Tech QuizIIT Kanpur Quiz Club

Quizmaster: Anshul Roy

Instructions• 20 Questions – 25 minutes • The team besides you has written the wrong

answer. Please don’t copy. • Kindly refrain from Cybernetic investigations. • No negative marks. • Top 8 teams qualify for the next round. • Some questions are “star-marked” and would be

used to resolve tie-breakers. Please note them down in your answer sheets.

• Hints on special request. • The more you stare at the question, the more

the answer stares back at you.

“Hey Ho, Let’s Go!”- Ramones

Q – 1 Identify X from the following clues -

• X is a social networking site and a mobile app. • 16th April is celebrated as the “X Day” in various

cities, all over the world. • The “X Day” was coined by Nate-Bonilla

Warford, an optometrist from Florida on March 12, 2010. The idea came to him while he was “thinking about new ways to promote his business”.

• X’s main competitor was a social networking site called Gowalla which was acquired and eventually shut down by Facebook.

*Q – 2* Of the many stories about prototypes, this one is particularly interesting and unique.

The very first prototype of this device was a piece of wood, which rested on the pocket of Jeff Hawkins, who would occasionally take it out, pretending to take notes. The sole purpose of this prototype was to decide on the best “form factor” for this new groundbreaking device.

What device am I talking about?

Q – 3 The Webby Awards is an award given for excellence in the field of Internet and web culture. It is presented annually by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. It has also been nicknamed as “The Oscars of the Internet”.

The acceptance speech of Webby Awards should be given in 5 or less words.

Which famous entity’s Webby Award acceptance speech was - “Person Of The Year. Ironic.”?

Q – 4 In the Ecole Nationale Institute in Paris, a group of students created a software X.

While they did so, other members used to go out to the streets of Paris and collect Y from the streets.

By the time the software was done, they had hundreds of Ys. Hence the logo of X became Y.

Identify X & Y.

Q – 5 In the 1980′s a group of scientists at CERN started

working on what was to become the WWW. Their aim was to create a database infrastructure that offered open access to data in various formats.

In an office on the fourth floor, they placed the WWW’s central database. Any request for a file was routed to that office, where 2-3 people would manually locate the requested files and transfer them, over the network, to the person who made that request.When the database started to grow, the number of requests grew and also the number of requests that could not be fulfilled, usually because the person who requested a file typed in the wrong name for that file.

This led to the coining of a phrase, commonly used on the internet. What phrase?

Q – 6 “I Disappear” is a song by the American heavy metal band Metallica. The song was recorded as a contribution to the Mission Impossible 2 soundtrack. This song reached the #1 spot on the “Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks”, and stayed there for seven consecutive weeks in the summer of 2000. This song does not appear on any of Metallica's studio albums, making it the band's only standalone single. It also won a 2000 Metal Edge Reader’s Choice Award for "Song of the Year From a Movie Soundtrack”.

However, this song is famous for some other reason. What reason?

Q – 7 What was invented by Steve Wilhite in the year 1985 while he was working at CompuServe?

The company wanted to show coloured weather maps, but did not want to use too much bandwidth for dial-up connections.

*Q – 8* I am talking about two specific hardware devices/products. Put funda and name both of them.

NO, It’s a TRIANGLE

It’s a SQUARE

Q – 9 “I've always liked penguins, and when I was

in Canberra a few years ago I went to the local zoo. There they had a ferocious penguin that bit me and infected me with a little known disease called Penguinitis. Penguinitis makes you stay awake at nights just thinking about penguins and feeling great love towards them.”

What resulted due to someone’s Penguinitis?

Q – 10 There is a place in London at the intersection of Basil Street. It is located in the Knightsbridge district, near Hyde Park.

This place witnesses protests by Internet activists all year round. There have also been incidents in which there were minor scuffles between the protesters and the police force.

Why is this place such a known landmark for protesters?

Q – 11 X is a fictional synthetic intelligence character in the

Halo video game series. X appears in games like Halo:Combat Evolved, Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo 4 and Halo 5: Guardians. During gameplay, X provides backstory and tactical information to the player. In the story, X is instrumental in preventing the activation of the Halo installations, which would have destroyed all sentient life in the galaxy. X’s original design was based on the Egyptian queen Nefertiti. The character's holographic representation always takes the form of a woman. The American voice actress Jen Taylor has given her voice for X. Jen Taylor is a famous voice actress, and has also given her voice for some other famous video games like Left 4 Dead 2, DOTA 2 and Mario series.

