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From what is considered to be the major part of the domain of Entertainment, Music-Movies are kept at a low in this quiz and much (more?) of the inclination, henceforth, can be found on the technical and some other flourishing forms of

“Entertainment” and how they interact with Science & Technology. Also, a man can indulge in other types of entertainment, some find “Politics” entertaining and

some find reading this slide entertaining(?). The quiz may not suit someone’s definition of entertainment though it will try to “entertain” your interests in this

business of knowledge to it’s best.

Let’s get started.

The quiz will proceed forward in Four rounds.

Written Prelims followed by Finals consisting of IB (Forward and Reverse), Differential and Long Visual Connect.

PRELIMS ANSWERSVideos have been omitted.

Question 1.

Take points for identifying both the creations, and not one, in this video clip.

Pride and Prejudice

Fight Club

Question 2.

This mobile application, also available as a browser-extension, blocks the HTTP requests thus hindering the tracking of your web habits. This also enhances the speed as the data now has to travel to lesser

nodes. This is now owned by Cliqz, a German company co-owned by Mozilla.

What apt name is given to this app owing to it’s ability to

tackle tracking ?

Question 3.

Katie was the unaired lead in the Unaired Pilot of X. The role was played by actress

Amanda Walsh, “a street-hardened, tough-as-nails woman with a vulnerable

interior”. She works at the cosmetics counter of a department store.

The pilot episode in which she starred, went unaired as the audience did not like the way

Katie was mocking the two other main characters, therefore she was replaced by Y, a

milder version who was more caring and sweet.

Identify Y. No points for X alone.

X – The Big Bang TheoryY - Penny

Question 4.

If you will search Froogle.com, you will be directed to the online shopping website of

which company ?

The website lets you compare prices by using Google’s Web Crawler database to index product data from the websites of vendors instead of using paid

submissions.

Google Product Search, later renamed as Google Shopping

Kyle Craven got famous as ___ ____ _____when his friend Ian Davies who has been his friend since the elementary school days posted a picture of him on Reddit. The picture that he had posted had made him an internet sensation and soon one could

see the market flooded with all the goods including mugs and T-shirts with that picture printed on them. This incident made Kyle so famous that Walmart and other

stores had to pay him royalties to use his picture. In total he earned a sum of $20,000 and a lots of dates. The description of the picture is “a plaid sweater,

red face, squinted eyes and a puffed-out jaw.”

Fill in the blank with the name with which he is famous ?

Question 5.

Bad Luck Brian

Julius Blank, Victor Grinich, Jean Hoerni, Eugene Kleiner, Jay Last, Sheldon Roberts, X and Y – this group of people are known by a famous

name in the tech world. X and Y went on to establish a giant in Silicon Valley, which along with other companies by the members of this group came to be known as

“Fairchildren”. X has a very famous law named after him which states that “the number of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits has doubled

every year since their invention.”

Identify X and Y.(no part points)

Question 6.

Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce founded Intel.

Law talked about is Moore’s Law

Question 7.

Boral is a village situated on the edge of Kolkata, far from the modern air, you can still see a profusion of rocky, garishly painted houses here. The village is not famous except

that it was where a classic (Y), based on Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s work, was made. This came into the light of the villagers only when someone put up a bust of X and

made them realize that Y was based here. The house that appears in that famous debut of X remains in a dilapidated state around a corner.

Identify X. What famous work was Y ?

Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali

Question 8.

Ford just agreed to invest a billion dollars in Argo AI, which had existed for only 2 months. Last year, a company Otto was formed which was snapped up by Uber for $680million. Otto was formed by the members leaving an ambitious project in automotive industry

under the name of company X.Similarly companies called Aurora and Neuro.ai opened last year to supplement this task,

though not in partnership with X. Sebastian Thrun was the first head of this ambitious project and left in 2014 to focus on his online education startup Udacity Inc. The

founders of all these companies worked together prior to forming their own companies to contribute to this ambitious project. This 6 year old project was finally

spun off in form of a new company by X. These category of engineers are not very common therefore they are enjoying tremendous demand for their talents.

What ambitious project ?

Question 9.

This road exists in Southern California and offers a scenic view of

the Hollywood Hills. The road has been made famous when David Lynch

directed X was released in 2001. According to Lynch, “You feel the

history of Hollywood in that road” and this was the emotion that

inspired Lynch for the title.

What Hollywood classic is this ?

Question 10.

Chris Messina never patented this idea of his which he first declared in a tweet in 2007, though the “channels” were already being defined using this on Internet Relay Chats

since 90s. This idea has been reported in a New Yorker blog post as “a more sophisticated, verbal version of the dread winking emoticon that tweens use to

signify that they’re joking.” Messina has also co-founded a company named Citizen Agency which specializes in

developing community-centric strategies around product research, design and marketing.

What idea was first proposed via the above tweet?

HASHTAGS

Question 11.

