SCI-BIZ-TECH Quiz.pptx

SCI-BIZ-TECH Quiz
Govt Engineering College, Thrissur
Shibin Azad
shibinazad@gmail.com
9847282247

• 1) After which Greek god, was the healing temples in ancient
Greece named after?
• Treatment at these temples largely centered around promoting
healthy lifestyles, with a particular emphasis on a person's
spiritual needs. Characteristic of the place was the practice of
incubatio, also known as 'temple sleep.'

• 2) In 1977, he launched his second venture, Jumbo Circus.
Soon after, he started his third venture – The Great Royal
Circus.
• What was the name of his first venture, of a similar kind? He
started it in 1951 after buying Vijaya Circus in the same year,
and renaming it after his own Zodiac sign.

• 3) Where can you find India’s first geothermal power project
run by ONGC? India is planning a second one in Arunachal
Pradesh. The name of the valley, in a sort of coincidence, sounds
similar to a word meaning ‘smoke’ in an Indian language.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tS3S1YqSO0

• 4) It is a group of inherited red blood cell disorders that affect
hemoglobin, the protein that carries oxygen through the body.
Normally, red blood cells are disc-shaped and flexible enough to
move easily through the blood vessels. Having this disorder
means that the red blood cells, resemble an agricultural
equipment, from which it gets its name.
• What is the name of this disorder?
• Image in the next slide.

• 5) What startling codename given to the project to merge UFC
and WWE? The name is also the name of the ‘finishing move’ by
Stone Cold Steve Austin.

• Project Stunner
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCDpQcA6iqQ

• 6) Sargakshetra 89.6 FM, a community radio was launched last
week in Mannanam, Kottayam, by the CMI congregation of the
Catholic Church. It began functioning with 7 RJs, and shortly
thereafter, RJ Gregory joined.
• RJ Gregory will not be interacting with the audience any time
soon, as per the Managing Director, due to limitations in
technology.
• What is unique about RJ Gregory?

• 7) Bon Bibi, is a goddess worshipped by both Hindus and
Muslims. She stands between life and death at the hands of the
shapeshifting tiger king Dokkhin Rai, who even though is
feared, is not the enemy. Tigers and humans are siblings, as long
as neither lets greed get the better of their senses, can both live
in peace.
• In which area, largest of its kind, is goddess Bon Bibi mainly
worshipped?
• Images follow.

• 8) When Kerala government wanted to implement a policy for
‘work near home’, the finance minister visited a Zoho office, set
up in a rural area. The method is to set up offices in rural areas
and let the employees work from there. Majority of the
employees would be residents of nearby areas.
• This model is named after a town, is famous for the waterfalls in
Courtallam, a panchayat town described as the ‘spa of South
India’.
• The town itself gets its name from ‘kashi of the south’.

• 9) Forerunner to which game, programmed by Taneli Armanto,
and first introduced in a Nokia 6110, was ‘Blockage’? Blockage
was a two-player game by Gremlin Interactive.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v-0CwiabZA

• 10) To promote what group of consumables, in a year long
campaign, is this logo being used for?

• International Year of Millets

• 11) Which movement was started in Italy with the founding of
its forerunner organization, Arcigola, in 1986 to protest against
the opening of a McDonald’s outlet near the Spanish Steps in
Rome? At its heart is the aim to promote local foods and
traditional gastronomy and food production. In 1989, the
founding manifesto was signed in Paris, with delegates from
over 15 countries.
• Images follow.

• 12) In which African capital city, can you find this traffic island,
with works by the artist Vincent Karavina?

• Windhoek
• The name of the city is probably coined from two
Afrikaans/Dutch words meaning “wind” and “corner”.

• 13) It is said to have been created from a meteorite impact that
occurred 35000-55000 years ago. According to NASA, the most
important piece of evidence that clinched this lake’s status as an
impact crater was the presence of Maskelynite, a kind of
naturally occurring glass that is only formed by extreme high-
velocity impacts.
• Which lake in Maharashtra is this?

• 14) Which company’s annual shareholders meeting, held in
Omaha, is called the ‘Woodstock of Capitalists’?

• 15) What term has been blanked out from the title of this
Business Standard article? An amount of 6000 crore has been
allocated for the period from 2023-24 to 2030-31. The term was
also part of the title of a 2023 Marvel movie.

• 16) Identify the name that has been blanked out from this
headline.

• 17) Two French cuisiners claim to have invented the Chocolate
fondant. The
first is Michel Bras, who created the coulant au chocolat
(runny chocolate) in 1981 to evoke the
memory of sipping hot chocolate to warm
up after a family skiing trip.
• The second is Jean
Georges Vongerichten, in New York in 1987 he
pulled hundreds of miniature chocolate
cakes out of the oven before they were
cooked. The centres were molten, but there
was no time to correct the mistake. Despite
the error, the diners loved them.
• How do we know this dish?