Identify X.

*Q – 12* Identify this famous personality.

Q – 13 In the year 1971, Michael Hart was a student of Human-Machine Interfaces at UIUC. During his time at UIUC, the university’s computer centre gave him a user account on its computer system. Hart's brother's best friend was the mainframe operator. Due to this fact, he received an account with a virtually unlimited amount of computer time. It’s value at that time has been variously estimated at $100,000 or $100,000,000. Hart thought that he wanted to "give back" this gift by doing something that could be considered to be of great value. Although the focus of computer use there tended to be data processing, Michael Hart was aware that the computers were connected to the ARPANET (what would later become the internet) and he chose to use his computer time for information distribution.

Michael Hart had recently acquired a copy of the United States Declaration of Independence, which he had been given at a grocery store. He typed the text into the computer but was told that it would be unacceptable to transmit it to numerous people at once via e-mail. Thus, to avoid crashing the system, he made the text available for people to download instead.

This started something. What?

Q – 14 What everyday technology did Ben Stumpe, a physicist, develop in the year 1973 at CERN as a replacement for the various control knobs, buttons and switches present in his laboratory?

Q – 15 X is a well known architectural term and denotes a

circular opening in the centre of a dome or in a wall. In Latin, X means eye. X was widely used in the Byzantine architecture and was applied to buildings in Syria in the 5th century. One of the finest examples of the use of X is in the dome of the Pantheon constructed by the Romans. Examples of X in the Renaissance architecture can be seen in the Florence Cathedral. X is also the name of a company founded by Palmer Luckey, a Y designer at the University Of Southern California. Palmer Luckey earned the reputation for having the largest personal collection of Y in the world, and in 2009 he also founded “ModRetro Forums”, a website for discussing modifications of old hardware devices. Identify X.

Q – 16 Identify the following technological device from its schematic diagram -

*Q – 17* Which law predicts that that wired technologies such as telephones would ultimately become unwired by using airwaves instead of wires or fiber optics, and that unwired technologies such as televisions will become wired?

Q – 18 Identify the blacked out part.

*Q – 19* X is an app for iOS and Android developed by Kayvon Beykpour and Joe Bernstein. It was launched in March 2015 for iOS users, and on May 2015 for Android users. On December 9, 2015, Apple named X as the "iPhone App of the Year”. 

X was acquired on January 2015 by Twitter for $120 million, even before the product had been publicly launched.

The idea for X came while the founders were traveling abroad in the year 2013. Kayvon Beykpour was in Istanbul when protests broke out in Taksim Square. He wanted to see what was happening there, so he turned to Twitter. While he could read about the protests, he could not see the protests. Hence, Kayvon Beykpour and Joe Bernstein started the company in February 2014, under the name Bounty, and eventually changed the name to X. According to Kayvon Beykpour, X is a “mobile teleportation service”. 

Identify X.

Q – 20 These are some tips released by X for users of Y. DO’s – • Explore the world around you. • Take advantage of Y’s voice commands. • Ask for permission. • Use screen lock. • Be an active and vocal member of the Y community.

DON’Ts – • Y-out • Wear it and expect to be ignored. • Be creepy or rude (aka, a “Y-hole”)

Identify X and Y.

Q – 1 Identify X from the following clues -

• X is a social networking site and a mobile app. • 16th April is celebrated as the “X Day” in various

cities, all over the world. • The “X Day” was coined by Nate-Bonilla

Warford, an optometrist from Florida on March 12, 2010. The idea came to him while he was “thinking about new ways to promote his business”.

• X’s main competitor was a social networking site called Gowalla which was acquired and eventually shut down by Facebook.

*Q – 2* Of the many stories about prototypes, this one is particularly interesting and unique.

The very first prototype of this device was a piece of wood, which rested on the pocket of Jeff Hawkins, who would occasionally take it out, pretending to take notes. The sole purpose of this prototype was to decide on the best “form factor” for this new groundbreaking device.

What device am I talking about?

Q – 3 The Webby Awards is an award given for excellence in the field of Internet and web culture. It is presented annually by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. It has also been nicknamed as “The Oscars of the Internet”.

