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Biz Tech 1.0

Welcome To The
Finals!
HOSTED BY VIN AND THE GUN

Rules
• 3 rounds.
• Life, torpedo and pounce allowed on
certain questions.
• Round 2 will be on the buzzer.

Good Luck!

Round 1 Round 3
1 9 1 9
2 10 2 10
3 11 3 11
4 12 Round 2 4 12
5 13 5 13
6 14 6 14
7 15 7 15
8 16 8

1. Despite not being a player in the tech
space, this company is known for owning a
lot of internet domains, 29,925 at last count
to be exact. Most of these were bought in
the early years of the internet by the
company, fearful that other people would
use it for purposes that would ruin it’s image
of a family oriented company. Id this giant.

2.ID X.
They went to the same school and then joined the same
company: F L Smith and Co. The company sent one of
them in 1933-1934 to India to set up a cement factory in
Coimbatore. The other guy joined in 1935. They set up a
cement factory which later went on to be part of ACC.
These men formed a partnership in 1938 and started
importing and later manufacturing dairy equipments.
What began thus? And who were these gentlemen?

Henning Holck-Larsen and Søren Kristian Toubro.
L&T

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3. X was established as a patent medicine
business in Mumbai in 1893 by K.
Nageswara Rao Pantulu who was a
journalist, social reformer and freedom
fighter.The headquarters were shifted to
Chennai in 1914.Even today,the words
"Bombay" are inscribed along with X on the
lid of its most well-known product. Rao
popularised this product by distributing it
free-of-cost at music concerts.

4. In 1988, Peter Shu founded _____ in
Taipei. Its first products were "JetMate"
laser printer driver for producing high
quality Chinese characters and
"KeyPro" software protection system. In
1989, it started making memory
products for laser printers.

5. Students of the Academy could choose to graduate with
a degree in B.A (Babe Attractor), M.B.A (Major Babe
Attractor), PHD (Promoter of Huge Desire) or an
M.B.B.S (Magnet for Beautiful Babes). Subjects offered
at the Academy were Hottieculture, Lasstronomy,
Libidology and Chillosophy to name a few. The subjects
were divided into 3 semesters and students had to read
up on all the subjects and give the exams which were
conducted on the website itself. All graduates from the X
were invited to the graduation party held at Vie Lounge
and Deck in Juhu, Mumbai and the Academy topper got
to go on an all expenses paid trip to the Rio De Janeiro
Carnival in Brazil.

Axe Unlimited Academy

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What's in a name....

6. Facebook had blocked the accounts of all
the subscribers belonging to X community of
Assam thinking the names were false and
fabricated. They were unknown to the fact
that X is an ethnic tribe of Assam which has
a rich historical background in the state
history.
What name are we talking about here?.

The Chutiya community of Assam.
(pronounced as Sutiya)

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7. Michel Lisowski was born on April 16th, 1950 in
Warsaw into a family of Jewish descent. After high
school Lisowski was granted a scholarship for
Mathematics at Princeton University.
Subsequently he started a textile business in
Thailand called "Eden Group". In 1991, Eden Group
employed more than 4000 workers. When the East
Asian Financial Crisis hit Thailand in 1996, Michel
Lisowski sold the business.
After he left Thailand, Lisowski moved to Paris
where he noticed the demand for restaurant and
clubs for glamorous video programming, which
prompted him to start X in 1997.
ID X

8. A _______ is a politically unstable country
that economically depends upon the exports
of a limited resource (such as minerals), and
usually features a society composed of
stratified social classes, such as a great,
impoverished working class and a ruling
plutocracy, composed of the elites of
business, politics, and the military.

Cocaine! It was first introduced in this manner
as a cure for toothache

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10. Sergey Brin and Larry Page had met
Dr.APJ Kalam during the latter’s
presidency. Kalam gave them some
inputs which they added later to their
product based on his feedback? What
was it?

Kalam had chided them that he
couldn’t use Google search using his
mother tongue Tamil, this led Page and
Brin to launch Google search in the
regional languages of India.

