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Quark Open Quiz 2010 - They Add Up Answers

They Add Up Answers

Set 1
1. Enron (Jeffrey Skilling)
2. Tupolev's Tu-144 (Soviet Union's answer to the Concorde)
3. Accor
4. Renault
ACCENTURE

Set 2
1. Sara Lee Corporation (Owns Kiwi & Goodknight)
2. Kingfisher Red (Air Deccan is now Kingfisher Red)
3. Karbonn Mobiles
4. Walt Disney Company (the pic shows "the nine old men of Disney" - the original group of nine animators used by Walt Disney for 30-40 films)
KAWASAKI

Set 3
1. Nokia (World Mobile Throwing Championships)
2. Timken
3. Varig (Brazil's national airline)
4. Lenovo (the Thinkpad owes its origin to the Shōkadō bentō, a traditional black-lacquered Japanese lunch box)
VALENTINO

Set 4
1. Dabur
2. Nestcape (called Mosaic originally)
3. Fortis (Shivinder Singh (Malvinder Singh's bro) owns Fortis which acquired Wockhardt)
4. Volkswagen
VODAFONE

Set 5
1. Tang
2. Starbucks (How Starbucks built a company one cup at a time)
3. Allianz (Allianz Arena)
4. Videocon (Venugopal Dhoot who is an accomplished flautist)
ALTAVISTA

Set 6
1. Pillsbury (Charles Pillsbury)
2. Cadillac (named after Antoine sur de la Mothe Cadillac, founder of Detroit)
3. Territorial Army
4. Arcelor (before the buyout)
CATERPILLAR

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Quark Open Quiz 2010 - Infinite Bounce Answers

Infinite Bounce Answers

Biz

1. Gardener

2. Basmati Rice

3. Tally Solutions

4. Monster Jobs

5. Brooke Bond

6. Saint Gobain

7. John Maynard Keynes

Sci-Tech

1. Joseph Fourier

2. Tamiflu

3. X - Lady Ada Lovelace

Y - Charles Babbage

4. Chandrayaan-I

Took off from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota and landed at Shackleton (Ernest Shackleton of Endurance fame) crater on the Moon.

5. Uncanny Valley is a hypothesis regarding the field of robotics. The theory holds that when robots and other facsimiles of humans look and act almost like actual humans, it causes a response of revulsion among human observers. The "valley" in question is a dip in a proposed graph of the positivity of human reaction as a function of a robot's lifelikeness.

6. Intelligent Design

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Quark Open Quiz 2010 - Prelims Answers

Prelims (Non-Visuals)

1. Dokomo / Docomo

A- Jack Welch

B - Jeffrey Immelt

C - Boeing

D - Robert Nardelli

E - Chrysler

3. Weta Digital (Peter Jackson)

4. Pranav Mistry, SixthSense

5. Google Earth

6. Quantum Entanglement / Entanglement

7. Vespa

8. Spinal Tap

9. AstroTurf

10. Perpetual Motion

11. Ecole Polytechnique

12.

X - Wolfgang Pauli

Y - Carl Jung

13. Alfred Wegener

14.

a. Credit Rating and Information Services of India Ltd.
b. Earnings Before Interest, Tax, Depreciation and Amortization

15. Transformers (the toyline, the 1984 buyout was by Hasbro)

16. Jack Kilby

17. Johnnie Walker (they're moving out of Kilmarnock after 189 years)

18. Sir Isaac Newton

19. Fabindia

20. Teeth (Odontoceti, Baleen whales have baleen plates for chewing and intake)

21. Detecting landmines

22.

A - George Lemaitre

B - Big Bang

C - Fred Hoyle

23. Vanity Fair

Prelims (Visuals)

1. Dr Vijay Bhatkar (the man behind CDAC and PARAM)

2. Twitter (Jack Dorsey)

3. Aerostatic Flutter

4. Scrabble

5. Medea & Gaea

Medea was the wife of Jason (and the Argonauts). Out of spite for Jason when he left her for another woman, she killed her own kids (fillicide). She is considered the archetype of the bad mother.

Gaea is the Greek Goddess of the Earth and is considered the archetype of the good mother (mother earth).

Medea Hypothesis - Postulates an inherently suicidal earth waiting to self-destruct

Gaea Hypothesis - Postulates the presence of an inherent homeostasis (regulating mechanism) so that when something changes drastically, the other components change to restore balance

6. Maxwell's Demon Paradox

Sadi Carnot's Reflections of the Motive Power of Fire led to the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

James Clerk Maxwell proposed a thought experiment featuring Maxwell's, supposedly an acutely perceptive creature whose interference would lead to a reduction in entropy over time (a violation of the 2nd law)

7. They are brands that have become generic terms.

Tarmac, Jacuzzi, Frisbee and Kleenex

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Quark Open Quiz 2010 - Take Your Pick

Take Your Pick

Originally intended as a buzzer round modeled along the lines of University Challenge, we had to make it a Take Your Pick sort of round.

The biz picks were Media & Publishing, Retail, Construction & Real Estate, Banking

The sci-tech picks were The Nobels, Inventors & Inventions, Software & IT, Terminology

MEDIA & PUBLISHING
1. What significance does the question “Who was Rama’s mother?” have in Indian publishing?

2. 360 Degrees is the event management wing of which Indian conglomerate?

3. K M Mammen Mapillai is known for the Madras Rubber Factory (MRF). His father, K C Mammen Mapillai was imprisoned in 1938 for his inflammatory editorials. Which daily was he the editor of?