The acceptance speech of Webby Awards should be given in 5 or less words.

Which famous entity’s Webby Award acceptance speech was - “Person Of The Year. Ironic.”?

Q – 4 In the Ecole Nationale Institute in Paris, a group of students created a software X.

While they did so, other members used to go out to the streets of Paris and collect Y from the streets.

By the time the software was done, they had hundreds of Ys. Hence the logo of X became Y.

Identify X & Y.

Q – 5 In the 1980′s a group of scientists at CERN started

working on what was to become the WWW. Their aim was to create a database infrastructure that offered open access to data in various formats.

In an office on the fourth floor, they placed the WWW’s central database. Any request for a file was routed to that office, where 2-3 people would manually locate the requested files and transfer them, over the network, to the person who made that request.When the database started to grow, the number of requests grew and also the number of requests that could not be fulfilled, usually because the person who requested a file typed in the wrong name for that file.

This led to the coining of a phrase, commonly used on the internet. What phrase?

Q – 6 “I Disappear” is a song by the American heavy metal band Metallica. The song was recorded as a contribution to the Mission Impossible 2 soundtrack. This song reached the #1 spot on the “Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks”, and stayed there for seven consecutive weeks in the summer of 2000. This song does not appear on any of Metallica's studio albums, making it the band's only standalone single. It also won a 2000 Metal Edge Reader’s Choice Award for "Song of the Year From a Movie Soundtrack”.

However, this song is famous for some other reason. What reason?

Q – 7 What was invented by Steve Wilhite in the year 1985 while he was working at CompuServe?

The company wanted to show coloured weather maps, but did not want to use too much bandwidth for dial-up connections.

*Q – 8* I am talking about two specific hardware devices/products. Put funda and name both of them.

NO, It’s a TRIANGLE

It’s a SQUARE

Q – 9 “I've always liked penguins, and when I was

in Canberra a few years ago I went to the local zoo. There they had a ferocious penguin that bit me and infected me with a little known disease called Penguinitis. Penguinitis makes you stay awake at nights just thinking about penguins and feeling great love towards them.”

What resulted due to someone’s Penguinitis?

Q – 10 There is a place in London at the intersection of Basil Street. It is located in the Knightsbridge district, near Hyde Park.

This place witnesses protests by Internet activists all year round. There have also been incidents in which there were minor scuffles between the protesters and the police force.

Why is this place such a known landmark for protesters?

Q – 11 X is a fictional synthetic intelligence character in the

Halo video game series. X appears in games like Halo:Combat Evolved, Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo 4 and Halo 5: Guardians. During gameplay, X provides backstory and tactical information to the player. In the story, X is instrumental in preventing the activation of the Halo installations, which would have destroyed all sentient life in the galaxy. X’s original design was based on the Egyptian queen Nefertiti. The character's holographic representation always takes the form of a woman. The American voice actress Jen Taylor has given her voice for X. Jen Taylor is a famous voice actress, and has also given her voice for some other famous video games like Left 4 Dead 2, DOTA 2 and Mario series.

Identify X

*Q – 12* Identify this famous personality.

Q – 13 In the year 1971, Michael Hart was a student of Human-Machine Interfaces at UIUC. During his time at UIUC, the university’s computer centre gave him a user account on its computer system. Hart's brother's best friend was the mainframe operator. Due to this fact, he received an account with a virtually unlimited amount of computer time. It’s value at that time has been variously estimated at $100,000 or $100,000,000. Hart thought that he wanted to "give back" this gift by doing something that could be considered to be of great value. Although the focus of computer use there tended to be data processing, Michael Hart was aware that the computers were connected to the ARPANET (what would later become the internet) and he chose to use his computer time for information distribution.

Michael Hart had recently acquired a copy of the United States Declaration of Independence, which he had been given at a grocery store. He typed the text into the computer but was told that it would be unacceptable to transmit it to numerous people at once via e-mail. Thus, to avoid crashing the system, he made the text available for people to download instead.

This started something. What?

Q – 14 What everyday technology did Ben Stumpe, a physicist, develop in the year 1973 at CERN as a replacement for the various control knobs, buttons and switches present in his laboratory?

