A tech quiz by a non techie. Wholeheartedly dedicated to Sachin Tendulkar

Rules

The quiz shall follow the Sino-Kerala format, which was developed yesterday.(+10 for direct,+8 for a pass)

Unless mentioned otherwise, the quiz shall proceed in the clockwise direction for the first half and anti clock for the second.

Depending upon the finalists preference, the quiz may incorporate pounce, bounce and differential scoring.

Since this quiz is wholeheartedly dedicated to God,we shall follow what I call the Tendulkar mode in quizzing.

Each team can play 3 questions without an ensuring negative if the answer is incorrect. The mention of Tendulkar is neccessary before you invoke this power. Only Tendulkar would do.

If teams arrive at 200 points, they shall be the receipent of a bonus question worth 10 points that only they can answer.

On the 16th of November a particular word being added to a Wikipedia article resulted in a massive outpour of emotions on the Internet. Facebook saw a massive outage on the same with many posting statuses that paid tribute. Twitter saw the swansong of a handle that came into prominence in the past month. What was the word added/what was the sentence in question ?

Sachin Tendulkar is a “former” Indian cricketer.

Which was the first animated movie to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture ?

Up

X was proposed by Valentin Balt and Michael Cherviakov, employees of Parallel Technologies (a software company) in 2002. On the 24th of July it was implemented by their government with an official constitutional draft with President Dmitri Medvedev's whole hearted support and backing. What ?

Programmer’s Day

X is a keen yachtsman and his 72 ft mini maxi Rán II (Judel/Vrolijk design, 2009) competes in the World's major offshore races. Rán II was the overall winner of the Rolex Fastnet Race in 2009 and 2011. She campaigns around the world and has travelled to Australia to compete in the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race on two occasions to date winning its division both times. In 2010 she won the Mini Maxi World Championship with follow up wins in 2011 and 2013. X also campaigns a TP52 designed by Judel/Vrolijk, named Rán IV, to take part in the highly competitive 52 Super Series. They won the 2013 TP52 World Championships and came 3rd overall in the 52 Super Series in the same year.

Niklas Zennstrom

George Smoot

Connect

Eclipse IDE

Shut up and Pounce

A Boy and His Atom is a 2013 stop-motion animated short film released on YouTube by X. The movie tells the story of a boy and a wayward atom who meet and become friends. It depicts a boy playing with an atom that takes various forms. One minute in length, it was made by moving carbon monoxide molecules viewed with a scanning tunneling microscope, a device that magnifies them 100 million times. These two-atom molecules were literally moved to create images, which were then saved as individual frames to make the film. The movie has been recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the World's Smallest Stop-Motion Film. Id X.

IBM.

________ was proposed to "fundamentally enhance the human communications process, through the use of XML, with the purpose of ending human misunderstanding". It addresses this purpose by standardizing the presentation of details relevant to communicative acts. Such details may be social, contextual, gestural, or psychological, and may pertain to an individual in an act of communication or to the context of that communication. For example, just as Internet users may use emoticons ("smileys") to convey emotional information relevant to their essentially textual communication, _________ codes the emotional importance and intent of a signal in a series of markup tags. The standard aims to provide an arbitrarily detailed way to represent information pertinent to any act of communication.

FITB.

Human Markup Language

A mid-sized Korean semiconductor firm named DI Corp that makes products named “Monitoring Burn-in Tester” and “Wafer Test Board” had consistently lost money for four quarters in 2011-12. In a few weeks around October 2012 however, the firm, headed by Park Won-ho saw its share price shoot up nearly three times its original value, from 2,000 to 5,700 Korean won. Why?

Tum jaante ho yeh kiska baap hai, Psy ka

Put Fundae.Hint:Tribute Question to a revolutionary technology.

Dolby. Clockwork used it first,but released an optical soundtrack.Callan hence was ,technically the first.

3 5 7 9 N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z2 4 6 8 . A B C D E F G H I J K L M

What is the significance of this sequence in technological terms ?

12/11/13

The initial design for the QWERTY keyboard.

It is named after the westernized-name of its Russian inventor, Léon ______, who patented the device in 1928. The controlling section usually consists of two metal antennas which sense the position of the player's hands and control oscillators for frequency with one hand, and amplitude (volume) with the other, so it can be played without being touched. This device was popularized by artists such as The Beach Boys, Led Zeppelin and The Rolling Stones. What?

Theremin. Written more stylishly though.

12/11/13

2009: Moldova civil unrest, claiming that the elections, which saw the governing Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova (PCRM) win a majority of seats, were fraudulent2009–2010: Iranian election protests, also known as Green Revolution and Facebook Revolution, following the 2009 Iranian presidential election2010–2011 Tunisian revolution, in which the regime of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was ended after 23 yearsEgyptian Revolution of 2011, in which the regime of Hosni Mubarak was ended after 30 years

12/11/13

They are all known as the Twitter revolution.

