ExQuiZite Leaderboard & Rules

1. 3 Day Event
2. Leaderboard system
3. Submission mode - Whatsapp
4. Any kind of unfair practices are prohibited. You will be disqualified
from the event if caught.
General Rules

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METHOD FOR RESOLVING TIES :
1. Star marked question
2. Longest Streak
3. Special tie-breaker Questions
Prelims Rules

1.**X is a company founded by Swedish man. X's best selling product is
surprisingly Y with a whopping 150 million units per year, a food item which
dwarfs <redacted> bookcase, the next highest selling product which is a
product that you would actually expect to find at a store like X . The founder of
X held the hypothesis that hungry customers were distracted customers,
they’d be likely to shop for longer if they were full. Owing to this, X sells Y at a
strategic loss hoping to make it back from its 'real', costlier products. ID X and
Y

2. Elon Musk's recent tweet of a rather stale meme speculating that the pseudonym of
<cryptocurrency>’s developer 'X' is derived from the names of four companies.
Responding to Elon , dogecoin's creator Billy Markus joked that <cryptocurrency>'s
creator is half Japanese, a quarter Korean and a quarter American.
Identify X and the American company

3. ID the company from this image celebrating 50 years of decriminalising
homosexuality in UK

4. What company did this mascot belong to before their rebranding

5. **The computer mouse is a pointing device invented by Douglas
Engelbart at Stanford Research Institute in 1960s and presented to the
world in demo that has been dubbed the "Mother of all demos". One
explanation for the name is that the cords of the earliest mouse
prototypes used to be attached at the back , giving it the appearance of a
mouse. Another explanation of the naming of the mouse has something
to do with the computer cursor of the time due to which it seemed
amusing to name the device a mouse . What's the second explanation
about the cursor?

The cursor at the time was called CAT (for unknown
reasons)
CAT would chase the mouse on Desktop

6. This is the Nascar hall of fame building. Surrounding the building is a large twisted
ribbon of stainless steel evoking the twists and turns in a race track. What
mathematical object is this twisted ribbon based on ( or literally is)

7. Few years ago Google found collisions for a popular cryptographic hash function X ,
which basically means two distinct pdfs were mapped to the same value under the
hash function X, a big no-no for hashes. In layman terms X was "fully and practically
broken". It is discontinued from several applications but this 25 year old hash function
X is still used in Git. This collision by google is aptly named _________ a pun on the
name of hash function X broken. Just FITB

8. IKEA created this advert for a grater as a jab at another company's 2019 product
which had a likeness to a cheese grater . ID the company

9. X Y is a geometric figure which get its name from the Christian archangel X who
blows the Y to announce judgment day.
X Y is associated with <redacted> paradox which says X Y can hold a finite amount of
paint but require an infinite amount to paint its surface
ID X Y

11. By 1940s DeBeers , a diamond mining and manufacturing cartel of
companies was facing declining sales for 2 decades.
In 1947 ad agency N.W. Ayer's Frances Gerety suggested a slogan that
immediately clicked with American people. Diamond went from being saw as
something for only the wealthiest of people to a promise of eternal love.
Ad age named it the "Best slogan of 20th century "
ID the slogan

"A diamond is forever "/ "Diamond is forever"

12. **What recent happening is this Amul Doodle about?

BIZSCITECH
FINAL
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RULES
+100 -50
First answer will be taken so answer carefully
Tie Breaking rules:
Star Marked Questions
On further tie, the team with lesser negatives would be preferred.
On further tie, streak from start of finals
On further tie, prelims score

1.**When chunks of Calcium Oxide are heated super hot they’ll emit a blinding white
light in a process called candoluminescence. These were used in the theatres for
stage lighting and spotlights in 19th century before the advent of electricity.
If a person was at focus during the play, this would be pointed to them.
What phrase/word is this the origin of ?

