The Biz-Tech quiz which was conducted by Anshul Roy on 9 October, 2018

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

2. Note
1. This quiz has been hastily put together in under a week.
Appy Polly Logies for the dip in quality.
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
disqualifications.
4. The more you stare at the question, the more the answer
stares back at you.
5. Kindly refrain from cybernetic investigations.
6. QM is God, his decisions are final and binding.

4. Infinite Bounce - 1

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

6. Q - 1
NBD Nanotechnologies is a Boston-based startup
dedicated to chemical technologies that change the surface
properties of materials like glass and plastic. The company
modifies surface wettability and adhesion/repulsion through
coatings and additives.
The company’s name and technology was inspired from a
member of the animal kingdom, that is known to harvest fog
in the desert by alternating hydrophobic and hydrophilic
regions on its back. It is able to drink 12% of its weight in
water by mastering surface wettability to thrive in the desert.
Which member of the animal kingdom?

7. Answer
Namib Desert Beetle (NBD is short for “Namib Beetle Design”)

8. Q - 2
The reason behind the design of this GUI element is due to
the low resolution display screens used in the past. At that
time, it was found that drawing a straight line and a line at a
45 degree angle was easier to do and more easily
recognizable than the initial vertical line design created by
the inventor of this GUI element.
Hence, the initial design of this GUI element was changed,
and this altered design still persists today.
1. Which GUI element?
2. Who was the inventor?

9. Answer
Mouse Cursor, Douglas Engelbart

10. Q - 3
In 1943, Ignacio Anaya was working at the Victory Club in
Piedras Negras, Mexico, just over the border from Texas.
There were a lot of American servicemen stationed at Fort
Duncan in Texas, and one evening a large group of soldiers'
wives came into Ignacio Anaya’s restaurant after it had
already closed for the day.
He didn't want to turn the women away with empty stomachs.
So he improvised with what little ingredients he had available
in the kitchen and invented a famous dish.
Which dish?

11. Answer
Nachos ( Ignacio Anaya’s nickname was “Nacho”)

12. Q - 4
Which fictional character
co-founded a ridesharing
startup called
“Cabracadabra” with an
intention of creating safe
spaces for women?
This app was meant
exclusively for female users,
and the cab drivers were
also compulsorily women.

13. Answer
Todd Chavez (from Bojack Horseman)

14. Q - 5
“Way of the Future” is a recently established religion/church
whose activities focus on “the realization, acceptance, and
worship of a Godhead based on Artificial Intelligence
developed through computer hardware and software.”
The religion is trying to build working relationships with AI
industry leaders and create a membership through community
outreach, initially targeting AI professionals and “laypersons
who are interested in the worship of a Godhead based on AI.”
1. Which controversial engineer has founded this AI-
worshipping religion/church?
2. Which infamous lawsuit was he involved in?

15. Answer
Anthony Levandowski, Uber-Waymo lawsuit

16. Q - 6
Recently, Coca-Cola
announced a plan to
collaborate with Aurora
Cannabis, a major Canadian
marijuana producer, in order
to develop a range of
marijuana-infused
beverages to help ease
physical problems.
Which apt 2-worded phrase
did The Guardian use as the
title of a news article
mentioning this?

17. Answer
Joint Venture

18. Q - 7
In the 1950s, instant cake mixes were introduced in the
market. The motive was to save the time of housewives,
creating mixes that simply required adding water, mixing, and
popping in the oven. However, these cake mixes failed
miserably.
When marketers dove in to uncover what went wrong, they
found that the reason was because the cake making process
was made too easy. Housewives didn’t feel invested in the
process and thus, left no value on the product. It was
decided that an extra step should be added in the recipe, so
that housewives felt they were actually baking. Due to this,
sales soared and instant cake mixes became a mainstay.
Which step was added to the recipe?

19. Answer
Housewives were required to crack an egg and add the
yolk in the cake mix

20. Q - 8
Which specific plane was the 404th Boeing 777 model which
was manufactured by Boeing?

21. Answer
Malaysian Airlines MH 370

22. Q - 9
Walter Werzowa is an Austrian musician who achieved fame
in the 1980s with the electronica band Edelweiss. Following
the band’s breakup, he moved to USA to study film music.
In 1994, a company asked him to compose a jingle. The
company wanted the sound “to convey reliability, innovation
and trust”. According to Walter, the company’s tagline
triggered a melody in his head, and those were the notes that
became the iconic jingle - D flat, D flat, G flat, D flat, A flat.
The rhythm was inspired by the syllables of the tagline.
Which famous company’s jingle, which is allegedly played
somewhere in the world once every five minutes, did Walter
Werzowa compose?

23. Answer
Intel

24. Q - 10
Which product’s scent has been described in it’s trademark
application as - “A unique scent formed through the
combination of a sweet, slightly musky, vanilla-like fragrance,
with slight overtones of cherry, and the natural smell of a
salted, wheat-based ________”?
Which company filed the trademark for this nostalgia
inducing smell in 2018?

25. Answer
Play-Doh by Hasbro

26. Short Connect - 1

27. Rules of the Round
• Identify the overall connect between the companies.
• 4 questions in total.
• No points for individual answers.
• Points for connect are written on each slide.

