Alphabit tech quiz 2016 finals

1. 2016
By: Shivang Seth
Ujwal Sachdeva

2. Before we begin
Questions related to
Technology
Questions not related to
Technology

4. QUESTION 1
"Towards the end of my visit, I went to the Wallops Flight Facility at Wallops
Island in East Coast, Virginia. This place was the base for NASA's sounding
rocket programme. Here, I saw a painting prominently displayed in the
reception lobby. It depicted a battle scene with a few rockets flying in the
background. A painting with this theme should be the most commonplace
thing at a Flight Facility. One day, my curiosity got the better of me, drawing
me towards the painting. It turned out to be X’s army. The painting depicted
a fact forgotten in X's own country but commemorated here on the other
side of the planet.”
IDENTIFY X.

6. Answer –
TIPU SULTAN

7. QUESTION 2
He was presented the life time achievement webby award in 2011.
His 5 word webby speech was: Can You Hear Me NOW?

9. Answer –
Martin Cooper won a Lifetime Achievement Award for
his invention of the cell phone. Holding his gigantic
creation to his ear, he shouted his speech.

10. QUESTION 3
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CLOSED Where is this Extract From?

12. Answer –
Iraq war logs on Wikileaks

13. QUESTION 4
US 20060071122 A1is the patent held by
google under its secret programme google X
which was filed for, back in 2006. This device
generates a pulsed gravitational wave which
propagates through a magnetic vortex

15. Answer –
Full body teleportation system

16. • 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 email. Thus, to avoid crashing the system, he made
the text available for people to download instead.
• This started something. What?
QUESTION 5

18. • Project Gutenbrg

19. • The Samsung and Apple lawsuit of the century
finally came to a close as a California jury
decided on the settlement amount in favor of
Apple. Though pretty much everyone has
heard something about the case and Apple's
epic $290 million win, it seems like most
people around the web were buzzing about a
false rumor that continues to grow and
spread. What rumor is it?
QUESTION 6

21. • Samsung pays Apple $1 Billion sending 30
trucks full of 5 cent coins

23. • In order to promote it's application Y, X was
offering free gasoline at the Shell gas station
at Cima Road, along side the Interstate 15
corridor between L.A and Las Vegas. Besides
gasoline, X was even offering free hamburgers
and iced teas to motorists. The main idea
behind the promotion was for people to use Y.
Identify X and Y.
QUESTION 1

25. • X:Google
• Y:Maps

26. Connect
QUESTION 2

28. • NAVIC

29. Connect
QUESTION 3

31. • Flipkart

32. According to research by professors at the La
Sapienza in Rome, the formula for what can
be represented as “estimate of time (log v/phi
X log squared 1/phi)” where ‘v’ stands for
number of vertices of communication and
‘phi’ stands for conductance.
QUESTION 4

34. • How Celebrity Gossip Spreads on the Internet

35. Connect
QUESTION 5

37. • Nokia Lumia codenames

38. The phone is well known for being used by Gordon
Gekko in Wall Street, and Tommy Vercetti in Grand
Theft Auto: Vice City. The phones have been given the
nickname “Zack Morris Phones” because of their heavy
use by the central character in the early 1990s sitcom
Saved by the Bell. In the 1993 Hanna-Barbara cartoon,
SWAT Kats, it was seen once being used by Commander
Feral. In 2010, the phone was seen in a ad for New
Zealand insurance company, Pinnacle Life. The ad
depicted a fictional character, Molly, who was happy
with her old insurance plan, but was so expensive that
she still had to use her _______
QUESTION 6

40. • Motorola dynatac

42. • X from Y is an IT-as-a-Service business model
that delivers
on-demand business capability; with an
integrated suite of hardware,
network and software solutions; along with
business, technical and
consulting services. X functions as a 'build-as-
you-grow',
'pay-as-you use' ERP hosted on the cloud
QUESTION 1

44. • X:iON
• Y:TCS

45. QUESTION 2

48. • 1. Oppo finder
• 2. _______
• 3. Moto Z
• 4. Le 2
QUESTION 3

50. Apple iphone 7
(ditching the headphone jack)

51. “I Disappear” is a song by the American thrash 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?
QUESTION 4

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

54. • X is Y's urban innovation organization. Its goal is
to improve urban infrastructure through
technological solutions, and tackle issues such as
cost of living, efficient transportation and energy
usage
• It is headed by Daniel L. Doctoroff, former deputy
mayor of NYC for economic development and
former chief executive of Bloomberg L.P.
• X plans to create a new city in the United States
to test design ideas prior to real world
implementation.
QUESTION 5

