UTPT 2018 Sci-Biz-Tech Quiz Finals

Rules
• 6 rounds
• QM is gawd
• Enjoy the quiz!

Rules
• Written
• 5 items to identify, +5 for each
• +5 for overall connect
• Can get upto 30 points

Name the “products” and what war?

ANSWER
UPI Payment Apps
• PayTM
• PhonePe
• BHIM
• WhatsApp Business
• Tez

Rules
• A paragraph with variables
• 6 variables to identify, +3 for each
• No negatives

What The Damn Hell #1
Though technologically innovative at the time, A ironically fell
short with the sales of its personal digital assistant, the B. B
was named after a person who shares credit with C for the
development of a certain field of mathematics. C was born in
the city of D, obtained by replacing two letters in his name and
rearranging. E sponsors D's football club and can apparently
help in the growth of a certain body part F. What is this body
part mainly used for?

ANSWER
A – Apple
B – Newton
C – Leibnitz
D – Leipzig
E – Red Bull
F – Wings
To fly!

Rules
• 10 questions
• +10/-5 on pounce
• +10/-0 on bounce
• Bounce moves clockwise

Q1
The beginnings of X for Y can be traced to the German introduction of
chemical warfare during World War I.
Among the different chemical agents used, mustard gas was particularly
devastating. Although mustard gas was banned through the Geneva
Protocol in 1925, researchers in an altogether different field began
experimenting with a variation of mustard gas, nitrogen mustard, and
noted that it had the ability to drastically reduce the production of WBCs
in the body.
This discovery, that nitrogen mustard could be used to drastically reduce
cell count lead to the development of X for Y.
Hence, what was developed from nitrogen mustard?

Q2
When X was sworn in the as the President of the United States, in the
wake of one of the most controversial incidents in American History,
people recollect him saying “I am a Y, not a Z.”
X made the comparison to Z due to the difference in their way of
governance and nature; Z was often considered to be soft spoken,
eloquent and diplomatic, whereas X was considered to be sturdy, rigid
and dependable, exactly what the country needed given recent events in
the timeline leading to his swearing.
X also made the statement as a reference to the brands Y and Z, who
incidentally share the same characteristics as mentioned above.
ID X, Y & Z.

ANSWER
X – Gerald Ford
Y – Ford
Z – Lincoln

Q3
The following are theories behind a recent glitch in a popular consumer
product which scared a lot of users, owing to the untimely nature of the glitch.
• “X’s not laughing, she’s crying-FOR GOD’S SAKE, COMFORT HER ALREADY!”
• “What, X can’t watch a bunch of YouTube videos of cats falling off chairs”
• X’s been talking to your electronic scales, Chubbo.
• ____ asked if she could sit with X at lunch.
• X’s reading through all of your emails and just got to a particularly brutal
thread of breakup messages.
Give the popular product that experienced this glitch.

Q4
X can be found as splodges all over our towns, in parks, cities, streets,
parks etc. Cleaning these reportedly cost the city of London nearly £150
million each year to clean off of the streets.
Y is a company based out of London which aims to recycle X through
special collecting receptacle. These bins are lined with appropriate
antiseptics and cleansing agents before they are recycled using suitable
methods to finally turn them into characteristic products, from guitar
picks to boots, to coffee mugs.
Such a process is known as a closed recycling process.
So, what is X that Y recycles?

ANSWER
GumTec (Y) recycles gum (X)

Q5
Daniel Perlman — wine-lover, inventor and Brandeis
University biophysicist, studied slow-motion videos of wine
being poured. He observed first that ________ was most
extreme when a bottle was full or close to it.
There are already products on the market designed to
prevent wine ________, but they require inserting a device
into the bottle neck. Perlman didn’t want consumers to
have to take an additional step after they made their
purchase. "I wanted to change the wine bottle itself," he
says. "I didn't want there to be the additional cost or
inconvenience of buying an accessory."
What purpose does this groove serve?

ANSWER
Prevents dripping of wine

Q6
Vulfpeck is an American funk group founded in 2011, influenced by
rhythm sections of the past.
In March 2014 the group released an album called Sleepify on Spotify,
consisting of ten roughly 30-second tracks of silence.
Take the song list and the album art as a hint, and figure out what
Vulfpeck asked their fans to do with the album, and why?