Q – 15 X is a well known architectural term and denotes a

circular opening in the centre of a dome or in a wall. In Latin, X means eye. X was widely used in the Byzantine architecture and was applied to buildings in Syria in the 5th century. One of the finest examples of the use of X is in the dome of the Pantheon constructed by the Romans. Examples of X in the Renaissance architecture can be seen in the Florence Cathedral. X is also the name of a company founded by Palmer Luckey, a Y designer at the University Of Southern California. Palmer Luckey earned the reputation for having the largest personal collection of Y in the world, and in 2009 he also founded “ModRetro Forums”, a website for discussing modifications of old hardware devices. Identify X.

Q – 16 Identify the following technological device from its schematic diagram -

*Q – 17* Which law predicts that that wired technologies such as telephones would ultimately become unwired by using airwaves instead of wires or fiber optics, and that unwired technologies such as televisions will become wired?

Q – 18 Identify the blacked out part.

*Q – 19* X is an app for iOS and Android developed by Kayvon Beykpour and Joe Bernstein. It was launched in March 2015 for iOS users, and on May 2015 for Android users. On December 9, 2015, Apple named X as the "iPhone App of the Year”. 

X was acquired on January 2015 by Twitter for $120 million, even before the product had been publicly launched.

The idea for X came while the founders were traveling abroad in the year 2013. Kayvon Beykpour was in Istanbul when protests broke out in Taksim Square. He wanted to see what was happening there, so he turned to Twitter. While he could read about the protests, he could not see the protests. Hence, Kayvon Beykpour and Joe Bernstein started the company in February 2014, under the name Bounty, and eventually changed the name to X. According to Kayvon Beykpour, X is a “mobile teleportation service”. 

Identify X.

Q – 20 These are some tips released by X for users of Y. DO’s – • Explore the world around you. • Take advantage of Y’s voice commands. • Ask for permission. • Use screen lock. • Be an active and vocal member of the Y community.

DON’Ts – • Y-out • Wear it and expect to be ignored. • Be creepy or rude (aka, a “Y-hole”)

Identify X and Y.

Hand over your answer sheets

Q – 1 Identify X from the following clues -

• X is a social networking site and a mobile app. • 16th April is celebrated as the “X Day” in various

cities, all over the world. • The “X Day” was coined by Nate-Bonilla

Warford, an optometrist from Florida on March 12, 2010. The idea came to him while he was “thinking about new ways to promote his business”.

• X’s main competitor was a social networking site called Gowalla which was acquired and eventually shut down by Facebook.

Answer Foursquare

*Q – 2* Of the many stories about prototypes, this one is particularly interesting and unique.

The very first prototype of this device was a piece of wood, which rested on the pocket of Jeff Hawkins, who would occasionally take it out, pretending to take notes. The sole purpose of this prototype was to decide on the best “form factor” for this new groundbreaking device.

What device am I talking about?

Answer Palm Pilot

Q – 3 The Webby Awards is an award given for excellence in the field of Internet and web culture. It is presented annually by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. It has also been nicknamed as “The Oscars of the Internet”.

The acceptance speech of Webby Awards should be given in 5 or less words.

Which famous entity’s Webby Award acceptance speech was - “Person Of The Year. Ironic.”?

Answer IBM Watson

Q – 4 In the Ecole Nationale Institute in Paris, a group of students created a software X.

While they did so, other members used to go out to the streets of Paris and collect Y from the streets.

By the time the software was done, they had hundreds of Ys. Hence the logo of X became Y.

Identify X & Y.

Answer X - VLC Media Player Y - Traffic cones

Q – 5 In the 1980′s a group of scientists at CERN started

working on what was to become the WWW. Their aim was to create a database infrastructure that offered open access to data in various formats.

In an office on the fourth floor, they placed the WWW’s central database. Any request for a file was routed to that office, where 2-3 people would manually locate the requested files and transfer them, over the network, to the person who made that request.When the database started to grow, the number of requests grew and also the number of requests that could not be fulfilled, usually because the person who requested a file typed in the wrong name for that file.

This led to the coining of a phrase, commonly used on the internet. What phrase?

