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6 written
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One night in the early 1980s, a model coordinator was working on a campaign
shoot for advertising agency Avenues. As they weren't able to get any studio space,
the shoot was transferred to the terrace of a Mumbai building. As the shoot wound
down, Kukde, Avenues’ art director, pulled the coordinator aside to talk to him and
got the first idea of this character. The mascot—still remembered by his buffed
pate, and his sardonic smile—rapidly became a streak of bold colour, a negative
character smartly and subversively turned into a selling point.
The character and the brand became so indelibly linked that some of Kukde’s spots
didn’t even need to feature the word or its logo to identify the brand.
Which character and what logo? (optional image on next slide)
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This item was first introduced by the German printing company, Friedrich Horn
in 1880. Initially made of cardboard, it is also produced from wood, paper, and
silver plate. Often adorned with a customized image, important parameters for
the item include water absorbency, wet rub, and printability.
What everyday object is this?

Coasters/Beermats

In an article in The Journal of Portfolio Management in 1984, Robert Kirby of
Kirby Capital had narrated an incident involving his client’s husband who had
purchased stocks recommended by Kirby at $5,000 each. He did not ever sell
anything. Metaphorically, he stuffed the certificates in a ______ ___, since
Americans used to extensively use it before the inception of bank branches.
A decade later, these turned out to have created enormous wealth. One the
holdings was Xerox which ballooned to over $800,000 in value. In describing
this outcome of ‘buy and forget’, Kirby coined the term X.
Identify X

Coffee Can Portfolio

The X is an online retail store founded by three dynamic personalities; Aditya
Sharma, Vedang Patel, and Rohin Samtaney, which provides independent
artists a platform to showcase and monetize their creativity in a unique way.
X was born in 2013 over sev-puri at their office canteen. The idea arose when
they realized there was no dedicated good outlet for buying ___ ___________
in India. The only options were a limited range of extremely expensive and
badly designed imports from the US or sub-quality fakes.
Which online store is being talked about?

The Souled Store

Feeld (previously known as X) is a location-based dating app launched in 2014
that facilitates communication between people interested in polyamory,
threesomes, kink, and other alternative sexual preferences.
Starting off very quietly, X came back in the news in 2016 when Match Group
sued X alleging trademark infringement. "We want our smaller competitor to
shut down and erase its presence from the web entirely to avoid “confusion”
between the two apps"- said Match Group in a released statement. This led to
the rebranding of name to Feeld in mid-2016.
Identify X. (image next slide)

3nder

To jazz up its simple, cut-and-dry online service and make a visual impact, Neil
Wehrle came up with Pufferfish as X's mascot.
Speaking to Mashable, Neil said, "We tossed around a few ideas and then I
thought, we’re shrinking and expanding things, what kind of animal does that? We
started looking at renderings of pufferfish, and one of the things that I hit on was
why not show two pufferfish and show them in the states you would encounter it,
puffed out and shrunken down. So we invented a backstory that the little one is the
smart one because it’s a _________ ____ and there’s a lot of data and valuable
attributes that are useful to people, whereas the big one is the sort of big, dumb
long ____ that breaks in emails when you send it to people or IM it.
Whose mascot? (image next slide)

bit.ly

On February 13, 2020, X announced that it would be ceasing operations and
shutting down.
Founded in 2015, the company was supposed to disrupt the smartphone
industry because of its befitting founder who had revolutionized the same
industry in 2008 with a successful venture. But bad timings, broader industry
issues, and founder embroiled in troubling allegations of sexual misconduct
made the company struggle to make it far beyond the launch of its first product.
Following is a snippet from X’s blog announcing the shutdown of company and
its much touted Project GEM. (image next slide)
Which company and its founder?

Essential. Andy Rubin

South Korean TV broadcaster MBC recently aired a Korean language documentary that
centers on a family’s loss of their young daughter, seven-year-old Nayeon. Called
‘Meeting You’, the documentary goes on to recreate a series of warm memories from
Nayeon’s life. In the episode, the mother, Ji Sung, experiences happy memories: it’s
Nayeon’s birthday, and honey rice sweets, a birthday cake, and her favorite seaweed
soup are all there. Ji-sung puts her down to bed for a nap, and plays with her hair as
Nayeon precociously bobbles around.
Developed by South Korean startup, Vive Studios, the episode was created over a
period of 8 months. Motion sensors and high resolution photography of Nayeon’s little
sister were used. Ethical concerns were raised when the episode aired:”is it
unnecessary re-traumatization, or a valid coping mechanism?”
Why?

