I’M NOT A GEEK! QUIZ

Abhinav Dhar

A Biz/IT Quiz

• This company’s headquarters are in Kyoto, Japan.

• The original product was a ceramic insulator known as a “kelcima” for use in television picture tubes.

• Which company named itself on these two facts?

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Kyocera

• Many banks in post-Renaissance Europe issued small, porcelain "borrower's tiles" to their creditworthy customers. Like credit cards, these tiles were imprinted with the owner's name, his credit limit, and the name of the bank. Each time the customer wanted to borrow money, he had to present the tile to the bank teller, who would compare the imprinted credit limit with how much the customer had already borrowed. If the borrower were past the limit, the teller "X" the tile on the spot.

• The business term X is said to have such an origin. X?

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Broke

• A guy named James Jannard, in 1975 began selling what he called 'The X Grip' out of the back of his car at motocross events.

• He used a unique patented material, he called 'Unobtainium,' that was engineered to become sticky when wet. and is still used in the earsocks and nose pieces in X’s glasses.

• In the 1980s, the brand started garnering recognition for its sports style of goggles and in the 1983 it started making ski goggles.

• Which company, which gets its name from the amalgamation of the two cities in California which the founder frequented in his childhood, history is such?

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Oakley• The two cities bring Oakland and Berkeley.

• This is the logo of XY, the flag carrier of Y.• The logo of XY is based on the holy bird of

Hindu and Buddhist mythologies (X), and is a stylised form of the same.

• The bird X is also the national symbol of Y.• What is this airline company called?

4

Garuda Indonesia

• He is known as the ‘Father of the Pentium chip’, for his contribution to the development of Pentium processors from Intel.

• Name him.

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Vinod Dham

• The designation by this company is considered by many to be a classic instance of corporate language manipulation.

• The smallest of them sounds like small but means something close to the opposite.Then comes the Italian for “large,” but instead the correct thing to be used should be ‘sedici,’ Italian for 16.Next in line is the Italian for ‘twenty,’ and ‘thirty’.

• It is said that this naming may help consumers forget the cost or calorie count of what they are about to drink.

• Which company is this?

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Starbucks• Grande, Venti & Trenta: Three of the four sizes

of cups.

• This region in New Zealand gives its name to a sports clothing company whose main focus is on rugby.

• The brand's tagline is “C: the world's original rugby brand".

• Its logo is the silhouettes of three birds (Kiwis) on three solid circular backgrounds creating the letters CCC, the initials of the company.

• It is the company which sponsors jerseys of teams such as Portsmouth F.C., and Otago Volts.

• Name the company.

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Canterbury Clothing Company

• The X-01 was the first calculator wristwatch ever manufactured and sold to the public.• The watch had the following unique features:

Datatype for time, date, and time interval, and the ability to perform mathematics on these datatypes.

A stopwatch that allows the stopwatch time to be multiplied or divided by a constant, and continuously display the results. This was referred to as a "Dynamic Rate Calculation." It could also tell you the day of the week for any day from 1900 to 2099.

The X-01 was X's first algebraic calculator. Prior to the X-01, all X calculators used Reverse Polish notation. In later years, some X calculators used a mixture of both.

• This was the only watch that X ever sold.• What company created this product?

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Hewlett Packard

• A number of countries have marketed this product without permission or consent from its original creator.

• There was speculation that the creators of this brand wanted a monosyllabic name but one of them cleared the air by saying it was just to rhyme in its official slogan "Can't Get Enough of That Wonderful X".

• There is a X Gardens theme park and The Seven Xs are characters there, and as a reference to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs are named Sleazy, Queasy, Surly, Edgy, Tipsy, Dizzy, and Remorseful.

• Name this brand of beer.

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DuffAn official version of the beer is sold in three variations near The Simpsons Ride at Universal Studios.

Connect• Smirnoff• Dove• Singapore Airlines• Kiwi

• Nestle• NBC• Stabilo• American Airlines

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Logos with birds

• In 1868, Fredrik Idestam built a second ground wood pulp mill near the town of X somewhere in North Europe.

• In 1871, he transformed his firm into a share company, thereby founding X Ab. The company's name came from the Xnvirta river.

• Eduard Polón decided to use the name ‘X’, the town where his factories were based, as a brand name for his products to differentiate his products from Russian competitors.