Answer Error 404

Q – 6 “I Disappear” is a song by the American heavy metal band Metallica. The song was recorded as a contribution to the Mission Impossible 2 soundtrack. This song reached the #1 spot on the “Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks”, and stayed there for seven consecutive weeks in the summer of 2000. This song does not appear on any of Metallica's studio albums, making it the band's only standalone single. It also won a 2000 Metal Edge Reader’s Choice Award for "Song of the Year From a Movie Soundtrack”.

However, this song is famous for some other reason. What reason?

Answer This song was leaked on Napster before it’s official release. Hence, Metallica sued Napster which eventually led to Napster’s closure.

Q – 7 What was invented by Steve Wilhite in the year 1985 while he was working at CompuServe?

The company wanted to show coloured weather maps, but did not want to use too much bandwidth for dial-up connections.

Answer GIF (Graphics Interchange Format)

*Q – 8* I am talking about two specific hardware devices/products. Put funda and name both of them.

NO, It’s a TRIANGLE

It’s a SQUARE

Answer Square Card Reader and Paypal Here

Q – 9 “I've always liked penguins, and when I was

in Canberra a few years ago I went to the local zoo. There they had a ferocious penguin that bit me and infected me with a little known disease called Penguinitis. Penguinitis makes you stay awake at nights just thinking about penguins and feeling great love towards them.”

What resulted due to someone’s Penguinitis?

Answer Tux (the mascot of Linux OS)

Q – 10 There is a place in London at the intersection of Basil Street. It is located in the Knightsbridge district, near Hyde Park.

This place witnesses protests by Internet activists all year round. There have also been incidents in which there were minor scuffles between the protesters and the police force.

Why is this place such a known landmark for protesters?

Answer Location of the embassy of Ecuador, where Julian Assange has been living since 2012

Q – 11 X is a fictional synthetic intelligence character in the

Halo video game series. X appears in games like Halo:Combat Evolved, Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo 4 and Halo 5: Guardians. During gameplay, X provides backstory and tactical information to the player. In the story, X is instrumental in preventing the activation of the Halo installations, which would have destroyed all sentient life in the galaxy. X’s original design was based on the Egyptian queen Nefertiti. The character's holographic representation always takes the form of a woman. The American voice actress Jen Taylor has given her voice for X. Jen Taylor is a famous voice actress, and has also given her voice for some other famous video games like Left 4 Dead 2, DOTA 2 and Mario series.

Identify X

Answer X - Cortana

*Q – 12* Identify this famous personality.

Answer Bill Gates (This is the generic user icon in MS Outlook 2010)

Q – 13 In the year 1971, Michael Hart was a student of Human-Machine Interfaces at UIUC. During his time at UIUC, the university’s computer centre gave him a user account on its computer system. Hart's brother's best friend was the mainframe operator. Due to this fact, he received an account with a virtually unlimited amount of computer time. It’s value at that time has been variously estimated at $100,000 or $100,000,000. Hart thought that he wanted to "give back" this gift by doing something that could be considered to be of great value. Although the focus of computer use there tended to be data processing, Michael Hart was aware that the computers were connected to the ARPANET (what would later become the internet) and he chose to use his computer time for information distribution.

Michael Hart had recently acquired a copy of the United States Declaration of Independence, which he had been given at a grocery store. He typed the text into the computer but was told that it would be unacceptable to transmit it to numerous people at once via e-mail. Thus, to avoid crashing the system, he made the text available for people to download instead.

This started something. What?

Answer Project Gutenberg

Q – 14 What everyday technology did Ben Stumpe, a physicist, develop in the year 1973 at CERN as a replacement for the various control knobs, buttons and switches present in his laboratory?

Answer Touchscreen

Q – 15 X is a well known architectural term and denotes a

circular opening in the centre of a dome or in a wall. In Latin, X means eye. X was widely used in the Byzantine architecture and was applied to buildings in Syria in the 5th century. One of the finest examples of the use of X is in the dome of the Pantheon constructed by the Romans. Examples of X in the Renaissance architecture can be seen in the Florence Cathedral. X is also the name of a company founded by Palmer Luckey, a Y designer at the University Of Southern California. Palmer Luckey earned the reputation for having the largest personal collection of Y in the world, and in 2009 he also founded “ModRetro Forums”, a website for discussing modifications of old hardware devices. Identify X.

Answer X - Oculus

Q – 16 Identify the following technological device from its schematic diagram -

Answer Lightsabre

*Q – 17* Which law predicts that that wired technologies such as telephones would ultimately become unwired by using airwaves instead of wires or fiber optics, and that unwired technologies such as televisions will become wired?

