SciBizTech Quiz (Elims+Finals), Srijan 2014, Jadavpur University

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The SciBizTech Quiz
@ Srijan 2014
Researched and Conducted by:
Dottoh and Chazz
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30 Questions.
*-ed questions to break ties.
Mark the *-ed questions in your answer sheet.
In case of further ties, ―best streak rule‖ to be
applied.
• 8 – team final.
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1.
• During the early 1950s which brand was
marketed as a method of empowering
women, and giving them a toehold in the
postwar business world at a time when
women came back from working during
World War II only to be told to "go back to
the kitchen― ?

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*3.
• Red and white colours - Company
executive Herberton Williams adopted the
colors in 1898 because he so liked the
colors of the Cornell University football
team's uniforms
• Gold medal seal - Gold medal at the Paris
Exposition in 1900
• Already a household product went onto
achieve cult popularity in 1962.
• What?
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4.
• The X founder group was started on May 20,
2002 by MIT and nine leading electronic
companies: Sony, Panasonic, Pioneer,
Philips, Thomson, LG Electronics, Hitachi,
Sharp, and Samsung.
• There are currently 18 board members which
include Dolby Labs, Intel, 20th Century Fox,
Warner Brothers among others and are
responsible for and is responsible for
establishing format standards and promoting
business opportunities . What?
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5.
• ―Positive rewards are the main reason people
become addicted to things and also the fact
that it alternates between difficult and easy
levels to balance frustration with mastery ‖Dr. Kimberly Young, psychologist
• ―It‘s a lot of these small seemingly
insignificant design decisions that really make
it work‖- Tommy Palm, Mobile Head, King
• Whose possible ‗secrets of success‘ being
talked about?
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6.
• Which brand owned by P&G failed to
attract customers for its products in
Germany because ‗V‘ is pronounced as an
‗F‘ in German, thereby sounding like the
German equivalent of the ‗F‘ word?

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7.

• Cushman and Wakefield analysed 334
shopping districts in 64 countries to tally
the priciest spaces.
• Topping the chart with an annual rent of
$3,017 per square feet was Causeway
Bay, Hong Kong
• Who were 2nd and 3rd with $2,500 and
$1,601, respectively?

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*8.
• Whose logo was made looking similar to
those of Northrop Grumman and
Lockheed Martin because of the alleged
similarity in the product they made and
saw a fall from 82.50 to 56.25 on the
NYSE in 2008 after a radical
announcement by the CEO/President?

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9.
• Which term in the realm of commerce was
first applied to designate the "rates," or
duties which the Roman Catholic priests
levied upon sins?

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10.
• W nagar is a railway station part of the of
the Chennai Suburban Railway Network. It
serves the neighbourhood of Tiruvottiyur, a
suburb of Chennai.
• W was the largest manufacturer of its kind
in the organised segment until taken over
by ITC in 2005.
• W?

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11.
• What, one of Canada‘s most important
cultural exports, employs 5,000 people at
eight permanent setups in Las Vegas and
at 12 others that tour the world. In 2012 its
turnover was about C$1 billion ($900m)—it
does not reveal its profits?

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12.
• X-Y theory is defined as an economic idea
which states that decreasing marginal and
capital gains tax rates - especially for
corporations, investors and entrepreneurs
- can stimulate production in the overall
economy?

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*14.
• What does Urban Dictionary define as:
• 1.The opposite of legitimate business.
• 2.A street hustle, or a shady and mostly
illegal business venture.
• 3. Dealings that aren't exactly ‗street legal‘

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15.
• Invented in 1938 by a scientist at DuPont,
it was used by Marc Gregiore, a french
engineer to untangle his fishing
equipment. His wife saw that and
requested him to let her use it in her
kitchen.
• What was the material and what was
invented subsequently?
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*16.
• If the ships Wesley, Salem, Birmingham
and Hamilton are the comparatively lesser
known ones, which two are more popular?

