Business, Science and Technology Quiz conducted at Thomso, IIT Roorkee

1. Biz Sci Tech
Prelims
By Adithya Shashidhara

2. Apple..
What is this?
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Approximations of pi
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4. Degrees of Separation
As a humorous tribute to X, a "X number" is given to mathematicians
according to their collaborative proximity to him. He was also known for
offering small prizes for solutions to various unresolved problems,
some of which are still active after his death.
If Alice collaborates with X on one paper, and with Bob on another, but
Bob never collaborates with X himself, then Alice is given a X number
of 1 and Bob is given a X number of 2, as he is two steps from X.
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Erdos
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6. Which entry is missing?*
● The Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation
● Bombay Dyeing
● Bombay Realty
● Britannia Industries
● National Peroxide Limited
What is this a list of?
(Sum of entries +1 -> exhaustive)
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Wadia Group; GoAir
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8. We’ve all been here
X is a British retailer, headquartered in Swindon, Wiltshire, which
operates a chain of high street, railway station, airport, port, hospital and
motorway service station shops selling books, stationery, magazines,
newspapers, entertainment products and confectionary. This is also the
company behind the creation of the ISBN book identifier code.
Y, is an entirely Indian owned company. It owns a bookstore chain that
was co-founded by Emile Moreau, a French businessman, T. K.
Banerjee, an Indian businessman and others in Allahabad in 1877. In
1888 the company began publishing a series of booklets known as the
Indian Railway Library.
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X- W.H. Smith
Y- A.H. Wheeler and Co.
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10. Evil Empire
X is a term (portmanteau) that refers to the economic policies promoted
by Y during the 80s. These policies are commonly associated with
supply-side economics, referred to as Z economics or Z theory or
voodoo economics by his opponents, and free-market economics by
his advocates. Id X and Z.
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Reaganomics ; Trickle-down
economics
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13. Momin*
Agbogbloshie is the world's biggest e-waste dumpsite and is located
close to this country’s capital. Electronic waste - TVs, PCs, HiFi systems,
refrigerators - defines the landscape of this former wetland and
recreation area.
Traders from Europe, US, China and India label their containers as
"Development Aid" or "Second-Hand Products", and in the end, up to
500 containers find their way, illegally, to Tema Harbour, 20 miles east
of Agbogbloshie. Customers around the globe expect proper recycling,
but illegal dumping became a lucrative business.
Which country is this?
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Ghana
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17. We’ve all been here
X is a British retailer, headquartered in Swindon, Wiltshire, which
operates a chain of high street, railway station, airport, port, hospital and
motorway service station shops selling books, stationery, magazines,
newspapers, entertainment products and confectionary. This is also the
company behind the creation of the ISBN book identifier code.
Y, is an entirely Indian owned company. It owns a bookstore chain that
was co-founded by Emile Moreau, a French businessman, T. K.
Banerjee, an Indian businessman and others in Allahabad in 1877. In
1888 the company began publishing a series of booklets known as the
Indian Railway Library.
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X- W.H. Smith
Y- A.H. Wheeler and Co.
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19. We’ve all been here
The following image shows Stan Bult, painting on an
egg. He painted on about 200 eggs until his death in
1966. This practice has then been carried on until now
with numerous awards for this art as well.
In the context of now, what purpose do these “egg
artists” serve, particularly in the United Kingdom?
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Clown Egg Registry; Kind of
Copyright on face of Clown
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23. Beep Beep*X is a company that specialises in the production and distribution of
anvils. X is derived from Greek and means peak, zenith or prime.
X is actually a conglomerate which produces every product type
imaginable, no matter how elaborate or extravagant but the company
has a name for products that fail or backfire catastrophically at the
worst possible times.
The name X, was a very popular business name in the early 20th
century, with the advent of the alphabetised business telephone
directories like the Yellow pages.
In popular culture, X has been shown in an early episode of I Love Lucy,
and film, from the silent era onward in such titles as Buster Keaton's
silent film Neighbors (1920) and Harold Lloyd's Grandma's Boy (1922)
among others. Id X.
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Acme
Corporation
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25. 7990 TD
The fourth Ford Anglia model, the 105E, was introduced in 1959. Its
American-influenced styling included a sweeping nose line, and on
deluxe versions, a full-width slanted chrome grille in between
prominent "eye" headlamps. (Basic Anglias featured a narrower, painted
grille.
Where have we most famously seen this car?
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27. “ Harry Potter and
the Chamber of
Secrets
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28. Previous logos of which
present-day company?*
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1926 1931 1943 1954

