Biz-Sci-Tech Quiz 2024, Quiz Club NITW

Rules:
1. This round contains 15 questions.
2. There are 5 questions from each of the topics Business,
Science and Technology.
3. Each question carries +10 for a correct answer.
There are no negative markings for incorrect answers so
guess it all out.
4. Part points will be awarded wherever applicable.
5. Please refrain from any sort of malpractice
(Googling, ChatGPT, discussion among teams etc).
6. QM’s discretion is final.

Question 1
In 2004, X's CEO instructed the company's employees to build the world's best
_____(7) devices before its competitors could. X used the codename Fiona for the
device. The first generation of this device, launched in November 2007, was sold in 5.5
hours. The device featured a technology that simulated ink on paper by using electricity
to shift black and white particles inside the screen. It revolutionized browsing and
other leisure activities. X named the device Y aptly.
Working Y in good condition can be sold, traded, donated or recycled in the aftermarket.
Due to some devices being limited to use as ______(7) device and the hassle of
reselling it, some people choose to donate their devices to schools, developing
countries, literacy organizations, or charities. "The Y Classroom Project" promotes
_______(7) by distributing donated Y to schools in need.
ID X and Y.

ANSWER
X - Amazon
Y - Kindle
Blank- Reading

Question 2
On the night of 15th October 1991, the University of Utah's cosmic ray detector Fly's
Eye II detected a proton with an energy of 320 exa electron volts (EeV; 10^18 eV),
travelling at near light speed. Initially, researchers were shocked by the detection,
disclosing it only in 1993 after being convinced of its authenticity. Its energy exceeded
the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin limit, a theoretical energy limit for cosmic ray protons,
venturing into our galaxy from the intergalactic medium(about 50 EeV). Furthermore, a
collision between this proton and a nitrogen nucleus would produce an energy 200 times
higher than the highest collision energy at the Large Hadron Collider.
Considering the astounding properties of the cosmic particle, it was nicknamed with an
appropriate colloquial expression as "X" particle, sharing a term with the nickname of
another particle Y.
Identify X and Y.

ANSWER
X= Oh My God
Y= Higgs Boson(The God particle).

Question 3
Taken from ancient Gaelic languages, where X is a professional storyteller, verse-maker,
music composer, oral historian and genealogist, and many other things. Usually X was
employed by a patron to commemorate their ancestor’s or patron’s own activities.
Reflecting on this personal and creative nature of X, a technology was developed under
the codename “Atlas” and was finally named as X.
ID X and the company which has developed it.

Question 4
Formed as a partnership from International Institute of Information Technology, Indian
School of Business and National Academy of Legal Studies and Research and the
Government of X in 2015, it is based on the triple helix model of innovation and has
been very successful in its field.
Due to a recent event, relating to the government, people have remarked that the
entity's effectiveness and funding will be decreased, undoing the work of the past
decade.
Identify this entity.

Question 5
X is an antiparasitic drug. After its discovery in 1975, its first uses were in veterinary
medicine to prevent and treat heartworm and acariasis.
Although it was approved for human use, to treat common parasite illnesses such as
head lice and scabies, it gained popularity a few years ago for a completely wrong
reason.
Despite being intended for a different type of parasite, its use for that purpose was not
advised. However, misinformation about X continued to spread on social media, and the
drug remained popular among a specific group of people, although leading to adverse
health effects.
Identify X, and the surrounding misinformation.

ANSWER
X- Ivermectin
As a treatment for COVID 19

Question 6
The MedSec cybersecurity startup team asserts that they utilized a debugging
backdoor in the St. Jude-built unit, allowing them to remotely issue commands to X.
After reverse-engineering the software, written in Java, and connecting a laptop to the
unit via Ethernet, the team wirelessly transmitted instructions to people's devices using
a software-defined radio kit. However, they acknowledged that, in their tests, the X's
maximum range was restricted to seven feet, requiring an attacker to be in close
proximity.
ID X.

