BizSciTech Quiz Finals from Interrobang 2017

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Mental health of cartoon
characters

1. AVOIDANT PERSONALITY
DISORDER
“People with this disorder cannot stop thinking about their own
shortcomings. They form relationships with other people only if they
believe they will not be rejected. Loss and rejection are so painful that
these people choose to be lonely rather than risk trying to connect
with others.”
Though lovable and endearing, he has gone undiagnosed for far too
long. His many “psychiatric help” sessions with Lucy beg us to
question his psyche. People with Avoidant Personality Disorder think
obsessively about their own shortcomings. Though seemingly
optimistic, he is often dominated by his insecurities and overwhelmed
by his “terrible case of bad luck.” He constantly feels like people are
picking on him, even when they are not, and this, in turn, affects his
ability to become close friends with people, in fear of being rejected.

2. BIPOLAR DISORDER
“bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive illness, is a
brain disorder that causes unusual shifts in mood, energy,
activity levels, and the ability to carry out day-to-day tasks.”
She is somewhat of a tomboy choosing to portray a tough
exterior – she even names her fists “Old Betsy” and “The Five
Avengers”. She is the school bully (note: punching Brainy
repeatedly) and the first one to designate oh-so-endearing
nicknames to her fellow classmates. Yet she is also the first one
to overreact to times of stress, her most famous catchphrase
being, “We’re all gonna die!!!” These manic outbreaks combined
with the shrine in her bedroom closet have led to this
diagnosis. This quote doesn’t help her out: “How I love
you…and yet I hate you…and yet I love you…and yet I hate

3. GENERALISED ANXIETY
DISORDER
“Generalized Anxiety Disorder is diagnosed when a person
worries excessively about a variety of everyday problems for at
least 6 months.”
From his extreme fear of sandboxes after being explained the
meaning of the word “germ” to his belief that a watermelon was
growing in his stomach after swallowing a watermelon seed,
he’s just a big ball of worry. There was even a point in the
series in which his dear friend Tommy Pickles takes him to a
“big kid” named “Suzie” who exposes him to slides to address
his fear of heights and blows air in his face to expose him to
the sensation of moving at rapid speeds.

4. OPPOSITIONAL DEFIANT
DISORDER
A childhood disorder described as an ongoing pattern of anger-
guided disobedience, hostility, and defiant behavior toward
authority figures that goes beyond the bounds of normal
childhood behavior.
He is the very definition of defiant. His animosity towards his
loving and caring mother combined with his violent outbreaks
make this diagnosis a clear one. He is violent, spiteful and
vindictive, all of which point to ODD. Though the plots involving
his character are always entertaining, it was definitely painful
watching him repeatedly beat up a helpless dog.

5. WILLIAMS-BEUREN SYNDROME
“Williams syndrome is a disorder in development that usually
results in learning problems, attention deficit disorder, anxiety,
and phobias but affected individuals have outgoing
personalities.”
One of the most notable personality symptoms of WBS is a
person’s extreme interest in meeting new people and an
unusual trust or closeness they feel for that person. People with
WBS, though extremely friendly, can also be extremely awkward
and exhibit symptoms of extreme ADHD. As an aside, people
with WBS often have low muscle mass, which also happens to
be a regular challenge for him.

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2. WHAT WAS NATIONAL’S MORE
FAMOUS SISTER BRAND?
In 1976, ABBA participated in a high-profile
advertising campaign for this brand. This
campaign was designed initially for Australia,
where National was the primary brand used by
the parent company.
The company was yet to introduce its more
popular brand in Australia, despite its
widespread use in other parts of the world.

3. WHO WAS HE? (OR) HOW DID HE
INTERVENE?
In May 2016, about 125 people at the Hyde Park Senior Facility
in Cincinnati who witnessed this historic event. Just before 7
p.m., something happened to 85 year old Patty Ris and caused
considerable alarm. However, a 96-year-old resident in the
room intervened and dealt with the situation.
One witness stated that while residents were discouraged from
personally assisting in emergencies involving other residents,
they couldn't stop the man considering his stature. "At his age,
that's a very physical type of activity. To see him do it is a
fascinating thing. The whole room, you could hear a needle
drop."

