Prelims from a Tech Quiz I had hosted for the IETE chapter of DJ Sanghvi College of Engineering, as a part of their fest Trinity, 2017

2. PRELIMS
• 25 Questions
• A point for each question, unless deemed otherwise by moi. Half
points, wherever applicable.
• Questions 5,10,15, 20 and 25 are starred and will be used to break
ties.
• Last name rule applies, unless specified.
• No negatives, so please feel free to guess.
• Credits to Tech Gawd Apratim Charas Singh and Tech dud Soham
Panda for a couple of questions.
• Chop Chop!
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3. QUESTION 1
• Portrayed by Carrie Ann Moss in the movies and Jennifer Hale in the
games, this character is from the landmark Matrix series by the Wachowski
bros.
• At the beginning of the series, she is first mate on
Morpheus' Nebuchadnezzar and serves mainly as a go-between for him
and the individuals he wishes to free from the Matrix. As the series
progresses, her primary importance as a character becomes her close
relationship with Neo. She is skilled with computers, at operating vehicles
both inside and outside the Matrix, and in martial arts.
• As she guides Neo to salvation and his apparent death in the first movie,
her name comes to light, quite fittingly.
• What is she appropriately named?
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5. QUESTION 2
• The Bowen knot (also known as the heraldic knot in symbolism) is
not a true knot, but is rather a heraldic knot. It is named after
the Welshman James Bowen and is also called true lover’s knot.
• It consists of a rope in the form of a continuous loop laid out as an
upright square shape with loops at each of the four corners. Since the
rope is not actually knotted, it would in topological terms be
considered an unknot
• Where would you see the most famous example of this knot?
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6. QUESTION 3
• "At the age of 22, I fell in love with my boss,” she begins , "At the age
of 24, I learned the devastating consequences.... Now I admit I made
mistakes — especially wearing that beret — but the attention and
judgment that I received — not the story, but that
I personally received — was unprecedented,” she continued. “I was
branded as a tramp, tart, slut, whore, bimbo and, of course, ‘that
woman.’ I was known by many, but actually known by few. I get it. It
was easy to forget ‘that woman’ was dimensional and had a soul.”
• These are the words of someone in 2015, who is often referred to as
“Patient Zero of Online Cyberbullying”, as consequence of something
that occurred 20 years ago. Who is this (in)famous survivor?
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7. QUESTION 4
• Deriving itself from the Greek word for movement, this brand name is
used to describe elastic therapeutic tape, which is an elastic cotton
strip with an acrylic adhesive that is used with the intent of treating
pain and disability from athletic injuries.
• What is it called?
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9. QUESTION 5*
• The Clay Sanskrit Library is a series of books published by New York
University Press and the JJC Foundation. Each work features the text
in its original language (transliterated Sanskrit) on the left-hand page,
with its English translation on the right. The series was inspired by
the Loeb Classical Library, and its volumes are bound in teal cloth.
• Sheldon Pollock was one of the chief editors of the same till 2010,
when he was appointed as the head of a parallel organization based
in India, associated with a name which is synonymous to the Indian
Tech scene.
• What did Pollock go on to head?
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10. QUESTION 6
• The functional component of this particular ‘trope’ was invented by Albert
C. Carter, inspired by a spirit writing device used by his mother, Mary, a
Cincinnati clairvoyant. When Carter approached store owner Max Levinson
about stocking the device, Levinson called in his brother-in-law Abe
Bookman, a graduate of Ohio Mechanics Institute.
• In 1944, Carter filed for a patent for the cylindrical device, assigning it in
1946 to Bookman, Levinson, and another partner in what came to be Alabe
Crafts, Inc. (Albert and Abe). Alabe marketed and sold the cylinder as The
Syco-Seer. Carter died sometime before the patent was granted in 1948.
Bookman made improvements to The Syco-Seer, and in 1948, it was
encased in crystal. Though unsuccessful, the revamped product caught the
attention of Chicago's Brunswick Billiards who commissioned the form
which know it popularly as.
• What?
