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1. SciBizTech
Quiz
3:30 PM
QM: Animesh Jajoo
BITS Goa Quiz Club's
21 AUGUST 2022
P O W E R E D B Y
P R E S E N T S
BRAIN
STORM

2. SciBizTech
Brainstorm 2022

3. Pounce and Bounce
Pounce: +10/-10
Bounce: +10/0
Clockwise

4. Question 1
X is a financial term coined by Y, who started a venture capitalist firm Cowboy
Ventures, that funded an American grooming company Z, that is widely
advertised by American and British YouTube creators and was acquired by
Unilever for $1 billion in 2016.
ID X, Y and Z

6. Answer 1
X: Unicorn
Y: Aileen Lee
Z: Dollar Shave Club

7. Question 2
X is a canned cooked pork brand that achieved worldwide recognition
following its use during World War II. It has had an impact on popular culture,
notably a British sketch comedy show. In one of the skits, set in a cafe, a
waitress reads out a menu with every item except one containing X. While the
waitress reads the menu, a chorus of Viking customers sings a song, repeating
the word.
For a different reason, the term X has stayed popular in Internet culture. The
show Y has inspired the names of bands, a programming language and a
virtual machine, genes, and fossils.
ID X and Y

9. Answer 2
X: SPAM/Spam
Y: Monty Python (Monty Python's Flying Circus)

10. Question 3
NM, devised a wallpaper cleaner while working at a soap company with his brother C.
Soot was a byproduct of the coal fires that people used to keep their homes warm. The
soot was cleaned by rolling the product over it. However, after the introduction of vinyl
wallpaper, which could be cleaned with water, wallpaper cleaner was no longer as
necessary, since a wet sponge could do the job.
However, before they went out of business, a nursery school teacher found another use
for the product, which proved an instant success. What product are we talking about?

12. Answer 3
Play-Doh

13. Question 4
X is one of several Indian entrepreneurs who have founded new ventures on
multiple occasions. An MBA dropout, X had earlier launched a cashback and
promotional discount campaign platform for retailers. X shut it down to
launch Y, which drew inspiration from the IRCTC website. Y was later acquired
for an estimated USD 400 million, which was later sold for less than 1/4th it
was bought for.
ID X and Y

15. Answer 4
X: Kunal Shah
Y: Free charge

16. Question 5
X is one of the oldest clothing manufacturers in California. Their history began in 1907,
as a small manufacturer of underwear and sweaters. The name was changed in 1912,
accompanied by the introduction of swimwear to their existing knit lines. It underwent
another name change to become X. X soon became synonymous with silver screen stars
like Ginger Rogers, Joan Crawford, and Marilyn Monroe, who modelled their styles.
X founded Y and Z in 1952 to promote their swimsuit collection. Y had never existed
before 1952. However, Z was held annually from 1926 to 1935, when the Great
Depression and other events preceding World War II led to its demise. Z is now
estimated to have over 500 million viewers worldwide in over 190 territories. ID X and Z

18. Answer 5
X: Catalina Swimwear
Y: Miss USA
Z: Miss Universe

19. Question 6
About twenty four years ago, a nervous-looking CC, now chief marketing
officer at Microsoft, attempted to plug a scanner into a Windows 98 PC.
The intent was to demonstrate the plug-and-play abilities of the upcoming OS.
The result was an all-too-familiar X, and a "whoah..." from CC.
X is a melodramatic nickname given to a something that appears when a
device running a Windows operating system experiences a severe error. It is
one of the most dreaded and despised error messages in all of technology.

21. Answer 6
BSOD (Blue screen of death)

22. Visual Round
+10/-5

32. Attempting to increase the firepower of a traditional cannon, Leonardo da
Vinci designed this innovative 12-barreled gun carriage. Though hardly
capable of rapid-fire, this design housed an ingenious aiming and loading
mechanism.

37. As part of the celebrations for the 350th anniversary of the Royal Society, of
which Isaac Newton was a former president, NASA astronaut Piers Sellers
brought a fragment of the apple tree that inspired Newton’s discovery of
gravity in 1666 with him when he flew on STS-132, the last flight of the shuttle
Atlantis to the International Space Station.

39. In February 2018, KFC's business in the U.K. ran out of chicken.

41. Flip it and Reverse
Pounce: +10/-10
Bounce: +10/0
Anticlockwise

42. Question 1
"Then I remembered what a good friend of mine, X, had done. He was in the Declassification
Section. After the war the army was thinking of declassifying some documents, and he had to go
back and forth to the library so much look at this document, look at that document, check this,
check that that he was going nuts! So he had a copy of every document all the secrets to the
atomic bomb in nine filing cabinets in his office."
"I went back to the first filing cabinet and tried 27 18 28 CLICK! It opened! I tried
the second filing cabinet: 27 18 28 CLICK! It opened with the same, combination. I
thought, "This is wonderful! I've opened the secrets to the atomic bomb, but if I'm ever
going to tell this story, I've got to make sure that all the combinations are really the
same!" Some of the filing cabinets were in the next room, so I tried 27 18 28 on one of
them, and it opened.”
Why did X chose 27 18 28? What is so special about it?

