Freshers Biz-Tech Quiz

The Fresher's Biz-Tech quiz conducted by Aditya Garg and Avijit Kalra on 11 August 2017.

1. Freshers’ Biz-Tech Quiz By: Avijit Kalra and Aditya Garg

2. Rules Quiz Master is God There are 30 questions in the quiz The quiz will be pounce/bounce type: Pounce(+20/-10), Bounce(+10/0) Enjoy!!

3. 1. What do these companies have in common? Houzz Kaspersky Wynn Resorts Cisco VMWare

4. They were founded by couples

5. 2.X began as a response to disaster. Japan's devastating Tōhoku earthquake in March 2011 damaged telecommunications infrastructure nationwide, obliging employees at NHN Japan, a unit of Korea's NHN Corp, to rely on Internet-based resources to communicate. The company's engineers developed X to facilitate this, and the company released their app for public use in June 2011. Identify X.

6. LINE

7. 3. X was founded in 1951, after the reorganisation of Geophysical Service Incorporated, which manufactured equipment for the seismic industry. X also invented the world’s first silicon transistor. Currently, it is the world’s largest maker of analog technology components. Identify X.

8. X is Texas Instruments

9. 4. .--.-. (dot-dash-dash-dot-dash-dot) was added to the Morse code list in 2004, and it was the first addition since World War I. It was also the last since. What does it represent?

10. The ‘@’ sign

11. 5. It was inaugurated in the 20th century. The inauguration was to take place by the activation of floodlights by shortwave radio inventor Guglielmo Marconi, stationed thousands of miles away in . However, the weather conditions were not good, and the signal was dependent on this factor, so ultimately the floodlights were activated on-site. What is being talked about here?

12. Christ the Redeemer

13. 6. Twelve Against the Gods, by William Bolitho, which features biographies of 12 historical figures, from Alexander the Great to Woodrow Wilson was listed at $6 but the price shot up to $99.99 in a matter of hours before the stock was sold out. Later, the English language version of the book was sold out on AbeBooks, Alibris and Barnes & Noble. Why?

14. Elon Musk recommended the book on Twitter

15. 7. The X is a parasitoid xenomorph; its only purpose is to make contact with the host's mouth, by . Upon making contact, the X administers a cynose-based paralytic in order to render the host unconscious. During a successful attachment, the X will insert a proboscis down the host's throat, supplying it with oxygen while simultaneously . Attempts to remove X generally prove fatal, as the parasitoid will respond by tightening its tail around the host's neck, and its prevents it from being cut away. In addition, its grip on the host is strong enough to tear the host's face off if it is forcibly removed. In mid-2014, a product Y started drawing comparisons with X after Y started supporting something which was related to X in some way. ID X and Y.

16. X- Facehugger Y-Oculus Rift(started supporting the game Alien: Isolation)

17. 8. What are the present names of these companies?(2 points each) Confinity Jerry’s Guide to the World Wide Web BackRub Marufuku Company Blue Ribbon Sports

18. PayPal Yahoo Google Nintendo Nike

19. 9. This website was blocked in Turkey early 2014 after a user named “haramzade-ler” (“bastards” in Turkish) uploaded secretly-recorded phone calls between the Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his associates. The contents of the phone calls - which shed light on corruption - caused outrage in the country and was key to large-scale protests. What website?

20. SoundCloud

21. 10. X is now on offer at the Narita International Airport in Japan. It has been provided by NTT Docomo, Japan’s largest mobile operator. It also bears messages welcoming visitors from overseas, and offering information on how to connect to Docomo's WiFi service. Docomo also published a light-hearted video demonstrating how to use X - along with other information to help visitors get to grips with the hi-tech they are likely to encounter in Japan. What is X ?

22. Toilet paper for cleaning smartphones (after people use them in the toilet)

23. 11. Identify the companies associated with these (old) logos. 1. 2. 3.

24. Xerox Yamaha Firefox

25. 12. X was founded as a neural network research company in 1986 by Kevin J. Kinsella, Gary Lynch, Lauren Yazolino, Federico Faggin (co-inventor of the microprocessor) and Carver Mead (VLSI pioneer). The company began to apply semiconductor hardware design techniques to a computing technology known as neural networks. Current customers of X include Acer, Amazon, Asus, Dell, Google, HP, HTC, Lenovo, LG, Microsoft, Nokia, Samsung, Sony, Sony Ericsson, Huawei, ZTE, BlackBerry and Toshiba. There is a very high probability that you use one of X’s products. Identify X.

26. Synaptics

27. 13. The screenshots below are from the the safety video of an airline titled “The Most Epic Safety Video Ever Made”. Identify the airline.