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11. QUESTION 7
• In July 2015, a completely legal purchase on the iTunes store by one
Artem Vaulin led to one of the biggest landslides in the history of the
Internet, something that got his gluteus maximus kicked big time.
• Just tell me what followed.
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12. QUESTION 8
• Such Craze. Much wow. What’s happening here?
• Image Follows.
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14. QUESTION 9
• Here’s an actual Meme question though.
• This, now iconic, non-plussed reaction occurred when the person in
question was explaining how Sir Isaac Newton invented calculus
before his 26th birthday.
• The reaction and the gaping, open mouth are now an integral part of
meme-lore.
• Who and what image resulted as a consequence of all of the above?
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15. QUESTION 10*
• X is a global competitive programming platform which supports over 50
programming languages and has a large community of programmers that
helps students and professionals test and improve their coding skills. Its
objective is to provide a platform for practice, competition and
improvement for both students and professional software
developers. Apart from this, it aims to reach out to students while they are
young and inculcate a culture of programming in India.
• Now, X is a direct subsidiary of Y, an Internet domain name
registrar company founded in 1998 by Bhavin Turakhia and Divyank
Turakhia who was instrumental in the adoption of the seventy-day grace
period for businesses concerned with the registry of IANA and ICANN. Y
was majorly in the news for the sale of media.net to a Chinese consortium
last year, for over 900 million USD
• Just gimme X and Y.
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16. QUESTION 11
• Christopher Welch was an American actor who died due to
complications of cancer on December 2, 2013, at a hospital in Santa
Monica, California.
• Apart from cameos in Law and Order, The Sopranos and roles in the
2008 films What Just Happened, Vicky Cristina Barcelona,
and Synecdoche, New York, his major C2F was a role he portrayed in a
TV series, right before his untimely death.
• This also led to the on screen death of the character he was playing.
• Which character/TV series and who is the supposed inspiration for
the same?
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18. QUESTION 12
• Busting a common perception, apart from the most famous instance, there
were at least two other similar efforts:
• Tom Cranston and Fred Longstaff, working for Canada's Ferranti-Packard in
1952
• Ralph Benjamin, working for the UK Navy in the early 1960s
• Both efforts were military projects that ended up classified, which explains
why they were dead ends. Also while these instances used rubber
trackballs, the most famous instance made use of bulky wheels.
• What is the popular instance and who was behind it?
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19. QUESTION 13
• Who is being parodied in the Simpsons?
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20. QUESTION 14
• Pål Spilling is a Norwegian computer pioneer whose early interest in
computer networking resulted in Norway getting the first ARPANET node
outside of the United States, in 1973.
• Fifteen years later, the nascent Internet saw its first widespread infection
by self-replicating code: Morris, a worm that could install multiple copies of
itself on the same computer, causing infected systems to grind to a halt.
• As the Morris worm began to spread in the United States, Spilling's
American colleagues called to warn him; faced with a threat to his nation's
entire network of computers, he acted quickly and disconnected Norway
from the rest of the Internet.
•
What did Spilling’s quick response entail?
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21. QUESTION 15*
• Apart from being a polymath and exceptionally good at her primary
job, this lady was friends with George Antheil, an avante-garde
composer with similarly broad interests (he wrote a book on
endocrinology).
• Together, during World War II, the two of them patented a
technology that would allow radio signals to torpedos to hop from
frequency to frequency and avoid being jammed. The Navy rejected it
at the time, but took it up 20 years later during the Cuban Missile
Crisis, and the patent figured into the development of numerous
broadcast standards, including Wi-Fi.
• Name this iconic superstar.
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22. QUESTION 16
• The Samung S8 has a new AI assistant, ready to rival the Siris and
Cortanas of the world.
• Instead of working like a voice activated search engine, it’s designed
to actually make your phone easier to use by understanding what’s on
your screen and anticipating your needs.
• What is the name of this assistant, something that would remind you
of a famous brief, consoling message believed to have been written
by President Abraham Lincoln in November 1864 to a widow, who
was thought to have lost five sons in the Union Army during
the American Civil War.
