BizSciTech Quiz by Quiz Club NITW

The BizSciTech Quiz Prelims - by Aabhaas Dasgupta
Technozion, NIT Warangal
20/02/2022

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
● Technozion Organising Committee
● Quiz Club NIT Warangal and Electronics and Communication Engineering
Association NIT Warangal
● Abhinav Dhar, Rithwik Kambil and Srihari Raju for valuable suggestions
regarding the content of the quiz

Rules
● 20 questions
● Odd numbered are on Biz, even numbered ones are SciTech
● 1 point for each correct answer. No negatives
● Question 11-15 are tie-breakers. Question 16-20 are two pointers
● Blanks are indicative everywhere
● Bolded parts are the major hints in each question
● Top 8 teams in finals

Question 1
When this unearthly business entity- prominently associated with one Indian
city- opened its outlet in Delhi, a newspaper covered this news with a headline
that was the logical inverse of a 17th century work.
What was the two-worded headline of the article, which showed how Delhi got
the services of this entity?

Question 2
These kind of structures in molecular Chemistry have two larger molecular
structures bound together around a smaller molecule.
What is the name given to them, which references an erstwhile kingdom?
Images follow.

Question 3
This is a Mumbai-based handcrafted clothes boutique founded in the 1960s. It is
known for its handcrafted chikankari and zardosi clothing, with beautiful kurtis,
long anarkalis and stoles.
According to the daughter of the founder, their first customer was found by her
father when he was selling clothes door to door to a certain group of people. The
association with this customer continued for long, and became a signature style
of this individual
What clothing choice/style are we talking about here?(Proper noun + two key
words needed)

Question 4
In the 1980s in California, a certain individual drew the attention of experts who
were trying to ascertain the causes of something.
He appeared to provide the link to several Californian ‘instances’ that otherwise
did not have any apparent connection. He was labelled the “out of California”
case because he lived outside of the state.
The label used for him was misread by later experts and led to the origin of
something very common today-especially in the last few years.
What is this the origin story of?

Question 5
This Englishman named Capel funded a hat store for someone in Paris in the
early part of the last century and a ready-to-wear boutique a few years later.
His sudden death roughly a decade later left this person devastated and
heartbroken, and he was supposedly paid a visual tribute a few years later- even
though there are other theories behind the inspiration.
What is this tribute all about/What did he supposedly inspire?

Question 6
Recent reports have divulged how this European scientist, who was active
primarily in the first half of 20th century had a lot of dark secrets in his life
The headline used by Forbes for this used a common English phrase used in
scenarios of revealing of secrets. This phrase is especially apt for this individual
because the ‘subject’ of the phrase is associated with his biggest claim to fame.
What was the phrase used? Who is the physicist in question?

Question 7
These chess pieces are made using a specific
variant of the source material, also known
colloquially as ‘rakta _______’(blood ________).
What is the source material/Why has it been in
news in India?

Question 8
This sartorial choice has historically been a symbol of uprising and revolution
with revolutionaries across countries.
This name would be more familiar to tech lovers due to someone naming his
venture- a popular variant of a commonly used software.
What name, popular with geeks, am I talking about?

Question 9
In a recent episode of the Kapil Sharma Show, this individual’s wife wore a saree
by a certain brand. However, this made the owner of the saree brand talk about
how this action actually exposes this guy’s own hypocrisy.
The owner took a potshot at this individual by expressing this sentiment using a
certain line.
What specific line did she quote?

Question 10
A few years back, scientists from many countries took on a massive project to
calculate the number of species trees that are yet to be discovered on earth.
To do it, they used available information on observed rare species, and used the
data to estimate for the unknown rare species. This process used a similar
approach to one developed in the first half of the 20th century.
What was the original purpose of this approach?

Question 11
It is a title for a high-ranking official in charge of matters related to hunting in a
certain European country. Today the name is best known as a beverage brand
which is the major component of an ‘explosive’ output.
In recent years, fans of a TV show- which will conclude shortly- have made a
parody of the output in question and named it as a combination of the original
name of the output, and the name of the protagonist(or antagonist?)
What is the combined name I am talking about? Or, give the brand and the name
of the protagonist?

Question 12
A research was published for the first time that a new genome sequence method
can help scientists conduct in-depth analyses of clinically relevant single cells.
The paper talked about the importance of it by telling how technology limitations
have only allowed a view from far until now, but the hidden complexities can
only be appreciated by studying each individual cell.
They compared this to the works of a 19th century individual.
Whose works were thus used in this comparison?

