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Round 1

•All questions on Infinite Pounce.

• +15/-10 on Infinite Pounce and +10/0 on direct.

• Please pounce only if you know the complete answer.There won’t be any part marking on the pounce and incomplete answers will fetch you negative marks.

• Remember, The Quizmaster’s decision is final and binding.

This man took one of the most popular photographs ever. Almost everyone who has used a computer has seen it. Who is he? What is blocked out?

Charles O’Rear.

If you are to believe the NYT, this “art form” is in a “museum” which has been visited by only 2 humans. Ever. Where is this museum?

The art piece is actually small. About this small. For a reason.

Moon Museum is a small ceramic wafer three-quarters of an inch by half an inch in size, containing artworks by six prominent artists from the late 1960s. The artists with works in the "museum" are Robert Rauschenberg, David Novros, John Chamberlain, Claes Oldenburg, Forrest Myers, and Andy Warhol. This wafer was supposedly covertly attached to a leg of the Intrepid landing module, and subsequently left on the moon during Apollo 12. The moon museum is considered the first Space Art object.

Daniel Lyons worked as a senior editor at Forbes magazine and is now a writer at Newsweek. We, however, know him better as 'somebody else' who writes a popular blog. Who am I referring to?

Fake Steve Jobs…. (fakesteve.net)

What does 'TMZ' in the gossip blog TMZ.com stand for?

Thirty Mile Zone

Something is common to the way all these photos have been shot. All these were posted online on a Google+ page between April to June 2012. So what's special to the way they've been taken?

These were all taken using Google's new set of head-mounted devices that embed computing within spectacles (the project's called Project Glass). These glasses will let wearers take photos, overlay maps on the field of vision etc.

Where can you find this camera? People are surprised that this is just a 2MP camera.

Curiosity

_________: The program with a personality It will get on all your disks It will infiltrate your chips Yes, it's _______! It will stick to you like glue It will modify RAM too Send in the _______! Fill in the blanks and name the author of this 'poem'.

Elk Cloner, the first ever virus. The author, of course, is the creator of the virus Richard Skrenta

Ad for what company’s product?

Nikon S60 (advertising its face detection software which can apparently detect up to 12 faces)

In Jan/Feb 2012, Google hosted a conference to which were invited several leading technologists, scientists, and other innovators & entrepreneurs to discuss some of the world's most interesting & difficult problems. They called this an exercise in "moonshot thinking" i.e. solutions that are just beyond what is currently feasible but just enough within reality. Given the nature of the gathering (and that many videos were posted), the gathering drew comparisons with TED. The name chosen for this (and more are planned) is something that would often be the last line in an algebra problem. What?

"Solve for X".

What’s so special about E-mart’s Sunny Sale which takes place during lunchtime i.e from 12 to 1 PM.

Captain: What happen ? Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb. Operator: We get signal. Captain: What ! Operator: Main screen turn on. Captain: It’s you !! CATS: How are you gentlemen !! CATS: ______________________ CATS: You are on the way to destruction.

The quote is from the introduction sequence of a game in which the player’s enemy, the leader of CATS, appears. Give me the game or fill up the blank in the quote.

“All Your Base Belong To Us”

Zero Wing

1. 2.

3. 4.

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Biographies written by Walter Issacson.

Name the company – or at least what field the company was in – started by the person in the middle.

PropertyFinder LLC, a international real‐estate website. (The person is Anna Chapman, the Russian spy involved in the FBI‐busted Illegals Program.)

This photo of Swedish model Lena Söderberg was shot for the November 1972 centrefold of Playboy. She has been dubbed “The First Lady of the Internet”. This cropped version of her photo has an extremely important significance in a field of computer science. Why?

‘Lena’ / ‘Lenna’ is the standard test image for testing any image processing algorithm. It was chosen at the spur‐of‐the‐moment during an experiment when the researchers needed a glossy image to test dynamic output range and wanted a human face. Since then, the convention has stuck.

Who tweeted this while she was delivering her baby?

Sara Williams (@sara), wife of Twitter co‐founder Evan Williams

Named by Dan Bornstein after a small fishing village in in Eyjafjörður (Iceland), this software is in the eye of a controversy. What is it?

Android operating system's Dalvik virtual machine, for which Oracle is suing Google for infringing on its intellectual property.

Connect….

Apple's Siri has a desi counterpart - Micromax AISHA

Micromax has launched its A50 Superfone Ninja handset, which comes with a voice assistant - AISHA (Artificial Intelligence Speech Handset Assistant).

Google Doodle for???

9 April 2012 - Eadweard J. Muybridge was an English photographer best known for his breakthrough work in using multiple cameras to capture animal movement

What is being ‘íntroduced’/’described’ here???

LinkedIn describing the acquisition of SlideShare in a small SlideShare presentation.

