The BizTech Quiz

Rules

Teams of 3 or less.

All blanks in the quiz are proportional.

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Prelims

20 Questions.

+10/-0.

Top 8 teams will qualify for the mains.

1.

X was founded in 1906 in Rochester as The ______ ____________ _______, which originally manufactured photographic paper and equipment.

In 1938 Chester Carlson, a physicist working independently, invented a process for printing images using an electrically charged drum and dry powder "toner".

The company came to prominence in 1959 with the introduction of the “X 914”, "the most successful single product of all time."

2.

The VideoLAN project began as a student endeavor at École Centrale Paris (France), but after releasing the software under the free software/open source GNU General Public License, the project is now multinational with a development team spanning 20 nations.

The current President of the VideoLAN non-profit organization who maintains the project's website is Jean-Baptiste Kempf, who is also one of the project's developers.

Name VideoLAN’s most famous product.

3.

“We get asked about it all the time,” he said. “I wouldn’t say that it causes angst, but I would certainly classify it as an annoyance.”

“At some point the decision was made that we need to draw a line between what is innocuous and the database can handle and all of a sudden serious business,” he said. “The proportion was calculated to be at about X.”

“Whoever wrote this code probably did not realize the magnitude of what they were doing,” said Hamilton. “It is now one of the idiosyncrasies of YouTube.”

Kya bol rha hai ye?

4.

X is a web and mobile application that allows users to create a cartoon of themselves and their friends.

Users create animated avatars of themselves by adjusting multiple physical characteristics and accessories of a virtual figurine. They then proceed to position their avatar in one of over 10,000 different scenarios.

In 2016, X was acquired by Y for $100 million.

5.

6.

X is a circular opening in the centre of a dome or in a wall.

Originating in antiquity, it is a feature of Byzantine and Neoclassical architecture. It is also known as an œil de boeuf from the French, or simply a "bull's-eye".

7.

Now that Google is Alphabet, it's going to need some extra URLs to match its new identity.

But the company may be taking the quest for the perfect domain name a bit too far.

In addition to the ABC.xyz domain that Google showed off in August, it seems that it also recently acquired the domain...

8.

9.

During Diwali that year, one of them wanted to celebrate the festival in his home town. Since he didn't know his travel schedule in advance…

He ran around town hunting for a ticket, but they were all sold out minutes before he reached the travel agents. Bengaluru traffic is notorious during festive season and can grip you at the wrong time. That's exactly what happened that day.

What did he create?

10.

11.

Along with virtual reality, Facebook Live and other in-house projects, Facebook is now venturing into the hyperlocal services segment in India. The social networking giant has introduced X rather discreetly into the market. One can now look for spas, pet care, and even event planners on the page. This step marks the move of Facebook into an already crowded segment, with other players like UrbanClap, Quickr and Housejoy.

12.

“A friend of mine has a great line. He says ‘Nothing important has ever been built without irrational exuberance’. Meaning that you need some of this mania to cause investors to open up their pocketbooks and finance the building of the railroads or the automobile or aerospace industry or whatever. And in this case, much of the capital invested was lost, but also much of it was invested in a very high throughput backbone for the _______, and lots of software that works, and databases and server structure. All that stuff has allowed what we have today, which has changed all our lives... that’s what all this speculative mania built”.

What’s he talkin’ about?

13.

14.

A _________ startup can be typically defined as a business which treads on a slow and steady path from the beginning, keeping a close check on its profit and revenue. A _________ startup also keeps a tight control over its spending habits in order to keep itself safe and secure in case of any unexpected funding storm.

FITB.

15.

16.

The desired effect is often achieved by raising the camera high above one’s head at arm’s length, as depicted in the image shown left below. Taking a picture from above, with a high-angle shot or at least a shot that shows mostly one’s face, emphasizes the face and deemphasizes the body.

What effect are we talking about?

17.

It had been three years since ______ and ________ had set up X - a website that posted hundreds of restaurant menus, reviews of eating joints and recommendations.

After they returned to work, they summoned their chief technology officer and asked him to build a restaurant application that people could access on their smartphones.

Over the next month and a half, two things happened - X metamorphosed into Y, and a Y application became available for Google's Android operating system.

18.

19.

20.

Answers

1.

X was founded in 1906 in Rochester as The ______ ____________ _______, which originally manufactured photographic paper and equipment.

In 1938 Chester Carlson, a physicist working independently, invented a process for printing images using an electrically charged drum and dry powder "toner".