28. Air New Zealand

29. 14. In the 20th century, X's ambition to combine agriculture with industry resulted in large-scale soybean experimentation. X planted thousands of acres of the legume, which chemists used to create useful products including paints and plastics. X even commissioned a suit made with soybean protein fibers, which he modeled for this photograph taken on July 30, 1941 --X's 78th birthday. Who is X?

30. X is Henry Ford

31. 15. X is a Malaysian low cost airline headquartered near Kuala Lumpur. It is the largest airline in Malaysia by fleet size and destinations. X operates scheduled domestic and international flights to more than 165 destinations spanning 25 countries. X’s Indian subsidiary operates out of Chennai. X’s namesake(a different airline, operating out of Taiwan) was an affiliate of the Pacific Corporation.It was a holding company that Z used in order to control several aviation front companies , including Southern Air Transport, Intermountain Airlines and Air America.The Pacific Corporation dissolved in 1979 after selling its assets.X’s namesake is the only surviving airline among all other affiliates of the Pacific Corporation. Also, it is no longer associated with the Pacific Corporation or Z. Identify X and Z.

32. Hint: Z is a very “intelligent” organisation.

33. X is AirAsia Z is the CIA

34. 16. X originated with a Usenet posting by British computer programmer Col Needham entitled "Those Eyes", about actresses with beautiful eyes. Later in 1993 it moved onto the World Wide Web, with the database residing on the servers of the computer science department of Cardiff University in Wales. In 1998, Jeff Bezos, founder, owner and CEO of Amazon.com, struck a deal with Needham and other principal shareholders to buy X outright for approximately $55 million. Identify X.

35. IMDb

36. 17. This NASA project has been designed to leverage the advancing trends of additive manufacturing (AM) and in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) to enable asteroid rendezvous missions in which a set of technically simple robotic processes convert asteroid elements into very basic versions of spacecraft subsystems (GNC, Propulsion, Avionics). Upon completion, the asteroid will be a programmed mechanical automata carrying out a given mission objective; such as relocation to an Earth-Moon libration point for human rendezvous. Coincidentally, the acronym for this project is an integral part of Hindu mythology. What is the name of this project (acronym will also do)?

37. Project RAMA ( Reconstituting Asteroids into Mechanical Automata )

38. 18. X's founder was born in Poland in 1912 to Jewish parents, who later emigrated to the United States.He invented the "Danish-sounding" "X" as a tribute to Denmark' s exemplary treatment of its Jews during the Second World War,and included an outline map of Denmark on early labels. The name is not Danish, nor did the name have any meaning in any language before its creation.He felt that Denmark was known for its products and had a positive image in the United States.X now has franchises throughout the United States and many other countries around the world including the United Kingdom, India, China, Lebanon and Brazil. Identify X.

39. X is Häagen-Dazs Ice Cream

40. 19. The Principality of Sealand is an unrecognised micronation that claims Roughs Tower, an offshore platform located in the North Sea approximately 12 kilometres off the coast of Suffolk, England, as its territory. Roughs Tower is a disused Maunsell Sea Fort, originally called HM Fort Roughs, built as an anti-aircraft defensive gun platform by the British during World War II. A few years ago this island was the subject of a takeover bid, which didn't go through because of its controversial nature. Who was going to take over Sealand?

41. The Pirate Bay They wanted to create a nation without copyright laws

42. 20. X is the name of many things. From the name of a statue at the Herbert Hoover National Historic Site to a song by Bob Dylan, to an Operating System, to a lunar crater as well as the name of an asteroid, to the name of a part of the river Thames in England, as well as the name of a car by Toyota ; all are named X. However, X is a pretty controversial name nowadays due to obvious reasons. Identify X.

43. ISIS

44. 21. A man dressed as a construction worker took a sledgehammer and a pickaxe to smash Donald J. Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2016, smashing the sidewalk symbol and attempting to remove it.The star has since been repaired. Why does Trump have a star on the walk of fame? Also, what is the name/business world connection of the man who vandalized the star?

45. The star is for Trump being the producer of Miss Universe. The vandal was James Lambert Otis, heir to the Otis elevator company.

46. 22. Though it is not known how it originated, it was popularised by Dennis Fong, the first recognized professional gamer. Fong has claimed how the configuration of use were random, depended on the participant. Having found the right recipe, he claimed how his skills and efficiency improved greatly, after making the switch to this pattern and felt that he never actually faced a problem after that. Experimenting, he claims “I am not going to take credit for the creation of this, I stumbled across it, and felt comfortable with it, and I will popularise it among my community”. Soon so popular, this actually became a standard configuration to the future of this community, and has actually become, not only a standard for this community but for every computer user in order to increase their efficiency. What?

