The Biz-Tech quiz which I conducted along with Avijit Kalra in an IIT Kanpur Quiz Club session on 21st January 2018.

1. The Biz-Tech Quiz
IIT Kanpur Quiz Club
Quizmasters:
Anshul Roy
Avijit Kalra

2. Infinite Bounce

3. Rules of the Round
• 25 questions in total.
• +20/-10 on a pounce.
• +10/-0 on a bounce.
• On pounces we need the exact answer. No fundas.

5. Q - 1
In 1906, William Riley, a 33 year old Englishman, set up the
company X in Boston. X initially manufactured arch
supports to improve shoe fit.
His unique selling point was the concept of three support
points in the insole, this was a concept inspired by the way
that a chicken’s three clawed foot results in perfect stability.
He used to have chicken feet on his desk so that he could
demonstrate his concept to prospective customers.
The name X was inspired by observations of chickens
running about in the yard.
Id X.

6. Answer
X = New Balance

7. Q - 2
Which company’s logo is
inspired from this 1850 painting
by Jean Francois-Millet titled
“The Sower”?
This company’s logo
represents the act of
disseminating knowledge.

8. Answer
Simon & Schuster

9. Q - 3
When asked in an interview about the company’s name,
the founder said -
“We didn’t want to put up a French name, as mostly all
________ has a French connection with respect to the
names. We wanted a name that will particularly resonate
with the customer once the customer has possibly been
exposed to the brand or has interacted with the brand.
So, X is a Hebrew word, which means radiance or
splendor and Y is something that I’ve added so that it
becomes ‘radiance Y’. Also, it lends a premium hint to it
without sounding too luxurious or too broad.”
Which company?

10. Answer
Zivame

11. Q - 4
Which company launched its own cryptocurrency named
“Kin” in 2017 with an intention of raising around $125
million in an Initial Coin Offering (ICO)?

12. Answer
Kik Interactive

13. Q - 5
Which company packages these bags of sands for use in one of
it’s products?
Each bag consists of 30 Kg of sand, and the sand particles are
uniform in size and texture.

14. Answer
Rolex

15. Q - 6
Astraeus Airlines was a British airline founded in 2002. It
was established as a charter airline, and ceased its
operations in 2011.
Which musician worked as a pilot and Marketing Director
for Astraeus Airlines, while not performing with his/her
band?

16. Answer
Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden

17. Q - 7
ID this Indian businessman.

18. Answer
Kapil Mohan (Ex-Chairman of Mohan Meakin Ltd.)

19. Q - 8
COLORS is a quarterly magazine
founded in 1991 by the Italian
photographer Oliviero Toscani
and the American graphic
designer Tibor Kalman. It is
distributed globally with the
tagline “a magazine about the
rest of the world”.
Which company owns this
magazine and uses it as a
medium for marketing its
ideological commitment?

20. Answer
United Colors of Benetton

21. Q - 9
“X therapy” is a term used in the USA health care system
since the 1960s in reference to the practice by mental-
health authorities of buying a one-way ticket on an inter-
state X bus to get rid of possible "troublemaker" patients.
The practice is still in use in certain mental-health circles.
Id X.

22. Answer
X = Greyhound

23. Q - 10
X is a Japanese automotive parts company which was
founded in 1933 by Takezo ______ and produced lifelines
for parachutes, and other textiles. In the 1960s, X started
to sell seat-belts and built the world's first crash test plant
for testing seat-belts under real world conditions.
In 2013, a series of deaths and injuries associated with
defective airbags manufactured by X has resulted in a
recall of 42 million cars, the largest automotive recall in
American history.
Eventually, in 2017, X filed for bankruptcy.
Id X.

24. Answer
X = Takata

25. Q - 11
The Old English Sheepdog is a breed of
dog which was developed in England
from herding types of dog. It can grow a
very long coat, with fur covering the face
and eyes.
The Old English Sheepdog is the brand
mascot for X. It was first introduced in
advertising campaigns in 1961. Due to its
association with X, this breed has been
popularly nicknamed the “X Dog”.
Id X.

26. Answer
X = Dulux

27. Q - 12
Recently, Vinnie's Pizzeria in NYC introduced a new dish
on their menu which is modelled after the product - X.
The colourful calzone concoctions (image on next slide)
are made to look like X, but the blue and orange swirls
are made from cheese dyed with food colouring.
About this dish, Chef Sean Berthiaume stated - “They're
100 per cent edible. There's no poison or ______ or
anything in them. They're filled with cheese and
pepperoni and ricotta and Italian seasonings.”
Id X.

29. Answer
X = Tide Pods

30. Q - 13
In 2013, The National Bank of Rwanda launched the new 500
Rwanda Francs. Which specific gadget is featured on these
notes?