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11.'Whoever cheats and thereby dishonestly
induces the person deceived any property to any
person, or to make, alter or destroy the whole or
any part of a valuable security, or anything which
is signed or sealed, and which is capable of being
converted into a valuable security, shall be
punished with imprisonment of either description
for a term which may extend to seven years, and
shall also be liable to fine.'

The above text comes under which section of the
Indian penal code.

12. X started his first business in April 1976 at the age of 18,
with a capital investment of Rs. 20,000 borrowed from his
father. His first business was to make crankshafts for local
bicycle manufacturers.
In 1980, he along with his brothers Rakesh, Rajan started
an Import Enterprise and imported thousands of Suzuki
Motors's portable electric-power generators from Japan.
X says, "In 1983, the government imposed a ban on the
import of gensets. I was out of business overnight.
Everything I was doing came to a screeching halt. I was in
trouble. The question then was: what should I do next?
Then, opportunity came calling. While in Taiwan, I noticed
the popularity of the push-button phone -- something which
India hadn't seen then. We were still using those rotary
dials with no speed dials or redials. I sensed my chance and
embraced the telecom business. I started marketing
telephones, answering/fax machines under the brand
name Beetel and the company picked up really fast."
Who are we talking about..

Sunil Mittal of Bharti Telecom

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13. Instead of hours and minutes, the mean solar day is
divided up into 1000 parts called "beats". Each beat lasts 1
minute and 26.4 seconds. Although the company does not
specify units smaller than one beat, third party
implementations have extended the standard by adding
"centibeats" or "sub-beats" as a decimal fraction, for
extended precision: @248.00.

There are no time zones; instead, the new time scale of Biel
Mean Time (BMT) is used, based on the company's
headquarters in Biel, Switzerland. What am I talking about?

Swatch internet time

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14. D I Corp. is a semiconductor company
with a certain Mr. Park Won- ho as it's
controlling stakeholder. The stocks of
this company which was at 1,500 won
during early august has surged to
3,645 won in the last few weeks.
The reason for this surge has been
attributed to .......

You know who! Oppan Gangnam Style! Mr. Park
Won Ho is PSY’S dad.

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15. X was founded as a restaurant by Parampalli
Yajnanarayana Maiya and his brothers in the year
1924.
X was headed by Sadanand Maiya (son of
Yajnanarayana Maiya) until it was sold to Orkla, a
Norwegian company for $80 Million in March 2007.
He went to to start Y as a direct competition for X.
ID X and Y

16. This phenomenon on twitter began with
Michael Baldwin on Jan 16, 2009. The chart
below should prove useful to Id the trend.

The Follow Friday #FF hashtag trends every
Friday and has been a sort of Friday tradition on
twitter.

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Blank slide for Round 2

Buzzer time!

1. Id and why did this happen?

Richard Branson. He shaved off his
trademark beard and sported this bridal
gown during the launch of Virgin Brides
(pun may be intended by him), Virgin’s
bridal wear division.

3. X was created by Theodor T. In Bern, Switzerland in
1908. The product's name is a portmanteau
combining Theodor's name with the Italian word
for a type of nougat. The logo has a likeness to the
matterhorn peak and the pentahedral shape of the
product was inspired by this mountain.
ID X

4. Connect. We’re looking for a very specific connect
here.

Mandakini’s husband is the kid in the
murphy radio ads

5.There are 2 very famous names removed
from this pic. Id.

Bill Gates and Paul Allen’s first venture
together before going on to found
Microsoft.

Edward Stratemeyer of the Stratemeyer
Syndicate

7.Id what the red dot is pointing to?

Cadbury world in bournville,
birmingham.

8.The island that you see on the far end is the North Bay Island / Coral
island which is a very well known tourist place in Andaman island. This
image here is also seen somewhere else in our daily lives. Where ?

All of these are Geographical Indicators
(GI). Hyderabadi Haleem, Dharwad Peda,
Bikaneri Bhujia, Feni (Goa), Bydagi chilli
and Kashmiri Pashmina shawls.

The INA of Subhash Chandra Bose

All appeared in the Union Bank of India
ads.

Apple welcoming IBM into the PC business.

Dhara cooking oil. (It was a clip of the Ramu
Kaka Jalebi Ad filmed in the railway
station).

