Yukti Yagna - U25 BizTech Quiz prelims, DriveBlaze 2024

This is the prelims question and answer set of Yukti Yagna - the U25 BizTech Quiz by Pragya - UEMK Quiz Club, in association with DriveBlaze 2024.

2. OUR QUIZ MASTERSOUR QUIZ MASTERS
Barshan BanerjeeBarshan Banerjee Indrojeet Nayek

3. RULESRULES
There will be 26 questions in the prelims round.
The answers are alphabetical, i.e. the answer to the first question starts
with A, while the answer to the last question ends with Z.
Each right answer has 1 mark. No negative for wrong answers. In the
case of part marking / two answers, there is 0.5+0.5 points for each part.
In case of part marking, at least one of the answers will start with the
concerned alphabet.
Questions A, I, M, S, T, U will be star questions, which will not carry any
extra questions but will be considered while breaking ties. In case of
further draw, we will do top drop.
The top 8 teams will qualify for finals

4. THE ULTIMATE RULE
THE ULTIMATE RULE
QM’s are ________.
BESHI BARABARI EKDOM NOY.....
In this blank, whatever you write, doesn’t matter.
We are the boss and that’s it.

5. IS EVERYONE READY?IS EVERYONE READY?

7. QUESTION A*QUESTION A*
This is the usage of a particular word from 1950-2022.
Identify the word.

8. QUESTION BQUESTION B
New Howrah Bakery Pvt. Ltd. is a business venture that started operations
in the year 1973. The most famous product of this venture is still around
and is sold at a cheap price in comparison to all of it’s competitors
regardless of 50 years of inflation.
What am I talking about?

9. QUESTION CQUESTION C
In 2007, ‘C’ Steel established its first manufacturing plant at
Kalyaneshwari, in the Paschim Bardhaman. Soon after, another
manufacturing unit was set up at Bihta, in the Patna.
They are famous for their collaboration with a game show where the
winner of the show’s finale gets a flat that is built with the product of
C steel. ID the company or the exact product

10. QUESTION DQUESTION D
‘D’ is a service provided by the Indian Ministry of Electronics and Information
Technology under its Digital India initiative. The beta version of the service was rolled
out in February 2015. As of December 2019, ‘D’ provides access to over 372 crore
authentic documents from 149 issuers. Amendments made to the Information
Technology Act, 2000 in February 2017, to make ‘D’ a complete package.
Users need to possess an Aadhaar number to use ‘D’. During registration, user
identity is verified using a one-time password (OTP) sent to the linked mobile number.
Identify ‘D’.

11. QUESTION EQUESTION E
Founded in May 1982 by former Apple employee Trip Hawkins, the company was a
pioneer of the early home computer game industry and promoted the designers and
programmers responsible for its games as "Software Artists". The company published
numerous games and some productivity software for personal computers as well.

When he incorporated the company, Hawkins originally chose ‘Amazin' Software’ as their
company name, but his other early employees of the company universally disliked the
name; as a result, the company changed its name to __ __ in November 1982. This
company is one of those companies for which, Redwood City is famous as their
headquarter.

12. QUESTION FQUESTION F
In computing, this is a network security system that monitors and controls incoming and
outgoing network traffic based on predetermined security rules. This technology typically
establishes a barrier between a trusted network and an untrusted network, such as the
Internet. Before it was used in real-life computing, the term appeared in John Badham's
1983 computer‑hacking movie WarGames, spoken by the bearded and bespectacled
programmer named Paul Richter, which possibly inspired its later use.
This technology was invented in 1989 by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and it was
called the DEC SEAL . Shortly after, Checkpoint Software Technologies and Cisco, these
two companies developed the technology further. John Mayes, a co-founder of Network
Translation, Inc. (NTI), is notable for creating the PIX (Private Internet Exchange), which was
one of the first hardware versions of this technology. Identify the technology.

13. QUESTION GQUESTION G
This Company was founded in 1977 by Gracias Saldanha as a generic drug and active
pharmaceutical ingredient manufacturer. He named the company after his two sons.
The company initially sold its products in India, Russia, and Africa. Identify the
company, we have given images of some of the company’s most famous products and
the logo.

