2. Acknowledgements
● Dr P . T . Kulkarni
● Dr Rajesh Ingle ( HOD Comp. Dept. )
● Mr. Amar Buchade

3. A BIG THANKS TO ALL OF OUR SPONSORS

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5. EVENT PARTNER WORKSHOP PARTNER

6. Rules
● There are 20 questions in this round.
● Questions 5, 10, 15, 20 are STAR MARKED QUESTIONS which will be used while
valuation in case of a tie.
● In the case that even the STAR MARKED Questions are same there will be a
sudden death evaluation of the answer sheets.
● All electronic devices should be either switched off or kept on silent mode.
● Play fair.
● Quiz Master's decision is final.

8. LET’S START

9. Question 1.
The logo of the company X was made during 1940's and had patriotic
colours to support the country in World War 2. Also known as the "X
Globe", with X being the name of the company, the logo depicts a smiling
globe after a recent iteration in 2009 which changed the white part into a
smile. Name the company X.

10. Question 2.
•X is a Taiwanese company headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan. Its
product portfolio consists of over 2,000 multimedia products.
•X means to be or to go beyond the range or limits of (a field of
activity or conceptual sphere).
•It was the first Taiwanese memory module manufacturer to
receive ISO 9001 certification.
•X has been recognized as one of Taiwan’s Top 20 global brands
annually since 2007, with the highest brand value of $244 million
USD.
•Id X.

11. Question 3.
X is an American video game company headquartered in
Redwood City, California. Founded and incorporated on May 28,
1982 by Trip Hawkins.
The company began developing games in-house and supported
consoles by the early 1990s.
By the early 2000s, X had become one of the world's largest
third-party publishers.
In 2011, X purchased the online gaming company PopCap,
which is behind the addictive hit games such as – Zuma,
Bejeweled and Plants vs Zombies. The purchase was made at
around $1.3 billion.
Identify X.

12. Question 4.
X is a suite of system on a chip (SoC) semiconductor products designed and marketed by Qualcomm for
mobile devices.
Its CPU uses the ARM RISC instruction set, and a single SoC may include multiple CPU cores, a GPU, and
other software and hardware to support a smartphone's GPS, camera, gesture recognition and video.
X semiconductors are embedded in devices of various systems, including Android and Windows Phone
devices. The first generation of X products supported a 720p resolution, 3D graphics and a 12-
megapixel camera, which has improved drastically over a very short period of time.
According to a Qualcomm spokesperson, it was named X, because "X sounded fast and fierce."
Id X.

13. *Question 5.*
The company Z is a multinational
construction conglomerate found in
1931 and headquartered in Jeddah,
Saudi Arabia. With ties to controversial
figures, the company is also famous for
being the one constructing the tallest
building under construction in Jeddah,
the Jeddah Towers. Which company are
we talking about?

14. Question 6.
•X's products were originally known as "X Newfangled Potato Chips", but other snack
manufacturers objected, saying X failed to meet the definition of a potato "chip".
• The US Food and Drug Administration weighed in on the matter, and in 1975, they ruled X
could only use the word "chip" in their product name within the following phrase:
"potato chips made from dried potatoes".
• Faced with such an unpalatable appellation, X eventually opted to rename their product potato
"crisps" instead of chips. This later led to other issues in the United Kingdom, where the term
potato "crisps" refers to the product Americans call potato "chips".
Id X.

15. Question 7.
Following is part of Act V, Scene I of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream-
“Where is our usual ______ of mirth? What revels are in hand? Is there no play to ease the anguish of a
torturing hour?” – King Theseus
This was the first time that the word ______ was used.
According to Urban Dictionary:
“________ is the company's representative who is responsible for harassing, intimidating, disciplining
and strong-arming employees in the name of better business practices.
Collectively, _________ are the scum that rises to the top of the pond in which we all must daily swim,
and the company's ethics hotline is the vast barge that pushes this slime to shore to be beached and
shriveled in the white-hot scorching sun of accountability.”
If not for Shakespeare, workday complaining in the office break room just wouldn’t be the same. FITB.

16. Question 8.
What is this called?

17. Question 9.
Which company released
this controversial ad
campaign , which obviously
did not go down well with
public?

