A quiz, Sukalyan and I conducted in 2020. Biz Tech Quiz

1. Dhande Ka Funda
Finals
Arun T P Sukalyan Sen

2. Write it down
Points as per slide | No negatives

4. 1.
This image was created by Google on a very special occassion. Which occasion
and how was this image created by Google? (5+5)

5. 1.

6. 2.
The 'bridge' officer that inspired Mae to take on her profession was the first of her
race and gender to be popularly featured in a major television series.
What phrase did Mae borrow from her idol, which she used as a salute when she
began her communications shift every day of her space mission?
Which major television series was the idol part of? (5+5)

7. 3.
Among the many firsts that she was associated with, she was also the first one to
come out of the closet.
She was also the only individual to be a part of the investigation committees of
two terrible space events.
Name both the events. (5+5)

8. 4.
Complete the exhaustive list and name the photo.
(5+5)
1. Compton
2. Spitzer
3. Chandra
4. ______

9. Answers
Points as per slide | No negatives

10. 1.
This image was created by Google on a very special occassion. Which occasion
and how was this image created by Google? (5+5)

11. 50th Anniversary of Moon Landing
Used reflective solar panels and moonlight

12. 2.
The 'bridge' officer that inspired Mae to take on her profession was the first of her
race and gender to be popularly featured in a major television series.
What phrase did Mae borrow from her idol, which she used as a salute when she
began her communications shift every day of her space mission?
Which major television series was the idol part of? (5+5)

13. Hailing Frequencies Open from Star Trek

14. 3.
Among the many firsts that she was associated with, she was also the first one to
come out of the closet.
She was also the only individual to be a part of the investigation committees of
two terrible space events.
Name both the events. (5+5)

15. Challenger and Columbia Space Disasters

16. 4.
Complete the exhaustive list and name the photo.
(5+5)
1. Compton
2. Spitzer
3. Chandra
4. ______

17. Hubble and Pillars of Creation

18. Round 1
Pounce : +10/-10 | Bounce: +10/0

19. 1.
The largest inhabitant of this enclosure is ‘Rubi’. She is named after her scientific
name ‘Ficus Rubiginosa’. She was born in a Californian farm in 1969, and today
towers at 50 feet.
She travelled three days for around 1930 kms through California, Nevada,
Oregon and then Washington to reach her final destination and had to enter the
enclosure through a small opening on the top.
What enclosure are we talking about?

20. Safety Slide

21. Jeff’s Balls / Amazon Spheres

22. 2.
Legend says, Mr. Francois, founder of the eponymous
company, whose first product is on the right was
finding it difficult to sell his product to a department
store manager in Paris.
What did he supposedly do to quickly attract the
desire in passing shoppers to buy his product, and
further cementing the confidence of the doubtful
Parisian shopkeeper?

23. Safety Slide

24. He dropped the bottle of perfume on the floor. The smell wafted
about and people got intoxicated.

25. 3.
This unique and rather controversial
packaging was discontinued by this beverage
company, after multiple protests by a specific
community.
Which community and why was it
discontinued? (5+5)

26. Safety Slide

27. Native Americans, Boston Tea Party

28. 4.
Name the company/brand that used to air commercials with the following
slogans
Making good tea since 1903.
________ Tea – two thumbs fresh.
There’s only one ‘T’ in ______.
You only get an ‘OO’ with ______.
For the tea that picks you up, pick up _______.
This brand was bought out by an Indian firm, whose chairman was gunned
down in 1982 by which liberation group? (5+5)

29. Safety Slide

30. Typhoo, ULFA

31. 5.
Give three words and the reason for the third ad. (5+5)

32. Safety Slide

33. Lemon, lemonade, lime
The last Volkswagen Beetle, lime is bitter

34. 6.
In August of 2020, the Mumbai District Commissioner for
Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum, ordered Shagun
restaurant to pay a fine of Rs 2 Lakh after Bhaskar filed a
case against them in 2015 for overcharging for a particular
service.
Why did the restaurant overcharge, something most
consumers across India are irate about?

35. Safety Slide

36. Cooling Charges

37. 7.
The lotus-leaf effect works by creating an air bubble between the surface and the
object. It doesn’t work very well with highly viscous liquids.
Kripa and team, devised a new technology named LiquiGlide which helps by
changing the interface dynamics between the surfaces and the objects.
One use is to help inject viscous medication into subcutaneous fat.
What other more practical use in the food world, with regards to packaging will
LiquiGlide help in, thereby reducing consumer carpal tunnel syndrome?

38. Safety Slide

39. Ketchup Bottles

40. 8.
A file and a scraper are 2 essential implements to produce this sound. Each individual
has their own specific sound.
To generate the sound, one has to strike the file with the scraper, and rasp the teeth
present on both the file and the scraper against each other. These are all part of a
leathery front.
What am I talking about?

41. Safety Slide

42. Stridulation/ Crickets chirping

43. Round 2
Pounce : +10/-10 | Bounce: +10/0

44. 1.
In the late 1950s, John Whitney was hired by the director of the movie X to create
the opening sequence of the movie.
Whitney used a World War 2 anti aircraft targeting machine called the M5 gun
director for the purpose. The main motif was to create accurate spirals that
formed a very important element of the movie X.
Id the movie and what probable first was achieved by this?

