ISTE SciTechBiz quiz finals

ROUND 1: DriesInfinite Bounce, Pounce

+10/-10 on the pounce+10 on the bounce

Q1) What can you buy in this building ?

Snapchat Spectacles

Q2) Why is that briefcase important? Or, what’s inside?

Contains ballots for the Oscars. Nicknamed the “Ballot Briefcase”

Q3)After Verizon bought over Yahoo’s core internet business, Yahoo’s remaining assets include its stake in Yahoo Japan and its 15% stake in X (a company).Drawing inspiration from X’s name, Yahoo will now be renamed as Y.

• Give me the company X, and the new name Y for the Yahoo Corporation

X- AlibabaY- Altaba (Alternative+Alibaba)

Q4) • Fikr Wa Talash – Afghanistan• Lion’s Den – Croatia/Germany• Dragon’s Den – UK/China/South Africa• Your Opportunity – Spain• Kapital – Russia• ___________ - USA

Shark Tank

Q5)• “I had the dates on the visa. On the Indian visa, they go the opposite

direction. If they were in the US, so November 12 would be 11/12 in the US and 12/11 here (in India). There was a misunderstanding and I flew from Beijing into Delhi without a visa and it was a scary situation”• X said this in a recent interview.• The embarrassing situation was avoided when Amitabh Kant, the CEO

of NITI Ayog interfered, and X was finally allowed into India.• ID X

Travis Kalanick (CEO of Uber) 

Q6) While working in the Royal Observatory in Paris in 1667, Danish astronomer Ole Rømer made a major discovery. His theory built on earlier ideas by Galileo, and the observance of how the timings between Jupiter’s moon eclipses changed depending on its distance from the Earth. His theories gained support from other great scientific minds of the time, including Isaac Newton and Edmond Halley.

• The recent google doodle celebrated the determination of something. What? (GIF on next slide)

Anniversary of the determination of the speed of light

Round 2: Long ConnectNON EXHAUSTIVE

Q1) +100/-50

SAFETY SLIDE

Koala

Q2) +80/-40• In literature and legend, the X is associated with fire, being

supposedly unharmed by the flames, while clothes made from its skins were believed to be incombustible. More plausibly, X’s were said to be intensely poisonous.• Despite this, X brandy, a drink prepared by dunking live X’s in

fermenting fruit juices, is reputed to have hallucinogenic and aphrodisiac properties. The X's ability to regenerate lost body parts is being investigated and research is ongoing into any applications this may have for human medicine.

• ID X

SAFETY SLIDE

Salamander

Q3) +60/-30 • ______ is a highly configurable text-based web browser for use on

cursor-addressable character cell terminals. As of 2017, it is the oldest web browser currently in general use and development, having started in 1992.

SAFETY SLIDE

Lynx

Q4) +40/-20• While companies with an unrealised value of over a billion dollars are

called Unicorns, companies with a realised outcome of over a billion dollars are called X.• X’s are called the unicorns of the sea, and possess a large “tusk” from

a protruding canine tooth• ID X

SAFETY SLIDE

Narwhal

Q5) +20/-10• X’s are heavily built animals with a bulky frame, sturdy legs, and

rounded cloven hooves, and extremely dense, long fur that hangs down lower than the belly.• It is found throughout the Himalayan region of southern central Asia,

and the Tibetan Plateau and as far north as Mongolia and Russia

• ID the animal

SAFETY SLIDE

Yak

Q6) +10/-5• The name X comes from the Malay word “Pengguling” which means

something that rolls up. • They emit a noxious acid like skunks, and are the only mammals in the

world covered in scales.

• ID X

SAFETY SLIDE

Pangolin

SAFETY SLIDE

LONG CONNECT: Animals part of Ubuntu Version names.

ROUND 3: Anticlockwise Dries

Infinite Bounce, Pounce+10/-10 on the pounce

+10 on the bounce

Q1) • What has been blanked out?

Mark Zuckerberg’s Jarvis AI

Q2) Rayouf Alhumedhi is a 15 year old girl from Germany who campaigned for something, after realizing that there was no _____ to represent her.• She made her announcement on Reddit first, and was supported by

the reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian. Her request was approved by Unicode in November 2016.• What did she help create ?

Hijab Emoji

Q3)• The traffic stats for video game consoles used to visit a particular

website is shown. Which website ?

Q4) ID XThe term X is derived from a 1970 sketch of the BBC television comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus. The sketch is set in a cafe where nearly every item on the menu includes X canned luncheon meat. The excessive amount of X mentioned in the dialogues references the abundance of it and other imported canned meat products in the United Kingdom after World War II, as the country struggled to rebuild its agricultural base. X captured a large slice of the British market within the lower classes, and became a byword among British children of the 1960s for low-grade fodder due to its commonality, monotonous taste and low price, leading to the humour of the Python sketch

Spam

Q5) Large number of Burmese Pythons have been set loose in the Florida Everglades, where they have reproduced extensively and are now an invasive species To tackle this problem, researchers have begun to telemeter some of them, which in turn lead them to others, which are then captured and euthanized. • The telemetered snakes are informally (and aptly) called “____

snakes”

• FITB

Judas Snakes

Q6)• This is a German non-profit organisation. It describes itself as “one of

the many answers to the media crisis”• Recently, a tech giant said that it would use the organisation to roll

out a new feature in its product. • Name the tech giant ? What feature ?

• (Picture on the next slide)

Facebook“Fake news” filtering/ fact checking