2012.09.02.Quiz.Sumeer

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Sunday 2nd Sep 2012QM: Sumeer

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Only one answer per team per question. In case of multiple answers, ONLY the first answer will be accepted.No pounces !

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Disclaimer : Any resemblance to any persons living or dead is purely intentional.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.

Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744).

WARM-UP QUESTIONS

The Cubbon park police station on Kasturba Gandhi road just outside Cubbon Park, next to the fish aquarium, was originally a guard post built by the British in the early 20th century.

For what purpose was it built?

ANSWER

To protect the statue of Queen Victoria, erected in 1906,which still stands outside Cubbon Park.

The UB group has recently restored the police station.A board outside the PS has these facts listed on it.

What is the only type of invention for which the US Patent Office still insists on seeing a working model?

ANSWER

Perpetual Motion Machines

Perpetual motion describes hypothetical machines that operate or produce useful work indefinitely and, more generally, hypothetical machines that produce more work or energy than they consume,whether they might operate indefinitely or not.

The image is of a toy called Drinking birds,also known as dippy birds and dipping birds,that mimic the motions of a bird drinking from a fountain or other water source.

The toy is a heat engine that exploits a temperature differential to convert heat energy to a pressure differential within the device, and perform mechanical work.

These toys are sometimes incorrectly considered a perpetual motion device.

Id this movie with a stellar cast about a group of hackers.

ANSWER

Sneakers (1992)

Minor plot element:"...Martin, now using the alias "Bishop", runs a tiger team of security specialists who use unorthodox methods of testing physical and electronic security for companies in San Francisco. The team includes: Donald Crease, a former CIA officer and high-strung family man; Darryl "Mother" Roskow, a conspiracy theorist with unsurpassed technical skills and dexterity; Carl Arbogast, a young genius; and Erwin "Whistler" Emory, a blind phone phreak with perfect pitch and an acute sense of hearing..."

X in computing slang refers to an ethical hacker, penetration tester, cracker or security consolidator.X hackers are computer security experts, who specialize in penetration testing, and other testing methodologies, to ensure that a company's information systems are secure. X hackers are also called "sneakers",red teams, or tiger teams.

Y is often used figuratively, especially in computing slang, where it refers to a computer security hacker that breaks into networks or computers, or creates computer viruses.

In Western movies, Y is the villain or bad guy, in which such a character would wear a Y in contrast to the hero's X.

Z in the hacking community, refers to a skilled hacker whose activities fall somewhere between X and Y hackers on a variety of spectrums. It may relate to whether they sometimes arguably act illegally, though in good will, or to how they disclose vulnerabilities. They usually do not hack for personal gain or have malicious intentions, but may be prepared to technically commit crimes during the course of their technological exploits in order to achieve better security.

X,Y and Z ?

ANSWER

X - White hat

Y - Black hat

Z - Grey hat

How are these bunch of dudes collectively referred to as in techlore?

ANSWER

The Paypal Mafia!

PayPal Mafia" is an informal term for the community of American businesspeople and investors centered in Silicon Valley, who were founders or early employees of e-commerce service PayPal before founding a series of other technology companies.

The PayPal Mafia are often credited with inspiring Web 2.0, and for the re-emergence of consumer-focused Internet companies after the dot com bust of 2001.

Some commentators consider these credits to be exaggerated or partly mythologized.

This is Don Valentine, one of the founders of National Semiconductor.

He is best known for founding something in 1972, which has led to him being called the Grandfather of Silicon Valley ____ ____

Fill in the blanks, and tell us what he started.

ANSWER

Venture CapitalSequoia Capital

He is an influential venture capitalist who concentrates mainly on technology companies in the United States.

The Computer History Museum credited him as playing "a key role in the formation of a number of industries such as semiconductors, personal computers, personal computer software, digital entertainment and networking.

In 1972, he founded venture capital firm Sequoia Capital, and in that role was one of the original investors of Apple Computer, Atari, LSI Logic, Oracle Corporation, Cisco, Electronic Arts, Google, YouTube and many other companies.

It estimates that 19% of the NASDAQs value is made up of firms Sequoia has funded.

Chairman of one of Indias most valuable drug makers, and one of the largest Indian companies in the US generic market, he founded the company in 1983.

He has been named as the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2010.

He is estimated to be worth $6.1 billion as of 2011 by Forbes, and was ranked as the 13th richest person in India.