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17.
• There are many theories on the origin of this.
One of the more disputed ones among them
state that it was started by a couple in 1948 who
ran an appliance store in Pennsylvania, when
they found out that their customers were not
being able to pick up signals due to the nearby
mountains.
• What am I talking about?

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18.
• The current CEO and co-founder of Chinese mobile
brand Xiaomi, explained the reason behind choosing this
particular logo as:
• 1. It stood for Mobile Internet.
• 2. It stood for X, which, not only ‗is a favourite‘, but also
symbolized the hurdles that they had to encounter while
setting up the company.
• Give me X.

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19.
• After seeing a tool on a ship that kept
count of the number of revolutions of the
propeller, what did James Ritty devise to
stop employees from pilfering cash from
his saloon?

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20.
• The London based pharmaceutical
company Burroughs Wellcome & Co. initially
marketed compressed pills as X in the late
1880s. X soon began to be used for any
small item.
• It was in 1901, that X was first used in a
specific field and ever since, the use of the
word (as we know it now) remained there.

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21.
• The material things that kept in a building in
the commune of Arcueil, 5.3 kilometres (3.3
miles) from Paris are still considered to be
very dangerous till date. Anyone who wishes
to go through these belongings are required
to take adequate protection and are allowed
to do so only after signing a waiver of liability.
• Who stayed at this house?

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23.
• From The rime of the ancient mariner :
• The upper air burst into life!
And a hundred fire-flags sheen,
To and fro they were hurried about!
And to and fro, and in and out,
The wan stars danced between..
• What was Coleridge describing here?

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25.
• X comes from the latin for leaf, and can be
defined as follows:
1. A common method of arranging sheets
folding the sheet only once.
2. A general term for a sheet, leaf or page.
3. An approximate term for a size of book,
typically about 15 inches (38 cm) tall.

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26.
• Which company is the touted to be the
largest consumer of silver in the world?

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27.
• Cadbury‘s ran into a huge row with X in
2011 when they used her name for an ad
campaign for their product Dairy Milk Bliss.
The title of the campaign was : ―Move over
X, there‘s a new diva in town.‖
• ID X.

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*28.
• X is omniscient, omnipresent, answers
‗prayers‘, potentially immortal, infinite, all
remembering, omnibenevolent, more
popular than all the religions combined
and most importantly X exists.
• These are the 9 proofs given by the
church of Y, to prove that X is god.

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30 seconds to wrap up your
answers.

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Answer
• Tupperware

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Answer
• Fifth Avenue, NYC
• Avenue de Champs Elysees, Paris

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Answer
• Trickle down effect

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• Teflon; Non-stick cookware

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*16.
• If the ships Wesley, Salem, Birmingham
and Hamilton are the comparatively lesser
known ones, which two are more popular
and what are we talking about here?

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• Friendship and Grand Turk (Old Spice)

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• Mission Impossible

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• X – Google
• Y – Church of Googlism

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• Everton being nicknamed The Toffees

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Finals
•40 Dry Questions divided into 2
rounds.
•1 Written round.
•Round Robin.
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Written Round
Stigler‘s Law

In its strongest, simplest form, Stigler's Law
tells us "No scientific discovery is named after
its original discoverer." The term was coined
by University of Chicago statistics professor
Stephen Stigler

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1.
• Alois A gets the credit for describing in the
early 1900s the disease that bears his
name, but the real credit for first
discovering the illness probably goes to a
Dr. Beljahow, who first linked plaque and
dementia in 1887 but is now so forgotten
that it‘s a daunting task to find records of
his first name.
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2.
• Mark Twain had once said: ―I came in with
X in 1835. It is coming again next year,
and I expect to go out with it. It will be the
greatest disappointment of my life if I don't
go out with X. The Almighty has said, no
doubt: 'Now here are these two
unaccountable freaks; they came in
together, they must go out together.

