Freshers’

Biz-Tech QuizBy:Avijit Kalra and Aditya Garg

Rules

● Quiz Master is God

● There are 30 questions in the quiz

● The quiz will be pounce/bounce type: Pounce(+20/-10), Bounce(+10/0)

● Enjoy!!

1. What do these companies have in common?

Houzz

Kaspersky

Wynn Resorts

Cisco

VMWare

They were founded by couples

2.X began as a response to disaster. Japan's

devastating Tōhoku earthquake in March 2011

damaged telecommunications infrastructure

nationwide, obliging employees at NHN Japan, a

unit of Korea's NHN Corp, to rely on Internet-based

resources to communicate. The company's

engineers developed X to facilitate this, and the

company released their app for public use in June

2011. Identify X.

LINE

3. X was founded in 1951, after the reorganisation of

Geophysical Service Incorporated, which manufactured

equipment for the seismic industry. X also invented the

world’s first silicon transistor. Currently, it is the world’s

largest maker of analog technology components. Identify X.

X is Texas Instruments

4. .--.-. (dot-dash-dash-dot-dash-dot) was added to

the Morse code list in 2004, and it was the first

addition since World War I. It was also the last since.

What does it represent?

The ‘@’ sign

5. It was inaugurated in the 20th century. The inauguration

was to take place by the activation of floodlights by shortwave

radio inventor Guglielmo Marconi, stationed thousands of

miles away in . However, the weather conditions

were not good, and the signal was dependent on this factor,

so ultimately the floodlights were activated on-site. What is

being talked about here?

Christ the Redeemer

6. Twelve Against the Gods, by William Bolitho,

which features biographies of 12 historical figures,

from Alexander the Great to Woodrow Wilson was

listed at $6 but the price shot up to $99.99 in a

matter of hours before the stock was sold out. Later,

the English language version of the book was sold

out on AbeBooks, Alibris and Barnes & Noble. Why?

Elon Musk recommended the book on Twitter

7. The X is a parasitoid xenomorph; its only purpose is to make contact with the

host's mouth, by . Upon making contact, the X administers a cynose-

based paralytic in order to render the host unconscious. During a successful

attachment, the X will insert a proboscis down the host's throat, supplying it with

oxygen while simultaneously . Attempts to remove X generally prove

fatal, as the parasitoid will respond by tightening its tail around the host's neck,

and its prevents it from being cut away. In addition, its grip on the host

is strong enough to tear the host's face off if it is forcibly removed. In mid-2014, a

product Y started drawing comparisons with X after Y started supporting

something which was related to X in some way. ID X and Y.

X- Facehugger

Y-Oculus Rift(started supporting the game Alien: Isolation)

8. What are the present names of these companies?(2 points each)

1. Confinity

2. Jerry’s Guide to the World Wide Web

3. BackRub

4. Marufuku Company

5. Blue Ribbon Sports

1. PayPal

2. Yahoo

3. Google

4. Nintendo

5. Nike

9. This website was blocked in Turkey early 2014

after a user named “haramzade-ler” (“bastards” in

Turkish) uploaded secretly-recorded phone calls

between the Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and

his associates. The contents of the phone calls -

which shed light on corruption - caused outrage in

the country and was key to large-scale protests.

What website?

SoundCloud

10. X is now on offer at the Narita International Airport in Japan. It has been

provided by NTT Docomo, Japan’s largest mobile operator. It also bears

messages welcoming visitors from overseas, and offering information on how to

connect to Docomo's WiFi service. Docomo also published a light-hearted video

demonstrating how to use X - along with other information to help visitors get to

grips with the hi-tech they are likely to encounter in Japan. What is X ?

Toilet paper for cleaning smartphones (after people use them in the toilet)

11. Identify the companies associated with these

(old) logos.1. 2.

3.

1. Xerox

2. Yamaha

3. Firefox

12. X was founded as a neural network research company in

1986 by Kevin J. Kinsella, Gary Lynch, Lauren Yazolino,

Federico Faggin (co-inventor of the microprocessor) and

Carver Mead (VLSI pioneer). The company began to apply

semiconductor hardware design techniques to a computing

technology known as neural networks. Current customers of

X include Acer, Amazon, Asus, Dell, Google, HP, HTC,

Lenovo, LG, Microsoft, Nokia, Samsung, Sony, Sony

Ericsson, Huawei, ZTE, BlackBerry and Toshiba. There is a

very high probability that you use one of X’s products. Identify

X.

Synaptics

13. The screenshots below are from the the safety video of an airline titled “The

Most Epic Safety Video Ever Made”. Identify the airline.