ANSWER
They asked fans to play it while they were sleeping
There was a loophole in Spotify where artists got paid royalties based on
number of ‘plays’ and each play was counted as listening to the track for
atleast 30 seconds

Q7
Manu Prakash is an Indian born scientist, who currently serves as the
Professor of Biology at Stanford University. Among several other
accolades, he is also a recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Grant.
He is known for his frugal innovations that make medicine, computing
and microscopy common to the people around the world.
Most notably he is known for his two products, the shown in the pictures
in the next slide.
Put funda on the functioning of the two products and what purpose do
they collectively serve to achieve.

ANSWER
He built a handheld centrifuge and foldable microscope, to separate and
analyse blood samples, for Malaria diagnosis in economically weaker
areas.

Q8
Tony Fadell started working for Apple in February 2001 as a contractor designing the
iPod and planning Apple's audio product strategy. During the time, he conceptualized
the initial design for the iPod, and was then hired by Apple to assemble and run its iPod
& Special Projects group in April 2001.
However, On November 3, 2008, The Wall Street Journal broke the story of Fadell's
departure from Apple. Fadell went on to found Nest Labs, a home automation
producer of programmable, self-learning, sensor-driven, Wi-Fi-enabled thermostats,
smoke detectors, and other security systems.
How was the event of Fadell's leave foreshadowed, by arguably one of the most famous
public interactions of Apple?

Q9
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?

ANSWER
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.

Q10
In 1991 Starbucks introduced X, which was an opportunity for its “partners” (both full-
time and part-time) to receive a part of the company’s financial success through shares
of Starbucks. This offering allows Starbucks employees to be continually invested in the
company, and at the same time actively work towards the betterment of the brand as it
directly affects their financial prospects.
Y is an English fairytale, whose first version was moralized in 1734. It basically features
a poor English boy, living with his widowed mother, whose only source of income was a
cow which eventually stops giving milk. The mother asks the son to take the cow to the
market, where he in turn meets a dealer who trades the cow for something that
eventually grows to plays a central role in the fable.
X is a play on the latter part of the fable’s name, which is appropriate given the central
ingredient of Starbucks’ business and the sustained growth that X brings to its partners.

ANSWER
Bean Stock, inspired by the fable of Jack and The Bean Stalk

Rules
• A paragraph with variables
• 7 variables to identify, +3 for each
• No negatives

The conspicuously non-quacking fish A was supposedly named after a
mail train and is associated with an Indian city. The neighborhood B can
be found in this city and is named after two temples found in the area. It
is however more famous for being the namesake of the company C. The
tagline of its widely loved and best-selling product promises to make you
a D. Ds are generally known for their high E. Remove the complex part of
E, imagine it’s a Hindi word F and translate it to English. You now get a
word which you're all probably thinking right now as you read through
this f***-all question. From this word, arrive at the name of a popular
Silicon Valley based accelerator G. Give the accelerator.

ANSWER
A – Bombay Duck
B – Vile Parle
C – Parle
D – Genius
E – IQ
F – Kyun?
G – Y Combinator

Rules
• 6 pairs of logos
• Each pair of logos share a connection
• A similar connection exists for all the slides and this overall connect
will fetch the score shown on the slide
• Maximizers apply for each slide, +9 points in each

Theme: Companies whose founders share a common surnames
Piramal Group
Ajay Piramal
VIP Industries
Dilip Piramal

Answer
Tencent
Pony Ma
Alibaba
Jack Ma

Answer
Sahara India Pariwar
Subarata Roy
NDTV
Prannoy Roy

Answer
Airtel
Sunil Mittal
ArcelorMittal
Lakshmi Mittal

Answer
OYO Rooms
Ritesh Agarwal
Ola
Bhavish Aggarwal

Answer
Snapdeal
Rohit Bansal
Flipkart
Sachin/Binny Bansal

Answer
Being Human
Salman Khan
Khan Academy
Salman Khan

Rules
• 6 questions
• Description of how the Mythbusters tested the myth is given
• Guess the myth
• Bounce moves clockwise

Example Question
A pig’s stomach was used to test this myth. They used proportional
quantities of the two substances depicted in the myth. However, it did
not yield the results as claimed by the myth. An attempted use of large
quantities of the two substances did not result in anything substantial
and as a result, the myth was considered busted.

Example Answer
Do Coke and Mentos make your stomach explode?