14. QUESTION HQUESTION H
Identify these people/their Company.

15. QUESTION I*QUESTION I*
‘I’ is a satiric prize awarded annually since 1991 to celebrate ten
unusual or trivial achievements in scientific research. Its aim is to
"honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make
them think." It is parody of the most prestigious award in scientific
field.
‘I’ is a three letter word , first word is the abbreviation of the app
which is the reason our high screen time and the next two word is just
the name of the original prize.

16. QUESTION JQUESTION J
J’s ___ is a seasonal Bengali sweetmeat delicacy prepared from Nolen Gur, Kanakchur
khoi, Gawa Ghee, Elach, Poshto etc. This variety of the sweet originated in J of the
South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal. It is now a popular sweet, being produced in
Kolkata and elsewhere. J’s ___ was given a Geographical Indication tag in 2015 which
will enable the product to be protected from unauthorized uses and piracy. In 1920s two
friends Purna Chandra Ghosh and Nityagopal Sarkar started selling the sweet in local
weekly markets and it came to be known as Buchki's ___, which later came to be known
as J’s ___. In 1929 Buchki and Nitya set up their own sweet shop named Sri Krishna
Mistanna Bhandar in J, near J railway station (Still in operation).

17. QUESTION KQUESTION K
Identify the Company.

18. QUESTION LQUESTION L
‘L’ is a family of autoregressive large language models (LLMs) released by Meta AI
starting in February 2023. The latest version is ‘L 3.2’, released in July 2024. Model
weights for the first version of ‘L’ were made available to the research community
under a non-commercial license, and access was granted on a case-by-case basis.
Unauthorized copies of the model were shared via BitTorrent. In response, Meta AI
issued DMCA takedown requests against repositories sharing the link on GitHub. We
see this model in Whatsapp’s Meta AI Chatbot. You can get ‘L’ from the name of an
animal.

19. QUESTION M*QUESTION M*
Connect to a company, that made these buildings.

20. QUESTION NQUESTION N
Bell Laboratories is an American industrial research and development (R&D) company
credited with the development of radio astronomy, the transistor, the laser, the
photovoltaic cell, the charge-coupled device (CCD), information theory, the Unix
operating system, and the programming languages C, C++, SNOBOL, AWK, AMPL, and
others.
Initially AT&T Corporation owned this lab. In 1984 the Bell Systems was broken up, and
in 1996 it was renamed to Lucent Technologies, which was later in 2016, were acquired
by a very famous company, which now owns the Bell Labs as well.
Identify the company.

21. QUESTION OQUESTION O
These Organisations are
dedicated to expansion and
development of a particular
technology. What?

22. QUESTION PQUESTION P
Nawazuddin Siddiqui (Gangs of Wasseypur)
Allu Arjun (Pushpa)
Karishma Kapoor (Haseena Maan Jaayegi)
Satish Kaushik (Deewana Mastana)
Connect them to a technology (Non-Exhaustive).

23. QUESTION QQUESTION Q
Some facts about "q" are:
It is the flag bearer/ national Airline of Australia
It is the largest airline in terms of fleet size, international flights, and
destinations in Oceania.
It is the only airline in the world that flies to seven continents
It is the third oldest Airline in the world
It has sponsored Australia's cricket board,
National rugby Union, the national association football team, and the
Formula One Australian Grand Prix.

24. QUESTION RQUESTION R
‘R’ is a custom PC-building brand from Chennai that has been building custom PCs
for the last two decades.
‘R’ is a two-word name, the brand name is the same as that of a religious text. The
first word of the brand is what this business builds.

25. QUESTION S*QUESTION S*
‘S’ is a company, well known for its construction works. You can derive the name from
the founder and his son ‘P’. Whatever, ‘P’ was called “Phantom of Bombay House” for his
18.4% share in Tata Sons. P’s son, Late Cyrus Mistry, was the former chairman of Tata
Sons.
In 2016, this Group, in association with the National Centre for the Performing Arts (India),
co-produced ‘Mughal-e-Azam’, directed by Feroz Abbas Khan, and based on the 1960
Bollywood film ‘Mughal-e-Azam’.
Some of the constructions done by the company includes - Jawharlal Neheru Stadium,
Mumbai Central Railway Staion, Varanasi Smart City, The Imperial, CMC Vellore, IKEA
Bengaluru, Kartavya Path, Kolkata, Delhi, Pune, Nagpur Metro, Chenab Bridge, Atal
Tunnel, BITS Goa, RBI Building, SBI Building etc.

