JBIMS KwizKraft 2016 - Final - Conducted by Quizlabs

KwizKraft Finals PRAYAAG - 2016

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Rules

11 Questions Clockwise (Infinite Bounce)

Pounce (+10/-5) – Complete Answer required

+10 for a direct and pass

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Q.1 This is the picture of a Walkman SRF-39FP. These were highly treasured pieces as they could run for 40 hours on an AA battery and pick up radio reception even through thick walls.

What does FP stand for and what is the purpose of the see-through case?

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Ans.1 FP stands for Federal Prison. These were specifically made for those behind bars. They came with a see-through case so inmates couldn‟t hide any contraband inside

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Q.2 If you have ever leafed through an issue of The Economist or any other glossy magazine meant for the upwardly mobile as they wait in first-class airport lounges, you have seen a _____ ________ ad: a father and son, usually on a boat, are laughing sternly at the sea, while the tagline reminds you that “You never actually own a _____ ________. You merely look after it for the next generation.”

Identify.


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Q.3 This is the statue of Zeus at the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, United Kingdom. It is a direct inspiration for the logo of which Amsterdam based chemical giant?

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Q.4 Pepsi on October 21, 2015 released a drink called Pepsi Perfect. The sales were limited to 6500 bottles and the cost of each bottle was $20.15 each.

What was the reason behind the name and what was the significance of the date?

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Back to the Future

Q.5 Angela Merkel was recently named the TIME person of the year. Merkel is only the fourth woman to ever be named Person of the Year, after Time opened up the contest to women in 1936. In fact, she is the first standalone woman to be awarded the title since 1986.

However, a group of women – Cynthia Cooper, Coleen Rowley and Sherron Watkins were featured as Persons of the Year in 2002.

What were they collectively called by TIME?


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Q.6 In 1987, X had passed the $1 billion mark in corporate sales and was in the process of revamping its advertising and marketing strategies. For one of the campaigns, X needed some catchy music and decided to use the song Y by Z.

X paid $500,000 for the right to use the song for one year, split between recording owner Capitol-EMI and song publisher ATV Music Publishing (owned by Michael Jackson). Z filed a lawsuit in July 1987 objecting to X‟s use of the song.

An article in Los Angeles Times said: Z want to stop the Y.

Identify X and Y.

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X – Nike Y – Revolution Z – The Beatles

Q.7 Is thy face like thy mother's, my fair child!

X! sole daughter of my house and heart?

When last I saw thy young blue eyes they smiled,

And then we parted.

-Lord Byron

Connect these lines to the image on the right.

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Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (née Byron) & Charles Babbage

Q.8 X is entering the adult coloring book market with a new book, The Art of Romance.

Lisa Milton, executive publisher, said: “Coloring is a key trend in publishing at the moment, and as a heritage brand, with our archive of over 100 years, we were spoiled for choice in creating the book. In bringing together the vintage covers, snippets of social history and utterly fabulous fashions across the decades, I can‟t think of a better way to tell the story of X than through The Art of Romance.”

Identify X.


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Q.9 ___________ has an „e‟ for excellence, England, Europe and entente cordiale...and I might have added 'e' for extravagance and 'e' for escalation as well.

- Tony Benn, British Minister for Technology.

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Concord„e‟

Q.10 It was the 1st match of the series vs. Bangladesh in 2006. Gilchrist was standing up to the stumps vs. Warne and while doing so he kept up a constant stream of chatter. Here‟s what he said:

Travelex Foreign Exchange boys!

Plenty of energy from a Milo Energy Bar.

Keep it well oiled with Castrol boys. Come on.

What‟s the context?

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A deliberate ploy to have broadcasters turn down the volume of stump microphones.

Q.11 The Experimenter is a 2015 movie based on the famed social psychologist X.

In 1961, X conducted a series of radical behaviour experiments that tested ordinary humans willingness to obey authority.


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Audience As per various reports on the Internet, she is Neeru Deshpande from Nagpur. As per the reports, the picture was clicked when she was 4 years 3 months old.

Another source – the Wikipedia page (before it was updated) came up with the name „Gunjan Gundaniya‟.

Finally, Mayank Shah, Group Product Manager at this company put all the folklore to rest and revealed that it was actually an illustration by an Everest creative back in the 60s.

Identify.

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Connect Round

Rules

5 Questions (Clockwise – Infinite Bounce)



Points for the theme as mentioned in the slide.

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The Coca-Cola bottles (with a yellow cap) are different from the normal Coca-Cola bottles.

These are sweetened with sugar instead of with corn syrup as is usually the case.

What‟s the reason behind this?


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Kosher for Passover

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Terminal 3, also known by the trademarked name Worldport, was an iconic airport terminal built by Pan Am in 1960 at John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens, New York, United States. It was distinguished by its elliptical, four-acre roof, suspended far from the outside columns of the terminal below by 32 sets of steel posts and cables.