4. WHAT WAS THE SUBJECT OF THE
PRESENTATION?
Edward Tufte was a Yale communications theory specialist, and
his pet project is a stinging criticism of MS PowerPoint. He
argues that the use of PowerPoint paralyses bureaucracies,
stymies action and invariably results in bad decision-making.
He says this is because PowerPoint forces presenters to use bad
typography, separate numbers from analysis, crowd the content
into tiny bullet points, etc.
He used this slide as his prime example of how the use of
PowerPoint led to tangible harms, since the presentation
resulted in a dramatic underestimation of risk, despite the fact
that the presenters did not intend for this to happen.

5. WHAT HEALTH CONDITION?
The word derives from Greek words meaning "under" and "cartilage" (of the
sternum).
An ancient belief existed that this was the seat of melancholy in the body
and the source of vapours that caused morbid feelings.
Until the early 18th century, the term referred to a "physical disease caused
by imbalances in the region that was below your rib cage" (i.e., of
the stomach or digestive system).
However, research has shown that no such health condition is caused as a
result of the “organ” malfunctioning, and it now gives its name to an entirely
different condition.

6. (A) WHAT REGION WAS
AFFECTED?
(B) WHY WERE THESE
MEASURES TAKEN?The US Federal Reserve had its own demonetisation
moment in 1942, when it recalled all paper money
from a region, barring a $200 per person allowance
(businesses were allowed to hold up to $500).
Unlike today’s ungrateful Indians, American citizens
were reported to have come forward swiftly and
uncomplainingly with their wealth, with over $200
million being collected in a matter of weeks.

(A) HAWAII;
(B) IN ANTICIPATION OF A
JAPANESE INVASION

7. WHAT WERE LANKAN
CONSUMERS AFRAID OF?
Fish demand in Sri Lanka plunged by about 90% in
January 2005, with the prices of prawns and cuttlefish
decreasing from $3 per pound to just $1.
This was accompanied by a 30% increase in poultry
sales.
The Lankan government attributed this phenomenon
to a horrifying fear in the minds of consumers, leading
them to switch (at least temporarily) from fish to
chicken.

ACCIDENTAL CANNIBALISM, DUE TO
FISH EATING THE VICTIMS OF THE
2004 TSUNAMI

8. WHAT WAS THE ALBUM CALLED?
Driftless Pony Club’s third album contains ten tracks,
with titles such as He plans houses like trees,
Dymaxion Chronofile, and Safe as houses. The album
is a tribute to a famous twentieth century personality
intimately connected with the BizSciTech world, and is
named after him.
Listen to a sample from the third track, House of 1982
built like a ship, and identify the album’s inspiration.

9. WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF
THE EXPEDITION?
22 ángeles is a 2016 Spanish movie about the 1803 Balmis
philanthropic expedition, a trip from La Coruna in Spain to
Havana, Mexico, and onward to Manila and St. Helena on board
the Maria Pita.
The 22 “angels” referenced in the title were orphans boys from
the Casa de expositos, an orphanage in Coruna, who were
dropped off at Havana.
At Havana, the expedition took on another 25 orphans from a
Catholic church for the Pacific crossing. It also split in two, with
one group travelling south along the coast of Argentina.

THE ORPHANS WERE SERIALLY
EXPOSED TO EDWARD JENNER’S
SMALLPOX VACCINE, WHICH THEY
INCUBATED IN THEIR BODIES TO
VACCINATE THE AMERICAS.

10. WHAT HAS NORWAY VOTED TO
GET RID OF?
At 11:11 AM on 11 January, Norwegian legislators voted to
abandon an eight-decade-old system invented by Edwin
Armstrong, and replace it in a manner that has particularly
annoyed Indians towards December 31, 2016.
Proponents of the move say that the technology has become
obsolete for two reasons: its high power consumption, and its
inability to penetrate the mountains and fjords that constitute
the country’s terrain.
The move’s biggest opponent is the Norwegian Automobile
Federation, which represents car owners, whose grouse is that
the move requires them to purchase new equipment that could
cost about $232 each.

FM RADIO – NORWAY VOTED TO
DIGITISE BROADCASTING

11. WHERE DOES ZAMZAR GET ITS
NAME FROM?
Zamzar is an online file
converter, which supports
conversions between about
1,000 different file types.
Created by Mike and Chris
Wiley in 2006, it takes its
name from a literary
inspiration with powerful
connotations of change and
transformation.

GREGOR SAMSA, FROM KAFKA’S
METAMORPHOSIS

12. (A) WHERE ARE XYLOBANDS MOST
FAMOUSLY USED?
Xylobands are fabric wristbands that are embedded
with radio-controlled LEDs, which can be programmed
or commanded to light up in specific colours at certain
occasions.
They were first used in 2012, when they were given
away to a large number of people to create what The
Washington Post described as “psychedelicatessen of
moving, multi-coloured lights”.

