The Edge Quiz 2014BizTech Finals.

By Tamal Dutta.

With a lot of help from :

ROUNDS

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

The One With Total Honesty.

Written Round. 10 Honest Slogans of technology or

business related identities. Name them. +5 for every correct answer. +20 for a full house.

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Exchange Sheets.

Answers.

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Candy Crush Saga.

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LinkedIn.

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Instagram.

4.

Harley-Davidson.

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IKEA.

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Wikipedia.

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CliffNotes.

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Twister.

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WebMD.

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McDonald’s.

The One With The Pounces.

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

1.

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?

The discontinuation of MicrosoftWindows XP Support.

2.

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?

Asgardian.Toilet Papers.

3.

Gawker Media came in news a couple of months back because of a certain lawsuit against it.

Who sued it? And why?

Quentin Tarantino.For leaking the script of The Hateful Eight.

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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.

X – Rooh Afza.Y – Hamdard.

5.

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.

Facehugger and Oculus Rift.

6.

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?

Pizza Delivery at the Oscars.

7. 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.

X – Nostalgia.Y – Veidt Industries.

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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.

X – PepsiCo.Y – Youngistaan.

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Put funda.

Siri’s reactions on being compared to Samantha from Her.

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FITB.

Half Life 3.

11. 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?

All four other owners of the patent died in the MH370 crash.Theorists think he and his company is responsible for the crash.

12.

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

Farmville.

13.

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.

Leninade.

14.#ashishasks

Connect this famous father-son duo laterally to a famous confectionery

company.

Ben & Jerry’s.(Jerry Stiller and Ben Stiller.)

15.

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

Bill Gates and Paul Allen.

16.

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

TED Talk.

17.#ashishasks

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

ID X.

Clippy.

18.

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?

Edward Snowden.

19.

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.

Vajradanti.

20.

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?

X – Cortana. Y – Halo.

The One From Pop Culture.

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

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Exchange Sheets.

Answers.

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Umbrella Corporation.Resident Evil.

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Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce.Mad Men.

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Monsters Inc.Monsters Inc.

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Cyberdyne Systems.The Terminator.

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Weyland –Yutani Corp.Alien.

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Trask Industries.X-Men.

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Wayne Enterprises.Batman.

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Tyrell Corporation.Blade Runner.

The One With More Pounces.

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

1.

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?

Carpool Tunnel Syndrome.

2.

Add two more to form an

exhaustive list.

Nokia and Matrix.(Kolkata Knight Riders Sponsors.)

3.

Connect the photo above laterally to the

video game poster below.

The Elder Scrolls.

4.

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.

Pepperidge Farm.Pepperidge Farm Remembers.

5.#ashishasks

What modern day invention does this Jetsons cartoon predict?

Roomba.

6.Connect.

Nokia 3310 Games.(Snake II, Pairs II, Bantumi, Space Impact.)

7. 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

FedEx.

8. 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

T.G.I. Friday’s.

9. 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?

Tetris.

10.

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

X – Baby Ruth.Y – George “Babe” Ruth, Jr.

11.

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

#ashishasks

M. C. Escher.

12.

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

Mozilla.

13. 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.

X – ZunZuneo.Y – Twitter.

14.

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?

Make real-life products of fictional brands.

15.

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?

He hacked the Microsoft Xbox One.

16.

A fan-made advertisement for which company?

Kobayashi Porcelain.

17.

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?

Negatron.

18.

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.

Michael Jordan and Nike.

19.

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

The Day After Tomorrow.

20.

Ending the day with a print ad. For what?

Aspirin.

Final Scores?