Xino 2014 Quiz - Tech Exult Finals

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Delhi Public School, Rohini
23 August 2014

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• The quiz consists of 5 rounds. Rounds 1 through 4
contain 12 questions each and Round 5 contains
6 questions.
• Participants will be given 20 seconds to answer a
direct question.
• The decision of the quizmaster will be final and
binding in all cases.
RULES

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Round 1 : Warm Up

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• This round consists of 12 questions, questions 1
to 6 are orthodox and questions 7 to 12 are
visual questions.
• Each question carries 10 points.
• Questions will not be passed to other teams,
instead they will be passed to the audience.
Round 1 : Warm Up

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1. The BBC is testing a new way of distributing short
news items via a new service called _________which
uses Instagram to share videos and other
information about news events, in a bid that they
can be easily consumed by people on the go. The
service provides short, concise summaries of the
most salient facts of complex news stories in an easy-
to-understand way. Naturally, it also encourages
viewers to read the full story on the BBC’s website.
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2. Which company’s logo is made up of 8 U s?
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3. Modu was an Israeli mobile phone company founded
in 2007 by Dov Moran. The company invented the
Modu, a modular cellular device which could be used
in various other devices. The Modu phone enabled
users to personalize their mobile's looks and features
in a simple way by inserting it into a range of unique
phone enclosures, known as Modu jackets. It
stopped operations in 2011 and sold several patents
to Google. What is this patent acquisition believed to
have led to the creation of?
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4. A coffee pot was located in the corridor just outside
the so-called Trojan Room within the old Computer
Laboratory of the University of Cambridge.
Something was created to help people working in
other parts of the building avoid pointless trips to
the coffee room and know wether it was full or not.
What was this the first instance of?
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5. What is the claim to fame of Eugene
Goostman?
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6. What are the default names of the
protagonist and his rival in the original
pokemon game on whom the later anime
characters of Ash and Gary are based?
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11. Identify the service.
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Round 2 : Orthodox I

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• This round consists of 12 orthodox questions.
• The questions are passable and both direct
and passed questions carry 10 points each.
Round 2 : OrthodoxI

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1."Much of my work has come from being lazy. I
didn't like writing programs, and so, when I
was working on the IBM 701, writing
programs for computing missile trajectories, I
started work on a programming system to
make it easier to write programs." What was
the result?
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2. In computing, _________ is an instance of a general
encoding syntax by which a string of Unicode
characters is transformed uniquely and reversibly
into a smaller, restricted character set. __________ is
intended for the encoding of labels in the
Internationalized Domain Names in Applications
(IDNA) framework, such that these domain names
may be represented in the ASCII character set
allowed in the Domain Name System of the Internet.
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3. An Indian-born American physicist known for his
work in fiber optics, he was named as one of the
seven 'Unsung Heroes' by Fortune magazine in their
‘Businessmen of the Century’ issue. As an author and
lecturer, he has published over 100 scientific papers
and four books on opto-electronics and
entrepreneurship. He has lectured to various
national and international scientific societies. His
popular article on Fibre optics in Scientific American
in 1960 established the new term : Fibre optics.
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4.Which company announced that it would
freely make its technology patents available to
all, in a blog entitled “All Our Patent Are
Belong To You”.
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5.In 1999 hackers revealed a security flaw in
which website that permitted anybody to log
into any account on the website using the
password 'eh'. At the time it was called "the
most widespread security incident in the
history of the Web" with more than 50 million
accounts compromised.
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6. A strange tradition in Microsoft, each
anniversary, for every year he’s worked, a
Microsoft employee is expected to provide
one pound of what?
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7. In a viral hoax in 2012, this prophecy supposedly
written by Nostredamus referred to what?
From the calm morning,
the end will come
when of the dancing horse
the number of circles will be nine
This supposed prophecy was further reinforced by
the day the last line came true.
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8.In 2008, a country used social networking
websites to rewrite its constitution. The
Constitutional Council consisting of 25
members was highly active on Twitter,
Facebook, YouTube and Flickr, where they
solicited comments and suggestions for the
new government. Which country?
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9. Whose slogan is “Stop Spam, Read Books”?
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10.Edward Snowden, spent a week in New Delhi
training in core Java programming and
advanced ethical hacking which got him
certified as an EC-Council Certified Security
Analyst (ECSA). Which institute did he get his
training from?
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11. A petition to the Whitehouse to construct what
entailed this response?
The Administration shares your desire for job creation and a
strong national defense, but a X isn't on the horizon. Here are
a few reasons:
• The construction of the X has been estimated to cost more
than $850,000,000,000,000,000. We're working hard to
reduce the deficit, not expand it.
• The Administration does not support blowing up planets.
• Why would we spend countless taxpayer dollars on a X with
a fundamental flaw that can be exploited by a one-man
starship?
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12. The original image was sampled from a
vector graphic clipart in an early version of
Microsoft Office. His actual identity, as it
later turned out, was the musician Peter
Wolf. Which very famous image is this?
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Round 3 : VIsual