Identify the person and the company

ANSWER

Dilip ShanghviSun Pharma

He is an American scientist, researcher and entrepreneur known for his role in developing the world's first artificial heart, named after himself.

He is married to Marilyn vos Savant who is an American magazine columnist, author, lecturer, and playwright who was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records under "Highest IQ".

He is also the nephew of Dr. Murray ____, a pharmacologist who was the co-inventor of the nicotine patch.

Who is he? What is the invention called?

The Worlds first artificial heart

ANSWER

Robert Koffler Jarvik,M.D. Jarvik-7

Dr. William DeVries,an American cardiothoracic surgeon, performed the first successful permanent artificial heart implantation (on Barney Clark), using the Jarvik-7 model at the Utah Medical Center University on 2 December 1982.

OK,lets go folks !

Sci-Tech Round

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." AC Clarke 1917-2008

What often doled out (ill?)advise can you form from the pictures on the next slide something no inventive/creative person should/would ever follow ?

ANSWER

Curiosity killed the cat

STAY QRIOS

The French physician Galen named a certain disease so,as it caused prominent blue veins to appear underneath the patients skin,like the claws of a crab ?(see pic)

Clue

ANSWER

Cancer from the Latin for crab.

The name comes from the appearance of the cut surface of a solid malignant tumour, with "the veins stretched on all sides as the animal the crab has its feet, whence it derives its name."

The formula in humans is I 2/2, C 1/1, P 2/2, M 3/3 (x2= 32).

The formula for humans, following the format for anthropology/primatology, would be 2:1:2:3/2:1:2:3, where the numbers correspond to I:C:P:M (upper)/I:C:P:M (lower).

What does this formula represent ?

ANSWER

The permanent or adult dental formula in mammals.

It record the number of each type of tooth in one half of the upper and lower jaw. Since the left side of the jaw has the same number as the right, only one side is counted.

Mammals are heterodont, meaning there are different shapes or types of teeth, denoted as I, C, P, and M (incisors, canines, premolars, and molars).

Connect the two pictures.

ANSWER

On the right is a blue box built by Steve Wozniak, on display at the Computer History Museum,USA.

A blue box is an unauthorized electronic device that generates the same tones employed by a telephone operator's dialing console to switch long-distance calls. Emerging in the 1960s and 70s, it allowed users to route their own calls by emulating the in-band signaling mechanism that then controlled switching in long distance dialing systems. The most typical use of a blue box was to place free telephone calls.

Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, founders of Apple Computer were frequent pranksters using the device.On one occasion Wozniak dialed Vatican City and identified himself as Henry Kissinger (imitating Kissinger's German accent) and asked to speak to the Pope (who was sleeping at the time).

The leaves and bark of the willow tree have been mentioned in ancient texts as a remedy for aches and fever.

The Ancient Greek physician Hippocrates wrote about its medicinal properties in 5 BC. Native Americans across the Americas relied on it as a staple of their medical treatments, because willows contain salicin, a substance that chemically resembles _______ .

It temporarily relieves headache, stomachache, and other body pain.

Fill blanks or what is this substance ?

Clue

ANSWER

Aspirin also known as acetylsalicylic acid often used as an analgesic to relieve minor aches and pains. Salicin is metabolized into salicylic acid in the human body, which is a precursor of aspirin.

Anacin is the trade name of several analgesics that contains acetylsalicylic acid and caffeine.The active ingredient in Disprin is also acetylsalicylic acid.

It is used as an antipyretic to reduce fever, and as an anti-inflammatory medication.

Aspirin is also used long-term, at low doses, to help prevent heart attacks, strokes, and blood clot formation in people at high risk of developing blood clots.

It has also been established that low doses of aspirin may be given immediately after a heart attack to reduce the risk of another heart attack or of the death of cardiac tissue.

Connect :Beverly Hills 90210, Family Guy, Product Red (a campaign against AIDS), U2, The Simpsons, Star Trek, 24, X-Files, Street Fighter, and The Beatles.

ANSWER

Special edition iPods

Id the person and his claim to fame.

ANSWER

Kevin Mitnick an American computer security consultant, author, and hacker. In the late 20th century, he was convicted of various computer and communications-related crimes. At the time of his arrest, he was the most-wanted computer criminal in the United States.

