1) The document describes a business quiz competition hosted by Conquiztadors called Biz-Tech Quiz EL-DORADO'22. It consists of 25 multiple choice questions across various business and technology topics. 2) Some of the questions cover topics like dating apps, marketing campaigns, industries, movies/documentaries, controversies and more. For example, one question identifies the Agra shoe industry and the documentary about its struggles called "In Their Shoes". 3) The rules state there are no negatives, some questions marked with a star will be used to resolve ties, and using unfair means will lead to disqualification. The quiz aims to test the participants' knowledge of current events, business

1. Biz-Tech Quiz
By Conquiztadors
EL-DORADO'22 Search

2. Rules
How this works?
25 Questions
No Negatives
Questions 5,10,14,20 and 25 are star-
marked and will be used to resolve ties
Use of any unfair means will lead to
immediate disqualification from the
competition

3. Let's Begin

4. Q1. What is the title of the book?
Sharing its name with a massively popular Taylor Swift
song, what is the alliterative title of this book based (also
an upcoming movie) on a now-infamous tech company
that was once hailed as the next big thing in the field of
health care.

5. A1. Bad Blood

6. Q2. What quote? What approach did
the company in question take?
With huge celebrity endorsements and aggressive marketing, over the last few
months, cryptocurrencies and NFTs have been at the centre of all things
business.
Leading up to this year’s Super Bowl, it was quite obvious that there were going
to be multiple crypto ads featuring celebrities. Fans were dejected to see a
certain Larry in one such ad. This led people to use a historically significant
three-worded quote to express their disappointment with the beloved
celebrity also giving in to the ongoing fad.
While most crypto companies and platforms were busy making somewhat
similar ads, one company decided to take an opposite approach, with the aim
of winning the trust of the audience/customers.

7. Name goes here
A2. Et tu, Larry?
Instead of promoting cryptocurrency,
they warned people about it.

8. Q3. Identify the company. What resemblance
did they make their ad around?
When a regal company wanted to make a campaign
around its preservative-free products, it chose an uncanny
resemblance from the world of online communications to
get its message across. Their message was that their
(redacted) used to have ____, but not anymore.

9. A3.Burger King, Poop Emoji Icecream

10. Q4. ID the industry.
A seemingly normal feature started to get stigmatized around
a century ago with a change in fashion sensibilities.
Around the same time, a brand started a marketing campaign
targeting an insecurity in women to boost the sales of this product
thus eventually making this activity a common thing.
This campaign was so successful it went on to become a full-blown
industry.

11. A4. HAIR REMOVAL INDUSTRY

12. Q5.* What term?
Pictured here is a medieval weapon famous for being used by
European knights.
While working on an 1820 work, an author was looking for a word to
describe hired mercenaries whose weapons were independent of
any royal banner and were available for hire to whoever was willing
to pay the most.
This led to the coinage of a term that has since been used even for
less-violent works in modern times and forms a very integral part
of the workforce.

14. A5. FREELANCE

15. Q6. Which industry? Name the documentary.
Several cities in India gained prominence as trade hubs during the Mughal times.
Given the long heritage of cuisines, it was no surprise that the Mughals sourced
ingredients from far-off places. Hing was imported from Afghanistan and Iran,
packed in leather containers. These containers were discarded once their purpose
was served. The craftsmen of a certain city soon realized that these leather bags
could be reused for something else. Thus began a prospering industry in this city,
which has fallen back in recent times owing to competition from outside.
__ _____ _____ is a 2015 documentary that portrays the troubles of this dwindling
industry and the craftsmen it employs. The documentary is a play on an apt idiom.

16. A6. Agra Shoe Industry, In Their Shoes

17. Q7. FITB.
The _____ ___ is a short documentary from 2021
about Housing Segregation and its heavy cost on the
victims.
Housing segregation is where people of different racial
diversities are denied access to housing through
misinformation and fraud. Hence, the name of the movie.

18. A7. The Color Tax

19. Q8. What was unique about the events
hosted by two brands?
A frozen foods brand recently decided to double up on
their idea of “home-cooked snacks” by celebrating a
tradition in a modern way. Following the steps of this
brand, another FMCG brand celebrated the event in a
similar manner making it one of the most unique
campaigns around a tech buzzword.

20. A8. Holi Party in Metaverse

21. Q9. Which feature?
Companies are always looking for ways to make
customers spend more than they intend to. They do
this by making use of elements of psychology and
behavioral economics.
This can be seen in a certain feature used by e-
commerce websites to make people buy more.

22. A9. Frequently bought together feature

23. Q10.* Name the Program.
Open AI has created an artificial program that lets you
create images by describing whatever you want to see,
The program is aptly named _____ in a nod to a popular
robot from a film and a surrealist painter whose last
name is a homophone to the name of the program.

24. A10. DALL-E (Salvador Dali and WALL-E)

25. Theme Round
-Dating Apps-4 Questions-

26. Q11. Identify the tagline and the name of the
remixed version of the album.
In 2018, an alliteratively named dating app ______ Daters was launched to help bring
together people with a shared allegiance. The CEO of the app said in a statement, "Support for
the _________ has become a dealbreaker instead of an icebreaker.” The aim of this app was
thus to make Americans get back in the dating scene, a message that they were able to
perfectly capture in their tagline- a play on something which rose to popularity in the second
half of the decade.
In 2015, an American rock band released a remixed version of their album from the same year. The
album title also plays on the same thing from the second half of the decade which started gaining
prominence in the said year. Additionally, it references something from the world of entertainment from
the turn of the century which served as a critical social commentary on Western consumerism and
greed. Coincidentally, the protagonist of the said work also idolized someone who helped popularize the
thing in question.

