The Tech Quiz Shrinidhi Kulkarni SJCE Grey Cells

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Rules• Every prime numbered question is star marked. These

will be used in case of a tie.

• There are 20 questions.

• All questions are compulsory. Leaving any blank will lead to negative points.

• Anyone cheating will be punished by God and sent to hell with dial-up speed Internet.

“The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply

and be quite insane.”

1• Whose Twitter account description goes like this?

I used to work for the government. Now I work for the public. Director at @FreedomofPress.

2*Which company made a parody of Alphabet's web address by buying the domain name abc.wtf and redirecting it to one of their websites?

3*X is a question answering (QA) computing system that Y built to apply advanced natural language processing, information retrieval, knowledge representation, automated reasoning, and machine learning technologies to the field of open domain question answering.

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5*A X is a testing environment that isolates untested code changes and/of software development including Web development and revision control.

The Google X Effect is a theory used to explain why newly-registered domains or domains with frequent ownership changes rank poorly in Google Search Engine Results Pages (SERPS). In other words new websites are put into a “ X ” or a holding area and have their search ratings on hold until they can prove worthy of ranking.

You might have encountered it on Wikipedia where every user is given his/her X for testing purposes.

6In 1968, scientist Spencer Silver at 3M company created a very weak adhesive that would peel off when removed from any surface. The funny thing was that he was in fact trying to create a super strong adhesive. No one thought there was any use for such a product until another scientist, Art Fry, realized that the little pieces of paper made great book marks for his church songs without leaving residue on the page. Which famous invention am I talking about?

7*X was a shock site which presented uncensored news coverage and multimedia material based for the most part on war, accidents and executions.

Much of the material depicted was graphic, uncensored, gory videos and images. The content was depicted as a means to challenge the viewer, with its catch line being "can you handle life?", but later changed to "uncover reality" after the site received a major design overhaul with aims of becoming more open to the general public and become a respected "alternative news service".

Since the beginning of November 2006, X redirects to Y which was registered in October 2006, featuring mostly user submitted videos and allowing the embedding of media on other sites.

8God, grant me the serenity to accept the pages I cannot edit,

The courage to edit the pages I can,

And the wisdom to know the difference.

What is the name of the prayer?

9Connect the following games

• Pac-Man

• Tetris

• Another World

• Myst

• SimCity 2000

• vib-ribbon

• The Sims

• KatamariDamacy

• EVE Online

• Dwarf Fortress

• Portal

• flOw

• Passage

• Canabalt

101.Do not give opinions or advice unless you are asked.

2. Do not tell your troubles to others unless you are sure they want to hear them.

3. When in another’s lair, show him respect or else do not go there.

4. If a guest in your lair annoys you, treat him cruelly and without mercy.

5. Do not make sexual advances unless you are given the mating signal.

6. Do not take that which does not belong to you unless it is a burden to the other person and he cries out to be relieved.

7. Acknowledge the power of magic if you have employed it successfully to obtain your desires. If you deny the power of magic after having called upon it with success, you will lose all you have obtained.

8. Do not complain about anything to which you need not subject yourself.

9. Do not harm little children.

10. Do not kill non-human animals unless you are attacked or for your food.

11. When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask him to stop. If he does not stop, destroy him.

11*The Industrial design (Product Design) of this device were done by Professor A G Rao and Professor Ravi Poovaiah both faculty members at the Industrial Design Centre, IIT Bombay. The electronics of the device was done by ECIL, HYDERABAD. These devices were subject of various controversies yet they are in use.

Which device?

12• What are these called?

13*This is a product of the IT firm 'Innovazion'. According to the CEO Gagneja, “By building this software, we wanted to...congratulate the current government. We also want to pass a message to the government that the nation has high expectations from them.”

Which software is this?

14The material used to make X is an alloy of 2 rare Earth elements. The estimated cost of the most advanced version of X is a few hundred million dollars.

Some of the many “unbelievable” features of X are the User Interface and the computer providing offline support to the person using X, and the manner in which the energy from the power source is converted to a stabilized electricity supply to allow the various components of X to function in the less than ideal situation in which an X may be used. X?

15In 2007, pharmacies across New Zealand began dispensing a new formulation of Eltroxin - a thyroid hormone replacement. Initial reports of side effects of the drug, included eye pain, itching, and nausea. In the 18 months following the release of the new tablet, the rate of adverse event reporting rose nearly 2,000-fold.

The strange thing was, the active ingredient in the drug was exactly the same. Laboratory testing proved that the new formulation was equivalent to the old one. The only change was that the drug-maker had altered the tablets’ size, color, and markings. What is the scientific phenomenon associated with the reason for why people were getting sick?

16The reason for this is attributed to the perfectionist characteristic of Jobs. When Steve Jobs orchestrated the launch event of iPhone during Macworld 2007, it was a presentation on stage carried out by Jobs for more than an hour. During such keynote he starts with some introductory slides, company sales- report and in the middle of keynote, generally launches a new product with ads on the big screen on stage.