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23. QUESTION 17
• Thomas Cormen is a Full Professor of computer science at Dartmouth
College and former Chair of the Dartmouth College Department of
Computer Science. Between 2004 and 2008 he directed the
Dartmouth College Writing Program.
• A Quora celeb over the past few answers, he’s one of the most
popular profs across the globe.
• However, his most famous contribution to this quiz came as a part of
a quartet, sometime around 1990 and has since, been a regular
amongst the masses.
• What are we talking about?
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24. QUESTION 18
• The Internet Party is a political party in New Zealand promoting Internet
freedom and privacy which contested the 2014 New Zealand elections
under an electoral alliance with the Mana Movement but failed to win any
seats in the House of Representatives of New Zealand.
• The Internet Party became a registered political party on 13 May
2014 having started to sign up members on 27 March 2014,the first to do
so in New Zealand through the use of a phone app.
• All of this fame, was courtesy the infamy of one of NZ’s bad boys, someone
who had blown up in 2005 as the man behind Megaupload.com.
• Who is this Kiwi kid?
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25. QUESTION 19
• This is a famous Intel ad from 2009 and led to the man in question,
finally receiving his deserved 15 minutes of fame.
• Who/What is he the co-inventor of?
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26. QUESTION 20*
• This novel was written shortly after two pivotal events of the 1970s, the
resignation of Richard Nixon and the overthrow of the Chilean President Salvador
Allende, which are cited in the novel as examples, in Nixon's case, of a failed
attempt by organised crime to suborn the Presidency, and in the second, of the
consequences of working against multinational commercial interests.
• Most of the characters live with the feeling that their lives could be turned upside
down in an instant because of someone breaking into the data held on the
network.
• It is notable for its hero's use of computer hacking skills to escape pursuit in
a dystopian future, and for the coining of the word “____" to describe a program
that propagates itself through a computer network.
• Name the landmark book/author and gimme the good word while you’re at it.
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27. QUESTION 21
• At the 51st Grammy Awards in early 2009, the band Death Cab for
Cutie made an appearance wearing blue ribbons to protest against it.
• Jay-Z titled the lead single of his album The Blueprint 3 as "D.O.A.
(Death of _________)“
• Christina Aguilera appeared in public in Los Angeles on August 10,
2009 wearing a T-shirt that read “_________ is for Pussies".
• What were they protesting against?
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28. QUESTION 22
• Google Now has a brand integration with a certain franchise which
lets you turn on/off your flashlight.
• What are the appropriate voice commands?
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29. QUESTION 23
• A mid-sized Korean semiconductor firm named DI Corp that makes
products named “Monitoring Burn-in Tester” and “Wafer Test Board”
had consistently lost money for four quarters in 2011-12.
• In a few weeks around October 2012 however, the firm, headed by
Park Won-ho saw its share price shoot up nearly three times its
original value, from 2,000 to 5,700 Korean won.
• Why?
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30. QUESTION 24
• James Lovine is best known as the co-founder of Interscope
Records and chairman of Interscope Geffen A&M.
• At a time when ovine perceived two key problems in the music industry:
the impact of piracy on music sales and the substandard audio quality
provided by Apple's plastic earbuds.
• Lovine later recalled that X said to him: "Man, it's one thing that people
steal my music. It's another thing to destroy the feeling of what I've worked
on.“
• This spurred Lovine to collaborate with X in what is now an iconic
partnership, though the usage of the word iconic here is debatable, if you
ask me.
What is this joint collaboration and who is X?
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31. QUESTION 25*
• This a fan made parody of an iconic commercial. Which one?
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32. ANSWERS FOLLOW
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33. QUESTION 1
• Portrayed by Carrie Ann Moss in the movies and Jennifer Hale in the
games, this character is from the landmark Matrix series by the Wachowski
bros.
• At the beginning of the series, she is first mate on
Morpheus' Nebuchadnezzar and serves mainly as a go-between for him
and the individuals he wishes to free from the Matrix. As the series
progresses, her primary importance as a character becomes her close
relationship with Neo. She is skilled with computers, at operating vehicles
both inside and outside the Matrix, and in martial arts.