12. (B) WHAT SPECIFIC
APPLICATION IS DEPICTED IN THIS
PICTURE?All the Xylobands in the vicinity were programmed to emit twinkling
white light.

(A) COLDPLAY CONCERTS; (B) A SKY
FULL OF STARS

13. WHO RUNS THESE COMPANIES?
Limited liability is one of the fundamental characteristics of company law – it means
that the owners of a company cannot be asked to pay its creditors for the losses it
makes.
Phil Selway, one member of this group, is a qualified company secretary and the
brains behind the group’s financial sophistication.
Each of the group’s projects is structured through its own corporate entity, and
managed as a company or limited liability partnership. At the end of the project’s
life, the company or partnership is liquidated and the earnings are withdrawn by the
group.
Since the companies are never intended to have a public face, they often have
nonsensical names, such as Ticker Tape Ltd., _xurbia_xendless Ltd., and Unreliable
Ltd.
The flip side of this is that the group’s fans have begun to keep track of UK
Companies House filings, and are able to track their projects months before they are
publicly announced. Illustratively, Dawn Chorus was officially announced only in April

14. WHICH COMPANY, AND WHAT
PRODUCT?
X is a village located in the South Hams region of Devon. The village is
located on the A381 between Kingsbridge and Salcombe, and is a popular
village for tourists, with many holiday homes located around the village.
Winston Churchill is also famous for being born in the line of the Dukes of X.
A street in London was named after the village, a street on which the main
factory/manufacturing facility of a particular company was located. Since
1885, the main product sold by the company has been named after the
village.
However, since 1920, the name was slightly modified, ostensibly to appeal
to a global market, since the name of the village sounded very obviously
British.

PHILIP MORRIS; MARLBORO (FROM
MARLBOROUGH)

15. CONNECT (EXHAUSTIVE) TO AN
OUTGOING FIGURE.

SPECIES NAMED AFTER BARACK
OBAMA.
Aptostichus barackobamai (trapdoor spider)
Etheostoma Obama (spangled darter)
Obamadon gracillis (extinct insectivorous lizard)
Paragordius obamai (hairworm)
Baracktrema obamai (turtle blood fluke)
Nystalus obamai (western striolated puffbird)
Teleogramma obamaorum (African cichlid species)
Caloplaca obamae (firedot lichen)
Tosanoides obama (coral reef basslet)

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1.WHO IS THE SONG BASED ON?
German comedians have collaborated on a satirical late-night German show
Neo Magazine Royale and created a song with a title inspired from a 2006
dystopian political thriller.
Excerpts:
“From off in the distance there comes a man...
Crazed seeking vengeance against our peaceful land! Jacket collar raised, on
a black motorbike...
he puts the hell in Hellenic and wants to take our pride!”
“He's the lost son of Zeus with a heart made of stone! Go, take all of our
savings but, please, leave us alone!”

2.NAME THE DEBTOR.
Paul Singer, among other things is a hedge fund manager and an activist
investor. He has been recently in the news owing to his ‘rabid’ attempts at
recovering money owed to him by a particular entity. These are a few
characterisations of the man and the struggle:
“He finds _________ in distress, he buys its debt, he demands full payment, and
he doesn’t care about the economics, the poverty, the circumstances of the
_______ ,” says Mark Cymrot, who represented Peru and is head of Baker
Hostetler’s international disputes group. “From his point of view, he would say,
‘What’s wrong with it?’ And you’d have to say he’s right. But I wouldn’t want to
earn money that way myself.”
“X is in a difficult position. Until it pays Elliott Management and the other hedge
funds, which include former Elliott employee Mark Brodsky’s Aurelius Capital
Management, it essentially will remain isolated from international capital
markets. Unable to borrow abroad cheaply since the last default, X has seen its
reserves hover near an eight-year low.”
Facilitated by the US Court system in what some would label as an approach
‘capitalism blind to humane conditions’ against which entity did Singer have one
of the longest debt recovery process, one that left it crippled for years to come,

3.WHAT BUSINESS FAILURE?
A lot of people thought that the merger was a brilliant move and worried
that their own companies would be left behind, for why wouldn’t they? At
that time, dot-coms could do no wrong, and the strategy sounded
compelling.
However, 15 years later, there have been various recollections on how this
was in fact one of the biggest failures at corporate amalgamation.
“Merging the cultures of the combined companies was problematic from the
get go. Certainly the lawyers and professionals involved with the merger did
the conventional due diligence on the numbers. What also needed to
happen, and evidently didn’t, was due diligence on the culture. The
aggressive and, many said, arrogant X people “horrified” the more staid and
corporate Y side. Cooperation and promised synergies failed to materialize
as mutual disrespect came to colour their relationships.”
The primary reason for failure was labelled to be the fact that “the business
was up against a phenomenon I refer to as transient advantage; namely
when a combination of capabilities that at one point made a firm a leader,
erodes and is replaced by the next form of competitive advantage.”

