“THE TURING TEST”FINALS

SCI-TECH QUIZ CONDUCTED BY TEAM : ‘SARSON DA SWAG’

-ANUGRAH AGNIHOTRI , SIDDHARTH MITTRA , SHUBHAM JAIN

GNOSIS QUIZ LEAGUE , NIT ALLAHABAD

ROUND (001)B

• 12 QUESTIONS

• POUNCE +20/ -10• BOUNCE +10/ -0

• HINTS WILL BE GIVEN ON BOUNCE IF REQUIRED

1) Connect the shown regions.

ANSWER

• 2) X’s first tweet was -  “I’m 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010."

• Whose first tweet and what does it mean?

ANSWER

• It was Google’s first tweet• The tweet was “I’m feeling lucky”, in binary !!

• 3) ________ is a psychological test in which subjects' perceptions of inkblots are recorded and then analyzed using psychological interpretation, complex algorithms, or both. Some psychologists use this test to examine a person's personality characteristics and emotional functioning. It has been employed to detect underlying thought disorder, especially in cases where patients are reluctant to describe their thinking processes openly. The test is named after its creator.

• FITB.

ANSWER

Rorschach test

• 4) X is a research project under construction to primarily study of atmospheric_______ in a 1,300 meters (4,300 ft) deep cave near Theni, Tamil Nadu, India. This project is notable in that it is anticipated to provide a precise measurement of ______ mixing parameters.

• When completed, the main magnetized iron calorimeter (ICAL) experiment include the world's most massive magnet, four times larger than the 12,500-tonne magnet in the Compact Muon Solenoid detector at CERN.

• What is X?

ANSWER• Indian Neutrino Observatory (INO)

• 5) Tata wrote to X "I trust, you remember me as a fellow- traveller on your voyage from Japan to Chicago. I very much recall at this moment your views on the growth of the ascetic spirit in India... I recall these ideas in connection with my scheme of Y, of which you have doubtless heard or read.”

• Give me X and Y.

ANSWER

• X : Swami Vivekananda• Y : IISc Bangalore

• 6 ) Physical side effects can occur for nomophobes when _______ happens. These symptoms include panic attacks, shortness of breath, dizziness, trembling, sweating, accelerated heart rate, chest pain, or nausea. Millions of people suffer from nomophobia around the globe.

• What unusual phobia is this/ FITB. (Many among us suffer from this unknowingly).

ANSWER

• Nomophobia is the fear of being out of mobile phone contact

• 7 ) What does the following route represent?

ANSWER

• This is how the submarine internet fibre optic cables are laid out.

• 8 ) In the wake of second world war, US was designing weapons at Los Alamos. A person going by the name of Nicholas Baker was pivotal to the project. Robert Oppenheimer credited him with acting "as a scientific father figure to the younger men", most notably Richard Feynman.

• His contributions to physics enjoyed immense popularity and debate. In particular all of us have come across a certain model named after him but the name Nicholas Baker is quite unheard of.

• Put funda.

ANSWER

• Due to high security reasons, scientists could not go by their real names. Nicholas baker was an alias of Neils Bohr.

• 9 ) • The name of this organization is an anglicised

version of the Hindi word closely associated with the area that the organization operates in.

• It forms the commercial arm of another very famous organization that recently collaborated with Singapore.

• It was awarded 'Miniratna' status by the government in 2008.

• What organization is being talked about?

ANSWER

• The organisation being talked about is called ANTRIX which is an arm of ISRO.

• 10 ) FITB

ANSWER

• Pi• If pi were 3 the circular shape of O would be a

hexagon.

• 11) William Moulton Marston , was an American psychologist, lawyer, inventor, and comic book writer who created the character X in DC universe.

• The character carries an equipment that brings out a particular virtue in it’s adversaries.

• Marston is known in the world of science for inventing a particular device that mimics the that equipment in real life, or at least aims to.

• What did he invent?

ANSWER

• He invented the polygraph test. • X : wonder woman and the weapon is the

lasso of truth

• 12) _______ is an atoll in the Marshall Islands. The atoll consists of 23 islands totaling 3.4 square miles (8.8 km2) at the northern end of the Ralik Chain.

• Between 1946 and 1958, 23 nuclear devices were detonated by the United States at seven test sites located on the reef, inside the atoll, in the air, or underwater.

• Incidentally, a form of clothing is derived from the blank. Wearing it got a Swedish Miss World condemned by Pope.

• What fills the blank ?

ANSWER

• Bikini

SCI TECH IN POP CULTURE

• 8 QUESTIONS

• WRITE DOWN THE ANSWERS IN YOUR SHEET

• EXCHANGE SHEETS AT THE END OF THE ROUND• ANSWERS GIVEN AT THE END OF THE ROUND

• +10/ -0 PER QUESTION

1)

• X (sometimes referred to as “F**k That Guy” or “Dumb Bi*ch”) is a rage comic-style contour drawing of the X wearing a hearty smile. The image is typically used as a reaction face to convey a dismissive attitude towards someone else’s input in online discussions.