The mother was able to say a final goodbye to her daughter in VR.

Hyoscyamus niger, commonly known as the stinking henbane is a poisonous plant in the
family Solanaceae. The plant has been used in traditional medicine for centuries, it
applies as a herbal medicine, but may induce intoxication accidentally or intentionally. It
has Pharmacological effects like spasmolytic, hypnotic, hallucinogenic and pupil dilating
properties. Clinical manifestations of acute poisoning include agitation, convulsion and
coma, slurred speech, difficulty speaking, warm flushed skin, blurred vision and
photophobia, auditory, visual or tactile hallucinations, confusion, disorientation, delirium,
aggressiveness, and combative behavior.
Excavations in sites including Denmark, York, Dublin and Russia along with the
symptoms of ingestion of the drug have hinted to the explanation of a historical secret.
What secret/legend can the stinking henbane explain?

Vikings and berserkers may have ingested the henbane before going to battle
making them extremely aggressive and less susceptible to pain

X’s logo – known as the Batwing – designed in 1967 by Walter Landor &
Associates, is a trademark symbol that continues to endure and distinguish the
brand today. The outlines of the Batwing logo comes straight from a design that
is present in every Y of X’s. The logo was first introduced in the same vibrant
colour of the signature tag on Y, but it has since shown up in various shades –
from white, to orange to rainbow for X’s annual Pride collections.
Landor also suggested the brand take the bold decision to change its all-caps
logo to contain a lowercase letter, which it did in 1971.
Id X.

Online edtech firm X recently raised Rs 37.10 crore in Series-A funding from
Info Edge India.
The Delhi-based company plans to use the money to scale up its online tech
education, strengthen both its technology and content, and further its position
as an education partner for college students.
Give X. While we are at it, also give the NSE stock ticker of Info Edge, which is
the parent company of something else founded in 1997.

X - Coding Ninjas
Stock Ticker- NAUKRI (Naukri.com)

Scientists have proposed more than a dozen ideas to explain why Xs evolved
______. One includes protection from insects.
The ______ did not deter flies from afar; both X and domestic Y experienced
the same rate of circling flies. But a close analysis of the flies’ final approach to
X revealed the insects failed to decelerate, and instead flew over the _______
or bumped into them.
Other studies have shown that temperature is also a factor with the number of
_______ being proportional to the temperature.
FITB and give me X.

X: Zebras and stripes
Y: horses

Yamaha Music Japan had to caution people against cramming themselves into
its large boxes for musical instruments and equipment, saying that the copycat
attempts could lead to “unfortunate accidents”.
It has been dubbed as “playing X”, due to speculative reports that X had hidden
himself inside a large box usually designed for audio equipment.
X?

Carlos Ghosn

Apotek Hjartat a Swedish pharmaceutical company, came up with an ingenious
campaign, “A Hard Pill to Swallow”, to raise awareness about a problem.
They created a pill which they named Sordidum Pharmacum. It’s box lists that
the capsules contain chemical substances that can treat fungal infections,
hypertension, severe pain, epilepsy, cancer and AIDS.
What problem did the company aim to highlight?

Pharma residue in Hyderabad’s polluted waters.

Inuit elders noticed that the sun was emerging in different places in the sky than
before, and that the stars were often appearing in the wrong place. Initially,
people thought it was a joke, but the elders insisted that the earth must have
shifted on its axis.
Though the earth hasn’t tilted on it’s axis, a plausible explanation has been
found. It has been attributed to X, which successfully explains the difference
when coupled with basic optical phenomena.
What is X, and how has it lead to the changes in the position of the sun?

Global Warming.
Air temp has changed, different refractive index, so light bends differently,
leading to sun appearing a few kilometres off.

Earlier last year, the company X created a prototype ‘conveyor belt’ bed to keep
bed hoggers on their own side.
The bed has a pressure sensor that can tell when your partner has clearly
violated your half of the bed, which is rightfully yours. This has been inspired by
the company’s main business, which works pretty much on a similar principle.
Other conceptual prototypes by X include “smart cribs” for babies to emulate an
environment where they fall asleep earlier, noise cancelling dog kennels etc.
Which company? And what technology did they adapt to make this bed?

