IIT Kanpur Biz-Tech Quiz

The Biz-Tech Quiz
IIT Kanpur Quiz Club
Quizmaster:
Anshul Roy

Note
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2. Wikipedia has been assumed to be factually correct
while preparing this quiz.
3. The answer to none of the questions in this quiz is 42.
Answering 42 to any question would result in immediate
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6. QM is God, his decisions are ﬁnal and binding.

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Rules of the Round
• 15 questions in total.
• No negative marks.
• Top 8 teams qualify for the finals.
• Last 5 questions are star-marked.

Q - 1
Pambar Falls is a waterfall situated in Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu. Due
to it’s association with an iconic advertisement created by Alyque
Padamsee in 1975, Pambar Falls is popularly known by it’s
nickname - “X Falls”.
Id X.

Q - 2
“Once Upon a Time in Shaolin” is a music album (image on next slide)
by the hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan which was limited to a single copy
sold in 2015. This album was recorded in secret over 6 years, and was
stored in a secured vault in Morocco.
The album was auctioned to the highest bidder for $2 million in 2015. It is
the most expensive musical work ever sold. A legal agreement with the
purchaser states it cannot be commercially exploited for 88 years.
The owner of this album is the ex-CEO of an infamous company. He/She
had threatened to destroy this album but then shared the intro and two
tracks after Donald Trump was elected president. In 2017, he/she
participated in a live stream interview, in which he/she played a few
minutes of this album.
Who is the owner of this music album?

Q - 3
The person in this image (next slide) is X, a famous
French tennis player and a former world no.1
In 1927, as a member of the French Davis Cup team, X
made a bet with his team’s captain about whether he
would win a certain match. The stakes were a suitcase he
had seen in a Boston store, which was made of Y ______.
When the press came to know about this story, X was
nicknamed “the Y”.
After retiring from tennis in 1933, X started a famous
company and paid homage to his nickname Y.
Which company?

Q - 4
Viacheslav Semenchuk, a Russian businessman launched a new
cryptocurrency called BitCoen in September 2017. The currency
is based on the value of US dollar.
This cryptocurrency is made specifically to be used by the
_______ community. BitCoen’s website describes it as the world’s
first “X cryptocurrency”. The word “Coen” is a common surname
in the _______ community and in the Y language it means
“priest”. This cryptocurrency will be managed by a “Council of
Six” made up solely of _______ representatives. The
representatives will likely be prominent leaders in both public and
private sectors.
For what particular community has this cryptocurrency been
invented?

Q - 5
Radiolinja was a Finnish telecommunication company
founded on September 19, 1988. Currently the company is
known as Elisa Corporation. In 1991, Radiolinja in
collaboration with Telenokia and Siemens achieved
something significant in the world of tech.
What?

Q - 6
In June 2017, X announced that it would be opening
up a physical store in New York City (images on next
slides) so that the users of X can meet up in real life.
This physical store would be called "Hive" and would
serve coffee, would have a bar and would also sell X
merchandise.
The founder and CEO of X, Whitney Wolfe, says that
this physical store would help X's users with
"professional and social networking”.
Id X.

Q - 7
After 46 years of being first launched, ______
released a new version of X in 2017 designed to be
more inclusive and color-blind friendly. The new “X
ColorADD” costs $5.99 and contains extra graphic
symbols that represent the primary colors.
It is is named after ColorADD, a global organization
founded in Portugal to aid those who are colorblind,
and the symbols are part of a code ColorADD
created to help identify colors.
Id X.

Q - 8
In 2007, Richard Stallman took the stage to address
the Yale Political Union, Yale University’s parliamentary
debate society. He gave a speech about DRM.
During the speech, some students who were dressed
up as ninjas staged a mock attack on Richard Stallman
(images on next slide), with the aim of re-creating
something in front of a live audience.
What did these students try to recreate?