26. QUESTION T*QUESTION T*
‘T’ is a method of adding additional security to your account. The first
layer of ‘T’ is your usual password that is standard for any account. The
next layer of ‘T’ is a code retrieved from an app on your device. ‘T’ is
conceptually similar to a security token device that banks in some
countries require for online banking.
Identify ‘T’ that all of us use almost on a daily basis.

27. QUESTION U*QUESTION U*
‘U’ is a British multinational fast-moving consumer goods company founded on 2nd
September 1929, headquartered in London. It is the largest producer of soap in the
world, and its products are available in over 190 countries. Largest brands under this
company includes Dove, Knorr, Axe, Ben & Jerry's, Hellmann's, Lifebuoy, Lux, Magnum,
Rexona, Sunlight, Sunsilk, Wall's etc. The Indian Version of the company faced many
controversies, such as - Kodaikanal Mercury Pollution Case, Fair & Lovely racism case,
Kumbh Mela ad case etc.
Identify the Company ‘U’.

28. ‘V’ is a form of computer graphics in which visual images are created directly from
geometric shapes defined on a Cartesian plane, such as points, lines, curves etc. ‘V’ is an
alternative to raster or bitmap graphics, with each having advantages and disadvantages
in specific situations. ‘V’ is now widely used, especially when a high degree of geometric
precision is required. Thus, it is the preferred model for domains such as engineering,
architecture, surveying, 3D rendering, and typography, but is entirely inappropriate for
applications such as photography and remote sensing, where raster is more effective
and efficient. Identify ‘V’.
QUESTION VQUESTION V

29. QUESTION WQUESTION W
Both Peach Aviation and Vanilla Jet are Low-Cost companies under
the umbrella of All Nippon Airways. On 01 March 2019, Vanilla Air went
on to be merged with Peach Aviation. The integration was seen as
Peach's move towards becoming a leading Low-Cost Carrier (LCC) in
Asia, aiming to enter the medium-haul market by 2020.
What sort of unique event “W” symbolized the union of Peach Aviation
and Vanilla Jet, both subsidiaries of All Nippon Airways?

30. QUESTION XQUESTION X
X is considered the first personal computer which was created in 1972.
Before X, computers could only be controlled by text commands, but X
was the first to have Graphical User Interface components such as
images, fonts, menus, and pointers.
X is a two-letter word, the first letter is something we forget is a brand
and the second word is the best-selling car model in the Indian market.

31. QUESTION YQUESTION Y
‘Y’ is an Indian online travel agency and travel search engine. It was founded by Dhruv
Shringi, Manish Amin and Sabina Chopra in August 2006. In September 2013, ‘Y’ suffered a
data breach of more than 5 million users records, exposing email and physical addresses,
dates of birth and phone numbers along with both PINs and passwords stored in plain text.
We have given the old logo of the company :

32. QUESTION ZQUESTION Z
‘Z’ is a United States–based digital payments network run by a private financial
services company owned by the banks Bank of America, Truist, Capital One,
JPMorgan Chase, etc. The ‘Z’ service enables individuals to electronically transfer
money from their bank account to another registered user's bank account (within
the United States) using a mobile device or the website of a participating banking
institution. The ‘Z’ was launched in June 2017, as the successor to the clearXchange
payment service. It has been criticized for being a platform that has facilitated online
financial fraud in the United States. In 2023, the Federal Trade Commission received
5.39 million complaints about fraud and identity theft, a 54% year-over-year increase
versus 2019.

33. Question Sesh hoye
geche, tai eta.....

34. QUESTION O / ExtraQUESTION O / Extra
‘O’ is the electronic or mechanical conversion of images of typed, handwritten or
printed text into machine-encoded text, whether from a scanned document, a photo of a
document, a scene photo. In 1914, Emanuel Goldberg developed a machine that read
characters and converted them into standard telegraph code. Concurrently, Edmund
Fournier d'Albe developed the Optophone, a handheld scanner that when moved across
a printed page, produced tones that corresponded to specific letters or characters.
What is the name of the technology ‘O’ ?