18. *Question 10.*
Jared Fogle was a national spokesman for the company X in the US starting in January
2000, giving talks on healthy living and appearing in advertisements.
From 2008, he was featured less often as the company marketed with more emphasis
on its "5 dollar footlong" campaign. X attributed between one-third and one-half of
its growth from 1998 to 2011 to Fogle, the equivalent of a tripling in size.
X cut ties with Fogle on August 18, 2015, amid expectations that he would plead guilty
to child pornography and child molestation charges, which were confirmed the
following day.
He has since been sentenced to more than 15 years in federal prison.
In December 2015, following the removal of Fogle from its marketing, X introduced a
new marketing campaign, "Founded on Fresh".
Which company are we talking about?

19. Question 11.
X Internet, Inc. is an American company based in California that provides commercial web traffic data
and analysis.
Founded as an independent company in 1996, it was acquired by the company Y in 1999. Its toolbar
collects data on browsing behavior and transmits them to the X website, where they are stored and
analyzed. This is the basis for the company's web traffic reporting. According to its website, it provides
traffic data, global rankings, and other information on 30 million websites.
As of 2015, its website has been visited by over 6.5 million people monthly .As of June 2017, ‘the
number 1 X rank’ belongs to Google.com, its average daily time on site being 8 min 10 s and average
daily pageviews being 8.01.
Id X and Y.

20. Question 12.
•In accounting, X is the difference between the value of the assets and the value of the liabilities
of something owed. It is governed by the following equation :
X = ASSETS - LIABILITIES
• Alternatively, X can also refer to the capital stock of a corporation. The value of the stock
depends on the corporation's future economic prospects.
•For a company in liquidation proceedings, the X is that which remains after all liabilities have
been paid.
•For an example the total X of Apple Inc. is US$128.249 billion.
Id the term X.

21. Question 13.
In 1977, American cola giant Coca Cola withdrew from the Indian market, creating a great
vacuum in the Indian Beverage Industry. Seeing this as an opportunity, Prakash Chauhan &
Rajesh Chauhan, the 'Parle’ brothers launched X as their flagship drink. X went to rule Indian
beverage market for the next decade.
•However, in 1991 ,Y entered the Indian market, followed by Coca Cola in 1993.To counter it's
opponents, X launched its 'Mahacola’,which offered cola in bigger bottles at the same price of
that of its rival brands. This increased the competition in the market.
•But X being unable to cope up with its international competitors with huge cash reserves, Parle
sold X over to Coca Cola for $60,000,000.
At the time of its takeover by Coca Cola , X shared a huge 85% market share while that of Y
was mere 12.7%.
Id X and Y.

22. Question 14.
These are stats recorded in July 2017.
What numbers is this table showing here?

23. *Question 15.*
Karen Bartleson is 2017 President and CEO of X. She has over thirty-five
years of experience in the semiconductor industry and retired as Senior
Director of Corporate Programs and Initiatives at Synopsis, a company that
specializes in electronic design automation.
X is an organization formed in 1963. Today, it is the world's largest
association of technical professionals with more than 420,000 members in
over 160 countries around the world
X produces over 30% of the world's literature in the computer science fields
as well as electronical engineering and electrical engineering, publishing well
over 100 peer-reviewed journals.
X also has an online library, the X eLearning Library which is a collection of
online educational courses designed for self-paced learning.
Identify X.

24. Question 16.
Frictional lichenified dermatosis is a medical term linked to the prolonged use of a X.
This term collectively refers to four groups of cutaneous pathologies:
1) allergic contact dermatitis from exposure to certain chemicals in X accessories
2) various friction-induced hand lesions resulting from prolonged X use
3) erythema ab igne from placement of the X on the skin
4) "screen dermatitis" from excessive exposure to Y of X.
Identify X & Y

25. Question 17.
In January 2017,a 26 year old pimp from England, sued a multi-national mega-giant in the field
of manufacturing sports equipment with £60 million claiming the company,holding the product
X responsible for a brutal beating that helped him net a 100 year prison sentence.
He claimed that the company Y should have placed a label warning that X could be used as a
dangerous and lethal weapon,with which he stomped a person trying to leave his hotel without
paying his prostitute.The man's face was beaten to near pulp & required plastic surgery and
other heavy medication.
The product X is immensely popular and successful for the company Y.
Id X and Y.