• As she guides Neo to salvation and his apparent death in the first movie,
her name comes to light, quite fittingly.
• What is she appropriately named?
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35. ANSWER
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36. QUESTION 2
• The Bowen knot (also known as the heraldic knot in symbolism) is
not a true knot, but is rather a heraldic knot. It is named after
the Welshman James Bowen and is also called true lover’s knot.
• It consists of a rope in the form of a continuous loop laid out as an
upright square shape with loops at each of the four corners. Since the
rope is not actually knotted, it would in topological terms be
considered an unknot
• Where would you see the most famous example of this knot?
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37. ANSWER
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38. QUESTION 3
• "At the age of 22, I fell in love with my boss,” she begins , "At the age
of 24, I learned the devastating consequences.... Now I admit I made
mistakes — especially wearing that beret — but the attention and
judgment that I received — not the story, but that
I personally received — was unprecedented,” she continued. “I was
branded as a tramp, tart, slut, whore, bimbo and, of course, ‘that
woman.’ I was known by many, but actually known by few. I get it. It
was easy to forget ‘that woman’ was dimensional and had a soul.”
• These are the words of someone in 2015, who is often referred to as
“Patient Zero of Online Cyberbullying”, as consequence of something
that occurred 20 years ago. Who is this (in)famous survivor?
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39. ANSWER
• Monica Lewinsky
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40. QUESTION 4
• Deriving itself from the Greek word for movement, this brand name is
used to describe elastic therapeutic tape, which is an elastic cotton
strip with an acrylic adhesive that is used with the intent of treating
pain and disability from athletic injuries.
• What is it called?
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42. ANSWER
• Kinesio tape
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43. QUESTION 5*
• The Clay Sanskrit Library is a series of books published by New York
University Press and the JJC Foundation. Each work features the text
in its original language (transliterated Sanskrit) on the left-hand page,
with its English translation on the right. The series was inspired by
the Loeb Classical Library, and its volumes are bound in teal cloth.
• Sheldon Pollock was one of the chief editors of the same till 2010,
when he was appointed as the head of a parallel organization based
in India, associated with a name which is synonymous to the Indian
Tech scene.
• What did Pollock go on to head?
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44. ANSWER
• The Murty Classical library
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45. QUESTION 6
• The functional component of this particular ‘trope’ was invented by Albert
C. Carter, inspired by a spirit writing device used by his mother, Mary, a
Cincinnati clairvoyant. When Carter approached store owner Max Levinson
about stocking the device, Levinson called in his brother-in-law Abe
Bookman, a graduate of Ohio Mechanics Institute.
• In 1944, Carter filed for a patent for the cylindrical device, assigning it in
1946 to Bookman, Levinson, and another partner in what came to be Alabe
Crafts, Inc. (Albert and Abe). Alabe marketed and sold the cylinder as The
Syco-Seer. Carter died sometime before the patent was granted in 1948.
Bookman made improvements to The Syco-Seer, and in 1948, it was
encased in crystal. Though unsuccessful, the revamped product caught the
attention of Chicago's Brunswick Billiards who commissioned the form
which know it popularly as.
• What?
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46. ANSWER
• Magic 8 Ball
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47. QUESTION 7
• In July 2015, a completely legal purchase on the iTunes store by one
Artem Vaulin led to one of the biggest landslides in the history of the
Internet, something that got his gluteus maximus kicked big time.
• Just tell me what followed.
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48. ANSWER
• Kickass torrents got shut down
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49. QUESTION 8
• Such Craze. Much wow. What’s happening here?
• Image Follows.
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51. ANSWER
• Snapchat Spectacles being distributed
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52. QUESTION 9
• Here’s an actual Meme question though.
• This, now iconic, non-plussed reaction occurred when the person in
question was explaining how Sir Isaac Newton invented calculus
before his 26th birthday.
