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STRAIGHT QUESTIONS

Project Cider, by researchers at Columbia

University, was unveiled to the world on the first

of March, 2014, to much fanfare. It was unlike

previous efforts towards its goal.

What was the purpose of this project?

Ans –

To run iOS apps on Android

Julian Assange, the founder of

Wikileaks, has called it the most

appalling spying machine that

has ever been invented.

According to Assange, this

system maintains the most

comprehensive database about

people, their relationships, their

names, their addresses, their

locations, their communications

with each other and accessible

to the U.S. intelligence.

What was Julian Assange

talking about?

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X-SAVE IS SLANG FOR THE ACT OF INDISCRIMINATELY CLICKING 'SAVE' WITHOUT FIRST CHOOSING AN APPROPRIATE FOLDER TO IN WHICH TO STORE THE DOCUMENT. COMMON AMONG NEWBIES (E.G.- X) WHO DON'T UNDERSTAND THE CONCEPT OF FOLDERS, DIRECTORIES, ETC., AS IN "ALL OF HIS PAPERS AND CORRESPONDENCE WERE X-SAVED IN THE MS WORD FOLDER.“GIVE THE WORD.

ANS-MOMMY-SAVE

THE X KEYBOARD WAS DESIGNED IN THE 1930S BY AUGUST X, A PROFESSOR OF EDUCATION, AND HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW, WILLIAM DEALY. UNLIKE THE TRADITIONAL QWERTY KEYBOARD, THE X KEYBOARD IS DESIGNED SO THAT THE MIDDLE ROW OF KEYS INCLUDES THE MOST COMMON LETTERS. IN ADDITION, COMMON LETTER COMBINATIONS ARE POSITIONED IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY CAN BE TYPED QUICKLY. ID X (PIC FOLLOWS)

ANS-DVORAK

Specific media bought out which internet

company for 35 M$ in 2011 with Justin

Timberlake taking a small stake?

Ans-

IN A FEW CHINESE PRISONS, THE GUARDS HAVE BEEN MAKING MONEY USING THE INMATES. IN ADDITION TO ROCK BREAKING DURING THE DAY, THE GUARDS MAKE THE PRISONERS PERFORM A PARTICULAR ACTIVITY AT NIGHT WHICH DOUBLES UP AS RECREATION. WHAT MONEY EARNING ACTIVITY IS THIS?(ITS NOT PROSTITUTION)

ANS-WORLD OF WARCRAFT

THE PRISONERS ARE MADE TO PLAY WOW AND EARN ONLINE GOLD BY COMPLETING IN-GAME TASKS. THIS GOLD IS THEN EXCHANGED BY THE GUARDS FOR REAL MONEY.

IN THE HEROIC FANTASY BOOK 'THE NAME OF THE WIND' BY PATRICK ROTHFUSS, THE MAIN CHARACTER KVOTHE STUMBLES AT ONE POINT AND SAYS "I TOOK AN ARROW IN THE KNEE “. THIS LINE HAS BEEN MADE VERY POPULAR BY MEMES BASED ON WHICH GAME?(PIC ON NEXT SLIDE)

ANS-SKYRIM

WHEN THE INTERNET WAS VERY MUCH UNDER THE SPELL OF UNIX SHELLS, AN AMBITIOUS GROUP OF PEOPLE AT CERN STARTED WORKING ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB. THEY PLACED THE OFFICE OF WWW IN A SPECIFIC ROOM.

WHICH ROOM WAS THIS?

ANS-404. HENCE FAULTY REQUESTS ARE DEALT WITH A 404 ERROR.

ID THE COMPANY -

ANS-

TENCENT IS CHINA’S BIGGEST INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER.

X IS A BRITISH COMMERCIAL SMARTPHONE-BASED MUSIC IDENTIFICATION SERVICE, WITH ITS HEADQUARTERS IN LONDON, ENGLAND. IT USES A SMARTPHONE'S BUILT-IN MICROPHONE TO GATHER A BRIEF SAMPLE OF MUSIC BEING PLAYED. IT CREATES AN ACOUSTIC FINGERPRINT BASED ON THE SAMPLE, AND COMPARES IT AGAINST A CENTRAL DATABASE FOR A MATCH.ID X

ANS-

ID-

ANS-KODOMOROID. THE FIRST ANDROID NEWSCASTER.