He wanted all the things to be in sync as per his calculations thus he asked his design team to tweak every minute detail in order to match his plan, this led to a common practice which can even be seen in latest product release. What practice ?

17*How has Chandauli, a village situated 150 miles from Delhi become one of the most talked about place in the recent days ?

18CategoryOxide mineralFormulaAluminium oxide, Al2O3

ColorTypically blue, but variesCrystal habitAs crystals, massive and granular

Mohs scale hardness9.0LusterVitreousSpecific gravity3.95–4.03

Optical properties

Abbe number 72.2

Refractive indexnω=1.768–1.772nε=1.760–1.763,

Melting point2,030–2,050 °CFusibilityInfusibleSolubilityInsolubleOther characteristicsCoefficient of thermal expansion (5.0–6.6)×10−6/Krelative permittivity at 20 °Cε = 8.9–11.1 (anisotropic)

19*X was first created in 1976 by Phil Foglio. Developer Mike O'Brien, who was working as a bonded locksmith at the time, opened a wall safe in Foglio's Chicago apartment after a roommate had "split town" without leaving the combination.

In return, Foglio agreed to create it for O'Brien, who gave him some Polaroid snaps of a PDP-11 system running UNIX along with some notions about visual puns having to do with pipes, demons/daemons, forks, a "bit bucket" named /dev/null and so on. Foglio's creation showed four happy little red daemon characters carrying tridents and climbing about on (or falling off of) water pipes in front of a caricature of a PDP-11 and was used for the first national UNIX meeting in the US (which was held in Urbana, Illinois)

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Prelims Answers The Tech Quiz | SJCE Grey Cells

1• Whose Twitter account description goes like this?

I used to work for the government. Now I work for the public. Director at @FreedomofPress.

Edward Snowden

2*Which company made a parody of Alphabet's web address by buying the domain name abc.wtf and redirecting it to one of their websites?

Microsoft, Bing

3*X is a question answering (QA) computing system that Y built to apply advanced natural language processing, information retrieval, knowledge representation, automated reasoning, and machine learning technologies to the field of open domain question answering.

IBM Watson

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5*A X is a testing environment that isolates untested code changes and/of software development including Web development and revision control.

The Google X Effect is a theory used to explain why newly-registered domains or domains with frequent ownership changes rank poorly in Google Search Engine Results Pages (SERPS). In other words new websites are put into a “ X ” or a holding area and have their search ratings on hold until they can prove worthy of ranking.

You might have encountered it on Wikipedia where every user is given his/her X for testing purposes.

Sandbox

6In 1968, scientist Spencer Silver at 3M company created a very weak adhesive that would peel off when removed from any surface. The funny thing was that he was in fact trying to create a super strong adhesive.

Which famous invention am I talking about?

Sticky Notes

7*X was a shock site which presented uncensored news coverage and multimedia material based for the most part on war, accidents and executions.

Much of the material depicted was graphic, uncensored, gory videos and images. The content was depicted as a means to challenge the viewer, with its catch line being "can you handle life?", but later changed to "uncover reality" after the site received a major design overhaul with aims of becoming more open to the general public and become a respected "alternative news service".

Since the beginning of November 2006, X redirects to Y which was registered in October 2006, featuring mostly user submitted videos and allowing the embedding of media on other sites.

OgrishLiveleak

8God, grant me the serenity to accept the pages I cannot edit,

The courage to edit the pages I can,

And the wisdom to know the difference.

What is the name of the prayer?

The Wiki Prayer

9Connect the following games

• Pac-Man

• Tetris

• Another World

• Myst

• SimCity 2000

• vib-ribbon

• The Sims

• KatamariDamacy

• EVE Online

• Dwarf Fortress

• Portal

• flOw

• Passage

• Canabalt

The only 14 games in the Museum of Modern Art

101.Do not give opinions or advice unless you are asked.

2. Do not tell your troubles to others unless you are sure they want to hear them.

3. When in another’s lair, show him respect or else do not go there.

4. If a guest in your lair annoys you, treat him cruelly and without mercy.

5. Do not make sexual advances unless you are given the mating signal.

6. Do not take that which does not belong to you unless it is a burden to the other person and he cries out to be relieved.

7. Acknowledge the power of magic if you have employed it successfully to obtain your desires. If you deny the power of magic after having called upon it with success, you will lose all you have obtained.

8. Do not complain about anything to which you need not subject yourself.

9. Do not harm little children.

10. Do not kill non-human animals unless you are attacked or for your food.

11. When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask him to stop. If he does not stop, destroy him.

The Satanic Bible

11*The Industrial design (Product Design) of this device were done by Professor A G Rao and Professor Ravi Poovaiah both faculty members at the Industrial Design Centre, IIT Bombay. The electronics of the device was done by ECIL, HYDERABAD. These devices were subject of various controversies yet they are in use.

Which device?

EVM

12• What are these called?

Yoodles

13*This is a product of the IT firm 'Innovazion'. According to the CEO Gagneja, “By building this software, we wanted to...congratulate the current government. We also want to pass a message to the government that the nation has high expectations from them.”

