These are the questions of the preliminary round of the Esya '17 Quiz. The answers are here: A) Amelia Earhart B) Barack Obama C) Coffee D) Don Bradman E) Scaling Mt Everest F) Facebook G) Gal Gadot H) HP I) IMDB J) JIO K) KitKat L) Lightsaber M) Meme N) Nokia O) Oxford Comma P) Pepsi Q) Qwerty R) Roger Federer S) Smriti Mandhana T) Twitter U) United airlines V) Vicks W) White House X) Xilinx Y) Yakult Z) Zipper

1. Esya ‘17 Quiz Prelims

2. Rules:
●One point will be awarded for each correct answer.
●No negative marking
●No half points are awarded
●Inbuilt tie breakers
●A-Z format
●Please switch off all electronic devices
●Quiz Master's decision will be final and binding.
●We’ll have one place reserved for a school team in the
finals. We’ll be shortlisting the top 8-10 Teams for the
finals.

3. A)Connect

4. B) Back in 1979, X was known as Barry and
he had a beef with his basketball coach,
Chris McLachlin. Identify X.

5. C) According to legend, an Ethiopian shepherd was the
first one to observe the influence of this when his goats
appeared to "dance" and to have an increased level of
energy after consuming wild berries. The legend names
the shepherd “Kaldi” or “Khalid”. From Ethiopia, this
spread through Egypt and Yemen. By the 15th century, it
had reached the rest of Middle East, Persia, Turkey and
northern Africa. What are we talking about?

6. D)

7. E) The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
happened on the 2nd of June, 1953. Just
three days earlier, something huge had
happened in the world. This was dubbed
as the ‘Queen’s Coronation Gift’. What first
had happened on the 29th of May, 1953?

8. F)

9. G)

10. H) This company was started by two Stanford University graduates
during a fellowship they had with a Standford professor. Of the
many projects they worked on, their very first financially successful
product was a precision audio oscillator, the Model 200A. One of the
company's earliest customers was Walt Disney Productions which
bought eight Model 200B oscillators (at $71.50 each) for use in
certifying the Fantasound surround sound systems installed in
theaters for the movie Fantasia.
The company also produced counter-radar technology and artillery
shell fuses during World War II, which allowed one of the
company’s founders to be exempt from the draft.
Identify the company.

11. I) The year was 1989 and rec.arts.movies was one of the more
popular USENET newsgroups around.
A computer programmer from Bristol, Col Needham wrote a
post simply titled "Those Eyes" that, with the participation of
all readers, identified actresses with beautiful eyes and
categorized which movies they appeared in. As this thread
grew in size, newsgroup participants simply called it "THE
LIST". As users started contributing more, more lists began to
emerge.
On October 17, 1990, Col Needham posted numerous Unix
shell scripts that could search these lists making it easy for the
users to look up their favourite movies. How do we know
these lists today?

12. J) In June 2010, Reliance Industries (RIL) bought a 96%
stake in Infotel Broadband Services Limited (IBSL) for
₹4,800cr. Although unlisted, IBSL was the only company
that won broadband spectrum in all 22 circles in India in
the 4G auction that took place earlier that year. Later
continuing as RIL's telecom subsidiary, Infotel
Broadband Services Limited was renamed. How do we
know ISBL today?

13. K) Whose tweet is this?

14. L) “High levels of energy generated by a high-output Diatium power cell are
unleashed through a series of focusing lenses and energisers that convert
the energy into plasma. The plasma is projected through a set of focusing
crystals that lend the blade its properties and allow for the adjustment of
blade length and power output. The ideal number of crystals are three,
though only one is required. Once focused by the crystals, the plasma is sent
through a series of field energisers and modulation circuitry within the
emitter matrix that further focus it, making it a coherent beam of energy
that is projected from the emitter. The blade typically extends about a meter
before being arced by the blade containment field back to a negatively
charged fissure ringing the emitter, where it channels back to the power cell
by a superconductor, completing the circuit.
“ What is being described here ?