1. X was born in 1837, a descendant of Welsh
ancestors who had come to Massachusetts
bay colony in 1636. X was a banker and a
corporate arbitrator who settled
disagreements on his 165 yacht Corsair. On
Oct 24,1907 NYSE pres Ransom Thomas
asked X for help as there were insufficient
funds to keep NYSE open until it's closing
time of 3 pm. X raised 25 million. On Oct 29
the mayor of NY asked X to come up with
$30 million or else the city would've
defaulted on the payment.

2. The X chess tournament takes place every year,
usually in January, in a small town called Wijk aan
Zee, part of the larger Beverwijk in the province of
North Holland in the Netherlands. It was called the
Hoogovens tournament until 1999 after which the
Dutch steel and aluminium producer Koninklijke
Hoogovens merged with British Steel to form Y.
Since the purchase of Y by X, the tournament is
called the X Chess Tournament.The series has
continued to be numbered sequentially from its
beginnings and hence, the 2011 event was
referred to as the 73rd X Chess Tournament on the
official website.

X-TATA STEEL
Y-CORUS

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3. In medieval England there were nomadic mercenaries
who wandered the country side and would sell their
services to the highest bidder. These were hardened
fighters who lived solitary lives in the wilderness. They
did not have the luxury of servants to polish their armor
and it would oxidize to a blackish hue, and they came to
be known as black knights. At local town festivals they
would have exhibition jousting matches in which the
winner of the fight would win the loser’s weapons and
armor. The local gentry, softened by the good life, would
lose to these black knights. The nomadic knights didn’t
have much use for an extra set of armor and would sell it
back to them immediately after the fight. Origin of what?

4. Malana is a tiny, mysterious village in Himachal
Pradesh, supposedly inhabited by descendants
of Alexander’s army.
People in Malana consider all non-Malani to be
inferior and consequently untouchable. Visitors
to Malana town must pay particular attention to
stick to the prescribed paths and not to touch
any of the walls, houses or people there. If this
does occur, visitors are expected to pay a forfeit
sum, that will cover the sacrificial slaughter of a
lamb in order purify the object that has been
made impure.
Some people see this as a way they use to
protect their interests in xxxxx
The malana Cream , which is supposed to be
the world’s best xxxxx is produced in this
village. What?

Hashish/Marijuana

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5. X first met Y by chance at a railway station in
early 60s, when he was travelling by train from
Hyderabad to Delhi. X let Y in the AC coupe,
where he started sketching him, but he was not
“impressed” with the drawing. A few years later
Y came to X’s house with a guest and again
some days later, the painter came asking for a
loan of Rs. 600. After Y sought another loan a
few months later, X offered him a job at his
company to do some paintings for a monthly
salary of Rs. 800. He was elevated to the
position of Art Advisor at his company in May
1986 at a salary of Rs. 2,500 per month plus
accommodation. Identify X & Y

X – K P SINGH of DLF
Y – M F HUSSAIN

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6. Anil Moolchandani started out in his father’s
saree shop in Delhi’s bustling Kamla Nagar,
the haunt of Delhi University students. As he
hunted for ways to grow, he went into
trading in a variety of commodities. Finally,
he hit the jackpot in a most unusual way —
by printing songbooks with lyrics from Abba’s
hit songs. This was 1979, when the Swedish
group’s catchy numbers were still top-of-the-
pops around the world.
Name the company that started thus.

Archies greeting cards

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7.Every day at 10.30 and 15.00 local time, five representatives of
investment banks meet in a small room at Rothschild's London
headquarters on St Swithin's Lane. In the centre is the chairperson,
who is by tradition appointed by the Rothschild bank, although the
bank itself has largely withdrawn from the trading.

The lead participant will begin the fixing process by proposing a
price near the current price. The participants then simulate the
result of trading at that price. First, each bank looks at its limit orders
and determines how many are eligible to trade at that price. They
can also consider how much their proprietary trading desk would
trade at the same price. The bank then states a single value, the net
amount (in ounces) they wish to buy or sell. After each bank
provides this value, they determine if the overall net amount is 0. If
so, all transactions succeed and the fix is complete. The chair then
states, "There are no flags, and we're fixed."

What is happening here..

Fixing of gold rates.