Ford
Lane changing technology adapted to bed.

In the 1978 book Murmurs of Earth, the failure to secure permission for this
Beatles song is cited as one of the legal challenges faced by the team
compiling X. The records company EMI which held the rights to the song had
asked for $50k, way more than anyone was willing to shell out.
However, the writer of the book said, “Rumors to the contrary, we did not strive
to include X. It’s not the Beatles’ strongest work, and the witticism of the title, if
charming in the short run, seemed unlikely to remain funny after some time.”
What is X? Which Beatles song?

Voyager Golden Record, Here Comes the Sun

X ran a new campaign last year, making a small change to its slogan which it
had been using for more than 40 years. The campaign declared, “Somewhere
along the line, we lost our way. We focused on quantity, not quality. We
became one of the cheapest, not the best.”
It started with X’s Twitter feed actively promoting a bunch of consumer tweets
slagging off their old product. They said it tasted “like stale breadsticks”, “cat
piss” and the “rancid piss of Satan”, and was “like drinking the bathwater your
nan died in”.
Which company, what change did they make to their slogan?

Carlsberg,
Probably not the best beer in the world

Written round
6 questions
Moons

The idea that life could be thriving in an ocean beneath the icy surface of X first
originated in science fiction. The notion pulled X out of obscurity and into the
limelight where it has remained.
Scientists have found strong evidence that beneath the ice crust is an ocean of
liquid water or slushy ice. In 1979 the two Voyager spacecraft passed through
the Jovian system, providing the first hints that X might contain liquid water
Which moon?

Of all the places in the solar system, is X the only place besides Earth known to
have liquids in the form of rivers, lakes and seas on its surface.
Larger than Mercury, X’s atmosphere is made mostly of nitrogen, like Earth, but
with a surface pressure 50 percent higher than Earth’s
Which moon?.

With 5 moons, X’s entire moon system is believed to have formed by a collision
between X and another Kuiper Belt Object early in the history of the solar
system.
Its principal moon, Y is almost half its size. Hence X and Y are sometimes
referred to as a double planet system, particularly as they orbit around a central
point in space as opposed to X being the centre of orbit.
Give X and its moon Y.

X is the most volcanic body in our solar system. The supply of heat is caused
by its elliptical orbit, forced to follow this path by the larger moons, and that the
same side of the moon is always facing the planet.
This produces incredible tidal forces due to the changing gravitational pull on X,
causing its solid surface to bulge out by as much as 100m.
As a result, the subsurface of the moon is almost entirely molten. X is
continuously replenishing its surface, the composition of which is currently
debated between the heat withstanding silicon, and the colour varying sulphur.
Which moon?

Japan’s space agency, JAXA, announced recently that the MMX project had
officially moved into the development phase. It plans to land a spacecraft on X,
one of Y’s two moons.
Both the moons are aptly named after twin brothers, who were the offspring of
the Greek God of War and Goddess of Love.
Another fact, the moon is getting closer to Y over the centuries, and eventually
will either break up or be pulled into the surface (in 50 million years).
Give me X.

According to Cambridge University historian Michael Hoskin, William Herschel
never gave a name to the satellites of the planet X, and simply referred to them
as "number one" and "number two." But there have been clues point to the
direction that his son John Herschel might have played a role in giving the
names as they are today.
This took off and all subsequent moons have a common theme (with one or two
exceptions). For example, a moon was found in the 1990s using a special
method in which images were created using a technique that made faint
celestial bodies more visible. It was named Caliban, as it ‘lives in the dark’.
Which planet, and what tradition is used to name the moons of this planet?

Written round answers
Exchange your sheets
+10 for every correct answer

Europa

Titan

Pluto and Charon

X is the most volcanic body in our solar system.. The supply of heat is caused
by its elliptical orbit, forced to follow this path by the larger moons, and that the
same side of the moon is always facing the planet.
This produces incredible tidal forces due to the changing gravitational pull on X,
causing its solid surface to bulge out by as much as 100m.
As a result, the subsurface of the moon is almost entirely molten. X is
continuously replenishing its surface, the composition of which is currently
debated between the heat withstanding silicon, and the colour varying sulphur.
Which moon?

