The Science, Business and Technology Quiz Finals

Ψ-Biz-Tech Finals
The Science, Business and
Technology Quiz

Rules
Rules
• Pounce: +10/-5
• Bounce: +10/0
• 8 questions

Q1
‘_______ Train’ is a method of travel theorized by mathematician Paul Cooper
in 1966, as the fastest method for intercontinental travel. The original theory
by Cooper said that the total time taken for travel would be 42 minutes
provided that surfaces were frictionless, but we now know it to be 38 minutes.
The journey can be divided into two exact halves of acceleration, followed by
similar deceleration. The same idea was proposed by Lewis Carroll in 1893 in
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, as a part of Fairyland in the said fantasy.
FITB.

Q2
On October 2015, a modified version of a Chevrolet Spark was designed by X.
This car can carry 80 ______, has a 140-degree Fahrenheit warmer than a fleet
of minivans. “We’re more than a _____ company, we’re a technology
company,” said Russell Weiner, president of X USA, pointing to its apps and
innovations. The company first approached startup Local Motors about the
idea, which attempted to crowdsource its design, taking suggestions from
35,000 people around the world. That led them to look for a fuel-efficient
hatchback that could feature a number of innovative ideas. Many people
suggested a side-opening, like a big window, for a relevant purpose.
Other than that, the X DXP car is the first of its kind. Why is it special? Also, ID
X.

ANSWER
Domino’s
First car designed by a pizza seller

Q3
“ After endless planning and meetings, we commenced project Isabella…In under a year, through
an aerial attack [by helicopter], we ended up wiping out 90 percent of the _____ on Isabela.
But to give an example of the nature of this business, its relatively easy to remove 90 percent
of a _____ population from an island. As they become rarer and rarer, they become harder to
detect. They become educated. So the _____ start hiding. You end up flying around in an
expensive helicopter not finding any____.
So the way we deal with that is an interesting technique called X. ____ are gregarious and like
being in groups. They’re herd animals. The technique we would use was you fire up the
helicopter, capture ____live, take them back to base camp, unload them, put a radio collar on
them, and then throw them back on the island. Instinctively, that X will go find other____. A
week, two weeks go by. You fire up the helicopter and…start tracking the X’s until you spot it
with other ____. And then everyone gets shot except the X. And then they do it again. Every
two weeks for a year ”
ID X and Put Funda?

ANSWER
X- Judas Goats
Funda : Galapagos Conservatory’s War against the feral goats

Q4
X is a 1982 video game developed by Atari Inc. It was a game based on one of
the most famous and popular movies of all time, and hence expected to sell
highly, but due to hasty development in 5 weeks, it ended up being a failure to
the level of the unfortunate end of the video game giant.
The gameplay is based on the player controlling the titular character to collect
Reese's Pieces, used to restore its energy or they can be saved for using later
at the end of every round, while they can also be used for other help such as
to help the said character call back home.
The game is divided into 6 environments, with each of them representing a
different settings from the film, and the antagonists include a scientist an FBI
agent who want to kidnap/rob the said character respectively.

Q5
There’s a special class of proteins found in the eyes of a few species of this class
of animals called cryptochromes, they play a major role in regulating the
circadian rhythms of the said animal’s body. One of these is CRY4, it is
different from the other cryptochromes such that, its concentration varies
with the period of the year, with an increased concentration during the time
that these species take part in a particular activity, annually. The picture
represents what these species see in different __________.
Which class of animals, what activity and what enables them to do the
same? (Picture on the next slide)

Q5
Well, we can't ever know what the world looks like through another
species' eyes, but we can take a very strong guess.

ANSWER
Birds, Migration
Funda : The birds SEE the magnetic fields

Q6
The Returning Soldier effect is a phenomenon seen as a result of soldiers that return
from war. Due to this phenomenon, a certain effect happens to most populations
around the world involved in the events shown. The most likely reason speculated
for this to happen is that most survivors are tall and that tall males have a higher
probability for exhibiting this particular effect. The graph shown above shows this
particular effect. Put funda on the effect or FITB in the graph.