4.WHAT IS THIS WORK?
Why this work becomes relevant thematically is that it was created by a disillusioned employee
of the Lloyds Bank, who was later conferred with the Nobel in Literature. , who felt depressed by
the atmosphere of the Post-war in his country; and was the opinion that business decisions in
regards to restructuring was in fact disastrous, something that later economic work seems to
suggest.
His work has been labelled as one of the greatest contributions to modernism in the 20th
Century. Academic attempts at interpreting this work comment on it as such:
“a Modernistic post-apocalyptic poem, in which the inner self of the modern urbanite is
fragmented by the post-war reality of the beginning of the last century. The main space in
which the human being dwells is the city, a culturally constructed place of conflicting
psychological, social, economic and natural energies. The urbanite’s interior conflict is
objectified toward the social otherness and, further, over the natural other, in this way, a
hierarchy of power between the social human and the natural environment having been
established. This collision between incompatible and unnatural agencies is mediated by the
transformation of nature in urban space through means of economic and cultural production
and consumption. The sterile land represents the direct aftermath of the over-exploited, over-
consumed and over(re)produced nature, which has become a social waste.”
While such analysis is perhaps overboard, what is relevant that this work, while contributive to

5.WHAT COLLAPSE; WHAT
CREATION
L.F. Rothschild & Co. was founded in 1899 by Rothschild( not related to the
European Rothscild family) and his partner Leonard Hochstadter; and its
primary business was in dealing with sales and trading of fixed income
securities.
Fast forwarding by a better half of a century, Rothschild emerged one of the
largest underwriters for Initial Public Offerings, surpassing various other elite
investment bankers of the time. However, being at the forefront of stock
trading, they were prone to huge risks, and their abashness at taking volatile
positions is what is said to have been made them at the centre of the
shitstorm that was X, one of the largest commercial failures in the 1980s.
In the resulting chaos, the firm went bankrupt and disbanded. What were left
of the core went and found another such entity, that has a similar storyline
of being unafraid, unabashed and perhaps one that again flew too close to
the sun. This entity’s portrayal is something that we are more familiar with,
in comparison to Rothschild, thanks to the film industry.
What did Rothschild collapse result to on the western side of the Atlantic (X)
and what was the regrouping of the core of this disbanded entity (Y)?

1.WHO IS THE SONG BASED ON?
German comedians have collaborated on a satirical late-night German
show Neo Magazine Royale and created a song with a title inspired
from a 2006 dystopian political thriller.
Excerpts:
“From off in the distance there comes a man...
Crazed seeking vengeance against our peaceful land! Jacket collar
raised, on a black motorbike...
he puts the hell in Hellenic and wants to take our pride!”
“He's the lost son of Zeus with a heart made of stone! Go, take all of
our savings but, please, leave us alone!”

YANIS VAROUFAKIS
The Greek Minister of Finance.

ARGENTINA
This was the largest case of sovereign default on debts.

3.WHAT COMMERCIAL FAILURE?
A lot of people thought that the merger was a brilliant move and worried
that their own companies would be left behind, for why wouldn’t they? At
that time, dot-coms could do no wrong, and the strategy sounded
compelling.
However, 15 years later, there have been various recollections on how this
was in fact one of the biggest failures at corporate amalgamation.
“Merging the cultures of the combined companies was problematic from the
get go. Certainly the lawyers and professionals involved with the merger did
the conventional due diligence on the numbers. What also needed to
happen, and evidently didn’t, was due diligence on the culture. The
aggressive and, many said, arrogant X people “horrified” the more staid and
corporate Y side. Cooperation and promised synergies failed to materialize
as mutual disrespect came to colour their relationships.”
The primary reason for failure was labelled to be the fact that “the business
was up against a phenomenon I refer to as transient advantage; namely
when a combination of capabilities that at one point made a firm a leader,
erodes and is replaced by the next form of competitive advantage.”