Q - 9
The Plaza Hotel (image on next slide), located near Central
Park, in Manhattan is an iconic New York City landmark. It was
opened in 1907. It was owned by Donald Trump from 1988 to
1995, and Ivanka Trump served as the hotel’s president.
The Plaza Hotel has featured in novels like “The Great Gatsby”,
in movies like “Home Alone 2” and in TV shows like “The Suite
Life of Zack and Cody”.
In 2012, the company X bought 75% controlling stake in this
hotel for $570 million. However, recently, in order to refund
money to it’s investors, X is planning to sell it’s stake in The
Plaza Hotel for $500 million.
Id X.

Q - 10
________ed is a slang term used when a superior product
loses out to an inferior product. This term refers to the
adoption of X over ________ in the 1970s and 1980s.
________ was perceived as the superior product, but the
pricing and economies of scale behind X relegated
________ to obsolescence.
Since then, the term ________ed has been applied to many
technology showdowns, such as the browser wars between
Netscape and Microsoft and the ongoing competition
between Microsoft and Apple.
FITB and also identify X.

*Q - 11*
“Wish Upon the Pleiades” is an anime series (image on
next slide) produced by the studio Gainax in collaboration
with the company X, as a part of X’s advertising campaign.
The series was released on YouTube in February 2011. An
anime television series aired in Japan between April and
June 2015. This anime series’ main character is a magical
girl named X.
X’s logo is a representation of the Pleiades star cluster,
which is found in the Taurus constellation, and un-
coincidentally called X in Japanese. Hence the series was
named “Wish Upon the Pleiades” .
Id X.

*Q - 12*
The well shown in this image (next slide) is located within the
Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, 20 m east of the
Kaaba, the holiest place in Islam. According to Islamic
mythology, it is a miraculously generated source of water from
God, which sprang thousands of years ago when Abraham's
infant son Ishmael was left with his mother in the desert, where
he was thirsty and kept crying. Millions of pilgrims visit the well
each year while performing the Hajj pilgrimage, in order to
drink its water.
Which product manufactured in Iran derives it’s name from this
well?

*Q - 13*
Monte Fitz Roy is a mountain (image on next slide)
situated on the border between Chile and
Argentina. It is among the most technically
challenging mountains for mountaineers on Earth.
In 1968, Yvon Chouinard, climbed Monte Fitz Roy.
Five years later, he founded a company and used
Monte Fitz Roy as the inspiration for this company’s
logo.
Which company?

*Q - 14*
In 1943, Richard James was working as a naval mechanical
engineer stationed in Philadelphia. He was working with Xs
that could support and stabilize sensitive instruments aboard
ships in rough seas. Once he accidentally dropped a X from
a shelf and observed it’s motion. The idea for Y struck him
then and he experimented with different types of Xs over the
next year and eventually perfected Y.
The name Y (which means “sleek and graceful”) was chosen
by Richard’s wife Betty after she leafed through the dictionary
and thought that the word described the motion of a X.
Id Y.

*Q - 15*
The music video for Radiohead's song "House of
Cards” (next slide) was released in 2007. This music
video was directed by Zoo Films and it was made
using a particular technological device.
In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Thom
Yorke said - "I always like the idea of using technology
in a way that it wasn't meant to be used, the struggle
to get your head round what you can do with it."
What technological device was used to make this
music video, and where is this device more commonly
used nowadays?

Answer
World’s first GSM call

Answer
LiDAR technology (used in self-driving cars)

“WikiHow Image Macros” memes serve as safety slides
in this quiz, keep an eye out for some easy chuckles.

Rules of the Round
• +20/-10 on a pounce.
• +10/-0 on a bounce.
• On pounces I need the exact answer. No fundas.

Q - 1
The Grist Mill (image on next slide) is located in Sudbury,
Massachusetts and was built in 1929. It was commissioned
by Henry Ford.
In 1952, Grist Mill signed a lease agreement with the
company X and agreed to produce stone-ground whole
wheat flour for X’s products. The Grist Mill shipped out its
entire output to X plants, during the 15 years of the lease
arrangement.
X’s logo is inspired by the architecture of the Grist Mill.
Id X.