Being in the Limelight/ Limelight(center of attention)
Calcium Oxide lights = lime light

2. <company> was a leading manufacturer of electrical equipment founded in
late 19th Century
This <company>'s ad featuring a strong ,muscular woman was originally
intended as an internal morale boost to female workers at <company> factory
during war times. This evolved to be an icon representing women who worked
in factories producing war supplies , replacing male workers who joined the
military, since then it has become a symbol of female empowerment.
Identify either the name of women we associate with the image OR the
original text that that appeared on the <company>’s campaign

"We can do it " , Rosie the Riveter

3. To demonstrate the waterproof capabilities of the new sony walkman
around 2020, the device was sold in a very interesting manner in vending
machines in gyms and swimming pools
Describe the interesting manner

4. Persian mathematician Al-Khwarizmi (8th Century) wrote an
influential book called <redacted>. 300 years later it was translated
into Latin. It introduced hindu-arabic numerals to the west.
Al-Khwarizmi name when latinised in the title of the book became
<redacted>. This is the origin of a common word nowadays, which
roughly means the steps of doing something.
ID the common modern word

Algorithm
Book- Algoritmi de numero Indorum
(“Al-Khwārizmī Concerning the
Hindu Art of Reckoning”)

5. In a ted talk (interview) of Linus Torvalds , on the topic of open
source and working with thousands of people he says "..so
<redacted> is my second big project which is only created to
maintain my first big project"
What are the first and second projects he is talking about (sequence
matters)

git is the second project to maintain the first big project -
linux

6. **This company's <product> were originally known as a women's
<product>.
After new evidence of harmful effects of this <product>, the industry was
pressured to develop healthier alternative.
This company wanted to change its image from that (women’s <product>) and
sell to men as well.
For this purpose the company launched a campaign featuring a weathered
cowboy which made it a <product> of choice for cool, rugged men
everywhere.
ID the cowboy

7. William Gosset, a brewer at Guinness, a small company at the time, developed a
method of statistics which revolutionized the field. His method was used to ensure the
quality of beer in large batches by testing small samples from each batch. But
Guinness would only allow Gosset to publish his results under a pen name. So he
published under the name X. What is this test(contains the word X), which remains
one of the cornerstones of modern statistics

"Student’s T-test”
Gosset wrote under the pseudonym “Student” .
Gosset's methods enabled Guinness to take intelligent decisions about which
ingredients to use, allowing them to produce high-quality beer that
consistently tasted the same

8. Initially described in Peter Lynch's One up on Wall Street(1989) the term X is used
for inefficient and over diversification of portfolio which can confuse you, increase your
investment cost and lead to below-average, risk-adjusted returns.
What is X , which is a play on the word diversification

9. This IKEA advert encouraged people peeing on it, which could potentially earn the
one who peed half off on a certain Ikea furniture. Give funda (why pee? , what
furniture?)

The advert is a pregnancy test
Furniture - crib

10. You must have seen recent clips of removal of all but Indian flag from a russian
rocket. That rocket contained 36 satellites under the OneWeb programme -
satellite-based internet connectivity that will be provided across the globe .
The project aims to launch 648 satellites into orbit, and 428 of them had already been
launched at the time of video, all of them using the Russian Soyuz vehicle. What
Indian telecom(with 29% stake) along with UK government is the owner of this project?

11. The earliest recorded reference of X is from Edward Lucas who
reports that the temple of Kashi Vishwanath, UP contains a set of 64
circular disks on 3 diamond needles called the tower of Brahma,
which Brahmins have been trying to solve since the beginning of
time, supposedly the Universe will end when they succeed. Modern
day knowledge shows that this claim is not that far fetched as it
would take 42 times the current age of the universe to solve 'it' .
What is X?

12. Made during the lockdown , identify what this unofficial ad is for (this picture is
edited)

13. X described that he received revelations from god that he should personally build
the third temple of god , the successor of destroyed second temple in Jerusalem. This
temple would be an operating system named <redacted>. Other specific instructions
from god included that the OS should be limited to 640*480 resolution, 16 vga colors.
The programs in this OS are filled with biblical references
He made a compiler and language called Y which (technically) falls somewhere
between C and C++ , its name is a reference to the place in Vatican shown below
ID the name of the OS and Y (I don’t want what the image is of)

OS is TempleOS
Y- Holy C ( not holy see, that’s the name of the place)

14. **Food item X has forever been a subject of mockery because of
its mysterious nature.
A Monty Python sketch about it repeated the word X over and over by
a waitress, customers and even vikings. Many fans of Monty Python
also frequented online chatrooms like AOL, who started using the
word X to refer to people who created scripts to say the same thing
over and over again (like the sketch). What well known tech term is
this origin story of

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