The finals of the BizTech Quiz held at Techno India on 5th April, 2014.

3.  Written Round.
 Infinite Bounce and Limited Pounce.
 Written Round.
 Infinite Bounce and Limited Pounce.

4.  Written Round.
 10 Honest Slogans of technology or
business related identities.
 Name them.
 +5 for every correct answer.
 +20 for a full house.

38.  20 Questions.
 Infinite Bounce.
 Maximum No. of Pounces : Seven.
 +10/0 on bounce.
 +20/-10 on Pounce.
 Clockwise.

39. This is a photo taken by Goldin+Senneby in California in 2006. This picture has
suddenly become popular on the Internet as a symbolic representation of an
event expected to take place this month.
What event?

42. The brand Charmin posted this photo on their official Twitter page in
November 2013 with the tagline, “We’ve always been a/an/the X.” While
people loved the joke on Twitter, it was soon removed by the brand.
ID X. What is Charmin a brand of?

45. Gawker Media came in news a couple of months back because of a
certain lawsuit against it.
Who sued it? And why?

48.  The Delhi High Court had restrained the makers of Yeh Jawani
Hai Deewani from releasing the film on TV with
“objectionable” dialogues against X, after Y, the company
that owns the brand, filed a case against the producers.
 The brand has objected to a conversation between
actors Ranbir Kapoor and Tanvi Azmi which shows the brand
“in the manner which is detrimental to the interests of brand
and the parent organization.”
 The incident made filmmaker Anurag Kashyap tweet, “X takes
offence to Yeh Jawani. This country is so offended and lacks a
sense of humour. I too hate X. Sue me.”
ID X and Y.

51.  X is the second stage in the life cycle of a Xenomorph. Its
bony finger-like legs allow it to crawl rapidly and its long tail
can launch it in great distances. The X is a parasite, its only
purpose is to make contact with the host's mouth for the
implantation process, by gripping its long, bony finger-like
legs around the victim's head and wrapping its tail around
the host's neck, then slowly tightening the tail in order to
make the host gasp for oxygen and be rendered
unconscious. By this point, the X will have inserted a tube-like
proboscis into the mouth and down the throat of the host,
supplying the host with oxygen while implanting an embryo.
 It came back in news last month with Internet jokes
suggesting that, after a certain incident, Y should be
renamed as X.
ID X and Y.

54.  Big Mama’s & Papa’s in Los Angeles, CA,
came in news in 2012 for offering a 54”x54”
_____ deliverable to one’s doorstep,
complete with the world's largest
deliverable _____ box. The _____ costs $200,
setting the world record for the “Largest
Deliverable _____”, according to the World
Record Academy.
It came back in news again in 2014. Why?

57.  X was a brand of cologne created by Y. The most famous
newspaper advertisement of X had the tagline “Oh, how the ghost
of you clings." and an image of a woman adjusting her stockings.
According to a letter from the CEO of Y, on whom the company is
named, to Angela Neuberg, director of the Cosmetics division of the
company, they choose slightly androgynous women to appeal to
the gay market.
 According to the CEO, the success of the range was down to the
romantic atmosphere and soft focus of the ad campaign. The
marketing strategy conveyed an idyllic idea of a modified, half-
remembered past due to a withdrawn sense of global uncertainty
and the belief of an unstable future among the populous.
 The X line was discontinued after a man-made disaster in1986 to
make way for a new line called Millennium, whose ads featured
imagery that reflected upon a utopian vision.
ID X and Y.

60.  A certain multinational company X moved to the Delhi High
Court against the release of the 2014 film Y. X's plea, filed by
advocate Bitika Sharma, had sought “restraining them
(producers) from launching their movie under the impugned title
Y which is nothing but a blatant imitation of the plaintiff's (X)
registered trademark”. X also alleged that it had issued a cease
and desist notice to the producers to refrain from “advertising,
promoting and releasing” the film, but instead of communicating
with it in any manner whatsoever, ”they (producers) have
deliberately chosen to escalate the promotion and
advertisements”.
 In the end, the two parties settled amicably and Y got to retain
the title but on the condition of displaying a disclaimer on the title
credits of the movie, theatrical trailers and the end slate in all
their official digital media communications.
ID X and Y.

63. Put funda.

66. FITB.

69.  There has been a sudden surge in people beginning to
read about the work of the billionaire Jacob Rothschild on
the Internet and he has become the subject of
a meme that juxtaposes his photo with Charles
Montgomery Burns, the villain of The Simpsons series. The
meme says that Rothschild “owns nearly every central
bank in the world”, “financed both sides of war since
Napoleon” and “owns your news, your oil and your
government.”
 Another conspiracy theory says that he “heads the
Bilderberg Group” which has allegedly “approved the war
in Syria” and “considers Barack Obama as his puppet.”
 All these conspiracy theories started after he became the
sole owner of a major semiconductor patent on behalf of
one of his companies, Freescale Semiconductor, that will
make him richer by a few million dollars.
Why did all the conspiracy theories start with the patent?
What was the first conspiracy theory that started?