Which software is this?

Na-Mo Antivirus

14The material used to make X is an alloy of 2 rare Earth elements. The estimated cost of the most advanced version of X is a few hundred million dollars.

Some of the many “unbelievable” features of X are the User Interface and the computer providing offline support to the person using X, and the manner in which the energy from the power source is converted to a stabilized electricity supply to allow the various components of X to function in the less than ideal situation in which an X may be used. X?

Iron Man Suit

15In 2007, pharmacies across New Zealand began dispensing a new formulation of Eltroxin - a thyroid hormone replacement. Initial reports of side effects of the drug, included eye pain, itching, and nausea. In the 18 months following the release of the new tablet, the rate of adverse event reporting rose nearly 2,000-fold.

The strange thing was, the active ingredient in the drug was exactly the same. Laboratory testing proved that the new formulation was equivalent to the old one. The only change was that the drug-maker had altered the tablets’ size, color, and markings. What is the scientific phenomenon associated with the reason for why people were getting sick?

The Nocebo Effect

16The reason for this is attributed to the perfectionist characteristic of Jobs. When Steve Jobs orchestrated the launch event of iPhone during Macworld 2007, it was a presentation on stage carried out by Jobs for more than an hour. During such keynote he starts with some introductory slides, company sales- report and in the middle of keynote, generally launches a new product with ads on the big screen on stage.

He wanted all the things to be in sync as per his calculations thus he asked his design team to tweak every minute detail in order to match his plan, this led to a common practice which can even be seen in latest product release. What practice ?

17*How has Chandauli, a village situated 150 miles from Delhi become one of the most talked about place in the recent days ?

The first town powered by internet.org

18CategoryOxide mineralFormulaAluminium oxide, Al2O3

ColorTypically blue, but variesCrystal habitAs crystals, massive and granular

Mohs scale hardness9.0LusterVitreousSpecific gravity3.95–4.03

Optical properties

Abbe number 72.2

Refractive indexnω=1.768–1.772nε=1.760–1.763,

Melting point2,030–2,050 °CFusibilityInfusibleSolubilityInsolubleOther characteristicsCoefficient of thermal expansion (5.0–6.6)×10−6/Krelative permittivity at 20 °Cε = 8.9–11.1 (anisotropic)

Sapphire

19*X was first created in 1976 by Phil Foglio. Developer Mike O'Brien, who was working as a bonded locksmith at the time, opened a wall safe in Foglio's Chicago apartment after a roommate had "split town" without leaving the combination.

In return, Foglio agreed to create it for O'Brien, who gave him some Polaroid snaps of a PDP-11 system running UNIX along with some notions about visual puns having to do with pipes, demons/daemons, forks, a "bit bucket" named /dev/null and so on. Foglio's creation showed four happy little red daemon characters carrying tridents and climbing about on (or falling off of) water pipes in front of a caricature of a PDP-11 and was used for the first national UNIX meeting in the US (which was held in Urbana, Illinois)

BSD Daemon

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Microsoft Surface Book

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Finals The Tech Quiz | SJCE Grey Cells

BazingaDry Round

Bounce and Pounce+10/-5

“Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When

they separate, man is no more.”

1This product announced on April 1 did not sound plausible as at that time its competitors offered less than 1/250th as much. That led many reasonably savvy folks to assume it was a hoax, especially since the announcement had an odd, jokey feel to it, and the service was allegedly rolling out to a “a handful” of people.

It however was real and the roll out to select people only was a result of the inadequate resources the company had and were forced to use 300 old Pentium computers that nobody wanted in the company.

Which product that revolutionized its industry codenamed Caribou are we talking about?

gmail.com

2Room 40 was an organisation formed in October 1914 which consisted of a linguist, an expert on Persia, a British classical archaeologist ,a Professor of Ancient History, a papyrologist, a scholar of German literature among others. For what specific purpose was it established?

Breaking the Enigma machine

3X was originally designed as a submission for a Linux logo contest. Three such competitions took place; X won none of them.X was created by Larry Ewing using the first publicly released version (0.54) of GIMP, a free software graphics package. It was released by him under the following condition:

Permission to use and/or modify this image is granted provided you acknowledge me lewing@isc.tamu.edu and The GIMP if someone asks.

Tux, the linux mascot

4The company was founded by Nick Woodman in 2002.

Woodman started the company following a 2002 surf trip to Australia in which he was hoping to capture quality action photos of his surfing, but could not because amateur photographers could not get close enough, or obtain quality equipment at reasonable prices.

His desire for a camera system that could capture the professional angles inspired its name.

GoPro

5With which tech company would you associate the musical notes D flat, D flat, G flat, D flat, A flat ?

Intel, the Intel jingle

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Windows Codenames• Chicago - Windows 95

• Memphis - Windows 98

• Whistler - Windows XP

• Longhorn - Windows Vista

• Vienna - Windows 7

• Apollo - Windows Phone 8

• Blue - Windows Phone 8.1

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