Prelims of the Science, Business and Technology Quiz conducted as a part of QRIOSO ‘24, IIM-Lucknow.

1. Sci-Biz-Tech Quiz Prelims
QRIOSO ‘24, IIM-Lucknow

2. Q1.
Connect these three pictures to a district in India.

3. Q2.
Identify the company
whose name is hidden in
the picture.

4. Q3.
Which term derives from financial backers who would take risks,
usually for a sea voyage and would do something in exchange for a
premium?

5. Q4.
In this particular ailment, the arteries which flow to the brain
become narrow, reducing supply of oxygenated blood to the brain.
This disease most commonly affects children and is more common
in East Asian countries. This could be due to certain genetic factors
in those populations. What disease is this whose name is similar to
a viral Instagram trend?

6. Q5.
Karl Barry Sharpless was one of the Nobel Laureates in 2022. His
academic work and the reason for Nobel revolved around a field
involving highly selective, exothermic reactions in mild conditions.
He coined an onomatopoeic term for this field as the joining of
molecular blocks of the ligand and surface groups was as easy as
joining two pieces of a seat belt buckle.
What alliterative term did Sharpless coin?

7. Q6.
The Sumerian tree shares similarities with sacred representations
of trees in other Mesopotamian religions. In this depiction, the
sacred tree is flanked by two others, and a winged disk icon hovers
above. Some contemporary interpretations suggest that this
symbolism reflects an understanding that ________ serves as
fundamental units weave silent symphony of existence, forming the
essence that quietly shapes the grand tapestry of living wonders.
Fill in the blank.

9. Q7.
Identify the company from its old logo.

10. Q8.
Identify the company by its naming logic:
They look for similar manmade disasters to the one that happened
in 1937 and aim to shed light on them before they lure in more
unsuspecting victims. Almost 8 decades after the 1937 event, this
company was formed in the USA.

11. Q9.
________ is a British brand manufactured and marketed around
the world by Unilever, except in a few countries.
As a brand it has had connections with Unilever’s first product,
Sunlight soap.
The name of this brand has become synonymous with the category
specially in India.
Tell me which brand is being talked about here?

12. Q10.
One of the products of this company features the number 4810
referring to the height of a certain entity and a 6-pointed star with
rounded edges representing the look of the same entity from
above.
Which company is this?

13. Q11.
Whose tombstone is this which
reads “Eadem Mutata Resurgo”
meaning “Although changed, I rise
again the same”?

14. Q12.
The specimen of this spider named
Lycosa ________ was collected by an
Iranian entomologist in 2016. It was
named after a creature it resembled
from a fictional world.
What was the spider named after?

15. Q13.
This concept was originally described as a three arrow approach of
increasing the money supply, undertaking government spending to
stimulate the economy and undertaking economic and regulatory
reforms to make country’s economy more competitive in the global
market.
It was introduced in the country whose economics trouble dated
back to the 90s, also known as the Lost Decade.
Which concept is being talked about here?

16. Q14.
Which company was co-founded by
the person in this image? (Seen
enjoying filter coffee at Vidyarthi
Bhavan, Bengaluru.)

17. Q15.
At the start of the movie Scarface, the protagonist Tony tries to
immigrate to the US from Cuba. He claims he was a political
prisoner, but a small tattoo on his right hand, code for a prison
assassin, gives him up. His green card request is denied.
It is this tattoo that Ryan took inspiration from for the name of the
website he founded. Which website?

18. Q16.
The first part of an iconic work is titled “De Motu Corporum”.
One section in this part applied to the Solar System where
something was studied but not fully addressed.
A specific instance to have first received extended study involved
the Moon, the Earth and the Sun.
Which work is this?

19. Q17.
This is the Evoluon, originally built
to be a science museum. Located
in Eindhoven, it closed in 1989 and
reopened as a conference Center
in 1998.
Which electronics company
established the Evoluon?

20. Q18.
Which food brand introduced towel packaging to solve the common
problem that their consumers would face after eating the item in the
packet?

21. Q19.
What term has been
blanked out from the title
of this Business
Standard article? The
term was also part of the
title of a 2023 movie.

22. Q20.
Chisso corporation, now known as Japan New Chisso is the
successor of Sogi Electric Company founded in 1906. In 1932, they
started the production of acetaldehyde and the by-product they
released for many decades, caused severe conditions in the locals
where their factory was situated.
What disease was the company chiefly responsible for?

23. ANSWERS