AlphaQuest Finals PES University (28 Feb 2015)

TEAMS SELECTED
PES University, Bangalore

GENERAL RULES
 A total of six teams will battle it out for the title.
 There are a total of 4 rounds. The rules for the same
will be explained prior to each round.
 The decision of the quiz master is final.

RULES
 Each team will be given a direct question which carries 15
points. The team will be given 75 secs to answer the direct
question.
 The team can either answer the same question or choose to flip
the question.
 The flipped question would carry 5 points and the team would
be given 30 secs to answer the same.
 Answering a passed question (either direct or flipped) would
earn 10 points.
 Passing of direct or flipped question is clockwise.
 No negative scoring in this round.

X (May 19, 1942 – July 11, 1994) was an American computer
scientist and microcomputer entrepreneur who created the CP/M operating
system and founded Digital Research, Inc. (DRI). Although X’s career in computing
spanned more than two decades, he is mainly remembered in connection
with IBM's unsuccessful attempt in 1980 to license CP/M for the IBM PC. The story
goes that when IBM visited X’s company, X and his colleague had gone flying on
X’s private flight. The unavailability of X during several of their further visits, left
the IBMers frustrated. So, they turned to Bill Gates to provide software to their
PC. X is often referred to as “The Man who could have been Bill Gates”.
Identify X.

NEXT
Steve Jobs
revealing the
world’s thinnest
Laptop – MacBook
Air on January 15,
2008

X, co-founder of Y has been named as the 70th recipient of Z on
October 25th 2012. X was recognized for establishing a foundation
that forges improvements in healthcare, social rehabilitation,
outstanding rural uplift and education. Z is administered by a board
comprising of The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the
American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Institute of
Chemical Engineers, the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical
and Petroleum Engineers and the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers. Id X, Y, Z

FLIP NEXT
X – Narayan Murthy
Y – Infosys
Z – Hoover Medal

NEXT
X-Ray's 115th Anniversary

In a recent interview, X revealed that he was at a science meeting
where physicists discussed a “theory of _____” But the discussion
went on late into the night, and X went to bed early, thus failing to
make a key connection between his work and that of others. x
missed its true significance at the time and his colleagues received
the Nobel prize in 1979 for ideas that lie at the heart of the
_______, and X might have been among them. Others received
credit for formulating a theory in which the X's ________ plays an
important role. On (eventually) receiving recognition for his work,
X said: "I really rather hoped before the
announcement that they would make the number up
to three, and there was certainly an obvious
candidate Tom Kibble."

FLIP NEXT
Professor
Peter Higgs

Apple’s market cap is now more than 2
times its nearest competitor Exxon. The
last time a company was 2 times big as
any other company was nearly 30 years
ago when X was twice the since of Exxon
at that time. Identify X.

NEXT
International
Business Machine

X is a room temperature superconductor for energy, which makes it
very valuable; it is worth $ 40 million per kilogram. X has an
extremely strong magnetic field, reversing prior knowledge that all
superconductors repel magnetic fields. Unlike the fragile crystals
of human-created superconducting compounds, the substance is a
stable quasi-crystal. X has a unique magnetic field and properties
of superconductivity, causing it to levitate in magnetic fields, aptly
called Thundering Rocks by the natives of the place where it is
found. Originally, the term X was slangly used
in the aerospace materials with mythical
industry, to describe hard-to-access properties.

X is an activity that created a viral stir on
social media. It was started by Corey
Griffinto to promote awareness of a
particular disease and encourage donations
to research. Identify X and the disease(Full
form)

NEXT
X – Ice Bucket Challenge
Disease – Amyotrophic Lateral
Sclerosis(ALS)

It results from emission from photons in the earth’s upper atmosphere,
above 80 km (50 mi), from ionized nitrogen atoms regaining an
electron, and oxygen and nitrogen atoms returning from an excited
state to ground state. They are ionized or excited by the collision of
solar wind and magnetospheric particles being funnelled down and
accelerated along the Earth's magnetic field lines excitation energy is
lost by the emission of a photon, or by collision with another atom or
molecule: What phenomenon is being talked here ?

FLIP NEXT
Aurora Borealis
Aurora Australis

One day, people from the VIA association, part of
the X free-open-source project came back drunk
with a traffic cone. They then began a cone
collection.
So later one day, the X project was done and they
decided to use the cone as their logo.

First used in Rector’s Restaurant, in Times Square in 1899,
X’s tagline was “Always open, Always closed!” X has today
become a very common feature of several Skyscrapers
including the Burj-Al-Arab, for maintaining a difference in
temperature inside and outside the building. So, in the
absence of X, the temperature of the desert outside would
have to be maintained inside the Burj, which would heat
things up inside. ID X.