Phobos (Mars)

Uranus, moons named after Shakespeare characters
Titania, Oberon, Ariel, Umbriel, Cordelia, Ophelia, Bianca, Cressida,
Desdemona, Juliet, Portia , Rosalind etc.

X originally began his studies using mice. He was at St. Thomas's Abbey but
his bishop took an objection to it, so he had to switch. X also studied astronomy
and meteorology, founding the 'Austrian Meteorological Society' in 1865.In fact,
the majority of his published works were related to meteorology.
No one understood the significance of X’s works during his lifetime. Scientists
stumbled upon them 15-20 years after his death, and X gained gained
popularity, if only posthumously.
Give X, and why was the bishop against studying mice.

Gregor Mendel
He would have technically been studying animal sex, which the bishop did not
like.

A group of experts found that for a given water temperature and pressure, a
model which they had created suggested that the finer it was, the greater the
proportion of X that ends up dissolved (more surface area)
However when the team carried out tests in real life, they found that at the
model broke down beyond a certain point. This was because the particles get
so small that they actually clog up bits of the bed and the area becomes
impenetrable.
The lesson being that X should be coarser to get better consistency.
Give X.

Coffee

It used to be thought that mice infected with Toxoplasma gondii appear to
become attracted to the smell of cat pee, an odor that uninfected mice smartly
avoid. This raises the chance of a cat eating it.
A new study found that Toxoplasma doesn’t specifically eliminate a mouse’s
natural aversion to cats. Rather the infection makes them generally less
anxious and more adventurous.
The Scientific American ran this story with a headline with an altered version of
a popular phrase. What was the headline?

Curiosity Killed the ... Mouse?

When manufacturer Annin & Co asked NASA where they had bought the X
from, they replied that three secretaries had been sent out to buy Xs during
their lunch hours. After they had returned, it was discovered that all of them had
purchased their Xs at Sears.”
Even though Annin & Co was the official supplied to Sears, NASA did not
confirm it because they wanted to avoid another ‘Tang'.
A NASA executive’s notes show that it was bought from the Government Stock
Catalog for $5.50 instead.
What is X?

Flag planted on Moon in Apollo 11 mission

Residents’ of X provided linguists with evidence of the first small changes in
speech that may signal the development of a new accent.
The linguists analyzed recordings of words spoken by people—in particular,
resonances: the way airflow shapes sound. Resonances are the defining
acoustic features, which let you distinguish one vowel from the next.
And even during their short time in X, the way the people produced certain
vowels began to converge, averaging out the resonances.
Where did the linguists try to understand the formation of new accents?

Antarctica

X sparked consternation late last year by launching an online homeware store,
mostly because it goes against whatever she preached in her bestselling 2015
book. Many have cited it as an example of late-stage capitalism, even.
The shop itself is Goop-like in its ambitions of expensive wellness, with
products such as a crumb brush ($24), a 4096hz tuning fork with smoky quartz
crystal ($75), a “computer brush” ($35) and different sizes of octagonal plates
to organise your emptinesses.
Give X.

Marie Kondo

US firm X is expected to sign a new agreement with state-run Nuclear Power
Corporation of India for the supply of six nuclear reactors.
Named after its founder, X was started in Pittsburgh in 1886. Early on X was a
big competitor to Y’s company. But in 1892, Y was merged with Thomson-
Houston Company to form General Electric.
In 1990, X experienced a financial catastrophe, and had to sell off many of its
divisions.
Give both X and Y.

Westinghouse and Edison

There is a bit of speculation that X was actually invented in China and that it
made its way to the Continent via traders and merchants who did business in
the Far East. But a much more prevalent theory is that Y— a French
philosopher and mathematician — invented X, especially because the word X
means small wheel in the French language.
In 1655, he was toying with the concept of perpetual motion. While he could not
make a perpetual motion machine, Y came up with the X, albeit a primitive
version of the wheel so widely used today.
Give both X and Y.

Blaise Pascal and roulette

X has always long been thought of as one of the physical effects of suffering
from Y. Researchers have recently found the first scientific evidence explaining
it. The researchers looked at the body’s sympathetic nerve system (regulates
the fight-or-flight response). Specifically, the networks of nerves that branch out
into each follicle on the skin.
They found that Y causes these nerves to release norepinephrine, a hormone
that occurs naturally in the body. The norepinephrine activates the stem cells
and converts them into pigment-producing cells, and so prematurely depleting
the reservoir.
Give X and Y.

