Curiously Yours - The General Quiz
QM: Anurag
Hosted on 9th June, 2020 as a part of the 7-day event Quiz de Mela.
This was the fourth in a series of 7 quizzes.
2. GENERAL RULES:-
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• May the force be with you…
5. QUESTION 1
• X worked at J. Walter Thompson (an advertising agency) for almost
17 years, ultimately becoming its vice-president and executive
creative director.
X worked with:
• Pepsi – Ye Dil Maange More, Mera Number Kab Aaega, Nothing Official
About It and Oye Bubbly
Mountain Dew – Darr K Aage Jeet Hai
Kurkure – Tedha Hai Par Mera Hai
Lays – Be a Little Dillogical
Kitkat – Kitkat Break Banta Hai
• In 2010, X pursued a full time literary career, writing Y, Battle for
Bittora, Those Pricey Thakur Girls, The House that BJ Built, Baaz.
X has been hailed as the best ‘chick’ lit writer in India, but has
repeatedly stated that “Chicks are small, brainless, powerless
creatures, bred to be eaten. I'm not a chick and I don't write for
chicks.”
• Identify X and Y.
8. QUESTION 2
• Bhavani Jamakkalam are blankets and carpets manufactured in
Bhavani in Tamil Nadu. They were made when Indian weavers decided to
invent something new to compete with British textiles in the late 19th
century. In Bhavani, a community of weavers called Jangamars weaved a
type of blanket using colored coarse threads called Jamakkalam. The
popularity of the product led to the production of these threads into
sarees and other products.
• Such was their popularity that in 1993, X came to know about Bhavani
and they themselves approached a company to supply rag rugs to them.
The Sri Murugan company’s (which produced these rugs) turnover in 1999
amounted to Rs 35 crore of which the lion’s share was produced for
X.
12. QUESTION 3
• In 2016, China was gripped with a problem which
scammed both the company and its users, and was
known as the “ghost-driver problem.” .
• Whenever passengers book their ride, they are shown a
profile photo, a number plate and other bits of information
about the driver.
• According to local reports, pick-up requests were met by
Uber drivers using zombie and ghost-like profile shots.
• Put funda behind the scam, and how did the drivers
benefit from this entire process?
14. ANSWER 3
The drivers had profile pictures which looked like
ghosts or zombies so that riders would cancel the
ride, and the drivers would earn the cancellation
fee.
15. QUESTION 4
• The fact that X was a Nazi-sympathizer had been largely kept a secret for
the latter half of the 20th century. X was nicknamed “Westminster”, a hint to
X’s previous life as a mistress to the Duke of Westminster. During the 1940s,
X was commissioned by the Wertheimer's, one of the most affluent Jewish
families in the Nazi Germany, to come up with a specific cosmetic product.
• Once the product was released it turned out to be a huge success, and X
immediately turned jealous of the success and the attention that the brothers
were receiving for her work. Following the success of the product, X devised
a plot to turn the Wertheimer’s in to the Gestapo. Once successful, X was
awarded the wartime profits of the product, which turned out to be a
significant amount at $25 million a year. This made X, the richest women in
the world at that time-thanks to the Nazi’s.
• Give X, and the product that has been often described as her most
recognizable to date.
18. QUESTION 5
• Cherenkov radiation also known as Vavilov–Cherenkov radiation
is electromagnetic radiation emitted when a charged particle
(such as an electron) passes through a dielectric medium at a
speed greater than the phase velocity of light in that medium.
• In 1956, A well-known Indian when he likened the blue Cerenko
vradiation to something that reminded him something from the
world of
mythology and named it X. Who was the Indian and X?
21. QUESTION 6
• X is the scientific method of dating _____ rings (also called
growth rings) to the exact year they were formed in order to
analyze atmospheric conditions during different periods in
history.
• X is useful for determining the timing of events and rates of
change in the environment (most prominently climate) and
also in works of art and architecture, such as old panel
paintings on wood, buildings, etc. It is also used in
radiocarbon dating to calibrate radiocarbon ages.