Q - 2
X is a protein (image on next slide) that in humans is
encoded by the SHH gene. X functions as a chemical
signal that is essential for embryonic development. It
plays a role in cell growth, cell specialization, and the
normal shaping of the body.
The name of this protein is a reference to it’s “spiky
appearance” and was devised by Robert Riddle, who
was a postdoc fellow at the Department of Genetics at
Harvard University, after he saw a X comic that his
daughter had brought from England.
Id X.

Q - 3
In 1919, MIT Professor Frank Shields set out to create a product
that would provide for a less irritating shave. He succeeded with
the invention of Barbasol – a shaving cream that did not have to
be worked into a lather. In 1920, he founded The Barbasol
Company. This company is known for inventing and patenting the
first aerosol shaving cream can. The can design mimicked a
barber's pole, and is still the trademark design used today.
In 2015, The Barbasol Company partnered with the producers of
a movie franchise in order to release a limited edition range of
branded shaving cans. This was done because a Barbasol
Shaving can plays a pivotal role in the movie’s plot.
Which movie franchise am I talking about?

Q - 4
Which technology's initial name in 1993 was "ChefCat",
derived from the name of a cartoon character on the
inventor's favorite coffee cup?

Q - 5
Watchmen is an American comic-book series published by DC Comics in
1986 and 1987. The series was created due to a collaboration consisting
of writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons, and colorist John Higgins.
This comic book inspired the creation of what in the world of tech?

Q - 6
The death of the famous businessman, X, is quite
humorous. X died due to an injury which resulted
because of him kicking a lock safe.
The office safe was usually opened each morning by X's
nephew, Lem Motlow. One morning X came to work early
before anyone else had arrived. He had trouble with the
combination on the safe, grew frustrated and gave it a
hard kick. The blow broke X's big toe. An infection set in
and X eventually lost his leg and died of blood poisoning
from the injury.
Id this famous businessman X.

Q - 7
The video shown in the next slide is of a traditional
children's game. The objective of this game is to
walk in a circle, tapping on each player's head until
one is finally chosen and he/she must chase the
picker to avoid becoming the next picker.
Which website derives it’s name from this game?

Answer
DuckDuckGo (derived from “Duck Duck Goose”)

Q - 8
The SGR-A1 (image on next slide) is a type of sentry gun (a
weapon that fires autonomously) that was jointly developed
by X and Korea University to assist South Korean troops in
the Korean DMZ. The project was started with an initial
investment by the South Korean government in 2003.
The gun is widely considered as the earliest commercialized
robot with autonomous capabilities and the first of its kind unit
to have an integrated system that includes surveillance,
tracking, firing, and voice-recognition altogether. With
prototypes produced in 2006, the system was designed to
replace human-oriented guarding along the DMZ and to
provide the "perfect guard operation".
Id X.

Q - 9
Since 1925, the employees of this company have had a
company tradition of climbing Mount Fuji.
Every July all new staff and newly promoted executives climb
Mt Fuji. Employees who are not physically able to do so are
exempt.
A former employee gave the reasoning behind this as - "The
message is, 'We are going to conquer the one symbol that
represents Japan more than anything else. And, once we do
that, it will signify that we can do anything.'"
Which Japanese company?

Q - 10
The gadget shown in this image (next slide) is X. It was
launched in 2002 by the company Y.
X runs Microsoft's CE.NET operating system. It supports
802.11b wireless LAN to connect wirelessly with other
company infrastructure. The device can support inventory
management as well as credit card payments.
In 2010, when Z was announcing it’s own device also called
X, there was a naming controversy between the two devices.
To settle the trademark infringement allegation, Z purchased
the trademark rights from Y for $4 million.
Id X, Y and Z.

Answer
X = iPad, Y = Fujitsu, Z = Apple

Q - 11
The following images are examples of a concept proposed by
Masahiro Mori, a robotics professor, in 1970.
What is this concept called?

Q - 12
In September 2017, Adidas released a new pair of shoes
called “Munchen” (image on next slide) to celebrate the
184th Oktoberfest which was held in Munich from 16th
September to 3rd October.
The shoes come in a rich brown colourway inspired by
classic Bavarian leather pants, and feature discreet golden
lettering that says “Prost” (German for “cheers”), alongside
the traditional three stripes. The shoes also boast a red and
white micro-check inner lining to match Oktoberfest’s
tablecloths.
The exterior of this shoe is coated with a special material
which makes this pair of shoes unique. What is unique about
these shoes?

