Mind-Buster

Round 1Motley Monotony

Rules:

• Infinite Pounce

• +10/-10 on Pounce

• +10/0 on Direct

Mind-BusterQ1)  This is a home automation company headquartered in Palo

Alto, California, that designs and manufactures sensor-driven, Wi-

Fi-enabled, self-learning, programmable thermostats and smoke

detectors. Co-founded by former Apple engineers Tony Fadell and

Matt Rogers in 2010, the start-up company quickly grew to have

more than 130 employees by the end of 2012.. On January 13,

2014, Google announced plans to acquire this for US$3.2 billion

and leaves it to use its own brand. Identify the company being

described ?

Nest Labs

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Q2) X is an Internet domain name registrar company founded in

1998 by Bhavin Turakhia and Divyank Turakhia.X is the first

ICANN accredited registrar in India. The head office of X is in

Mumbai, India.X has won the PinkSlip Choice Award for the “most

innovative recruitment advertisement" in 2008.Which compant am I

describing ?

Directi

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Q3) This  is a photo messaging application developed

by Evan Spiegel and Robert Murphy, then  students.

Beginning under the name Picaboo, in Spiegel's father's living

room, though the application was later renamed and

relaunched under the present name .What famous application

which made news very recently ?

Snap chat

Mind-Buster Q- X is a Hacker Organization, which mainly Targets political oppositions and western websites as It supports the native government. They defaced the Harvard University website- Leaving behind the Image of Bashar-Al-Assad and A quote “The x was here”. It recently Hacked into Microsoft news’s twitter handle and frightened people by posting “Don’t use Microsoft emails (hotmail, outlook).  They are monitoring your accounts and selling the data to the governments”. X also hijacked the Associated Press Twitter account and falsely claimed the White House had been bombed and President Barack Obama injured, which led to a US$136.5 billion dip on the S&P 500 index on 23 April 2013.

Syrian Electronic Army(SEA)

Mind-BusterQ5) X was sold in three parts: the X brand, website and

technology were sold to the current owner, Betaworks, for an

estimated $500,000; 15 staff were transferred to the

Washington Post's "SocialCode" for a reported $12 million;

and a suite of patents were sold to LinkedIn for about $4

million Some pages experienced a sudden increase of traffic

shortly after being submitted; some x users refer to this as the

"x effect”. Identify x.

Digg Effect

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Q6) This  was developed in 2006 by a team at in Stockholm,

Sweden. It is a commercial music streaming service

providing digital rights management-restricted content

from record labels including Sony, EMI, Warner Music

Group and Universal. As of December 2013, free music

streaming is now available on all mobile devices from this . It

was founded by Daniel Ek.What am I describing ?

Spotify

Round 2Sneek-Peak

Rules:• Infinite Pounce

• +10/-10 on Pounce

• +10/0 on Direct

Mind-Buster

Q1) Put funda behind

this picture.

The male voice behind Siri (John Briggs)

Mind-BusterQ2) What name in the logo has been blanked out ?

WWF

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Q3) Identify the logo of this recent project ?

Project tango

Mind-BusterQ4) Facebook’s look back video of John Berlin’s son – something unique. Identify(Look back video for the son was played )

Look back for a dead person on Facebook(Jesse Berlin)

Mind-BusterQ5) Identify the company he heads ?

Lenovo(Yang Yuanquing)

Mind-BusterQ6) What famous application have they given the world ?

Truecaller (Alan Mamedi & Nami Zarringhalam)

Round 3The Linked-List

Rules:

• Infinite Pounce

• +10/-10 on Pounce

• +10/0 on Direct

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Varun Agarwal

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Epson

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Product red

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Indianrailway.gov.in servers

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Invented by the U.S. Department of Defense (D.O.D).

President Bill Clinton reaffirms the United States’ commitment to provide it to the international

civilian community of users. 1995

1983President Reagan offers to

make it available for use by civilian aircraft, free of charge,

when the system becomes operational. This marks the

beginning of the spread of this technology from military to

civilian.

GPS

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(The video was played )

3d hand gun Printer

Round 5Overloaded

Rules:• +15 in first clue

• +10 in second clue

• +5 third clue

• Constant -5 on each clue

1 2 3 4 5 6

Q1) Jeffrey Ng is the company's founder and CEO .

Clue 2

Clue 3

It is a social networking service, popular in India and China. It is

one of the few international social networks with a Chinese

Internet Content Provider license

This is its logo

Clue 1

Zorpia

Q2) She is the author of the well-known series of books The

Internet Kids & Families Yellow Pages.

Clue 2

Clue 3

She has served on the Internet Society Board of Trustees (1993–1996) and on the ICANN At-Large Advisory Council (ALAC) (2004–2006), as well as on the board of ICRA.

She was key in popularizing, but is often credited with coining the phrase "surfing the Internet", being the author of an article called "Surfing the INTERNET", published in then University of Minnesota 

Clue 1

Jean Armour Polly

Q3)  He is the founder and Chairman Emeritus of

Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab

Clue 2

Clue 3

This is a famous book authored by him

He is also founder of OLPC foundation

Clue 1

Nicholas Negroponte

Birnbaum, then chief technology officer of Hewlett-Packard, said of

him: "It seems impossible to exaggerate the effect he had on the

industry; many of the things that high performance computers now

do routinely were at the farthest edge of credibility when he

envisioned them

Clue 1

Clue 2

He  joined Engineering Research Associates (ERA) in Saint Paul,

Minnesota. ERA had formed out of a former United States

Navy laboratory that had built codebreaking machines, a tradition

ERA carried on when such work was available.

He is known as the father of supercomputingClue 3

Seymour Cray

This was launched on April 28, 2009, by Perry Chen, Yancey Strickler, and Charles Adler ,a crowdsourcing platform .Clue 1

Clue 2

The New York Times called this: "the people's NEA". Time named it

one of the "Best Inventions of 2010" and "Best Websites of 2011".

On November 21, 2012, 3D Systems filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Formlabs and this crowdsourcing site for infringing its 3D printer patent US 5,597,520.

Clue 3

Kickstarter

He graduated from Bay Shore High School. He graduated from MIT in 1969 with two B.S. degrees, one in Electrical Engineering and the other in Industrial Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management. He then went to Harvard for graduate school, earning his M.S. in 1970.

Clue 1

Clue 2While pursuing a doctorate in computer science, took a job with MIT's Project MAC after Harvard refused to let him be responsible for connecting the school to the brand-new ARPAnet.

He is an electrical engineer from the United States who co-invented Ethernet, founded 3Com and formulated the law which states that “ that the value of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users of the system (n2).”

Clue 3

Robert Metacalfe