Before rejecting a job at Infosys and turning on to the path of her new career, this lady was the part of a team of three who developed an app called FontSwap during the final year of their engineering course. The app let’s users change the fonts in iPhone and there was not one app which can do this function 7-8 years ago, when they developed it

first. The trio didn’t release the app on App Store because of it’s tedious approval process.

Who was this lead developer, a recent sensation ?

Taapsee Pannu

Question 12.

Pop-Up ads for deceptive downloads.Drive-by downloads.

Hidden iframes that spread malware into websites.Malicious banners on websites.

Forums, Content management systems, helpdesks etcetera third party applications.

Listed above are some ways by which websites can be infested with advertisements and are said to be affected by X, which is a

portmanteau of two words.

Give me X.

MALVERTISING

Question 13.

Whose tweet on the

apparent drama that

went underway ?

RGV

Question 14.

After ISRO’s record breaking launch earlier the last week, this newspaper’s handle surfaced on Twitter, facing the criticism-ic wave from

many of those who were proud of this achievement. The criticism was over a

newspaper post in which this newspaper mocked India after their successful 2013

mission putting India in one of the elites of space club.

Which newspaper agency ?

New York Times

Question 15.

Decorating them has been in culture from a long time, indicated by earliest evidences dating back to 3200B.C. At that time, Chinese royalty would tint these

growths with things like eggwhites or flower petals. Around the same time, Ancient Egyptians were also doing this, where the richer Egyptian class used a darker color to

paint them whereas the poorer Egyptian painted them in light colors. During 14th-17th century in China, artificial outgrowths were available to amplify the statement made by the length of these and were used to demarcate between the noblewomen and commoners. In 1940s this became a trend with the arrival of Rita

Hayworth on the scene of Hollywood. Today, Fred Slack’s company of which he is a co-founder is one of the biggest which

deal in and produce these kind of decorative stuffs.

What item/trend is this ? (looking for 4-5 specific words in answer)

Decorating the long grown nails.

These days artificial outgrowths are being sold which can be decorated after one attaches it to the already growing nails to stylize. (? :O)

Question 16.

Malaysian agency Angkasa convened a conference of 150 ________ scientists and scholars in 2006 to combat with this dilemma when one of its member Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor faced this problem before his

journey. His problem was that the direction of this “vehicle” keeps changing and thus laws to deliver Qibla were devised as given in the

picture(left).

Thus, A Guideline of Performing Ibadah where ?

International Space Station

Question 17.

This video was released on the 10th Anniversary of founding of this company in 2015, set to the song “Alphabet Aerobics” by Blackilicious. It celebrates nothing short of an amazing tribute to all

different kinds of impossible-to-anticipate genres that this website has made possible. The momentous effect of this company has helped popular culture to develop by large amounts.

Which company ?

YOUTUBE

Question 18.

Veeram X shares its name with a literary masterpiece of 17th century. The film forms a part of the Navarasa

series by director Jayaraj, which is the emotion of sympathy. The film also takes inspirations from the Norther ballads of North Malabar region in Kerala and

tells the story of Chandu Chekavar, an infamous warrior of 13th century North Malabar, played by Kunal Kapoor.

In the words of Kunal, “It is every actors wish to play the character of _______ (and do some action

scenes too!) and thus he immediately signed it.” The movie ravels that Chandu’s ambition was his

tragic flow which eventually led to the unravelling of his life.

Identify X ?

Macbeth

Question 19.

What does this map, showing specific locations, pertains to ?

Main studio is located in Belfast, Northern Ireland and the locations can

be seen extending to Morocco.

Entry to King’s Landing

Entrance to The House of Undying

Question 20.

Leon Golden, teaching a Humanities seminar in war literature, was convinced that there existed a Homeric influence in the

novel X. Newspapers and reading groups speculated over this possibility and came up with similarities between the main

character of the novel, Y and Achilles, like, they both stew in their tents and refuse to fight, both humiliated and

oppressed by vainglorious commanding officers, they both are devastated by death of a friend and go on a

rampage afterwards. Though Y is not motivated by revenge like Achilles; instead he has his “heart cracked” by

compassion. Leon finally wrote a book comparing the two characters in 2009.

Identify the novel or the main character Y.

This tech giant recently struck a deal with The International Olympic Committee, worth $800 million, to sponsor Olympic Games till 2028. This tech giant will provide online computing services and data analytics for sporting contest. It will also help to develop an online video channel for viewers in the world’s largest consumer market. Under terms of the

agreement, this Asian giant joins The Olympic Partner worldwide sponsorship program and becomes the official “Cloud Services” and “E-

Commerce Platform Services” partner of the IOC.

Which company ?

Question 21.

FINALS• 6 Teams in finals.

• IB Forward – 19 Questions.• Differential – 6 Questions.• IB Reverse – 19 Questions.

• Long Visual Connect – 6 elements.