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TECH TUSSLETHE TECH QUIZ
QUIZMASTERS-
NID & VARUN
&
PRESENT
CODE FOR?
RELAX, THIS QUIZ WILL NOT CONTAIN CRAP LIKE THAT…LET’S GET ON WITH THE REAL DEAL!!!
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?
ANS-
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)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Answer –
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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