• This city, quite surprisingly, does have engineering and design facilities which come from 15 kilometers, Tampere.

• Name the city/company.

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Nokia

• This brand of deodorant (X) was originally sold by Mennen and later by Colgate-Palmolive.

• It was first released in 1991 and established a niche for itself, making itself the most popular deodorant brand with teen girls.

• But the biggest reason of its popularity at the time was because of its name appearing in a cult song.

• The name of the song itself was thought of by the lead singer (Y) when a friend of his, Kathleen Hanna, spray painted that Y smells like X, on his wall.

• What was this brand of deodorants called?

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Teen Spirit• Today, all that is

left of the Teen Spirit franchise is "Teen-Spirit Stick." Teen Spirit Stick is offered in two fragrances: Sweet Strawberry and Pink Crush.

• This slang is used for a stock with low market capitalization. An X, generally, is a stock that has a market capitalization of less than $500 million.

• These stocks tend to be very volatile and are often thinly traded but can have greater growth potential than larger stocks and encompass many emerging technologies.

• The term in its true sense is used to describe very young children, ones who are so small that they can only reach one's ______.

• Provide X.

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Ankle biters

• This is Ajay Bhatt, a Chief Client Platform Architect at Intel.• He helped define and create AGP (Accelerated Graphics

Port) and PCI Express.• But his most famous creation is something which was

made all our lives easier.• He designed something which helped standardize the

connection of computer peripherals to personal computers and has deemed serial and parallel ports superfluous.

• What was he responsible for creating?

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Universal Serial Bus (USB)

• In the nineteenth century, an industrialist used his reputation to lure European financiers into USA by taking over an industry and stabilizing it through monopoly. He would then turn the industry into a single, stable, profitable entity that was much more palatable to European bankers.

• He did this to the railroad industry first and then took over the steel, electricity and banking industries in the same way.

• The solid, steady growth that resulted was successful in transforming the U.S. from a debtor nation to one that was able to lend money to others.

• A term was hence born, after the surname of the industrialist.

• What term?

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Morganization

• This toy, first invented and developed by George Lerner in 1949, and first manufactured and distributed by Hasbro in 1952, has a plastic model of a _____, as the main body, which can be decorated with a variety of plastic like ears, eyes, a nose, and a mouth.

• The toy was originally produced as separate plastic parts with pushpins that could be stuck into a real vegetable. However, due to complaints regarding rotting vegetables and new government safety regulations, the plastic body was developed.

• What is the name of the toy which also was the first toy advertised on television?

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Mr. Potato Head

• This brand of canned precooked meat products is made by Hormel Foods Corporation. It was first introduced in 1937 and gained popularity worldwide after its use during World War II.

• By the early 1970s the name “X" was often misused to describe any tinned meat product containing pork, such as pork luncheon meat.

• A Monty Python sketch portrayed X as ubiquitous and inescapable, characteristics which lent to its name to something of the modern world, which none of us likes.

• What term came as a result of this?

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Spam

• Internet.org is a partnership between X and six mobile phone companies Samsung, Ericsson, Media Tek, Microsoft, Opera and Qualcomm that aims to bring affordable Internet access to everybody by increasing affordability, increasing efficiency, and facilitating the development of new business models around the provision of Internet access.

• Who is the founder of internet.org?

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Mark Zuckerberg

• In 1997, a certain airline company came up with these tail-fin designs, replacing the patriotic original one.

• They were known as the Utopia or ‘world image’ tailfins, they used art and designs from international artists to represent countries on the airlines' route network.

• The new tailfins came from a variety of places ranging from Poland to China to Botswana to Saudi Arabia to Japan to India.

• A Former Prime Minister showed her displeasure at the designs by covering one of the new tailfins on a model 747 with a handkerchief.

• By 1999 the new designs were being replaced and returned to the more traditional look.

• Which airline company produced these to a disastrous effect?

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British Airways

• The Xbox 360 has been subject to a number of technical problems. Since the console's release in 2005, users have reported concerns over its reliability and failure rate.

• To aid customers with defective consoles, Microsoft extended the Xbox 360's manufacturer's warranty to three years for hardware failure problems that generate a "General Hardware Failure" error report. A "General Hardware Failure" is recognized on all models released before the Xbox 360 S by three quadrants of the ring around the power button flashing red.

• This error is often known as the ‘X’.• A source of memes, what is X?

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The Red Ring of Death