ANSWER
A soldier returning from war is more likely to
father sons over daughters

Q7
"Because of carryover effects from driving, people here subconsciously usually
move to the right side when passing in a crowded aisleway, so I just have to
ask, do they do the opposite in the right-hand-drive countries?
Will there be traffic lights in the intersections, too? How about a police officer to
help direct traffic? Ugh, and just imagine the ads and low-quality merchandise
the markets will stuff near the intersections, for people who are waiting to
merge in"
What kind of traffic is talked about above?

Q8
Pakistan declared an emergency earlier this month stating that _______
numbers were the worst in more than two decades. To combat this increase,
Pakistan’s “iron-friend”, X plans to supply 100,000 ducks to help tackle this
emergency which initially sprung up in the provinces of Sindh and Balochistan.
However, experts questioned whether the ducks would be suitable for the arid
conditions of Pakistan and hence may not really get a chance to resolve this
emergency.
Id X and FITB

ANSWER
X: China
Blank: Locusts

Rules
Rules
• 8 questions
• Each pill is based on
the standard model
• Pounce: +10/-5
• Bounce: +10/0

Up
“Articulating The Appeal” is a research publication by Pixar Research. It seeks to answer the
question “How can ____ win empathy?” Their solutions were:
X’s overall body is posed in a teardrop shape with a slight”S”shape down the spine. By lowering
the center of gravity we create asoft appeal, maintain balance when the body is leaning forward
and switch between biped and quadruped poses believably.
The simplest emotional communication devices are the mouth and eyes. The large eyes and
brows of a rat are the most expressive parts of X’s face.
Deforming the base of the muzzle as the mouth moves adds a softness to the result.Squishy cheek
mass is manipulated by the corner of the mouth and creates the most appealing smile
Teeth heavily influence appeal. Our teeth have many controls to alter the relationship of gum and
molar, and animators can pose them for charming appeal or to stress a __ like appearance.
ID X and the blank

Down
Season 2, Episode 8 (April 1919) of Downton Abbey sees the arrival of a deadly
influenza pandemic to the household. This pandemic, arriving at a time of war,
infected 500 million people, or 27% of the world population at the time.
Believed to have originated in France, it is considered one of the deadliest
epidemics in human history.
What was the pandemic called and why was it given that particular name?

ANSWER Return
Spanish flu. To maintain morale, wartime censors minimized early reports of
illness and mortality in the warring countries. Papers were free to report the
epidemic's effects in neutral Spain. These stories created a false impression of
Spain as especially hard hit, thereby giving rise to the pandemic's nickname,
"Spanish flu"

Bottom
Brian May is very popularly known to have dropped out of a PhD in
astrophysics to pursue his dreams in music (log kya kahenge?). However,
what’s known to only eagle eyed fans is that in October 2006, May re-
registered for his PhD at Imperial College and submitted his thesis in August
2007. His PhD investigated radial velocity using absorption spectroscopy and
doppler spectroscopy of X (2 words) using a Fabry–Pérot interferometer based
at the Teide Observatory. X is a faint, diffuse, and roughly triangular white
glow that is visible in the night sky and appears to extend from the Sun's
direction and along the ______, straddling the ecliptic. Sunlight scattered by
interplanetary dust causes this phenomenon. X is best seen during twilight
after sunset in spring and before sunrise in autumn, when the ______ is at a
steep angle to the horizon.
Give X or its colloquial name when seen during a specific time of the day

ANSWER Return
Zodiacal Light/ False Dawn

Top
The trailer for Top Gun 2 shows Maverick flying an impressive, shockwave
sending aircraft believed to be the Lockheed Martin SR-72, successor to the
SR-71 Blackbird, and capable of Mach 6 flight!
This plane is believed to use a special type of jet engine with its working
described below:
“...the airflow remains supersonic even as it rams into the inlet and passes
through the compression chamber, allowing it to operate efficiently at high
speeds.”
What are these engines called? (Pictures in next slide)