31. Answer
OLPC XO-1

32. Q - 14
Coppelia is an ice cream parlour
chain situated in X. It was established
in 1966 by Y, in order to introduce Y’s
love of dairy products to the people
of X. The original aim was to produce
more ice cream flavors than the big
American brands, buying the best
machines from the Netherlands and
Sweden.
Y’s longtime secretary, Celia
Sánchez, named Coppelia after her
favorite ballet.
Id X and Y.

33. Answer
X = Cuba, Y = Fidel Castro

34. Q - 15
Which famous business personality had a substantial
collection of Harley-Davidson motorcycles, and founded a
motorcycle riding club called “Capitalist Tools”?

35. Answer
Malcolm Forbes

36. Q - 16
This product was invented by Dean Kamen and had a
huge buzz around it before its launch in 2001, with
Steve Jobs describing it as “as big a deal as the PC”.
Unfortunately the device, literally named after a ‘smooth
transition’, never lived up to the hype and is now mostly
used by security at malls. However you might have
seen Steve Wozniak sporting it at a lot of public
meetings.
Name the gadget.

37. Answer
Segway

38. Q - 17
Boscusini is a 3D printer launched by a German startup in
2014. It’s unique feature is that it has refillable capsules
that can be filled with a material of the user’s choice.
It is the first universal 3D printer to print with some
specific types of materials.
What material?

39. Answer
Food

40. Q - 18
X is a problem in combinatorial optimisation. It states -
Given a set of items, each with a weight and a value,
determine the number of each item to include in a collection
so that the total weight is less than or equal to a given limit
and the total value is as large as possible. It derives its name
from the problem faced by someone who is constrained by a
fixed-size X and must fill it with the most valuable items.
This problem is being referenced in the following XKCD strip
(image on next slide).
Id X.

42. Answer
X = Knapsack Problem

43. Q - 19
“Conflict Kitchen” is a take-
out restaurant in Pittsburgh
which was opened in 2010.
The menu focuses on one
type of cuisine at a time,
rotating every 3-5 months,
and features related
educational programming,
from lunch hour with
scholars, film screenings,
and trivia nights.
What is so special about this
restaurant?

44. Answer
It serves cuisine of countries with which USA is in conflict with

45. Q - 20
At the Bloomberg Global Business Forum recently, Bill
Gates said - “I’m not sure you can go back and
change small things in your life without putting the
other things at risk. Sure, if I can make one small edit,
I’d make that a single key operation.”
What important but slightly complex key operation was
he talking about?

46. Answer
Ctrl + alt + del

47. Q - 21
X will launch two Netflix-like streaming services — one for
sports and another for films and TV shows — in one of the
boldest moves by an entertainment company to address
the changing media landscape.
The stand-alone subscription services would appeal to
younger audiences. The sports service, is expected to
feature 10,000 sporting events annually, among them
MLB games.
The X-branded film and TV offering, set to debut in 2019,
would include original content developed by X.
Id X.

48. Answer
X = The Walt Disney Co.

49. Q - 22
In January 2018, IBM partnered with X and announced a
joint venture which will seek to address the need to
provide greater transparency and simplicity in the
movement of goods across borders and trading zones.
The venture, which as a new company will be
headquartered in NYC, aims to offer a jointly developed
“global trade digitization” platform built on blockchain
technology and designed for use by the entire global
shipping ecosystem.
Id X.

50. Answer
X = Maersk

51. Q - 23
Ibtihaj Muhammad is an American
sabre fencer, and a member of the
USA fencing team. She is best known
for being the first Muslim-American
woman to wear a hijab while
competing for USA in the Olympics.
How is she related to the world of
business?

52. Answer
The Hijab wearing Barbie has been modelled after her

53. Q - 24
In 2016, the residents of an island launched “Sheep View
360” (images on next slide). With the help of a shepherd and a
specially built harness, five of the island’s sheep were fitted with a
360-degree camera. The Sheep View team uploaded panoramic
images of the island, and also produced 360 video so that people
can explore the island as if they are, quite literally, a sheep.
This project was part of a campaign to grab Google’s attention
and to convince it to come to the island and map it as part of
Google’s Street View.
Finally, Google did come to map the island, and provided
cameras, a Google Trekker and lots of support for this project.
Which island launched Sheep View 360?

55. Answer
Faroe Islands

56. Q - 25
The “Condor Cluster” is a supercomputer (image on next
slide) made by the US Air Force Research Laboratory in
2010. It is used for processing high-resolution satellite
imagery and radar enhancement.
This supercomputer was made by stringing together 1760 X
systems (older models of X were used because they allow
Linux installation). The array packs 168 GPUs and 84 servers
to direct traffic within the system, allowing all the power to
work in parallel. It is capable of executing 500 trillion FLOPS.
When it was unveiled, Condor Cluster was the 33rd largest
supercomputer in the world.
Id X.

58. Answer
X = Playstation 3

59. So long, and thanks for all
the quiz.