Question 13
This company headquartered in Melbourne has been barred from indulging in its
activities recently in a certain country.
Even though the official reason is protests regarding environmental damage
from its undertaking, the timing of this incident has been seen by many as a
retaliation for something else.
What is this the supposed retaliation of?
Image follows(of the country)

Question 14
Etymologically, this word has no relation to a group of microorganisms. Rather it
comes from Latin for ‘useful’- sharing roots with other common words
The earliest usage of the word is from the 17th century in regards to money-
“Take away this _______ Instrument from the service of our necessities..” with
money being the ultimate ________ commodity.
What is this word, whose negative form is widely known in the modern world?

Question 15
In an episode of Epic Rap Battles of History, this business mogul targets the
other(from the same industry as him) ‘dark’ past by using a portmanteau.
The portmanteau is made by combining an infamous period from history as well
as a product by Procter and Gamble, which faced a challenging period of time a
few years back.
What is the portmanteau/What are the two terms used?(First is a word, second is
a multi-worded term)

Question 16
One of the earliest usages of this chemical element is by an Asian king- better
known for a marvellous wedding gift in the sixth century BC- for decorating the
walls of his palace.
This element was also sexually appealing to many medieval monks, who gave it a
nickname containing the names of two Greek deities, due to its half-conducting,
half insulating- “neither here nor there”- property.
What is this wedding gift being talked about? What is the nickname used?

Question 17
This is a history podcast which talks about a variety of historical instances in the
20th century, with the first episode being on the presidency of Harry Truman. The
podcast series takes its name from something from late 1980s.
The 1980s context has been often parodied in many marketing campaigns. One
such campaign was by a British company for promoting the 2015 edition of
something iconic- apt given the name of what the ad was promoting. Recent
editions have not lived up to the hype though.
What is the name of the podcast? What was the ad campaign for?

Question 18
This action has been used as a form of communication and music for millennia
across cultures. However, a study on the physics of it was never done before.
A recent study showed that it one of the fastest recorded angular accelerations
that humans can perform. It also proved that skin friction is essential to provide
the necessary acceleration.
Therefore, this study proves that a certain action from a few years back would
have been scientifically impossible.
What does this study analyse? What specific action is talked about here?

Question 19
A recent article talked about how this company’s business practices made the
growing of a certain fruit(or vegetable?) popular in a US state.
It focuses on how the invention of a product by the employee of this company
made them invest heavily in tomato breeding, with the product becoming a daily
staple for many due to lower packaging, shipping and storage costs.
Someone paid tributes to multiple variants of this in the mid 20th century.
Which company am I talking about? Who is this individual?

Question 20
This composer has had 2 major claims to fame in the last 2 years, and both are for
the same client.
The composition from this year- chronicling the story of certain ‘young men’- has
a lot of Indian classical music influence along with Western classical feel. The
primary reason for that is supposedly as a tribute to a real-life lady associated
with this project.
What is the new composition for? Who is the lady in question?

Lata Mangeshkar’s white sarees!

Question 4
In the 1980s in California, a certain individual drew the attention of experts who
were trying to ascertain the causes of something.
He appeared to provide the link to several Californian ‘instances’ that otherwise
did not have any apparent connection. He was labelled the “out of California”
case because he lived outside of the state.
The label used for him was misread by later experts and led to the origin of
something very common today - especially in the last few years.
What is this the origin story of?

Patient Zero
They used the letter O for ‘outside’ which was misread as 0(zero)!

Question 5
This Englishman named Capel funded a hat store for someone in Paris in early
part of the last century and a ready-to-wear boutique a few years later.
His sudden death roughly a decade later left this person devastated and
heartbroken, and he was supposedly paid a visual tribute a few years later- even
though there are other theories behind the inspiration.
What is this tribute all about/What did he supposedly inspire?

The interlocking Cs in Chanel logo!

Red sandalwood trade seen in Pushpa

Ashneer Grover’s line in Shark Tank

Question 11
It is a title for a high-ranking official in charge of matters related to hunting in a
certain European country. Today the name is best known as a beverage brand
which is the major component of an ‘explosive’ output.
In recent years, fans of a certain entertainment entity- which will conclude
shortly- have made a parody of the output in question and named it as a
portmanteau of the original name of the output, and the name of the
protagonist(or antagonist?)
What is the portmanteau I am talking about? Or, give the brand and the name of
the protagonist?

Jaegermeister, which translates to ‘Master Hunter’

Eren Jaeger from Attack on Titan!

Question 12
A research was published for the first time that a new genome sequence method
can help scientists conduct in-depth analyses of clinically relevant single cells.
The paper talked about the importance of it by telling how technology limitations
have only allowed a view from far until now, but the hidden complexities can
only be appreciated by studying each individual cell.
They compared this to the work of a 19th century individual.
Whose works were thus used in this comparison?