45. Safety Slide

46. Vertigo, First use of CGI in movies

47. 2.
Most of us must be familiar with X’s iconic soundmark. However X felt the need
of making their short soundmark more symphonic and orchestral and hence
roped in the likes of Hans Zimmer who added his own flavor to the iconic sound.
Id X and why did they rope in Hans Zimmer?

48. Safety Slide

49. Netflix, They needed a more iconic intro for movie theatres

50. 3.
In 1878, a year after the invention of the phonograph,
The Daily Graphic envisioned a future application of it in
the drawing published in the paper.
The application would not however be possible until the
early 1930s when the American Foundation of the Blind
started their X project.
What future application are we talking about?

51. Safety Slide

52. Audiobooks

53. 4.
Sigmund Freud in his 1909 essay “The Family Romances” introduced the idea of
family romance, a psychological complex where children have to deal with the fact
that their parents are emotionally unavailable.
A century later in 2009 Yuichi Ishii would start his first company which provides a
very specific service to people, something that had originated in Japan in the
1990s. He would fittingly name the company taking inspiration from the above
mentioned essay by Freud.
What specific service am I looking for?

54. Safety Slide

55. Family Renting Service

56. 5.
Although now banned, a X deal was a practice in UK where the holder of a
security sells it by end of the day on the last day of the financial year, and buys it
back the next morning. The purpose for doing such a deal was to gain tax savings
for selling the security at the end of the financial year.
The company Y is widely known for disrupting the X industry and recently filed for
an IPO amid the Covid19 crisis.
Id X and Y.

57. Safety Slide

58. Bread and Breakfast, airbnb

59. 6.
In late 1970s, looking at the dissatisfaction among
general public for the Eisenhower dollar coin, the
US Treasury decided to replace it with the Susan B
Anthony Dollar coin.
Among others, the US video game industry also
rallied for the new Susan B Anthony coin. What
was the reason that the video game industry
started to raise requests for a new coin?

60. 6.

61. Safety Slide

62. Video game parlors wanted to increase the price of
arcade games from a quarter to a dollar

63. 7.
Drop is an E commerce company with a wide range of products to feed the
interests of users ranging from audio, mechanical keyboards, cooking utensils, etc.
To cater to a group of Y enthusiasts, Drop had joined hands with X (the parent
company of Y) to create a themed keyboard. The keyboard sports colors like
beige, red, blue, and baby pink and also has values assigned to different letter
keys.
Id X and Y.

64. Safety Slide

65. Scrabble, Hasbro

66. 8.
This ongoing collaborative art project by various individuals across the globe is
gaining attention for popularising "data art", the concept of combining data
collection to easily doable artworks.
What sort of data do these types of works represent?
What is the project called, which is a play on the broad name for the type of these
kind of works?

67. 8.

68. Safety Slide

69. 8.
Tempestry Project
Temperature + Tapestry
Atmospheric Temperature Readings

70. Shark Attank
Pounce : +10/-10 | Bounce: +10/0

71. 1.
In the finale episode of season 4 of Shark Tank, X pitched the idea of a
Shrinkinator, a device which can be used to shrink objects.
Many of the sharks were reluctant to invest as most of X’s inventions never came
to completion while to some they sounded evil.
Id X who’s a famous pop culture character.

72. Safety Slide

73. Dr Doofenshmirtz

74. 2.
In normal containers moisture runs down the sides and meet
the surface. This is a problem that several tea connoisseurs
face including Tigere who decided to take matter into his
own hands.
The AHA moment came when he saw the banana holder in
his kitchen thus leading to his idea of a new kind of a mug.
What problem does this new mug solve and how ?

75. Safety Slide

76. Tea stains, mug with coaster

77. 3.
In an episode of Shark Tank, Maneesh would pitch the idea of a wrist band that
sends haptic feedback to the user in the form of a 340V shock whenever they
would try to indulge in a bad habit that they want to quit.
Id the name of the brand which is a play on the name of a famous scientist.

78. Safety Slide

80. 4.
Eugenia wanted to give her dog Huxley a Halloween costume of a panda which
went into become her first step in the entrepreneurial world with the brand name
X. X would feature in Shark Tank and is a play on the name of another apparel
brand pretty famous in India.
Id X

82. Safety Slide

84. 5.
In 2016 Matt Alexander and Mike Kannely went on to pitch their brand Illumibowl
in Shark Tank, a solution to late night wake up calls to avoid potential disasters
like stubbed toes.
What does Illumibowl do?

85. Safety Slide

86. 3.

87. 6.
Kyle Donovan the founder of iFork tried to solve one of the leading causes of
influenza, common cold through food-borne bacteria.
How does iFork’s line of tablewares try to solve this problem with a very
commonsensical solution?

88. Safety Slide

89. Cutlery that don’t touch the table

90. 7.
In Shark Tank Season 7, Van Gould along with his cofounder pitched their company
NoPhone, a product that would bring an end to phone addiction.
As the name suggests NoPhone is nothing but a block of plastic for users to hold to
resist their urge of holding a phone. NoPhone also comes in two other variations.
NoPhone Selfie and NoPhone Air. What feature do they provide?

91. Safety Slide

93. 8.
“X Meets Y” is an online dating app where you, the X are delivered a match, or a Y
at noon every day. According to cofounder Dawoon Kang:
“Most of our members are working professionals, and what do all working
professionals look forward to every day? Their X break! What goes well with X? Y.
which also reflect the company’s origins, as we started in NYC!”
Name of the app?

94. Safety Slide

95. 3.