4. Which magazine has its current slogan as “Life Well Shared”?

BANKING
1. Of which Indian bank is Shikha Sharma the CEO?

2. Which bank has signed a sponsorship deal with Liverpool FC to commence at the start of the 2010/2011 English Premier League season and last for four years?

3. There is no legal instrument between this bank and its borrowers. The system works entirely on trust. The Bank also incorporates a set of values embodied by the Sixteen Decisions. At every branch, borrowers recite these Decisions and vow to follow them. Which bank are we talking about?

4. As of now, which is the largest bank failure in US history?

CONSTRUCTION & REAL ESTATE
1. Which country made revenue from the sale of its internet domain name in 1998?

2. How do we know the company founded as Raisina Cold Storage and Ice Company in 1946?

3. In a dense downtown area, there may be a building of historical value surrounded by skyscrapers. This building is only three stories high, but each building in the area has the right to thirty-five stories of airspace. The municipal government may permit skyscraper developers to purchase the right to build a taller building. In this case, a skyscraper developer may purchase the unused 32 stories of air rights from the owners of the historic building, giving them the right to build a skyscraper to a maximum height of 67 stories. What concept is being illustrated?

4. This firm was conceived during a holiday in Matheran when Søren Kristian read a report quoting Mahatma Gandhi – “I am not leading a movement to rid India of its white colonial masters in order to substitute them with brown ones”. Which firm?

RETAIL
1. What resulted from Tata’s selling of their 50% stake in Lakmé to HLL for Rs 200 Crore?

2. In 1985, Thomas Stemberg was working on a proposal for a business and needed a ribbon for his printer, but was unable to obtain one because his local dealer was closed for the Independence Day holiday. Which business came about as a result of this?

3. Which retail outlet came out with the tagline ‘Even the Odds’ when it introduced odd numbered shirt sizes (39, 41, 43) for the first time in India?

4. To which retain chain is the famous motto “The customer is always and completely right!” attributed?

THE NOBELS
1. Venkataraman Ramakrishnan won the Nobel Prize in Chemsitry for 2009 for studies regarding the structure and function of which intracellular component?

2. Harold Urey is famous for the Miller-Urey experiment. In recognition of what was he awarded the Nobel for Chemistry in 1934?

3. The Nobel citation for Physics in 1969 read - "for his contributions and discoveries concerning the classification of elementary particles and their interactions". He was among the earliest proponents of Quantum Chromodynamics. Who?

4. Marie Curie. Linus Pauling. John Bardeen. Who completes this exclusive club of four in Nobel history?

INVENTORS & INVENTIONS
1. What invented is credited to Jacques-Yves Cousteau?

2. Thomas Midgley Jr. improved the process of synthesis of CFCs and led the effort to use CFC as refrigerant. His legacy involves one more invention that has resulted in serious consequences for the environment. One historian remarked that Midgley "had more impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth's history." Name the other invention.

3. He had made his first firearm at the age of thirteen out of a piece of scrap metal. Over the course of his career, he went onto have 128 gun patents. He is also the founder of the eponymous firearms company. Who are we talking about?

4. What concept / invention would one associate Willard Libby with?

SOFTWARE & IT
1. Mitch Kapor derived the name for his company from the Padmasana position in Yoga. What company did he found?

2. The .mk format series can hold an unlimited number of video, audio, picture or subtitle tracks inside a single file. This is akin to a container which can hold inside it other containers deriving its name from a Russian word. What does mk stand for?

3. The name of this file sharing concept is partly derived from the fact that its developers Justin Frankel and Tom Pepper supposedly ate a lot of a hazelnut spread brand by the Italian chocolate manufacturer Ferrero. Identify.

4. Which product recently out grossed Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows to become the highest grossing pre-order in Amazon’s history?

TERMINOLOGY
1. Although attributed to Charles Darwin, this phrase was actually coined by Herbert Spencer in his Principles of Biology. Darwin later picked it up for use in paralleling his own term ‘Natural Selection’. Which phrase?

2. As a concept, this dates back to 1960 when John McCarthy opined that “computation may someday be organized as a public activity”. The first attempt at deriving commercial value out of this concept was made by Marc Andreesen of Netscape fame. Name the term.

3. Which term in psychology was coined by Alfred Adler?

4. This is a phenomenon observed in animals which do not have a tapetum lucidum. It is caused by the circulation of blood in the choroid, which nourishes the eye, and also depends on the amount of melanin being present behind the retina. So the effect is more pronounced in albinos. Which phenomenon?

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Quark Open Quiz 2010 - Long Visual Connect

This was actually 6 visual connects with a further connect among the answers of the connects.

So,

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Quark Open Quiz 2010 - Visual Connect

Visual Connect (Sci-Tech)

1.

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Quark Open Quiz 2010 - They Add Up

They Add Up

This was similar to the round in last year's edition except for the fact that I couldn't find six perfect 8-lettered 4-syllabic (2 letters in a syllable) brands this year so only some of them have this attribute. So I didn't go with the syllable part and specified how many letters to take from the answer for each visual. Also, it wasn't an print ad based round and had general visuals.

All the answers were brand names / companies. On occasion when a picture pointed to two brands / companies:

Pic 4 in set 1 - there was a specific question like. This man is the CEO of Nissan. Name the other company he is the CEO of?

Pic 3 in set 2 - Who sponsors the Cape Cobras?

Pic 4 in set 3 - Which company currently owns the product which this Japanese culinary item inspired?