Answer Negroponte Switch

Q – 18 Identify the blacked out part.

Answer Roomba Vacum Robot

*Q – 19* X is an app for iOS and Android developed by Kayvon Beykpour and Joe Bernstein. It was launched in March 2015 for iOS users, and on May 2015 for Android users. On December 9, 2015, Apple named X as the "iPhone App of the Year”. 

X was acquired on January 2015 by Twitter for $120 million, even before the product had been publicly launched.

The idea for X came while the founders were traveling abroad in the year 2013. Kayvon Beykpour was in Istanbul when protests broke out in Taksim Square. He wanted to see what was happening there, so he turned to Twitter. While he could read about the protests, he could not see the protests. Hence, Kayvon Beykpour and Joe Bernstein started the company in February 2014, under the name Bounty, and eventually changed the name to X. According to Kayvon Beykpour, X is a “mobile teleportation service”. 

Identify X.

Answer Periscope

Q – 20 These are some tips released by X for users of Y. DO’s – • Explore the world around you. • Take advantage of Y’s voice commands. • Ask for permission. • Use screen lock. • Be an active and vocal member of the Y community.

DON’Ts – • Y-out • Wear it and expect to be ignored. • Be creepy or rude (aka, a “Y-hole”)

Identify X and Y.

Answer X - Google Y - Glass

Bad Luck Brian memes have been used as slide fillers throughout the quiz.

“Hey Ho, Let’s Go!”- Ramones

Infinite Bounce • 8 questions. 1 direct question for each team. • Teams can pounce on their own questions. • Scoring for direct question = +10/0 • Scoring for pounced question = +20/-10 • Questions are passable.

Q – 1 The current configuration of this computer is - “Lenovo ThinkPad X220, Intel Core i7-2620M CPU @ 2.7 GHz and Intel 150 GB Solid State Drive S20 Series with Windows 7”.

The main interface is EZ Keys Program written by Word Plus Inc.

Since 1997, this computer is being sponsored by Intel.

Which famous computer am I talking about?

Answer Stephen Hawking’s computer

Q – 2 This name was first coined by George Smith, owner of a business called the Bradley Smith Company. He trademarked this product name in the year 1931, after his favourite race horse.

But since then, this name has fallen into public domain.

What word, very important to mobile technology today is this?

Answer Lollypop

Q – 3 The very first example of this was a Coke machine modified by students at the Carnegie Mellon University in 1982. The story goes that graduate students, Mike Kazar, David Nichols, John Zsarnay and Ivor Durham could check from their desks if the machine was loaded with cold Coke before they made their walk.

What futuristic technology am I talking about?

Answer Internet Of Things

Q – 4 The X syndrome or the X effect occurs when people devote so much time and attention to an activity that it begins to pattern their thoughts, mental images and dreams. It takes it’s name from the video game X.

It is speculated that people who play X for a prolonged amount of time may then find themselves thinking about ways in which different shapes in the real world can fit together, such as boxes on a supermarket shelf, the buildings on a street, or hallucinating pieces being generated and falling into place on an invisible layout. People might also have dreams related to X.

Identify X.

Answer X = Tetris

Q – 5 This is X saying about something -

“One day, I was in San Francisco in a coffee shop, and I was thinking Y is a good name. And then a waitress came, and I said - “What do you know about Y”, and she said, _______. And I said, “Yes, this is the name”. Then I went onto the street and found 30 people and asked them, “Do you know Y”. People from India, people from Germany, people from Tokyo and China, they all knew about Y. Y is a kind, smart business person, and he helped the village. So easy to spell, and globally known. Y _______ for small and medium-sized companies.”

Identify X and Y.

Answer X = Jack Ma Y = Alibaba

Q – 6 Recently X announced something which drew some flak from Internet users. In an article published in the satirical online newspaper “The Onion”, some people commented the following about this announcement -

1.“Huh. I really thought written language had a few years left in it.”

2.“This does a lot to challenge my notion of what the X staff does all day long.”

3.“Better luck next year, Zipper Mouth.”

What announcement am I talking about?