4.WHAT IS THIS WORK?
Why this work becomes relevant thematically is that it was created by a disillusioned employee of the
Lloyds Bank, who was later conferred with the Nobel in Literature. , who felt depressed by the
atmosphere of the Post-war in his country; and was the opinion that business decisions in regards to
restructuring was in fact disastrous, something that later economic work seems to suggest.
His work has been labelled as one of the greatest contributions to modernism in the 20th Century.
Academic attempts at interpreting this work comment on it as such:
“a Modernistic post-apocalyptic poem, in which the inner self of the modern urbanite is fragmented by
the post-war reality of the beginning of the last century. The main space in which the human being
dwells is the city, a culturally constructed place of conflicting psychological, social, economic and
natural energies. The urbanite’s interior conflict is objectified toward the social otherness
and, further, over the natural other, in this way, a hierarchy of power between the social human and
the natural environment having been established. This collision between incompatible and unnatural
agencies is mediated by the transformation of nature in urban space through means of economic and
cultural production and consumption. The sterile land represents the direct aftermath of the over-
exploited, over-consumed and over(re)produced nature, which has become a social waste.”
While such analysis is perhaps overboard, what is relevant that this work, while contributive to literary
and philosophical analysis was also covered by various financial commentaries as ‘symbolic of the
time’.

5.WHAT COLLAPSE; WHAT
CREATION?
L.F. Rothschild & Co. was founded in 1899 by Rothschild( not related to the
European Rothscild family) and his partner Leonard Hochstadter; and its
primary business was in dealing with sales and trading of fixed income
securities.
Fast forwarding by a better half of a century, Rothschild emerged one of the
largest underwriters for Initial Public Offerings, surpassing various other elite
investment bankers of the time. However, being at the forefront of stock
trading, they were prone to huge risks, and their abashness at taking volatile
positions is what is said to have been made them at the centre of the
shitstorm that was X, one of the largest commercial failures in the 1980s.
In the resulting chaos, the firm went bankrupt and disbanded. What were left
of the core went and found another such entity, that has a similar storyline
of being unafraid, unabashed and perhaps one that again flew too close to
the sun. This entity’s portrayal is something that we are more familiar with,
in comparison to Rothschild, thanks to the film industry.
What did Rothschild collapse result to on the western side of the Atlantic (X)
and what was the regrouping of the core of this disbanded entity (Y)?

BLACK MONDAY; STRATTON
OAKMONT

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16. WHERE ARE PRODUCT NAMES
TAKEN FROM?
In December 2016, IKEA launched a campaign called
Retail Therapy, which was focused on a website
through which it sold its products online.
Product listings and prices on this website were
identical to its online store, but the names of the
products were changed. Each product was named after
a problem statement, with the logic being that
customers who had these problems would buy the
corresponding IKEA product.

17. WHAT SUBSTANCE IS USED TO
DETERMINE THE AGE OF WHALES?
For most mammals, the easiest way to measure age is a dental
examination – it’s for this reason that murder victims are easily
identified from their teeth. Teeth tend to grow outward in layers, and
the dental structure can typically serve as a proxy for age (much like
trees have rings).
Most whales, however, (including baleen whales such as the blue
whale) do not have teeth, and this method is unfeasible. Instead,
researchers track the buildup of another common (if significantly
more stigmatised) substance in the mammalian body.
A half-metre-long plug is inserted into the whale’s head, and the
deposit is removed and studied to determine the whale’s age.

18. SUPPLY THE RUNNING TITLE OF
THIS JOURNAL ARTICLE.

19. WHO LENT HIS NAME TO PROJECT
AZORIAN WITH A COVER STORY ON
MINING MANGANESE NODULES FROM
THE OCEAN FLOOR?The GSF Explorer was a deep-sea drillship platform initially
built for the CIA Special Activities Division to recover the
sunken Soviet submarine K-129, lost during April 1968. The US
wished to study Soviet nuclear missile technology as well as
possibly recover cryptographic materials.
Known as Project Azorian, the covert recovery required a cover
story. The CIA decided to approach X who had companies to his
name that already had a lot of prestigious contracts across
various segments.

20. GIVE ME THE TERM, OR NAME
THE 2011 DISNEY MOVIE.
Goldman Sachs was forced to carry out an internal
investigation after a former employee revealed to The
New York Times that the company's officials regularly
referred to its own clients as 'X', a highly disparaging
term generally used for a clueless or incompetent
person.
After the 'investigation' however, Goldman Sachs
claimed that 90% of the references to the term 'X' in
company e-mails referred to a 2011 comedy film
produced by Walt Disney Pictures.

