Fortitude '21 - Sci-biz-tech Finals

Molybdenum 2021- Finals
The Sci-Biz-Tech Quiz by Harshit and Ajay

Rules
● 30 questions
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● Blanks may or may not be indicative
● Strict 30 second limit on pounces, to pounce, type in the format “t1 pounce”
on the chat. Send whatsapp message immediately to Akash, 9971856684

Q1.
Started in 1952, X, under the ______ group, is India’s first deodorant and
complexion soap brand. Best summarized by their tagline which says that
existing can be extremely good, X has been endorsed by many elite group
of people starting from the heartthrob of that time, Vinod Khanna in 1985
campaign, and a current head of state in their 1987 campaign.
Which brand of soap is X? Also, identify the head of state.

Q2.
Sadi X was a French military engineer & physicist, who served as an
officer in the French Army's corps of engineers. In early 1800s, after being
transferred to Paris, he remained on call for military duty, but from then on
he dedicated most of his attention to private intellectual pursuits. Like
Copernicus, he also published only one book in which he explained one of
the most famous concept of ______’s ______ which helped improve
efficiency of it. The concept has achieved widely recognized economic
and industrial importance.
Identify X

Q3.
During this incident in early January, one of the miscreant was identified as
___ _____, which unfortunately wasn’t his name, but being the name of the
source of that photo. Identify the blank

Q4
What incident prompted to create this app in late March? Also, identify the
name of the app, a wordplay on the entity involved in the incident.

Suez Canal Blockage, Forever Given

Q5
Following image contains a special edition of a brand, launched as a
tribute to the founder of the brand.
Which brand? Identify the founder also

Q6.
Which 90s computer game is being parodied in this Collegehumor’s live-
action video?

Q7
Advertisements by which brand?

Q8.
How has this TV personality’s surname been
immortalised in the world of social media?

Wheaton- Individual with half a million Twitter followers

Q9.
______ Tissue is a surgical dressing invented by a doctor ______ in
Birmingham, England, in 1880. In Birmingham, "______" became the
colloquial name for *cotton wool*, which possibly led to the character
name in a famous fantasy saga. Even in the book, The Professor
mentions the reading of this word as a pun relating to the name of the
character's wife. Although he also gives a Westron Speech explanation
for it in the Appendix of fantasy saga, many cannot fail to smirk at his
cheeky manner. Which character?

Samwise Gamgee (wife's name was Rosie Cotton hence the pun

Q10.
Contrary to what many used to think, scientists discovered that most
people who had died in this natural disaster had died due to head injuries
and not asphyxiation,burns etc.
There’s also evidence pointing to the fact that people had taken to tying
pillows on their heads to protect themselves, but to no avail.
Which event am I referring to here? (need name of a city)

Q11.
The logo of which company founded in the sixteenth century, sometimes
called a ‘Trident’ is fashioned after the fact that battleships used to fire
three warning shots fired before engaging with their enemies?

Q12.
The company X has been looking at setting up cloud gaming services in
Japan.
It involves using X’s massive, pre existing infrastructure of Y in Japan.
These cabinets—and the decently specc'ed CPUs and GPUs inside
them—are only in active use for perhaps eight hours a day at a busy
location, so their processing power could be harnessed at other times.
X had started in the late 1940s, making the slot machines and the like.
Give X and Y.

Q13.
In their initial days, the people who founded X, worked with Blackberry to
bring out their products, but failed to attract much attention or funding.
Their fortunes changed, however, when they finally got their much needed
capital by becoming on of the most funded project at Y to that point.
However, they weren’t able to generate profits, and with rising competition
from the likes of Apple, had to sell of their assets to Z.
Give X,Y and Z.

Q14.
X was introduced around 1971, after the patenting of niacinamide.
While the nutritional value of niacin (vitamin B3) may be well recognized,
the skin care benefit of topically applied niacin is a relatively recent. Niacin
(vitamin B3) has two potential forms that can be used in cosmeceuticals:
niacinamide (nicotinamide) and nicotinic acid. It is debatable as to
whether these two forms of niacin are interchangeable.
In 2020, the name of X was finally rebranded to a different name.
GIve X.

Q15.
Compound identified using machine learning and artificial intelligence.
Give its exact name, which is a pop-culture reference .

Q16.
You could say that its roots lied in a 1982 TV show, part of a wider
initiative by the British government to improve computer literacy in the UK.
X was founded a few years before that, making processors for slot
machines and the like. These were based on a different type of instruction
set, and a new division was set up called Y.
X struggled to hang onto the education market in the UK and expand
outwards. X’s shares were cheap enough that the company was worth
less than the stake it held in Y. So X was bought up.
Y is now worth tens of billions of dollars, and was recently bought by Z.
Give X, Y and Z.

Q17.
After W left X (his first venture) last year, he recently founded a new
consumer technology company called Y.
Y itself hasn’t launched any products yet, though they have released a
concept or two.
Interestingly, Y bought the company Z earlier this year. Z itself has an
interesting history, after being founded in 2015, and sold only one phone.
It was shuttered after the poor sales of its phone and also allegations of
sexual misconduct against its founder.
Give W,X,Y,Z.