ANSWER Return
Scramjets. Supersonic compression ramjet engines

Strange
Kaite O’Reilly’s work “The Almond and the Seahorse”, a play about two
couples struggling to cope with traumatic brain injury, would be particularly
interesting to Dr. Strange. It would remind him of a surgery for the treatment
of epilepsy which involves the removal of a part of the brain which plays a role
in the processing and memory of emotional reactions, and another part which
has a role in memory, spatial awareness, and navigation.
Name the surgical procedure.

ANSWER Return
Amygdalohippocampectomy.
Amygdala-Almond(Latin/Greek)
Hippocampus-Seahorse(Latin/Greek)
-ectomy (surgical removal)

Charm
In the wizarding world a charm is a spell that adds certain properties to an
object or individual. They are distinguished from transfigurations in that a
charm adds or changes properties of an object; it focuses on altering what the
object does as opposed to what the object is. Much like X was monumental in
early years of Y but didn't actually create it.
Willard Bundy a jeweler in New york made a clock to showboat to shoppers.
He then realised he could use these time clocks to log employee time. In
nearby Rochester, Ny Daniel M Cooper invented a precursor to the punch in
card for employees. Around the same time in Buffalo, Herman came up with a
way to store data on these very punch cards which lead him to win the 1900
US census contract. Herman then met Charles Flint who said the
aforementioned companies would be better off as one. And this is where the
trouble started. They worked mainly as independent mismanaged companies.
This is where X stepped in and his aggression and excellent salesmanship
worked wonders. ID X and Y

ANSWER Return
Thomas Watson and IBM/CTR

Electron
In the 2014 film The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Max Dillon is an electrical engineer
at Oscorp and a "nobody" who idolizes Spider-Man after being saved by him in
a battle against Aleksei Sytsevich before getting transformed in an accident
while fixing a power line, electrocuting him and causing him to fall into a tank
full of genetically-engineered electric eels.
Eels are one of the weirdest creatures known to man, toxin derived from eel
blood serum was used by Charles Richet to discover X. Toxins were injected it
into dogs and a rapid allergic reaction was observed- X, a word he coined for a
sensitized individual's sometimes fatal reaction to a second, small-dose
injection of an antigen won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1913.
ID X.

Muon
Hua Mulan is a legendary female warrior from Chinese history, who joins the
army to protect her aged father. In Chinese, mùlán refers to the magnolia.
Magnolia is an ancient genus. Appearing before bees did, the flowers are
theorized to have evolved to encourage pollination by X, for example, the
carpels of Magnolia flowers are extremely tough to avoid damage, even with
a twist and shout. Another ancient aspect of magnolia is that the sepals and
petals are undifferentiated and are instead called Y.
ID X and Y.

ANSWER Return
X – Beetles
Y - Tepals

SAFETY SLIDE
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Rules
Rules
• Written round
• +3 for each variable
• +4 for final answer
• Total: 12*3 + 4 = 40 points

Q
Once upon a time, drillers struck oil in Pennsylvania. Seeing the
mad oil rush, A, the son of a snake-oil salesman, decided that he
could bring order to the chaos and started B, a company which
would eventually become the very personification of a famous
boardgame C. C would also haunt D, almost a century later. But
before A could take over the world, oil was found in Russia. 'The
Oil King of Baku' took full advantage of this and he died a rich man.
His death greatly saddened his brother E, obviously because they
were brethren but also because the press mistook his brother's
death for his own and wrote unflattering obituaries. E decided to
leave his fortune for the "benefit of mankind."

