iQuiz 2015 Junior Finals

iQuiz 2015 Junior FinalsInterface @ SKCH | CBSE

Rules4 roundsRules and scoring will be explained before each round starts

Round 1Pounce

Rules6 questions+10 on a direct+10/-5 on pounce

Who opened this bookstore recently in Seattle?

Q1

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Amazon

Ad for what?

Q2

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Windows 10

Which Facebook feature?Facebook was inspired to introduced this feature during the tsunami and earthquake in Japan in 2011 when they saw people posting that they were safe and wanted to make that easier. Since then it has been activated during a number of natural disasters.It was activated during the Paris Terror Attacks, which was the first time it was activated for an event which was not a natural calamity.Q3

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Safety Check

Which feature?A certain feature on Apple Macbooks (and some other devices as well) works similarly to many Japanese countertop cooking appliances from the early 2000s which had this feature to avoid spilling their dangerously hot contents.Q4

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Magnetic Charging Connector (MagSafe)

Put Funda.This boys name is Sammy Griner. When his father needed a kidney transplant, the family launched a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for medical bills. They were able to raise over $75000 in just a week. How?

Q5

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Success Kid memes

Response to what?

Q6

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Apple Maps when it was released

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Round 2Differential Scoring

Rules5 questionsWrite down the answerEach team gets (5*number of teams that didnt get the answer) points

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Q5

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RoundLong Visual Connect (LVC)

Rules6 pictures+10 for each answerPoints for connect as indicated on each slide

+100/-30

Q1

+50/-25

Q2

+40-20

Q3

+30/-15

Q4

+20/-10

Q5

+10/-0

Q6

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Fiesty Fawn

+100/-30

Hoary Hedgehog

+50/-25

Hardy Heron

+40/-20

Karmic Koala

+30/-15

Wily Werewolf

+20/-10

Utopic Unicorn

+10/-0

Codenames of Ubuntu OS versions

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Round 4Pounce

Rules6 questions+10 on a direct+10/-5 on pounce

What is TeenBuzz?The Mosquito is an IgNobel prize winning innovation named The Mosquito meant to control unruly young crowds.Teen Buzz is based on this concept and is ironically being used by the same target audience that the technology was originally meant to repel. Explain.Q1

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High frequency ringtoneIt can only be heard by teens/younger children and cannot be heard by older people

First monument?Which was the first historical monument in the world to get a Twitter handle? It happened in August 15th, 2015.Its first tweet was There are two kinds of ppl in the world. Those who have visited me and follow me here and those who haven't seen me and yet follow me here.Q2

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Taj Mahal

Fill in the blank.When the Internet was still very much under the spell of bare Unix shells and Gopher, an ambitious group of scientists at CERN started working on the World Wide Web. In an office on the fourth floor they placed the World Wide Webs central database. Some faulty requests were answered with a standard message: ___________Q3

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Room 404: File not found

Which famous persons computer specifications?Lenovo ThinkPad X220 Tablet (2 copies)Intel Core i7-2620M CPU @ 2.7GHz Intel 150Gb Solid-State Drive 520 SeriesWindows 7

Speech Synthesizers (3 copies):Manufacturer - Speech Plus (Incorporated 1988, Mountain View, CA)Model - CallText 5010Q4

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Stephen Hawking

What is X & Y?X (Spanish for The Captain, The Chief) is a vertical rock formation in Y National Park, located on the north side of Y Valley, near its western end. The granite monolith extends about 3,000 feet (900 m) from base to summit along its tallest face and is one of the world's favourite challenges for rock climbers and BASE jumpers.X and Y are also the codenames of a certain computer operating system.Q5

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X-El CapitanY-Yosemite

What is X & Y?X believes its new Y will provide a more versatile identity suited for seamless computing across devices. As X said in a blog post, "Today we're introducing a new Y and identity family that reflects this reality and shows you when the X magic is working for you, even on the tiniest screens. As you'll see, we've taken the Xs Y and branding, which were originally built for a single desktop browser page, and updated them for a world of seamless computing across an endless number of devices and different kinds of inputs (such as tap, type and talk)."Q6

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X-GoogleY-Logo

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Finish.