@kunalju

3.
• Sometimes entire regions are gotten
wrong - the Europeans gave them that
name because they were first introduced
in the 10th century by Arabs from North
Africa. What?

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4.
• A particularly egregious example is the X Y, the
region that lies beyond Neptune and includes
Pluto and other dwarf planets. Frederick C.
Leonard was the first to theorize its existence
shortly after Clyde Tombaugh's discovery of
Pluto in 1930, while its actual discoverers were
David Jewitt and Jane Luu, who announced they
had found the first definitive evidence for its
existence in 1992. Either way, the credit really
shouldn't go to Gerard K, who in 1951 said such
a region could have existed in the early days of
the solar system, but he was pretty certain that it
wasn't around anymore.
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5.
• The bacterium was first identified in 1885
by Theobald Smith, who went on to more
lasting fame as America's first globally
important epidemiologist. But when he
discovered S, he was just an inspector at
the newly formed Bureau of Animal
Industry and only a couple years out of
college, so it was his boss Daniel E. S who
got the credit instead. And yes its named
after a person and not an aquatic creature.
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6.
• For instance, the 16th century English
merchant Thomas Gresham lives on with
Gresham's Law, which is an economic
principle that is often simplified as ‗bad
money drives out good.‘ But the law had
already been described in 1519, the year
of Gresham's birth, by a scientist born in
Torun,Prussia, who went on to slightly
greater fame with some mildly
controversial theories before dying in
1543?
@kunalju

Exchange your sheets.

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#chazzerchoice
+20/-10 on pounce
20 Questions.

@kunalju

1.
• X has used a specially designed family of
typefaces since May 1991. Development work
focused specifically on how the new type family
would respond to electronic transmission and
different printing conditions at X's seven
international production sites.
• In our recent re-design a new typeface, Officina,
was introduced for cover headlines and all
navigational information. Ecotype, X’s main
typeface, was also redrawn to make it easier to
read.
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2.
• X is an online black market dubbed as the
Amazon or Ebay of illegal drugs which
came into the spotlight recently after being
shut down by the FBI.
• X takes its name from something that
started during the Han dynasty (200 B.C)
in ancient China.

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3.
• William Spencer, a railroad employee, would
collect discarded Goodyear tyres , cut the
inner tubes and sell them to office supply
stores. One day he found pages of a
newspaper strewn across a lawn and this
gave him an idea. He then convinced the
newspaper company to buy his products and
consequently set up a factory of his own with
the income, in 1923.
• This is a widely accepted story behind the
popularization of which 1845 patent?
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4.
• Baba Thakur Das had just made Alwar his
home in 1947 after being forced to flee
Pakistan. It was a routine day that he set
about experimenting with milk — squeezing
some lemon into it and leaving it alone for
some time — when he is supposed to have
uttered , in Hindi, ―This is what art is‖ at the
sight of the grainy residue.
• What supposedly gets its origins from here?

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• Kalakand; He had supposed said ―Yeh toh
kala hain‖

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• Consumption of fish (as compared to other
animal protein sources)
• Seriously?????

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6.
• 1. A X may not immerse a human being or,
through lack of flotation, allow a human to come to
harm.
• 2. A X must obey all commands and steering input
given by its human X, except where such input
would conflict with the First Law.
• 3. A X must preserve its own flotation as long as
such preservation does not conflict with the First
or Second Law.
• This is a part of a short story called Y. Both X and
Y is a spoof of an Asimov creation.
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• X – Rowboat
• Y - I,Rowboat

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7.
• Initially, most Minesweeper games tended
to get over very early. This prompted
Microsoft to make some changes in the
Windows version of the game. What did
they do?

