QuizOfThings

Code-O-CratsUnder

NUTECH’15 presents

QuizOfThings-Parth Agrawal

(SomeGuy)

Rules

3 Rounds

Teams of 2-3 allowed

Mobile phones prohibited

A presentation on

Why Cellphones should not be banned

In quizzes?

Round 1

Infibeamer Pounce 1

Q1.

Fredric John Baur (June 14, 1918 – May 4, 2008) was a American chemist and food storage technician who was known for his development of frying oils and freeze-dried ice cream.

However his most notable work was ______________.

Baur filed for a patent for the same, and it was granted in 1970.Moreover, as requested by Baur, something special was done with regard to this invention after his death.

FITB and give the funda(Brownie Points for funda and full points for the product.

Answer

• For designing and patenting the tubular Pringles container and for the method of packaging the curved, stacked chips in the container in 1966.

• His ashes were kept in a Pringles can on his request.

Q2.

The man in the picture(next slide) is an Indian storeowner, who is receiving some heat for his new clothing store, called X. He even thought itd be cheeky if the dot in the I had a little Y symbol. The store sells mens clothing, and has created quite a stir in the ____ community due to the strange choice of name and marketing.

Members of the community tried to get him to change the branding and name, but he said that he has spent $2700 on marketing, and the only way he’d reconsider is if someone paid him enough to make up that money.

Answer

3.Ken Thompson states that, initially, X was purely anexperimental project. Referring to himself along with theother original authors of X, he states

“When the three of us [Thompson, Rob Pike, and RobertGriesemer] got started, it was pure research. The three ofus got together and decided that we hated C++.[laughter] ... [Returning to X,] we started off with theidea that all three of us had to be talked into everyfeature in the language, so there was no extraneousgarbage put into the language for any reason.”

Answer

4.

X is the codename for an initiative by Google that aims to develop an open hardware platform for creating highly modular smartphones.

The platform will include a structural frame (endoskeleton that holds smartphone modules of the owner's choice), such as a display, camera or an extra battery. It would allow users to swap out malfunctioning modules or upgrade individual modules as innovations emerge, providing longer lifetime cycles for the handset, and potentially reducing electronic waste.

Google wants X to lower the entry barrier for phone hardware manufacturers so there could be "hundreds of thousands of developers" instead of the current handful of big manufacturers.

Answer

Project Ara

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• Urbanspoon was an IAC-owned restaurant information and recommendation service that operates in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Ireland, the United Kingdom and the United States. It developed a popular software application for mobile operating systems such as iOS (iPhone, iPod Touch), Android and Windows Phone.

• Urbanspoon’s apps are best known for their randomized Slot Machine. Users tap the ‘Spin’ button (or shake the device) to see new places to try based on neighborhood, cuisine or price.

• Why is it in news recently?

Answer

6.

Deep Thought,

Deep Blue,

Deep Fritz,

Deep Junior,

etc.

Non Exhaustive list.

Connect them to the world of technology.

Hint: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Answer

IBM’s Chess Computer Series(Deep Blue did beat Gary Kasparov)

7.

Through Meant to be Seen (MTBS)'s 3D discussion forums, Palmer Luckey, the founder of X, developed the idea of creating a new head-mounted display that was both more effective than what was then on the market, and inexpensive for gamers.

The X creates a stereoscopic 3D view with excellent depth, scale, and parallax. Unlike 3D on a television or in a movie, this is achieved by presenting unique and parallel images for each eye. This is the same way your eyes perceive images in the real world, creating a much more natural and comfortable experience.

Most famous games played are Doom3 and Doom4.

Answer

Oculus Rift

Round 2 Infosystem Pounce 2

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An article published at the time of Windows 8 prelaunch.Microsoft has given the X the X.On the recently announced Windows 8, available in very early developer's beta, the Xis going to look a little different,according to a discovery by Geek.com. X or Stop Error, has become something of a symbol of frustration with Windows.Traditionally this screen was an ugly, digitized, almost frightening thing, with a long chunk of Courier text, followed by some code. Now, Windows has cleaned up the look and made it more friendly and less intimidating to non-programmers. When a future Windows 8 user sees this screen, he won't have to be worried that his system crashed and might be dead forever!

Answer (BSOD)

2.

• Ad for what?

Answer

3.

While this official name of this Act passed by the United States on March 23, 2010 is a three letter acronym, most people refer to it by a nine-letter moniker. Interestingly, the TLA is a substring of the 9-letter name.

What Act?

Example of substring: pARTh

Answer

obamACAre

4.

The pivotal point of an urban legend, which also served as the premise for the inception speech of a famous Indian College President/ Dean, this pen from the company X has been dubbed the Y Pen.

It comes in the AG7 model, Millennium model and Bullet model and is advertised as the everlasting pen if the use is “average”.

In 2008, Gene Cernan’s Y pen sold in a Heritage auction for US$23,900.

Give me Y and the famous character.

Answer

• Y-Space Pen/Anti-Gavity Pen

• Prof.VIRUS!

5.

Portfolio of which gaming company? And fill in the blanks

Bubble Witch X

Diamond Digger X

Farm Heroes X

Papa Pear X

Pepper Panic X

Pet Rescue X

Pyramid Solitaire X

____ _____ X

Answer

King.com Candy Crush Saga (X is saga in all names)

6.

This quote has been doing the rounds of the internet.

Fill up the blanks

Big data is like _______ ____: everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone claims they are doing it...

This question is inspired by yesterday’s TVF Nightout :P

Answer

7.

X is a piece of spook hardware invented by a German and used by Britain's codebreakers as a way of deciphering German signals traffic during World War II.

It has been claimed that as a result of the information gained through this device, hostilities between Germany and the Allied forces were curtailed by two years.

German military messages enciphered on the Enigma machine were first broken by the Polish Cipher Bureau, beginning in December 1932. This success was a result of efforts by three Polish cryptologists, Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Różycki and Henryk Zygalski, working for Polish military intelligence.

Answer

• Enigma Machine

(Alan Turing was not the first one to break it)

8.

It was first released in 1997 in Phrack magazine Issue 51 by Gordon Lyon. The software did not have a version number because the developer had no plans to release any future versions.

The software become very popular and a few years later, Gordon quit his job at Netscape / AOL to concentrate fully on this software.

Trinity is seen using this software in The Matrix Reloaded and it was later seen in Live Free or Die Hard and Bourne Ultimatum.

Which software?

Hints if all agree.(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Nmap by Gordon Fyodor Lyon• Nmap is a security scanner used to discover hosts and services on a

computer network, thus creating a "map" of the network.

Round 3AMULBROS

• 10 Amul newspaper ads

• Famous ads with something blanked out,

• The incident, the person to be named will be specified

• +20 for each correct

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