Q
The lucrative Russian oil trade caught the attention of the powerful
F family and they contracted Marcus Samuel and his brother
Samuel Samuel to bring oil to the East. Samuel founded the
company G and built the first oil tankers, giving them G related
names like the Murex, the Conch and the Clam. A's actions
eventually caught up with him and B was split up. Many years
later, B of California, New Jersey and New York (now called H and
IJ) would own stakes in K. The money K's country made almost
allowed them to make a stoned decision to buy out L's company. If
you take what D bought to annoy L, as evident in the above tweet,
as the name of a movie and flip the protagonist's first name, which
animal would you have to add to it to get the name of a marketing
automation platform?

ANSWER
A - John D. Rockefeller
B - Standard Oil
C - Monopoly
D - Bill Gates
E - Alfred Nobel
F - Rothschild
G - Shell
H - Chevron
I - Exxon
J - Mobil
K - Saudi Aramco
L - Elon Musk
Chimp

Walk through
Bangalore
Round 4

Rules
Rules
• Written round
• 5 questions
• +5 for each question
• +10 for getting all right

Q1
X’s father suggested that she study fermentation science, and train to be a
brewmaster, a very non-traditional field for women. In 1974, she was the only
woman enrolled in the brewing course and topped in her class and earned the
degree of master brewer in 1975. She worked as a trainee brewer in Carlton
and United Breweries, Melbourne and as a trainee maltster at Barrett
Brothers and Burston, Australia. However, when she investigated the
possibility of advancing her career in Bangalore or Delhi, she was told that she
could not be hired as a master brewer in India because "It's a man's work."
She began to look abroad for opportunities and was offered a position in
Scotland. Before X could move, she met Leslie Auchincloss, the founder of Y,
of Cork, Ireland. He was looking for an Indian entrepreneur to help establish
an Indian subsidiary. X agreed to undertake the job on the condition that if
she did not wish to continue later six months she would be given a
brewmaster's position comparable to the one she was giving up.
Rest as they say is history. Give X and Y.

Q2
Recent announcements by this company’s CEO outlining his plan to hire 3 lakh
new employees over the next 18 months, if successful, will make it the
country’s third largest employer after the Army and Indian Railways. The
current third place overall and India’s largest private employer is X with 4.5
lakh employees.
Name the company and X.

Q3
Ironically, the IT boom provided relief for this company as it pursued scale. As
software engineers poured into Bangalore, the demand for their products
rose (how can a techie survive without a laptop?), creating a sufficiently large
product line for the iconic but small-volume business to piggy-back on.
One of their products, known for its compact packing, proved really popular in
certain situations. Whenever Bangalore faced a bandh and IT companies
wanted staff to remain on premises overnight, they placed large orders for it.
Which company?

Q4
Shrinivas Ramchandra Kulkarni is a US-based astronomer born and raised in
India. He discovered the first millisecond pulsar called PSR B1937+21,helped
show that gamma-ray bursts came from extra-galactic sources amongst many
more. Recipient of various awards and honours, including the Helen B. Warner
Prize,Janksy prize etc.Kulkarni has been the Jury Chair for the Infosys Prize for
the discipline of Physical Sciences since 2009.He is also a huge influence to his
nephew who then went on to become a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of
Fellows and found a digital transformation company, Soroco, specialised in
automation using Artificial intelligence sources, a company quite popular
within RVQC (unnecessary funda). Who’s his nephew?

Q5
The parent company of X was formed by a group of 3 people with varied skills,
which included one CA, one Cost & Works Accountant and one
Telecommunication Post Grad, and was started with a more lofty goal of X.
Looking at the government’s focus on building the city’s public transportation
system, they started Y to enable local commute as well as to provide first and
last mile connectivity. In 2018, Y started their dockless service and was
rechristened as X, claiming to be the fastest growing company in their sector.
A major security flaw was recently found in X’s app, which allowed attackers
access any X account. Id X and its older entity Y, which are extreme time
savers in the hectic city life.