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• This round consists of 12 visual questions,
consisting of both identifications and connects.
• The format for answering questions will be infinite
pounce.
• Each question carries +20 for a correct answer and
-10 for an incorrect one on pounce and +10 for a
correct answer and no negative for an incorrect
one on both direct and pass.
Round 3 : vIsual

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1. What is this algorithm and where did it first appear?
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4. ID the event.
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7. Connect their owners.
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12. This is a photo from the Nintendo power
magazine. Identify the person and give the
reason for this.
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Round 4 : Orthodox II

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• This round consists of 12 orthodox questions.
• The questions are passable and both direct
and passed questions carry 10 points each.
Round 4 : OrthodoxII

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1. The reason for the theme colour of this
website is that its founder is red-green
colorblind, which means the color he can see
best is blue. Which website?
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2. Macky : Chaser
Micky : Ambusher
Mucky : Fickle
Mocky : Stupid
What?
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3. Who said “A Computer is like air conditioning-
it becomes useless when you openWindows”?
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4. ________ is a program for Unix-like computer
operating systems that allows users to run
programs with the security privileges of
another user (normally the superuser, or
root).
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5. De finibus bonorum et malorum is a
philosophical work by the Roman orator,
politician and philosopher Marcus Tullius
Cicero. It consists of 5 books out of which
certain text derived from the first one is in
very common use in technology. What text?
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• Ring-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding!
• Wa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pow!
• Hatee-hatee-hatee-ho!
• Joff-tchoff-tchoff-tchoffo-tchoffo-tchoff!
• mo-o-o-o-orse, mo-o-o-o-orse, mo-o-o-o-orse
• Jacha-chacha-chacha-chow!
• Fraka-kaka-kaka-kaka-kow!
• A-hee-ahee ha-hee!
• A-oo-oo-oo-ooo!
6. Put funda and identify.
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7. Jumping repeatedly and possibly combining it
with strafing, in order to move faster, which
advanced movement technique has its most
prominent implementations in the Source and
Quake engines?
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8. Along with the appointment of Satya Nadella
as the new CEO of Microsoft, who was given a
new role of “Technology Advisor”?
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9. Which mob in Minecraft was named as a
reference to the urban myth, Slenderman as
revealed on a Minecraft Reddit thread by
Notch?
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10. In the 1980’s, which software was often used
to check IBM clones for compatibility with
the IBM-PC?
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11. How long is a complete performance of
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony?
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12. The Malaysia Airlines MH370 was which
numbered Boeing 777 to be manufactured?
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Round 5 :
GAME Changer

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• This round consists of 6 questions of varying types.
• Each question carries a total of 60 points, which will be
awarded to the teams by the formula :
60/number of teams with the correct answer
• Each wrong answer entails a negative marking by the
formula :
30/number of teams with the correct answer
• In case no team gets the correct answer, no points will
be deducted (so everyone can guess if they think no
one knows the answer).
• The only way to answer is pounce.
Round 5 : GAME Changer

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1. Who asked the question “What should we do
to free our planet from terrorism?” on Yahoo
answers, a question that has received over
30,000 replies including from the likes of Kiran
Bedi, Leander Paes and Sri Sri Ravi Shankar?

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4. Wikipedia has announced a new project,
under which it will add voice recordings on
the biography pages of celebrities and other
famous people on the online encyclopedia,
with Stephen Fry being among the first ones.
What is this project called?

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Identify the promotion. Also identify the game
it promoted.

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