What problem did this design of the terminal propose to solve?


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To allow passengers to board and disembark without getting wet by parking the nose of the aircraft under the overhang

Theme (+20/-10)

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Bushnell and Dabney originally named their firm Syzygy Engineering. When they went to incorporate their firm, they found that Syzygy (an astronomical term) already existed in California.

The new name was chosen from the game Go. Bushnell wrote down several words from the game Go, eventually choosing _______, a term that in the context of the game means a state where a stone or group of stones is imminently in danger of being taken by one's opponent.


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The X logo, the Innovation Ring, was designed by Landor Associates.

One source inside X says that the logo is actually a Zen Buddhist symbol for "eternal truth", the Enso, turned 90 degrees and modified. Another source says it represents the mythic ouroboros, a snake holding its tail in its mouth. X‟s logo also has been said to represent constant re-creating and re-thinking. Carly Fiorina picked the logo because her mother was a painter and she rejected the sterile geometric logos of most high tech companies. A Dilbert comic strip also mocked this logo.

What‟s X?


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The iconic three-note X chimes came about after several years of development. It consists of a succession of three distinct pitches: G, E and C, sounded in that order. The chimes were the first ever audio trademark to be accepted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Contrary to widespread belief, the "G-E-C" sequence is not a reference to the General Electric Company, which did not acquire X until 1986.

A variant sequence with an additional note, G-E'-C'-G, known as "the fourth chime", was used during significant events of extreme urgency (including during World War II, especially in the wake of the December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor; on D-Day and during disasters).

What‟s X?


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Blade Runner Curse

Oreo 100 Year Anniversary Round

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Q.12 X is a big fan of the Lord of the Rings and has at least 5 companies named after things/places found in the books. 4 of them are Rivendell One LLC, Lembas LLC, Valar Ventures and Mithril Capital Management. The fifth and probably the most well known is Y.

Y is a private American software and services company, specializing in data analysis. The products of Y are called Gotham and Metropolis. Logo of Y alongside.

X and Y please

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Palantir and Peter Thiel

Q.13 This company was founded in 1890 as A.G. Thompson Pty Ltd by Alfred Grace Thompson, a migrant harness and saddle maker who turned to manufacturing sports equipment when his livelihood was threatened by the advent of the motor car. It produces a range of equipment from Kahuna, Bubble II, Verve, Instict, Cadejo, Onyx and Plasma to Diablo, Genesis, Sword, Ice, Beast and CCX.

It also manufactures hockey sticks and equipment which are used by many top international players. Flagship stick models include the Phoenix L-Bow and the Dragon M-Bow stick. Its Hockey balls have been used exclusively in every Olympic Games since 1956 and the World Cup since 1984.

Identify this company

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Q.14 Interviewer: Do you actually read _________?

I studied it in school but I was really not into it. He's incredible and I get it. Growing up, I was like, 'Oh, no.' I can't tell you anything new about ______ _________. I don't know him. I read a lot of biographies on him, and I can definitely feel that we're from the same family.

This is what she had to say when asked about ______ _________, her great-grandfather. She will be the first of her kind. However, thanks to her mother, she will not be the first from her family.

Who is she and what is being talked about?

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Dree Hemingway

Great-Granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway, and Playboy's first non-full-frontal model.

Her mother, Mariel Hemingway, appeared in the April 1982 issue of Playboy.

Q.15 This is a parody (one among many!) of a TIME magazine cover which was released on August 17, 2015. Identify the person/his invention.


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Q.16 The Mercury Theatre on the Air was a radio series of live radio dramas created by X. The 17th episode of the series, The War of the Worlds, became famous for allegedly causing mass panic. As a direct result of the front-page headlines X generated with his production, Y signed on as sponsor. This sponsored continuation of The Mercury Theatre on the Air was called The Y Playhouse which ran for two years and made its last broadcast in March 1940.

Identify X and Y.

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X – Orson Welles

Y – The Campbell Soup Company (Campbell's)

Q.17 He was a popular spokesperson from the 1960s to the early 2000s. He started with White Owl cigars, and later endorsed Jell-O pudding, Coca-Cola, Texas Instruments, E. F. Hutton & Co., Kodak, etc.

The Marketing Arm, a unit of Omnicom Group that ranks perceptions of celebrities based on online polls, said new survey results show that X, once the third-most trusted celebrity in its database, now ranks at no. 2,615 and it‟s safe to say he‟ll never be a trusted spokesperson again.

Identify.

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Q.18 “We get this question a lot. Why is your logo an ________? It‟s a really simple concept. There is a common saying associated with _______. That was the sort of incredible spark of an idea that we had. It focuses on the core idea.

However, there were some reservations about the initial logo design. It seemed quite political. The logo with three stars is the logo for Y. And then we decided to change the design and have a more obvious color surrounding the idea.”

