Scrap Quiz 2015 - Finals

SCRAP QUIZ 2015SBOA SCHOOL & JUNIOR COLLEGE

Finals

Structure and General Rules

1. Don’t be evil. Don’t google.2. 3 Rounds3. Infinite Bounce4. Quiz Master’s decision is final

You need to take control of the life you’re given,

They call me Ubermensch, cause I’m so driven.

Round 1 - Ubermensch

Direct/Pass : +10Pounce : +10/-10

Question 1

Steve Jobs said this would be the greatest invention of them all, Microsoft wanted to buy manufacturing rights to this invention, before they even knew what the invention actually did or was. Yet at the end of the day the invention turned out to be nothing more than a very expensive dud. What invention am I referring to? A teamsport also originated out of this invention. The world championship for this sport is called the Woz Challenge Cup.

Answer

Segway

Question 2

Identify the film.

Answer

The Imitation Game.

Question 3

In 1983, the subscribers of PC World received a free demo floppy with the magazine. This was probably the first time in history that a magazine featured a floppy bind in. Now days this practice is pretty common with magazines giving away CDs instead of floppies. What product was introduced to the subscribers via that floppy?

Answer

Word for MS DOS 1.0

Question 4

X is a Pixar movie. Dreamworks studios copied the concept of X and created the movie Y. This made Steve Jobs angry and he confronted John Lasseter (he was in charge of the Dreamworks Movie). Y was released before X and it did decently. X was a huge hit but the originality was gone as Dreamworks had copied it and released Y before X. Jobs always felt resentful for that. Identify X and Y.

Answer

X - A Bug’s Life Y - Antz

Question 5

Put funda.

Answer

Valentine’s Day doodle. February 14, 2014.

Question 6

According to game designer Warren Robinett, this traditional term was coined into the context of media by Atari personnel who were alerted to the presence of a X which had been hidden by Robinett in his already widely distributed game, Adventure. Released in 1979, Atari's Adventure contains the first video game X, to have been discovered by its players; Robinett inserted X late in the game's development in an attempt to gain some recognition for his work, as Atari then kept its programmers' names secret.Identify X. You see X everywhere nowadays, from videogames to movies to even functional software.

Answer

Easter eggs

Question 7

Identify the product

Answer

Google Web Designer

Question 8

Put funda.

Answer

Jack Ma, CEO of Alibaba Group on eBay.

Question 9

What is the song, which is a parody of Backstreet Boy's "I Want It That Way", about? Lyrics in next slide.

Question 9What is the song about? It is a parody of The Backstreet Boys’ "I Want It That Way".

Answer

eBay! by “Weird al” Yankovic

Question 10

The visual appearance of X was based on the G.I. Joe action figures. For X’s “bad” look, its hair was spiked and brown coloured lenses were used for its eyes, whereas for its "good" look, green coloured lenses were used. The wig used for X's "bad" look had a silver streak in the middle, made out of Yak hair, while its leather jacket was designed by Vogt. Suits made of copper were used for X's costumes.

Answer

Enthiran / Chitti.

The Game Changer

Round 2

Direct/Pass : +10Pounce : +10/-10

Question 1

Put funda.

(video)

Answer

Ajay Bhat

Question 2

What’s going on?

Answer

Freecharge acquired by Snapdeal

Question 3

The pseudonym of this is Baldur Friggjar Óðinsson, which is based on Norse mythology, referencing Baldur, his mother Frigg, and his father Odin.Today, it is one of the most talked about topics in technology. What is it?

Answer

Auroracoin

Question 4

1. Shocking Moves2. Balloon Parade3. Revenge4. Larry5. Flight of the Barbarian6. Magic7. You and this Army8. Hype Man9. Ride of the Hog Riders

10. Hair

List of?

Answer

Official Clash of Clans TV Commercials

Question 5

“Let us join this mass movement towards ‘Surajya’, realize the hopes and aspirants of the people and take India to greater heights,” Modi was quoted as saying on it. What technological entity is he talking about?