Blu-Ray disks are set to take
over from DVDs. Where does
the name Blu-Ray come from?

NEXT
Blu-Ray uses blue laser
instead of the
conventional red laser

RULES
 Each team will be given a chance to pick the questions based on
choosing one of the letter from the word ‘EPSILON’ .
 Passing of questions is anti-clockwise.
 10 points are awarded to the team if answered correctly on the
direct.
 Correct answer on the pass carries 5 points.
 No negative scores.

The _____(X)_____ ______(Y)______ of Mathematics is a
mathematics professorship in the University of Cambridge, England;
its holder is known as the _____(X)______ Professor. The post was
founded in 1663 by Henry _____(Z)____ , who was Cambridge
University's Member of Parliament from 1639–1640; and it was
officially established by King Charles II on 18 January 1664. It is
recognised as one of the most prestigious academic posts in the
world and its former holders include Isaac Newton, Joseph
Larmor, Charles Babbage, George Stokes, Paul Dirac and Stephen
Hawking.
ID X, Y and Z.

BACK
X – Lucasian
Y – Chair
Z - Lucas

“Groovejet (If This Is not Love)” a song by Spiller,
featuring vocals by British singer-songwriter
Sophie Ellis-Bextor. The single was released in
August 2000 by Positiva Records. It peaked at # 1
in the UK, New Zealand, Ireland and Australia, as
well as charting at number three on the American
Hot Dance Chart. What historically significant
role did this song play?

BACK
The song tested on the iPod
during its prototyping phase,
making it the first ever song
played on iPod .

X project was to be a version of Mac OS running
as a GUI on Intel-compatible x86 PCs on top of
Novell's next in-development version of the DR
DOS operating system in a similar fashion as
Microsoft Windows 3.x would run on top of DOS.
The project was named after X, the science
fiction franchise with the slogan "To boldly go
where no Mac has gone before."

X (1731-1810) is known for his experiment to determine Y. X
was a shy man who was uncomfortable in society and avoided
it when he could. He conversed little, and developed no
known deep personal attachments outside his family Because
of his asocial and secretive behaviour, X often avoided
publishing his work. J.C. Maxwell looked through X's papers
and found for which others had been discoveries /
considerations given credit, including Richter's law of
reciprocal proportions, Ohm's law, Dalton's law of partial
pressures, principles of electrical conductivity and Charles's
law of gases. What’s X and Y.

X – Henry Cavendish
Y – Gravitational Constant
BACK

Dr. Muckhopadhyay (M) is created as having the world’s
second and India's first __________. He was harassed and
not allowed to share his achievements with the
international scientific community. Dejected, he
committed suicide in 1981. Ek Doctor Ki Maut is an award
winning film based on the life of Dr. M, in which Pankaj
Kapoor played the role of the protaganist. Dr. M
eventually received recognition for his work when TC
Anand Kumar who was given credit for the first official
_______ of India, scrutinised Dr M's work and became
certain that Dr. M was the architect of the first ______ in
India. FITB / funda.

Inventor: Dr. Myron MacLain. In its solid form, it is colorless and
shiny. It is almost impossible to destroy or fracture in this state
and when crafted to a razor edge it can penetrate most lesser
materials with minimal application of strength. It is at least
somewhat magnetic. Has 13 allotropes, all of which are
unstable, and short-lived, but virulently poisonous. It is rarely
used due to extreme cost, poor reliability and inability to be
reshaped Types Proto, Secondary, Beta, Carbonadium.

Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov, Russian
computer engineer, now in US,
developed the popular game X while
working for the Dorodnitsyn Computing
Centre of the Soviet Academy of
Sciences. Since rights were owned by the
Soviet Govt, he got royalties only later in
1996 when he and Henk Rogers formed
The X Company. What's X?

BACK
Tetris, The Tetris Company
Left-Henk Rogers
Right-Alexey Pajitnov

RULES
 The round consists of mixed bag of all kinds of
questions.
 This round is on the buzzer.
 Correct answer carries +20,wrong answer carries -10.
 The Decision of the quiz master is final.

1)The X Awards are honours for top short-form content
creators on the microblogging website Twitter. The
awards have primarily been sponsored by John S and
James L Knight Foundation.
Since the creation in 2008, the awards have expanded
to recognize the content creation on other Social
Networking Sites including Tumblr, FourSquare and
Facebook.
ID X.