Tsutomu Shimomura,an American scientist and computer security expert based in the US together with computer journalist John Markoff, tracked down and helped the FBI arrest hacker Kevin Mitnick.

Takedown, his 1996 book on the subject, was later adapted for the screen in Takedown in 2000.

How does this connect with Computer Systems ?

ANSWER

Kerberos is a computer network authentication protocol which works on the basis of "tickets" to allow nodes communicating over a non-secure network to prove their identity to one another in a secure manner.

MIT developed Kerberos and named it after the character Kerberos (or Cerberus) from Greek mythology which was a monstrous three-headed guard dog of Hades.

It is the first section of the small intestine in most higher vertebrates, including mammals, reptiles, and birds.

In mammals it may be the principal site for iron absorption.It precedes the jejunum and ileum and is the shortest part of the small intestine, where most chemical digestion takes place.

In humans, it is a hollow jointed tube about 1015 inches (2538 centimetres) long connecting the stomach to the jejunum.

What ? (see pic) (Clue?)

Clue

Its name is from the Latin term meaning "twelve fingers breadths".

ANSWER

The duodenum from Latin duodenum digitorum.

The duodenum is largely responsible for the breakdown of food in the small intestine, using enzymes. Brunner's glands, which secrete mucus, are found in the duodenum. The duodenum wall is composed of a very thin layer of cells that form the muscularis mucosae.

Id the group.Whats the story behind the masks?

ANSWER

Anonymous is a loosely associated hacktivist group that originated in 2003 representing the concept of many online and offline community users simultaneously existing as an anarchic, digitized global brain.

It strongly opposes Internet censorship and has hacked various government websites. It has also targeted major security corporations.

The Guy Fawkes mask is a stylised depiction of Guy Fawkes, the best-known member of the Gunpowder Plot, an attempt to blow up the English Palace of Westminster in London in 1605.

A stylised mask came to represent broader protest after it was used as a major plot element in V for Vendetta, published in 1982, and its 2006 film adaptation.

After appearing in internet forums, the mask was worn by participants in real-life protests and has become widespread internationally among groups protesting against politicians, banks and financial institutions, such as the Occupy movement.

Two different covers for the same book. What real life incident is it about?

ANSWER

A first-person account of the hunt for a computer cracker who broke into a computer at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL) at UC Berkeley.

In 1986,Clifford Stoll (the author) was trying to resolve a USD$ 0.75 accounting error in the computer usage accounts. He traced the error to an unauthorized user who had apparently used up 9 seconds of computer time and not paid for it, and eventually realized that the unauthorized user was a cracker who had acquired root access to the LBL system by exploiting a vulnerability in the movemail function of the original GNU Emacs.

The first evidence of element X was observed on August 18,1868 as a bright yellow line with a wavelength of 587.49 nanometers in the spectrum of the chromosphere of the Sun.

The line was detected by French astronomer Jules Janssen during a total solar eclipse in Guntur,AP,India. This line was initially assumed to be sodium.

On October 20 of the same year, English astronomer Norman Lockyer observed a yellow line in the solar spectrum, which he named the D3 Fraunhofer line because it was near the known D1 and D2 lines of sodium.He concluded that it was caused by an element in the Sun unknown on Earth.

Lockyer and English chemist Edward Frankland named the element after the Greek word for the Sun.

What element ?Where was it primarily used during the two World Wars?

Clue

ANSWER

X = Helium named for the Greek God of the Sun, Helios.

Used mainly in aerial balloons as a lifting gas in lighter-than-air craft and in shielded arc welding.

Helium is a chemical element with symbol He and atomic number 2.

It is a colorless, odorless, tasteless, non-toxic, inert, monatomic gas that heads the noble gas group in the periodic table.

Its boiling and melting points are the lowest among the elements and it exists only as a gas except in extreme conditions.

It is the second lightest element and is the second most abundant element in the observable universe.

How are these guys famous in the Cyber security World ?

ANSWER

RSA is an algorithm for public-key cryptography that is based on the presumed difficulty of factoring large integers, the factoring problem.

RSA stands for Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman (pictured), who first publicly described it in 1978.

A user of RSA creates and then publishes the product of two large prime numbers, along with an auxiliary value, as their public key. The prime factors must be kept secret. Anyone can use the public key to encrypt a message, but with currently published methods, if the public key is large enough, only someone with knowledge of the prime factors can feasibly decode the message.Whether breaking RSA encryption is as hard as factoring is an open question known as the RSA problem.

