Business and Tech Quiz 2017

QUIZ WEEK

BIZ – TECH

By Binit and Ramakanth.

IN REMEMBRANCE OF

1. 1835 - London, Followed by Amsterdam, Las Vegas, New York, Hong Kong, Many more cities 2016 – Istanbul 2017 - New Delhi. Link these cities.

Answer

Madame Tussauds Comes to Delhi

2. X observed that about 20% of the peapods in his garden contained 80% of the peas. As a result he theorized a widely known concept. Give the concept?

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3. Who is the founder of an organization called "Citizen for Accountable Governance"? Before starting this he was working with UN as an health activist. He works in a very niche area and is in high demand these days.

Answer

Prashant Kishor

4. X has been target of continuous satire. Washington Post article described the phenomenon: "Nor is the fashion world enamored of X. Though their maker touts their 'ultra-hip Italian styling,' lots of folks find them hideous." Tim Gunn, fashion consultant, told Time magazine, "... the X – it looks like plastic. How can you take that seriously?" A blog named "IHateX.com" was founded by two Canadian college students (one, Kate Leth, referred to the X as "hideous"). The Facebook group "I Don't Care How Comfortable X is, You Look Like a Dumbass" has been mentioned in the media. X is no. 6 on the "Worst" list of Maxim's "The 10 Best & Worst Things to Happen to Men in 2007."

Answer

Minus Points to those wearing Crocs!!!!!

5. Link?

Answer

ALIBABA

6. Fill in the blank.

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Also accept – Have a break or Take a break

7*. X was conceived by computer programmer Casey Fenton in 1999, when he was 25 years old. The idea arose after Fenton found a cheap flight from Boston to Iceland but did not have a place to stay and did not want to stay in a "boring" hotel. Fenton hacked into a university database and got the mail-ids of 1,500 students from the University of Iceland. Hence originated the idea of an website which has became a favourite of many, which website?

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8. In the early days of cinema, movies sometimes had overly lovey-dovey plots, all leading up to a thrilling and racy ending. Directors started using "X," when asking someone to get straight to that scene and avoiding unnecessary dialogues. Which Phrase?

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9. Link these places to an answer.

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These places have different kinds of Marijuana named after them.

Durban PoisonMendocino Purps

Malana CreamJamaica LionsMysore Mango

10*.

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IIM Ahmedabad

Industrialist Kasturbhai Lalbhai – Funded Louis Kahn – Architect

Dr. Vikram Sarabhai – FounderHarvard University – Provided Help and Training

11.

Answer

Jeff Bezos

Logo of Blue Origin owned by him.Goodreads – An Amazon subsidiaryAnd Two Pizza Rule given by him

12. The idea was born out of Andrew Mason's frustration trying to cancel a cell phone contract in 2006. In 2007 Mason launched The Point, a web platform based on the "tipping point" principle that would utilize social media to get people together to accomplish a goal. The Point was intended to organize people around some sort of cause or goal.

This was the origin of X.

X in response to Amazon’s drones has come up with X Catapults. X also owns Nearbuy.Give me X.

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13. This has been launched by which company and what is it know as?

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14. Who was chosen Time Person of the Year in 1982 marking the beginning of an age?

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15*.

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The first image is of Prime MeridianLogo of Marriot International – ParentAir France – Started the Hotel Chain

Le Meridian’s 1000 Room building in Paris

16*. Whose career timeline is this –

US AirforceOm Shanti OmDelhi BellyThe Wish DriversProposed - Engineer Diaries and finally X.

Answer

X – TVF and Arunabh Kumar.

17*. X is an American seed accelerator started in March 2005. It has been called "the world's most powerful start-up incubator". Fortune has called X "a spawning ground for emerging tech giants".

As of 2016, X had invested in 940 companies including Dropbox, Airbnb, Quora, Disqus, Coinbase, Stripe, Reddit, BuildZoom, Instacart, Twitch.tv, Weebly, Paribus and Chinese startup Raven Tech.

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18. Link

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ISIS

19. Link

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Cecil Rhodes – FounderDebswana – Its mining subsidiary

Sean Connery - Diamonds are forever

20*. X was founded as a joint venture between two of the "big three" record companies, Universal Music Group (UMG) and Sony Music Entertainment (SME). Later on it was joined by the third company Warner Music Group. It’s aim is to evolve the way we watch videos.

Give me X?

Answer

Video EVOlution

21*. X is a form of lock-in where employees detain management in the workplace, often in protest against lay-offs and redundancies, and has especially been carried out in France. The term gained wide usage in the media following a series of X incidents in the spring of 2009 in France where workers used the tactic in the context of widespread labor unrest.

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22. Give me the term ?

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23**. - .IN – India - .UK – United Kingdom

- .CH - ? - .AQ - ?

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.CH - Confoederatio Helvetica or Switzerland.AQ – Antarctica

24**. Give me the company and the product this print ad is meant for?

Answer

Penguin Audio Books

25. Link

Answer

Amma Welfare Schemes

26. Link

AnswerDU Photocopiers Case

27. Corning Inc. is an American manufacturer of glass, ceramics and related materials primarily for industrial and scientific applications. Mostly known for Gorilla Glass, it’s long history of innovation begins with a pioneering project which accounted for half of Corning’s business in the initial years of 20th century. Which project was that?

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28. These date back to the 1930s, when new airplanes allowed people to fly higher and farther. Many US Army Air Service pilots were reporting that the glare from the sun was giving them headaches and altitude sickness. So in 1929, a US Army Air Corps Lieutenant General John MacCready asked X, a Rochester, New York-based medical equipment manufacturer to manufacture these products to obstruct the sunrays. What were these called?

Answer

Ray Ban Aviator’s

29. Link

Answer

Shapoorji Pallonji Mistry GroupEureka is owned by them.

They are the builders of RBI Head Office, BSE building, Palace of Sultan of Oman and also the Taj Continental. The man is Pallonji Mistry.

30. This manufacturer is the successor of which company?