Finals of Biz-Tech Internal Quiz session organised by Mind Palace LDCE in association with Endeavour.

1. Finals

3. +10 for direct
+15/-10 for pounce

4.  This social networking service was founded in
2003 by Chris DeWolfe & Tom Anderson and
was later acquired by News Corporation in
July 2005 for $580 million. This site is later
sold to X-backed ad agency.
 X is an American singer, song-writer & actor.
X’s work has earned him nine Grammy
Awards and four Emmy Awards.

8.  “In environmental psychology, the X is much
more comfortable and informal for
individuals, as well as groups of people, …”
says Rubinfeld. He adds that Starbucks will
soon be unveiling a new X shape.
 So the introduction of X gave customers of
Starbucks a homely environment & increased
their sales.

12.  According to Wikipedia, Wayne enterprise is
owned by: Thomas Wayne, Bruce Wayne & X.

14.  The X was dictated by Gandini's desire for an
innovative design, and by his concern over
the car's extremely poor rear visibility and
also helps in reversing the car.
 X is also known as turtles.

16.  What is an eponym?!
 Cryptic clues will be given if no one objects.

17.  In science and technology, discoveries and
innovations are often named after the
discoverer (or supposed discoverer) or to
honor some other influential workers.
 Examples areAvogadro's number, the Diesel
engine, meitnerium, Alzheimer's disease, and
the Apgar score.

20. Written round
+5 for each
+5 bonus if you get all of them correct

26.  Nilkamal Chairs
 KitKat
 Pepsodent
 Head & Shoulders
 FedEx

27. +10 for direct
+15/-10 for pounce

28.  Seinfeld – Junior Mints
 E.T. – Reese’s Pieces
 Golden Eye – BMW Z3
 Cast Away – Fed-Ex
 Risky Business – Ray-Ban
 Jerry Maguire - ??????

30.  The term X originated during development
activities at Lattice Inc, the makers of an early
Windows, encountered the stop screen
when null pointers were dereferenced either
in application code or when unexpectedly
passed into system API calls.
 During reviews of progress and feedback
to IBM Austin, the developers described the
stop screen as the X to denote the screen and
the finality of the experience.

33.  During the course of a recent presentation by
civil aviation ministry, PM Narendra Modi is
reported to have suggested X be replaced by
one representing aam admi. But X is the least
of the state-owned company's problems.
 Bobby Kooka, the person who created the X,
remarked about it "He may look like royalty,
but he isn't royal".

35.  X are usually marked in several ways:
 abbreviations for source points,
 colour code for starting point,
 number for destination and
 markings for people who handle X at
destination.

37.  1) Scrooge McDuck
 2) Smaug
 3) X
 4) Tony Stark
 5) Charles Foster Kane
 Id X.
 (Dying to give hints on this!)

39.  Yum! started out as Tricon Global
Restaurants, which was a subsidiary of Y until
the spin-off in 1997.
 But even after the spin-off, we can see one
particular practice in most of the Yum! owned
brands which is a remainder of its past
association with Y.

41.  The rules that govern the mechanics of a X
are due to Hooke's law and the effects
of gravitation.
 In 2002, George W. Bush declared the X, the
national toy of the United States. In that
year's state of the union he stated, “I can not
think of a recreational device that better
exemplifies the inventiveness of the
American spirit. ”

45. +5 for individual slide

47.  X was a customizable Ajax-based startpage
or personal web portal launched in May 2005.
The developers created the left sidebar
feature to compress the size of the gadgets
users want to have and to accommodate
young chat users who are not interested in
features such as news, weather, sports,
financial markets, etc.

48.  X – A service that enabled subject experts &
other users to write authoritative articles
related to various topics .
 Several experts saw X as Google’s attempt to
compete with Wikipedia.
 Id X.

49.  X is a freeware proprietary productivity
suite for mobile devices which allows viewing,
creating and editing documents,
presentations and spreadsheets.

50.  X was a social networking website owned and
operated by Google. The service was
designed to help users meet new and old
friends and maintain existing relationships.
The website is named after its creator,
Google employee X Büyükkökten.

52.  Picnik
 iGoogle
 Knol
 Quick Office
 Orkut