• ID X.
24. QUESTION 7
• X was closed in the period of Indian Emergency when the food
control act made it non profitable to serve food items until it was
reopened in 1984. To save the jobs during the time it was closed,
X started selling spices and roasted flour mixes.
• That was the beginning of its new entry into the convenience and
instant food business and in a sense a turning point. Identify X.
27. QUESTION 8
• The ------- ------- is a standard example of a game analyzed in
game theory that shows why two completely rational individuals
might not cooperate, even if it appears that it is in their best
interests to do so. A game modeled after the ------ ------ is a
central focus of the 2012 video game Zero Escape: Virtue's Last
Reward and a minor part in its 2016 sequel Zero Escape: Zero
Time Dilemma. FITB.
30. ROUND 2
•There are 8 question in this round.
•Every question (+10/-5)
•Question no.: - 9 to 16.
31. QUESTION 9
• This company is named for the place it was once
housed in, a former Cold War bunker. The bunker was
built in 1955 just outside the small town of Kloetinge in
the south of the Netherlands.
• It was intended as a wartime Provincial Military
Command Center of the Dutch military that could
withstand a nuclear attack.
• It was discarded by the Dutch military in 1994 and the
exact location is a secret. It is called CyberBunker.
• What is its claim to fame?
34. QUESTION 10
•In the original business plan X was codenamed
BlueStar. The current name was released on Y’s
Twitter account 6 years later. The intended name
had to be abandoned as Ford had a trademark for
it. Had there been no trademark, the three products
of Y’s company would spell out ‘S-E-X’.
•ID X.
37. QUESTION 11
Justin O. Schmidt has published a no. Of papers on this
subject. His original paper in 1983 was a way to systemize and
compare their haemolytic properties. In September 2015,
Schmidt was co-awarded the IG Nobel prize for physiology and
entomology with Michael Smith, for their Hymenoptera
research.
Since 1990,he has repeatedly refined his subject which
classifies 78 species and 41 genera of Hymenoptera and thus
published a book in 2016. His subject has four different levels
ranging between 1 and 4.
What was his research all about?
40. QUESTION 12
• Researchers in the US have discovered that when an alarm
features something unique It is about 3 times more likely to wake up
children aged between 5-12 years, better than a traditional smoke
alarm in case of fire in the house.
• As a result of a lab based experiment to test this, it was found out
that about 90% of children woke up for these new alarms compared
to just over 53% in case of a traditional alarm.
• Similarly, about 85% of children left the room within 5 minutes when
the new alarm beeped, compared with just over 50% for the
traditional alarms.
• What is so special about this new alarms/What is the priceless
inclusion in this alarm?
43. QUESTION 13
• X ____ Company is an American food conglomerate based in
Chicago. It has been owned by PepsiCo since 2001.
• The logo of X ____ Company is a man dressed in X garbs as the
X faith projected the values of honesty, integrity, purity and
strength. Early advertising identifies the “X Man” as Y, a 17th
century philosopher and early X.
• Y is also the name of India’s first multi-brand retailer to offer fine
writing instruments. The chain now has over 32 stores, making it
the largest chain of its kind in India.
• ID X and Y
46. QUESTION 14
• From the about section of a company - Devika Narain and
Company was born on the dining table of a small rented
apartment with the simple goal of creating spaces that were
personal and uniquely Indian.
• Today, their team of young designers work with local artisans and
craftsmen to tell personal histories through spaces and celebrate
the heritage of the Indian subcontinent with a modern sensibility.
• What did the company do that led to a huge media coverage in
2017?
49. QUESTION 15
• X and Y are two types of a daily commodity. X is usually priced
higher than its counterpart, Y.
• It is a popular misconception that the differential pricing is due to
the basic and obvious distinction between the two, but the actual
reason is the sheer difference in mean size.
• This basic/obvious difference between X and Y occurs due to the
presence of porphyrins or biliverdins in X and the lack of in Y.