21. WHAT DID THE SUPREME
COURT DIRECT IN SABU GEORGE V.
UNION OF INDIA?
Dr. Sabu George is a physician-turned-social activist, and has been fighting
to enhance the enforcement of the PNDT Act. Historically, his primary
opponents have been radiologists and technicians, who argue that the law is
used to harass them.
In 2013, he sued the Union of India for its lax enforcement online, along
with a number of companies who were impleaded as “intermediaries” under
Section 2(1)(w) of the Information Technology Act, 2000.
The Supreme Court, in its recent judgement, lauded him and ordered that
these intermediaries immediately cease generating revenue in the manner
outlined by Dr. George, and to insert a clear warning that people who
attempted to use their services for this purpose could be jailed under the
PNDT Act.

22. GIVE ME (A) THE SPANISH
TERM; (B) EITHER THE ARABIC OR
CAMBODIAN VERSION.
These words derive from a common Spanish term, denoting that they drew
their authority from the King’s fiat and therefore belonged to him.
One version was adopted into Arabic, which is how it finds its place in Saudi
Arabia, Qatar, and (with slight modification) Iran, Yemen and Oman.
The Cambodian version derives from French colonial origins, when the
Institut d'Émission des États du Cambodge, du Laos et du Vietnam made
sure that they would be equivalent to the Spanish version.
Given that they speak the same language, the Brazilian version is identical to
the original Spanish word.
Curiously, the term itself was never in vogue in Spain, which preferred to
adopt an alternative name that drew from a fraction.

23. WHAT IS WOLLOCOMBE
TALKING ABOUT?
According to Richard Wollocombe, one of the people
instrumental in its creation, one explanation for its
virality is that it exploits the basic human tendency to
root for an underdog who is completely cornered.
Another is that it capitalises on the evolutionary and
instinctive mammalian repulsion for creepy crawly
reptiles.
A third is that agility and a quick turn of pace are
attributes that are easily transposed to the human
body, meaning that it was easily relatable.

24. (A) ID BOTH ATHLETES IN THE
LEAKED AD.
(B) WHAT CONSPIRACY THEORY
DID THE LEAK SPAWN? [20
POINTS]Byelaw 3 to Rule 40 of the Olympic Charter contains an anti-ambush
marketing provision, which prohibits athletes, for the duration of the Games
and a 9-day period on either side, from permitting the use of their name,
picture or performance for advertising unless the advertiser is an official
sponsor of the Games. The penalty under Rule 40 is extreme, and extends to
the stripping of all medals awarded to the infringer.
In August 2012, an ad for Louis Vuitton featuring two athletes surfaced on
the internet, in blatant violation of Rule 40. Louis Vuitton quickly released a
statement asserting that the images were for release after the blackout
period, but had been stolen and leaked.
One athlete’s followers immediately cried foul, spawning a conspiracy theory
as to the source of the leak.

(A) MICHAEL PHELPS AND LARISA
LATYNINA;
(B) LATYNINA LEAKED THE IMAGES TO
PRESERVE HER MEDAL RECORD.

25. (A) WHO IS REPORTED TO HAVE
COLLECTED ADWAITA?
(B) WHO REPORTEDLY RECEIVED HIM
AS A GIFT?Adwaita was a male Aldabra giant tortoise that died in the Calcutta
Zoo in 2006.
The prevailing theory about his origin is that he was collected in Isla
Santa Cruz in the 19th Century, and that he had freshly hatched when
the collector found him. Further accounts posit that he was fragile
when collected, and required specialised attention from the collector.
The Calcutta Zoo, however, claims that this story is an utter
falsehood, and that he was 255 years old when he died. Zoo
authorities claimed that he was found in the Seychelles, and that he
was received as a bribe from the captain of a merchant vessel.
Authorities claim that he spent a few years in the estate of the
receiver, before being donated to the Zoo.
Both accounts are suspect: Aldabra tortoises are found in the
Seychelles, not Isla Santa Cruz, but the story of his transfer as a bribe
sounds too blatant to be true.

(A) CHARLES DARWIN; (B) ROBERT
CLIVE

26. WHICH INDIAN BRAND DID
RAJEEV SAMANT LAUNCH?
Rajeev Samant was born in Mumbai, and studied advanced economics
at Stanford before joining Oracle in Redwood City as one of the
youngest managers to be recruited.
However, he got disillusioned pretty soon and travelled the world
before returning home to launch an agro-based start up in his
twenty-acre family plot, which he named after his mother.
Today, his company holds an astonishing 65% share in the Indian
market, and he is currently eyeing the export market.

