All questions of the biz and tech quiz conducted by Mind Ripple as part of FLARE 2012 held at PDPU

1. MAGNATE
THE BIZ AND TECH
QUIZ
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2. Content by
Anmol Garg
Rohan Desai

3. Prelims
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4. Rules
• 20 questions in the prelims
• Questions 15-20 are starred and would be used in case of a tie
• 6 teams would qualify for the finals
• Quizmaster’s discretion would be final.
• Use of mobile phones and internet (Googling etc.) during the
prelims is strictly prohibited and will lead to disqualification.
• Participants are expected to quiz in the spirit of quizzing
• Audience is requested not to litter the venue
• No food/drinks are allowed inside the venue
• Smoking and consumption of Alcohol/Tobacco/Illegal Drugs is
strictly prohibited in the campus/auditorium/canteen/buses
• ALL THE BEST TO EVERYONE!
• Happy Quizzing!
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5. Prelims
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6. 1. X is synonymous with oil rigs and refineries
and primarily acts as a safety device. This
word is also associated with an acrobatic
dance move, a Canadian fashion magazine
and as an aerial countermeasure against heat
seeking missiles. Id X.
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8. 2. This brand is owned by Pioma Industries
based in Ahmedabad. It launched an aerated
fruit drink Oranjolt in 2000 which failed due to
the fact that it had to be refrigerated at all
times. Identify this dominant brand.
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10. 3. The total volume of plastics, elastomers and rubbers
produced from these catalysts represents the largest volume
commodity chemicals in the world. These catalysts use
complexes of Ti or Zn or Hf and are employed to polymerize
terminal -1-alkenes.Id the catalyst
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12. 4. Which shower gel is sold using the
slogan "The original. If your
grandfather hadn't worn it, you
wouldn't exist."?
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14. 5. Due to X’s work, X’s papers dating from the fag end
of the 19 th century are considered too dangerous to
handle. They have to be kept in lead lined boxes, and
can only be handled using protective clothing. Id X.
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16. 6. Which famous company's name is
derived from the latin word for
sound and a 1950s American slang
for young boys?
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20. 8. Which company’s original name was Swallow
Sidecar Company and its name was changed after
WW II to avoid any unfavourable connotations of
the SS initials?
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22. 9. Taken from Kautilya’s Arthashashtra, which
Indian Governement agency’s motto in
Sanskrit reads “Kosha Moolo Dandaha”?
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26. 11. This was the first inexpensive industrial
process to make steel from molten pig iron
and the key principle involved the removal
of impurities by oxidation with air being
blown through the molten iron. Id this
process
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28. 12. What is the name given to the
state of matter in which matter
behaves like a fluid without viscosity
and having an extremely high thermal
conductivity?
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29. Superfluid
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30. 13. In banking parlance, expand CRR
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31. Cash Reserve Ratio
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32. 14.Logo of which company?
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34. 15. Due to the wartime needs of copper for
ammunition and the Manhattan Project, X was
made in zinc coated steel to reduce the dependence
on copper. This however resulted in problems of
rusting as the galvanisation process wasn’t efficient.
After a public outcry X was made from salvaged
shell casings. What is X?
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36. 16. I made my first public appearance in 2002
when I rang the bell to open trade sessions in
NYSE. I toured USA and Canada in 2003-2005 to
encourage students to study science. I conducted
the Detroit Symphony Orchestra to support the
performing arts and appeared as a guest on the
British Quiz Show QI in 2011. Who am I?
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38. 17. What name is given to the ‘study of
mathematical models of conflict and
cooperation between intelligent rational
decision-makers’?
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39. GAME THEORY
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40. 18. He was the first Chairman of SBI and his nephew
was the father of India’s White Revolution. On the
other hand his son was the Founder Director of IIM
Ahmedabad. Identify this economist who also served
in independent India’s first Cabinet.
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42. 19. X began as an Ohio partnership formed by Y, his brother
William, Henry Flagler, chemist Samuel Andrews, silent partner
Stephen V Harkness, and Oliver Burr Jennings. By 1911, with public
outcry at a climax, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled
that X must be dissolved under the Sherman Antitrust Act and split
into 34 companies. Two of these companies evolved into Exxon,
and Socony which eventually became Mobil, Sohio and many
more. Id X and Y
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43. X- Standard Oil, Y- John D Rockefeller
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44. 20. Which word derived from a Latin word meaning
great person nowadays used in a different context
was specifically applied to the members of the Upper
House in the Apostolic Kingdom of Hungary ?
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45. MAGNATE
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46. MAGNATE
THE BIZ AND TECH
QUIZ
ROUND 1
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47. RULES
• 6 questions based on logos and advertisements.
• Teams have to write down the answer on the sheet of paper
that they are provided with.
• Teams will exchange answer sheets at the end of the round
• +5 for every correct answer. No negative marking.
• Audience is requested to be patient enough to wait for their
turn
• Quizmaster’s decision is final

