ARTHA QUIZ FINALS AT NIT CALICUT

ARTHA : THE SCI BIZ TECH
QUIZ
Tathva 2016
Sunday, 23 October 2016
NIT Calicut

WELCOME TO THE FINALS! 4 Rounds.
44 Questions.

RULES AND REGULATIONS
 The quiz is going to be a relatively short one, with 44 questions in
total. The quiz is more of a business quiz (it’s called Artha), but
there are a few geeky questions.
 There will be four rounds: two dry rounds, each of 12 questions,
and two written rounds, each of 10 questions. The details regarding
the written rounds will be given when they come.
 For the dry rounds, bounce and pounce rules apply. +10/-10 on
the pounce, +10/0 on the bounce.
 The pounce window remains for 15secs after I complete reading the
question. Please raise your hands, all answers will be checked at the
end of the pounce window.
 Please refrain from using your cellphones.

WRITTEN ROUND 1
10 Questions.
Bonus +10 if you get all
correct.

STORIES BEHIND LOGOS
 The following written round contains ten questions, the answers of
all of which have something to do with brand logos.
 +10 for each right answer, a bonus +10 will be awarded if you get
all ten answers correct.

1.
Though relatively unknown, Ronald Wayne was one of the co-
founders of a now major technological force. Mimicking the style of a
Victorian woodcut, the logo that Wayne designed depicted Sir Isaac
Newton sitting beneath a tree. Around the border was printed a
quotation from William Wordsworth’s The Prelude: ‘A mind forever
wandering through strange seas of thought, alone.’
However Ronald Wayne bailed out extremely early, selling his 10%
stake in the company for a measly sum of $800, in addition to a
$1,500 he received to seal the deal.
Which company?

2.
X is an American retail sporting company and is today one of the
world’s largest manufacturers of surfwear and other boardsport
related equipment. It’s logo, designed by the company founder Alan
Green and John Law, was inspired by the Japanese painter Hokusai’s
woodcut The Great Wave of Kanagawa.
X also produces a line of apparel for young women, under the brand
name Y. The Y logo consists of two copies of the X logo, one
reflected, forming a heart.
Images on the next slide.
Give me X and Y. Part points on offer.

3.
X was created in Bern, Switzerland in the year 1908. The creator
along with cousin developed a unique milk chocolate including
nougat, almonds and honey with a distinctive triangular shape. The
image of a bear is hidden in the Matterhorn high mountain,
symbolizing Bern, which is nicknamed the City of Bears.
Easy points. Give me X.

4.
This company derives its name from the Latin word for envy. This
sense is a ‘looking upon’ associated with the evil eye. Naturally, the
company took advantage of this by including the symbolic eye in their
logo. The usage of green further enforces the ‘envious’ qualities of
the products bearing their logo.
Which company?

5.
Obviously, you know what
company it is. Just tell me
where would you find this
specific logo.

6.
The logo of this massively popular online video game is basically a
miniature representation of the map on which it is played. The line
across represents the river which divides the two teams that play the
game – known as the Radiant and the Dire, who occupy opposite
corners of the map.
Which game?

7.
X is a brand of lemon-lime flavoured, non-caffeinated soft drink. X
was created by Charles Leiper Grigg and was originally named ‘Bib-
Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda’. It contained lithium citrate, a
mood-stabilizing drug until the 1950s.
Though the origins of the name X is unclear, there is an interesting
theory behind its logo. The logo contains three bubbles and is said to
represent the atomic number of Lithium, 3.
Give me X.

8.
This British sportsman hired Aesop Agency to come up with this
unique logo, which combines his initials with the number 77. X
became the first British sportsman in 77 years to achieve a unique
feat in the year 2013 and is also the name of the management
company following his second grand-slam victory.
Who is X?

9.
These trucks were initially part of the Dodge lineup, and the name
was first used in the year 1981 and the logo was initially used as a
hood ornament. By the 1990s, hood ornaments were out of fashion
and the logo needed to be adapted into a consistent, identifiable
badge.
The lineup became its own brand when Fiat acquired Chrysler in
2009. Because the logo was more appropriate for the strength and
power of these trucks, Dodge relinquished the logo to the newly
formed brand.
There is one notable similarity that drives die-hard fans of these
trucks crazy: the striking resemblance of the ram’s head to a uterus.
If you don’t know what looks like, there is an image on the next slide.
Give me the company.