Question 7
In November 2010, the Air Force Research Laboratory developed a high-performance
supercomputer known as the "Condor Cluster." It was created by connecting 1,760 X
devices, along with 168 GPUs and 84 coordinating servers, in a parallel array. This
configuration allowed the Condor Cluster to perform 500 trillion floating-point
operations per second (500 TFLOPS). At the time of its construction, the Condor Cluster
ranked as the 33rd largest supercomputer globally. It was primarily used for analyzing
high-definition satellite imagery. Notably, the Condor Cluster achieved this impressive
computing power while costing only one-tenth of a traditional supercomputer.
This was due to the X being priced low, although in its field it was considered
overpriced, it was cheap considering it's processing power. This was mainly due to the
CELL chip which was developed by IBM, Sony and Toshiba together in a development
partnership.
ID X.

Question 8
The things that really change the world, according to chaos theory, are the tiny things. A
small movement of “X” in amazonian jungle can subsequently form storm which
ravages half of europe.
So based on this NASA leverages the "X" effect to guide spacecraft. Launched in 1978,
the International Cometary Explorer became the first spacecraft to intercept a comet,
passing through the tail of comet Giacobini-Zinner and collecting valuable data. They
harnessed chaotic systems, calculating that just a tiny bit of fuel, used at an exact
moment, would zip the craft at high speed to the right place at the right time and it
worked perfectly.
ID X.

Question 9
Used in open-wheel racing series, a device is used which is in the shape of a bar and is
connected by three points to the vehicle frame. It is made of titanium and weighed
around 7 kgs - 9 kgs adding a bit of weight to the car.
It is manufactured by three approved external manufacturers chosen by the FIA and has
the same specification for all vehicles as it has saved countless number of driver's lives
during crashes. Despite initial criticism regarding it even Niki Lauda who claimed that the
system distorted the "essence of racing cars" & "obstructed driver's view", it's still in
usage.
ID the name of the device.

Question 10
The primary decision to withdraw from the market arises following the company's
sustained operating losses exceeding $2 billion. Alongside significant operating losses,
the company is also dealing with low demand, which is not going well with its operating
model.
In 2021, the American company opted to shut down its factories located in Sanand,
Gujarat, and in 2022, it did the same in Chennai. Consequently, the company made a
complete exit from the Indian market.
Embracing a fully import-based approach with completely built units (CBUs), the
company has experienced relative success thus far.
Identify the American company.

Question 11
The Sumerian tree shares similarities with sacred representations of trees in other
Mesopotamian religions. In this depiction, the sacred tree is flanked by two others, and a
winged disk icon hovers above. Some contemporary interpretations suggest that this
symbolism reflects an understanding that "X" serves as fundamental units weave the
silent symphony of existence, forming the essence that quietly shapes the grand
tapestry of living wonders.
ID X.
(Image Follows)

Question 12
Creating and appreciating a sense of beauty through harmony and proportion the
technique of using X in designing a logo provides a sense of artistry to the design and
has been recognised for thousands of centuries: from pyramids in Giza to the Parthenon
in athens; from Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam on the ceiling of Sistine Chapel to
Davin Vinci's Mona Lisa.
ID X.
(Image follows)

Question 13
In the stock market, a short squeeze is a rapid increase in the price of a stock owing
primarily to an excess of short selling of a stock rather than underlying fundamentals. A
short squeeze occurs when demand has increased relative to supply because short
sellers have to buy stock to cover their short positions.
In early 2021, users of X initiated a short squeeze on Y, after receiving news that the
stock will drop from Citron Research. After the Y stock closed up 92.7 percent on
Tuesday, January 26, Elon Musk tweeted out a link to X. This lead to even more users
joining X. The short squeeze finally ended with a maximum of 600% percent stock price.
It was attributed as a win of the common people over the Wall Street traders by the
media.
Identify X and Y.

ANSWER
X-r/wallstreetbets
Y- Gamestop

Question 14
A research paper published in Nature Communications in June 2023 presents the design
and development of a unique medical robot by a team of researchers at the Max Planck
Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart. Made up of overlapping metal pieces on a
polymer layer, the magnetically controllable structure of the robot allows free
movement and flexibility, the fascinating design of which was inspired by a mammal
that can curl up its body in a flash in events of danger. This adaptive feature of the robot
potentially allows for selective cargo transportation and release, as well as the
mitigation of bleeding inside the human body.
Identify the mammal that inspired the design (Image follows).