Carl Pei, OnePlus, Nothing, Essential

Q18.
Researchers have found a new method to detect undersea earthquakes,
and use that as a warning system for tsunamis. It works using a system
that is already in place.
It works on the principle of a change in the polarization of light when the X
are disturbed. Generally, Y used to notice these distortions and correct
them. Now, it wants to share its data, the changes to the polarization of
light, with seismologists so they can study the earthquakes that caused
the distortions.
Give X and Y.

Google undersea fiber optic cables

Q19.
With a higher risk of radiation, using newer and more complex processors
comes with a greater risk of a bad burst of radiation wrecking the sensitive
electronics of the processor.
This is one of the reasons that X uses a chip from 1998, also found in the
Macs from that time. Though unlike those chips, the ones used here are a
special variant that have been hardened against radiation.
Give X.

Q20.
X recently released a patch which works as follows.
______ emanating from the wearer makes its way into one of the
channels and slowly fills it up (this is shown with the help of orange dye).
In a separate channel, chemicals react with chlorine in the _____ and turn
purple, indicating the concentration of sodium detected, which is then
used to determine the wearer’s electrolyte balance.
So this helps in determining whether you need to drink more water or not.
Give X.

Q21.
According to one mathematician, despite the claims of X’s theme song,
he’s not making his home in an authentic _________.
The person claims that the spirals on X’s house are a mathematical
impossibility. In a _________, the spirals going to the left and the spirals
going to the right are adjacent Fibonacci numbers. So she said that they
could never possibly have bilateral symmetry, something the house in
question possesses.
Give X.

Q22.
A few years back, a scientist was struck by how well the movement of
snow was depicted in X.
Following a trip to Hollywood to meet with the specialist who worked on
X’s snow effects, and film’s snow code was modified to fit avalanche
simulation models, albeit with a decidedly less entertaining purpose: to
simulate the impacts that avalanches would have on the human body.
Give X.

Q23.
Video of a 1926 expedition to the East Indies funded by the American
Museum of Natural History. A group of people went to a remote island to
hunt komodo dragon and brought them to the US as specimens to show
to people.
This inspired a screenwriter to write a movie, which movie?

Q24.
____ fed some of its precious samples from the X mission to
cockroaches, dumped it in fishbowls and also injected mice with it. They
wanted to ensure that samples were safe.
The results of these tests provided no information that would indicate that
the samples returned by X mission contained replicating agents
hazardous to life on earth.
And all the animals did well, with one glaring exception: many of the
oysters died, which the scientists chalked up to having tested animals
during their mating season.
Give X.

Apollo 11 mission moon samples

Q25.
X is an initiative launched by Y after tobacco advertising has been banned
in many countries. There isn’t much info on what Y actually does, even as
it delves into gibberish about the definition and etymology of the word
‘______’:
“______ originally referred to the removal of chaff from grain, but it came
to be used more broadly to describe the separating out of the
unnecessary, the extraction of the good and distinguishing what is true
from what is inaccurate or misleading. For Y, this is critically important in a
world of information overload.
”
X is essentially a way for Y to continue their advertising and sponsoring
teams in motorsports, and even then, X isn’t allowed on car/bike during
the races in many countries. Give X.

Q26.
On the right is a photo of a new motor
used in X.
When current isn’t running through the
motor then the triggers feel like regular
ones, but as soon as current is added
through the motor, it rotates, generating
tension and resistance for the triggers.
Give X.

Q27.
The X was conceptualised in 1981 by an engineer when he accidentally
dropped and broke a _____ given to him by his father.The X was
conceived as a ______ which would have "______ __" resistance,
meaning it would have a long battery life , good water resistance and
could survive a fall from a height.
Released in 1983, it wasn’t much popular at first. They released a
commercial involving an ice-hockey player. First accused of false-
advertising, it was soon found that X is indeed as durable and tough as
advertised.
Give X.

Q28.
X and Y worked at ______ studios for many years, before forming their
own studio in the late 1950s (called X-Y and not Y-X because of the result
of a coin toss).
It was eventually bought, and then merged in the late 90s. Recently,
however, Warner decided to bring back the name, renaming an European
division of ______ _______ as X-Y.
Give X-Y.

Q29.
Adidas recently launched shoes, that are customizable in a very unique
way, in collaboration with another company X.
You can change the colours of the Adidas stripes on the side of the shoe,
using different coloured X. The shoes also feature a few other X
homages, including a X logo on the tongue and _____-style detailing on
the top and sole of the shoes.
Give X.

Q30.
X is a European company, known for its water technology (it makes
drinking water, along with providing water for various industrial
applications).
They are well known for their pink corporate colour, lending it to the
various teams that they sponsor. They also recently signed F1 driver
Sebastian Vettel as a brand ambassador.
Give X

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