Novak Djokovic’s ban from Australian Open!

Apar-tide-pods(Apartheid and Tide Pods)
Zuckerberg uses this to target Elon Musk

Question 16
One of the earliest usages of this chemical element is by a certain Asian king-
better known for a marvellous wedding gift in the sixth century BC- for
decorating the walls of his palace.
This element was also sexually appealing to many medieval monks, who gave it a
nickname containing the names of two Greek deities, due to its half-conducting,
half insulating- “neither here nor there”- property.
What is this wedding gift being talked about? What is the nickname used?

King Nebuchadnezzar built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon

Hermaphrodite(Hermes + Aphrodite)

Andy Warhol’s Campbell Soup Cans

The classical music is a tribute to Mrinalini Sarabhai, the
legendary Bharatnatyam dancer

Reject
One creator says the idea of this came while he was in the shower and he was
trying to clean the mirror in the bathroom because it was steamy.
Another owner states that the idea came from organising photos in real life-
starting with one large stack and segregating them into two.
What- associated prominently with this company- was inspired by all this?

The BizSciTech Quiz Finals - by Aabhaas Dasgupta
Technozion, NIT Warangal
20/02/2022

Rules
● 20 questions in dries - 10 each in clockwise and anti-clockwise
● First 10 have Odd as SciTech, even as Biz. Next 10 have the opposite
● A written round of 4 questions in between
● +10/-5 for pounce. +10/0 on bounce
● Normal pounce rules apply

Question 1
There have been demands from many of the scientific community to allow
research work to continue in this building - in the heart of Hyderabad- in lieu of
its importance from around 125 years ago. However, it is in a sorry state.
This is because a certain government ministry is controlling the land around it.
With high security constantly in the area, there has been much less utility of this
area since 2008. Still, this area is sometimes used by the armed forces.
What is the scientific legacy of this building? What happened in 2008 that
reduced the necessity of usage of this area?

Sir Ronald Ross discovered mosquitoes as the vector for
malaria here !

The RGIA in Shamshabad was built, reducing the necessity of
Begumpet airport

Question 2
In the beginning of the 1930s, before Pepsi became their biggest rival, Coca-Cola
feared that their sales will be hit among adults due to a then soon-to-be
development. Their fears did not come true, and many believe it was because of
the sweet taste of the product.
However, during that period, they decided to aggressively focus on targeting
children. They did so by associating with ‘someone’, whose popular appearance
fitted with Coke’s corporate identity. This campaign is supposedly the origins of
it’s jolly and rotund personality.
What was Coca-Cola’s fear all about? Who featured in this ad campaign?

Question 3
This person, most well known for a work involving a specific animal in the 13th
century, wrote the book that introduced the Indian numeral system to the west.
However, the number system was seen with apprehension by the clergy due to its
prevailing events of that time, and something about the number system.
Who is this individual ? What was the reason of the clergy’s apprehensions?

The crusades, which made them wary of anything with
Islamic origins
Indo- Arabic number system spread to Europe from Arabs

Question 4
Just like his unpopular predecessor, this newly-appointed CEO was an
accountant in PriceWaterhouseCooper.
His performance in the expansion of the commercial side of things for his current
employers has been commendable, with him supervising partnerships with
Chevrolet and Adidas. His recent big piece of business was in 2021 with a tech
company which allowed remote maintenance of devices from one machine.
Who is this individual? Which company am I talking about?

Question 5
This item from the late 1950s, currently stored in the National Museum of
American History at the Smithsonian, is supposed to be the the harbinger of a
new age in its field. Measuring .5 cm x 1.8 cm x 2.5 cm, this was made up of gold,
aluminium and a certain element being the primary component.
Roughly a year later, the major element of the its later versions had changed.
What is this specific item(Need a proper noun)? What was the new element
chosen?

Silicon had replaced Germanium in the newer ICs

Question 6
This psychologist and author, who passed away last year, is best known for
describing something multi-coloured. This contribution has been followed across
businesses, and is also being taught to students in some places.
While describing about this, he very aptly describes a certain artwork- multiple
variants exist across the world- by a Frenchman in early 20th century.
Who is this individual? Which piece of art is this?

Question 7
In 2006, a British museum decided to sell off a certain specific object from a few
years back to raise funds, and a designer was contacted to make an artwork.
Being 7 metres long and 3 metres high, it proved to be a big challenge to transport
the object. One of the most striking parts of the artwork- appropriately dubbed
ICON- was a curvature, which was designed to resemble something- which was a
result of wherever the object was from.
It was apt as this designer’s team was the last team to design such objects.
What is this object? What physical phenomenon was the curvature supposed to
resemble? Image follows.