26. Question 18.
The word X is derived from an ancient North Scandinavian term meaning "to burn".
It refers to the practice of using irons to burn a mark into the hides of livestock, and may also refer to
the practice of craftsmen engraving names into products, tools or personal belongings.
In accounting, a X defined as an intangible asset is often the most valuable asset on a corporation's
balance sheet.
Id X.

27. Question 19.
Perhaps the most famous "frivolous" lawsuit, “Liebeck vs X” is a case in which 80-year-old Stella Liebeck
spilled a X coffee in her lap, causing third-degree burns on her legs, lap, and groin area.
After she filed the lawsuit, many people criticized her without hearing the full story. After all, coffee is supposed
to be hot.
In reality, X has had over 700 complaints filed concerning the scalding temperatures of its coffee, which is
served between 180 and 190 degrees for "optimum flavor." To put that in perspective, coffee at most
restaurants is served at around 140 degrees.
Liebeck tried to solicit X for a mere $800 to cover the skin grafts required for her injuries, but X refused.
Ultimately, the jury settled, awarding Liebeck $2.7 million.
Identify X.

28. *Question 20.*
Since the early days of the Internet, users have wanted to make text illegible to computers. The first
such people could be hackers, posting about sensitive topics to Internet forums they thought were
being automatically monitored for keywords. To circumvent such filters, they would replace a word with
look-alike characters. HELLO could become |-|3|_|_() or )-(3££0, as well as numerous other variants,
such that a filter could not possibly detect all of them. This later became known as leetspeak.
This is said to have been a major factor in the development of a computer based test X.
The term X was coined in 2003 by Luis von Ahn, Manuel Blum, Nicholas J. Hopper, and John
Langford. The most common type of X was first invented in 1997 by two groups working in parallel:
(1) Mark D. Lillibridge, Martin Abadi, Krishna Bharat, and Andrei Z. Broder
(2) Eran Reshef, Gili Raanan and Eilon Solan.
In 2001, PayPal used such tests as part of a fraud prevention strategy and helped commercialize this
early use.

29. Questions Will be
Repeated Now

30. Safety Slide

31. Safety Slide

32. Question 1.
The logo of the company X was made during 1940's and had patriotic
colours to support the country in World War 2. Also known as the "X
Globe", with X being the name of the company, the logo depicts a smiling
globe after a recent iteration in 2009 which changed the white part into a
smile. Name the company X.

33. Ans 1.
Pepsi

34. Question 2.
•X is a Taiwanese company headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan. Its
product portfolio consists of over 2,000 multimedia products.
•X means to be or to go beyond the range or limits of (a field of
activity or conceptual sphere).
•It was the first Taiwanese memory module manufacturer to
receive ISO 9001 certification.
•X has been recognized as one of Taiwan’s Top 20 global brands
annually since 2007, with the highest brand value of $244 million
USD.
•Id X.

35. Ans 2.
Transcend

36. Question 3.
X is an American video game company headquartered in
Redwood City, California. Founded and incorporated on May 28,
1982 by Trip Hawkins.
The company began developing games in-house and supported
consoles by the early 1990s.
By the early 2000s, X had become one of the world's largest
third-party publishers.
In 2011, X purchased the online gaming company PopCap,
which is behind the addictive hit games such as – Zuma,
Bejeweled and Plants vs Zombies. The purchase was made at
around $1.3 billion.
Identify X.

37. Ans 3.
Electronic Arts (EA)

38. Question 4.
X is a suite of system on a chip (SoC) semiconductor products designed and marketed by Qualcomm for
mobile devices.
Its CPU uses the ARM RISC instruction set, and a single SoC may include multiple CPU cores, a GPU, and
other software and hardware to support a smartphone's GPS, camera, gesture recognition and video.
X semiconductors are embedded in devices of various systems, including Android and Windows Phone
devices. The first generation of X products supported a 720p resolution, 3D graphics and a 12-
megapixel camera, which has improved drastically over a very short period of time.
According to a Qualcomm spokesperson, it was named X, because "X sounded fast and fierce."
Id X.

39. Ans 4.
Snapdragon

40. *Question 5.*
The company Z is a multinational
construction conglomerate found in
1931 and headquartered in Jeddah,
Saudi Arabia. With ties to controversial
figures, the company is also famous for
being the one constructing the tallest
building under construction in Jeddah,
the Jeddah Towers. Which company are
we talking about?

