The Biz-Tech quiz conducted by Anshul Roy on 2 May, 2017

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

2. Baba Sehgal’s tweets serve as safety slides in this
quiz, keep an eye out for some easy chuckles.

3. इनिफिनट बाउंस

4. Rules of the round
• 30 questions.
• +20/-10 on a pounce.
• +10/-0 on a bounce.
• On pounces I need the exact answer. No funda please.
• Answering 42 to any question would get you disqualified.

6. Q - 1
Recently, in order to promote it’s new website building product
called “GoCentral”, GoDaddy partnered with The Onion’s in-
house ad agency Onion Labs, to produce an ad campaign
starring “X”. The video depicts X as a bearded, tattooed man. X
goes on a talk show to promote his (fake) memoir “My Life As X”.
The trailer of this video says - “You won’t see an interview with an
abstract concept personified for marketing purposes like this
anywhere else!”
Considering the industry in which GoDaddy operates, identify X.
(Hint: X has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010
and 2011)

8. Answer
X = The Internet

9. Q - 2
X is an American commercial bakery founded in 1937 by Margaret
Rudkin, who named the brand after her family's property in Connecticut,
which in turn was named for the ___________ tree. Margaret Rudkin
began baking bread in 1937 for her youngest son Mark who had asthma
and was allergic to most commercially processed foods. She home-
baked bread that her allergic son could eat and this is how the company
started. X is now a subsidiary of the Campbell Soup Company.
X products include Milano and Nantucket cookies, Goldfish crackers,
and varieties of bread.
In the early 1980s, X began airing a commercial featuring an elderly man
reminiscing about raisin bread that his grandmother used to make with
the tagline “Y”. On September 24th, 2006, this tagline was parodied in a
Family Guy episode and this later became a meme.
Id X.

11. Answer
X = Pepperidge Farm

12. Q - 3
Jeddah Tower is a skyscraper (image on next slide)
currently under construction in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
If completed in 2019 as planned, the Jeddah Tower
will reach unprecedented heights becoming the tallest
building in the world, as well as the first structure to
reach the 1 kilometre high mark.
This tower is being constructed by a famous
construction company whose logo is also shown on
the next slide.
Id this famous construction company.

15. Answer
Saudi Binladin Group

16. Q - 4
This is a picture of “Sharabha” (next slide), a mythological
character from the Hindu mythology. Sharabha has a body
of a lion and the head of an elephant, and was chosen as
the logo of the company X in the year 1980. This was
because the creature represents the combined virtues of
wisdom, courage and strength and symbolizes the
company's philosophy.
The company X was established by the Karnataka
government and is known for producing a very famous
product, Y.
Id Y.

19. Answer
Y = Mysore Sandal Soap

20. Q - 5
The oft-told tale about the origin of the company name Y is as follow -
Murray Pletz was an industrial design student and designed a
backpack that used aluminium in its flexible frame. His girlfriend X
Lewis helped with the sewing portions of the project. Murray bought
her the sewing machine used for the sewing in January of 1966 for
$180. Then Murray entered their finished pack in a design contest
sponsored by the Alcoa aluminium company and won the prize.
Using the contest award as "seed" money, he formed a company on a
shoestring budget, and within the year talked his cousin into joining
him. The origin story also famously includes a marriage. It's told that
early-on Murray made X an offer she couldn't refuse - to name the
company after her, and to marry her if she'd join up and sew for his
new company. X accepted this offer and sewed for Y and Murray did
marry her, and the fledgling company was named Y after X Lewis.
Id Y.

22. Answer
Y = JanSport (named after Jan Lewis)

23. Q - 6
In March 2017, Hungary’s ruling political party “Fidesz”, led by
Prime Minister Viktor Orban proposed a bill that would ban
branding with symbols of totalitarianism. If the bill goes through
it will be forbidden to use symbols of totalitarian regimes such
as national socialism or communism by companies.
This proposed bill would adversely affect the branding of the
company X.
In a press statement, X however denied its logo had any link to
communism. X said that - “The ___ ____ has been on the X
label since the early days of the brand. Naturally, the X ___ ____
has no political meaning whatsoever.”
Id X.

25. Answer
X = Heineken

26. Q - 7
The person in this picture (next slide) is X, an American basketball
player and salesman.
In 1917, the company Y launched a particular range of shoes
specifically designed to be worn when playing basketball. X started
wearing them in 1917 as a high school basketball player at
Columbus High School. In 1921, X went to the sales offices of Y in
Chicago searching for a job, and was hired immediately.
Within a year, X's suggestions of changing the design of the shoe to
provide enhanced flexibility and support, and also including patch to
protect the ankle, were adopted by Y. By 1932, X became the public
face and the representative of Y.
Id X and Y.