10.
In 2008, X spent several hundred million dollars on a new logo. A
year later, an internal document surfaced from the branding company
that looks like breathtaking bullshit. Obviously, they couldn’t say that
they just tinkered around with the old logo a little bit, so they came
up with a 27-page document titled Breathtaking Design Strategy.
Images from this bullshit follow on the next slide. Identify the
company that got majorly scammed.

ANSWER
X – Quiksilver
Y – Roxy

ANSWER
Saudi Arabia. For obvious reasons.

ANSWER
RAM trucks, formerly Dodge RAM
trucks.

CLOCKWISE DRIES
12 Questions
+10/-10 on the Pounce.
+10 on the Bounce.

1.
Easy one to start proceedings.
Raghuram Rajan, the former RBI governor, resigned on September 4,
2016. However, the new governor, Dr. Urjit Patel, only assumed office
in a private handover ceremony on September 6, 2016. Why?

ANSWER
Though he officially assumed charge on September 4 – a Sunday, the
handover took place on Tuesday, September 6, as September 5 was a
holiday on the occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi.

2.
Fill me in on both the black
boxes.
Full points only if both
answers are correct.
Spellings matter.
Larger image on the next
slide.

ANSWER
Teresa May, the British pornstar on how Britons thought she was the
new Prime Minister, Theresa May.

3.
Shown is the logo for a UK-based
global campaign that was launched
on 10 February 2010. The term was
coined by economist Hunter Logan in
1998 and commonly refers to a
package of financial transaction
taxes. This, when implemented,
would affect a wider range of asset
classes including the purchase and
sale of stocks, bonds, commodities,
unit trusts, mutual funds and
derivatives.
What is the name?

4.
Shown in the picture is an advertisement by a popular South African chain of
restaurants specializing in Afro-Portuguese cuisine. The advertisement
created quite an uproar, with many including politician Omar Abdullah
claiming it to be sexist.
Just tell me the brand.
Image on the next slide.

5.
X, a major confectionary company, has developed an algorithm Y
which it claims can ascertain the mood of the internet. The algorithm
can identify slangs and sarcasm, analyse around 14,000 social posts
a day. Based on the research X decides the price of its bar at 7-Eleven
stores in Australia. Id X and Y?

ANSWER
X – Mars, Inc.
Y – Hungerithm for Snickers. (Hungry Kya?)

6.
Three Icelanders have come up with an app named Iselindingabok,
which basically means 'bump the app before you get in bed'. What
typically Icelandic problem does the app aim to solve?
Hint: You will almost never face this problem in India.

ANSWER
Iselindingabok contains a
massive genealogical
database, which helps
Icelanders identify their
family members and see if
they are related. With a
population of only 300,000+
people, there is a high
probability that the person
you’re about to sleep with can
be related to you, and the app
works as an anti-incest app.

7.
A ticketing app by the name TodayTix has introduced a line of X that
aims to combat a common problem faced at cinema halls. The
product line includes items such as Anti Gas Lime and Mint Drink and
are packaged in soft fabrics and silicone cups. What problem are they
looking to solve?

ANSWERS
TodayTix partnered with the culinary team at Teatime to create silent
snacks, basically to prevent people from being irritated by the
rustling of plastic bags, chomping or burping by other people at the
cinema hall.

8.
The early Maruti 800s, though immensely popular, had a major
design flaw, making it notoriously popular with terrorist
organizations. At a time when car bombs were gaining popularity as
against to shootouts, Maruti noticed that in most scenarios the car
that was used for the bombing turned out to be a 800. Interestingly,
none of the cars turned out to be registered to the terrorists or
affiliated with them in any way, but were owned by normal people -
enabling the terrorists to leave no trace. What major design flaw is
this, which was later rectified?