27. A11. Make America Date Again,
Make America Psycho Again

28. Q12. What was the app about? Who invested
in the app?
An app came featured on Shark Tank USA received a wonderful
investment from the sharks.
The app was a dating site for people having a shared affinity for
something and is the purfect place for such people to meet. The idea
behind the app was that the common stereotype goes that “people in
possession of ____ are crazy.” since ____ are considered evil and
bearers of darkness, This otherwise Instagram.com loved thing is
considered a red flag by some.

29. A12.Cat lovers and Kevin O Leary

30. Q13.What is the dating platform called?
With NFTs becoming so popular, a group of hackers and
developers have created a platform where the owners of a
certain NFT will get to interact with fellow NFT-holders in
the hope of minting a connection. The dating platform has
been named ______ ___ ____ by replacing the first word
from the name of a famous NFT series with an adjective that
perfectly describes the state of users of the platform.

31. A13. LONELY APE DATING CLUB

32. Q14.* What inconsistency? Name the app.
A recent controversy in the dating world has made the
headlines for all the wrong reasons. Problematic prerequisites
apart, the app became the talk of the town due to a major
inconsistency involving the founder.
This isn’t the first app to resort to elitist prerequisites. ___
International is a dating app that is supposed to be for the ___
______ of the professional world- a counterpart to the standard
closer home.

33. A14. The founder of IIT IIM Shaadi is not
an IIT/IIM alumni, Ivy

34. End of Theme
Round

35. Q15. What incident is being discussed
about?
A clip of Bruce Wayne buying a painting for much more than it's
worth went viral and was compared with a similar offer from
recent times. This led people to draw parallels between Bruce
Wayne and someone else.

36. A15. ELON MUSK'S OFFERS TO BUY
TWITTER

37. Q16. Which term?
The title of a Satirical video featuring a Gossip Girl contains a
term ____(12)- a portmanteau of everything feminine and
hiring cheap labor as a solution.
The video talks about the pay gap, women being pretty and cheap
labor.

38. A16. PINKSOURCING

39. Q17. What did the customers yearn for
and why did the situation arise?
Today, Panama has one of the highest numbers of ships registered owing
to it being an open registry that allows ship-owners to escape stricter
regulations practiced in their own countries. In the 1920s, American ships
started registering their ships in Panama as shipowners sought to avoid
higher wages and improved working conditions secured through US
legislation. This also served as a legal way to provide something to
American customers that they were yearning for in that period.

40. A.17 Alchohol; The Prohibition

41. Q18. What did the ad resemble?
Pictured in the next slide is an ad by a global giant. The release
of this ad rightfully received a lot of flack from customers and
people from around the world for its uncanny resemblance with
something.

43. A18. Resemblance with the 9/11
Disaster

44. Q19.What announcement and what was her
IG handle named?
The social media handle of this artist got blocked in
November 2021 by a tech giant for “pretending to be
someone else” although her account was made in 2012
and had been pretty active since it documented all her
creative work.
The actual reason for disabling the account was an
announcement made in late October 2021.

45. A19. Facebook changing its name to Meta,
Her IG handle was metaverse

46. Q20.* Identify the product in question and
the pop culture reference.
In a recent interview with GQ, a proud owner of a ____ and
President of the North American association of ____- lovers
opened up about his tryst with the thing in question. He
expressed his elation at the sudden limelight that it was
receiving, thanks to an award-winning pop culture
reference. This has also resulted in a major surge in the price
of the products of the said company, especially the ones
with a specific configuration.

47. A20. The Red SAAB from Drive My Car

48. Q21.Identify the acquirer. What was
the anomaly ?
This industry leader with a worldwide audience, recently
purchased this trending 2021 game.
However, users were disappointed when they noticed an
anomaly- a deviation from the unique feature of the game
which led some to resort to the older version

49. A.21 New York Times, Two Wordle
Answers

50. Q22. Identify the fashion choice.
This fashion choice first became popular in 1980 when the sportspersons
of the host nation of a major event were sponsored by a company from
the West. The comfort provided by these made them an instant hit.
A lot of wrestlers were recruited by people involved in a particular set of
activities. Because of their familiarity with the this comfortable fashion choice,
they would wear it all the time,
All this is said to be the origin behind a certain obsession which has also led to
plenty of memes.

51. A22. Russian Gopniks wearing Adidas
Tracksuits

52. Q23. Identify the author and the inspiration
behind the main character.
The popular video game series BioShock revolves around a businessman
who is driven by the desire to create a capitalist utopia for a few elite
people which would be free of government control and would be devoid
of petty morals. This plot is heavily inspired from the work of a famous
female author from the last century.
Apart from drawing inspiration from the main character of this work of fiction,
the fictional character (in picture) from the video game also draws inspiration
from a madman and pioneer from the world of business who was active in
multiple fields, also from the last century.

53. Q23.Identify the author and the inspiration
behind the main character.

54. A23. AYN RAND, HOWARD HUGHES

55. Q24. Identify the two pairs of siblings and
the historical reference.
In an episode of Epic Rap Battles between two pairs of siblings from
two different eras- a pair of innovators from the 1900s and a pair of
Italians from the world of tech.
In the rap battle, the latter body shames the former for being skinny with
the line: “You might fly like a ____, But you fight like a _____”, a
reference to something historical.

56. A.24 Wright Brothers, Mario Brothers,
Wright Brothers' first flight at Kitty Hawk.

57. Q25.* Name the streaming service. What
secret was thus revealed?
A streaming service named after something from the world of
animals decided to add an Easter egg for the fans of a hit show
which first aired on their parent company’s network. The agreement
promised to answer some burning legal questions- one of which
revealed a much sought after secret, although the company hopes
that the users don’t spill the beans.

58. A25. Peacock; revealed the recipe for
Kevin's Hot Chili

59. THAT'S ALL