It was founded by Mike Lazaridis. Its early

development was financed by Canadian institutional

and venture capital investors in 1995 through a

private placement in the privately-held

company. Working Ventures Canadian Fund Inc. led

the first venture round with a $5,000,000 investment

with the proceeds being used to complete the

development of company’s two-way paging system

hardware and software which competed against

Motorola’s SkyTel.

Which ex-popular company?!

Ans –

Blackberry

THIS POKEMON IS CALLED DEOXYS. WHAT WAS THE INSPIRATION BEHIND IT?

ANS-DNA(DEOXY RIBONUCLEIC ACID)

WHAT IS THIS? AND PUBLISHED BY WHOM?

ANS-MAD’S PARODY OF THE NEW YORKER“HOW NEWYORKERSUSING APPLE MAPS SEE NEW YORK”

INITIALLY NAMED ‘PUNKT’ BY ARTHUR KORN, IT WAS DESCRIBED BY ALFRED DINSDALE AS “A MOSAIC OF SELENIUM CELLS, A GREAT NUMBER OF SMALL PARTS, THOUSANDS OF LITTLE SQUARES, AND A SUCCESSION OF LITTLE AREAS OF VARYING BRILLIANCE”.

WHAT IS BEING TALKED ABOUT HERE?

ANS-PIXEL

IN ENGINEERING, FICTION, AND THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS, X IS ANY FICTIONAL, EXTREMELY RARE, COSTLY MATERIAL/ENTITY NEEDED TO FULFILL A GIVEN DESIGN FOR A GIVEN APPLICATION. LATER, X BECAME AN ENGINEERING TERM FOR PRACTICAL MATERIALS THAT REALLY EXIST, BUT ARE DIFFICULT TO OBTAIN.ID X

ANS-UNOBTAINIUM

ARGENTINA - JUNE 16BAHRAIN - JULY 1BRAZIL - DECEMBER 11FRANCE -APRIL 3IRAN - FEBRUARY 24INDIA – X

GIVE ME X AND WHAT THIS LIST IS ABOUT.

ANS-15TH SEPTEMBERENGINEERS DAY

This company invented these –

• Laser printers

• Bitmap graphics

• GUI

• WYSIWYG text editors

• Ethernet

• Smalltalk, the first Object Oriented Language

• The Model-view-controller software architecture

What company am I talking about?

(Hint ?)

Answer –

Xerox PARC

CONNECTS ROUND

ANS-GAME ENGINES

UNITYCRYUNREALSOURCE

ANS-ARCHIMEDES

THE IRON CLAWARCHIMEDES’ SCREWBLOCK-AND-TACKLE MECHANISMBURNING MIRRORS

ANS-TOM CLANCY

Ans –

Albums released as apps

Bjork's Biophilia

Lady Gaga’s Artpop

Skrillex’s Recess last night

Ans –

Music players

VLC

MediaMonkey

Windows

Winamp

Connect

Ans –

robots.txt

A site’s robots.txt guides search engines

ANS-PENDRIVE BRANDS

KINGSTONSONYTRANSCENDHP

ANS-COUNTER STRIKE VERSIONS

NEOZEROSOURCEGLOBAL OFFENSIVE

ANS-AMAZON KINDLE.

KINDLE IS AN OLD NORSE WORD MEANING CANDLE OR TORCH.

REVERSE

X IS A VERY DENSE, ARTIFICIAL, IRON-BASED ALLOY. A SUFFICIENT AMOUNT IS CAPABLE OF SURVIVING MULTIPLE NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS WITH NO DAMAGE. A PURE BLADE OF X IS CAPABLE OF CUTTING ALMOST ANY KNOWN SUBSTANCE. CREATING EVEN A SMALL AMOUNT OF X IS ASTRONOMICALLY EXPENSIVE, AND ONLY A FEW PEOPLE KNOW THE COMPLETE FORMULA. THE EXACT FORMULA IS A CLOSELY GUARDED SECRET OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT.ID X

ANS-ADAMANTIUM

In calculus, L’Hôpital’s rule uses derivatives to help evaluate

limits involving indeterminate forms. Application of the rule

often converts an indeterminate form to a determinate from,

allowing easy evaluation of the limit. The rule is named after

17th century French mathematician Guillaume de L’Hôpital,

who published the rule in his 1696 book Analyse des

Infiniment Petits pour I’Intelligence des Lignes Courbes, the

first textbook on differential calculus. However, it is believed

that this rule was discovered by another famous

mathematician.