29. “ NBC
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30. Laxmi
Due to the recent regulatory and banking problems
due to RBI that the company faced, Zebpay shut
down their business recently because the scenario in
India had crippled their and their customer’s bank
accounts.
What business was Zebpay into?
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Cryptocurrency
Exchange
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32. Mobius Strip
Worldwide attention to environmental issues led to
the first Earth Day in 1970. Container Corporation of
America, a large producer of paperboard, sponsored
a contest for art and design students at high schools
and colleges across the country to raise awareness of
environmental issues. It was won by Gary Anderson,
then a 23-year-old college student at the University
of Southern California. What did Gary create that can
not be trademarked and is in the public domain?
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Recycle Symbol
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34. ITC ka baap
The ________ man is a figure used in tobacco advertising campaigns for Y. In the United
States, where the campaign originated, it was used from 1954 to 1999. Z had originally
introduced Y as a woman's cigarette in 1924. Starting in the early 1950s, the cigarette
industry began to focus on promoting filtered cigarettes, as a response to the emerging
scientific data about harmful effects of smoking. Under the impression that filtered
cigarettes were safer, Y, as well as other brands, started to be sold with filters. However,
filtered cigarettes, Marlboro in particular, were considered to be women’s cigarettes. The
Marlboro advertising campaign, is said to be one of the most brilliant advertisement
campaigns of all time. It transformed a feminine campaign, with the slogan "Mild as May",
into one that was masculine, in a matter of months.
In the Seinfeld episode "The Abstinence" (airdate November 21, 1996), Cosmo Kramer sues a
tobacco company but settles out of court. His settlement is the placement of his face as
that of the ________ man’s on a billboard in Times Square.
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36. “ Y- Marlboro; Z-
Philip Morris and
Co. / Altria
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37. What Can Brown do for
you?
The color brown is said to represent ruggedness when used in
advertising. Pullman Brown is the color of the this company with their
trademark brown trucks and uniforms; it was earlier the color of
Pullman rail cars of the Pullman Company, and was adopted by ______
______ ______ both because brown is easy to keep clean, and due to
favorable associations of luxury that Pullman brown evoked. This
company has filed two trademarks on the color brown to prevent other
companies from using the color if it creates "market confusion".
Which company is this?
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UPS
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40. While at college, co-founder Marc Ewing was given
the Cornell lacrosse team cap by his grandfather.
People would turn to him to solve their problems and
he was referred to as "that guy in the ___ ___". By the
time he wrote the manual of the beta version of X he
had lost ___ ____, so the manual included an appeal
to readers to return his ___ ___ if found and later it
also took the name of his company.
Name this company
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Red Hat Linux
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42. Who is the author of these
books?
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Stephen
Hawking
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44. Twice per year, in mid-November and in late January,
MIT’s infinite corridor lines up with the plane of the
ecliptic, causing sunlight to fill the entire corridor. This
is known as X, a reference to Y’s very popular
alignment with the sun. X and Y.
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MITHenge;
Stonehenge
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46. Yusaku Maezawa (前澤 友作 Maezawa Yūsaku, born 22 November 1975)
is a Japanese billionaire entrepreneur and art collector. He founded
Start Today in 1998 and launched the online fashion retail website
Zozotown, now Japan's largest, in 2004. Most recently, Maezawa
introduced a custom-fit apparel brand ZOZO and at-home
measurement system, the ZOZOSUIT, in 2018. As of May 2017 he is
estimated by Forbes to have a net worth of $3.6 billion and is the 14th
richest person in Japan.
He is also the founder of the Tokyo-based Contemporary Art
Foundation, which he started in 2012 with a goal of "supporting young
artists as a pillar of the next generation of contemporary art."
Why was he all over the news in Mid September this year?
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48. “ News of him
going to space
with SpaceX
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49. Suffixes are imp too
A X is the United States of America-specific form of a private limited
company. It is a business structure that can combine the pass-through
taxation of a partnership or sole proprietorship with the _______
_________ of a corporation. A X is not a corporation in and of itself.
It is a hybrid of a corporation and a partnership.
The Equivalent of X in Germany is Y.
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LLC; GmbH
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51. #CrucibleStylz
After Acquiring controlling stakes in Hathway Cable
and DEN Networks, the two major cable companies
in India, who is being labeled as the new Cable King
of India?
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Mukesh Ambani
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