Answer X = Oxford Dictionary

They announced the “Face with tears of joy” emoji as the Oxford Dictionary’s Word of the Year 2015

Q – 7 A famous personality X said the following about Y in an interview published in The New York Times -

“Taking Y was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. Y shows you that there’s another side to the coin, and you can’t remember it when it wears off, but you know it. It reinforced my sense of what was important - creating great things instead of making money, putting back things into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.”

In their 1991 profile of X, the FBI noted - “X may have experimented with Y, having come from that generation.”

In the year 2011, The Times published a very popular article titled “X had Y. So we have ________.”

Identify X and Y.

Answer X = Steve Jobs Y = LSD

Q – 8 What am I referring to by the following (non-exhaustive) list –

• Amaro • Lo-Fi • Hefe • 1977 • Mayfair • Rise • Hudson • Valencia • Sierra • Willow • Kevin

Answer Instagram filters

Short Connect Round • 3 pictures will be shown for each question. All

connect to some particular thing. • There are 4 different questions in this round. • No direct question. Only pounces allowed. • Marking scheme would be written in each slide.

+40/-20

+20/-10

+10/0

Answer Larry Ellison

+40/-20

+20/-10

+10/0

Answer Technologies used in Cricket (Hawkeye, Snickometer, Hot Spot)

+40/-20

+20/-10

+10/0

Answer Lenovo ThinkPad

+40/-20

+20/-10

+10/0

Answer Tech Blogs

Internet and Web Culture Round

• 8 questions. 1 direct question for each team. • Teams can pounce on their own questions. • Scoring for direct question = +10/0 • Scoring for pounced question = +20/-10 • Questions are passable.

Q – 1 The X theory of digital activism is a theory concerning Internet activism, Web censorship and X (a term used to denote any low value, but popular online activity). It was developed by Ethan Zuckerman in 2008. This theory states that most people are not interested in activism, instead, they want to use the web for mundane activities which include surfing for pornography and X. The tools that they develop for that (Eg.- Facebook, Twitter, Flickr etc.) are very useful to social movement activists, who may lack resources to develop dedicated tools themselves. This, in turn, makes the activists more immune to reprisals by governments than if they were using a dedicated activism platform. Because shutting down a popular public platform provokes a larger public outcry than shutting down an obscure one.

Ethan Zuckerman states - “Web 1.0 was invented to allow physicists to share research papers. Web 2.0 was created to allow people to share X. If a tool passes X purposes, and is widely used for low-value purposes, it can also be used for online activism too.”

Identify X.

Answer X = Cute Cat

The theory is called the “Cute Cat theory of Digital Activism”

Q – 2 X originated in the 1980s within the Bulletin Board Systems (BBS), where having an elite status allowed users to access some special file folders, games and chat rooms. X was first used by hackers to prevent their websites and newsgroups from being found out by simple keyword searches. X was also developed to defeat text filters created by BBS and IRC system operators for message boards to discourage the discussion of forbidden topics like hacking. Nowadays, X is used to mock newbies on websites and in online gaming communities.

Identify X.

Answer Leet or Leetspeak

Q – 3 X is a meme which originated from a 2003 webcomic, which was drawn by Peter Morley-Souter to depict his shock after seeing a particular Calvin & Hobbes parody _____ on the internet. It was captioned - “The Internet. Raping your childhood since 1996”. This comic was first posted on the UK website Zoom-Out in 2004, and it has been widely reproduced.

X’s popularity started to grow when in 2008, users of the imageboard website 4chan posted numerous parodies and cartoons illustrating X.

Identify X.

Answer X = Rule 34.

Q – 4 Howard Davies Carr, the father of the boys, said that the video was “simply an attempt to capture the boys growing up”. While watching the scene on his camera after recording it, it “didn’t particularly stand out”. It was not until he transferred the video onto his computer a few weeks later and played it again that he realised that it was funny. The Davies Carr family lived in England. Howard uploaded the video onto _______ so that it could be watched by the boy’s grandfather, who was living in USA. He chose _______ because the size of the video file was so big that it could not be sent by email.

Howard Davies Carr also said the following about this video - “Even had I thought of trying to get my boys to do this I probably couldn’t have, neither were coerced into any of this and neither were hurt”

What am I talking about?