29. Answer
X = Chuck Taylor, Y = Converse

30. Q - 8
Which company published Rudyard Kipling's first novel
in the year 1888 titled "Plain Tales from The Hills” ?

32. Answer
A.H. Wheeler

33. Q - 9
In 1975, Chaleo Yoovidhya, a Thai businessman developed a
drink called “Krating Daeng”. This drink contained water, cane
sugar, caffeine, _______, inositol and B-vitamins. It was
introduced in Thailand in 1976 as a refreshment for rural Thai
labourers and truck drivers.
In 1982, Dietrich Mateschitz, the international marketing
director for Blendax, a German toothpaste company, visited
Thailand and discovered that Krating Daeng helped to cure his
jet lag. He worked with Chaleo Yoovidhya’s company T.C.
Pharmaceuticals to adapt the formula and composition to
Western tastes and then released another drink in 1987.
What drink am I talking about?

35. Answer
Red Bull

36. Q - 10
In March 2017, a New York city based architecture
studio called “Oiio" proposed the design of a
skyscraper with hopes to create the longest building
in the world by bending the building in half. The
skyscraper is called “The Big Bend” (image on next
slide) and it is a curved, 4,000 foot-long skyscraper
planned on Manhattan's Billionaire's Row.
Many people compared the proposed design of this
skyscraper with something in the world of Tech.
What?

39. Answer
Clippy

40. Q - 11
Ziff Davis is the parent company of the company
recently sued by Reliance. This company gets its
name from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Interestingly, the daughter company also has a pet
cat that shares its name with the company. The cat
appears on the interface whenever a certain
threshold is crossed.
What company is this, that has been recently sued
by Reliance?

42. Answer
Ookla

43. Q - 12
Which company is behind these virtual currencies?

45. Answer
Razer

46. Q - 13
The “Green Giant” is an iconic landmark in Wattens, Austria. It
is situated at the entrance of a theme park.
Which company is behind this theme park in Austria?

48. Answer
Swarovski

49. Q - 14
In 2016, Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc.
teamed up with the food chain X in order to deliver
burritos to students and employees at Virginia Tech.
This was part of Alphabet’s “Project Wing” drone
delivery program. The drones made deliveries
coordinated by a X food truck on campus.
Id X.

51. Answer
X = Chipotle

52. Q - 15
With which famous person would you associate this
brand of Scotch whiskey?

54. Answer
Captain Haddock

55. Q - 16
This is a painting by the British artist John Everett
Millais titled “A Child’s World” (also alternatively
titled “Bubbles”).
In 1826, the artist sold this painting for £2,200 to
Thomas J. Barratt, the managing director of X. This
gave him exclusive copyright on the picture.
Later, this painting was widely used in the ad
campaign of a famous product manufactured by X.
What famous product am I talking about?

58. Answer
Pears Soap

59. Q - 17
The person in this picture is John Schnatter. In 1983, he sold his
Chevrolet Camaro in order to to help his father's struggling
business. He used the leftover funds ($1600) to start a company.
Which company was started by John Schnatter?

61. Answer
Papa John’s Pizza

62. Q - 18
Chupa Chups is a famous Spanish brand of lollipop
and other confectionery sold in over 150 countries
around the world. The brand was founded in 1958
by Enric Bernat. The name of the brand comes from
the Spanish verb “chupar”, meaning "to suck”.
Enric Bernat spared no expense getting his
business off the ground and hired X to design his
company’s logo (image on next slide).
Id X.

65. Answer
X = Salvador Dali

66. Q - 19
In April 2017, Coca-Cola Co. announced that X’s face will
appear on cans of Cherry Coke in China, in an attempt to
capitalize on its biggest and most famous investor, X.
The company, which introduced Cherry Coke in the China
on March 10, will offer the X cans for a limited time while
supplies last.
X’s investment firm, Y, owns 9.3 percent of Coca-Cola Co.,
a holding valued at about $17 billion. X is also a heavy user
of the product and X has said that he drinks about five cans
of Coke per day.
Id X.

68. Answer
X = Warren Buffet

69. Q - 20
In May 1979, Atari programmers David Crane, Larry
Kaplan, Alan Miller, and Bob Whitehead met with Atari CEO
Ray Kassar to demand that the company treat developers
as record labels treated musicians, with royalties and their
names printed on game boxes. Ray Kassar insulted the four
men and called them "towel designers" and said that
"anyone can make a cartridge game."
This angered these four programmers and they left Atari
and founded their own company in October 1979.
Which famous company was hence founded?

