The document contains the rules and questions for the Torquest 2015 quiz competition. It begins with acknowledgements and rules stating it is a 25 question quiz with 6 star questions being tie-breakers. It provides 3 sample questions about identifying people involved in specific events or discoveries related to technology and science.

1. TORQUEST 2015
QM- Aman Shaikh
ELIMINATIONS

2. Acknowledgements
• This quiz is brought to you by the Boat Club Quiz Club.
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• Thanks to Ipshita Paul, Vrushabh Gudade, Divij Ghosh,
Vibhav Tungar and Dhananjay Jagtap for helping with the
quiz
• Also like to thank Supreeth Ravish for moderating the quiz
• Thanks to Infinite Zounds for their fantastic fundas

3. Rules
• Written eliminations
• 25 questions with 6 star-marked questions
• No negatives, so take all the wild guesses you want
• Top 6 teams qualify to the finals
• Star marked questions are tie-breakers
• In case two teams have same number of star marked
questions right, we enter sudden death
• Use of any electronic devices during the quiz will result in
disqualification
• Decision of quizmaster is final and binding.

4. BEST OF LUCK!!

5. Q1.
X was hired by Facebook after he along with his two
friends, Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman at Georgia
State University successfully hacked into Facebook in
2005, managing to plant a worm that made Facebook
profiles look like MySpace pages. After a long back and
forth conversation with Dustin Moskowitz, he was hired by
Facebook in 2006. In 2007 he was immortalised by a
colleague, Matt Cahill in the form of an emoticon with his
face on it, a code that still works on FB Messenger. ID X.

6. Ans:
Chris Putnam

7. Q2.
Oxyphenbutazone is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory
drug. While never actually recorded, it holds the maximum
of 1778 points.
Caziques are a type of songbird native to the American
tropics. It holds the highest RECORDED score of 392
points. Put funda .

8. Ans:
Scrabble words

9. *Q3.
X is an adjective which means "in a mocking manner". Until
September 2015, X held a unique distinction of yielding
exactly one Google search result. In September 2015,
Youtuber Michael Stevens on his channel VSauce
mentioned this factoid, which led to a subreddit /'X' which
essentially destroyed its record. Which word?

10. Ans:
Quizzaciously

11. Q4.
The old version used a complicated serif font which are
created using bezier curves. In all it has over 100 anchor
points which leads to a filesize 6KB, which can be
compressed to 2KB. The new version however can almost
entirely be constructed using circles and rectangles. This
results in a much smaller file size of 305 bytes. What am I
talking about?

12. Ans:
Google logo

13. Q5.
What is Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia?

14. Fear of long words

15. Q6.
The X club was a dining club of nine men who supported
the theories of natural selection and academic liberalism in
the late 19th century England. The initiator of the X club
was ________. __________ was a noted English biologist
and supporter of Darwin's theory of evolution. He was a
leading expert on comparative anatomy and proposed the
theory that birds evolved from small carnivorous dinosaurs,
a theory widely accepted today. His grandson, a popular
writer, was greatly influenced by his grandfather, a fact
seen in his novel Brave New World. FITB.

16. Ans:
Thomas Henry Huxley

17. Q7.
During 1978, the makers of C programming language used
X for the first time. In China, microblogs Sina Weibo &
Tencent Weibo utilize a double – X format. In the 2010s,
Kanye West coined “ X Rap” to describe the style of
rapping. “X heel” is a moniker used by WWE wrestler Dolph
Ziggler. Identify X.

18. Hash (#)

19. *Q8.
X started his career at Ferranti International in Bracknell on
aeronautical & military applications from 1988 -1991. He
designed & programmed a movable vehicle satellite
antenna & implemented software for automated helicopter
landing aids. Later worked for Sema group & spent a large
time installing SMS systems in the world. Then went to
Tekelec, a telecommunications company which Oracle
bought & now working at Oracle on 4G related
technologies. His claim to fame : Sent world’s first SMS.
Name the person. (picture on next slide)

21. Ans:
Neil Papworth

22. Q9.
Whose first tweet is this?
"I’m 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001
01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101
01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010.”

23. Ans:
Google. It reads “I’m feeling lucky”

24. Q10.
In April 2015, the tech company Microsoft announced a
pilot programme designed to identify talent among people
with this medical condition, because "some have amazing
ability to retain information, think at a level of detail and
depth or excel in math or code.". Which condition?