35. Answers Ahead...Answers Ahead...

36. Dekhai tahole ??Dekhai tahole ??
(answers..)

37. QUESTION A*QUESTION A*
This is the usage of a particular word from 1950-2022.
Identify the word.

38. QUESTION A*QUESTION A*
Artificial Intelligence

39. QUESTION BQUESTION B
New Howrah Bakery Pvt. Ltd. is a business venture that started operations
in the year 1973. The most famous product of this venture is still around
and is sold at a cheap price in comparison to all of it’s competitors
regardless of 50 years of inflation.
What am I talking about?

40. QUESTION BQUESTION B
Bapuji Cake

41. QUESTION CQUESTION C
In 2007, ‘C’ Steel established its first manufacturing plant at
Kalyaneshwari, in the Paschim Bardhaman. Soon after, another
manufacturing unit was set up at Bihta, in the Patna.
They are famous for their collaboration with a game show where the
winner of the show’s finale gets a flat that is built with the product of
C steel. ID the company or the exact product

42. QUESTION CQUESTION C
Captain TMT bar

43. QUESTION DQUESTION D
‘D’ is a service provided by the Indian Ministry of Electronics and Information
Technology under its Digital India initiative. The beta version of the service was rolled
out in February 2015. As of December 2019, ‘D’ provides access to over 372 crore
authentic documents from 149 issuers. Amendments made to the Information
Technology Act, 2000 in February 2017, to make ‘D’ a complete package.
Users need to possess an Aadhaar number to use ‘D’. During registration, user
identity is verified using a one-time password (OTP) sent to the linked mobile number.
Identify ‘D’.

44. QUESTION DQUESTION D

45. QUESTION EQUESTION E
Founded in May 1982 by former Apple employee Trip Hawkins, the company was a
pioneer of the early home computer game industry and promoted the designers and
programmers responsible for its games as "Software Artists". The company published
numerous games and some productivity software for personal computers as well.

When he incorporated the company, Hawkins originally chose ‘Amazin' Software’ as their
company name, but his other early employees of the company universally disliked the
name; as a result, the company changed its name to __ __ in November 1982. This
company is one of those companies for which, Redwood City is famous as their
headquarter.

46. QUESTION EQUESTION E
Electronic Arts

47. QUESTION FQUESTION F
In computing, this is a network security system that monitors and controls incoming and
outgoing network traffic based on predetermined security rules. This technology typically
establishes a barrier between a trusted network and an untrusted network, such as the
Internet. Before it was used in real-life computing, the term appeared in John Badham's
1983 computer‑hacking movie WarGames, spoken by the bearded and bespectacled
programmer named Paul Richter, which possibly inspired its later use.
This technology was invented in 1989 by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and it was
called the DEC SEAL . Shortly after, Checkpoint Software Technologies and Cisco, these
two companies developed the technology further. John Mayes, a co-founder of Network
Translation, Inc. (NTI), is notable for creating the PIX (Private Internet Exchange), which was
one of the first hardware versions of this technology. Identify the technology.

48. QUESTION FQUESTION F
Firewall

49. QUESTION GQUESTION G
This Company was founded in 1977 by Gracias Saldanha as a generic drug and active
pharmaceutical ingredient manufacturer. He named the company after his two sons.
The company initially sold its products in India, Russia, and Africa. Identify the
company, we have given images of some of the company’s most famous products and
the logo.

50. QUESTION GQUESTION G

51. QUESTION HQUESTION H
Identify these people/their Company.

52. QUESTION HQUESTION H
Hewlett-Packard

53. QUESTION I*QUESTION I*
‘I’ is a satiric prize awarded annually since 1991 to celebrate ten
unusual or trivial achievements in scientific research. Its aim is to
"honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make
them think." It is parody of the most prestigious award in scientific
field.
‘I’ is a three letter word , first word is the abbreviation of the app
which is the reason our high screen time and the next two word is just
the name of the original prize.