Air New Zealand

14. In the 20th century, X's ambition to combine agriculture with industry resulted

in large-scale soybean experimentation. X planted thousands of acres of the

legume, which chemists used to create useful products including paints and

plastics. X even commissioned a suit made with soybean protein fibers, which he

modeled for this photograph taken on July 30, 1941 --X's 78th birthday. Who is X?

X is Henry Ford

15. X is a Malaysian low cost airline headquartered near Kuala Lumpur. It is the largest

airline in Malaysia by fleet size and destinations. X operates scheduled domestic and

international flights to more than 165 destinations spanning 25 countries. X’s Indian

subsidiary operates out of Chennai.

X’s namesake(a different airline, operating out of Taiwan) was an affiliate of the Pacific

Corporation.It was a holding company that Z used in order to control several aviation front

companies, including Southern Air Transport, Intermountain Airlines and Air America.The

Pacific Corporation dissolved in 1979 after selling its assets.X’s namesake is the only

surviving airline among all other affiliates of the Pacific Corporation. Also, it is no longer

associated with the Pacific Corporation or Z.

Identify X and Z.

Hint: Z is a very “intelligent” organisation.

X is AirAsia

Z is the CIA

16. X originated with a Usenet posting by British

computer programmer Col Needham entitled "Those

Eyes", about actresses with beautiful eyes. Later in

1993 it moved onto the World Wide Web, with the

database residing on the servers of the computer

science department of Cardiff University in Wales. In

1998, Jeff Bezos, founder, owner and CEO of

Amazon.com, struck a deal with Needham and other

principal shareholders to buy X outright for

approximately $55 million. Identify X.

IMDb

17. This NASA project has been designed to leverage the advancing trends of

additive manufacturing (AM) and in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) to enable

asteroid rendezvous missions in which a set of technically simple robotic

processes convert asteroid elements into very basic versions of spacecraft

subsystems (GNC, Propulsion, Avionics). Upon completion, the asteroid will be a

programmed mechanical automata carrying out a given mission objective; such as

relocation to an Earth-Moon libration point for human rendezvous. Coincidentally,

the acronym for this project is an integral part of Hindu mythology. What is the

name of this project (acronym will also do)?

Project RAMA (Reconstituting Asteroids into Mechanical Automata)

18. X's founder was born in Poland in 1912 to Jewish parents, who later emigrated

to the United States.He invented the "Danish-sounding" "X" as a tribute to

Denmark's exemplary treatment of its Jews during the Second World War,and

included an outline map of Denmark on early labels. The name is not Danish, nor

did the name have any meaning in any language before its creation.He felt that

Denmark was known for its products and had a positive image in the United

States.X now has franchises throughout the United States and many other

countries around the world including the United Kingdom, India, China, Lebanon

and Brazil. Identify X.

X is Häagen-Dazs Ice Cream

19. The Principality of Sealand is an unrecognised

micronation that claims Roughs Tower, an offshore

platform located in the North Sea approximately 12

kilometres off the coast of Suffolk, England, as its

territory. Roughs Tower is a disused Maunsell Sea Fort,

originally called HM Fort Roughs, built as an anti-aircraft

defensive gun platform by the British during World War

II. A few years ago this island was the subject of a

takeover bid, which didn't go through because of its

controversial nature. Who was going to take over

Sealand?

The Pirate Bay

They wanted to create a nation without copyright

laws

20. X is the name of many things. From the name of a statue at the Herbert

Hoover National Historic Site to a song by Bob Dylan, to an Operating System, to

a lunar crater as well as the name of an asteroid, to the name of a part of the river

Thames in England, as well as the name of a car by Toyota ; all are named X.

However, X is a pretty controversial name nowadays due to obvious reasons.

Identify X.

ISIS

21. A man dressed as a construction worker took a sledgehammer and a pickaxe

to smash Donald J. Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2016,

smashing the sidewalk symbol and attempting to remove it.The star has since

been repaired. Why does Trump have a star on the walk of fame? Also, what is

the name/business world connection of the man who vandalized the star?

The star is for Trump being the producer of Miss Universe.

The vandal was James Lambert Otis, heir to the Otis elevator company.

22. Though it is not known how it originated, it was popularised by

Dennis Fong, the first recognized professional gamer. Fong has

claimed how the configuration of use were random, depended on

the participant. Having found the right recipe, he claimed how his

skills and efficiency improved greatly, after making the switch to

this pattern and felt that he never actually faced a problem after

that. Experimenting, he claims “I am not going to take credit for the

creation of this, I stumbled across it, and felt comfortable with it,

and I will popularise it among my community”. Soon so popular,

this actually became a standard configuration to the future of this

community, and has actually become, not only a standard for this

community but for every computer user in order to increase their

efficiency. What?