ANSWER
Old Maruti 800s had the same key for the ignition and the petrol
tank. They had a lock for the petrol tank outside, unlike modern cars
where the door is inside the car. So terrorists used to pry open the
petrol tank, make a duplicate of the key and use that to steal the
vehicle.

9.
It is said that Carolous Clusius introduced this to the Netherlands in
the year 1593 at Leiden. They went on to become immensely popular
that at the peak of the X-mania in 1637, some X sold for more than
10 times the annual income of a skilled craftsman. X-mania is
considered by most economists to be the first recorded speculative
bubble, coinciding with the Dutch Golden Age. The 1637 event was
popularized by British journalist Charles Mackay, who claimed that at
one point 12 acres (5 ha) of land were offered for a rare variety of X.
X-mania is also the backdrop of a 2017 Hollywood movie, starring
Alicia Vikander and Cara Delevingne, adapted from a book by
Deborah Moggach. If that helps.

10.
Screen grab from a Uber user’s
phone in China.
Simply put funda.

ANSWER
Scammers in China are replacing their profile pictures with those of
zombies to scare passengers. The passengers, freaked out after
seeing what their driver looks like, cancel the trip and the scammer
pockets the cancellation fee without going anywhere.

11.
While working with other team members, Andy Hertzfeld of the
original development team decided to add a special key that could
trigger a specified set of actions.
Upon seeing the initial logo, his boss was furious and a hasty
redesign ensued. Bitmap artist Susan Kare pored through an
international symbol dictionary and came up with a Swedish symbol
that means an attraction in a campground. Alternately known as the
Gorgon loop, the splat, or in Unicode, 'a place of interest sign', what
are we talking about?

ANSWER
The Apple command logo.

12.
The term X was popularized by Neil deGrasse Tyson, an eminent
astrophysicist and New York resident. It is a reference to Y, a
monument located at Wiltshire, England, which was constructed so
that the rising sun, seen from the center of the monument at the time
of the summer solstice, aligns with the outer ‘Heel Stone’.
In accordance with the Commisioner’s Plan of 1811, the street grid
for most of X is rotated 29° clockwise from true east-west. Thus,
when the azimuth for sunset is 299°, the sunset aligns with streets on
that grid. The phenomenon X occurs twice a year, on dates evenly
spaced around the summer solstice and is a popular tourist
attraction.
Images of the phenomenon on the next slide. I need both X and Y on
the pounce.

ANSWER
X – Manhattanhenge or the Manhattan Solstice.
Y – Stonehenge.

WRITTEN ROUND 2
10 Questions.
Bonus +10 if you get all
correct.

ELEMENTS NAMED AFTER PLACES
 The following written round contains ten questions, the answers of
all of which are elements in the periodic table.
 The names of these elements are derived from terrestrial locations
and in each question of the round there will be clue that takes you
there.
 The etymology need not be the English name of the place.
 I’ve made this usually hard round as simple as possible, but if you
still need clues, the only clue I will provide is the periodic table. Make
some noise if you need to refer the same!

1.
The capital city of this country, Nicosia, is divided by “The Green
Line.” This line is also known as the UN buffer zone. It is the only
capital in the world that is divided between two nations, though
neither of the two nations are officially recognized. The country is
one of the wealthiest island nations in the Mediterranean, and is an
extremely popular tourist destination.
This country gave it’s name to the metal named after it, as it became
extremely wealthy during the time period between the Neolithic Age
and the Bronze Age.

2.
This region, whose Latin name gives rise to this element, was a
region in Western Europe during the Iron Age that was inhabited by
Celtic tribes, encompassing present day France, Luxembourg,
Belgium, most of Switzerland, Northern Italy, as well as the parts of
the Netherlands, Central Italy and Germany on the west bank of the
Rhine. According to the testimony of Julius Caesar, X was divided into
three parts: Celtica, Belgica and Aquitania. The comic strip Asterix is
set in this area and is about the inhabitants resisting Roman
occupation, set in 50BC.
Give me the region and the element named after it.