27. WHOSE X-RAY?
This (image follows) is a chest x-ray of a certain individual believed to
be suffering from endometriosis. Endometriosis was a condition of
the womb, which caused the individual considerable pain. The x-ray
was said to be taken around a time when she was believed to be
pregnant, but rumour has that it was a miscarriage, and that her
marital relations were not the ‘home run’ they initially seemed to be.
A young doctor working in the radiology department of the hospital
obtained the x-rays later on and used it to show his students at the
centres medical school. He passed them on to his daughter who had
put them up for sale.
Julien’s Auction House in a recently released statement said that
these x-rays went for $45000, more than 10 times their initial
estimates.

28. WHAT WAS THE CREATION AND
COLLABORATION?
Carlo was an Italian decorator, designer, and manufacturer of Art Noveau furniture,
among other things, who had two sons named Rembrandt and Ettore.
Rembrandt followed in the family footsteps and trained in an art gallery. He rose to
prominence for making sculptures modelled on various wildlife creatures that he
observed at the zoo, like tigers and elephants. However, following depressing
experiences during and Post WW1, and following the death of his model zoo animals
over food shortage, he committed suicide at the age of 31, in 1919.
His brother Ettore however, took a different path. At the insistence of his father, he
was encouraged to take a technical internship with one of many Milanese quadricycle
manufacturers. Ettore was said to have demonstrated a deep and instinctive
understanding of wide range of aspects of motor-vehicle construction, and the rest
is said to be history.
His brother Rembrandt contributed a figurehead to his creation; one of the few
moments when their otherwise diametrically opposite lifestyles intersected.

BUGATTI
THE ELEPHANT BONNET
ORNAMENT

29. WHAT CONGLOMERATE?
They are a French multinational mass media conglomerate headquartered in
Paris, France. The company has activities in music, television, film, video
games, telecommunications, tickets and video hosting service. Among
others, they own Canal+, Gameloft, Dailymotion.
However, their origins arise from an entirely different context. In their initial
form, they were incorporated in 1853 by an imperial decree of Napoleon III,
and obtained a concession to supply water to the public of Lyon, a role they
served for more than a century. Obtaining such permissions to serve the city
of Paris as well, they were focused on the water sector, until a couple of
decades ago, when they used overwhelming money chest obtained to buy
themselves into relevance.

30. A RESPONSE TO WHOSE
BUSINESS MODEL?
On the 22nd of August, 2014, the RBI issued a circular in relation to “Security Issues
and Risk mitigation measures related to Card Not Present (CNP) transactions”
Its pertinent part is in paragraph 3:
“It has come to our notice that despite the above clarifications there are instances of
card not present transactions being effected without the mandated additional
authentication/validation even where the underlying transactions are essentially
taking place between two residents in India (card issued in India being used for
purchase of goods and service offered by a merchant/service provider in India). It is
also observed that these entities are evading the mandate of additional
authentication/validation by following business / payment models which are resulting
in foreign exchange outflow. Such camouflaging and flouting of extant instructions on
card security, which has been made possible by merchant transactions (for underlying
sale of goods / services within India) being acquired by banks located overseas
resulting in an outflow of foreign exchange in the settlement of these transactions, is
not acceptable as this is in violation of the directives issued under the Payment and
Settlement Systems Act 2007 besides the requirements under the Foreign Exchange
Management Act, 1999.”

UBER; WHICH IS WHY THEY
ADOPTED PAYTM AS A PAYMENT
PARTNER.

WRIGHT BROS.
Aviation
+10/0

1. GIVE ME A TWO-WORD NAME.
More of an institution than a mere object, there are
three in service currently – Spirit of Innovation,
Wingfoot One, and Wingfoot Two.
In the militaristic world of branding campaigns, they
represent one of the few instances in which air power
has been summoned by a brand to project itself.
They have also been referenced in numerous pop
culture contexts, including a memorable occasion in
which the rapper Ice Cube, in his iconic It was a good
day, dreams that the lettering on it reads “Ice Cube’s a
Pimp”.

2. WHO HAVE WE SEEN WEARING A
CREATION BY FLYING FORTRESS
FASHIONS?
The images that follow are from LIFE
Magazine’s coverage of a new line of
clothing, branded Flying Fortress
Fashions, and the enormous customer
response it received.
A blue Flying Fortress shirt is prominently
featured on an enduring image from the
era with folded sleeves and paired with a
polka dot bandana.