71. Answer
Activision

72. Q - 21
In April 2017, New Zealand Postal Service partnered with X in a pilot
scheme in the port city of Tauranga, with X contracting NZ Post to
handle the logistics of its new home delivery service.
The New Zealand postal service has begun delivering X in a bid to
stem major revenue losses as the number of people using the postal
service continue to plummet.
Mike Stewart, a spokesperson for NZ Post said - “All post offices
around the world are struggling with what to do when mail
disappears, we want to survive for another 100 years but we urgently
need to diversify our business, and hence we partnered with X.”
Id X.

74. Answer
X = KFC

75. Q - 22
In April 2017, Zara launched a range of denim miniskirts as a
part of the limited “Oil-on-Denim” collection, which was created
through collaborations with artists and was only available in
selected markets. The designer of the skirt is Mario de Santiago.
This miniskirt had a particular graphic printed on it which
caused a controversy on the social media. Many people said
that by incorporating a hate symbol of the alt-right in it’s
miniskirt’s design, Zara was promoting anti-Semitic and white
supremacist values.
Due to the backlash, Zara eventually had to withdraw this
miniskirt from the consumer market.
What was printed on this miniskirt?

77. Answer
Pepe the Frog

78. Q - 23
In the 1913 play “Pygmallion” written by George Bernard Shaw,
a Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can
train an uneducated girl, X Doolittle, to pass for a duchess at an
ambassador's party by teaching her to speak impeccably.
In the year 1964, Joseph Weizenbaum created the world’s first
chatbot at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He named
his chatbot “X” after X Doolittle, because of it’s ability to have it’s
speech/response “incrementally improved” by various users
made it similar to X Doolittle.
X was also regarded as one of the first computer programs
capable of passing the Turing Test.
Id X.

80. Answer
X = ELIZA

81. Q - 24
In April 2017, McDonald’s Australia teamed up with X to launch a
unique form of recruitment drive. Jobseekers were invited to try on
the McDonald’s uniform and send a 10-second video application.
Once the application is reviewed, McDonald’s will send users back to
the digital careers hub where they can download an application form.
Shaun Ruming, COO of McDonald’s Australia said - “I’ve learnt a lot
about X recently from my 14-year-old daughter. We’re the largest
employer of youth in the country, so we’re trying to look for new and
innovative ways to recruit crew people. We’re looking for that
positivity, bubbly personality, someone we think would be good in a
customer service role. Based on what my daughter sends to her
friends, you do get a bit of a glimpse from X.”
Id X.

83. Answer
X = Snapchat

84. Q - 25
“Les Horribles Cernettes" (French for "The Horrible CERN Girls")
was an all-female band, self-labelled as "the one and only High
Energy Rock Band", founded by employees of CERN. Their musical
genre is often described as “doo-wop”. The initials of their name,
LHC, are the same as those of the Large Hadron Collider which was
later built at CERN.
The band was founded in 1990 by Michele de Gennaro, a graphic
designer at CERN. Silvano de Gennaro, an analyst in the Computer
Science department at CERN, wrote songs for this band.
On July 18, 1992, Silvano de Gennaro snapped this photo of the
band (image on next slide).
Why is this particular photo so significant in the world of Tech?

87. Answer
First photo to be uploaded on the Internet

88. Q - 26
In December 2016, X expressed his frustration with
the traffic situation in Los Angeles. X announced his
plan to start Y, an infrastructure and tunneling
company to solve this problem.
Id X and Y.

90. Answer
X = Elon Musk, Y = The Boring Company

91. Q - 27
Which famous artist and song is being referenced
in this XKCD comic? (image on next slide)

94. Answer
Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley

95. Q - 28
The esoteric programming language X was designed by
David Morgan-Mar in the year 2008. The programs are
bitmaps that look like abstract art. The program compilation
is guided by a "pointer" that moves around an image, from
one continuous coloured region to the next. Variables are
stored in memory as signed integers in a single stack.
This programming language was named after the famous
Dutch painter Y, who pioneered the field of geometric
abstract art. Most of the compiled programs in X resemble
Y’s paintings (images on next slide).
Id Y.

98. Answer
Y = Piet Mondrian

99. Q - 29
Arbor Day is celebrated on the final day of April in
USA, and encourages everyone to plant trees and
raise awareness for the environment.
In 2014, a month before Arbor Day, X launched a
campaign vowing to plant a tree for every 100 videos
watched of a particular category on its website.
The campaign ended on Arbor Day, and X reported
that 13473 trees were successfully planted by them.
Id X.

101. Answer
X = Pornhub

102. Q - 30
The person in this picture (image on next slide) is
Arturo Di Modica, an Italian sculptor and artist. In
1989, he spent some $360,000 to create, cast, and
install a particular sculpture as a symbol of the
"strength and power of the American people”.
This sculpture was placed at it’s current location
without permission from the authorities and it is
considered to be an example of guerilla art.
What famous sculpture am I talking about?

105. Answer
Charging Bull

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