72.  Harvest Moon, known in Japan as
Bokujō Monogatari, is a video game
series that started back in 1996 and the
latest edition Harvest Moon : Linking The
New World released in 2014.
What 2009 worldwide phenomenon is this
game series said to have inspired?
#ashishasks

75. X is a lemonade soda made by Real Soda In Real Bottles, Ltd. The
slogans on the bottle make fun of Soviet phraseology. In addition, the
soda is coloured red.
ID X.

78. #ashishasks
Connect this famous father-
son duo laterally to a
famous confectionery
company.

81. While high-schoolers in the 1970s, X and Y started Traf-O-Data, a computer
business that automatically read paper tapes from traffic counters for local
governments. The idea later became obsolete when Washington D.C.
offered to tabulate the tapes for cities for free.
ID X and Y.
#ashishasks

84. An internet meme from the night of the series finale of HIMYM.
Fill in the blanks with a two word answer.

87. #ashishasks
As an April Fools’ Day prank, X returned on Office.com.
This is an auto-generated tweet by X.
ID X.

90.  The Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow is
one of the most senior posts within that
institution, elected every three years by
students. The role of the Rector is to represent
students to the senior management of the
University and raise issues which concern them.
 People who have held this post include Adam
Smith, John Russell, Benjamin Disraeli, Lord
Curzon, Stanley Baldwin and Winnie Mandela.
Who holds this prestigious post at present?

93. X has numerous medicinal properties including treating fever, respiratory diseases,
toothache, joint pains and a variety of other ailments. A mouthwash made from its root
tissue is used to relieve toothache and treat bleeding gums. The leaves are used to
promote healing of wounds and to relieve joint pains and toothache. Extracts of the
plant are incorporated into herbal cosmetics and hair products to promote skin and
scalp health.
X gives its name to an Indian brand that uses it as a major ingridient. ID X.

96. X is a fictional AI character in the Y video game series. X's original design was
based on Nefertiti. As an artificial construct, X has no physical form or being.
However, she always speaks with a smooth female voice. She can
communicate through communication systems and project a holographic
image of herself from appropriate projectors and appears as a woman.
Back in news recently, who is X and what is Y?

99.  Written Round.
 8 Logos of fictional companies.
 Name the company.
 +5 for every correct answer.
 +20 for a full house.

127.  20 Questions.
 Infinite Bounce.
 Maximum No. of Pounces : Seven.
 +10/0 on bounce.
 +20/-10 on Pounce.
 Anti-Clockwise.

128.  The Free Dictionary defines this three word
term as :
“A slang term for a sleepy or tired state when
one first arrives at work. _______ ______
________ comes from sharing a ride with co-
workers, because, when one is not driving,
one does not have to pay attention to the
road and thus may take more time to fully
wake up.”
Which term?

131. Add two
more to
form an
exhaustive
list.

134. Connect the photo
above laterally to the
video game poster
below.

137.  In the early 1980s, X, a commercial bakery in
the U.S, began airing a commercial
featuring an elderly man reminiscing about
raisin bread that his grandmother used to
make with the tagline “Y”. Online interest in
the commercial resurged more than a
decade later with a Family Guy parody in
“Hell Comes to Quahog”, in which an old
man blackmails the audience into buying
Milano cookies.
ID X and Y.

140. #ashishasks
What modern day invention does this Jetsons cartoon predict?

143. Connect.

146.  In 1974, three years after it was founded, the company X found itself
in debt due to rising fuel prices and the founder had $5000. He took
the company's last $5,000 to a Las Vegas blackjack table after the
company was denied a vital business loan. Had his bet gone awry, X
would not have been able to foot a $24,000 fuel bill and it could have
killed the company.
 Robert Frock describes the episode in his book, Changing How The
World Does Business : X’s Incredible Journey to Success - The Inside
Story :-
“I asked him where the funds had come from, and he responded, ‘The
meeting with the General Dynamics board was a bust and I knew we
needed money for Monday, so I took a plane to Las Vegas and won
$27,000.’ I said, ‘You mean you took our last $5,000-- how could you do
that?’ He shrugged his shoulders and said, ‘What difference does it
make? Without the funds for the fuel companies, we couldn't have flown
anyway.’ His luck held again. It was not much, but it came at a critical
time and kept us in business.”
This incident helped the company to keep afloat and make $3.6 million
profit by 1976. Which company?
#ashishasks