This global giant has an approximate revenue of $18.4 billion. It became the ‘largest home appliance maker in the world’ after a famous acquisition of a commercial laundry device manufacturer in 2006. It’s product line includes clothes washers, dryers, refrigerators, freezers, dishwashers, air conditioners, microwave ovens amongst other things.

What is the name of this company which also famously developed an ice cream for NASA which does not melt at room temperature?

Haier .

His Twitter Bio: @ReallyVirtual - An IT consultant taking a break from the rat-race by hiding in the mountains with his laptops. He became instantly famous on May 2nd, 2011 when he first broke the shocking news to the world by live-tweeting!

Live Tweeted the attack on Bin Laden. Wasn’t featured in Zero Dark Thirty,sadly.

"Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)" a song by Spiller, featuring vocals by British singer-songwriter Sophie Ellis-Bextor. The single was released in August 2000 by Positiva Records. It peaked at #1 in the UK, New Zealand, Ireland and Australia, as well as charting at number three on the American Hot Dance Chart. What historically significant role did this song play?

First song to be tested on an iPod

In 1967, Damyanti Gupta aimed to become an Engineer at Ford Motor Company, Detroit • There were no female engineers there then, but Damyanti was hired as Ford’s first-ever female engineer. • She inspired Reshma Saujani to found X, a New York- based initiative to help teach girls to code so that they pursue careers in technology/engineering. • This has got the steadfast support of a number of companies, including Google, GE, eBay and Twitter.

• Girlswhocode. Points given for Girlscancode. Although I would have preferred the former because the latter is an obvious statement.

This 2010 Indian anthology film has 4 short films: Abhimanyu, Omar, Megha and Afia based on child abuse, gay rights, Kashmiri pandits and sperm donation respectively.

• It has won the Best Film Award while Z bagged the Best Actress award for her performance in the film at the 13th London Asian Film Festival for her character of Megha. Released in India on April 22, 2011.

• It’s the 1st mainstream Hindi film that is crowd-sourced through Twitter and Facebook and director Y offered backers co-production credit in the film and a share in the profits.

• I Am by Onir

Germany’s Samwer Brothers - Alexander, Oliver and Marc - famous for creating replicas of well-established sites across the world •

They are the expertise behind 3 recent players in the Indian e- tailing space, FabFurnish, HeavenandHome and X. •

Xerion Retail Private Limited is the parent company of both X and FabFurnish, which in turn is funded by the Samwer Brothers Group.

•X is the company’s flagship venture in the Indian e-tailing space which was started in late 2011-early 2012, and has already established itself as a player to be reckoned with. • Id X.

Jabong.com.

More than 8M people watched LIVE this unbelievable record-breaking event, in turn setting another record for the largest number of concurrent live streams in the YouTube's history. Beating this, about 8.3M people accessed BBC’s sport website on the first day of the London Olympic Games.

Who made what record-breaking event?

Felix Baumgartner’s version of Skyfall

X is one of the oldest industrial exhibitions in Germany. Today it is one of world's leading trade shows for consumer electronics and home appliances. The last event was held from 31 August, to 5 September 2012 in Berlin where Dell launched its Win8 machines, Sony launched its flagship Xperia phones, and many more.

What is X?

IFA. Google for more information, please

British designer Stuart Hughes is a name that is more often than not associated with the glitzy and expensive lifestyle, as he has come up with plenty of weird and pricey designs in the past, including an iPad that had a real T-Rex bone in it. Well, this time around, Stuart Hughes has churned out what could very well be the most expensive smartphone in the world, where he calls it the ___________, as it carries a sticker price of approximately $15 million after conversion. This particular smartphone was custom-ordered by an anonymous Chinese businessman, where it comes dipped in 26 karat gold, in addition to an actual black diamond which will now take over the position of the home key, in addition to 600 “regular” diamonds that have been embedded into the phone’s chassis. 53 of those diamonds make up the logo, and the display has ditched Gorilla Glass in lieu of sapphire glass that is a whole lot more durable, and the entire shebang took Stuart Hughes 9 weeks to make it.

iPhone Black Diamond.No points for “Total waste of money”, “ biggest loot since Nadir Shah’s invasion”

Google made a $1mn donation to this

organization which will cover its costs for its

next 5 global events. Put name.

International Mathematics Olympiad

Disturbing images as seen by watchmen up in the air. Who started it?

George Clooney

This is a view of Porthcurno, a sleepy little town 5 km from the western most point of the English mainland.