Q1
For this, 6 circles of radius 4 ft and multiples were drawn. They used a
bulletproof vest and a touch sensitive vest, which upon contact turned
on an LED setup indicating there was contact made. Adam pulls the gun
before Jamie can cover 30ft. However, Jamie was successful in covering
25ft before Adam could pull the trigger. Following this, Police Trainees
increased their safe training distance from 25ft to 30ft.

ANSWER
Should you never bring a knife to a gunfight?

Q2
To bust this myth, a _______ of the size a football field was chosen. Given
the large size, petty issues such as wind and dirt began creeping in,
complicating the job. However, they broke the iteration limit and went
on to touch double digits, albeit with the help of devices such as a
forklift and a roller press.

ANSWER
Can a piece of paper be folded more than 7 times?

Q3
This was a Shrek myth. The ______ was sourced from a doctor, who took
it from at least a hundred patients. The _____ was then heated to melt
and to reform into the required shape. The melting process however,
produced such foul odours that gas masks had to be used to complete
the process. Nevertheless, the ________ never ignited. What was this
myth?

ANSWER
Can you make a candle out of earwax?

Q4
To debunk this myth, a number of methods were tried. Off a table, the
myth always held true. But when Adam experimented with different
methods of drop, and of release, as in by holding _____ vertically, by
dropping off a conveyor belt, by reducing moment resultant by slinging
_____ horizontally and by clamping using clips, the probability of the
myth came down to 0.6. Further to eliminate the height factor, Adam
took the complete setup to a terrace of a single storied building. Drag
and wind finally stamped down the factor to the good ol’ 0.5.

ANSWER
Does buttered toast always fall buttered side down?

Q5
This was a simple one. All the guys had to do was create a real life sized
model of the plank shown, and hop on. However, people argue that the
temperatures in that situation were sub-zero and the two had no
lifejackets. Even then, with a little bit of work, chivalry could have been
disposed with. In the end, the Mythbusters presented 8 possible ways in
which the myth could have been prevented. It included one where the
two could play chess and get away safe.

ANSWER
Could Jack have survived with Rose in the end of Titanic?

Q6
Jamie and Adams analysed this one, physically and mathematically, by
comparing the static and kinetic friction of a ________ to that of a
lubricant. Next, they made Adam walk blindfolded over a single _______
and then over multiple ________, neither resulting in a fall.
However, when presented in large multiples, it made an activity as
simple as walking really difficult. Since the myth did not involve larger
numbers of ________, the myth was declared busted.

ANSWER
Can banana peel cause one to slip?

The music streaming and automated music recommendation service A
was named after a Greek mythological figure. The person's brother-in-
law B was punished for distributing a product among people. This
product can also be used as a verb and happened to C, which is ironic
considering C's last name. Incidentally C's daughter inspired a TV
character D. Speaking of famous daughters and fathers, E's father Lord
Byron contributed to the publication of Shelley's 'F or the Modern B'. E,
that impressive lady maintained a long working relationship with a
person whose name rhymes with a certain vegetable. Name the
vegetable.

ANSWER
A – Pandora
B – Prometheus
C – Jobs (Steve Jobs)
D – Lisa (In Simpsons)
E – Ada
F – Frankenstein
Cabbage (Charles Babbage)

Rules
• 10 questions
• Bounce moves anti-clockwise

Q1
The brand name X, is a product of Y’s corporate history. The founder of Y
had embossed the single worded slogan of Y on brown leatherette
covered notepads that he used to distribute among his employees.
Employees used to carry these notepads around with them, “practice”
the motto of the company and used to jot down their ideas in these
notepads.
The name X for the company’s range of products was proposed by
Denny Wainwright, who had one of these motto embossed notepads in
his possession.
What company brand had their roots in these notepads?

ANSWER
X - ThinkPad series of laptops by IBM

Q2
In 1793, botanist and aristocrat Joseph Dombey set sail from Paris to Washington DC.
He was journeying all the way across the Atlantic to meet Secretary of State Thomas
Jefferson who, Dombey hoped, would help persuade Congress to _______.
Then a storm rolled in, knocking Dombey's ship off course. The unlucky academic was
washed into the Caribbean - and straight into the clutches of British pirates. The
brigands took Dombey hostage and looted his equipment, which had a considerable
amount of precious metal. The luckless scientist died in prison shortly after his capture;
his belongings were auctioned off to the highest bidders.
France sent a second emissary to promote _______. But by then, America’s new
secretary of state, Edmund Randolph didn't care much.
What was Dombey trying to bring to America?

