The BizTech, Math, Econ and Everything QuizMoments ’16, Lady Shri Ram College for Women Researched and Conducted by:Aastha Mathur and Balasubramanyam

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Prelims

21 questions, 21 points

No sequence or acrostic

Questions 4,8,12,16,20 are starred to resolve ties.

Emboldened phrases, italicised words & ‘inverted commas’ are clues.

Themes, entities, people etc. may recur in the prelims and finals in one or more instances.

Top 8 teams to qualify to the finals

1 Connect the four images in the next slide.

1. Connect

The 4 Seasons

2 A high school student named Mike Rowe who

created a website using his name was threatened with a lawsuit by which company?

Microsoft

3 The stock broker hand

signal where the index finger is held horizontally under the nose is used to represent which bank?

Deutsche BankThe symbol resembled Hitler’s moustache

4* This is a slang term used to describe a perfect

stock or investment. It was coined in 1979 after someone who starred in a certain movie. It is also the name of a trading card set.

What term?

Bo Derek

5

There have been several technical applications for the object that when doubled and attached, gives the Klein bottle(pictured). Giant versions have been used as conveyor belts that last longer because the entire surface area of the belt gets the same amount of wear, and as continuous-loop recording tapes , fabric computer printer and typewriter ribbons.

Identify the object.

Mobius Strip

6 In 1905, when soda pop’s popularity as a drink

was sky high, 11 year old Frank Epperson decided he wanted to try saving some money by making his own at home. In December, using a combination of powder and water and a stirring stick, he got pretty close but then absentmindedly left the concoction out on the porch all night. 

What was thus created?

Popsicle

7  If you use iTunes, what have you already agreed

to not use Apple products to create?

Nuclear weapons

8* In 1967, Dr Wolfgang Dierichs, came up with a

revolutionary idea during a return flight from a business trip. At some point during the flight, he saw a woman carefully applying her lipstick, and as Dierichs watched her, an idea that would revolutionise an industry struck him.

In 1969, the company launched a product with the tagline "Enough to leave a line extending from the earth, past our satellite the moon, on to Mars and then all the way back again,“.

Which company and what product?

Pritt Glue Sticks

9 Identify the name that has been blanked out.

Image follows

Paul Erdős

10 The poster was

designed for NASA to celebrate a certain mission.

Why does this mission only happen once every 175 years?

The planets are aligned

11 What one word pun was used to describe a

seven-day cruise where fringe thinkers can discuss everything from crop circles to mind control on the open sea and has now become an annual congregation in the same name? Image follows

ConspiraSea

12* A Jewish tradition that dates from at least the 19th

century is to write this using a symbol like an inverted T. This practice was adopted into Israeli schools and is still commonplace today in elementary schools. 

It is also used occasionally in books by religious authors, but most books for adults use the international symbol which is more commonly known . The explanation for this practice is that it avoids the writing of a symbol that looks like a _________ ______, a symbol antithetical to the people.

Which symbol?

The Plus Sign

13

14 Buzzfeed ran an article entitled 13 Terrible Bits Of

Writing In “Fifty Shades Of Grey” on the 15th of February, 2015. One of their selections was;

“I feel the color in my cheeks rising again. I must be the color of The ____________ ______________.”

FITB

The Communist Manifesto

15 Jean Drèze is a development economist who has

been influential in the economic policy making of the country where he works dealing with issues like hunger, famine, gender inequality, child health and education, and the employment generation programme.

Who has co-authored with him on a number of major publications, and has even remarked that the agreeable thing about working with Drèze is that "he does most of the work and I get most of the credit“?

Amartya Sen

16* The oldest survivor in the list, it was first

published in 1665. It was originally named after a different region, as the royal court had at that time moved to a different part of the country to avoid the plague – but within six months , it changed its name to that of the incipient location while the latter half of its name comes from a word which originates from Italian, adopted into French and during the period in question was an epithet for the type of publication.

Which publication?

London Gazette

17 Hal Ronald Varian is an economist specializing

in micro -economics and information economics. He has written two bestselling textbooks: Intermediate Microeconomics, and Microeconomic Analysis. With Carl Shapiro, he co-authored Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy and The Economics of Information Technology: An Introduction.

However, he is better known for his current designation. Where does Varian currently work?

Chief economist at Google

18 When Church’s Chicken, a U.S. chain of fast food

restaurants specializing in fried chicken was sold to Arcapita inc, an alternative investment solutions company which functions on a system whose origins mean "pathway to be followed", an item was removed from the menu after the sale.

What item was removed and why?

Bacon was removed because Arcapita is an Islamic Co.

19 Back in 1999, a Knight took a swipe at a late-

running, British Airways sponsored project which was suffering from a technical snag. Sensing the opportunity, he hired a blimp and scrambled to have the words “BA can’t get it up” written across its fuselage, in a prank that was largely successful.

Identify. What was the project? Image follows

Sir Richard Branson

The London Eye

20* Danish chemist Søren Peder Lauritz Sørensen at

the Carlsberg Laboratory in 1909 during his pioneering research into proteins, amino acids and enzymes - the basis of today’s protein chemistry created something using an electrochemical cell by measuring  the power of hydrogen using a negative logarithm. Creating this enabled them to monitor the fermentation of their beer as well as allow anybody to repeat their manufacturing process and get the same result.

What did he create?

The pH Scale

21 In The Dark Knight, 1 of only 4 pieces in the

world at that time of a certain something was destroyed during the chase scene with the Joker and the SWAT vans. The utilisation of the object in the film which was a first in feature filmmaking allowed Nolan to expand the film’s ‘boundaries’ as he had wanted to in his films for years.

What was destroyed, which cost $500,000 at that time?

IMAX Camera