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8. After the Great Fire of London, Nicholas If-
Jesus-Christ-Had-Not-Died-For-Thee-Thou-
Hadst-Been-Damned Barbon, a physician
and a doctor played a major role in the
rebuilding of London. He along with 11 other
associates pioneered a concept/industry
which has become quite popular today.

After the great fire of London in 1666,
theconcept of insurance was started.

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9.The lower keys rabbit is a subspecies of the
marsh rabbit widespread in southern USA.
It's distinguished from the adjacent
subspecies in skull proprotions and
sculpturing in its darker coloration. It's about
16 inches long with brownish dorsal and
greyish ventral fur. The rabbit was named in
the journal of mammalogy in 1984 by James
Lazell Jr. after this person, whose
organization funded James' research on the
animals. Who is it named after?

10. Welspun Group is an Indian business
conglomerate with interests in Steel, Steel
pipes, Infrastructure, Energy and Oil & Gas
and textiles.
For the past two years they have exported
87,538 and 92,493 pieces of X for Y

"Y embodies quality and perfection, and by
making us a preferred partner it reinforces
the excellence and quality standards we
adhere to for producing our products" ,said
the Welspun Group Chairman BK Goenka

Wimbledon towels

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11. X falsified his date of birth and enlisted in the
United States Army at the age of fifteen,
completing his service commitment as a mule
handler in Cuba.He was honorably discharged after
four months.
X never held a steady job and worked as a
steamboat pilot, insurance salesman, railroad
fireman and farmer.
His wife left him for this reason and her brother
wrote X a letter saying, "She had no business
marrying a no-good fellow like you who can’t hold a
job".
However, X's fortunes turned after he opened a
service station where he served home cooked
ham,chicken and steaks.

Col. Harland Sanders

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12. In January 2011, the X opened a 'lockless'
branch in the village, the first of its kind in
the country, taking note of the near-zero
crime rate in the region. The local police
were reported to be unhappy over this
development and that it amounted to a
breach of conditions, because the Central
government of India has made it mandatory
for all banks to have high security.The bank
has doors,but they will always remain open.

ID X and the reason behind this idea of a
lockless branch.

United Commercial (UCO) Bank
In Shani Shinganapur.

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13. Salman Rushdie in his memoirs had said that
“My book Satanic Versus was to be published by
X, a newly founded publishing house. However
an act of greed on my part led me to betray my
good friend Liz Calder. It eventually worked out
for the best for her, as the fatwa threats would’ve
sunk her publishing house X.
Instead X survived and a few years later
discovered an author Y, and publishing history
was made.”
ID X and Y

X-Bloomsbury
Y- J K Rowling

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The only passengers in my compartment were a girl and a boy. I struck a
conversation in French with the young girl. She talked about the travails of living
in an iron curtain country, until we were roughly interrupted by some policemen
who, I later gathered, were summoned by the young man who thought we were
criticising the communist government of Bulgaria.
The girl was led away; my backpack and sleeping bag were confiscated. I was
dragged along the platform into a small 8x8 foot room with a cold stone floor
and a hole in one corner by way of toilet facilities. I was held in that bitterly cold
room without food or water for over 72 hours.
I had lost all hope of ever seeing the outside world again, when the door
opened. I was again dragged out unceremoniously, locked up in the guard's
compartment on a departing freight train and told that I would be released 20
hours later upon reaching Istanbul. The guard's final words still ring in my ears
-- "You are from a friendly country called India and that is why we are letting
you go!"
The journey to Istanbul was lonely, and I was starving. This long, lonely, cold
journey forced me to deeply rethink my convictions about Communism. Early
on a dark Thursday morning, after being hungry for 108 hours, I was purged of
any last vestiges of affinity for the Left.
I concluded that entrepreneurship, resulting in large-scale job creation, was the
only viable mechanism for eradicating poverty in societies.

15. The name “X” is always written
complete with a hyphen. That’s because
‘the hyphen’ symbolizes the partnership or
the link between the two founders. In a
more profound meaning, the hyphen in the
logo represents Claude Johnson, ‘a
recognized authority on motoring matters
at the time of the company's formation and
the man who is accredited with building
the name into what it is today’.
ID X

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