Answer

MyGov

Question 6

Connect. This is an exhaustive list. Be specific

Answer

Persons referred to as "Benevolent dictators for life". It is a title given to a small number of open-source software

development leaders, typically project founders who retain the final say in disputes or arguments within the

community.

Question 7

The meaning of this gesture online is the same as the physical gesture's meaning in real life, it expresses frustration, disappointment, embarrassment, shock, surprise or sarcasm. Its online use is to portray emotions and feelings that otherwise may not be easily expressed through text alone. This gesture is understood online because of its common usage in the real world. The gesture is a popular internet meme to show a user's frustration or disappointment in an article, comment, or post from another user.What gesture?

Answer

Facepalm

Question 8

1. Stockfish2. Komodo3. Houdini

What are these? (They are arranged in a specific order based on their performance on a global scale. Incomplete list.)

Answer

UCI (Universal Chess Interface) Chess Engines

Question 9

Why would one use “www.google.com/ncr” instead of just “www.google.com”? What does “ncr” stand for?

Answer

ncr = “No Country Redirect”It makes sure that the user is not redirected to the local

google website

Question 10

In 2010, NASA revealed a temperature map of Mimas, using images obtained by Cassini. The warmest regions, which are along one edge of Mimas, create a shape similar to a video game character. Which character?

Answer

Pac-man eating the dot

They built a monument to my sinsYou're the soldier they need you to be

Ain't no way that you can beat meEven my initials spell M.C

Round 3 - Master Chief

The DeciderDirect/Pass : +20Pounce : +20/-20

Question 1

Put funda.

Answer

With the reasoning that they’re linked to copyright crimes, the Stockholm District Court ordered that the Pirate Bay’s two main domains, thepiratebay.se and

piratebay.se, were to be seized. Laughing in the face of the court order, the torrent site had already instituted

redirects from the Swedish domains that lead to six other domains around the world. In Greek Mythology, Hydra is a creature that grows two more heads after one is cut off.

The logo shows that Pirate bay is like Hydra.

Question 2

1. X is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral.2. Invention is the mother of necessity.3. X comes in packages, big and small.4. Although X might be a prime element in many public issues,

nontechnical factors take precedence in X-policy decisions.5. All history is relevant, but the history of X is the most relevant.6. X is a very human activity - and so is the history of X.

What is X? What are these 6 statements collectively called?

Answer

X - TechnologyMelvin Kranzberg's six laws of technology.

Question 3

Connect. Be specific.

continued in next slide

Question 3

Answer

Startups backed by Y Combinator

Question 4

Put funda.

Answer

Konami Code ↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A

Question 5

Connect.

(continued in next slide)

Question 5

Answer

Ubuntu Codenames

1) Warty Warthog2) Hoary Hedgehog3) Vivid Vervet4) Wily Werewolf

Question 6

What’s going on?

Answer

Gmail Motion - Google’s April Fools Joke

You could trigger actions by just moving your body like the people in the above pic do.

Question 7

Put funda.

Answer

Google’s first tweet. It says “I’m feeling Lucky” in binary in Google’s usual nerdy style.

Question 8

connect -

Answer

Google Advertisements

1) The nexus ad was made by this artist - Sondre Lerche2) The ad is about a google product - Jam with Chrome

featuring a cartoon version of Keyboard cat3) Name of the ad called Fearless

4) It is an ad about Google TV made by Epipheo Studios

Question 9

Put Funda.

Answer

It is the logo of Mister Splashy Pants which is the name of a humpback whale in the South Pacific Ocean. It is currently being tracked with a satellite tag by Greenpeace as a part of its Great

Whale Trail Expedition, which was working to raise awareness about whales threatened by the Japanese Fisheries Agency's plan to hunt 50 humpback whales. The whale's name was chosen in an online poll that garnered attention from several websites, including Boing Boing

and Reddit, quickly becoming an internet meme.

Question 10

X factor is a scale to measure the ease of use of a device.Devices that are especially obtrusive, such as large, older model cell phones, "Pocket" PC devices and walkie talkies are said to have a high X factor. Sleeker devices such as a later-model Palm or StarTac phone are prized for their low X factor and lessened obtrusiveness and weight.

What factor is it?

Answer

Batman Factor

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