The _____ worm or Internet worm of November 2, 1988 was one of the first computer worms distributed via the Internet.

It resulted in the first conviction in the US under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.It was written by a student at Cornell University and launched on November 2, 1988 from MIT.What ?

ANSWER

Morris worm by Robert Tappan Morris.

Robert Tappan Morris is an American computer scientist, best known for creating the Morris Worm in 1988

He went on to co-found the online store Viaweb, one of the first web-based applications, and later the funding firm Y Combinator - both with Paul Graham. He is a tenured professor in the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT.

His father was the late Robert Morris, a coauthor of UNIX and the former chief scientist at the National Computer Security Center, a division of the National Security Agency (NSA).

X has become a popular buzzword ; in January 2011, X was awarded the honor of being 2010's "Word of the Year" by the American Dialect Society.

Apple does not hold a trademark on, or claim exclusive rights to the term X, which has been used as shorthand for _______ since at least 2002.

Apple says XY is a proper noun and hence can be trademarked; the linguist hired by Microsoft says its a generic term and hence cannot be trademarked.

Used by one of the companies since 2008, what is the two word term XY in this legal dispute?

ANSWER

App Store

The App Store is a digital application distribution platform for iOS developed and maintained by Apple.

The service allows users to browse and download applications from the iTunes Store that were developed with the iOS SDK or Mac SDK and published through Apple.

The term app is short for application for example Google Apps (first introduced in 2006).

The first one of these was manufactured by M-systems under contract with IBM and was called the disgo. It was invented in 1998 by IBM with the intention of replacing something in its ThinkPad line of products. What ?

Answer

A pen drive or Flash drive or USB What IBM replaced was the floppy drive.

In 1941,Swiss engineer,George de Mestral was returning from a hunting trip with his dog in the Alps. He took a close look at the burrs (seeds) of burdock,a plant,that kept sticking to his clothes and his dog's fur. He examined them under a microscope, and noted their hundreds of "hooks" that caught on anything with a loop, such as clothing, animal fur, or hair. This gave him the idea to create what ?

Answer

Velcro He saw the possibility of binding two materials reversibly in a simple fashion.

In 1942,Dr. Harry Coover and Fred Joyner of Kodak Laboratories invented Cyanoacrylates during experiments to make a special extra-clear plastic suitable for gun sights. Although not appropriate for the gun sights,they did find that cyanoacrylates could be used for something else. Seeing possibilities Kodak developed "Eastman #910" (later "Eastman 910") a few years later as the first true what ?

Answer

Super glue. They found that what they developed could quickly glue together many materials with great strength.

Percy Spencer, a self-taught engineer, was building something for radar sets with the company Raytheon. He was working on an active radar set when he noticed that a peanut chocolate bar he had in his pocket started to melt. The radar had melted his chocolate bar. This led him to create what ?

Answer

He was building magnetrons for radar sets which is the heart of the microwave cooking appliances. To verify his finding, Spencer created a high density electromagnetic field by feeding microwave power into a metal box from which it had no way to escape. When food was placed in the box with the microwave energy, the temperature of the food rose rapidly

He is an American computer scientist who is the person most often called 'the father of the Internet'. He has worked for Google as its Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist since September 2005. Who is this person ? (see pic)

Answer

Vinton Gray "Vint" Cerf Incidentally, the term surfing as in 'surfing the net' is apparently a good intentioned pun on his last name.

Identify this inventor entrepreneur and his invention shown.

Answer

Dean Kamen and Segway

4. Gift card sent by the Google AdWords team what is unique about the paper used?

ANSWER

GENERAL ROUND

What is the connect?What is the most famous missing one ?

ANSWER

Half Dome is a granite dome in Yosemite National Park, at the eastern end of Yosemite Valley possibly Yosemite's most familiar rock formation. The granite crest rises more than 4,737 ft (1,444 m) above the valley floor.

An image of Half Dome, along with John Muir and the California Condor, appears on the California State quarter, released in January 2005.

Half Dome is included in many company and organization logos, including that of the environmental group the Sierra Club and the game studio Sierra Entertainment.

Half Dome is the inspiration behind The North Face corporate logo.

This is a historical poster from 1938 of some place showing one of its most famous residents.

