quizznga 2016 prelims by dork's corner
TRANSCRIPT
In Association with
‘Newton… A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought… alone.’ In
which specific place would you find these
words written together?
Apple’s first logo, designed by Ron Wayne, depicts Sir
Isaac Newton sitting under an apple tree. It was almost
immediately replaced by Rob Janoff's "rainbow Apple",
the now-familiar rainbow-colored silhouette of an
apple with a bite taken out of it 1
X was set up by California-born Valerie Wagoner who moved to India and was intrigued by
the Indian ‘missed call’ system – where people call each other,
let it ring once or twice and intentionally hang up, using
the missed call to convey a message. X’s clients include Narendra Modi, Shahrukh Khan, Disney and Unilever
among others. X please!
ZipDial, It was acquired by twitter for 30 Million in
January, 2015 2
The origin of this comes from a brain teaser where you're
challenged to draw four straight, connected lines that pass
through all the nine dots in a 3x3 matrix. The only way to
successfully do this is to draw lines that go beyond the implicit
"box" delimited by the outer 8 dots of the matrix. It is
something we are often asked to practice in business and life.
Which phrase?
“Think outside the box” 3
Identify the e-commerce site.
www.mi.com, Xiaomi Inc. is a privately
owned Chinese electronics company
headquartered in Beijing. It is the world's 5th
largest smartphone maker in 2015 Xiaomi
sold 70.8 million units and was countable for
almost 5 percent of the smartphone global
market share. Xiaomi designs, develops, and
sells smartphones, mobile apps, and related
consumer electronics. 4
According to a Forbes article, this Indian startup traces the origins of
its name to an African nation, whose name means ‘The land of the
incorruptible’. In other interviews, however, the founders have tried to explain the etymology of the name
by calling the company to have been a Fanatic Activism Against
Substandard Occidental Shit. Which company?
Faasos is the only vertically integrated food business in
India and operates all three three stages of a "food on
demand" business: ordering, distribution and order
fulfillment. 5
The following appears in the end credits of the 2012
Pixar animated film, Brave. Whose
name has been blanked out?
“Steve Jobs”
6
Which country’s currency are
these?
Niue is a small island nation in the South Pacific
Ocean. It’s known for its limestone cliffs and
coral-reef dive sites.
7
Who is the author of this book?
Peter Andreas Thiel (born October 11, 1967) is a
German-American entrepreneur, venture
capitalist and hedge fund manager. Thiel
co-founded PayPal with Max Levchin and Elon
Musk and served as its CEO. He also co-founded
Palantir, of which he is chairman. He was the first
outside investor in Facebook, the popular
social-networking site, with a 10.2% stake
acquired in 2004 for $500,000, and sits on the
company's board of directors. 8
Grace Hopper is one of the most celebrated women in the history of technology. While working on
the Harvard Mark II computer one night, the machine conked out and the crew began looking
for a problem. They found a moth that had been smaashed by one of
the electromechanical layers and this incident popularized a term
in programming that has been used ever since. What was the
term?
“BUG”9
This is a mechanical planimeter, a device which is used to measure the area of a
surface by simply rolling it around the perimeter of the
surface. This mechanical device inspired an early
innovator to create one of the most important devices
in the digital age?
“MOUSE”
10
After the huge success of personal computers in the late 70s, IBM decided to
make a move in the PC market. IBM needed an operating system and it
approached X for it. X didn't yet make an operating system and hence it directed them to Gary Kildall, the creator of the
CP/M operating system. IBM went to Kildall the same day but Kildall decided
not to meet them and instead decided to fly his private plane. After meeting
Kildall's wife, IBM was quite disappointed and they reached out to X for help. The founder of X sensed the opportunity of
the moment and decided to create an operating system.Give me X.
“MICROSOFT”11
Guru is a 2007 Bollywood movie directed by Mani
Ratnam and it stars Abhishek Bachchan and
Aishwarya Rai. The movie is loosely based around
the life of a famous Indian businessman. Which
famous businessman am I talking about?
“DHIRUBHAI AMBANI”12
For a period during 1940 to 1945, KitKat was sold in a blue wrapper rather than the usual red wrapper we generally find it in. This was done because of
the shortage of milk which had forced the company to make
Kitkat from dark chocolate instead of milk chocolate. What
had caused this change?
“WORLD WAR II”
13
A Boy And His Atom is a 2012 stop-motion animated short
film released on YouTube by IBM. The picture shows a scene
of the short movie. What is so special about this movie?
“The movie was made using
molecules(Carbon Monoxide
Molecules)”14
Connect: Narcos, House Of Cards,
Daredevil, Orange Is The New Black,
Marco Polo. (Non-exhaustive list)
“Netflix. They are all shows that are
Netflix originals.”15
Located at the Apollo Bunder on the western coast
of India, this is one of the major landmarks of the
country. It served as a 600 bed hospital during the
World War 1. What am I talking about?
“Taj Mahal Hotel, Mumbai”16
Print ad for which iconic
brand?
“FEVICOL”17
TATA Motors launched their third entry into the hatchback
market with TATA X during the Auto Expo 2016. However they changed the name of the
car from TATA X to TATA Tiago as the name X matched with a certain entity that was troubling the Americas. Why
did they change the name?
“Original name was TATA Zica,
sounded similar to Zika, the virus.”18
The picture shows the first something in the
world. What?
“TELEPHONE”19
Which company’s famous ad campaign is this? The answer is ironic because
the Indian company that ran the ad campaign has
the term ‘British’ in it’s name.
“BPL (British Physical Laboratories)”20
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