• The drawing is based on a stillshot photograph of X captured from a press conference in May 2009.

2) ID this desi meme page

3)

• Tardar Sauce (born April 4, 2012),better known by her Internet name “X", is an Internet celebrity known for her facial expression, formed due to an underbite and dwarfism.

• As of December 10, 2014, "The Official X" page on Facebook has over 8 million likes.

• X was featured on the front page of The Wall Street Journal on May 30, 2013.

• In August 2015 it was announced that X would get her own waxwork at Madame Tussauds in San Francisco.

4)• A word Evolved by the late Tupac Shakur. X is when you have

nothing, and succeed, when you have overcome all obstacles to reach your aim.

Some of the famous songs associated with this internet phenomena are :

• Chamillionaire - Ridin' ft. Krayzie Bone • Ice Cube - Natural born killaz (feat. dr. dre) • Sir Mix A Lot - Baby Got Back • Ludacris - Move Bitch

5)This book on X claims that this

comic series was able to

prove Fermat’s last theorem, predicted the existence of Higgs Boson,

among others.

6)

• X is a rage comic character and reaction face of X making a defensive gesture. The character image is used to mock arrogant and boastful statements made by Internet users.

• The outline drawing was based on a still image from an interview with X by the online knowledge forum Big Think on living and longevity, which was uploaded to YouTube on June 3rd, 2011. The reaction occurred when X explained how Sir Isaac Newton invented calculus before his 26th birthday.

• 7) Boston officials used this to discourage the use of space savers in parking spots. The Queensland Police Service wrote a joke Facebook update stating that they were pursuing this for "repeatedly disturbing people’s timelines".

• It has spawned foreign versions, including Bilal in Arabic, Rashid in Malaysia, and Jose in Spanish. A culturally-specific Afghani version is called Qodos, written in Dari and Pashto.

• A female variant, Emily, also exists.• What is being talked about ?

8 ) IKEA’S WAY OF MAKING SOMETHING?

ANSWER 1

• X : Yao Ming/Bitch Please

ANSWER 2

• Mad Mughal memes

ANSWER 3

• X : Grumpy Cat

ANSWER 4

• X : Thug life

ANSWER 5

• X : The Simpsons

ANSWER 6

• X : Neil deGrasse Tyson

ANSWER 7

• Be like bill memes

ANSWER 8• The Large Hadron Collider

ROUND (011)B

• 12 QUESTIONS

• POUNCE +20/ -10• BOUNCE +10/ -0

• HINTS WILL BE GIVEN ON BOUNCE IF REQUIRED

• 1) He was an electrical engineer and sound engineer, he was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for over 45 years.

• He was the founder and chairman of a very famous corporation whose majority share was donated to MIT to further research.

• The corporation conducts research in suspension technologies for cars and heavy-duty trucks and into the subject of cold fusion. It is, however, not known for this.

• Who are we talking about ? (Pic on next slide).

ANSWER

• The person is Amar Gopal Bose, the founder of BOSE

• 2) The X Awards are a tongue-in-cheek honor, originating in Usenet newsgroup discussions circa 1985. They recognize individuals who have supposedly contributed to human evolution by selecting themselves out of the gene pool via death or sterilization by their own actions.

• What dubious honor/award is being referred to?

ANSWER

• Darwin awards

• 3)

• If Monad is to Windows PowerShell as O’Hare is to Internet Explorer 1.

• How do we better know Project Spartan ?

ANSWER

• Microsoft Edge. Spartan is its codename.

• 4) The following shows a world map with differentially colored regions. What does it depict?

ANSWER

• Dominating Social media companies in throughout the world.

• Grey is Facebook.• Blue is Twitter.

• 5) Given below are some achievements of X – • He was appointed a Commander of the Most

Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2005 for "services to the music industry and for charity work".

• He attained a PhD in astrophysics from Imperial College London in 2007 and was Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University from 2008 to 2013.

• He was a "science team collaborator" with NASA's New Horizons Pluto mission.

• Whose unusual combination of accomplishments are being described ?

ANSWER

• Brian May from QUEEN

6)

• There is a story about an Indian temple in Kashi Vishwanath which contains a large room with three time-worn posts in it surrounded by 64 golden disks. Brahmin priests, acting out the command of an ancient prophecy, have been moving them, in accordance with the immutable rules of the Brahma, since that time. According to the legend, when the last move of the enigma will be completed, the world will end.

• How is a similar problem better known to computer technologists?

ANSWER

• The Tower of Hanoi

• 7)• The title of the book is derived from a woman's

response at Princeton University when, after she asked the newly arrived X if he wanted cream or lemon in his tea, he mindlessly requested both.

• The book covers his life, his profession, achievements, along with serious issues like World War II, the death of his wife Arline Greenbaum and his critique of the science education in Brazil.