Question 15
The real origin of the term X used today in the technology domain comes from a 1970
television comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus. The sketch is set in a cafe where
nearly every item on the menu includes X canned luncheon meat. As the waitress recites
the X filled menu, a chorus of Viking patrons drowns out all conversations with a song
repeating the word X! " Wonderful X" hence X(ing) the dialogue. The amount of
mentioned references of X was made to realise the importance of it and other imported
canned meat products in the United Kingdom after World War II, as the country
struggled to rebuild its agricultural base.
ID X?

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Q(Tie Breaker)
Statistics reveal that in 2021, India was the largest exporter of X worldwide,
accounting for 92% of the total global export value. Our exports were close
to $682 million in FY 2023. The allure of X, also referred to as 'black gold' in
the global market is rooted in its distinct attributes. The most desired X in
the market is long and chemically untreated X labelled ' Virgin X'. Dipti Bapat,
a social anthropologist from Delhi said that 'the natural black hue of X and
it's association with devotion and purity because of temple tonsures makes
it more coveted'.
ID X

Rules
1. This round has 8 pounce/bounce questions.
2. Pounce has a scoring scheme of +10/-5 while
Bounce has a scoring scheme of +10/0.
3. Directs will be to the teams corresponding to
the question number.
4. There will be part points for only bounce and
not pounce.
5. Avoid shouting the answers out loud.
6. QM’s discretion is ﬁnal.

Question 1
Silent Spring is an environmental science book by Rachel Carson. The work's title
was inspired by a poem by John Keats, "La Belle Dame sans Merci", which
contained the lines "The sedge is withered from the lake, And no birds sing.". The
subject topic covered in the book, and mainly X is attributed as the reason for the
Silent Spring and the book was aptly named so.
She discovered and documented mechanisms by which X and similar entities
sediment in the environment and increase in concentration, which led to awareness
of the effects of X on everyday life.
Continuation on next slide……

The release of the book marked the start of a new form of environmental activism,
it became a rallying point and inﬂuenced policy making in the United States. X,
which was widely used prior to this, was promptly banned.
Identify X and the subject matter.

ANSWER
DDT and effects of pesticides.

Question 2
The “law of contrast of colors,” which holds that when two colors are juxtaposed next to
each other, each loses its own color and takes on the illusion of a new color. The eye
mixes the colors. This law was advanced by Michel Chevreul. To test these ideas, X has
performed a test between both the palette and canvas, as seen in the image.
Pure blue and pure yellow next to each other on the canvas, a new halo of green
emerged (A) that was more luminous and vibrant than when the two colors were
blended together on his palette (B). This later inspired X to create a masterpiece which
might’ve been considered “fuzzy” back in the day, yet it has started a movement entirely.
ID X and his creation.

ANSWER
Sunday Afternoon at La Grande Jatte, George Seurat. Pointillism.

Question 3
Tropicana, the top-selling orange juice maker often comes up with creative ways to
promote the 77-year-old brand. Last week at CES, the company released a
limited-edition bottles to celebrate the orange juice brand's natural ingredients.
The cheeky marketing stunt was aimed at highlighting the fact that " there is
nothing _______, and never has been anything _______”.
Instead of embracing the newer technology, Tropicana has gone in the
diametrically opposite direction. While X has its role in the world, Tropicana
believes there’s no place for ______ in orange juice. This was considered bold move
considering that CES was expected to be dominated in large measure this year by
X products and conversations about X.
ID X and what did Tropicana do?

ANSWER
X is AI
Tropicana removed the letters AI from their name and changed it to Tropcn
Blank is artificial

Question 4
The Aldabra rail is a flightless bird, which is found on the Aldabra Atoll in the
Indian Ocean. Like other flightless birds, for example the Dodo, it is only found in
this specific island due to complete genetic isolation.
Due to rising and falling sea levels over the course of 100 thousand years, the
Aldabra rail has undergone a peculiar and interesting genetic transformation. It is
one of the only species that has undergone both X and Y, but Y happened after X
as well, forming a unique cycle.
Identify the transformation that makes the Aldabra rail interesting.

ANSWER
Underwent extinction and then evolved back into existence.