54. QUESTION I*QUESTION I*
Ig Nobel Prize

55. QUESTION JQUESTION J
J’s ___ is a seasonal Bengali sweetmeat delicacy prepared from Nolen Gur, Kanakchur
khoi, Gawa Ghee, Elach, Poshto etc. This variety of the sweet originated in J of the
South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal. It is now a popular sweet, being produced in
Kolkata and elsewhere. J’s ___ was given a Geographical Indication tag in 2015 which
will enable the product to be protected from unauthorized uses and piracy. In 1920s two
friends Purna Chandra Ghosh and Nityagopal Sarkar started selling the sweet in local
weekly markets and it came to be known as Buchki's ___, which later came to be known
as J’s ___. In 1929 Buchki and Nitya set up their own sweet shop named Sri Krishna
Mistanna Bhandar in J, near J railway station (Still in operation).

56. QUESTION JQUESTION J
Jaygnagar er Moa

57. QUESTION KQUESTION K
Identify the Company.

58. QUESTION KQUESTION K
KitKat

59. QUESTION LQUESTION L
‘L’ is a family of autoregressive large language models (LLMs) released by Meta AI
starting in February 2023. The latest version is ‘L 3.2’, released in July 2024. Model
weights for the first version of ‘L’ were made available to the research community
under a non-commercial license, and access was granted on a case-by-case basis.
Unauthorized copies of the model were shared via BitTorrent. In response, Meta AI
issued DMCA takedown requests against repositories sharing the link on GitHub. We
see this model in Whatsapp’s Meta AI Chatbot. You can get ‘L’ from the name of an
animal.

60. QUESTION LQUESTION L
Llama

61. QUESTION M*QUESTION M*
Connect to a company, that made these buildings.

62. QUESTION M*QUESTION M*

63. QUESTION NQUESTION N
Bell Laboratories is an American industrial research and development (R&D) company
credited with the development of radio astronomy, the transistor, the laser, the
photovoltaic cell, the charge-coupled device (CCD), information theory, the Unix
operating system, and the programming languages C, C++, SNOBOL, AWK, AMPL, and
others.
Initially AT&T Corporation owned this lab. In 1984 the Bell Systems was broken up, and
in 1996 it was renamed to Lucent Technologies, which was later in 2016, were acquired
by a very famous company, which now owns the Bell Labs as well.
Identify the company.

64. QUESTION NQUESTION N

65. QUESTION OQUESTION O
These Organisations are
dedicated to expansion and
development of a particular
technology. What?

66. QUESTION OQUESTION O
Open Source

67. QUESTION PQUESTION P
Nawazuddin Siddiqui (Gangs of Wasseypur)
Allu Arjun (Pushpa)
Karishma Kapoor (Haseena Maan Jaayegi)
Satish Kaushik (Deewana Mastana)
Connect them to a technology (Non-Exhaustive).

68. QUESTION PQUESTION P
They all used Pager in the movie.

69. QUESTION QQUESTION Q
Some facts about "q" are:
It is the flag bearer/ national Airline of Australia
It is the largest airline in terms of fleet size, international flights, and
destinations in Oceania.
It is the only airline in the world that flies to seven continents
It is the third oldest Airline in the world
It has sponsored Australia's cricket board,
National rugby Union, the national association football team, and the
Formula One Australian Grand Prix.

70. QUESTION QQUESTION Q

71. QUESTION RQUESTION R
‘R’ is a custom PC building brand from chennai which has been building custom PCs
for the last two decades.
‘R’ is a two word name, the brand name is the same as of a religious text. The first
word is what the brand builds and the second word is the group of old religious
texts.

72. QUESTION RQUESTION R
RIGVEDA

73. QUESTION S*QUESTION S*
‘S’ is a company, well known for its construction works. You can derive the name from
the founder and his son ‘P’. Whatever, ‘P’ was called “Phantom of Bombay House” for his
18.4% share in Tata Sons. P’s son, Late Cyrus Mistry, was the former chairman of Tata
Sons.
In 2016, this Group, in association with the National Centre for the Performing Arts (India),
co-produced ‘Mughal-e-Azam’, directed by Feroz Abbas Khan, and based on the 1960
Bollywood film ‘Mughal-e-Azam’.
Some of the constructions done by the company includes - Jawharlal Neheru Stadium,
Mumbai Central Railway Staion, Varanasi Smart City, The Imperial, CMC Vellore, IKEA
Bengaluru, Kartavya Path, Kolkata, Delhi, Pune, Nagpur Metro, Chenab Bridge, Atal
Tunnel, BITS Goa, RBI Building, SBI Building etc.