This resort town became famous in 1870. In the inter-war years, the office operated as many as 14 simultaneously. The office lasted exactly a century after the first ‘landing’ before it was closed, but the town continues its link even today

In Feb 2013, why did this tweet and this Instagram photo by Jean H Lee, an Associated Press reporter create history?

First tweet and Instagram pic from the glorious and freedom loving nation of North Korea

In 2006, early concepts of this were based on the Atmel ATmega644 microcontroller. A trustee named Eben Upton assembled a group of teachers, academics and computer enthusiasts to devise a computer to inspire children.

Inspired by the Acorn’s BBC Micro of 1981, its logo is unmistakable. Name the device

Rasberry Pi

In 2001, when the Baltimore Ravens and the New York Giants faced off for SuperBowl XXXV in Tampa, a new video technology that had nothing to do with instant replay or game technology made its debut.

The technology created huge controversy with one magazine calling it “Snooper Bowl” while another magazine published an article saying “Don’t Tampa with My Privacy”.

What was the purpose of the technology that drew such extreme opinions?

Facial Recognition.

Pounce !

Sitter.

Open Handset Alliance

Since 1995, this research firm has used a technique called hype cycle to characterize the over-enthusiasm or hype and subsequent disappointment that typically happens with the introduction of new technologies. These also show how and when technologies move beyond the hype, offer practical benefits and become widely accepted.

Which research firm?

Gartner Cycle

Google Doodle celebrating what ?

Roswell UFO. Roswellian UFO syndrome. Partial points for UFO sightings.

A recent blog tried to establish a distinction between these

two interchangeably used terms for certain people.

The first (A) stands for fans of a subject while the latter (B) stands for practitioners of the same. The former category is collection oriented, gathering facts and mementos, while the latter is achievement oriented and focuses on knowledge and skill acquisition.

In a final effort, the blog went ahead and provided two pictorial distinctions of the use of these terms – one from the Simpsons TV series and another via data gathered from usage on Twitter & Facebook.

What 2 terms – A and B ?

Geek and Nerd

In a 2011 interview, Mary McDowell, the Executive VP of this

technology firm had this to say :

“Choosing a name for a global sub-brand is incredibly challenging

because of the legal process and the “connotation check”, where

specific names are translated into myriad languages to see if they

mean anything they shouldn’t and cause unnecessary confusion.

The name chosen symbolises hope and represents the aspirations of

consumers in growth economies, especially India, where a billion

people are waiting to get connected. What’s more, the name

passed both tests with flying colors, enabling it to be chosen as the

new name. “

What company (A) and product name (B) was she talking

about?

Nokia Asha

Pounce !

Anya Major was a discus thrower with some experience in hammer throwing. Apart from her claim-to-fame, she has portrayed Nikita in Elton John’s 1986 music video of the same name. Her claim-to fame appearance had little to do with her athletic skills. Which appearance?

Mac Ad Girl

This question is so old it’s first birthday party had a Dinosaur theme. Literally

This is a term coined by Rohit Bhargava, a senior vice president at Ogilvy, for the practice of brands using social media to create an affinity with customers who share the same sentiments with friends.

Which term?

Likeonomics

What name was given to the man-portable anti-tank rocket launcher which saw widespread use during WWII?

Bazooka. Full points for Panzer Shrek.Naman, you’re a great guy.

The list of places covered by this technology include the Antarctic, the inside of the White House and the Great Barrier Reef. However, this particular city has posed difficulties because of the numerous bridges that it has.

The tech firm in question used a very simple method to solve this problem and additionally used a device called the Trekker, which has been used in the past to cover the Grand Canyon hiking paths, the Burj Khalifa and inside the Alhambra palace.

There is also an alliteratively named service that the tech company is launching specially for this city. Name that as well in addition to the technology/service in question.

Google Street View. Venice is to have it’s own service called Google Gondolas

The term hasn’t come to common usage yet but remains prominent in Tech Quizzing Circles.

A typical example would beA:Yaar woh itni velli hai. Kitni baar profile pic change karti hai.

B(nerd):It’s called __________. Aur waise bhi sundar hai toh kya fark padhta hai.

Faceboothing.

This is a conversation between Calvin and X in a Calvin and Hobbes spinoff comic strip

Calvin- Hey what's with the same T shirt X, you can afford some nice clothes, you know!

X- I just like the way it looks Calvin. Nice clothes don’t interest me. See despite my success I'm still a normal everyday guy.

X- Also marketing department says I’m branded this way and can’t change.

Give me the name of the spinoff

Calvin and Jobs.

This is a screenshot of the website ‘canyoufindit.co.uk’. This website was set up in September with an open challenge to all British citizens to crack the code. A similar challenge last year has had only 170 successful solutions out of 2.3 million.