3.
The historical crest of this football club received a makeover in 2013
under the club President Nasser Al-Khelaifi's approval with a
renovated and modern design. Club shareholder Qatar Sports
Investments wanted to take full advantage of the city's global appeal
and the new crest clearly brought to the fore the name "X," which is
written in large bold letters. On top of that, the cradle which marked
the birth of Louis XIV was discarded and in place the fleur-de-lis sits
solely. Lutèce Falco 1991 is also the name of one of the club’s
notable former Ultra groups.
Give me the modern name of this city, the ancient name of which,
gave rise to the element I’m looking for.
+5 for the modern name. +5 for the ancient name and metal.

4.
This German-born Swiss novelist, poet and painter shares his last
name with a federal state of Germany, the largest city of which is
Frankfurt. A 1946 Nobel laureate, his works explore an individual’s
search for authenticity, self-knowledge and spirituality. Siddhartha, a
1922 novel written by him, is still quoted as one of his finest works
written during his psychoanalytic period.
Tell me the name of the state and the element named after it.

5.
The statue in the picture is among iconic statues that symbolize
cities; others include: Manneken Pis in Brussels, the Statue of Liberty
in New York City and Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro. In several
cases, cities have commissioned statues for such a purpose, such as
with Singapore's Merlion. The name of the city reflects its origin as a
harbour for trade and commerce, the literal English translation of
which would be ‘Chapman’s haven’. The Latin name of the city is the
etymology of the element I’m looking for.
Full points if you give me the element and the Latin name. Part points
on offer if you give me the modern day name of the city.
Image on the next slide.

6.
A far-northern location in classical Europe and cartography, Thule is
often considered to be an island in antiquity. Modern interpretations
often consider the location to be X, an interpretation supported by
modern calculations. The term ultima Thule in medieval geographies
denotes any distant place located beyond the "borders of the known
world.
Give me the name of the element and the modern-day name of the
location that I am describing above.
Part points for the element name, full points if you give me both the
element and the location.

7.
The metro system of this city is often called ‘the longest art gallery’
with more than 90 of the network's 100 stations decorated with
sculptures, rock formations, mosaics, paintings, installations,
engravings and reliefs by over 150 different artists. It is the most
populous city in the Nordic countries and is spread around 14
islands, giving the city a distinct appearance.
Part points for the modern name of the city. Full points if you get the
Latin name and the element.

8.
X is a proper geographical exonym for Keivan Rus’ a loose federation
of East Slavic tribes in Europe from the late 9th to the mid-13th
century, under the reign of the Rurik dynasty. The modern peoples of
Belarus, Ukraine, and Y all claim Kievan Rus' as their cultural
ancestors. The Baltic German scientist Karl Ernst Claus discovered the
element in 1844 and named it after his homeland, the Y Empire,
who’s Latin name is X.
Give me both X and Y. Part points on offer.

9.
Where would come across this, and
what is the name of the element
named after this really smart place?

10.
I love freebies, and here is one question which is one.
Ytterby is a village on the Swedish island Resarö, in Vaxholm
Municipality in the Stockholm archipelago. At a quarry and mine near
the village, the rare earth mineral yttria was discovered and named
after the village. This crude mineral eventually proved to be the
source of four new elements that were named after the mineral ore
and the village. In 1989 the ASM International society installed a
plaque at the former entrance to the mine, commemorating the mine
as a historical landmark
+2.5 for each of the four elements.

ANSWER
The country is Cyprus and the metal, Copper (Cuprum).

ANSWER
Paris, the ancient name of which, Lutetia, gives rise to Lutetium.

The novelist was Hermann Hesse. The state, obviously, is called Hesse
and the element is Hassium.

ANSWER
The statue was The Little Mermaid at Copenhagen. The Latin name of
Copenhagen, Hafnia, is the root behind the element named Hafnium.

ANSWER
Thulium, the modern-day location being Scandinavia.

ANSWER
The answer is Sweden’s capital city, Stockholm. The Latin name for
Stockholm is Holmia, and after Per Teodor Cleve, a Swedish scientist
discovered the element at Uppsala, Sweden, he named it Holmium.

ANSWER
X is Ruthenia, which gives its name to the element Ruthenium.
Y is Russia.