Hair turning grey from stress

Borel came up with the idea of X while giving the argument that some events,
while not mathematically impossible, are so unlikely that to all intents and
purposes, they are impossible.
In 2003, scientists got a grant to actually try it, but it turned out to be a waste of
time, mainly due to their subjects’ lack of care and short attention spans.
In 2011, computer programmer Jesse Andersen decided to play it safe by
creating X on a computer program. He managed to prove X in 45 days only,
albeit by cheating a little.
What idea am I talking about?

Monkey(s) sitting at typewriter hitting keys randomly for an infinite amount of
time can write the works of Shakespeare.

While it might be fun, the waste generated is turning it into a nightmare for the
environment. Last year in the UK, more than 8 million X– equivalent to more
than 18,000 tonnes, headed for the bin because the majority of consumers did
not eat it. This number is way higher in the US, a staggering 900,000 tonnes.
Slowly, efforts are being made to make the people aware of the possible uses
of X, from pies to beer made using it.
Give X.

Pumpkins(Halloween)

Many were surprised initially when X launched a new line last year called Y, of
what they had shunned for years, restricting them to purely industrial purposes
through a subsidiary.
The industry however isn’t happy as X is charging a fifth of the price that the
rest used to. This move has been seen as a way for X to keep its core business
from floundering. A way to get the impression across that the product(s) offered
by Y are cheap and hence less premium, though the differences in the final
products are minimal.
Give both X and Y.

De Beers
Lightbox

Researchers have proposed that the event X, which occurred in May 1693
could be explained by ergotism, a disease commonly contracted by rye.
Once contracted from rye bread, ergotism (also called St. Anthony’s fire)
causes severe convulsions, muscle spasms, delusions, the sensation of
crawling under the skin, and, in extreme cases, gangrene of the extremities.
Severe hallucinations can also be a symptom, as lysergic acid is the substance
from which the drug LSD is synthesized.
Which ‘event’ am I talking about?

Salem Witch Trials

Each day, the Smithsonian Institution's _______ Identification Laboratory
receives about a dozen packages from around the country, each containing
tissue swabs from X. The lab's scientists have dubbed this bloody goo
"snarge". Scientists analyze snarge DNA, with the hope of decreasing X.
The first officially recorded X was in 1905. They cause more than $600 million
in damage each year. Places where X is the most probable have adapted by
various measures such as contracting falconers, electrified mats to repel worms
etc.
What common incident am I talking about?

Bird Plane Collisions

Some people think that X live exclusively off Y, though that’s not the case, and
even unhealthy.
Most people blame Z for this. The idea of Z and Y itself was inspired not from
real life, but by a scene in the 1934 film, It Happened One Night. In it, Gable's
character leans against a fence and eats Y while explaining the rules of
hitchhiking.
Give X,Y and Z.

Rabbits, carrots and Bugs Bunny

The idea for a monogram emerged from the logo that X’s wife and her father
developed for his fragrance which was introduced in 2003. Their creativity
resulted in a freehand squiggle. Y developed on that, and still owns the
trademark which was registered in 2009 in the clothing and footwear class.
There was a slight controversy however, in 2018 when X had a much-
publicized departure from Y to Z. Initially, Y continued to sell merchandize with
the logo, but have stopped since, probably due to X continuing his shoe deal
with Y.
Give X(a person), Y and Z (two different companies).

Roger Federer, Nike and Uniqlo

According to Harsh Mariwala, one key reason for X’s success was the
packaging used. In the 70s, Y was sold in tins. They wanted to move to plastic
as it was cheaper than tins and plastic bottles would look more attractive on the
shelves.
Traders however were reluctant as rats feasted on the bottles and Y oozed out,
spoiling other products kept near them. This led to the product team deciding to
use superior plastic in round leak proof bottle, which now everyone associates
with the brand.
Which company?

Two guys in California with a state of the art windtunnel set to find out whether
something which most cyclists do makes them faster or not.
They tested a number of riders across the entire spectrum of what they called
the Chewbacca scale. They tested him with ____, and then they tested him
without ____. They found that he was significantly faster the second time
around.
So what is it that cyclists do, originally done to recover more quickly from road
rash after crashes, and so that it hurt less during a massage?

Why Cyclists Shave Their Legs
(Blank is hair)

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