ANSWER
Dombey was attempting to bring the metric units to the USA.

Q3
Ornilux is a German based company that is creating glasses with a different
quality; it comes with an additional pane of UV reflective glass such that the
reflective patterns formed patterns designed to stand as an obstruction to
_____.
Why UV, you may ask. This is to provide a global solution to the heavy annual
losses of _____ that takes place regularly due to the presence of plain glass. The
best solution, the company says is to use UV reflective glass in a broad
spectrum in a pattern because of the varying levels of UV frequency perceived
by _____.
The prototypes are still in testing phase. Despite not having a high success rate,
the path ahead is clear, believe the developers.
FITB and put funda.

ANSWER
To prevent birds from crashing into the windows of the high rises.

Q4
Frederick Douglass was an American born into slavery. He spent his childhood
in slavery and later escaped from it to start one of America’s most powerful
anti slavery movements.
During his struggle, he started a daily paper to preach the abolishment of
slavery. He recollects in his autobiography, slaves struggled to find the
______(blanks not indicative) going with one of science’s most common
misconception to help them find their way. They used to identify the _______ (it
had not been given its name then yet) and follow that direction for it meant
freedom in those days.
To further urge slaves into running for freedom, FD aptly titled his paper the
_______. Very soon, the civil war between the freedom loving north and the
southern confederate states would break out(remove if easy). ID the title of the
paper.

Q5
The Stroop effect is a phenomenon that occurs when you must say the
color of a word but not the name of the word. For example, blue might
be printed in red and you must say the color rather than the word. This
occurs as the brain associates both a semantic meaning with the word
and a literal meaning for its color, typically resulting in a delayed
response to naming the color.
Stroop Tasks were used in American Intelligence for a specific purpose,
during a well known period of frigid tumult. What was it used for?

ANSWER
Stroop effect is used to identify Russian spies by the American
Intelligence.

Q6
The X & Y Game is a satirical take on the condolences offered by masses of
people towards tragic events. It has been around for quite a while, and in
recent times has gained significant momentum.
The game has just two buttons, which are slight modifications of the words X
and Y, which allows you to perform one of two acts while an epidemic of
horrendous events unfold across a specific geographic area, which
coincidentally has seen quite a lot of controversy regarding specific laws which
are at the heart of such events. X and Y are the two parts of the phrase .
The irony of the game is that, regardless of which button you press the series
of events continue to unwrap, pointless, much like the effect that X&Y has on
the outcomes of such events
Give me X & Y, which is also the name of the game being spoken about.

ANSWER
Thoughts and Prayers: The Game

Q7
The company, X, launched one of its most ambitious products, Y Whitepol,
which is commonly known as Light Liquid Paraffin (LLP). Y Whitepol is technical
grade white oil made from highly refined paraffinic base stocks and further
purified through a rigorous process.
The Indian market for LLP is estimated to be approximately 2 Lakh tonnes per
annum. The product was unveiled by K.L. Murthy, executive director
(Lubricants) of Y based in Mumbai, who enumerated the importance of this
product and talked about the trust that the Y brand stands for across India.
X is the largest lubricant brand in India, enjoying the coveted Super Brand
status for more than 15 years.
ID X and Y.

Q8
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.

ANSWER
Coco Chanel and Chanel N°5

Q9
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.

ANSWER
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.

Q10
Oculus and Facebook recently announced that they have created a new
unit of time called a ‘flick’ which subdivides a single second into
precisely 705,600,000 parts.
According to the GitHub documentation, this is the smallest unit of time,
larger than a nano-second which also has a certain property, without
which desynchronization could in audio/video, over a period of time.
Why was the number 705,600,000 chosen?

ANSWER
This unit of time is the smallest time unit which is LARGER than a
nanosecond, and can in integer quantities exactly represent a single
frame duration for 24hz, 25hz, 30hz, 48hz, 50hz, 60hz, 90hz, 100hz,
120hz, and also 1/1000 divisions of each.
In order to accommodate media playback, we also support some
common audio sample rates as well. This list is not exhaustive, but
covers the majority of digital audio formats. They are 8kHz, 16kHz,
22.05kHz, 24kHz, 32kHz, 44.1kHz, 48kHz, 88.2kHz, 96kHz, and 192kHz.
A fractional reminder can be a problem in programming and visual
effects, where rounding and/or floating point representations can lead
to slight imprecision or desynchronization over time.

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