• Give me X and Y.
52. QUESTION 16
• One of the earliest setbacks which brought the company’s
functioning to a short halt was its investment in these 2
flop films.
• Coupled with debt the company had to be eventually sold
off. Started as Mens’ Wear Pvt. Ltd., we know this
enterprise in a completely different field. Which company?
56. ROUND-3
• There are 8 question in this round.
• Every question (+20/-10)
• Question no.: - 17 to 24.
57. QUESTION 17
• So X and Y two of the popular ___ ____ candidates. They represent
two very different but reasonable possibilities of what the dominant
component of the universe may be.
• Even in literary terms X and Y are very different.
• X is a slang term for a weak and cowardly or an unadventurous
person. The word Y can be used in situations like: “the big Y tough
guy”.
• The most recent candidate is shares its name with a Twitter slang
which basically means a person who is a white knight (someone who
places women on a pedestal even though they do bad things).
59. ANSWER
• X is WIMP (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles)
• Y is MACHO (MAssive Compact Halo Object)
• These are the most popular dark matter candidates.
• The third particle mentioned is SIMP (Strongly interacting massive particles).
60. QUESTION 18
• “The diagnosis for the bilateral wrist pain was X.” And
thus was born yet another new medical condition, the
child of man’s union with technology.
• X, a condition caused by the excessive use of the popular
instant messaging app, Y, characterised by a typical wrist
pain, comes in the hoary tradition of device-use related
injuries.
• Give me X and Y.
63. QUESTION 19
• Modern electronic devices like smartphones and computers
have components manufactured from metals such as tin,
tantalum, gold and tungsten which are given the tag ‘X
minerals’.
• Intel is in the process of developing a sustainable and
responsible supply chain, and a large part of this effort is to
ensure that even the customer is aware of their effort.
• Hence, Intel brands their chipsets and offerings with a “CF”
badge, which is indicative of how the materials are sourced.
• Put funda on what CF means.
65. ANSWER 19
CF is “Conflict Free”, which implies that
the Intel sources the materials from areas
that are free of wars and civil conflicts in
places the Democratic Republic of
Congo.
69. QUESTION 21
• Though its origin is unknown, 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, but it supposedly greatly enhanced efficiency.
• 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 it got very popular and became a standard configuration to
the future of the community. Since then, it has actually become
not only a standard for this community but for every computer
user in order to increase their efficiency. What?
72. QUESTION 22
• In most instances, finding a bug in your food is somewhat
frowned upon but in an effort to educate people about the future
of food, X posted two insect laden ice-cream pop-up stalls to offer
up a free taste of some seriously mind-bending flavours.
• These are available in four fun flavours to try-The Scurvy Berry,
The Choc Hopper, The Strawberry and Swirls, and the nutritious
Neapolitan featuring mixed critters in a strawberry chocolate and
vanilla base.
• The entire event was dished up at the University of Queensland
at 14th and 15th of March 2018.
• So, who trying it’s luck in food business?
75. QUESTION 23
• The old look was barely okay but mostly it lacked
refinement, although I’m not sure the expectations of a X
whose mascot is a talking/walking bottle of its own
product should be too high.
• It’s almost as if the company had designed the bottle and
label for a line of entry-level champagne but then they
changed their mind and did something. Anyway, the old
look is out and in its place is an explosion of color, balls,
and looks.
• Which Mascot is being talked about?
79. QUESTION 24
• This small step was taken by Dayabhai when he started his first
shop at Baripada in 1936. Little did he know that he was laying
the foundation of a legacy that people would revere for
generations to come. One of it’s latest endeavours has been an
alliance with Honda, giving the state a new chance to explore the
world of two wheelers.
• It has also diversified into the lifestyle sector by trying up with
Wills Lifestyle with a rich array of garments and accessories and
has also entered the real estate world as Ambika Builders. In
2001,it beame the 1st company of Eastern India to sell its
products having a Hallmark License.
• Which Company is this?