ANSWER
Berkeley, California. The element being Berkelium.

ANSWER
Yttrium (Y)
Erbium (Er)
Terbium (Tb)
Ytterbium (Yb)
Trivia
In addition, three other lanthanides, holmium (Ho, named after
Stockholm), thulium (Tm, named after Thule, a mythic analog of
Scandinavia), and gadolinium (Gd, after the chemist Johan Gadolin)
can trace their discovery to the same quarry making it the location
with most elements named after it.

ANTI-CLOCKWISE DRIES
12 Questions
+10/-10 on the Pounce.
+10 on the Bounce.

1.
Earlier this month, the Reserve Bank of Australia introduced a new
A$5 note. The notes were introduced to increase ease-of-use for
people with low vision and decrease the note’s counterfeit-friendly
qualities. However, the note immediately ran into trouble following its
introduction as vending machines throughout the country kept
rejecting the note.
What specific feature of the note was the cause?
Video follows.

ANSWER
According to the President of the Australian National Vending
Association Nick Aronis:
The note reader of a vending machine starts to read the note and
sees the clear strip, it identifies that as the end of the note and of
course it cannot recognize it, so it spits the note back out.

2.
Though it is unclear what position X holds in the American society,
the closest approximation to X's socio-economic status was done by
X himself, when he refers to him belonging to the upper lower middle
class. Throughout his career, X has had around 100 odd jobs, ranging
from the CEO at a power plant to a wrestler. X is often termed as the
perfect example of the American middle class. Until the 1970s, the
income of the average American family grew commensurate with
national economic productivity. Since then, wages have largely been
at a standstill, and have failed to keep up with inflation. Taking all of
X's jobs into account, X's income too has never surpassed the median
income of the US. Who is X, who's myriad jobs are now considered a
barometer of how well the American economy is doing by economists
worldwide?

3.
X Bombs were an experimental weapon considered by the U.S. during World
War II, at the suggestion of a dentist, Dr. Lytle Adams who was a friend of
the First Lady. These bombs consisted of a bomb-shaped casing with several
compartments, each housing a X. Each X had a small incendiary device
attached to it. The casings were refrigerated in order to lower the X’s body
temperature and force them into hibernation until they were dropped from a
plane shortly before dawn.
As Xs in sunlight would seek roosts in dark places like attics, when they were
released and the Sun came out, they’d seek such places. The hope was that
with the incendiaries timed to go off all at once, this would start fires in
places that were hard to access to fight a fire. Further, in many cases, the
fire’s existence wouldn’t be noticed until it had well established itself.
It was thought that X bombs would be particularly effective in Japan where
buildings were made largely of wood and paper. Release several hundred
thousand of these X bombs in major Japanese cities and the towns would go
up in flames while resulting in much smaller losses of life than by carpet
bombing or a (later) nuclear strike. Essentially, it would help take out the
infrastructure while minimizing civilian casualties.
X?

4.
The proverb says that good advice is beyond all price, but in early
2009, a service started in the UK that provides advise to a specific
section of the population for 75p a minute.
El-Hatef-el-Islami, one of the world’s most popular versions of these
services, draws on the expertise of scholars from Cairo’s al-Azhar
university to provide perplexed callers with help on everyday
dilemmas. British callers usually ring in with their problems, and they
can access the answer to their problem upto 48hours later using a
unique access code.
What are these services popularly called in the Arab world, where they
are often bundled with subscriptions by mobile network operators?

ANSWER
These services are called dial-a-sheikh or dial-a-fatwa services and
provide fatwas(religious rulings) to Muslim callers regarding everyday
issues.

5.
Dave Kapell was suffering from writer's block while trying to compose
song lyrics. To overcome this problem, he wrote down interesting
words on pieces of paper and rearranged them, looking for
inspiration. What he hadn't figured into this experiment was his
allergies. One good sneeze and any progress was sent flying across
the room.
What he did to overcome this problem became a line of business.
So what did he do?