Question 5
Industrialists and businessmen often ﬁnd various innovative strategies to up their
proﬁts in their respective domain. The product X, considered numero uno amongst
its competitors, was stylized after its predecessor Y. While it entirely unclear as to
why Mr. Ardeshir ___ (founder of parent company) chose to name his products as
such, a theory goes about stating that he once cheekily said, "If people feel number
_ (Y) so good, they will believe number _ (X) to be even better when it launches."
ID the vegetable oil-based product, which as per statistics, is used by 380 million
odd consumers.

ANSWER
X - Godrej No.1
Y - Godrej No.2

Question 6
Founded in 1999 by a UK based firm, X was able to identify _______ based on time
frequency graph called spectrogram.
Initially, in 2002, this service was launched only in the UK and was known as 2580.
People had to dial this number in order to access the service. Then they would receive a
message with hyperlinks, texts containing information about ____. X first made a profit
in 2016, 16 years after founding and 14 years after product launch.
X after being acquired by Y continued its services and launched a new feature that
enabled the user to identify and recognize ______ played in other applications like
TikTok, Instagram and YouTube.
ID X and Y?

Question 7
A proof of Work (PoW) system is an economic measure to deter denial-of-service
attacks and other service abuses such as spam on a network by requiring some work
from the service requester, usually meaning processing time by a computer.
It is designed to be tough to do by the client and easy to verify by the server, due to this
difficulty, parallels have been drawn, comparing it to searching for gold or winning a
lottery.
What is this colloquially known as in the world of Cryptocurrencies?

Question 8
In Belgium's Antwerp, which is famous for a particular product X across the world,
an X trader is most likely to be from one particular region in India. In a span of less
than half a century, a small Y community from Palanpur town of Banaskantha
district in the western part of India, has got a hold on X trade in Antwerp. The Y
community is known for its excellence in business and trade not only in India, but
they have also shined in other countries. The Y community played a major role in
establishing the X industry in India as well.
ID X and the community Y that we are talking about here.

Rules
● This is a buzzer round, So every team needs to join the room provided in
https://cosmobuzz.net/ with your team number (eg. Team 1, Team 2).
● This round has 8 questions, each having a meme and teams must complete
the meme.
● Team buzzing first gets +10/-5, teams buzzing after that get +5/0.
● In case if the first team gets wrong answer, they get negs and the next
buzzing teams are allowed to answer without getting negs.
● QM’s discretion is final.

Question 1
ID the hidden part.

Question 2
Identify the technology and related principle from given image.

ANSWER
Quantum computer
Quantum superposition principle

Question 3
Provide context for the given image.

Question 4
Provide wordplay based names for the given compounds

Question 5
ID the object whose functionality is depicted in the given image.

ANSWER
Klein bottles
(4 dimensional solid)

Question 6
ID the phenomenon
being depicted.

Question 7
ID the hidden part.

Question 8
ID the device and what
principle it demonstrates.

ANSWER
Newton's cradle
Law of conservation of momentum/Energy

Rules
1. This is an auction round having 8 questions.
2. Topics for the auction are science and technical branches in the
college along with business.
3. Each team will be given a purse of 250.
4. Every team need to buy questions through auction process. Every
que has a base price of 20. Increment for the auction will be +20.
5. Teams who buy a particular que will have +20/0 for it. Other teams
can pounce and will have +20/-10 marking for it.
6. Points of this round will be directly added to points scored till 2nd
round.

Auction Board
Civil Engineering
Biotechnology Metallurgy
Mechanical Engineering
Information Technology
Business
Electrical and Electronics
Chemical Engineering

Civil Engineering
In the 1990s, Mick Pearce, a Zimbabwean architect was assigned the task of
designing a building called the Eastgate Centre at the country's capital Harare,
boasting a 350,000 square feet space of office and shops. However, the climate of
Harare requires buildings to be air-conditioning year-round, thus incurring heavy
costs. Interestingly, it used materials with high thermal conductivity, enabling the
building to store and release heat gained from its surroundings. This process is
facilitated by fans that operate on a cycle timed to enhance heat storage during the
warm daytime and heat release during the cool nighttime, while pushing out the
internal heat generated through its large open spaces.
(Continued in next slide)

Such a design helped reduce the rental
costs of its compartments and energy
usage by ninety percent. By and large,
this structure is an example of
biomimicry, which is innovation
inspired by nature.
What naturally occurring structure
inspired the design of the Eastgate
Centre?