The curvature was inspired by the sonic waves created by a
Concorde’s flight!

Question 8
After joining Atari in the 1970s,he decided to visit India in search of spiritual
enlightenment. The trip to India, while proving to be inspirational, also made him
a lifelong admirer of someone, with him quoting “There is no one that embodies
better what I want to become, other than ______, he changed the world."
During a tumultuous period in his life post the mid 1980s, he made a very visible
change in his appearance, which was inspired by his idol himself.
What happened in the mid 1980s? What is this change in appearance being talked
about undertake?

Steve Jobs started wearing round glasses as a tribute to
Gandhi

Question 9
A recent science article talked about a hypothetical fight between two species
from the animal kingdom, and trying to figure out who would win. An actual
fight seems difficult, as the former is mostly found in the Rocky Mountain
regions, and the latter belongs to a different continent.
The verdict aptly was that in the specific open setting being discussed, the former
would have an advantage as it would charge down quickly towards the other and
damage the other species with its horns.
What are these two species?

Question 10
The recent closure of Westland Books has left a lot of book fans in a gloomy mood.
One news website captured this sentiment perfectly by making a slight
modification to a well-known imagery - apt in this context.
What did the news website show?

Inverted the smile in the logo of Amazon!

Written Round - Love
● 4 questions directly/laterally connected to Love
● +10 for each
● No negatives

Question 1
This font is named ‘American __________’ , and
is supposedly a reminder of the old-fashioned
style of printing.
One of its most memorable usages is in an
advertisement campaign from mid 1970s.
What is the name of the font? Which ad
campaign, which has had multiple spin-offs
across the world?

Question 2
The following is an excerpt by a scientist in the website ‘Theology for the Curious
Christian’ regarding a chemical reaction-
The end result contains sugars, yeast, and water, which contain carbon and
nitrogen along with oxygen and hydrogen. The amount of energy it would take to
perform this atomic deconstruction and reconstruction is staggering. To do so
without any visible energy transformation of the ______ indicates a mastery of
natural law far beyond our current comprehension.
What was being analysed here?

Question 3
In his previous workplace, he created two social experiments-one asked users to
take part in a huge collaborative artwork, pixel by pixel, and the other one had a
simple 60-second timer counted down, resetting any time a visitor clicked.
His curiosity about internet crowd psychology and his understanding of what
tech platforms demand from users influenced the features of his biggest claim to
fame- unoriginality and shared success, according to websites.
Who is this individual- best known to us for something born out of love?

Question 4
One of the lesser known victims of Demonetisation is this industry in Rampur,UP
which was once touted to produce the best products of its kind in the word. But
their hand-made equipments are now replaced by cheaper Chinese ones.
Explaining the process of creation, one guy tells “The base from the maple wood
which is exported from Brazil, spruce wood from Himachal Pradesh is used on
the top area, and ebony wood is used in other parts”, along with using metallic
wires. He adds that even a small mistake in anything can ruin the entire product .
They got their biggest endorsement in 2000 in an ‘educational’ context.
What product am I talking about? What was the 2000 purchase for?

Jesus turning water to wine at the Wedding in Cana!

Question 3
In his previous workplace, he created two social experiments-one asked users to
take part in a huge collaborative artwork, pixel by pixel, and the other one had a
simple 60-second timer counted down, resetting any time a visitor clicked.
His curiosity about internet crowd psychology and his understanding of what
tech platforms demand from users influenced the features of his biggest claim to
fame- unoriginality and shared success, according to websites.
Who is this individual - best known to us for something born out of love?

Josh Wardle, who created Wordle for his wife

The violin used by Shah Rukh Khan in Mohabbatein

Question 11
This iconic diamond has been very few times worn
in public. A recent usage was for a ‘celestial
context’ by someone a few years back(who was
associated with a prominent business house last
year).
It is back in popular consciousness because of
circumstances in/around Assouan.
Who wore it a few years back? What is the recent
context that is being talked about?

Lady Gaga wore the Tiffany Diamond in Oscars 2019 where
she won the award for ‘A Star is Born’

Question 12
Due to the advent of telescopes in medieval England, the concept of solar eclipse
was well-known. The fact that the earth goes to the opposite side of the sun, and
faces an obstacle in between in the form of moon fascinated many.
This fact was probably paid tribute by someone through a nominal choice in the
early 17th century.
What is this nominal choice all about, which also inspired something iconic from?