The company came to prominence in 1959 with the introduction of the “X 914”, "the most successful single product of all time."

1.

Xerox

2.

The VideoLAN project began as a student endeavor at École Centrale Paris (France), but after releasing the software under the free software/open source GNU General Public License, the project is now multinational with a development team spanning 20 nations.

The current President of the VideoLAN non-profit organization who maintains the project's website is Jean-Baptiste Kempf, who is also one of the project's developers.

Name VideoLAN’s most famous product.

2.

VLC

3.

“We get asked about it all the time,” he said. “I wouldn’t say that it causes angst, but I would certainly classify it as an annoyance.”

“At some point the decision was made that we need to draw a line between what is innocuous and the database can handle and all of a sudden serious business,” he said. “The proportion was calculated to be at about X.”

“Whoever wrote this code probably did not realize the magnitude of what they were doing,” said Hamilton. “It is now one of the idiosyncrasies of YouTube.”

Kya bol rha hai ye?

3.

Youtube views freeze at 301.

4.

X is a web and mobile application that allows users to create a cartoon of themselves and their friends.

Users create animated avatars of themselves by adjusting multiple physical characteristics and accessories of a virtual figurine. They then proceed to position their avatar in one of over 10,000 different scenarios.

In 2016, X was acquired by Y for $100 million.

4.

X = Bitstrips

Y = Snapchat

5.

5.

GNU.

The GNU open source community mascot.

6.

X is a circular opening in the centre of a dome or in a wall.

Originating in antiquity, it is a feature of Byzantine and Neoclassical architecture. It is also known as an œil de boeuf from the French, or simply a "bull's-eye".

6.

Oculus

7.

Now that Google is Alphabet, it's going to need some extra URLs to match its new identity.

But the company may be taking the quest for the perfect domain name a bit too far.

In addition to the ABC.xyz domain that Google showed off in August, it seems that it also recently acquired the domain...

7.

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com

8.

8.

Ratan Tata investments

9.

During Diwali that year, one of them wanted to celebrate the festival in his home town. Since he didn't know his travel schedule in advance…

He ran around town hunting for a ticket, but they were all sold out minutes before he reached the travel agents. Bengaluru traffic is notorious during festive season and can grip you at the wrong time. That's exactly what happened that day.

What did he create?

9.

Redbus

10.

10.

11.

Along with virtual reality, Facebook Live and other in-house projects, Facebook is now venturing into the hyperlocal services segment in India. The social networking giant has introduced X rather discreetly into the market. One can now look for spas, pet care, and even event planners on the page. This step marks the move of Facebook into an already crowded segment, with other players like UrbanClap, Quickr and Housejoy.

11.

Facebook Services

12.

“A friend of mine has a great line. He says ‘Nothing important has ever been built without irrational exuberance’. Meaning that you need some of this mania to cause investors to open up their pocketbooks and finance the building of the railroads or the automobile or aerospace industry or whatever. And in this case, much of the capital invested was lost, but also much of it was invested in a very high throughput backbone for the _______, and lots of software that works, and databases and server structure. All that stuff has allowed what we have today, which has changed all our lives... that’s what all this speculative mania built”.

What’s he talkin’ about?

12.

The dot com bubble

13.

13.

Motorized Ice Cream Cone

14.

A _________ startup can be typically defined as a business which treads on a slow and steady path from the beginning, keeping a close check on its profit and revenue. A _________ startup also keeps a tight control over its spending habits in order to keep itself safe and secure in case of any unexpected funding storm.

FITB.

14.

Cockroach

15.

15.

Earphone Tangle research

16.

The desired effect is often achieved by raising the camera high above one’s head at arm’s length, as depicted in the image shown left below. Taking a picture from above, with a high-angle shot or at least a shot that shows mostly one’s face, emphasizes the face and deemphasizes the body.

What effect are we talking about?

16.

MySpace Angle.

17.

It had been three years since Goyal and Chaddah had set up X - a website that posted hundreds of restaurant menus, reviews of eating joints and recommendations.

After they returned to work, they summoned their chief technology officer and asked him to build a restaurant application that people could access on their smartphones.

Over the next month and a half, two things happened - X metamorphosed into Y, and a Y application became available for Google's Android operating system.

17.

X = Foodiebay

Y = Zomato

18.

18.

New payment banks.

19.

19.

Hewlett and Packard (HP)

20.

20.

Zimbabwe