The document provides details about a business quiz including 30 questions on various topics related to companies, products, and events. It includes questions about companies like LINE, Texas Instruments, companies founded by couples, and their current or former names. Other questions cover topics like Morse code, Christ the Redeemer statue, books recommended by Elon Musk, movie franchises like Alien, and logos of companies like Xerox and Yamaha. The document tests knowledge on a wide range of business, technology, and pop culture trivia.

1. Freshers’
Biz-Tech Quiz
By:
Avijit Kalra and Aditya Garg

2. Rules
● Quiz Master is God
● There are 30 questions in the quiz
● The quiz will be pounce/bounce type: Pounce(+20/-10), Bounce(+10/0)
● Enjoy!!

4. 1. What do these companies have in common?
Houzz
Kaspersky
Wynn Resorts
Cisco
VMWare

5. They were founded by couples

6. 2.X began as a response to disaster. Japan's
devastating Tōhoku earthquake in March 2011
damaged telecommunications infrastructure
nationwide, obliging employees at NHN Japan, a
unit of Korea's NHN Corp, to rely on Internet-based
resources to communicate. The company's
engineers developed X to facilitate this, and the
company released their app for public use in June
2011. Identify X.

7. LINE

8. 3. X was founded in 1951, after the reorganisation of
Geophysical Service Incorporated, which manufactured
equipment for the seismic industry. X also invented the
world’s first silicon transistor. Currently, it is the world’s
largest maker of analog technology components. Identify X.

9. X is Texas Instruments

10. 4. .--.-. (dot-dash-dash-dot-dash-dot) was added to
the Morse code list in 2004, and it was the first
addition since World War I. It was also the last since.
What does it represent?

11. The ‘@’ sign

12. 5. It was inaugurated in the 20th century. The inauguration
was to take place by the activation of floodlights by shortwave
radio inventor Guglielmo Marconi, stationed thousands of
miles away in . However, the weather conditions
were not good, and the signal was dependent on this factor,
so ultimately the floodlights were activated on-site. What is
being talked about here?

13. Christ the Redeemer

14. 6. Twelve Against the Gods, by William Bolitho,
which features biographies of 12 historical figures,
from Alexander the Great to Woodrow Wilson was
listed at $6 but the price shot up to $99.99 in a
matter of hours before the stock was sold out. Later,
the English language version of the book was sold
out on AbeBooks, Alibris and Barnes & Noble. Why?

15. Elon Musk recommended the book on Twitter

16. 7. The X is a parasitoid xenomorph; its only purpose is to make contact with the
host's mouth, by . Upon making contact, the X administers a cynose-
based paralytic in order to render the host unconscious. During a successful
attachment, the X will insert a proboscis down the host's throat, supplying it with
oxygen while simultaneously . Attempts to remove X generally prove
fatal, as the parasitoid will respond by tightening its tail around the host's neck,
and its prevents it from being cut away. In addition, its grip on the host
is strong enough to tear the host's face off if it is forcibly removed. In mid-2014, a
product Y started drawing comparisons with X after Y started supporting
something which was related to X in some way. ID X and Y.

17. X- Facehugger
Y-Oculus Rift(started supporting the game Alien: Isolation)

18. 8. What are the present names of these companies?(2 points each)
1. Confinity
2. Jerry’s Guide to the World Wide Web
3. BackRub
4. Marufuku Company
5. Blue Ribbon Sports

19. 1. PayPal
2. Yahoo
3. Google
4. Nintendo
5. Nike

20. 9. This website was blocked in Turkey early 2014
after a user named “haramzade-ler” (“bastards” in
Turkish) uploaded secretly-recorded phone calls
between the Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and
his associates. The contents of the phone calls -
which shed light on corruption - caused outrage in
the country and was key to large-scale protests.
What website?

21. SoundCloud

22. 10. X is now on offer at the Narita International Airport in Japan. It has been
provided by NTT Docomo, Japan’s largest mobile operator. It also bears
messages welcoming visitors from overseas, and offering information on how to
connect to Docomo's WiFi service. Docomo also published a light-hearted video
demonstrating how to use X - along with other information to help visitors get to
grips with the hi-tech they are likely to encounter in Japan. What is X ?

23. Toilet paper for cleaning smartphones (after people use them in the toilet)

24. 11. Identify the companies associated with these
(old) logos.
1. 2.
3.

25. 1. Xerox
2. Yamaha
3. Firefox

26. 12. X was founded as a neural network research company in
1986 by Kevin J. Kinsella, Gary Lynch, Lauren Yazolino,
Federico Faggin (co-inventor of the microprocessor) and
Carver Mead (VLSI pioneer). The company began to apply
semiconductor hardware design techniques to a computing
technology known as neural networks. Current customers of
X include Acer, Amazon, Asus, Dell, Google, HP, HTC,
Lenovo, LG, Microsoft, Nokia, Samsung, Sony, Sony
Ericsson, Huawei, ZTE, BlackBerry and Toshiba. There is a
very high probability that you use one of X’s products. Identify
X.