ANSWER
Kiran Mazumdar-shaw and Biocon

ANSWER
X - Bounce
Y - MetroBikes

Rules
Rules
• Written round
• 5 questions: +5 each
• Bonus: +10 on getting
all

Q1
This language was invented by Ben Olmstead in 1988, and is
named after a "place" in Dante’s Inferno. This language was
specifically designed to be almost impossible to use, via a
counter-intuitive "crazy operation" and self altering code. The
instructions executed here are called guilty, and those not
executed yet are called innocent. The language is considered to
be so hard, that the inventor himself has not written a single
program in it, and the first program came out 2 years after the
language was released. Id language.

Q2
The language X was inspired by a language which is usually expressed in a
category of memes and was created by Adam Lindsey in 2007. Multiple
interpretations of X exist, one of which is Turing-complete. X's keywords are
heavily drawn from the heavily compressed style of this meme language. It is
one of the only esoteric languages which can be used to code on the popular
programming website HackerRank. Id X.

Q3
This language was released on 1st April, 2003 by Edwin Brady and Chris
Morris. It’s name is a reference to __________ characters, which are not
assigned much importance in most programming languages. Only 3 kinds of
the above mentioned characters have any meaning for the compiler. A
consequence of this language is that it can be easily contained in the
__________ part of most other languages. Id language.

Q4
The SPL is an esoteric language designed by Jon Åslund and Karl Hasselström.
Unlike most programming languages, this is designed to make the code look
something other than a program, in this case, a X. As in any X, it requires a list
of variables to be declared in the start of the “program”, which declares a
number of stacks for them and are named in Xs. The parts of an SPL program
are exactly the same as X, which work in a particular manner similar to the
names of the parts. Expand SPL.

Q5
The name of the language X is composed of 2 parts: one a popular figure
whose acting career began in 1969, and the third most popular programming
language as reported by IEEE. Every statement in this language is a famous
line from some of his movies. For example, “YOU ARE NOT YOU YOU ARE ME”
is a statement which signifies equality, “HE HAD TO SPLIT” for division and
“WHAT THE FUCK DID I DO WRONG” denotes a ParseError. The name X is
slightly ironic, because the language which is part of the name is famously
touted to be one of the lightest languages there are. Id X.

ANSWER
1. Maleborge
2. LOLCODE
3. Whitespace
4. Shakespeare Programming Language
5. ArnoldC

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• Pounce: +10/-5
• Bounce: +10/0
• 8 questions
• Anti-clockwise time

Q1
In 1922, two former Tufts University School of Engineering, roommates
Laurence K. Marshall and Vannevar Bush, along with scientist Charles G.
Smith, founded the American Appliance Company X in Cambridge,
Massachusetts. Its focus, which was originally on new refrigeration
technology, soon shifted to electronics. The company's first product was a
gaseous (helium) rectifier that was based on Charles Smith's earlier
astronomical research of the star Zeta Puppis.The electron tube manufactured
by the company was christened with the name X meaning “The light of the
gods” and was used in a battery eliminator, a type of radio-receiver power
supply that plugged into the power grid in place of large batteries. This made
it possible to convert household alternating current to direct current for
radios and thus eliminate the need for expensive, short-lived batteries.
ID X

Q2
“The question was what are the chances that a Canfield solitaire laid out with 52
cards will come out successfully? After spending a lot of time trying to
estimate them by pure combinatorial calculations, I wondered whether a
more practical method than "abstract thinking" might not be to lay it out say
one hundred times and simply observe and count the number of successful
plays. This was already possible to envisage with the beginning of the new era
of fast computers, and I immediately thought of problems of neutron diffusion
and other questions of mathematical physics, and more generally how to
change processes described by certain differential equations into an
equivalent form interpretable as a succession of random operations. Later [in
1946], I described the idea to John von Neumann, and we began to plan actual
calculations.” This is an excerpt from Stanislaw Ulam, a nuclear scientist who
participated in Manhattan project. What did discover/realise?