Using the WASD keys

23. X is a global brand and has more that 100 variants worldwide.X

originated as a result of difficulties importing into Nazi

Germany during World War II due to a trade embargo. To

circumvent this, Max Keith, the head of the German division of the

company during the war, decided to create a new product for the

German market, using only ingredients available in Germany at the

time, including whey and apple pomace – the "leftovers of

leftovers", as Keith later recalled. The name was the result of a

brief brainstorming session, which started with Keith's exhorting his

team to "use their imagination" (fantasie in German), to which one

of his salesmen, Joe Knipp, immediately retorted "X!”. Thus X was

named. Identify X.

Fanta

24. John Moreno, a former employee of X has explained :

“About a dozen years ago, we had some discussions at X

about the placement of Y. So we asked, why is the Y inverted

when the products are in use ”. However, the head of X

explained “why was inverted from the user’s perspective an

issue? Because our group noticed that how the user made a

constant mistake in using the product, and we believed on

providing the best possible user experience”. But years later,

the decision was reversed, and it was concluded that the

mistake was a self correcting problem that only lasts, for a

few seconds, however viewing it inverted is a problem that

lasts indefinitely. Give funda.

The inverted Apple logo on the MacBook

25. In a/an X, an organization compels individuals who wish to join to make a payment.

In exchange, the organization promises its new members a share of the money taken

from every additional member that they recruit. The directors of the organization also

receive a share of these payments. For the directors, it is potentially lucrative—whether

or not they do any work, the organization's membership has a strong incentive to

continue recruiting and funneling money. However, X is often confused with another

term Y. The fact is that there are some differences between X and Y.In a/an Y, the

orchestrator acts as a "hub" for the victims, interacting with all of them directly. In a/an

X, those who recruit additional participants benefit directly.Also, a/an Y claims to rely

on some esoteric investment approach and often attracts well-to-do investors, whereas

Xs explicitly claim that new money will be the source of payout for the initial

investments.A/An X typically collapses much faster because it requires exponential

increases in participants to sustain it. By contrast,a/an Y can survive simply by

persuading most existing participants to reinvest their money, with a relatively small

number of new participants.

X - Pyramid Scheme

Y- Ponzi Scheme

26. Microsoft released Windows 95 with a massive

joint ad-campaign with X showing off how their OS is

great at multimedia. Ironically, because of the same

campaign, customers saw X as a more desirable

product -- it was still supported on Win 3.1/DOS and

wasn’t actually better on the expensive Win 95. As a

result, Win 95 sales plummeted to be only the 2nd

most installed software in 1995. What was the top

seller, X?

DOOM

27. Product placement in anime is less common than regular

television, but when it happens it seems even more jarring

than its live action counterparts. Code Geass, an anime

series, is set in an alternate earth, but it features a large

amount of corporate product placement. Most frequently, the

characters seem to be eating X products during almost every

single meal, with the containers usually placed in prominent

places. Which brand is X?

X - Pizza Hut

28. In the summer of 1895, Tomáš X found himself

facing financial difficulties. To overcome these

serious setbacks, he decided to sew shoes from

canvas instead of leather. This type of shoe became

very popular and helped the company grow to 50

employees. In 1904 Tomáš introduced mechanised

production techniques that allowed X to become one

of the first mass producers of shoes in Europe.

Identify X.

Bata

29. X is a live streaming video platform owned by X Interactive, a

subsidiary of Amazon.com.Introduced in June 2011, the site primarily

focuses on video gaming, including playthroughs of video games,

broadcasts of eSports competitions, creative content, and more recently,

music broadcasts. Content on the site can either be viewed live or via

video on demand.

The popularity of X would eclipse that of its general-interest counterpart;

in October 2013, the website had 45 million unique viewers, and by

February 2014, it was considered the fourth largest source of peak

Internet traffic in the United States. The site has also branched out into

music-related streams and content. In 2015, X announced it had more

than 1.5 million broadcasters and 100 million visitors per month. Identify

X.

Twitch.tv

30. X will launch two Netflix-like streaming services — one for sports and another for films

and television 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 who are turning

away from traditional media and flocking to Netflix and other digital platforms. The ESPN

service, which would be available next year, is expected to feature 10,000 sporting events

annually, among them Major League Baseball games.

The X-branded film and TV offering, set to debut in 2019, would include original content

developed by X.

What is X?

The Walt Disney Co.

Thanks!!