Round 2

• Progressive clues round. +15/-10 if you answer on the first clue +10/-5 if you answer on the second one +5/0 if you answer on the third one.

• Only one pounce allowed per question.

• All questions on infinite pounce.

• On the pounce: +20/-10 on the first clue. +15/-10 on the second one. +10/-10 on the third one.

Spam….

Hormel Foods logo (They own the trademark for the term 'Spam' - it's a product by their company)

Monty Python figures (The usage of 'spam' do denote junk mail was inspired by a Monty Python sketch)

US coverage map

LG

Lucky Goldstar (That's what LG stands for)

Chocolate (LG has a cellphone named Chocolate)

Motorola

Galvin brothers (Founders of Motorola)

DynaTAC8000X (First cellphone)

Abhishek Bachchan (Brand embassador for Motorola in India)

Spore

xkcd comic on spore

Spores

Sims (The people who made Sims made Spore)

Round 3

•All questions on Infinite Pounce.

• +15/-10 on Infinite Pounce and +10/0 on direct.

• Please pounce only if you know the complete answer.There won’t be any part marking on the pounce and incomplete answers will fetch you negative marks.

• Remember, The Quizmaster’s decision is final and binding.

This professor accidentally (re)named a company after getting their spelling wrong. Who is he, which company and where did he get the spelling wrong.

David Cheriton, who wrote a $100,000 check for “Google” instead of “Googol”

Who is she??

Alison Carroll, the official Lara Croft model as of 2008 for the latest game Tomb Raider: Underworld.

Identify the ad campaign and the company.

The Future Is Open / The Open Child (accept both) by IBM

The funding for this particular project was done through Bomis.com, which billed itself as 'the best babe search engine on the Web'. Which project?

Wikipedia

“X” is an acronym for the phrase “Y”, which is often used as a hashtag on Twitter to bring attention to exciting events or excuse irresponsible behaviors. The acronym was popularized in 2011 after being featured in the hip hop single “The Motto” by Drake. UrbanDictionary defines X as: “The dumbass's excuse for something stupid that they did Also one of the most annoying abbreviations ever....” Guy 1: "Hey i heard that you broke ur leg falling off the balcony at that party" Dumbass 1: "Ya but hey X“ Identify X and Y. Hint-X as a meme is all over Facebook these days.

On January 20, 2012, the New Zealand Police placed this person in custody under the charges of criminal copyright infringement in relation to his Megaupload Web site. Who am I talking about???

Kim Dotcom

This is a photo of Liu Yang with her husband in tranquil, domestic settings. With which divine vessel (nothing to do with her kitchen) was she associated with for thirteen days in June 2012?

She was China's first female 'taikonaut' (or astronaut) and was part of the Shenzhou 9 space docking mission. "Shenzhou" can be translated into 'divine vessel'

The following is an excerpt from a company's "About Us"

webpage. Just fill in the two blanks OR give me the

company’s name.

When we were kids we loved playing around

with cameras –

we loved how all the old Polaroid cameras

marketed themselves as '_____' (something

we take for granted today).

We also felt that the snapshots people were

taking were kind of like _____ in that they got

sent over the wire to others – so we figured

why not combine the two?

The missing words are "instant" and "telegrams" respectively. This is from Instagram's website, and explains how the popular iPhone app (acquired for a billion dollars by Facebook in April 2012) gets its name.

One from the world of google: Just give me the first three search queries(Partial marking only if u get 2 out of 3 correct)

The name of this website is a play on the word ‘video’ and is also an anagram of the word ‘movie’. Which website???

“Being generally of a cheerful nature, I thought we’d avoid the Predatory Panther and Primeval Possum. Neither sounds like great company for a seven year journey, really. Same goes for the Peccable Peccary, Pawky Python and Perfidious Puku. So many bullets to dodge round here!” “Balancing all of those options, I think we have just the right mix in our designated mascot for ____ LTS. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the_____________.”

Complete both the blanks…..

What happens when you type "make love" in some UNIX operating systems?

‘not war’. NOTE: On some other systems, this returns ‘Don’t know how to make love’.

Who is she and what is her claim to fame???

Jade Raymond,The producer of Assassin’s Creed

What does this map represent? (Hint: The Economist : Big Mac Index :: Commonwealth Securities : ___________ )

Connect/what’s the fourth in the list?

Old Wikipedia Logos.

The Department of Motor Vehicles in Nevada recently granted a license to a Toyota Prius car. Ordinarily, this would have been a routine affair, but not in this case. This car was given the license plate number of "001". The license plate will be in red and sport the lemniscate symbol used to indicate "infinity". If you see this car whizzing past you, who would be driving it?

No one. This is the first ever driver-less car granted a license. Built by Google, this is an experimental car with a mounted camera and lots of artificial intelligence software.