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8.
• Police in Mildura, Australia, are asking travelers to
be extra careful after a number of motorists
headed to the town were left stranded 43 miles
away in the middle of Murray Sunset National
Park, where temperatures can reach 115 degrees
Fahrenheit. "Some of the motorists located by
police have been stranded for up to 24 hours
without food or water and have walked long
distances through dangerous terrain to get phone
reception," said the report.
• Who was responsible?
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• Apple (iOS 6) maps

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9.
• An artist, James Dive, spent more than three
months painstakingly researching Biblical
locations on Google Earth and then
combining the satellite images with 3D
models of iconic images from the religious
text.
• What did he fittingly name this project of his?
(Pic : next slide)

@kunalju

• God‘s Eye View

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11.
• Dr. Donald Unger won the IgNobel in the
field of medicine for busting a very
common myth. He indulged in a practice,
which, according to the myth apparently
led to arthritis, for 60 years, and suffered
no such problems whatsoever.
• What practice is being talked about here?

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• Cracking one‘s knuckles

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12.
• We discuss the trajectory of a fast revolving solid
spherical object moving in a fluid of comparable
density. As the object slows down owing to drag,
its trajectory follows an exponential spiral as long
as the rotation speed remains constant: at the
characteristic distance where the object speed is
significantly affected by the drag, the bending of
the trajectory increases, surprisingly. Later, the
rotation speed decreases, which makes the object
follow a second kind of spiral, also described in
the paper.
• What had led to the conduction of the research
and subsequently the publishing of the findings?
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13.
• What exactly is a Dead Man‘s Switch?

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• These switches bring the machines back
to safe state if the human operator
becomes incapacitated, such as
through death, loss of consciousness or
being physically removed from control.

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14. These are three
different versions of
Monet’s Lily Pond. A
recent study attributes
what to be the reason
behind the stark
differences?

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• Monet had developed cataract in the later
stages of his life.

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15. In a spoof show called Robot Chicken, this particular episode shows
Kermit the frog taking children to meet his cousin X to learn about sharing.
X’s dialogues were as follows: “The richest one percent of this country owns
half our country's wealth, five trillion dollars. The point is, ladies and
gentleman, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. You see that
building? I bought that building ten years ago. My first real estate deal. Sold it
two years later, made an $800,000 profit. It was better than sex.”
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• Gordon the gecko

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16.
• Coined in 1977 by the Rich, Welles and
Green agency, which tagline is thought to
be inspired by a (now commonly used)
phrase to describe the frenetic pace of life
in New York?

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17.
• Homage to ----- ----- (1986) — published in
the United States as But Do Blondes Prefer
Gentlemen? — is a collection of essays
by Anthony Burgess.
• The title of the collection is a reference to the
urban legend of an Hungarian man named ---- -----, who supposedly invented the modern
English keyboard layout.
• FITB.
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18.
• What was formed in 1999 as a result of a
merger between the Banco de Bilbao,
Banco de Vizcaya, Banco Exterior de
España and the government-owned Caja
Postal de Ahorros, alongwith with other
minor entities?

@kunalju

Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria

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19.
• Ruggero X, the company's founder, started his activity in
1922 with a small laboratory in Verona and one recipe,
the one for Pandoro that follows ancient confectionery
traditions enriched with characterists of great modernity,
starting with the natural rising.
• In the 60‘s, his sons took over the company and bought
FBF which was a French confectionary maker and hence
started selling Ys which has found quite some takers in
our city.
• ID X and Y.

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20.
• X is caused mainly due to the attack of ones
immunity system on the melanocytes and is hence
considered to be an auto-immune disease. It is
said that people inherit a group of three genes that
make them susceptible to X.
• Y, on the other hand, shows similar initial
symptoms but is much more dangerous and
associated with social stigma.
• In under developed communities, people suffering
from X are more than often shunned, as they are
thought to be suffering from Y.
• X and Y please.
@kunalju

• X – Leucoderma/Vitiligo
• Y - Leprosy

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#dottohrdaabi
+20/-10 on pounce.
20 Questions.