44. Answer 1
27 18 28 represent the first six digits of e, a mathematical constant also known
as Euler’s number. e=2.71828…….
X is Frederic de Hoffman

45. Question 2
When Russian troops invaded his country, a habitual contributor to X found
himself in a difficult situation. When he tweeted that Russian tanks were
approaching his house, the X community came together to assist his younger
family members. Another father was able to obtain accommodation outside
the nation for his daughter and niece by communicating through Y.
ID X and Y

47. Answer 2
X: Python
Y: Google Translate

48. Question 3
Y shockingly helped solve a thousand year old mystery regarding a certain
disease. This helped confirm a doctor’s theory regarding its causes. During Y,
blockades made it almost impossible for X to find. While most of the people in
dutch hospitals were miserable because of the lack of X, those with the
disease seemed to be doing surprisingly better off without X. ID X and Y

50. Answer 3
X: Wheat
Y: WWII (WWII Famine)

51. Question 4
One of the earliest use of X was in the early 1990s NCSA Mosaic web browser, which
displayed an animated NCSA logo when a web page was loaded. Because the user could
still interact with the application, the pointer stayed normal (rather than a busy symbol
like an hourglass); hence, X provided a visual indicator that the software was performing
an activity. X prevented the page from loading; subsequent web browsers have a Stop
button for this purpose.
Netscape, another famous web browser, also supported X. This was represented in
Netscape 1.0 by a huge blue "N" (Netscape's logo at the time). The term comes from the
animation of the letter "N" expanding and shrinking.
ID X

53. Answer 4
Throbber

54. Question 5
While working on X in 2012, the cofounder was immediately drawn to user
profiles resembling a deck of playing cards and sought to gamify them. He
designed feature Y after observing how natural the feature's execution is for
everyone. Y added a fun interaction to an otherwise dull, time-consuming
process, supporting X with increased engagement and user retention.
ID X and Y

56. Answer 5
X: Tinder
Y: Swiping to match/reject

57. Question 6
Tulip mania was a period during the Dutch Golden Age when contract prices for some
bulbs of the recently introduced and fashionable tulip reached extraordinarily high
levels.
The major acceleration started in 1634 and then dramatically collapsed in February
1637. It is generally considered to have been the first recorded speculative A in history.B
has been described as an example of A by at least eight Nobel Memorial Prize in
Economic Sciences recipients. Obtaining B involves a process C which is also what
players do in D, a popular video game.
ID A, B, C and D.

59. Answer 6
A - Economic bubble
B - Bitcoin
C - Mining
D - Minecraft

61. Let’s Gamble

63. Question 1
A is a chemical that is supposed to have a 'bitter almond' smell.A and a
fascination with the fairytale 'Snow White' would play a role in the death of a
mathematician B. The logo of a company C was once rumoured to have been
inspired by B's death. B gives his name to one of the most prestigious awards
in a particular field.In 2019, the award was given to two men for their
contribution to 3D computer graphics.One of the awardees D had earlier in
1986, co-founded a company E with a co-founder of C.
ID A, B, C, D and E.

65. Answer 1
A - Cyanide
B - Alan Turing
C - Apple
D - Ed Catmull
E - Pixar

67. Question 2
“It was like saying you could build a flying car that is also a submarine, for the same price as
an entry-level Toyota,”
Once valued at more than USD 9 Billion, it appeared that X might revolutionise
medicine. Despite all of its flashy promises, X was unable to execute accurate testing.
The microwave-sized machine that was meant to do these tests, simply did not operate.
Two years after the corporation shut down its labs, its founder and former president
were charged with fraud.
ID X and it’s flashy claim

69. Answer 2
X: Theranos
Claim: 30 Lab Tests on Only One Drop of Blood
Founder: Elizabeth Holmes

71. Question 3
Old hard drives are not a fan of X. Some Windows XP-era laptops with 5400 RPM
spinning hard drives are apparently crashing when X’s hit song Y is played.
It wasn't just this manufacturer. Based on the investigation, playing the music video
caused some of their competitors' laptops to crash. It didn't even have to be the laptop
that was playing the music video. Playing the music video on one laptop may force
another nearby to crash.
The song, it turns out, featured one of the Z for the model of 5400 rpm laptop hard
drives used by them and other manufacturers. The problem was analogous to an opera
singer being able to shatter a glass by singing a specific tone.
ID X, Y and the physics concept Z

73. Answer 3
X: Janet Jackson
Y: Rhythm Nation
Z: Natural Resonant Frequencies

75. Question 4
VD was a Soviet scientist most renowned for his groundbreaking work in heart
and lung transplantation, but he also participated in an audacious experiment
that resulted in X, which was largely rejected by the scientific community.
Despite receiving several awards later in life, including a USSR State Prize,
Russia did not recognise the actual worth of his experiments until the year of
his death, when he was awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 3rd
class. What was the experiment?

77. Answer 4
A 2-headed dog
VD is Vladimir Demikhov

79. Question 5
A famous engineer, programmer, philanthropist, and entrepreneur, X is
currently trying to address the problem of space debris with his co-founder,
who cofounded Y, a popular robotics company that is on a mission to make
the world paperless, instantly. This is not their first venture together, having
founded Z in 2002. Z made wireless hardware for keeping track of the physical
location of enabled objects. The idea was a little ahead of its time, and the
company was sadly shut down in March 2006, with some of its assets and
patents acquired.
ID X Y and Z.

81. Answer 5
X: Steve Wozniack
Y: Ripcord
Z: Wheels of Zeus
Alex Fielding is the other co-founder.

83. Question 6
Project X was developed at MIT in the 1950s when a professor planned to
place a large number of dipoles in Earth’s orbit so they could be used for
effective communication. Almost half a billion X were placed on an Air Force
Satellite and sent into space in order to form this dense dipole. While initial
results were promising, other countries were afraid that this belt would
interfere with other observations. While the project is now forgotten, few
clumps of X still exist in space are are kept in close observation to make sure
they don’t cause any problems.

85. Answer 6
Project Needles, also known as Project West Ford