15. M)

16. N)

17. O)

18. P)

19. Q) This layout was devised and created in the early 1870s by Christopher
Latham Sholes, a newspaper editor and printer who lived in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin. In October 1867, Sholes filed a patent application for his early
writing machine he developed with the assistance of his friends Carlos
Glidden and Samuel W. Soulé. Contrary to popular belief, this layout was
not designed to slow the typist down, but rather to speed up typing by
preventing jams. Indeed, there is evidence that, aside from the issue of
jamming, placing often-used keys farther apart increases typing speed,
because it encourages alternation between the hands. There is another
origin story in the Smithsonian that this layout was made for telegraph
operators to make it easy for them to work. What are we talking about?

20. R) They call themselves the Backhand Boys. Who
created this band?

21. S) She took the world by storm earlier this year. Her
childhood coach, Anant Tambvekar says she that she has
always been hard working. “She was very lively since
her childhood. But at training, she was extremely
disciplined”, he says.
Although this 20 year old is focused and serious on the
field, she is quite a prankster. She also loves listening to
the songs of Arijit Singh, reading books and binge eating
on street food.
Who am i referring to?

22. T)

23. U) X traces its roots to the Varney Air Lines air mail service of Walter
Varney, who also founded Varney Speed Lines from which Continental
Airlines had originated. Founded in Boise, Idaho in 1926, the carrier flew
the first contract air mail flight in the U.S. on April 6, 1926, marking the first
scheduled airline service in the country's history with flights between Pasco,
WA and Elko, NV via Boise.
In 1927, aviation pioneer William Boeing founded his airline Boeing Air
Transport to operate the San Francisco to Chicago air mail route. In 1929,
Boeing merged his company with Pratt & Whitney to form the X Aircraft and
Transport Corporation which then set about buying, in the space of just 28
months, Pacific Air Transport, Stout Air Services, Varney Air Lines and
National Air Transport, as well as numerous equipment manufacturers at
the same time. On March 28, 1931, X was formed as a holding company for
its airline subsidiaries.
Identify X.

24. V) In the earlier days, racehorses used to get distracted very fast.
This was a very dangerous thing as racehorses tended to get
distracted in the middle of professional races. To avoid such
situations, the jockeys and professional racers rubbed some amount
of this substance right under the nostrils of the horses, right before a
race, so that the horse can only smell this. This allows the horses to
focus on the race and not get distracted by the odour ponies and
other horses.
Nowaday, newer tricks are being used to stop the horses from
getting distracted, but during the olden days, this was the most
popular method. What used to be rubbed under the horses’ nostrils
so that they did not get distracted?

25. W)

26. X) Ross Freeman was an American electrical engineer and inventor. In 1984,
Ross postulated that because of Moore's Law, transistors would be getting
less expensive each year, making customizable programmable chips
affordable. The idea was "far out" at the time, but his company and
technology grew quickly, eventually catching the attention of new-found
competitors in what became a mature industry.
With Bernard Vonderschmitt and James V Barnett II Freeman co-founded
this company in 1984, and a year later invented the first Field
Programmable Gate Array(FPGA). Freeman's invention - patent 4,870,302 - is
a computer chip full of 'open gates' that engineers can reprogram as much
as needed to add new functionality, adapt to changing standards or
specifications and make last minute design changes. Which company is
credited with the invention of the FPGA?

27. Y) This is a probiotic dairy product made by fermenting a mixture of
skimmed milk with a special strain of the bacterium Lactobacillus casei
Shirota. It was created by Japanese scientist Minoru Shirota, who graduated
from the Medical School of Kyoto University in 1930. In 1935, he started
manufacturing and selling this product. Official claims state that the name is
derived from jahurto, an Esperanto word for "yogurt". Since then, this
product has also introduced a line of beverages for the Japanese market that
contain Bifidobacterium breve bacteria, and has also used its lactobacilli
research to develop cosmetics.
What’s the product?

28. Z) This consists of two rows of protruding teeth, which may be made to
interdigitate, linking the rows, carrying from tens to hundreds of specially
shaped metal or plastic teeth. These teeth can be either individual or shaped
from a continuous coil, and are also referred to as elements. The slider,
operated by hand, moves along the rows of teeth. Inside the slider is a Y-
shaped channel that meshes together or separates the opposing rows of
teeth, depending on the direction of the slider's movement. The word is
onomatopoeic, because it was named based on the sound the device makes
when used.
What is being described here?

29. All the best!
See you at the finals!