Ophelia in Hamlet was named as Op-Helios(Opposite sun)!

Question 13
This kind of houses are a far cry from the ‘beautiful city’ style of architecture. It
drew on patterns found in nature (honeycombs, insect eyes) for the purpose of
improving delivery of basic municipal services in tightly packed areas.
This was implemented in the early part of the 20th century in a certain place in
India to solve a housing problem that had arisen recently.
Where was all this happening? Who were these houses for?
Image follows-

Housing for the tribals(adivasis) after creation of the Tata
Steel Plant in Jamshedpur!

Question 14
This lady is an author and psychic medium who specializes in reading auras-
colorful life force energies around individuals.
Last year, she was contacted by a European tech company regarding a much
anticipated annual offering. The challenge they had spotted was to convert the
various moods- Happy, Calm, Hopeful- into appropriate colours, and creating
results based on annual user data.
What was all this for - a rage worldwide about 2 months ago?

Question 15
A recent research on how family businesses can sustain success talks about the
need for the current generations to destroy the past- in order to create their own
legacy. This has been compared to an example from Greece - which actually had
disastrous consequences.
The authors also use a much more modern example- ongoing since 2018- to
explain the repercussions of generational tensions in businesses.
What is the example from Greece? What is the modern example used?

Oedipus, who killed his father and became king

Question 16
This device- invented in the late 1770s by this doctor- was something of an early
infrared scope, allowing him to detect the shimmering heat waves rising from
the top of a candle. But the Academy of Sciences turned the idea down. The main
reason was that the heat patterns couldn’t be measured with precision, and this
didn’t augur well with the head of the Academy.
This cost the inventor a chance to join the academy, and made him suffer
conditions of poverty for long, which coupled with his debilitating health
conditions. He never forgot this incident and kept a lifelong grudge.
Who is the inventor, whose life didn’t have a happy ending? What was the result
of this grudge a few decades later?

The arrest and guillotine of Antoine Lavoisier

Question 17
In the late 1930s, General Motors introduced the idea of a ‘concept car’.
The name they gave the project was an ironic take on the kinds of names most of
the experimental projects - created to discover something new and unknown. In a
way, the name given by GM was a step ahead of the standard names.
What was the name of the car?

The Y-Project, as a play on the X-Projects

Question 18
One of the major ideas behind the creation of this tech company in the early
2010s was to reject a world created by the existing player in this field, where
everything was polished for public consumption, and ensuring a space for youth
to indulge in all the debauchery without spoiling your future job prospects. This
inspired this USP of this company’s product
This approach - opposite to the major player in the field- also was the reason why
in its products, it avoids certain words commonly used by the competitor. The
logic, according to the founder, was to keep things more personal.
What is the feature being talked about? What are these banned words?

Snapchat’s photos getting automatically deleted after 24
hours

Snapchat avoids words like ‘Share’ and ‘Post’, and uses ‘Send
to/Add to Story’
These words were used by Facebook/Instagram

Question 19
An article in a paper discussed the reasons companies like Fender and Gibson are
facing huge debts and how the businesses were going through a sad state.
The article also showed how the CEO of Fender dismissive about these analysis of
the decline and he did this by using a quote from the 1890s.
The title of the article was a one word change in something from late 1960s.
What was the title of the article? What did the CEO say?

Question 20
Transitional cell carcinoma, also called urothelial carcinoma, is a type of cancer
that occurs in the urinary system. It is the most common type of bladder cancer.
In a paper studying how continuous mitosis occurs in this disease, researchers
found out how these cancerous cells keep breaking into innumerable small
identical cells, and how they keep going in all directions.
They compared this to something from the mid 1950s.
What did these scientists use as a comparison?

Question 13
The ______ ____ is an alliterative term for an airline that was active in the capital
city of a European country.
Their name is something one would associate with a lot of athletes including the
F1 driver shown.
What is the name of the airline?

Question 10
A few years back, Harvard biologists developed a system to use the CRISPR
system to add sequential DNA snippets inside a living bacteria. The overall goal
was to go a long way in storing biological data inside living cells, and also to
expand the data storage capabilities of cells.
The choice for the subject matter was not random but was rather based
something from the the 2nd half of the 19th century.
What specifically was encoded inside the DNA of the bacteria?

Question 12
On board the Perseverance Mars mission, this object’s main purpose is to scan
habitable environments using Raman spectroscopy and luminescence for
Organic and Chemical materials. It has a very apt name from the world of fiction
.
One of the cameras that assist in its task is a wide-angled sensor to measure
topographic changes for operations and engineering.
What is the name of the camera?

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