Quiz-General @SASTRA

All Under the Moon Quiz


What’s this? A new effort to further the quizzing culture at SASTRA.What’s the deal? Stay up late and quiz till you break, a la SAARANG, FESTEMBER style.What’s in store? A looong quiz; approx 70-80 questions. So we hope it’ll be good food for thought.Idea copied and re-mixed by SRIDHAR.C withinvaluable inputs and questions from NIRANJAN.M


Food for thought

• If you think you're wrong, you're wrong. Corollary - If you think you're wrong, you're right.• If pro is opposite of con, then what is the opposite of

progress?


Question 0


The so called “Satan’s miniature golf hole”

• If Satan plays miniature golf, this is his favorite hole. A ball struck at A, in any direction, will never find the hole at B — even if it bounces forever.

• The idea arose in the 1950s, when Ernst Straus wondered whether a room lined with mirrors would always be illuminated completely by a single match.

• Straus’ question went unanswered until 1995, when George Tokarsky found a 26-sided room with a “dark” spot; two years later D. Castro offered the 24-sided improvement above. If a candle is placed at A, and you’re standing at B, you won’t see its reflection anywhere around you — even though you’re surrounded by mirrors.


What is X?

• The X is like an immense photographic film, registering all the desires and earth experiences of our planet. Those who perceive it will see pictured thereon: The life experiences of every human being since time began, the reactions to experience of the entire animal kingdom, the aggregation of the thought-forms of a karmic nature (based on desire) of every human unit throughout time. Herein lies the great deception of the records. Only a trained occultist can distinguish between actual experience and those astral pictures created by imagination and keen desire.


AKASHIK RECORDS


Who is X?• This happened when MICROSOFT asked X the following question• Interviewer: Now we come to the part of the interview where we test your creative thinking.

Don't think too hard about it; just apply common sense and explain your reasoning. Here's the problem.

• You are in a room with three switches that each control a different light fixture in another room. You cannot see from the switch room into the lamp room. Your task is to determine which switches control which light fixtures, but you may only go into the room with the lights once. How do you determine which switch controls which light?

• X: That seems straightforward. I could obtain a number of large mirrors, and, if necessary, a telescope. I enter the room with the lights once and position the mirror so that it reflects all three lights out the door of the room. I continue placing mirrors, aligning them as necessary to reflect the photons emitted by the lights until I am back in the room with the switches. Now I can see the lights, possibly through the telescope if the distance is large, and I can toggle the switches on and off so as to determine which light is controlled by which switch.


• Interviewer: Um. Yeah, I suppose that would work. But what if you didn't have big mirrors, or couldn't align them well enough?

• X: Then I could obtain an inexpensive digital video camera and put it on a dolly with a sufficiently long rope attached to it. I could put the video camera in the room with the lights, turn it on, and then take the other end of the rope back to the room with the switches. I'd then play with the switches for a while and take notes on which switches I flipped at what time. Then I'd haul the camera on its dolly back into the switch room and review the recording. By correlating my notes of what switches were flipped at what time with the recording of the lights, I could correlate lights to switches.

• Interviewer: I forgot to mention that once you enter the room with the lights, you are not allowed to come back to the room with the switches.

• X: That is an unusual constraint that perhaps you ought to have mentioned earlier, but I'll go with it. In that case I would take a different approach. But first I'll need more information. Can I assume that the lights and the switches are correctly wired according to the National Electric Code of the United States? That is, that the switches interrupt the hots, not the neutrals, that the switches are standard-duty switches rated to interrupt 15 amps of 120 volt alternating current, and so on?

• AND THIS CONVERSATION GOES ON…………….


Richard Feynman

• Reacting on a mock software company interview setup by Microsoft


Real statement of which principle?

• Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily


Occam's Razor


Put funda and FITB and find X

• "In this odd state of matter, X takes on a more human dimension; you can almost touch it," says Lene Hau, a Harvard University physicist.