• 18) Radhanath Sikdar was one of the first two Indians to read
Newton’s Principia, and by 1832, he had studied Euclid’s
Elements, Jephson’s Fluxion and Analytical Geometry and
Astronomy by Windhouse. He was the first person to calculate
the height of the Mount Everest, which was known as Mount XV
then.
• Earning a salary of 40 rupees, what designation did he hold
during this time? The title of the designation was derived from a
Latin word which means 'to calculate', 'to count', 'to think', or 'to
sum up’.
• Image follows.

• 19) Chisso corporation, now christened as Japan New Chisso
(JNC) is the successor of Sogi Electric company founded in
1906. In 1932, they started the production of acetaldehyde, and
the by-product they released for around 30+ years caused
severe debilitating conditions amongst the local populace where
the factory was situated. Which disease, referred to as ‘Mad
Hatter’s disease’ in the company’s reports, were the company
chiefly responsible for?

• 20) To commemorate what occasion was this coin minted? The
gold coin, which dates from 42 B.C. and is valued at $4.2
million, and was returned to Greece in March 2023.

• 21) Who devised the Zeroth law of Robotics?
• “A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction,
allow humanity to come to harm”

• 22) To highlight what issue did English Women’s football team
play without the names on the back of their jerseys against
Australia on 11 April 2023? The same gesture was done by the
England’s Men’s team during the second half of a match against
Switzerland in March 2022.

• To highlight the issue of Dementia

• 23) Identify the names of
the 4 companies that has
been blanked out.

• Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google

• 24) Shown in the video is one of the biggest Tunnel Boring
machine in the country, named Mavala. It is named after the
infantry warriors of which Indian king?
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3EaUreWA1I

• 5 rounds in total
• 3 Written rounds of 4 questions each on the topics of Sci, Biz
and Tech
• 2 bounce and pounce round of 12 questions each

• 1) Identify the monkey species. It got its name due to its
resemblance to Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II.

• 2) They are a pair of adult male orcas notable for preying on
great white sharks off the coast of South Africa. The duo are
identified as having rare and distinct collapsed dorsal fins and
they are named for a couple of closely related nautical
terms, as one orcas' fin collapses left and other's collapses
right.
• What names are they known by?
• They are known for their peculiar behaviour of only eating the
livers of the sharks they attack, after inducing tonic immobility.

• 3) Turul resembles a mix between an eagle and a falcon. There
were three large statues of Turul, each having a wingspan of
15m. But of these 3, only one remain. The last standing statue
looms atop the mountain of Tatabanya, where it sits with a
crown, and the sword of God in its talon.
• Which country’s national bird is the Turul?

• 4) The name of this dog breed derives from the Afrikaans
word meaning farmer, and boel, a shortening of boelhond,
which means ‘bulldog’. Identify the dog breed.

• Bounce and Pounce
• 12 Questions
• +10 on bounce
• +10/-5 on pounce

• 1) Hakki Pikki is a tribe that lives in several states in west and
south India, especially near forest areas. Hakki Pikkis (Hakki in
Kannada means ‘bird’ and Pikki means ‘catchers’) are a semi-
nomadic tribe, traditionally of bird catchers and hunters.
• The adoption of which project in the early 1970s, led them to
turn to Ayurvedic medicine? As on 24 April, 31 members of this
tribe is stranded in Sudan, in the ongoing civil war.

• 2) The Economist, gave a term to describe the post-pandemic
economy, after a painting. The artist of the painting achieved
this ambiguous effect, using a technique called ‘sfumato’. He
blurred the lines around a prominent feature, so that, no matter
how many times you look, you are unsure of what is happening.
In the same sense, one cannot really be sure what is happening
with the economy.
• What term did The Economist use to describe the post-
pandemic economy?

• 3) The Japanese character for a certain number is ‘man-po’,
and it looks similar to a person walking. In 1965, when a
Japanese company called Yamasa Clock, created an
equipment, they called it ‘Manpo-kei’.
• What myth did this marketing strategy, end up creating?

• Myth about walking 10000 steps a day

• 4) In April 2023, Mattel released a Barbie doll which had a
shorter frame and a longer torso and its face is rounder with
smaller ears, a flat nasal bridge and almond-shaped eyes which
can all be characteristics of women who have the genetic
condition.
• What genetic condition does the doll have?
• The doll also has a pink pendant necklace with three upward
chevrons. What do they represent?

• It represents the three copies of the 21st chromosome, the
genetic material that causes the characteristics associated with
Down's syndrome.