ANSWER
Termite Hills
Auction Board

Information Technology
"One morning I was shopping in Amsterdam with my young fiancée, and tired, we sat
down on the café terrace to drink a cup of coffee and I was just thinking about
whether I could do this, As I said, it was a twenty-minute short invention. In fact, it
was published in '59, three years later. I designed it without pencil and paper. I
learned later that one of the advantages of designing without pencil and paper is that
you are almost forced to avoid all avoidable complexities. Eventually, that algorithm
became to my great amazement, one of the cornerstones of my fame." said the
person X, in an interview with Philip L. Frana, Communications of the ACM, 2001.
ID X.

ANSWER
Dijkstra's Algorithm
Auction Board

Mechanical Engineering
Kemball-Cook,a graduate of Loughborough university, when he was doing a placement
year at the energy company Eon, he was asked to find a way to power street lights with
solar energy and wind, which didn’t workout . Later on he set up a company in 2009 but it
took several years to develop the technology and convince people to take it on. His first
installation was unorthodox, to say the least. Investors weren’t interested to invest, so he
broke into a building site on the south bank of the Thames at 2am, installed the product
illegally, took photos and kept them in his website saying: ‘Celebrating our latest
installation.’ He closed a deal with Westfield pretty soon after that.Since then, he has
worked with brands such as Coca-Cola and Siemens and also helped footballers of favela
in Rio, by helping them with spotlights so that play can continue after dark.
What was the technology he came up with?

ANSWER
Piezoelectric tiles
Auction Board

Biotechnology
When unrelated species live in similar environments, they tend to evolve similar
characteristics. One very common example of this is X. The many species of Xs we
know of in fact came from five different unrelated species that have evolved to look
very similar.
Scientists still debate what caused these species to develop similar traits. Some say
the lack of a tail makes them harder to catch. Others argue the flat, rounded shell
would make it easier to protect the soft body, and allow faster movement. Having
eyes on stalks could also allow them to see predators approaching from far away. And
then there are some that believe that God just really likes Xs.
ID X.

Chemical Engineering
Connect the following exhaustive list:
1) Molybdenium
2) Platinum
3) Radon
4) Zirconium
5) Nickel

ANSWER
These elements are named after
other other elements in Periodic table.
Auction Board

Electrical and Electronics
In Germany, the Imperial Law on Trademark Protection passed on November 30,
1874, was based on the following principle: “Traders with a company listed in
the commercial register can inform the appropriate court of the marks that they
place on the products themselves or on their packaging for the purpose of
differentiating their products from those of other traders.” Robert, who was
founder of the company, also registered his first trademark, the “burning
magnet,” on March 3, 1899, which he then applied to every magneto ignition
device that left his factory. This was not the company’s only trademark,
however.
(Continued in next slide)

The subsidiaries of these companies in
France and the United Kingdom adopted
the “sparking armature” for their
products. These vents eventually gave
rise to the latest logo of this company
which is known for clean lines and high
level of recognizability.
ID the company and give a description of
its logo here.

ANSWER
The answer is Bosch and their new logo depicts an armature in a circle depicting a
electromagnet.
Auction Board

Business
Pandemic has made elderly people reluctant to take cabs and adopt
self-driving.To bring ease and safety in the personal mobility of senior
citizens, CarDekho has launched a campaign.
Gaurav Mehta, Chief Marketing Officer of CarDekho group explains, "Just
like we become patience when we come across a car with ____ on it, we
aim for the same for Elderly drivers".
What did the Marketing officer do which was to make the old-age people
comfortable to take a drive?

ANSWER
E for elderly people
Auction Board

Metallurgy
The first evidence of X in ancient Egypt appears in the archaeological
record in the 6th century BC. Only a handful of X artifacts have been
discovered in the region before then; all come from high-status graves,
such as that of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. X was strongly associated with
royalty and power. Objects made of this divine material were believed to
guarantee their deceased owner priority passage into the afterlife. This
celestial rock, rich specifically in nickel, was interpreted as the physical
remains of gods falling to Earth.
Identify celestial X

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