A quiz based on Innovation and entrepreneurship in collaboration with MHRD Innovation Cell (MIC) - MSIT.

1. In Association with Veda – The Quiz
Society
INNOVATION AND
ENTREPRENEURSHIP QUIZ

2. Q 1
 X established by Ministry of HRD will focus on
creating complete ecosystem which will foster the
culture of Innovation across all educational
institutions from ideas generation to pre-
incubation, incubation and graduating from the
incubator as successful start-ups.
 It aims to encourage the creative energy of the
student population to work on new ideas and
innovation and promote them to create start-ups
and entrepreneurial ventures.

4. MHRD's Innovation Cell (MIC)

5. Q 2
 In 1945, Percy Spencer was fiddling with a
magnetron and he felt a strange, sizzling
sensation in his pants. He checked his pockets
and found out the chocolate bar inside his pants
had melted. Intrigued he took some unpopped
corn kernels near the machine and found that
they had popped. Which device did Spencer
invent on the basis of this discovery?

7. Microwave

8. Q 3
 In 1816, French doctor Rene TH Laennec had a
young female patient in Paris. Embarrassed to
touch her breasts to perform the diagnosis, Rene
rolled up a sheet of paper to create a tube to
place it on her chest. Which important invention
took place that day due to Rene’s reluctance to
touch the patient?

10. Stethoscope

11. Q 4
 Inexhaustive list of what-
 One97 Communications
 Oyo
 Snapdeal
 Ola
 Byju’s
 Swiggy
 Udaan
 Zomato
 ReNew Power
 BillDesk
 Delhivery

13. Indian Unicorns

14. Q 5
 “When I stepped out of the shower, the room was
especially foggy. I wiped the mirror clean, but
within a minute it was fogging up again. I wiped it
clean a second time, only this time, I wiped in the
opposite direction.
 “I saw a familiar face looking back at me in the
clear sliver of the mirror that my hand had just …
swiped.”
 Johnathan Badeen talking about a eureka
moment which led to the development of a certain
feature which revolutionised the industry. Which
feature is Mr. Badeen talking about?

16. Tinder Swipe

17. Q 6
 X and Y were two of the pioneering inventors of
the 19th and 20th century in the field of electricity.
Apart having SI units of electric conductance and
magnetic induction named in their honour
respectively, X and Y each have a big company in
the field of engineering named after them. The
conglomerate X AG is named so because it was
founded by X while the much recent Y Inc was
named after Y because the company’s founder
wanted to pay a tribute to him. Id X and Y

19. Siemens and Tesla

20. Q 7
 Charles Leiper Grigg created a soft drink that
initially contained lithium citrate, a mood -
stabilizing drug. He came up with the name for
the drink after rejecting the first six names that
were offered. Which drink is this?

22. 7UP

23. Q 8
 “I considered other names such as Mine of
Information, The Information Mine, The Mesh.
 None had quite the right ring. I liked _ partly
because I could start global variable names with
a W and not have them clash with other peoples'
(in a C world) ...in fact I used HT for them)”. FITB
or identify what invention is being talked about?

25. World Wide Web (www)

26. Q 9
 XY is the Chairman of Y Group, a Mumbai-based business
conglomerate that operates in almost each and every field.
 As of September 2017, his net worth is estimated to be $1.55
billion. He is an alumnus of Harvard University. In 1996, he
established Nanhi Kali, a NGO that supports education for
underprivileged girls in India.
 He is included by Fortune Magazine among the 'World's 50
Greatest Leaders' and featured in the magazine's 2011 listing
of Asia's 25 most powerful business people. He was noted
by Forbes (India) as their 'Entrepreneur of the Year' for 2013.
 He was also the first speaker on the series ‘India First
Leadership Talk Series’ organised by the MIC, wherein he
spoke on How to Deal with Failure.
 Id XY

28. Anand Mahindra

29. Q 10
 This company was set up in 1938 and named
after its founder. It manufactured parts for gas
masks during World War II. After the war, its
founder turned attention towards making a peace
time product. While doing so, he discovered a
way of turning polyethylene slag, a byproduct of
crude oil refinement, into a strong, resilient,
grease free plastic and gave it it’s now household
name.

31. Tupperware

32. Q 11
 Which company/campaign?
 Filtered cigarettes, in their initial days, were
considered as feminine, mainly due to its slogan
“Mild as May”. Which advertising campaign gave a
masculine overtone to the same in a matter of
months in the 1950s?

34. Marlboro / Marlboro Man

35. Q 12
 ID this entrepreneur
 An alumnus of IIT-Kanpur, he started his career at
IIM Ahmedabad as chief systems programmer.
 There he worked on India's first time-sharing
computer system and designed and implemented a
BASIC interpreter for Electronics Corporation of
India Limited.
 His 1st venture, named Softronics, was a failure,
but his 2nd venture is considered to be one of the
biggest hits in Indian corporate history.

37. Narayan Murthy

38. Q 13
 The X company was created by a 19-year-old
entrepreneur Tom Lyle Williams, after he saw his
older sister Mabel apply Vaseline and coal dust to
her eyelashes to give them a darker, richer look.
He adapted this method using a simple chemistry
set and sold his product X, naming it in honour of
his sister.
 Give me X

40. Maybelline

41. Q 14
 The word X comes from a 13th century French verb
that means to do something or to undertake. By the
16th century, X had emerged to refer to someone who
undertakes a business venture.
 The first academic usage of the term was by
economist Richard Cantillon in 1730. For Cantillion,
the bearing of risk, engaging in business without an
assurance of the profits that will be derived is the
distinguishing feature of an X.
 The term was further popularized by economist Jean
Baptiste Say, who used it to refer to individuals who
create value in an economy by moving resources out
of areas of low productivity and into areas of higher
productivity and greater yield.

43. Entrepreneur

44. Q 15
 This the front cover of the
final issue (1974) of The
Whole Earth Catalog.
 The back cover of this
magazine had a quote
that inspired a pioneer of
micro computers to keep
on innovating until you
succeed.
 What was the quote and
whom is it now
synonymous with?

46.  Stay Hungry Stay
Foolish
 Steve Jobs

47. Q 16
 The full form of X suggests a well-structured and
layered organization, conveying truth and wisdom
and used in offices all around the world.
 However, one reason for the naming was the
founder’s girlfriend calling him X in a sense which
was opposite to what the full form indicates.
 Bollywood buffs may associate the name in the
second sense, with Shammi Kapoor.
 Just name X.

49. YAHOO

50. Bonus Question
 The logo is an abstraction of the letters ___. The
yellow and blue strokes represent the letter _ and
red stroke denotes _.
 The yellow and blue stroke also represent people,
and denote team work and networking.
 The colors used in the composition signify trust,
loyalty, intellect, energy, joy and vigour.
 The composition is symbolic of the key qualities
of the organization that are team spirit,
networking and innovation.
Logo of which organization is being described?

52. Institution’s Innovation Council
(IIC)