Who is believed to have discovered this rule?

Answer –

Bernoulli

GOOGLE DOODLE MADE IN RESPECT OF ?

ANS-THOMAS EDISON

This method of measuring a civilization’s level of technological

advancement, based on the amount of energy a civilization is able to

utilize.

It has three categories :

• Type I – The civilization uses all available resources on it’s home

planet

• Type II – It harnesses all the energy of its star

• Type III – It harnesses all the energy of its galaxy

This scale is named after a Soviet astronomer who invented it.

What’s this scale called?

Answer –

Kardashev Scale (after Nikolai Kardashev)

MARK ZUCKERBERG , SNOOP DOGG AND ?

ANS-SEAN PARKER

This is a crowdsourcing Internet marketplace that enables

individuals or businesses to coordinate the use of human

intelligence to perform tasks that computers are current

unable to do. It is one of the sites of Amazon Web services.

Requesters are able to posts tasks known as HITs (Human

Intelligence Tasks), such as choosing the best among

several photographs of a storefront, writing product

descriptions or identifying performers on music CDs. Worker

(called providers, or more colloquially, Turkers) can browse

among existing tasks and complete them for a monetary

reward.

What is this site called?

Answer –

Mechanical Turk

The Oxford Electric Bell or Clarendon Dry Pile is an experimental

electric bell.

It was “one of the first pieces” purchased for a collection of apparatus

by clergyman and physicist Robert Walker.

It is located in a corridor adjacent to the foyer of the Clarendon

Laboratory at the University of Oxford, and it rings inaudibly since it

is behind two layers of glass.

What is special about this electric bell?

Answer –

It’s been ringing continuously (save for short interruptions caused by

high humidity) since 1940.

Google was successful because of PageRank, the

algorithm that was devised to rank search results.

Why is this algorithm named so?

(Don’t think much )

Answer –

It’s been named after Larry Page, cofounder.

What is common among these problems?

• Yang-Mills and Mass Gap

• Riemann Hypothesis

• P vs NP Problem

• Navier-Stokes Equations

• Hodge Conjecture

• Poincare Conjecture

• Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture

Except that all these are unsolved problems?

(Exhaustive list)

Answer –

These are all Millennium problems as classified by the Clay

Mathematics institute. They are the most difficult problems in

mathematics at the turn of the second millennium, and each problem

has a $1 million prize.

Urban Dictionary definition of X –

If you type a search term into a search engine and only get one

result, that result is a X. Presumably, a true X is one found on

Google.com

No X lasts for long, as the Internet is always expanding and

sometimes when people hear of a X, thy make a new website

containing the search term and spoil it for everyone.

What is X?

Answer –

Googlewhack

ID X

ANS-

Iceweasel

Icedove

Iceape

Iceowl

Connect these to a particular ‘hot’ variant of the

vulpine family

Answer –

Rebrandings of Mozilla projects by the Debian Project

In February 2012, the team behind OPERA

(Oscillation Project with Emulsion-Racking

Apparatus) experiment found two problems

with their test, eventually narrowing the

culprit down to a faulty optical fiber

connection between the GPS signal and the

experiment’s main clock. What anomaly

was debunked as a result?

Answer –

The flight velocity of neutrinos was found to be greater than the

speed of light. This result was debunked.

This is Dr Scott Fahlman

, he invented something

we all have seen and

used. What?

Answer –

Invented the hieroglyph or Smiley Symbol

He was reportedly the first person to use

rockets in war. His portrait is placed at NASA,

but we do not know him for him achievements in

science, but in some other field.

Who am I talking about?

Answer –

Tipu Sultan

What are these?

• Classic Start 8

• Bring Back

• Classic Shell

• StartFinity

Answer –

Start menu replacements for Windows 8

It is said that both X and Y weren’t given the Nobel Prize

because of their animosity to each other. There is

circumstantial evidence that each sought to minimize the

other’s achievements and right to win the award, that both

refused to ever accept the award if the other received it first,

and that both rejected any possibility of sharing it.