3. WHAT IS THE AGM-65’S
NICKNAME?
The AGM-65 air-to-ground
missile was introduced into
service in 1972, and continues to
be employed by the US Navy and
Air Force, among other
international users.
It has a proven service record,
and pioneered the revolutionary
“fire and forget” system in which
the pilot did not have to keep his
aircraft pointed at the target until
the missile reached it.
Its most significant pop culture
impact is that its nickname is
identical to a fictional name,
meaning that the character would
never have been allowed to
choose it as his pseudonym.

4. WHO INHABITED THE RONALD
ROSS INSTITUTE BETWEEN 1966
AND 1970?
The Ronald Ross Institute (see Q1 of the prelims) fell
into ruin shortly after he left for Assam in September
1898.
Along with the surrounding areas, the building was
acquired by the Nizam of Hyderabad for the Begumpet
Airport, completed in 1937.
The building was used by the Nizam’s Deccan Airways,
which was later nationalised. Until 1979, this
organisation used the building for training, and it was
in this capacity that it played host to arguably the
country’s most (in?)famous aviator.

5. WHICH BAND?
On 28 August 1988, a team of the Italian Air Force was putting up a
demonstration at Flugtag ‘88, an air show organised by the US Air
Force’s European Command at its headquarters.
While performing the “pierced heart” manoeuvre, the piercing aircraft
hit the heart-forming aircraft, causing a catastrophic fireball that
killed three pilots and sixty seven spectators, making it the deadliest
air show disaster at the time.
Singer Till Lindemann, then in his mid-twenties, was in the audience
at the show, and later decided to name his band after the disaster.
The band also released a song named after the tragedy, whose lyrics
(when translated) include references to “the smell of burning flesh on
the asphalt”.

1. GIVE ME A TWO-WORD NAME.
More of an institution than a mere object, there are three in
service currently – Spirit of Innovation, Wingfoot One, and
Wingfoot Two.
In the militaristic world of branding campaigns, they represent
one of the few instances in which air power has been
summoned by a brand to project itself.
They have also been referenced in numerous pop culture
contexts, including a memorable occasion in which the rapper
Ice Cube, in his iconic It was a good day, dreams that the
lettering on it reads “Ice Cube’s a Pimp”.

2. WHO HAVE WE SEEN WEARING A
CREATION BY FLYING FORTRESS
FASHIONS?
The images that follow are from LIFE
Magazine’s coverage of a new line of clothing,
branded Flying Fortress Fashions, and the
enormous customer response it received.
A blue Flying Fortress shirt is prominently
featured on an enduring image from the era
with folded sleeves and paired with a polka dot
bandana.

3. WHAT IS THE AGM-65’S
NICKNAME?
The AGM-65 air-to-ground missile was
introduced into service in 1972, and
continues to be employed by the US
Navy and Air Force, among other
international users.
It has a proven service record, and
pioneered the revolutionary “fire and
forget” system in which the pilot did not
have to keep his aircraft pointed at the
target until the missile reached it.
Its most significant pop culture impact is
that its nickname is identical to a
fictional name, meaning that the
character would never have been
allowed to choose it as his pseudonym.

4. WHO INHABITED THE RONALD
ROSS INSTITUTE BETWEEN 1966
AND 1970?
The Ronald Ross Institute (see Q1 of the prelims) fell into ruin
shortly after he left for Assam in September 1898.
Along with the surrounding areas, the building was acquired by
the Nizam of Hyderabad for the Begumpet Airport, completed in
1937.
The building was used by the Nizam’s Deccan Airways, which
was later nationalised. Until 1979, this organisation used the
building for training, and it was in this capacity that it played
host to arguably the country’s most (in?)famous aviator.

5. WHICH BAND?
On 28 August 1988, a team of the Italian Air Force was putting up a
demonstration at Flugtag ‘88, an air show organised by the US Air Force’s
European Command at its headquarters.
While performing the “pierced heart” manoeuvre, the piercing aircraft hit the
heart-forming aircraft, causing a catastrophic fireball that killed three pilots
and sixty seven spectators, making it the deadliest air show disaster at the
time.
Singer Till Lindemann, then in his mid-twenties, was in the audience at the
show, and later decided to name his band after the disaster.
The band also released a song named after the tragedy, whose lyrics (when
translated) include references to “the smell of burning flesh on the asphalt”.

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