27. Synaptics

28. 13. The screenshots below are from the the safety video of an airline titled “The
Most Epic Safety Video Ever Made”. Identify the airline.

30. Air New Zealand

31. 14. In the 20th century, X's ambition to combine agriculture with industry resulted
in large-scale soybean experimentation. X planted thousands of acres of the
legume, which chemists used to create useful products including paints and
plastics. X even commissioned a suit made with soybean protein fibers, which he
modeled for this photograph taken on July 30, 1941 --X's 78th birthday. Who is X?

32. X is Henry Ford

33. 15. X is a Malaysian low cost airline headquartered near Kuala Lumpur. It is the largest
airline in Malaysia by fleet size and destinations. X operates scheduled domestic and
international flights to more than 165 destinations spanning 25 countries. X’s Indian
subsidiary operates out of Chennai.
X’s namesake(a different airline, operating out of Taiwan) was an affiliate of the Pacific
Corporation.It was a holding company that Z used in order to control several aviation front
companies, including Southern Air Transport, Intermountain Airlines and Air America.The
Pacific Corporation dissolved in 1979 after selling its assets.X’s namesake is the only
surviving airline among all other affiliates of the Pacific Corporation. Also, it is no longer
associated with the Pacific Corporation or Z.
Identify X and Z.

34. Hint: Z is a very “intelligent” organisation.

35. X is AirAsia
Z is the CIA

36. 16. X originated with a Usenet posting by British
computer programmer Col Needham entitled "Those
Eyes", about actresses with beautiful eyes. Later in
1993 it moved onto the World Wide Web, with the
database residing on the servers of the computer
science department of Cardiff University in Wales. In
1998, Jeff Bezos, founder, owner and CEO of
Amazon.com, struck a deal with Needham and other
principal shareholders to buy X outright for
approximately $55 million. Identify X.

37. IMDb

38. 17. This NASA project has been designed to leverage the advancing trends of
additive manufacturing (AM) and in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) to enable
asteroid rendezvous missions in which a set of technically simple robotic
processes convert asteroid elements into very basic versions of spacecraft
subsystems (GNC, Propulsion, Avionics). Upon completion, the asteroid will be a
programmed mechanical automata carrying out a given mission objective; such as
relocation to an Earth-Moon libration point for human rendezvous. Coincidentally,
the acronym for this project is an integral part of Hindu mythology. What is the
name of this project (acronym will also do)?

39. Project RAMA (Reconstituting Asteroids into Mechanical Automata)

40. 18. X's founder was born in Poland in 1912 to Jewish parents, who later emigrated
to the United States.He invented the "Danish-sounding" "X" as a tribute to
Denmark's exemplary treatment of its Jews during the Second World War,and
included an outline map of Denmark on early labels. The name is not Danish, nor
did the name have any meaning in any language before its creation.He felt that
Denmark was known for its products and had a positive image in the United
States.X now has franchises throughout the United States and many other
countries around the world including the United Kingdom, India, China, Lebanon
and Brazil. Identify X.

41. X is Häagen-Dazs Ice Cream

42. 19. The Principality of Sealand is an unrecognised
micronation that claims Roughs Tower, an offshore
platform located in the North Sea approximately 12
kilometres off the coast of Suffolk, England, as its
territory. Roughs Tower is a disused Maunsell Sea Fort,
originally called HM Fort Roughs, built as an anti-aircraft
defensive gun platform by the British during World War
II. A few years ago this island was the subject of a
takeover bid, which didn't go through because of its
controversial nature. Who was going to take over
Sealand?

43. The Pirate Bay
They wanted to create a nation without copyright
laws

44. 20. X is the name of many things. From the name of a statue at the Herbert
Hoover National Historic Site to a song by Bob Dylan, to an Operating System, to
a lunar crater as well as the name of an asteroid, to the name of a part of the river
Thames in England, as well as the name of a car by Toyota ; all are named X.
However, X is a pretty controversial name nowadays due to obvious reasons.
Identify X.

45. ISIS

46. 21. A man dressed as a construction worker took a sledgehammer and a pickaxe
to smash Donald J. Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2016,
smashing the sidewalk symbol and attempting to remove it.The star has since
been repaired. Why does Trump have a star on the walk of fame? Also, what is
the name/business world connection of the man who vandalized the star?

47. The star is for Trump being the producer of Miss Universe.
The vandal was James Lambert Otis, heir to the Otis elevator company.

