Bitotsav' 15 General Quiz Hidden Picture

HIDDEN PICTURE

Hidden picture covered by 9 tiles

Cryptic question about the picture is posed at the beginning.

Standard questions, every correct answer scores +20/-10 and removes a corresponding tile.

All teams can attempt the final picture question at any time for a progressively decreasing score (no. of covered tiles x 10)

This popular app based on geolocation technology was launched in August 2012 by Sean Rad, Justin Mateen, Jonathan Badeen, and Dinesh Moorjani of Hatch Labs, initially piloted on college campuses, the first being USC.

The company has recently acquired former high-profile eBay executiuveChris Payne as its CEO.

X welcomed it with a “Namaste”.

X also congratulated Y for joining it.

To this, Y replied:

“Howdy X? Keep in touch. I’ll be around.”

After a while Y also said that “I’ll be back after breakfast. Good ol’ sunlight. It’s good for your battery.”

ID X and Y

X, Y, Z, jerk, jounce, snap, crackle, pop

Identify X, Y, Z.

X= Displacement

Y= Velocity

Z= Acceleration

This product was listed in Time magazine's 25 best

inventions of 2014.

The 1983 "Minolta Disc-7" laid the base for the

idea. A patent was registered in USA in 1983, and a

Japanese version was featured in a 1995 book of 101

Un-Useless Japanese Inventions. Canadian inventor

Wayne Fromm patented his "Quik Pod" in 2005, and

the product has been available in the United States

since at least 2011.

In a short span, it is now being banned from sporting

events, museums, galleries, and concerts.

What?

Historically, arrow slits were narrow vertical windows from which castle defenders launched arrows from a sheltered position, and were often referred to as X.

The term X today extends to law, describing contravention of the intent of the law without technically breaking it, much as the small opening in a seemingly impenetrable defensive measure that lets the defender gain the unfair advantage.

ID X.

Sir Thomas Stamford R. was a British statesman, best known for his founding of the city of Singapore in 1819 and the London Zoo. He was also heavily involved in the conquest of the Indonesian island of Java from Dutch and French military forces during the Napoleonic Wars and contributed to the expansion of the British Empire.

In 1818, he led an expedition in an Indonesian rain forest that led to discovery of a new species. What?

This third person action-adventure video

game developed by Santa Monica

Studio is the 11th best selling PS2 game of all

time.

Regarded as one of the best action-

adventure games for the platform, it won

several "Game of the Year" awards.

With vengeance as its central motif, the

player controls the protagonist on a quest

to find the one object capable of stopping

the evil power: the legendary Pandora's

Box.

Which Mumbai-based ad agency is

behind the popular ‘Mauka Mauka’

campaign?

Google recently dedicated a doodle to an English botanist and photographer who was the first to publish a book illustrated with photographic images. Who?

Some sources

claim that she

was the first

woman to

create a

photograph.

- Cushion Questions -

In geometry, X is defined as the number of non-overlapping unit spheres that can be arranged such that they each touch another given unit sphere.

In general, the X problem, originated by Isaac Newton, seeks the maximum possible X for n-dimensional spheres in (n + 1)-dimensional Euclidean space.

This problem was originated by Isaac Newton.

This well-planned capital city is divided

into several sectors such as Hotels Sector,

Banking Sector and Embassy Sector.

The Monumental Axis is a major

thoroughfare in the city.

Identify the city.

This city was planned by Constantinos

Apostolou Doxiadi. Identify.

X is a concept used to identify a demographic and/or geographic area of the world where people live measurably longer lives, given by Gianni Pes and Michel Poulain.

Dan Buettner identifies these longevity hotspots in Okinawa (Japan); Sardinia (Italy); Nicoya (Costa Rica); Icaria (Greece); and among the Seventh-day Adventists in Loma Linda, California.