41. *Ans 5.*
Saudi BinLadin Group

42. Question 6.
•X's products were originally known as "X Newfangled Potato Chips", but other snack
manufacturers objected, saying X failed to meet the definition of a potato "chip".
• The US Food and Drug Administration weighed in on the matter, and in 1975, they ruled X
could only use the word "chip" in their product name within the following phrase:
"potato chips made from dried potatoes".
• Faced with such an unpalatable appellation, X eventually opted to rename their product potato
"crisps" instead of chips. This later led to other issues in the United Kingdom, where the term
potato "crisps" refers to the product Americans call potato "chips".
Id X.

43. Ans 6.
Pringles

44. Question 7.
Following is part of Act V, Scene I of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream-
“Where is our usual ______ of mirth? What revels are in hand? Is there no play to ease the anguish of a
torturing hour?” – King Theseus
This was the first time that the word ______ was used.
According to Urban Dictionary:
“________ is the company's representative who is responsible for harassing, intimidating, disciplining
and strong-arming employees in the name of better business practices.
Collectively, _________ are the scum that rises to the top of the pond in which we all must daily swim,
and the company's ethics hotline is the vast barge that pushes this slime to shore to be beached and
shriveled in the white-hot scorching sun of accountability.”
If not for Shakespeare, workday complaining in the office break room just wouldn’t be the same. FITB.

45. Ans 7.
Manager

46. Question 8.
What is this called?

47. Ans 8.
Genie Effect

48. Question 9.
Which company released
this controversial ad
campaign , which obviously
did not go down well with
public?

49. Ans 9.
SONY for PSP WHITE

50. *Question 10.*
Jared Fogle was a national spokesman for the company X in the US starting in January
2000, giving talks on healthy living and appearing in advertisements.
From 2008, he was featured less often as the company marketed with more emphasis
on its "5 dollar footlong" campaign. X attributed between one-third and one-half of
its growth from 1998 to 2011 to Fogle, the equivalent of a tripling in size.
X cut ties with Fogle on August 18, 2015, amid expectations that he would plead guilty
to child pornography and child molestation charges, which were confirmed the
following day.
He has since been sentenced to more than 15 years in federal prison.
In December 2015, following the removal of Fogle from its marketing, X introduced a
new marketing campaign, "Founded on Fresh".
Which company are we talking about?

51. *Ans 10.*
Subway

52. Question 11.
X Internet, Inc. is an American company based in California that provides commercial web traffic data
and analysis.
Founded as an independent company in 1996, it was acquired by the company Y in 1999. Its toolbar
collects data on browsing behavior and transmits them to the X website, where they are stored and
analyzed. This is the basis for the company's web traffic reporting. According to its website, it provides
traffic data, global rankings, and other information on 30 million websites.
As of 2015, its website has been visited by over 6.5 million people monthly .As of June 2017, ‘the
number 1 X rank’ belongs to Google.com, its average daily time on site being 8 min 10 s and average
daily pageviews being 8.01.
Id X and Y.

53. Ans 11.
X= Alexa
Y=Amazon

54. Question 12.
•In accounting, X is the difference between the value of the assets and the value of the liabilities
of something owed. It is governed by the following equation :
X = ASSETS - LIABILITIES
• Alternatively, X can also refer to the capital stock of a corporation. The value of the stock
depends on the corporation's future economic prospects.
•For a company in liquidation proceedings, the X is that which remains after all liabilities have
been paid.
•For an example the total X of Apple Inc. is US$128.249 billion.

55. Ans 12.
Equity

56. Question 13.
In 1977, American cola giant Coca Cola withdrew from the Indian market, creating a great
vacuum in the Indian Beverage Industry. Seeing this as an opportunity, Prakash Chauhan &
Rajesh Chauhan, the 'Parle’ brothers launched X as their flagship drink. X went to rule Indian
beverage market for the next decade.
•However, in 1991 ,Y entered the Indian market, followed by Coca Cola in 1993.To counter it's
opponents, X launched its 'Mahacola’,which offered cola in bigger bottles at the same price of
that of its rival brands. This increased the competition in the market.
•But X being unable to cope up with its international competitors with huge cash reserves, Parle
sold X over to Coca Cola for $60,000,000.
At the time of its takeover by Coca Cola , X shared a huge 85% market share while that of Y
was mere 12.7%.
Id X and Y.