149.  In 1965, Alan Stillman was a young man living in
Manhattan, who, in his own words, was “looking to
meet girls”. The bar restaurant he founded, X, began
life as a public cocktail party : the first neighbourhood
joint to welcome both men and women alike, with
the express motive to unite the two.
 The company is a unit of the Carlson Companies. Its
name is taken from an expression that celebrates the
joy one feels in knowing that the work has officially
ended for the week. The chain is known for its
appearance, with red-striped canopies, brass railings,
Tiffany lamps, and frequent use of antiques as decor.
Which restaurant chain?
#ashishasks

152.  X was originally designed and programmed by Alexey
Pajitnov and it released on June 6, 1984. It was the first
entertainment software to be exported from the USSR to
the US and was published by Spectrum HoloByte for
Commodore 64 and IBM PC.
 Electronic Gaming Monthly's 100th issue had X in first
place as the “Greatest Game of All Time”. X came in
second place in IGN's “100 Greatest Video Games of All
Time”. It is also the highest paid-downloaded game of all
time.
Often associated with the quote, “If X has taught me
anything, it’s that errors pile up and accomplishments
disappear.”, which cult video game is this?

155.  The candy bar X was named after a famous
American sportsperson, though the
company claimed otherwise and said it
named them after President Grover
Cleveland’s granddaughter.
 The cover story told by the company was
simply a way to get around having to pay Y
royalties for the use of his name in their
marketing efforts.
ID X and Y.
#ashishasks

158. Monument Valley released on April 3rd, 2014, for iOS devices.
Whose works have inspired the game?
#ashishasks

161.  Less than two weeks after he was appointed the CEO
of X, Brendan Eich resigned on April 3rd amid the
controversy and the protests that followed his $1,000
donation to an anti-gay marriage ballot proposition in
California. ‘X prides itself on being held to a different
standard and, this past week, we didn't live up to it. We
know why people are hurt and angry, and they are
right: it's because we haven't stayed true to ourselves.’,
the company said in a blog post. ‘We didn't act like
you'd expect X to act. We didn't move fast enough to
engage with people once the controversy started.
We're sorry. We must do better.’
Straight from the newspapers, identify X.
#ashishasks

164.  X was an online social networking and microblogging service marketed
to Cuban users, created in 2010 by the United States Agency for
International Development (USAID).
 Recent news reports allege that the US government covertly developed the
service as a long-term strategy to encourage Cuban youths to revolt
against the nation's government, creating a “Cuban Spring”. The initiative
also appears to have had a surveillance dimension, allowing “a vast
database about Cuban X subscribers, including gender, age, receptiveness
and political tendencies” to be built. The word X is Cuban slang for a
hummingbird's call.
 Contractors, funded by USAID, “set up a byzantine system of front
companies using a Cayman Islands bank account, and recruited
unsuspecting executives who would not be told of the company's ties to the
U.S. government.”, according to an Associated Press report, which dubbed
X as the “Cuban Y”. While initially the service attracted subscribers by
having discussions on topics such as sports, the plans were to introduce
political messages to encourage dissent. After the Associated Press released
an exposé in April 2014, the US government acknowledged that it funded
the ‘discreet’ service.
ID X and Y.

167. Omni Consumer Products is a company
founded in 2006 by graphic designer Pete
Hottelet. Some of their products include :
 “Stay Puft Caffeinated Gourmet
Marshmallows.”
 “Sex Panther”, a cologne.
 “Brawndo”, an energy drink.
What is special about this company?

170. Kristoffer Von Hassel, aged five, is in news for doing
something for which the company X will send him four
free games, $50, and a year of ____ ____ subscription.
What did he do?

173. A fan-made advertisement
for which company?

176.  Urbandictionary.com’s definition of a
certain term :
“A person who continuously says ‘No.’ to
all business proposals or office plans on a
daily basis, without even considering his
options, much like a programmed robot.”
Which term?

179.  Allen Heckard of Portland, Oregon, filed a lawsuit
against the famous sportsman X and the company Y in
2009. Heckard claimed that he looked like the
sportsman, and this had caused him emotional
suffering. He seeked $416 million from X, and another
$416 million from Y for making X a celebrity.
 “You never can put a value on a person's life.”,
Heckard said to news outlets. “You know you're taking
my lifestyle away from me. So you know, we'll let the
ball bounce like X does and it will fall where it’s
supposed to fall.”
 Heckard later dropped the suit.
ID X and Y.

182. A billboard from a decade back. What was it promoting?

185. Ending the day with a print ad. For what?