• The reaction and the gaping, open mouth are now an integral part of
meme-lore.
• Who and what image resulted as a consequence of all of the above?
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53. ANSWER
• Neil De Grass Tyson
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54. QUESTION 10*
• X is a global competitive programming platform which supports over 50
programming languages and has a large community of programmers that
helps students and professionals test and improve their coding skills. Its
objective is to provide a platform for practice, competition and
improvement for both students and professional software
developers. Apart from this, it aims to reach out to students while they are
young and inculcate a culture of programming in India.
• Now, X is a direct subsidiary of Y, an Internet domain name
registrar company founded in 1998 by Bhavin Turakhia and Divyank
Turakhia who was instrumental in the adoption of the seventy-day grace
period for businesses concerned with the registry of IANA and ICANN. Y
was majorly in the news for the sale of media.net to a Chinese consortium
last year, for over 900 million USD
• Just gimme X and Y.
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55. ANSWER
• Codechef
• Directi
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56. QUESTION 11
• Christopher Welch was an American actor who died due to
complications of cancer on December 2, 2013, at a hospital in Santa
Monica, California.
• Apart from cameos in Law and Order, The Sopranos and roles in the
2008 films What Just Happened, Vicky Cristina Barcelona,
and Synecdoche, New York, his major C2F was a role he portrayed in a
TV series, right before his untimely death.
• This also led to the on screen death of the character he was playing.
• Which character/TV series and who is the supposed inspiration for
the same?
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58. ANSWER
• Peter Gregory, based on Peter Thiel
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59. QUESTION 12
• Busting a common perception, apart from the most famous instance, there
were at least two other similar efforts:
• Tom Cranston and Fred Longstaff, working for Canada's Ferranti-Packard in
1952
• Ralph Benjamin, working for the UK Navy in the early 1960s
• Both efforts were military projects that ended up classified, which explains
why they were dead ends. Also while these instances used rubber
trackballs, the most famous instance made use of bulky wheels.
• What is the popular instance and who was behind it?
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60. ANSWER
• Douglas Engelbert and the Mouse
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61. QUESTION 13
• Who is being parodied in the Simpsons?
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62. ANSWER
• Mark Cuban
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63. QUESTION 14
• Pål Spilling is a Norwegian computer pioneer whose early interest in
computer networking resulted in Norway getting the first ARPANET node
outside of the United States, in 1973.
• Fifteen years later, the nascent Internet saw its first widespread infection
by self-replicating code: Morris, a worm that could install multiple copies of
itself on the same computer, causing infected systems to grind to a halt.
• As the Morris worm began to spread in the United States, Spilling's
American colleagues called to warn him; faced with a threat to his nation's
entire network of computers, he acted quickly and disconnected Norway
from the rest of the Internet.
•
What did Spilling’s quick response entail?
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64. ANSWER
• Disconnected the cable
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65. QUESTION 15*
• Apart from being a polymath and exceptionally good at her primary
job, this lady was friends with George Antheil, an avante-garde
composer with similarly broad interests (he wrote a book on
endocrinology).
• Together, during World War II, the two of them patented a
technology that would allow radio signals to torpedos to hop from
frequency to frequency and avoid being jammed. The Navy rejected it
at the time, but took it up 20 years later during the Cuban Missile
Crisis, and the patent figured into the development of numerous
broadcast standards, including Wi-Fi.
• Name this iconic superstar.
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66. ANSWER
• Hedy Lamarr
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67. QUESTION 16
• The Samung S8 has a new AI assistant, ready to rival the Siris and
Cortanas of the world.
• Instead of working like a voice activated search engine, it’s designed
to actually make your phone easier to use by understanding what’s on
your screen and anticipating your needs.
• What is the name of this assistant, something that would remind you
of a famous brief, consoling message believed to have been written
by President Abraham Lincoln in November 1864 to a widow, who
was thought to have lost five sons in the Union Army during
the American Civil War.
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68. ANSWER
• Bixby
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69. QUESTION 17
• Thomas Cormen is a Full Professor of computer science at Dartmouth
College and former Chair of the Dartmouth College Department of
Computer Science. Between 2004 and 2008 he directed the
Dartmouth College Writing Program.