2)The five fists of science is a graphic novel
showing X ,his (real life) friend Mark Twain and
Bertha von Suttner combine forces to try to
bring about world peace through superior
firepower. They are soon confronted by dark
forces led by the dastardly Y (X’s real life
archrival),John Pierpont Morgan, Andrew
Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi. The
protagonists are shown in the cover of the
book. Identify X and Y.

3)The person on the left (born 1900)won nobel
prize in physics in 1945 and has many famous
theories (principles, equations, effects)in his
name. The person on the right (born 1913) won
nobel prize in 1989.The person on the left
humorously referred to the person on the right
as his “imaginary apart” due to similarity in
their names; though it should have been the
other way round
Identify both the scientists.

ID the person on the left and right.

Left – Wolfgang Pauli
Right – Wolfgang Paul

Magdeburg hemispheres
They are a pair of copper hemispheres
with mating rims, used to demonstrate
the power of atmospheric pressure.
When the rims were sealed with grease
and the air was pumped out, the sphere
contained a vacuum and could not be
pulled apart by teams of horses.
Pic 1:The original Magdeburg
hemispheres and Guericke’s vacuum
pump
Pic 2:Logo is inspired by this experiment
Pic 3:Otto Von Guericke
1
2.
3.

5.The X was a proposed “high concept” smartphone announced
by canonical Ltd. On 22 July 2013 which had features like 4GB
RAM,128 GB storage and sapphire crystal display. Canonical was
seeking to crowdfund a production run of around 40000 units
through indiegogo .
It had the highest target of any crowdfund project to
date,$32,000,000 over a one month campaign. It was not
intended to go into mass production after the initial run, but
rather to serve as a demonstration for new technologies for the
industry . It fell short of its funding goal, raising only
$12,809,906 and ultimately scrapped.
Name X.

6.The website of this tongue-in-cheek award notes: “Of
necessity, the award is usually bestowed posthumously.”
But the candidate is disqualified if innocent bystanders are
killed in the process of this ‘attempt’.
Previous winners of this awards include:
*A man who juggled live hand grenades.
*A man who left a lit cigarette in a warehouse full of
explosives
*Three Palestinian terrorists accidently blown up by their
own bombs
*A man who jumped out of a plane to film skydivers
without wearing a parachute
*A man who crashed through a window and falling to death
in trying to demonstrate that the window was unbreakable
ID the award.

1 – Chad Hurley
2 – Jawed Karim
3 – Steve Chen
4 – Founded on Feb 14, 2005.

RULES
 This round is on the buzzer.
 Each question is divided into three parts, if the team answers
without any hint, correct answer carries +30,wrong answer -15.
 If the team answers with the first hint, correct answer carries
+20, wrong answer -10.
 If the team answers with the second hint, correct answer carries
+10, wrong answer -5.

Germany’s Samwer Brothers-Alexander, Oliver and Marc famous
for creating replicas of well-established sites across the world
are the expertise behind 3 recent players in the Indian e-
tailing space, FabFurnish, HeavenandHome and X.
Identify X
HINT 1 -Xerion Retail Private Limited is the parent company of
both X and FabFurnish,which in turn is funded by the Samwer
brothers group.
HINT 2 –X is the company’sflagship venture in the Indian e-
tailing space which was started in late 2011 –early 2012,and
has already established itself as a player to be reckoned with.
1.

X Day is celebrated on the 256th day of the year(13 September
in normal years and 12 September in leap years). The number
256(2^8) was chosen because it is the number of distinct
values that can be represented with an eight-bit byte.
Identify X
HINT 1- Also, ‘256’ is hexadecimal in ‘100’ (‘0x100’), and it’s
the highest power of 2 that is lower that 365(the number of
days in a year). Typical celebrations of X Day include playing
around with old computers and behaving in a generally
insane(stupid and silly) manner.
HINT 2- It is an official profession holiday in Russia.
2.

X is a group of neurological disorders which in Ancient Greek
means ‘to seize, possess or afflict’. X seizures are episodes
that can vary from brief and nearly undetectable to long
periods of vigourous shaking.
Identify X
HINT 1 – People develop X as the result of brain injury, stroke,
brain tumour, and drug and alcohol misuse. Genetic mutations
are linked to a small proportion of the disease.
HINT 2 – Famous Cricketer Jonty Rhodes suffered from X and
gave a famous interview ‘Living With X’.
3.

Louis Nicolas Vauquelin was the first to isolate X from a
crocoite in 1797. Crocoite was used as a red pigment. It’s a
compound of lead, X and oxygen.
Identify X
HINT 1 – Oxide of X was used by the Chinese in the Qin dynasty
to coat metal weapons found with the Terracotta Army.
HINT 2– The colour of Rubies is because of the presence of X
4.

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