@kunalju

1.
• Shop owners said their sales were biggest
the first day. Each day since, sales have
been roughly half the New Year's Day
volume, the business owners said.
• One-eighth of an ounce was selling for an
average of $65 around the first of the year
• Prices also were boosted by the state's 25
percent tax on retail purchases, including a
15 percent excise tax and a 10 percent sales
tax.
• What is being talked about?
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Answer
• Colorado Recreational Marijuana Sales

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2.
• XY, Inc. was a Long Island, New York,
"over-the-counter" brokerage house
founded by A and Kenny Greene, and later
bought by Danny Porush. XY was the
largest OTC firm in the country during the
late 1980s and 1990s.
• XY and A?

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3.

• The idea was pioneered by Dr Brendan
O‘Regan in 1947 in Shannon County, Ireland
to serve people travelling between North
America and Europe.
• The idea was operative long before this
however the benefits were enjoyed by
diplomats living in embassies (considered as
foreign territory), the military and men at sea.
• In the 1960s it was taken to the next level by
two American entrepreneurs - Charles
(Chuck) Feeney and Robert Miller who
together started what is known as DFS.
• DFS?
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Answer
• Duty Free Shopping/Shoppers

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4.
• You've Been X is a 2011 documentary by
British filmmaker Anthony Baxter. The film
documents the construction of a luxury golf
course on a beach in Balmedie,
Aberdeenshire, Scotland and the subsequent
struggles between the locals and Scottish
legal and governmental authorities. The film
was briefly ranked as the highest rated British
film of all time on the imdb.
• X? Or who intended to construct the golf
course?
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5.

• X Y is a marketing term that made its debut
on November 28, 2005, in a Shop.org press
release entitled "‗X Y Quickly Becoming One
of the Biggest Online Shopping Days of the
Year―.
• India got its own version of the X Y (Great
Online Shopping Festival) on 12 December
2012 when Google India partnered with many
e-commerce companies including Flipkart,
Snapdeal, HomeShop18, Indiatimes
shopping, and MakeMyTrip. Google said that
this was the first time an industry-wide
initiative of this scale was undertaken.
@kunalju

Answer
• Cyber Monday

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6.
• In December 2013, the
US FDA warned this
company co-founded by
Anne Wojcicki and
backed by Google,
which sells its products
directly to consumers,
that its products need
the agency‘s approval
to stay in the market.
• The company is
23andme. What do they
do?
@kunalju

Answer
• 23andMe is a privately held personal
genomics and biotechnology company
based in Mountain View, California that
provides rapid genetic testing. The
company is named for the 23 pairs of
chromosomes in a normal human cell.
Their personal genome test kit was named
Invention of the Year by Time magazine in
2008.
@kunalju

7.
• A trend of increasing influence of the OPEC
cartel, state-owned oil companies in
emerging-market led the Financial Times to
use the label ‗The New Seven Sisters‘ to
refer to a group of what it argues are the
most influential national oil and gas
companies based in countries outside of the
OECD, namely CNPC (China), X (Russia),
National Iranian Oil Company (Iran), Y
(Brazil), PDVSA (Venezuela), Z (Malaysia),
Saudi Aramco (Saudi Arabia).
@kunalju

Answer
• Gazprom
• Petrobras
• Petronas

@kunalju

8.
• The product was the brainchild of RussianAmerican scientist Stepan Pachikov, whose
previous work includes contributing to the
technology used by Apple Newton devices
and Microsoft tablet PC‘s.
• ―I realised one of the problems I had was that
I didn‘t have a good tool to remember a lot of
stuff and very quickly find it‖
• Introduced in 2004 as a PC-only software,
garnered good reviews and about 80,000
users but failed to make money.
• What?
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9.
• During the late 18th century, members of
the Böhm family emigrated from Germany
and settled in Kentucky.
• The patriarch, Johannes ‗Reginald‘,
pioneered what is now known as Y. The
name is ultimately derived from the French
dynasty, although it is disputed whether
the namesake Kentucky county or New
Orleans street.
• What did the family change its surname
to? Y?
@kunalju

10.
• This is Stephen Elop, who took
the reins at Nokia in
September 2010, a tumultuous
time for the mobile phone giant
as it lost smartphone market
share to Apple's iPhone and a
variety of Android-powered
phones. What unique
distinction does he hold in the
context of Nokia?