• A Quora celeb over the past few answers, he’s one of the most
popular profs across the globe.
• However, his most famous contribution to this quiz came as a part of
a quartet, sometime around 1990 and has since, been a regular
amongst the masses.
• What are we talking about?
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70. ANSWER
• Intro to Algorithms by CLRS
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71. QUESTION 18
• The Internet Party is a political party in New Zealand promoting Internet
freedom and privacy which contested the 2014 New Zealand elections
under an electoral alliance with the Mana Movement but failed to win any
seats in the House of Representatives of New Zealand.
• The Internet Party became a registered political party on 13 May
2014 having started to sign up members on 27 March 2014,the first to do
so in New Zealand through the use of a phone app.
• All of this fame, was courtesy the infamy of one of NZ’s bad boys, someone
who had blown up in 2005 as the man behind Megaupload.com.
• Who is this Kiwi kid?
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72. ANSWER
• Kim Dotcom
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73. QUESTION 19
• This is a famous Intel ad from 2009 and led to the man in question,
finally receiving his deserved 15 minutes of fame.
• Who/What is he the co-inventor of?
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74. ANSWER
• Ajay Bhatt, the USB
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75. QUESTION 20*
• This novel was written shortly after two pivotal events of the 1970s, the
resignation of Richard Nixon and the overthrow of the Chilean President Salvador
Allende, which are cited in the novel as examples, in Nixon's case, of a failed
attempt by organised crime to suborn the Presidency, and in the second, of the
consequences of working against multinational commercial interests.
• Most of the characters live with the feeling that their lives could be turned upside
down in an instant because of someone breaking into the data held on the
network.
• It is notable for its hero's use of computer hacking skills to escape pursuit in
a dystopian future, and for the coining of the word “____" to describe a program
that propagates itself through a computer network.
• Name the landmark book/author and gimme the good word while you’re at it.
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76. ANSWER
• Shockwave Rider by John Brunner
• Worm
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77. QUESTION 21
• At the 51st Grammy Awards in early 2009, the band Death Cab for
Cutie made an appearance wearing blue ribbons to protest against it.
• Jay-Z titled the lead single of his album The Blueprint 3 as "D.O.A.
(Death of _________)“
• Christina Aguilera appeared in public in Los Angeles on August 10,
2009 wearing a T-shirt that read “_________ is for Pussies".
• What were they protesting against?
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78. ANSWER
• Autotune
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79. QUESTION 22
• Google Now has a brand integration with a certain franchise which
lets you turn on/off your flashlight.
• What are the appropriate voice commands?
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80. ANSWER
• Lumos and Nox
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81. QUESTION 23
• A mid-sized Korean semiconductor firm named DI Corp that makes
products named “Monitoring Burn-in Tester” and “Wafer Test Board”
had consistently lost money for four quarters in 2011-12.
• In a few weeks around October 2012 however, the firm, headed by
Park Won-ho saw its share price shoot up nearly three times its
original value, from 2,000 to 5,700 Korean won.
• Why?
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82. ANSWER
• PSY’s Dad wns the company and it shone courtesy Gangnam Style’s
popularity
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83. QUESTION 24
• James Lovine is best known as the co-founder of Interscope
Records and chairman of Interscope Geffen A&M.
• At a time when ovine perceived two key problems in the music industry:
the impact of piracy on music sales and the substandard audio quality
provided by Apple's plastic earbuds.
• Lovine later recalled that X said to him: "Man, it's one thing that people
steal my music. It's another thing to destroy the feeling of what I've worked
on.“
• This spurred Lovine to collaborate with X in what is now an iconic
partnership, though the usage of the word iconic here is debatable, if you
ask me.
What is this joint collaboration and who is X?
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84. ANSWER
• Beats by Dr Dre
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85. QUESTION 25*
• This a fan made parody of an iconic commercial. Which one?
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86. ANSWER
• Apple 1984
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