25. Ans:
Autism

26. Q11.
In physics, the X effect is the apparent deflection of moving
objects when the motion is described relative to a rotating
reference frame. In a reference frame with clockwise
rotation, the deflection is to the left of the motion of the
object; in one with counter-clockwise rotation, the deflection
is to the right. Although recognized previously by others,
the mathematical expression for the X force appeared in an
1835 paper by French scientist X, in connection with the
theory of water wheels. Id X.

27. Gasparde Gustav Coriolis

28. *Q12.
Connect:

29. Ans:
Mario

30. Q13.
This planet's moons are named after it's mythological
namesake's lovers. According to mythology, this character
drew a veil of clouds to hide his mischief. NASA's mission
to this planet is aptly named after this character's wife,
going up to check up on her husband surrounded by his
lovers. Give planet and the mission name.

31. Ans:
Planet: Jupiter
Mission: Juno

32. Q14.
The X paradox gets its from an expression referring to time
travel, first popularised by Robert Heinlein in his story By
His X. The paradox refers to the lack of clarity on cause
and effect in a linear timescale when time travel is involved.
Most recently, the plot of Interstellar was pointed out as
suffering from this paradox. Give X.

33. Ans:
Bootstrap paradox.

34. Q15.
X, also known is additive manufacturing was first
developed in the 1980s with Hideo Kodama of Nagoya
Municipal Industrial Research Institute developed one of
the earliest technologies with photo hardening polymers.
Today, the technology has grown advanced enough to be
used by hobbyists to create art and in some cases even
edibles like candy. What is the more common name of this
technology?

35. Ans:
3-D Printing

36. *Q16.
X is a unit of area. Originally used in nuclear physics for
expressing the cross sectional area of nuclei and nuclear
reactions, today it is also used in all fields of high energy
physics to express the cross sections of any scattering
process. It is defined as 10−28 m2 and is approximately the
cross sectional area of a uranium nucleus. The etymology
of the name is derived from "as big as X".

37. Barn

38. Q17.
As a April Fools Day prank, Nokia decided to redesign one
of it's most iconic phones and equip it with a 41 MP
camera, a touchscreen, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth capabilites
and 32 GB inbuilt storage. This phone is one of the most
popular phones ever made, and dominated the cell phone
market in the early 2000s. Which phone?

39. Nokia 3310

40. Q18.
5-Amino-2,3-dihydro-1,4-phthalazinedione is
chemiluminiscent compound which glows blue when mixed
with an appropriate oxidising agent. It binds fairly easily to
iron, copper and cyanides, due to which is commonly used
by forensic investigators to detect trace amounts of blood.
What is the more common name for this compound?

41. Ans:
Luminol

42. Q19.
ID.

43. Richard P. Feynman

44. Q20.
In the About section of this program, clicking on the header
image results in the ocean (a part of the header image) to
generate waves and surf. Also in this screen clicking on the
logo causes it to bounce up and down.
Which program is this, which so graciously allows us to use
it for free indefinitely, although it is not really a freeware?

45. WinRAR

46. Q21.
The Mars X Mission in 1997 included the first successful
rover on Mars, called Y. This historic NASA spacecraft
makes more than just a cameo appearance in "The
Martian," the new Ridley Scott movie about an astronaut
stranded on Mars. In the movie, Watney sets out to retrieve
X to use its radio and camera to re-establish
communications with NASA after his own habitat's antenna
is destroyed in a dust storm. ID X and Y.

47. Ans:
X- Pathfinder
Y- Sojourner

48. Q22.
X is found in three 'flavours' and can oscillate from one
flavour to another-changing identities like a spy on the
run,as they travel through the atmosphere or through spce
from the sun demonstrating they have mass. ID X

49. Ans:
Neutrinos

50. *Q23.
X is a protein found in the saliva of vampire bats. It
functions as a coagulant, thus keep the blood of the victim
from clotting while the bat is drinking. It is named after a
fictional character, who probably would've needed it a lot.
Give X

51. Ans:
Draculin

52. Q24.
The Gros Michel variety of this variety was originally the
most popular variety. However in the 1950s this variety was
completely wiped out by the Panama disease, and was
subsequently replaced by the Cavendish variety. The Gros
Michel variety was the basis for the artificial flavouring used
in most foods, and hence this particular flavour seems quite
'fake' due to its dissimilarity in taste with the Cavendish
variety. What am I talking about?

53. Ans:
Bananas

54. *Q25.
Connect:

55. Auguste Piccard