• In the future, __________could have a number of practical consequences, including the potential to send data, sound, and pictures in less space and with less power. Also, the results obtained by Hau's experiment might be used to create new types of laser projection systems and night vision cameras with power requirements a million times less than what is presently possible.


• The idea of this new kind of matter was first proposed in 1924 by Albert Einstein and Satyendra Nath Bose, an Indian physicist. According to their theory, atoms crowded close enough in ultra-low temperatures would lock together to form what Hau calls "a single glob of solid matter which can produce waves that behave like radio waves.“

• _________this way doesn't violate any principle of physics. Einstein's theory of relativity places an upper, but not lower, limit on the __________.


Light has been slowed to the speed of a minivan in rush-hour

traffic -- 38 miles an hour.• An entirely new state of matter, first observed four years ago, has made this possible. When atoms become packed super-closely together at super-low temperatures and super-high vacuum, they lose their identity as individual particles and act like a single super- atom with characteristics similar to a laser.


X?

• In Scholastic philosophy, the X is the mode of existence experienced by angels and by the saints in heaven. In some ways, it is a state that logically lies between the eternity (timelessness) of God and the temporal experience of material beings. It is sometimes referred to as “improper eternity”. The word X is Latin, originally signifying “age”, or “everlasting time”


AEVUM


X?

• X means the number One in Sanskrit• X is a supercomputer built by the Computational

Research Laboratories with technical assistance and hardware provided by Hewlett-Packard.

• X uses 14,352 cores based on the Intel QuadCore Xeon processors. The primary interconnect is Infiband 4x DDR. X occupies about 4000 sq. feet area. It was built using offshelf components from Hewlett-Packard, Mellanox and Voltaire Ltd.. It was built within a short period of 6 weeks.


EKA

• The supercomputer built by Computational Research Laboratories (Subsidiary of TATA sons)


Put funda

Primarily, WASD is used to account for the fact that the X(s) are not ergonomic to use in conjunction with a right-handed mouse. This also allows the user to use the left hand thumb to press the space bar (often the jump command) and the left hand little finger to press the CTRL or SHIFT keys (often the crouch and/or sprint commands).

Some gamers prefer the WASD to the X(s) for other various reasons, including the fact that more keys (and therefore, game commands) are easily accessible with the left hand when placed near WASD. Left-handed mouse users may prefer using the numpad or IJKL with their right hands instead for similar reasons.

Clue: The original Apple Macs had no X(s)


X-Arrow keys

• WASD positioning


Put funda(easy)


Microsoft boss Bill Gates was photographed by the Albuquerque, New Mexico police in 1977 after a

traffic violation


unX X

• Forrest Mars Sr. was inspired to create the now famous X chocolate candies when he saw soldiers fighting during the Spanish Civil War. The soldiers were eating chocolate pellets with a hard shell of tempered chocolate. This prevented the chocolate inside from melting and them getting sticky fingers.

• Xs started production in 1941, and their popularity and their shell were so popular that they, in turn, were used by US soldiers during World War 2


M&M s


Why?


This was how the Taj Mahal was protected from bomber jets in 1942

during world war.It was covered with huge scaffold, to

make it look like a stockpile of bamboo and misguide bombers.


FITB and ID X(both the dashes are not the same)

• During an audience interview X said: "Does anyone know where _____________ came from? It is an ancient spell in Aramaic, and it is the original of ___________, which means 'let the thing be destroyed.' Originally, it was used to cure illness and the 'thing' was the illness…blah blah..blah………………………………………. I take a lot of liberties with things like that. I twist them round and make them mine." X's use of this name may have been influenced by Latin cadaver = "corpse".


Avada Kedavra (Killing Curse)


What is all this about??

• Cascio: “I don’t understand this. I must have made a wrong turn. This should be Grand Turk, but there’s nothing down there, no airport, no houses.”Passenger: “Right,”

• Cascio: “It’s the right place on the map, and the shape is right and all, but this island looks uninhabited. Look, no buildings, no roads, nothing. It has to be Grand Turk, but it’s not there. It looks like Grand Turk but it just can’t be.”