Answer
These shoes are beer and puke resistant

Q - 13
Which company derives it’s name from this anthropomorphic
mouse named Charles?

Answer
Chuck E. Cheese’s Pizza

Q - 14
“X Flugtag” is an event (image on next slide) organized
by X in which competitors attempt to fly home-made,
human-powered flying machines. The flying machines are
usually launched off a pier about 30 feet high into a body
of water. Most competitors enter for the entertainment
value, and the flying machines rarely fly at all.
The first X Flugtag competition was held in 1991 in
Vienna. It was such a success that it has been held every
year since and in over 35 cities all over the world.
Id X.

Q - 15
In 1962, which famous NYC-based company commissioned
Andy Warhol to design these Christmas Cards?

Q - 16
The lady in this picture (next slide) is Ann Turner Cook,
an American novelist. She’s a member of the Mystery
Writers of America, and is the author of the Brandy O'
Bannon series of mystery novels.
In 1928, when Ann was 5-months-old, her neighbour
Dorothy Hope Smith did a charcoal drawing of Ann.
How do we popularly know this drawing as?

Q - 17
In April 1946, Tadao ______, an engineer specializing in
fabrication technology established the company X.
X’s first major product was the yubiwa pipe (image on
next slide), a finger ring that would hold a cigarette,
allowing the wearer to smoke the cigarette down to its
nub while also leaving the wearer's hands free.
Japan was impoverished immediately following WW2,
and cigarettes were a valuable commodity. Hence, X’s
yubiwa pipe was a popular product. Later, X diversified
into other product categories.
Id X.

Q - 18
“Touch” is a Chinese rental startup based in the city of Xiamen. It
launched a mobile app in September 2017 through which
customers can order and rent a X for a week. This service is
currently being tested in Beijing.
However, this app has faced criticisms due to hygiene concerns.
Touch is a rental startup for what commodity?

Q - 19
The pocket watch shown in the image (next slide) is known as
“The Queen” and it was made by the Swiss company X
specifically for Y. Work on the watch begun in 1782 and was
completed in 1827. The watch is thought to have been
commissioned by Count Hans Axel von Fersen, an admirer and
alleged lover of Y.
It contains every watch function known at that time. The most
valuable materials (gold, platinum, rubies and sapphires) were
used with no limit placed on time or cost. The watch is encased in
18-karat gold, with a clear face that shows the complicated
movement of the gears inside. Sapphires were used in the
mechanism to decrease friction. It is considered the most
complicated watch in history.
Id X and Y.

Answer
X = Breguet, Y = Marie Antoinette

Q - 20
The person in this picture (next slide) is Thanasi
Kokkinakis, a 21-year-old Australian tennis player. He
is more popularly known by his nickname X. Recently,
he started a clothing line which used this nickname X
for marketing purposes.
Due to this, the company Y sued Thanasi Kokkinakis
because of trademark violations. In an official
statement, Y claimed that they own the trademark for
the term X since the last 59 years in Australia.
Id the company Y and the nickname X.

Answer
X = Special K, Y = Kellogg’s

Rules of the Round
• Identify the companies from their ticker symbols.
• 5 points for each correct answer.
• Bonus 10 points if you get all the answers correct.

Questions
1. CAKE
2. LUV
3. LVB
4. BUD
5. PZZA
6. CAR
7. HOG
8. MMM
9. RACE
10. BID

Answers
1. The Cheesecake Factory
2. Southwest Airlines
3. Steinway & Sons
4. Anheuser-Busch Inbev
5. Papa John’s Pizza
6. Avis
7. Harley Davidson
8. 3M
9. Ferrari
10. Sotheby’s

Rules of the Round
• There are 8 image slides in this question. All connect to
a particular thing.
• There are no individual questions.
• Teams can attempt the overall connect at any time.
Marks allotted for the overall connect would be written
at the top of each slide.
• On pounces I need the exact answer. No fundas.

Answer
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

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