Who are we talking about?

Answer –

Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison

The mascot of the BSD OSs, the BSD X, is named after a software

X, a computer program found on Unix-like operation systems, which

through a play on words takes the cartoon shape of a mythical

demon. The BSD X’s nickname Y is also a slurred phonetic

mispronunciation of BSD. Y customarily carries a trident to symbolize

a software X’s forking of processes.

What are X and Y?

Answer –

X – Daemon

Y – Beastie

LONG CONNECT(+110/-55.....+10/-0)

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Linux Distributions (Distros)

Puppy Linux

Suse Linux

Arch Linux

Mandrake / Mandriva Linux

Linux Mint

Dragonfly Linux

Kali Linux

Tails

Fedora

SteamOS

Ubuntu

GRAND CONNECT

3 SETS OF 4 QUESTIONS EACH. INDIVIDUAL QUESTIONS HAVE DIFFRENTIAL SCORING.

+15 FOR 1 +10 FOR 2+ 5 FOR 3+0 FOR 4GUESS ON-SLIDE 1 : +100/-50SLIDE 2 : +80/-40SLIDE 3 : + 60/-30SLIDE 4 : + 40/-20GRAND CONNECT- SET1:+300/-150 , SET2: +200/-100, SET3: +100/-50, BONUS SLIDE: +50/-25

SET 1

CONNECT-

REDYELLOWBLUEMISS GREENORANGE (CRISPY)MISS BROWN

ANS-

AWNING

ANS-TYPES OF WINDOWS

SLIDERBOWHUNGAWNING

ID X

X

ANS-

ID BOTH-

ANS-BILL GATES & PAUL ALLEN

CONNECT?

MICROSOFT

SET 2

X IS A MODEL OF DATA STORAGE WHERE THE DIGITAL DATA IS STORED IN LOGICAL POOLS, THE PHYSICAL STORAGE SPANS MULTIPLE SERVERS (AND OFTEN LOCATIONS), AND THE PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT IS TYPICALLY OWNED AND MANAGED BY A HOSTING COMPANY. THESE X PROVIDERS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR KEEPING THE DATA AVAILABLE AND ACCESSIBLE, AND THE PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT PROTECTED AND RUNNING. PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS BUY OR LEASE STORAGE CAPACITY FROM THE PROVIDERS TO STORE END USER, ORGANIZATION, OR APPLICATION DATA.ID X.

ANS-CLOUD STORAGE

THE SIMPSONS VERSION OF WHOM AND FROM WHICH FRANCHISE ?

ANS-GORDON FREEMAN FROM HALF LIFE 1 & 2

X IS A SUB-GENRE OF SCIENCE FICTION , ESPECIALLY IN A SETTING INSPIRED BY INDUSTRIALIZED WESTERN CIVILIZATION DURING THE 19TH CENTURY. X WORKS ARE OFTEN SET IN AN ALTERNATIVE HISTORY OF THE 19TH CENTURY'S BRITISH VICTORIAN ERA OR AMERICAN "WILD WEST“ . X MAY ALSO INCORPORATE ADDITIONAL ELEMENTS FROM THE GENRES OF FANTASY, HORROR, HISTORICAL FICTION, ALTERNATE HISTORY, OR OTHER BRANCHES OF SPECULATIVE FICTION, MAKING IT OFTEN A HYBRID GENRE.ID X.

ANS-STEAMPUNK

FITB-

ANS-STEAM

CONNECT??

STEAM

SET 3

WHAT’S THE COMMON TITLE?

ANS-LEFT FOR DEAD

X IS A GATE, DOOR, OR THE EXTREMITIES (ENDS) OF A TUNNEL.X IS ALS0 A MAGICAL OR TECHNOLOGICAL DOORWAY THAT CONNECTS TWO LOCATIONS, DIMENSIONS, OR POINTS IN TIME.ID X

ANS-PORTAL

A SIMULATION OF WHICH QUANTITY?

ANS-HALF-LIFE PERIOD

AN ALL FEMALE RENDITION OF?

ANS-

CONNECT?

BONUS SLIDE:

GRAND CONNECT IS

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