74. QUESTION S*QUESTION S*

75. QUESTION T*QUESTION T*
‘T’ is a method of adding additional security to your account. The first
layer of ‘T’ is your usual password that is standard for any account. The
next layer of ‘T’ is a code retrieved from an app on your device. ‘T’ is
conceptually similar to a security token device that banks in some
countries require for online banking.
Identify ‘T’ that all of us use almost on a daily basis.

76. QUESTION T*QUESTION T*
Two-Factor Authentication

77. QUESTION U*QUESTION U*
‘U’ is a British multinational fast-moving consumer goods company founded on 2nd
September 1929, headquartered in London. It is the largest producer of soap in the
world, and its products are available in over 190 countries. Largest brands under this
company includes Dove, Knorr, Axe, Ben & Jerry's, Hellmann's, Lifebuoy, Lux, Magnum,
Rexona, Sunlight, Sunsilk, Wall's etc. The Indian Version of the company faced many
controversies, such as - Kodaikanal Mercury Pollution Case, Fair & Lovely racism case,
Kumbh Mela ad case etc.
Identify the Company ‘U’.

78. QUESTION U*QUESTION U*

79. ‘V’ is a form of computer graphics in which visual images are created directly from
geometric shapes defined on a Cartesian plane, such as points, lines, curves etc. ‘V’ is an
alternative to raster or bitmap graphics, with each having advantages and disadvantages
in specific situations. ‘V’ is now widely used, especially when a high degree of geometric
precision is required. Thus, it is the preferred model for domains such as engineering,
architecture, surveying, 3D rendering, and typography, but is entirely inappropriate for
applications such as photography and remote sensing, where raster is more effective
and efficient. Identify ‘V’.
QUESTION VQUESTION V

80. Vector Graphics
QUESTION VQUESTION V

81. QUESTION WQUESTION W
Both Peach Aviation and Vanilla Jet are Low-Cost companies under
the umbrella of All Nippon Airways. On 01 March 2019, Vanilla Air went
on to be merged with Peach Aviation. The integration was seen as
Peach's move towards becoming a leading Low-Cost Carrier (LCC) in
Asia, aiming to enter the medium-haul market by 2020.
What sort of unique event “W” symbolized the union of Peach Aviation
and Vanilla Jet, both subsidiaries of All Nippon Airways?

82. QUESTION WQUESTION W
Wedding Ceremony

83. QUESTION XQUESTION X
X is considered the first personal computer which was created in 1972.
Before X, computers could only be controlled by text commands, but X
was the first to have Graphical User Interface components such as
images, fonts, menus, and pointers.
X is a two-letter word, the first letter is something we forget is a brand
and the second word is the best-selling car model in the Indian market.

84. QUESTION XQUESTION X
Xerox Alto

85. QUESTION YQUESTION Y
‘Y’ is an Indian online travel agency and travel search engine. It was founded by Dhruv
Shringi, Manish Amin and Sabina Chopra in August 2006. In September 2013, ‘Y’ suffered a
data breach of more than 5 million users records, exposing email and physical addresses,
dates of birth and phone numbers along with both PINs and passwords stored in plain text.
We have given the old logo of the company :

86. QUESTION YQUESTION Y

87. QUESTION ZQUESTION Z
‘Z’ is a United States–based digital payments network run by a private financial
services company owned by the banks Bank of America, Truist, Capital One,
JPMorgan Chase, etc. The ‘Z’ service enables individuals to electronically transfer
money from their bank account to another registered user's bank account (within
the United States) using a mobile device or the website of a participating banking
institution. The ‘Z’ was launched in June 2017, as the successor to the clearXchange
payment service. It has been criticized for being a platform that has facilitated online
financial fraud in the United States. In 2023, the Federal Trade Commission received
5.39 million complaints about fraud and identity theft, a 54% year-over-year increase
versus 2019.

88. QUESTION ZQUESTION Z