Id the place and the resident attraction.

ANSWER

Yellowstone National Park established by the U.S. Congress on March 1, 1872,is a national park located primarily in the U.S. state of Wyoming extending into Montana and Idaho. Widely held to be the first national park in the world,is known for its wildlife and its many geothermal features, especially Old Faithful Geyser, one of the most popular features in the park.

Old Faithful is a cone geyser in Yellowstone National Park named in 1870 during the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition and was the first geyser in the park to receive a name.It is also called the most predictable geographical feature on Earth erupting almost every 91 minutes.The geyser, as well as the nearby Old Faithful Inn, is part of the Old Faithful Historic District.

Located in western Tanzania, 10 miles N of Kigoma, the regional capital of western Tanzania.Established in 1968, it is the smallest national park in Tanzania, with only 20 square miles of forest running along the hills of the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika.

The terrain is distinguished by steep valleys, and the forest vegetation ranges from grassland to alpine bamboo to tropical rainforest and the park is accessible only by boat.

Fauna found here include Beachcomber olive baboons, red-tailed monkeys,chimpanzees and vervet monkeys, over 200 bird species and bushpigs ; 11 species of snakes, and occasional hippopotamus and leopards.

Visitors to the park can swim and snorkel in Lake Tanganyika with almost 100 kinds of colorful cichlid fish.Its high levels of diversity make it an increasingly popular tourist destination.

Name the park and what for/why is it most famous ? (see pic)

ANSWER

Gombe Stream National Park

The park is most famous as the location where Jane Goodall pioneered her behavioral research conducted on the chimpanzee populations.

The Kasakela chimpanzee community, featured in several books and documentaries, lives in Gombe Stream National Park.

On October 9, 1985, on what would have been X's 45th birthday, the city of ________ dedicated 2.5 acres to his memory in Y and called it Z.

Countries from all around the world contributed trees and Italy donated the iconic mosaic.

It has since become the sight of impromptu memorial gatherings for other events and people.

One of its best-known visitors is Gary dos Santos, who decorates the memorial in circles of different flowers and objects, often in the shape of a peace sign.

X,Y,Z and blank(city). (see pic)

ANSWER

Strawberry Fieldsis a 2.5-acre landscaped section in New York City's Central Park that is dedicated to the memory of John Lennon named after The Beatles song "Strawberry Fields Forever".

The entrance to the memorial is located on Central Park West at West 72nd Street, directly across from the Dakota Apartments,where Lennon had lived for the later part of his life, and where he was murdered.

X has been the venue for some famous rock concerts, including the major location for the Live 8 string of benefit concerts where Pink Floyd reunited their classic line up for the first time in over 30 years.

In 1976,Queen played here in one of their most popular shows when 150200 thousand people turned up.

The record concert attendance is probably for the 1969 concert by the Rolling Stones - estimated between 250,000 and 500,000.

Blur played here as part of their reunion. They released a live album recorded at X called All the People: Blur Live at X.

Since 2008 X has hosted "Winter Wonderland", a Christmas fun fair.

On 17 July 2012, pop icon Madonna performed in X for her only ______ performance during her MDNA World Tour.

X ?And a follow up question after the right answer.

ANSWER

Hyde Park one of the largest parks in central London and one of the Royal Parks of London, famous for its Speakers' Corner.

Follow-up Qn:

For the 2012 Summer Olympics, the park hosted which events ?(be specific about the events pls.)

ANSWER

The triathlon and the 10 km open water swimming events.

Id each of these famous landmarks of a park and the park.

ANSWER

Mirror Lake is a small, seasonal lake located on Tenaya Creek in Yosemite National Park. Situated in Tenaya Canyon directly between North Dome and Half Dome, it is the last remnant of a large glacial lake that once filled most of Yosemite Valley at the end of the last Ice Age, and is close to disappearing due to sediment accumulation.

El Capitan is a vertical rock formation in Yosemite National Park, located on the north side of Yosemite Valley, near its western end. The granite monolith extends about 3,000 feet (900 m) from base to summit along its tallest face, and is one of the world's favorite challenges for rock climbers.

Half Dome is a granite dome in Yosemite National Park, at the eastern end of Yosemite Valley possibly Yosemite's most familiar rock formation. The granite crest rises more than 4,737 ft (1,444 m) above the valley floor.