Answer Charlie Bit My Finger

Q – 5 This website was started by Rob Malda and was initially called “Chips and Dips”. It was launched in July 1997, and featured a single rant each day about something that interested Rob, usually related to technology. The site got it’s current name X in September 1997.

The name X came from a somewhat obnoxious parody of a URL. When Rob Malda registered the domain name, he wanted to make a name that was “silly and unpronounceable”. Hence he chose the name X.

Name the website.

Answer Slashdot

Q – 6 DI Corporation is a South Korean company involved in the trade and supply of semiconductors and computer chips. The company was established in the year 1955, and it’s current executive chairman is Park Wan-Ho.

In October 2012, the stock prices of the company rose by 800%.

Why?

Answer The company is owned by the Korean popstar Psy’s father. The stock prices rose due to the sudden popularity of the song “Gangnam Style”.

Q – 7 Identify the person.

Answer moot aka Christopher Poole (Founder of 4chan)

Q – 8 What is the significance of this dress worn by Jennifer Lopez in the 2000 Grammy Awards?

Answer Google Image search was created due to this dress. In the year 2000, Google search results were limited to simple pages of text with links, but the developers worked on developing this further, realising that an image search was required to answer the “most popular search query” they had seen to date - “Jennifer Lopez’s green dress”.

Long Connect Round • 8 questions. All connecting to a particular

overall answer. • You have to write the answer for each

individual question slide in your answer sheets. + 5 for each correct answer, no negative marks for incorrect answer.

• Teams can also try for the overall connect at any time. Marks allotted for the overall connect would be written at the top of each slide.

+160/-80 The X effect occurs when a smaller website has a high influx of traffic after being linked to on X. It is also called the “X Hug of Death" among the website's users. Because X is such a large site, the traffic is immense and can easily crash smaller sites. In order for users to see crashed websites, several X bots have been created that take a snapshot of the website before large amounts of traffic flood the affected website.

Identify X.

+140/-70 X.tv was a website founded by X Kan and Emmett Shear in the year 2007. The website allowed anyone to broadcast videos online. The original X.tv was a single channel featuring X Kan. Wearing a webcam attached to a baseball cap and streamed online via a laptop-backpack. Kan decided he would wear the camera 24/7, and he began streaming continuous live video and audio at midnight March 19, 2007.

The gaming section of X.tv became very popular, and was launched as a separate website called Y.tv

Y.tv was acquired by Amazon in the year 2014 for $970 million.

Identify X.

+120/-60 X is a company founded by an ex-Amazon employee Apoorva Mehta in the year 2012. X has an iOS and an Android app which lets people order groceries from their mobile phones. Currently, X is valued at $2 Billion.

Identify X.

+100/-50 X is a company based in the United States that offers cloud-based software as a service to companies for managing their human resources, with a particular focus on helping them with health insurance coverage. X was named the fastest growing company in Silicon Valley in 2015.

X was started with the aim to help startups and small businesses find insurance quotes and manage employee benefits in one place.

In December 2014, David Sacks, founder of collaboration service Yammer that had been sold to Microsoft, joined X as the COO.

Identify X.

+80/-40 X is a company founded by these two ex-Facebook employees in the year 2010.

+60/-30 X is a company founded by Zach Sims and Ryan Bubinski in the year 2011.

The idea behind X emerged out of the founding duo’s frustrations with the status quo of learning how to program. Co-founder Ryan Bubinski was already an experienced programmer who spent his weekends and free time during college teaching other students how to build web applications. But Zach Sims was not nearly as familiar with coding.

Zach Sims, in an interview said - “I was watching videos and tutorials and reading books, but I found I learn best by building things and breaking things, not by just reading something. I wanted something interactive where I could learn in bite-sized pieces, and actually practice what I learned along the way.”

Identify X.

+40/-20

+20/-0 X is a company founded by Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi. The idea of X came to Drew Houston after repeatedly forgetting his USB flash drive while he was a student at MIT. Drew Houston, once in an interview said that existing services at that time "suffered problems with Internet latency, large files, bugs, or just made me think too much”. He began making something for his personal use, but then realized that it could benefit others with the same problems.

Identify X.

Answers 1 = Reddit 2 = Justin.tv 3 = Instacart 4 = Zenefits 5 = Quora 6 = Codecademy 7 = Airbnb 8 = Dropbox

Overall Connect Companies funded by Y Combinator

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