Whose challenge was this or what were British winners eligible to work for If they cracked the code?

M16. The British government put this out. Unfortunately neither Saif Ali Khan nor Salman were available for any comment on whether Agent Vinod or Tiger could solve this.

In 1985, Rick Macintosh, the GM of Microsoft Canada was summoned to the Canadian Department of Agriculture since they had quarantined the first units of Microsoft’s version of a product. Not knowing better, the Dept of Agriculture officials thought that the product posed a health risk to Canada. Which Microsoft product was this?

Microsoft Mouse . The officials actually feared bubonic plague.

What has been blanked out ?

The Nataraj statue at CERN

Punisher: War Zone is a 2008 American comic book action film directed by Lexi Alexander; based on the fictional Marvel Comics vigilante/anti-hero The Punisher. This is the lowest grossing film based on a Marvel Comics property right along with Elektra and Howard the Duck. The soundtrack had songs by metal bands like Slayer and Slipknot. However this fail film is considered to be a swansong for another person who is extremely well known in internet subculture. Who am I talking about? Put it the funda.

Last upload by Axxo. RIP man

Both TMZ and the Los Angeles Times suffered outages. Google initially believed that the input from millions of people searching for “__________” meant that the search engine was under DDoS attack, and blocked searches related to _______for 30 minutes. Twitter reported a crash, as did Wikipedia. The Wikimedia Foundation reported nearly a million visitors to __________ within one hour, probably the most visitors in a one-hour period to any article in Wikipedia's history. AOL Instant Messenger collapsed for 40 minutes. AOL called it a "seminal moment in Internet history", adding, "We've never seen anything like it in terms of scope or depth"

Which event are we talking about?

The death of Michael Jackson.

Kevin Gilbertson, a web developer, launched the service in January 2002 so that he would be able to link directly to newsgroup postings which frequently had long and cumbersome addresses . The X homepage includes a form that's used to submit a long URL for shortening. For each URL entered, the server adds a new alias in its hashed database and returns a short URL in the following page. If the URL has already been requested, X will return the existing alias rather than create a duplicate entry

TinyURL.com

The roots of this word are X-, which according to Webster's means "going beyond or higher, transcending," and -Y, which is "the outer layer (boundary) of gray matter surrounding the brain." Thus, XY is "transcending the boundaries of the brain,“. The most famous employee at XY is Thomas A Anderson. Which company ?

Metacortex from the Matrix series.

RIP

“Back in 2009 when I was on a gap year, I had a conversation with two friends from the quizzing circuit. We all felt that, at the time, while there were many resources in the form of quizzing blogs run by university quiz clubs, there wasn’t much in the form of discussion going on. This was back when Orkut, and not Facebook, was popular in India so there wasn’t even a pervasive social forum where these discussions could be held. Through this brainstorming,, the idea of starting a quizzing forum came about and we decided to call it “X “. I registered the domain name on 26th January 2009.”

Question scrapped because everyone knew this. Goodbye, gyaan.in

___________ is a dance-punk band that formed in Sacramento The band's name was inspired by the subtitles of the movie The Gods Must Be Crazy, in which the clicking sounds of the Bushmen‘s Khoisan language were represented as X. The unique band name gives rise to a technological bane that has made them famous. What is this band’s claim to fame ?

!!!(pronounced Chk chk Chk ) happens to be the least googled band on Earth to have brought out a record.

A first of sorts.

First image to be uploaded on Flickr.

Foxconn.

Slideshare servers.Don’t know how many answered these as I was not paying attention.

Prithvi Param YuvaVirgoEkaSaga

Indian supercomputers.

While it has been described as the world's smallest nation, or a micronation, Sealand is not currently officially recognised by any established sovereign state, although Sealand's government claims it has been de facto recognised by the United Kingdom (after an English court ruled it did not have jurisdiction over Sealand as territorial water limitations were defined at the time) and Germany. If all goes well, Sealand would soon be home to what?

Thepiratebay. Nuff said.

Reality Distortion Field.

Olympia and Godrej. The only surviving manufacturers of typewriters in the world

Audio Round

Audio 1. Song Cham Cham from the movie _________. __________ was the first Indian movie to be released on Youtube.

2.Cher’s Believe was the first song to be recorded on _____________.

3. Metallica’s I disappear. Company in question: ____________.

4. U2’s stuck in a moment was the largest selling track on __________ during the first day of it’s release.

5 The instrument that was used to play the iPhone default ringtone _____________6. Tarrega’s Lagrima was played. What’s the better known composition of this gentleman.

7.Beatles Fool on the Hill

That’s all folks !!

For comparative purposes.The winning score was 159.Runner’s Up finished 25 points behind.