-Gabe Campodonico and Andrew Sinkov (both working at X) discussing the X logo

Identify X and Y

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X-Evernote Y- Republican Party

Q.19 The X effect is the phenomenon whereby higher expectations lead to an increase in performance. The effect is named after the Greek myth of X, a sculptor who fell in love with a statue he had carved.

A corollary of the X effect is the Y effect, in which low expectations lead to a decrease in performance. The effect is named after the Y, a clay creature that was given life by Rabbi Loew of Prague in Jewish mythology. According to the legend, the Y was originally created to protect the Jews of Prague; however, over time, the Y grew more and more corrupt to the point of spiraling violently out of control and had to be destroyed.

The effect was named after the Y legend in 1982 by Babad, Inbar, and Rosenthal because it “represents the concerns of social scientists and educators, which are focused on the negative effects of self-fulfilling prophecies”.

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X - Pygmalion Effect

Y - Golem Effect

Q.20 The project for the dramatic reinvention of X was kept top secret and referred to simply as „Project Dawn‟ by the company.

In a feature on Project Dawn, TIME‟s Eliana Dockterman explains that Y‟s feminist backstory from the film and her recognizability as a character make her partially exempt from the criticism that‟s been leveled at X for 57 years.

Identify X and Y.

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X – Barbie (Mattel)

Y – Elsa (Hasbro)

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This one of a kind McDonald‟s is located in Lindvallen, Sweden. What‟s so special about it?


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A groovy rap video was released by the NGO Jhatkaa.org in July 2015. Written by Chennai-born rapper Sofia Ashraf and set to Nicki Minaj's “Anaconda,” this video takes an undisguised jab at X for its failure to clean up mercury contamination or compensate workers affected by its thermometer factory in Y.

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X – Unilever

Y - Kodaikanal

Q.21 There were seven and not one as is believed. The first was Slats from 1917 to 1928. Jackie, born in 1915, was the second. Among the others were Telly, Coffee, Tanner and George.

The sound of Jackie was recorded separately and then married to a film of Jackie, with Jackie's head in a frame to give a black surround.

The first time the sound was used was in the movie „White Shadows in the South Seas’. Also, it is Jackie who is seen at the beginning of The Wizard of Oz (1939).

What are we talking about?

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Q.22 In 2016, _________ released a two-part short films series titled An Intimate Conversation with _________ ______________. In the films, she is seen running through leaves and meditating in her East Coast home.

In Nature, she describes her home and family, and the deep connection she has with the sights and smells of the earth; In Fragrance, she continues her story, discussing the power of scent as it relates to memory.

Identify both parts.

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Chanel and Gisele Bündchen

Q.23 XScript is a programming language based on Python but inspired by X. To code in XScript is to write in malformed sentences consisting of only pre-approved words.

Some features of Xscript:

• No floating point numbers, only integers

• All numbers must be strictly greater than 1 million. The small stuff is inconsequential to us

• There are no import statements allowed. All code has to be home-grown

• In its raw form, Xscript is not compatible with Windows, because X isn't the type of guy to believe in PC

• The language is completely case insensitive

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No floating point numbers, only integers. America never does anything halfway.

All numbers must be strictly greater than 1 million. The small stuff is inconsequential to us.

There are no import statements allowed. All code has to be home-grown and American made.

Instead of True and False, we have fact and lie.

All programs must end with America is great.

In its raw form, TrumpScript is not compatible with Windows, because Trump isn‟t the type of guy to believe in PC.

The language is completely case insensitive.

When Fanta launched this ad in the Middle East in 2013, they claimed it was the world‟s first _____ advertisement.

However, this was not true as Volkswagen had created a similar ad in 2011 and had placed it in Auto Trader magazine.

What were Fanta claiming to be the pioneers of?

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1st Edible advertisement

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The National Toy Hall of Fame is an American hall of fame that recognizes

the contributions of toys and games that have sustained their popularity for

many years. Criteria for induction include: icon status, longevity, discovery

and innovation.

List of original inductees (1998-99): Class of 2000:

1. Barbie 1. Bicycle

2. Crayola 2. Jacks

3. Erector Set 3. Jump rope

4. X 4. Y

5. Frisbee

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X was featured in the original Toy Story, in a scene where one performs a quick draw duel with Woody. This short 12 second feature was enough to give a significant sales boost, requiring the production line to work overtime to meet demand.

Y is also known for his role in the Toy Story franchise voiced by Don Rickles. Y has also appeared in commercials for other brands. An example is an ad for Lay's Chips where Mr. Y comes home to see Mrs. Y eating them although she's a ______. At the end Mr. Y joins in and tells her to keep it their "little secret".


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X – Etch-a-sketch Y – Mr. Potato Head

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This was introduced in 1910 by the company Peek Frean‟s, of Bermondsey, London.

The original name was Creola. The new name was taken from a European royal house of French origin.

Even though the product is made by many different companies, it is identical with the same imprinted font and the same pattern.

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