28. +40/-20

29. +30/-15

30. +20/-10

31. +10/-5

32. Answer
Phoebus Cartel

33. Infinite Bounce - 2

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

35. Q - 1
Wensleydale is a style of cheese originally produced in
Wensleydale, North Yorkshire, England. The original dairy has been
hand-making cheese for more than 100 years.
In the 1990s, sales of this cheese had fallen so low that production
in the last dairy in Wensleydale was at risk of being suspended.
However, in a popular animated TV series, the main character was a
cheese connoisseur, and mentioned Wensleydale as his favourite
cheese. Due to this, the sales of the cheese increased by 23%. The
success of this TV series brought the factory back from the brink of
bankruptcy and they are currently a thriving dairy.
Which animated TV series?

36. Answer
Wallace & Gromit

37. Q - 2
Recently, an American brand partnered with a museum to
release a line of shoes (images on next slide) paying
tribute to a famous artist.
1. Which artist?
2. Which brand?

39. Answer
Vincent Van Gogh, Vans

40. Q - 3
In 2015, to celebrate its 20th anniversary, this company
released an interview with a person named Mark Fraser
(images on next slides) who had a significant role in this
company’s history. He is seen holding a particular object
during the interview. This object is a part of the
company’s lore.
1. What is this object?
2. For which company is this object so important?

43. Answer
Broken Laser Pointer, eBay

44. Q - 4
In programming, X debugging is a method of debugging code.
The name is a reference to a story in the book ‘The Pragmatic
Programmer’ in which a programmer carried around a X and
debugged his code by explaining it, line-by-line, to the X.
Many programmers have had the experience of explaining a
problem to someone who does not even know programming, and
then finding the solution in the process of explaining the problem.
In X debugging, by using an inanimate object, the programmer
can try to accomplish this without having to interrupt anyone else.
Identify X.

45. Answer
X = Rubber Duck

46. Q - 5
Allen Stoltzfus, the co-founder of this software company,
learned German through immersion while living in Germany
and found it relatively easy. In the 1980s, he began learning
Russian in a classroom setting, but found the classroom
setting much more difficult. He wanted to simulate the
German experience, and decided to use computer
technology to create a similar learning experience.
In 1992, he and his brother-in-law formed a company known
as Fairfield Language Technologies. In 2006, the company
named itself after it’s most famous software product.
Which software company am I talking about?

47. Answer
Rosetta Stone

48. Q - 6
Dismaland was a theme park (images on next slides)
which opened in Somerset, England on 21 Aug 2015 and
closed permanently on 27 Sept 2015. It was intended to be
“a sinister twist on Disneyland”.
Which famous person was behind this theme park?

53. Answer
Banksy

54. Q - 7
The person in this image was a
Scottish-Canadian farmer who
discovered a subtype of a fruit.
In 1795, while clearing his
property, he discovered numerous
wild trees. He transplanted them
to his garden, and within a year
only one tree survived and was
producing the fruit that is now well
known. He named this subtype
after himself.
What from the world of technology
derives its name from this fruit’s
subtype?

55. Answer
Macintosh (named after McIntosh Red Apple)

56. Q - 8
Wewelsburg is a Renaissance castle (image on next
slide) built in 1609, situated in the Paderborn district in
Germany. After 1934, it was used by the Nazis under
Heinrich Himmler and was expanded into a complex
acting as the central SS cult-site.
Due to its SS and occult connections, Wewelsburg Castle
is believed to be the inspiration behind the setting of a
famous videogame franchise, first released in 1981.
Which famous videogame franchise?

58. Answer
Wolfenstein

59. Q - 9
This is a transcript from a letter written to Henry Ford -
“Dear Sir: -
While I still have got breath in my lungs I will tell you what a dandy
car you make. I have drove Fords exclusively when I could get
away with one. For sustained speed and freedom from trouble the
Ford has got every other car skinned and even if my business
hasn’t been strictly legal it don’t hurt anything to tell you what a
fine car you got in the V8.”
Displayed at the Ford museum, the authenticity of this letter has
often been debated but what cannot be contested is the
admiration the writer of the letter had for Ford.
Which infamous person was the writer of this letter?

60. Answer
Clyde Barrow (from Bonnie & Clyde)

61. Q - 10
During The Pirate Bay trial in 2009, the defense lawyer presented an
argument later nicknamed as the "X defense" -
"EU directive 2000 says that the person who provides an information
service is not responsible for the information that is being
transferred. In order to be responsible, the service provider must
initiate the transfer. But the admins of The Pirate Bay don’t initiate
transfers. It’s the users that do and they are physically identifiable
people. They call themselves names like X. According to legal
procedure, the accusations must be against an individual and there
must be a close tie between the perpetrators of a crime and those
who are assisting. This tie has not been shown. The prosecutor must
show that Carl Lundström personally has interacted with the user X,
who may very well be found in the jungles of Cambodia."
Identify X.

62. Answer
X = King Kong

63. Short Connect - 2

64. Rules of the Round
• Identify the overall connect between the companies.
• 3 questions in total.
• No points for individual answers.
• Points for connect are written on each slide.

65. +30/-15

66. +20/-10

67. +10/-5

68. Answer
Companies owned by Snoop Dogg

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