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54. ANSWERS

61. MAGNATE
THE BIZ AND TECH
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63. Rules
• Six questions on infinite bounce
• +10 for every right answer
• Audience is requested to be patient enough to
wait for the audience question.
• Quizmaster’s discretion is final
• Brickbats/Bouquets for the quizmasters’ will
be welcome after the quiz
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64. 1. Which major brand came into
existence due to the creation of a
product in 1920 by Earle Dickson for
his wife who frequently cut and
burned herself during cooking?
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67. 2. Because X's aspirin was sold
through pharmacists and doctors
only, and the company could not put
its own packaging on the drug, the X
cross was imprinted on the actual
tablets, so that customers would
associate X with its aspirin. Id X
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70. 3. This allotrope of carbon consists of one atom -
thick planar sheets of sp2-bonded carbon atoms that
are densely packed in a honeycomb crystal lattice.
The 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for
groundbreaking research in this allotrope and its
potential applications include room temperature
distillation of ethanol for fuel purposes and single
molecule gas detection. Id this potential future
material
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72. Graphene
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73. 4. X is produced by Mohan Meakin, based in Mohan
Nagar, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, available in
allparts of India.There is no advertising whatsoever
for the brand; its popularity depends on word of
mouth and loyalty of customers. X is the third
largest selling spirit of its kind in the world. X has
been the biggest Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL)
brand for many years.
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76. 5. The immediate predecessors of it
were “Optimum Coding in the Frequency
Domain” (OCF), and Perceptual
Transform Coding (PXFM). This format
was made at the Fraunhofer Society.
Which format?
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79. 6. X was started by Sir Thomas
Sutherland in 1865 and is currently
headquartered at 8 Canada Square in
London and its logo is simply known as
The Hexagon. Id X
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82. 7. Now controlled by the group Torreal,
X was launched in India in 1989 and
enjoys over 25 per cent of market share
in its segment. Kate Moss’s first ad
campaign was for X and the name X was
chosen by the founders, so that it could
be written without much trouble. ID X.
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85. MAGNATE
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ROUND 3
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86. CONNECT

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90. 2

92. Major acquisitions by

93. 3

95. Trademark turned generic
names developed by

96. 4

98. Ponzi scheme

99. 5

101. Cadillac

102. 6.

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108. MAGNATE
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ROUND 4
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109. ROUND 4
Infinite Bounce
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110. 1. This brand sponsored the film Back to the Future Part II
and offered a free pair of futuristic sunglasses known as
‘Solar Shades’ with its products. It marketed its products in
the game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II- The Arcade Game
in one of the first examples of product placement in a video
game console. Some of the most famous celebrities who
have appeared on its commercials include Mikhail
Gorbachev, Mohammad Ali, Ringo Starr and Damon Hill
amongst others. Identify this very famous brand which was
started by brothers Dan and Frank Carney in 1958.
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113. 2. This project’s code name was chosen for 2
reasons – as a tribute to Brazil by the Brazilian
born Alex Kipman and because the Company
believed that it marks the birth of the next
generation of home entertainment. Give the
code name or the name of the revolutionary
product which holds a Guinness Record
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116. 3. X was started in Malden, Massachusetts in February 1908.
The company's main turning point came in 1917 when the X
introduced a special kind of shoe. Then in 1921, a basketball
player named Y walked into a X store complaining of sore
feet. X gave him a job. He worked as a salesman and
ambassador, promoting the shoes around the United States,
and in 1923 his signature was added to one of the most
recognizable patch of the company. He continued this work
until shortly before his death in 1969.Id X and Y.
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119. 4. X has shops in 11 Indian cities and also in Cairo,
the capital of Egypt.
Early in the 20th century, two Italian brothers of the
X family ran a catering service in Mumbai's Fort
precinct, one which was popular with the city's
Europeans at the time. In the late 1960s, X Catering
was bought up by the Khorakiwala family, and
became X Foods Limited. Identify X
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122. 5. Which technology known as
additive manufacturing uses the
selective laser sintering and fused
deposition modelling and has/will
found/find major application in CAD,
pathology, healthcare, archaeology
etc?
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125. 6. This person is the creator of the two player
board game Duidoku and is the Editor of Social
Science and Welfare. He is a recipient of the
Mahalanobis Memorial Medal and has credited
with crafting The Traveler’s dilemma. Id this
economist.
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128. 7. Sales of X were poor until NASA used it on
John Glenn’s Mercury flight and the subsequent
Gemini missions. It was originally formulated by
General Foods Corporation food scientist
William A Mitchell. Id X, now owned by Kraft
Foods.
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131. LONG
CONNECT
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132. RULES
• Last round of the quiz!!!!
• 6 questions in the round.
• Teams have to write down the individual answers
as well as the connect.
• +5 for every correct answer.
• Points for the connect will be indicated on the
slide of the respective question.
• Answer sheet to be exchanged at the end of the
round.
• Quizmaster’s decision is final.
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133. +60/-20
1. What is the name given to the
section of a wave that rises above an
undisturbed position?
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134. +50/-15
2. Which brand released a controversial series
of ads which depicted caricatures of George
Bush and Hitler as stains, which users could
transform into more benign characters like
Mahatma Gandhi and Charlie Chaplin by
spraying them with _____ liquid?
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135. +40/-10
3. The Lawson Criterion published
by John D Lawson in 1957 defines
the conditions needed for ignition in
which process?
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136. +30/-5
4. This brand manufactures NyQuil and DayQuil and
its name was changed in German speaking countries
to avoid a sexual connotation that the original name
would carry. It was marketed with the tagline "The
only thing more powerful than a mother's touch." Id
this brand
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5.
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138. +10
6. This brand’s marketing campaign
was unique in the sense that it never
advertised itself as a moisturizer or
beauty fluid and its advertisements
in Readers Digest were in the form of
editorials. Id this brand which was
started in South Africa by an ex
Unilever chemist
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139. ANSWERS
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140. • 1. Crest
• 2. Ariel
• 3. Nuclear fusion
• 4. Vicks
• 5. Head and Shoulders graph
• 6. Olay
• Connect- Brands of Procter and Gamble
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