56. • X: Sidewalk labs
• Y: Alphabet inc

57. Where will you find the following things together?
• Sunglasses
• Guitar
• Bicycles
• A portrait
• Newspaper
• Donut
• Airplane
• Bottle
• Astronaut
QUESTION 6
• Coffee Mug
• Baguette
• Gloves
• A submarine
• Bells
• Burger
• A sandwich with a bite (on the left corner)
• Calendar with 24 on it
• Compass

59. WhatsApp Default Wallpaper

60. Connect

62. • Slideshare servers

64. https://youtu.be/EFiFw5AF_mM
Video question 1

65. https://youtu.be/EvK4HA9qKzc
Video question 2

66. https://youtu.be/KtCF5tyAr-o
Video question 3

67. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n
0VOM7e5Hug
Video question 4

68. https://youtu.be/VFbYadm_mrw
Video question 5

70. QUESTION 1
Why is the man smiling?

72. Answer –
Creator of emoticons

73. A recent patent by apple for what?
QUESTION 2

75. • Active fall protection system

76. Why are so many people gathered
here?
QUESTION 3

78. • Tesla’s new solar roof tiles

79. Packed with giant, expensive, dangerous machines like a computer-controlled 9-axis
drill, X is too unsafe despite all the precautions, certifications, and training the
company offers its hardware engineers.
QUESTION 4

81. • Area 404

83. • X has been compared the videos to scenes
from science fiction films, such as The Matrix,
X-Men, Lost in Space or Buffalo’66. It is also
said to be similar to Makankosappo and
the Harlem Shake. Others have noted
similarities with the HBO TV series Westworld
QUESTION 1

85. • Mannequin challenge

86. Why is Puyol lifting his jersey?
QUESTION 2

89. • The X was invented by C. B. Mirick at the United States
Naval Research Laboratory (NRL)
• The Germans developed an X around 1944
• This German invention was picked up by someone in
the team of scientists assembled at
the Heeresversuchsanstalt in Peenemunde. Here a part
of the team on the German rocket program was
developing the Wasserfall missile, a variant of the V-2
rocket, the first ground-to-air missile. The Wasserfall
steering equipment converted the electrical signal to
radio signals and transmitted these to the missile.
QUESTION 3

91. • Joystick

92. QUESTION 4
"A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style" by Leon Gatys,
Alexander Ecker and Matthias Bethge was a research paper presented
at the premier machine learning conference: Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS)
Further recent work has been developed by Stanford University: Perceptual Losses for Real-Time
Style Transfer and Super-Resolution by Justin Johnson, Alexandre Alahi and Li Fei-Fei. Having no
affiliation with the university and having been created independently of these research papers,
X utilizes technology similar to that stated above

94. Answer –
Prisma

96. “The H.P. board just made the worst personnel
decision since the idiots on the Apple board
fired Steve Jobs many years ago.” These were
controversial remarks on Mark Hurd’s
departure by somebody really famous at the
silicon valley. Whose words have been quoted
here?
QUESTION 1

98. • Larry Ellison

99. • X has developed a VLC system for shoppers at
stores. They have to download an app on their
smartphone and then their smartphone works
with the LEDs in the store. The LEDs can
pinpoint where they are located in the store
and give them corresponding coupons and
information based on which aisle they are on
and what they are looking at

101. • Philips

102. • We had a 'pick a codename' vote early in the
development cycle - the names that came out
of that competition were so terrible that we
were all pretty happy when one of the leads
overrode it and declared that the codename
would be ‘X', presumably because he likes fast
cars. When it came time to pick a real name
for the product before shipping, we ended up
sticking with ‘X'

104. • Chrome

105. Names such as Parliamentary Procedure, Lazy
Susan and Bulletin Board were suggested for
this path-breaking technology during its
founding in the early 1970s. By what name is
it known today?
QUESTION 4

107. • Ethernet

108. Seven people, one big idea
• In July 1985, seven industry veterans came
together in the den of Dr. Irwin Jacobs’ San
Diego home to discuss an idea. Those
visionaries—Franklin Antonio, Adelia Coffman,
Andrew Cohen, Klein Gilhousen, Irwin Jacobs,
Andrew Viterbi and Harvey White and
outlined a plan that has evolved into one of
the telecommunications industry’s greatest
start-up success stories

110. • Qualcomm

111. Urban dictionary definition for?
• 1. An adjective used to denote something
especially effective at a given time. Slang
originating from collectible card games: a card
deemed particularly useful in a certain
situation is deemed “X," and it spread to other
things.
2. A synonym for cool, due to sloppy usage of
definition 1.
QUESTION 2

113. Tech 