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Answer
• The first non-Finnish CEO of Nokia

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11.
• It is said by John Morgridge, the 34th
employee and the company‘s first
president that the creators of the company
thought of this name while making their
way to Sacramento for registration of the
company. As they laid their eyes upon the
Golden Gate Bridge structured in the
sunlight, they decided the name of the
company there and then.
• Which company?
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12.
• Which company was founded in 1927 and
transformed from one root beer stand in
Washington, D.C., to about 3,900
properties in 72 countries, and 18 brands
and now intends to play an aggressive
game of catchup and plans to open
establishment in Asia, on average, every
eight days between now and 2016?
@kunalju

13.
• It became the first company in the UK to
offer an alternative telephone service to
British Telecom (via subsidiary Mercury
Communications). The company later
offered cable TV to its customers, but it
sold its cable assets to NTL in 2000.
• Which company, we know, better perhaps
thanks to the West Indies cricket team?

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14.
• ―We were in a terrible condition. Hindustan Lever
was crying as X had entered the market at onethird the price of Y. We tried everything rational
— half a packet of Y is equal to a full packet etc.
etc. – but nahin chala. Then, I remembered my
mother was someone who knew value. She
once bought a Packard in the morning worth Rs
2 lakh. The same afternoon, she was haggling
with the sabziwaali over one rupee. I asked her,
"Why do this? You spent two lakhs and now.."
She said, "Beta, there is a difference between
price and value."
• Who‘s speaking? What resulted?
@kunalju

15.
• This European country‘s currency‘s name
comes from a city 950 kilometres and two
countries away. The reason being this was
the city from where golden coins were
minted from 1252 onwards although
discontinued eventually?

@kunalju

Answer
• Forint
• Florence

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16.
• Who has thus far been the only self taught
‗physicist‘ to win the Nobel Prize possibly
keeping in mind how economically
lucrative the thing ‗he devised‘ was?

@kunalju

Answer
• Guglielmo Marconi

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17.
• Nacre, is an organic-inorganic composite
material. It is very strong, resilient, and
iridescent. Nacre is found in some of the
more ancient lineages of bivalves,
gastropods and cephalopods. It is
composed of hexagonal platelets of
aragonite, a form of calcium carbonate.
How is it more commonly known?
@kunalju

18.
• Being a Mormon, he was obliged to serve
two years serving the Mormon faith by
helping to spread its word. This brought
him to England, where he was asked to
train other preachers. He was young and
didn't know if he could train other leaders.
He soon found out he was rather good at
it. Who?
@kunalju

• Stephen Covey, the author of the Seven
Habits of Highly Effective People, who
died in mid-July 2012.

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19.

• Nearly a third of Americans want to cut
down on X, a drive that has fueled a $4.2
billion market though just 1 in 133 people
have celiac disease.
• Since ordinary wheat flour contains
approximately 12% X, even a tiny amount
of wheat flour can cross-contaminate a
product which is otherwise devoid of X.
• Perhaps the reason this ‗healthy food fad‘
would find it impossible to creep into India.
What?
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Answer
• Gluten-free

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20.
• In 1997, they won their first overseas
contract, providing fixed-line network
products to Hong Kong company
Hutchison Whampoa. Over the next onea-half decades it has went on to become
the largest telecommunications equipment
maker in the world, having overtaken
Ericsson in 2012.
• Also the sponsor of Borussia Dortmund.
Who?
@kunalju

Round Robin
•Round on pure first strike.
•20 Pic Equations.
•17 – proper, 3 – made after the
efforts of two extremely sleepdeprived minds
•+5/-5
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