6.
Though not a term usually associated with technology, X is still a
term which has connections with science. The latest versions of
Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari are called X browsers,
i.e they automatically update themselves silently without prompting
the user.
For Internet Explorer, most people consider this to mean IE10+.
What is the term?

ANSWER
Evergreen browsers, this is because most of the time, only the latest
version is supported by the manufacturer and most apps.

7.
Usually in military bases around the world, armies use highly trained
German Shepherds or other ferocious dogs to patrol the walls.
However, the Israeli Army follows a different approach by using Xs as
guard animals. It is thought that the use of X would serve as a
psychological deterrent to any prospective Palestinian terrorists
planning to attack key Israeli military positions.
What is X?

ANSWER
Pigs, as they are considered haram and the terrorists would abstain
from coming into contact with them.

8.
The 2014 Ig Nobel in Economics was awarded to ISTAT – the Italian
government’s National Institute of Statistics. The prize was given to
ISTAT for pulling Italy out of recession thanks to a change in data
calculations mandated by the European Union. By doing so, the GDP
rose slightly from a 0.1 percent decline for the first quarter to a flat
reading, thereby pulling Europe’s third-largest economy out of
recession.
What was the change in the way the GDP was calculated?

ANSWER
They proudly took the lead in fulfilling the European Union mandate
for each country to increase the official size of its national economy
by including revenues from prostitution, illegal drug sales,
smuggling, and all other unlawful financial transactions between
willing participants.

9.
X is a portmanteau word used to refer to the military rule of a country
often in collusion with the elite or business classes, primarily done to
garner support and continue the military regime. X has been
observed in countries such as Nigeria, Thailand and Pakistan. X may
have originated as an ironic pun from Y, which refers to government
by a nation’s worst or least-qualified citizens.
The terms X and Y only differ by an alphabet. Spellings matter in your
answer.

ANSWER
X – Khakhistocracy
Y – Kakistocracy

10.
The name X was coined after a public demonstration of the device on
June 9, 2007 at DucKon 16, a science fiction convention in Naperville,
Illinois. The performance was by Steve Ward, an electrical engineering
student at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, who
designed and built the X he used. The term X was conceived by Dr.
Barry Gehm, of Lyon College, on June 19, 2007, in a conversation with
his friend Bill Higgins. It is a play on the name of the sousaphone,
giving homage instead to an apt figure associated with the element X
uses to produce music.
Give me X. Video follows.

ANSWER
Zeusaphone after Zeus, the Greek god of lightning.

11.
X is a series of games for the Microsoft Windows platform, and earlier
the MS-DOS operating systems. It is one of the longest-running,
best-known and most comprehensive game of its kind in the market.
X was an early product on Microsoft’s portfolio, predating Windows
by three years and marked a departure from previous Microsoft
products, which were mainly business-oriented.
X was developed by Bruce Artwick, who was approached by Alan Boyd
of Microsoft in 1981. Boyd wanted to create a ‘definitive game’ that
would graphically demonstrate the difference between 8-bit
computers, such as the Apple II and 16-bit computers like the IBM
PC. In the early days of less-than-100% compatible IBM PC systems, X
and Lotus 1-2-3 were even used as unofficial compatibility test
software.
Identify X.

ANSWER
Microsoft Flight Simulator.

12.
Claude Monet, one of the founders of Impressionist paintings, like
most painters, had a unique eye. Scientifically speaking, he did.
Towards the end of his life, Monet suffered from cataracts, which
prevented him from seeing clearly. At the age of 82, Monet decided
to do something which could explain why, though he painted the
same scene multiple times, they all looked different.
Explain to me what did Monet decide to do, which could be the
reason why the same scene was painted differently in different stages
of his life.
Images in the next slide.

ANSWER
Monet’s cataracts started to cloud his vision. This is why his later
paintings had more yellow in it, because his iris would subtract out
red and blue out of the colours which he could see.
Later, in 82, Monet decided to remove the lens of the affected eye
completely.
The iris is what enables us to see colours only in the visible spectrum.
Without a lens in his eye, Monet was able to see colours in the UV
spectrum also.
So the same scene, in his later years, became more trippy, so to
speak. :P

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