MAGNATETHE BIZ AND TECH QUIZ

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1. X is synonymous with oil rigs and refineries and primarily acts as a safety device. This word is also associated with an acrobatic

dance move, a Canadian fashion magazine and as an aerial countermeasure against heat

seeking missiles. Id X.

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2. This brand is owned by Pioma Industries based in Ahmedabad. It launched an aerated

fruit drink Oranjolt in 2000 which failed due to the fact that it had to be refrigerated at all

times. Identify this dominant brand.

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3. The total volume of plastics, elastomers and rubbers produced from these catalysts represents the largest volume commodity chemicals in the world. These catalysts use

complexes of Ti or Zn or Hf and are employed to polymerize terminal -1-alkenes.Id the catalyst

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4. Which shower gel is sold using the slogan "The original. If your grandfather hadn't worn it, you wouldn't exist."?

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5. Due to X’s work, X’s papers dating from the fag end of the 19 th century are considered too dangerous to handle. They have to be kept in lead lined boxes, and can

only be handled using protective clothing. Id X.

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6. Which famous company's name is derived from the latin word for sound and a 1950s American slang for young boys?

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7.

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8. Which company’s original name was Swallow Sidecar Company and its name was changed after WW II to avoid any

unfavourable connotations of the SS initials?

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9. Taken from Kautilya’s Arthashashtra, which Indian Governement agency’s motto in Sanskrit

reads “Kosha Moolo Dandaha”?

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10.

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11. This was the first inexpensive industrial process to make steel from molten pig iron and the key principle involved the removal of impurities by oxidation with air being blown through the molten iron. Id this process

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12. What is the name given to the state of matter in which matter behaves like a fluid without viscosity and having an extremely high thermal conductivity?

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Superfluid

13. In banking parlance, expand CRR

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Cash Reserve Ratio

14.Logo of which company?

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15. Due to the wartime needs of copper for ammunition and the Manhattan Project, X was made in zinc coated steel to reduce the dependence on copper. This however resulted in problems of rusting as the galvanisation process wasn’t efficient. After a public outcry X was made from salvaged shell casings. What is X?

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16. I made my first public appearance in 2002 when I rang the bell to open trade sessions in NYSE. I toured USA and Canada in 2003-2005 to encourage students to

study science. I conducted the Detroit Symphony Orchestra to support the performing arts and appeared as a guest on the British Quiz Show QI in 2011. Who am I?

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17. What name is given to the ‘study of mathematical models of conflict and cooperation between intelligent rational

decision-makers’?

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GAME THEORY

18. He was the first Chairman of SBI and his nephew was the father of India’s White Revolution. On the other hand his son was the Founder Director of IIM Ahmedabad.

Identify this economist who also served in independent India’s first Cabinet.

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19. X began as an Ohio partnership formed by Y, his brother William, Henry Flagler, chemist Samuel Andrews, silent partner Stephen V Harkness, and Oliver Burr Jennings. By 1911, with public outcry at a climax, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that X must be dissolved under the Sherman Antitrust Act and split into 34 companies. Two of these companies evolved into Exxon, and Socony which eventually became Mobil, Sohio and many more. Id X and Y

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X- Standard Oil, Y- John D Rockefeller

20. Which word derived from a Latin word meaning great person nowadays used in a different context was specifically applied to the

members of the Upper House in the Apostolic Kingdom of Hungary ?

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