Q3
After learning about the Russian interference in the 2016 elections, A 17-year-old high school
student from upstate New York tricked Twitter into verifying a fake 2020 candidate profile
under the name Andrew Walz and his experiment forced the company to re-examine its
much-talked-about election integrity measures. Apparently, it only took him 20 minutes to
create a website for his fictional candidate and he used X , a GAN based face generation
website to make the profile picture. The name of the website X is a play on the artificial
nature of the ìncredibly realistic faces generated by the said website.
In response to scrutiny over the misuse of Twitter by those seeking to maliciously influence
elections, Twitter announced that it would partner with Y, a nonprofit that functions as "the
digital encyclopedia of American politics and elections." to add special labels verifying the
authenticity of political candidates running for election in the U.S. However, this failed to flag
Andrew Walz as a malicious user.
X and Y please!

ANSWER
X:This person does not exist
Y:Ballopedia

Q4
Animal magnetism, also known more commonly now as X, was the name given
by a German doctor Franz Y to what he believed to be an invisible natural
force (Lebensmagnetismus) possessed by all living things, including humans,
animals, and vegetables. It is believed to be have special properties including
healing, as Y produced an "artificial tide" in a patient, Francisca Österlin, who
suffered from hysteria, by having her swallow a preparation containing iron
and then attaching magnets to various parts of her body, after which she was
cured of her symptoms.
Currently, X is also used more commonly to describe something that captures
one’s attention. Give me X and Y. X is just an extension of Y

ANSWER
X:Mesmerisation
Y:Franz Mesmer

Q5
In multitasking computer operating systems, X is a computer program that runs
as a background process, rather than being under the direct control of an
interactive user. Traditionally, the process names of a X end with the letter d
for identification. For example, syslogd is the X that implements the system
logging facility.
The term X was coined by the programmers of MIT's Project MAC and is inspired
from Y, an imaginary entity from a thought experiment that constantly works
in the background, sorting molecules.

ANSWER
Daemon, after Maxwell’s Demon

Q6
In the early 90s, Apple began working on the Power Mac 7100, a product that
was internally given the codename X. The impetus behind the codename was
a riff on X’s catchphrase "billions and billions", the implication being that the
7100 would go on to make Apple billions of dollars.When the internal code-
name was first revealed in a 1993 issue of MacWeek, X was concerned that
the use of his name might be misconstrued as an official endorsement. Upon
X’s insistence and non-compliance , the codename was changed to BHA which
only further aggravated X to sue Apple for libel resulting in an out of court
settlement.The engineers at Apple, though, weren't going to go down without
some sort of fight. As such, the final codename for the Power Mac 7100 was
"LAW", a string which stood for 'Lawyers are Wimps’.
ID X and Put funda as to why X sued Apple for libel/expand BHA

ANSWER
X: Carl Sagan
Funda: BHA stands for Butt-Head Astronomer

Q7
The following phenomenon was first observed by Russian
cosmonaut Vladimir X .It is a result in classical mechanics
describing the movement of a rigid body with three distinct
moments of inertia, hence called the intermediate axis
theorem. The phenomenon was named as X effect after the
Russian Cosmonaut who was the first one to observe it.
Although it gained popularity due to a certain challenge/trend
where one was supposed to flip their racquet/phone perfectly
along the horizontal axis, which lead to the name Y theorem.
ID X and Y

ANSWER
X: Dhzanibekov
Y: Tennis racquet theorem

Q8
Forty percent of the world's population is at risk of contracting dengue virus,
which produces dengue fever with a potentially fatal hemorrhagic form. The
wMelPop Wolbachia infection of Drosophila melanogaster reduces life span
and interferes with viral transmission when introduced into the mosquito
Aedes aegypti, the primary vector of dengue virus. Wolbachia has been
proposed as an agent for preventing transmission of dengue virus.
A particularly virulent strain of Wolbachia bacteria had been discovered in
fruit flies. The strain was morbidly called _______ because it would so rapidly
multiply in the eyes, muscles and brains of the fly that it would soon resemble
a bag of ________.

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