• At the same time that she claimed to be circling the island, people in many places on Grand Turk Island claimed to see a small airplane circle the island for approximately 30 minutes.

• JAGs Airport, having seen her with the naked eye and on radar, tried desperately to contact her, but was never able to do so. It was assumed that most attempts to do so would fail due to her open-mic position, but several times while she circled, her conversation with her passenger was interrupted by static for 1 to 3 seconds. Airport control took these to be moments at which she was attempting to radio the Airport. At this point, JAGs Airport control knew that something was seriously wrong. Cascio was flying directly above the airport in clear conditions but apparently could not see it. All attempts to contact her over the radio failed.


• After half an hour of circling, the airport picked up Cascio’s last words: “Is there no way out of this?” She then apparently made a decision to fly to another island. In bewilderment, the entire airport staff watched as she banked sharply to the left and flew out across the sea. The airplane flew into a low-lying cloudbank, but was not seen exiting the other side. On her return trip, she was able to radio Nassau Airport that she was convinced that she must not be over Grand Turk Island, although her charts indicated that the island below was the exact shape of Grand Turk Island, and where Grand Turk Island should have been. But because she could find no airport at which to land, she was forced to depart.


THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE

• Conspiracy theorists generally believe that Cascio flew through a rip in space-time, and arrived over Grand Turk Island at some point in the distant past, before the island had undergone urban development of any kind, or become inhabited by humans. This theory requires that her radio transmissions were able to pass through the rip in space-time and back to Nassau Airport at the present day. This theory also requires that the present-day inhabitants of Grand Turk Island were able to see her plane circle the island for 30 minutes, though it had already passed through the rip in space-time, or was still inside the rip.

• Because no sign of her, her passenger, or her airplane was ever found, this theory continues that during her return for Nassau, she flew through the same rip in space-time and was not able to return to the present day, thus landing at some point in the past. If this were true, it would still be possible to find the remains of her airplane, but as yet, no wreckage has been found, neither on land nor in the ocean.


Who said?

• “I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.”


Albert Einstein

• Upon refusing surgery at the age of 76• And he told this too• “The splitting of the atom has changed everything

except for how we think.”


X??

• X, as defined by URBANDICTIONARY.COM , is a term used to (more often sarcastically) refer to a person as a big shot. More often, this is used in a response statement to someone bragging about himself

• It has shot up in popularity and usage in several tamil conversations and also lot of tam-eng mixed dialogues.


appatakkar


Die with dignity

• The title of the website says• _________ Suicide Machine - Meet your Real

Neighbours again! - ____________forever!:• There is screenshot of the website in the next slide


What is X

• The X is a measurement of Twitter followers relative to celebrity___________. The measurement was standardized when _________ achieved half a million Twitter followers, with the effect that __________ now has 3.4 Xs himself. As few Twitter users have millions of followers, the milliX (500 followers) is more commonly used.


Wheaton unit of measuring twitter followers


FITB

• _________________ is one of the largest men's secret general fraternities in North America, having initiated more than 280,000 members and held chapters at more than 300 universities. It is a member of the North-American Interfraternity Conference (NIC) and was founded by Warren A. Cole, while he was a student at Boston University, on November 2, 1909. The youngest of the fifteen largest social fraternities, _________________ has initiated the third highest number of men ever, based on NIC statistics._______________'s National Headquarters is located in Indianapolis, Indiana.

• _________________ seeks to promote higher education by providing opportunities for academic achievement and leadership. Its open mottos are Vir Quisque Vir (Latin) Every Man a Man; Per Crucem Crescens (Latin) translated variously as Crescent in the Cross or Growth through the Cross; and Χαλεπα Τα Καλα (Greek) Naught Without Labor.


Lambda Chi Alpha

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