XINO 2o14Tech Exult FINALSDelhi Public School, Rohini
23 August 2014
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• The quiz consists of 5 rounds. Rounds 1 through 4 contain 12 questions each and Round 5 contains 6 questions.
• Participants will be given 20 seconds to answer a direct question.
• The decision of the quizmaster will be final and binding in all cases.
RULES
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Round 1 : Warm Up
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• This round consists of 12 questions, questions 1 to 6 are orthodox and questions 7 to 12 are visual questions.
• Each question carries 10 points.
• Questions will not be passed to other teams, instead they will be passed to the audience.
Round 1 : Warm Up
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ROUND 2
Round 1 : Warm Up
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1. The BBC is testing a new way of distributing short news items via a new service called _________which uses Instagram to share videos and other information about news events, in a bid that they can be easily consumed by people on the go. The service provides short, concise summaries of the most salient facts of complex news stories in an easy-to-understand way. Naturally, it also encourages viewers to read the full story on the BBC’s website.
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2. Which company’s logo is made up of 8 U s?
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3. Modu was an Israeli mobile phone company founded in 2007 by Dov Moran. The company invented the Modu, a modular cellular device which could be used in various other devices. The Modu phone enabled users to personalize their mobile's looks and features in a simple way by inserting it into a range of unique phone enclosures, known as Modu jackets. It stopped operations in 2011 and sold several patents to Google. What is this patent acquisition believed to have led to the creation of?
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4. A coffee pot was located in the corridor just outside the so-called Trojan Room within the old Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridge. Something was created to help people working in other parts of the building avoid pointless trips to the coffee room and know wether it was full or not. What was this the first instance of?
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5. What is the claim to fame of Eugene Goostman?
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6. What are the default names of the protagonist and his rival in the original pokemon game on whom the later anime characters of Ash and Gary are based?
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11. Identify the service.
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Round 2 : Orthodox I
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• This round consists of 12 orthodox questions.
• The questions are passable and both direct and passed questions carry 10 points each.
Round 2 : Orthodox I
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ROUND 3
Round 2 : Orthodox I
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1."Much of my work has come from being lazy. I didn't like writing programs, and so, when I was working on the IBM 701, writing programs for computing missile trajectories, I started work on a programming system to make it easier to write programs." What was the result?
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2. In computing, _________ is an instance of a general encoding syntax by which a string of Unicode characters is transformed uniquely and reversibly into a smaller, restricted character set. __________ is intended for the encoding of labels in the Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA) framework, such that these domain names may be represented in the ASCII character set allowed in the Domain Name System of the Internet.
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3. An Indian-born American physicist known for his work in fiber optics, he was named as one of the seven 'Unsung Heroes' by Fortune magazine in their ‘Businessmen of the Century’ issue. As an author and lecturer, he has published over 100 scientific papers and four books on opto-electronics and entrepreneurship. He has lectured to various national and international scientific societies. His popular article on Fibre optics in Scientific American in 1960 established the new term : Fibre optics.
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4.Which company announced that it would freely make its technology patents available to all, in a blog entitled “All Our Patent Are Belong To You”.
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5.In 1999 hackers revealed a security flaw in which website that permitted anybody to log into any account on the website using the password 'eh'. At the time it was called "the most widespread security incident in the history of the Web" with more than 50 million accounts compromised.
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6. A strange tradition in Microsoft, each anniversary, for every year he’s worked, a Microsoft employee is expected to provide one pound of what?
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7. In a viral hoax in 2012, this prophecy supposedly written by Nostredamus referred to what?
From the calm morning,the end will comewhen of the dancing horsethe number of circles will be nine
This supposed prophecy was further reinforced by the day the last line came true.
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8.In 2008, a country used social networking websites to rewrite its constitution. The Constitutional Council consisting of 25 members was highly active on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Flickr, where they solicited comments and suggestions for the new government. Which country?
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9. Whose slogan is “Stop Spam, Read Books”?
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10.Edward Snowden, spent a week in New Delhi training in core Java programming and advanced ethical hacking which got him certified as an EC-Council Certified Security Analyst (ECSA). Which institute did he get his training from?