• 5) The story of Swati Snacks began in a home kitchen in 1963,
when Minakshi Jhaveri started it with help from her family
cook, Veera Maharaj. It has now grown to be included in the
“Essence of Asia” collection of venues that reflect a region’s
gastronomic diversity.
• Why did it again shot into the limelight on 17th April 2023?

• 6) European Space Agency's JUICE—the Jupiter Icy Moons
Explorer will focus its 10 science instruments on three of the
four largest Jovian moons—Europa, Ganymede and Callisto,
when it arrives at its destination in 2031.
• NASA’s mission to study Europa is named ‘Europa X’, with X
coming from the “X” merchant ships of the 19th century.
• X is also part of the name of an NBA team.

• 7) Taken from a mythological symbol, in today’s world it is used
to symbolize a closed-loop control system, where the only
content generated is the content people want to consume. This
is especially evident in the news media, where providing
consumers only content they want, even if that means
fabricating information, has become a devious, yet acceptable,
model.
• What is this model called? Or, from what symbol has this term
originated?

• 8) What is the name given to
this type of collar shown in the
image? It is flat in design with
rounded corners. It is named
after a character played
by Maude Adams, who wore
such a costume in her 1905
role, although a similar style
existed much before this.

• 9) The abbott Johannes Trithemius opposed this 1436
invention because he thought it would make the monks lazy.
“The word of God needs to be interpreted by priests not spread
about like Dung”, he said.
• What invention was he criticizing?

• Printing Press, by
Johannes Gutenberg

• 10) This phenomenon has been observed near Kanhangad in
2019. It was associated with a boom of the diatom Fragilariopsis
oceanica, and a consequent feeding frenzy.
• VN Sajeevan, professor chair at KUFOS (Kerala University of
Fisheries and Ocean studies) believes that it was caused due to
the “positive Indian Ocean Dipole”, characterized by warm
waters in the Arabian sea, and cooler waters in the Bay of
Bengal. And the search for a more comfortable temperature had
led to this.
• What was the phenomenon observed?

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh8mF8bbVBU

• 11) Connect these 3 images.

• 12) The theme of 2023 Met Gala was selected in honour of a
German fashion designer. Identify him.
• Jared Leto, chose to dress up as his cat, Choupette for the event.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzP170nsrAY
•

• Written round on Business
• 4 questions

• 1) The image shows the largest
Pichwai painting in the world,
made by the artist Suresh
Sharma, who founded the
‘Artists of Nathdwara’. By its
side, you can see one of the 90-
piece set of stainless steel
structure mirrors by Yayoi
Kusama. Where can you find
them?

• NMACC – Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre

• 2) Which airlines came up with the campaign – ‘500 unique
reasons to fly’?

• 3) After the relocation of Cheetah to India, there are plans to
introduce Hippopotamus to India from Colombia. Colombia,
which did not have an indigenous population, wants to relocate
some of the Hippos in the country to India and Mexico. Who
imported Hippos into Colombia for his private zoo?

• 4) Economist Alan Kreuger termed this after a novel that
highlighted the inequality that prevailed in the US in the 1920s.
In countries with high income inequality, children from poor
families are less likely to improve their economic status during
the course of their lifetime, as wealth is concentrated in a few
hands.
• Id the novel/the term.

• 12 Questions
• +10 on bounce
• +10/-5 on pounce

• 1) Before venturing out on his journey,
this person was handed a copy of
Principles of Geology. Lyell, having
studied glaciers, volcanoes and fossils,
proposed the concept of “gradual
geological change” : that ecological
phenomena and objects today result
from minute changes accumulating
over a period of time.
• Who was the person who was given this
book? It influenced his work as well.

• 2) ‘Japanese Management, Indian
resistance’ is the title of a 2023
book by Anjali Deshpande and
Nandita Haksar.
• About which company is the book
about?

• 3) What is the term used to denote this symbol on
websites/apps? For a rather clumsy detective, the term proved
too difficult to pronounce.

• Hamburger
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6oeAdemFZw

• 4) What name has been given to this experiment to find out the
weight of ‘nothing’? It tries to weigh the ‘virtual particles’
that occupy empty space.
• ‘If virtual particles have weight, then a cavity of metal plates in
a vacuum should experience a buoyant force. The cavity is
essentially displacing the regular vacuum, with its abundant
virtual particles, with a lighter vacuum containing fewer
virtual particles. Determining the strength of the buoyant
force, which depends on the density of the virtual particles, will
reveal their weight.’

• 5) Ceylon Beverages, was established in 2020, and operates a
plant with a capacity to produce 300 million cans annually.
Reliance Consumer Products ltd, has signed up with Ceylon
Beverages as the contract packaging partner.
• Ceylon Beverage’s energy brand Spinner will be retailed in India
by Reliance Consumer ltd.
• Who owns Ceylon Beverages?