57. Ans 13.
X= ThumsUp
Y= Pepsi

58. Question 14.
These are stats recorded in July 2017.
What numbers is this table showing here?

59. Ans 14.
Number of Active users on
Facebook

60. *Question 15.*
Karen Bartleson is 2017 President and CEO of X. She has over thirty-five
years of experience in the semiconductor industry and retired as Senior
Director of Corporate Programs and Initiatives at Synopsis, a company that
specializes in electronic design automation.
X is an organization formed in 1963. Today, it is the world's largest
association of technical professionals with more than 420,000 members in
over 160 countries around the world
X produces over 30% of the world's literature in the computer science fields
as well as electronical engineering and electrical engineering, publishing well
over 100 peer-reviewed journals.
X also has an online library, the X eLearning Library which is a collection of
online educational courses designed for self-paced learning.
Identify X.

61. *Ans 15.*
IEEE

62. Question 16.
Frictional lichenified dermatosis is a medical term linked to the prolonged use of a X.
This term collectively refers to four groups of cutaneous pathologies:
1) allergic contact dermatitis from exposure to certain chemicals in X accessories
2) various friction-induced hand lesions resulting from prolonged X use
3) erythema ab igne from placement of the X on the skin
4) "screen dermatitis" from excessive exposure to Y of X.
Identify X & Y

63. Ans 16.
X= Computer
Y=Monitor/Visual Display Terminal(VDT)

64. Question 17.
In January 2017,a 26 year old pimp from England, sued a multi-national mega-giant in the field
of manufacturing sports equipment with £60 million claiming the company,holding the product
X responsible for a brutal beating that helped him net a 100 year prison sentence.
He claimed that the company Y should have placed a label warning that X could be used as a
dangerous and lethal weapon,with which he stomped a person trying to leave his hotel without
paying his prostitute.The man's face was beaten to near pulp & required plastic surgery and
other heavy medication.
The product X is immensely popular and successful for the company Y.
Id X and Y.

65. Ans 17.
Nike Air Jordans

66. Question 18.
The word X is derived from an ancient North Scandinavian term meaning "to burn".
It refers to the practice of using irons to burn a mark into the hides of livestock, and may also refer to
the practice of craftsmen engraving names into products, tools or personal belongings.
In accounting, a X defined as an intangible asset is often the most valuable asset on a corporation's
balance sheet.
Id X.

67. Ans 18.
Brand

68. Question 19.
Perhaps the most famous "frivolous" lawsuit, “Liebeck vs X” is a case in which 80-year-old Stella Liebeck
spilled a X coffee in her lap, causing third-degree burns on her legs, lap, and groin area.
After she filed the lawsuit, many people criticized her without hearing the full story. After all, coffee is supposed
to be hot.
In reality, X has had over 700 complaints filed concerning the scalding temperatures of its coffee, which is
served between 180 and 190 degrees for "optimum flavor." To put that in perspective, coffee at most
restaurants is served at around 140 degrees.
Liebeck tried to solicit X for a mere $800 to cover the skin grafts required for her injuries, but X refused.
Ultimately, the jury settled, awarding Liebeck $2.7 million.
Identify X.

69. Ans 19.
McDonald’s

70. *Question 20.*
Since the early days of the Internet, users have wanted to make text illegible to computers. The first
such people could be hackers, posting about sensitive topics to Internet forums they thought were
being automatically monitored for keywords. To circumvent such filters, they would replace a word with
look-alike characters. HELLO could become |-|3|_|_() or )-(3££0, as well as numerous other variants,
such that a filter could not possibly detect all of them. This later became known as leetspeak.
This is said to have been a major factor in the development of a computer based test X.
The term X was coined in 2003 by Luis von Ahn, Manuel Blum, Nicholas J. Hopper, and John
Langford. The most common type of X was first invented in 1997 by two groups working in parallel:
(1) Mark D. Lillibridge, Martin Abadi, Krishna Bharat, and Andrei Z. Broder
(2) Eran Reshef, Gili Raanan and Eilon Solan.
In 2001, PayPal used such tests as part of a fraud prevention strategy and helped commercialize this
early use.

71. *Ans 20.*
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