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11. A petition to the Whitehouse to construct what entailed this response?
The Administration shares your desire for job creation and a strong national defense, but a X isn't on the horizon. Here are a few reasons:• The construction of the X has been estimated to cost more than
$850,000,000,000,000,000. We're working hard to reduce the deficit, not expand it.
• The Administration does not support blowing up planets.• Why would we spend countless taxpayer dollars on a X with a
fundamental flaw that can be exploited by a one-man starship?
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12. The original image was sampled from a vector graphic clipart in an early version of Microsoft Office. His actual identity, as it later turned out, was the musician Peter Wolf. Which very famous image is this?
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Round 3 : VIsual
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• This round consists of 12 visual questions, consisting of both identifications and connects.
• The format for answering questions will be infinite pounce.
• Each question carries +20 for a correct answer and -10 for an incorrect one on pounce and +10 for a correct answer and no negative for an incorrect one on both direct and pass.
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ROUND 4
Round 3 : vIsual
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1. What is this algorithm and where did it first appear?
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4. ID the event.
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7. Connect their owners.
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12. This is a photo from the Nintendo power magazine. Identify the person and give the reason for this.
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Round 4 : Orthodox II
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• This round consists of 12 orthodox questions.
• The questions are passable and both direct and passed questions carry 10 points each.
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ROUND 5
Round 4 : Orthodox II
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1. The reason for the theme colour of this website is that its founder is red-green colorblind, which means the color he can see best is blue. Which website?
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2. Macky : ChaserMicky : Ambusher
Mucky : FickleMocky : Stupid
What?
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3. Who said “A Computer is like air conditioning- it becomes useless when you open Windows”?
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4. ________ is a program for Unix-like computer operating systems that allows users to run programs with the security privileges of another user (normally the superuser, or root).
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5. De finibus bonorum et malorum is a philosophical work by the Roman orator, politician and philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero. It consists of 5 books out of which certain text derived from the first one is in very common use in technology. What text?
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• Ring-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding!• Wa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pow!• Hatee-hatee-hatee-ho!• Joff-tchoff-tchoff-tchoffo-tchoffo-tchoff!• mo-o-o-o-orse, mo-o-o-o-orse, mo-o-o-o-orse• Jacha-chacha-chacha-chow!• Fraka-kaka-kaka-kaka-kow!• A-hee-ahee ha-hee!• A-oo-oo-oo-ooo!
6. Put funda and identify.
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7. Jumping repeatedly and possibly combining it with strafing, in order to move faster, which advanced movement technique has its most prominent implementations in the Source and Quake engines?
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8. Along with the appointment of Satya Nadella as the new CEO of Microsoft, who was given a new role of “Technology Advisor”?
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9. Which mob in Minecraft was named as a reference to the urban myth, Slenderman as revealed on a Minecraft Reddit thread by Notch?
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10. In the 1980’s, which software was often used to check IBM clones for compatibility with the IBM-PC?
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11. How long is a complete performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony?
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12. The Malaysia Airlines MH370 was which numbered Boeing 777 to be manufactured?
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Round 5 : GAME Changer
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• This round consists of 6 questions of varying types.• Each question carries a total of 60 points, which will be
awarded to the teams by the formula : 60/number of teams with the correct answer
• Each wrong answer entails a negative marking by the formula : 30/number of teams with the correct answer
• In case no team gets the correct answer, no points will be deducted (so everyone can guess if they think no one knows the answer).
• The only way to answer is pounce.
Round 5 : GAME Changer
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1. Who asked the question “What should we do to free our planet from terrorism?” on Yahoo answers, a question that has received over 30,000 replies including from the likes of Kiran Bedi, Leander Paes and Sri Sri Ravi Shankar?
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4. Wikipedia has announced a new project, under which it will add voice recordings on the biography pages of celebrities and other famous people on the online encyclopedia, with Stephen Fry being among the first ones. What is this project called?
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Identify the promotion. Also identify the game it promoted.
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THE ENDQuiz by : Dhruv Khurana
Quizmaster : Chaitanya Sethi
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