• What is the title of the book?

ANSWER

• Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

• 8) Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg, is a Swedish web-based comedian and producer who originally pursued a degree in Industrial Economics and Technology Management at Chalmers University of Technology.

• He refers to his fanbase as the "Bro Army", and individual fans as "bros".

• What is his claim to fame ?(pic on next slide).

ANSWER• He is famously known as pewdiepie. His

youtube channel has the maximum number of subscribers.

• 9 )Stemming from Proto-Indo-European religion, X is a prominently mentioned god throughout the recorded history of the Germanic peoples, from the Roman occupation of regions of Germania, to the tribal expansions of the Migration Period, to his high popularity during the Viking Age.

• His name finds frequent mention in quite a few mythologies and also acts as an etymology to an element in the periodic table.

• Which god and element are referred here?

ANSWER

• The god is THOR and the element THORIUM

• 10)Project Loon is a research and development project being developed by Google with the mission of providing Internet access to rural and remote areas.

• Which unlikely country was the first to get full LTE coverage under Project Loon?

ANSWER

• Vatican City

• 11) When Microsoft changed to 64 bit version, millions of lines of code had to be transported.

• One program ran into trouble. The 64- bit version of X had a pretty nasty bug where ____ would pass through like a ghost.

• They developers tried to debug, but the code was written by an outside vendor and was absolutely uncommented. So it was decided that X be dropped.

• Give me X.

ANSWER• Pinball

• 12) The man was a recipient of the Nobel Prize . This odd patent coming from him perhaps had something to do with his patent office past. After he graduated he spent time working in the Federal Office for Intellectual property in Bern, Switzerland.

• Who filed the patent for this blouse?

ANSWERS

• Albert Einstein

THC (The Hard Connect)

• 6 QUESTIONS

• INDIVIDUAL POINTS FOR EACH QUESTION ONLY ON POUNCE

• +20/-10 PER QUESTION ON POUNCE• ANSWERS FOR INDIVIDUAL QUESTIONS FOLLOW THE

SLIDES

• POINTS FOR THE CONNECT SHOWN ON EACH SLIDE

• THINK PLACES,THINK SCIENCE

• +60/-25

• The following is the basic plot of an installment of a famous video game franchise by ubisoft :

• Altaïr has traveled to X from the Holy Land in order to kill the last remnants of the Templars. Here he reunites with Maria and they travel together to learn more about the "Apple of Eden".

• Give me Y(the franchise) as well as X. X goes into the connect.

ANSWER

• X : Cyprus• Y: Assassins Creed

• +50/-20

• GLONASS is what Russia uses , and COMPASS is used by China.

• What is being described?• Who uses Galileo?

ANSWER

• The Global Positioning systems used by countries. (IRNSS=India, GPS=USA)

• Europian Union (EU) uses Gallileo

• +40/-15• From the late 19th century x was a major fruit

growing area. Pears and apricots were grown but the specialty was a French plum that could be dried into prunes. One could say that X was the Prune Capital of the world.

• In the 1890's the British field marshal, Lord Kitchener, visited this and dubbed it 'The Valley of Heart's Delight'. However, a new fruit has made it famous now. Give me X or how do we know it today? The state in which X is located goes into the connect.

ANSWER

• Silicon Valley in California

• +30/-10• The government of X launched an initiative to

prevent english words from seeping into common vernacular. This resulted in some hilarious alternatives and bans. For example, while the whole world calls it an e-mail, government here forces the citizens to call it courriel. Just like this many words such as blogs, podcasting and cloud computing were replaced. The latest is a popular character Y to be replaced by 'mot-diese'. Identify Y. X goes into the connect.

ANSWER

• Y = Hashtag #• X= France

• +20/-5

• Harald "Blåtand" Gormsson was a king who united norway and denmark as a part of X. The nordic runes for his initials gave us something important, ubiquitious nowadays. What is his contribution to the world of technology? X goes into the connect.

ANSWER

• X= Scandinavia• H = He had a rotten,blue tooth hence giving

rise to the name Bluetooth.

• +10/-0• History bears witness that people from X are known

to wreak havoc with gases. The only difference between past and present is that what was Zyklon- B is now NOX, much less grievous.

• Which firm recently continued this ill-famed tradition using software manipulation. Give me the firm.

• X goes into the connect.

ANSWER

• X = Germany• Firm - Volkswagen

THC answer follows :

Places after which Elements have been named.

• Cyprus – Copper • Europe – Europium• California – Californium• France – Francium/Gallium• Scandinavia – Scandinavium• Germany - Germanium

THANK YOU !

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• Whose “diagrams” are these?

• Mary Mallon was born in 1869- in County Tyrone, Ireland. She migrated to the United States in 1883 at the age of 15. She lived with her aunt and uncle for a time and later found work as a cook for affluent families.

• She was estimated to have caused about 50 fatalities but was never found guilty of any homicidal actions.

• Put funda.