47. Using the WASD keys

48. 23. X is a global brand and has more that 100 variants worldwide. X originated as a result of difficulties importing into Nazi Germany during World War II due to a trade embargo. To circumvent this, Max Keith, the head of the German division of the company during the war, decided to create a new product for the German market, using only ingredients available in Germany at the time, including whey and apple pomace – the "leftovers of leftovers" , as Keith later recalled. The name was the result of a brief brainstorming session, which started with Keith's exhorting his team to "use their imagination" (fantasie in German), to which one of his salesmen, Joe Knipp, immediately retorted "X!”. Thus X was named. Identify X.

49. Fanta

50. 24. John Moreno, a former employee of X has explained : “About a dozen years ago, we had some discussions at X about the placement of Y. So we asked, why is the Y inverted when the products are in use ”. However, the head of X explained “why was inverted from the user’s perspective an issue? Because our group noticed that how the user made a constant mistake in using the product, and we believed on providing the best possible user experience”. But years later, the decision was reversed, and it was concluded that the mistake was a self correcting problem that only lasts, for a few seconds, however viewing it inverted is a problem that lasts indefinitely. Give funda.

51. The inverted Apple logo on the MacBook

52. 25. In a/an X, an organization compels individuals who wish to join to make a payment. In exchange, the organization promises its new members a share of the money taken from every additional member that they recruit. The directors of the organization also receive a share of these payments. For the directors, it is potentially lucrative—whether or not they do any work, the organization's membership has a strong incentive to continue recruiting and funneling money. However, X is often confused with another term Y. The fact is that there are some differences between X and Y.In a/an Y, the orchestrator acts as a "hub" for the victims, interacting with all of them directly. In a/an X, those who recruit additional participants benefit directly.Also, a/an Y claims to rely on some esoteric investment approach and often attracts well-to-do investors, whereas Xs explicitly claim that new money will be the source of payout for the initial investments.A/An X typically collapses much faster because it requires exponential increases in participants to sustain it. By contrast,a/an Y can survive simply by persuading most existing participants to reinvest their money, with a relatively small number of new participants.

53. X - Pyramid Scheme Y- Ponzi Scheme

54. 26. Microsoft released Windows 95 with a massive joint ad-campaign with X showing off how their OS is great at multimedia. Ironically, because of the same campaign, customers saw X as a more desirable product -- it was still supported on Win 3.1/DOS and wasn’t actually better on the expensive Win 95. As a result, Win 95 sales plummeted to be only the 2nd most installed software in 1995. What was the top seller, X?

55. DOOM

56. 27. Product placement in anime is less common than regular television, but when it happens it seems even more jarring than its live action counterparts. Code Geass, an anime series, is set in an alternate earth, but it features a large amount of corporate product placement. Most frequently, the characters seem to be eating X products during almost every single meal, with the containers usually placed in prominent places. Which brand is X?

57. X - Pizza Hut

58. 28. In the summer of 1895, Tomáš X found himself facing financial difficulties. To overcome these serious setbacks, he decided to sew shoes from canvas instead of leather. This type of shoe became very popular and helped the company grow to 50 employees. In 1904 Tomáš introduced mechanised production techniques that allowed X to become one of the first mass producers of shoes in Europe. Identify X.

59. Bata

60. 29. X is a live streaming video platform owned by X Interactive, a subsidiary of Amazon.com.Introduced in June 2011, the site primarily focuses on video gaming, including playthroughs of video games, broadcasts of eSports competitions, creative content, and more recently, music broadcasts. Content on the site can either be viewed live or via video on demand. The popularity of X would eclipse that of its general-interest counterpart; in October 2013, the website had 45 million unique viewers, and by February 2014, it was considered the fourth largest source of peak Internet traffic in the United States. The site has also branched out into music-related streams and content. In 2015, X announced it had more than 1.5 million broadcasters and 100 million visitors per month. Identify X.

61. Twitch.tv

62. 30. X will launch two Netflix-like streaming services — one for sports and another for films and television shows — in one of the boldest moves by an entertainment company to address the changing media landscape. The stand-alone subscription services would appeal to younger audiences who are turning away from traditional media and flocking to Netflix and other digital platforms. The ESPN service, which would be available next year, is expected to feature 10,000 sporting events annually, among them Major League Baseball games. The X-branded film and TV offering, set to debut in 2019, would include original content developed by X. What is X?

63. The Walt Disney Co.

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