48. 22. Though it is not known how it originated, 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. Having found the right recipe, he claimed how his
skills and efficiency improved greatly, after making the switch to
this pattern and felt that he never actually faced a problem after
that. 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 so popular,
this actually became a standard configuration to the future of this
community, and has actually become, not only a standard for this
community but for every computer user in order to increase their
efficiency. What?

49. Using the WASD keys

50. 23. X is a global brand and has more that 100 variants worldwide.X
originated as a result of difficulties importing into Nazi
Germany during World War II due to a trade embargo. To
circumvent this, Max Keith, the head of the German division of the
company during the war, decided to create a new product for the
German market, using only ingredients available in Germany at the
time, including whey and apple pomace – the "leftovers of
leftovers", as Keith later recalled. The name was the result of a
brief brainstorming session, which started with Keith's exhorting his
team to "use their imagination" (fantasie in German), to which one
of his salesmen, Joe Knipp, immediately retorted "X!”. Thus X was
named. Identify X.

51. Fanta

52. 24. John Moreno, a former employee of X has explained :
“About a dozen years ago, we had some discussions at X
about the placement of Y. So we asked, why is the Y inverted
when the products are in use ”. However, the head of X
explained “why was inverted from the user’s perspective an
issue? Because our group noticed that how the user made a
constant mistake in using the product, and we believed on
providing the best possible user experience”. But years later,
the decision was reversed, and it was concluded that the
mistake was a self correcting problem that only lasts, for a
few seconds, however viewing it inverted is a problem that
lasts indefinitely. Give funda.

53. The inverted Apple logo on the MacBook

54. 25. In a/an X, an organization compels individuals who wish to join to make a payment.
In exchange, the organization promises its new members a share of the money taken
from every additional member that they recruit. The directors of the organization also
receive a share of these payments. For the directors, it is potentially lucrative—whether
or not they do any work, the organization's membership has a strong incentive to
continue recruiting and funneling money. However, X is often confused with another
term Y. The fact is that there are some differences between X and Y.In a/an Y, the
orchestrator acts as a "hub" for the victims, interacting with all of them directly. In a/an
X, those who recruit additional participants benefit directly.Also, a/an Y claims to rely
on some esoteric investment approach and often attracts well-to-do investors, whereas
Xs explicitly claim that new money will be the source of payout for the initial
investments.A/An X typically collapses much faster because it requires exponential
increases in participants to sustain it. By contrast,a/an Y can survive simply by
persuading most existing participants to reinvest their money, with a relatively small
number of new participants.

55. X - Pyramid Scheme
Y- Ponzi Scheme

56. 26. Microsoft released Windows 95 with a massive
joint ad-campaign with X showing off how their OS is
great at multimedia. Ironically, because of the same
campaign, customers saw X as a more desirable
product -- it was still supported on Win 3.1/DOS and
wasn’t actually better on the expensive Win 95. As a
result, Win 95 sales plummeted to be only the 2nd
most installed software in 1995. What was the top
seller, X?

57. DOOM

58. 27. Product placement in anime is less common than regular
television, but when it happens it seems even more jarring
than its live action counterparts. Code Geass, an anime
series, is set in an alternate earth, but it features a large
amount of corporate product placement. Most frequently, the
characters seem to be eating X products during almost every
single meal, with the containers usually placed in prominent
places. Which brand is X?

59. X - Pizza Hut

60. 28. In the summer of 1895, Tomáš X found himself
facing financial difficulties. To overcome these
serious setbacks, he decided to sew shoes from
canvas instead of leather. This type of shoe became
very popular and helped the company grow to 50
employees. In 1904 Tomáš introduced mechanised
production techniques that allowed X to become one
of the first mass producers of shoes in Europe.
Identify X.

61. Bata

62. 29. X is a live streaming video platform owned by X Interactive, a
subsidiary of Amazon.com.Introduced in June 2011, the site primarily
focuses on video gaming, including playthroughs of video games,
broadcasts of eSports competitions, creative content, and more recently,
music broadcasts. Content on the site can either be viewed live or via
video on demand.
The popularity of X would eclipse that of its general-interest counterpart;
in October 2013, the website had 45 million unique viewers, and by
February 2014, it was considered the fourth largest source of peak
Internet traffic in the United States. The site has also branched out into
music-related streams and content. In 2015, X announced it had more
than 1.5 million broadcasters and 100 million visitors per month. Identify
X.

63. Twitch.tv

64. 30. X will launch two Netflix-like streaming services — one for sports and another for films
and television shows — in one of the boldest moves by an entertainment company to
address the changing media landscape.
The stand-alone subscription services would appeal to younger audiences who are turning
away from traditional media and flocking to Netflix and other digital platforms. The ESPN
service, which would be available next year, is expected to feature 10,000 sporting events
annually, among them Major League Baseball games.
The X-branded film and TV offering, set to debut in 2019, would include original content
developed by X.
What is X?

65. The Walt Disney Co.

66. Thanks!!