• 6) Geoffrey Hinton created a neural network that eventually
formed the basis of AI-driven chatbots such as ChatGPT, Bing,
and Bard. He was also the joint recipient of the 2018 Turing
Award with Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio for his work on
deep learning. Looking at his contributions in the world of AI,
he eventually became to be known as the 'Godfather of AI’.
• Why did he quit Google recently?
• Image on the next slide.

• To warn about dangers of AI

• 7) Sir Neville Mott, who won the Nobel Prize in 1977, had said
he was about 60 years ahead of his time and had rightly
predicted use of N-type and P-type semiconductors in the
future.
• Identify the scientist who had originally planned to study
medicine, but he could not endure the smell of the dissection
rooms and fell ill. So he decided to opt for the study of natural
sciences.
• He lost out on, perhaps, his most famous invention in 1895, as
he didn’t patent it, because he didn’t believe in scientific
research for profit.

• 8) She is an AI generated influencer, who posts under the
Instagram handle under the Instagram handle @venereitalia23.
She was created for promoting Italian tourism, for the campaign
‘Open to Wonder’.
• What is the inspiration for this influencer?

• Birth of Venus, Botticelli

• 9) The country’s govt worked in
collaboration with NASA’s
Engineering and Safety Center
(NESC) to help with the rescue.
The center was established after
the Challenger and Columbia
space shuttle disasters and has
worked on a range of projects
worldwide, from submarine
rescues to oil spills. They
developed the Fenix capsules in
2010. For what purpose, was this
contraption put to use?

• 10) Ectrodactyly, also referred to as split hand/foot
malformation (SHFM), is a condition marked by the absence of
one or more fingers or toes. It is prominently seen in the
Vadoma tribe who lives in the Kayemba region in the northern
part of Zimbabwe.
• What is the common name of this syndrome? It is named after a
bird.
• Image on the next slide.

• 11) Starting in a private chapel on the first floor of the north-east
wing of Windsor Castle, on 20 November 1992, the blaze caused
millions of pounds worth of damage. The fire had destroyed 115
rooms, including nine state rooms, and the restoration work
took 5 years to complete.
• What initiative, was originally started to raise funds to repair
the Windsor castle, and continues to this day? This ensured
greater visibility to some paintings of Rembrandt, Van Dyck,
Peter Paul Reubens and Canaletto.
• Images follows.

• Rembrandt – Ship Builder and his wife

• Van Dyck - Equestrian Portrait of Charles I

• Peter Paul Reubens – Farm at Laken

• Canaletto - The Grand Canal With Santa Maria della Salute
Looking East Towards the Bacino

• Buckingham Palace started offering tours

• 12) Of which company is, Jensen Huang, the co-founder and
CEO?

• Written round on technology
• 4 Questions

• 1) Which tech company’s joint venture with NR Narayana
Murthy’s Catamaran Advisors, is named Cloudtail? The same
company’s joint venture with the Patni Group is named
Appario.

• 2) This company was founded in 1924 as Osaka Kinzoku
Kogyosho Limited Partnership (OKK) in 1924. Originally, the
company’s core business was the sale and manufacture of
aviation parts, and general metalworking. Later, the name was
changed to its nickname. The first half of the nickname derived
from the Kanji character “大”, taken from Osaka (大阪) and
‘kin’ from Kinzoku.
• Identify the company, which was the first to introduce split, and
multi-split ACs.
• Image of their mascot, Pichonkun, is given in the next slide.

• 3) Baidu, built a generative AI, built on its in-house models,
‘Enhanced Representation through Knowledge Integration, and
‘Pre-trained Dialogue Generation Model’.
• When it is asked about Xi Jinping, or the Tiananmen square
protests, it suggests to change the topic, and feigns ignorance.
• What is the name of the bot?

• Ernie
• (Enhanced Representation through Knowledge Integration)

• 4) The teaser trailer for the 2023 film Barbie, directed by Greta
Grewig, is based on the trailer of which iconic Sci-Fi film?
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zIf0XvoL9Y

• 2001 : A Space Odyssey
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6vPuIMAOlA

• Thank you
• Government Engineering College, Thrissur
• Gyanartha Quiz Club

• 1) Designed by John Burgee, and completed in 1973, it was the
first building in India to have an escalator. It also had the
shortest lift, from the 22nd floor to the boardroom on the 23rd
floor.
• During the 26/11 terror attack, the tunnel of the basement
became a pivotal point, where police briefings for taking control
of the Trident hotel were held. It was also the route to help
people escape from the hotel.
• Identify the building.

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