XCentricity 2017 QuizPrelims

By Apratim Chandra Singh

Rules

• 16 Questions in the prelims• Star Mark Questions will be announced• Top 6 teams in the finals• Pay attention to text in italics. If they weren’t important they

wouldn’t have been there.

Q1

In October of 2015, 22-year-old actor Kayode Ewumi uploaded a video to YouTube called "Hood Documentary". The short film follows deluded, hopeless – but strangely loveable – aspiring grime MC _______ ______ as he guides the viewer through "the hood", AKA a small area of south London.However he came into limelight last month when a user posted his image on Twitter with a caption. Who is he or how do we know him ?

Roll Safe

Q2

With the release of iOS 10, Apple has started this feature in iPhone where each word typed by user is predicted as an emoticon. Eg.- If a user types USA then a flag of USA will be predicted.

What emoticon does iOS predict when a user types “Lucky” ?

Four Leaf Clover

Q3These are inspiration for what ?

Maps of Counter Strike

Q4Which person and which Company ?

Reed Hastings,Netflix

Q5

A certain biggie in tech industry has asked its app developers to change their names. The updated brand guidelines also require that the XY logo cannot be modified in any way, or fully used to represent another app. The biggest losers in this bid will be apps like Xcanvas and WebstaY – which have been using these words right from the beginning. Which biggie has announced these set of guidelines ? XY is same as name of the company.

Instagram

Q6

The definition of the word according to sources is ‘a short burst of inconsequential information’.

What good word is this, which might remind you of a certain character from a detective grandmother cartoon ?

Twitter

Q7Here’s an excerpt from Business Insider“Kimbal is trying to change the way we eat by creating what he calls a "real food revolution."For over a decade, he has run two restaurant chains, The Kitchen and Next Door, which serve dishes made strictly with locally-sourced meat and veggies. In 2011, he started a nonprofit program that has installed "Learning Gardens" in over 300 schools, with the intention of teaching kids about agriculture. His latest food venture delves into the world of local urban farming. ”

Who is his more famous brother who is known to us for a completely different reason and is a rockstar in his own domain ?

Elon Musk

Q8

The X Syndrome was a peak in suicides and illness of children between the ages of 7-12 shortly after the release of Pokémon Red and Green in Japan, back in February 27th, 1996.Rumors say that these suicides and illness only occurred after the children playing the game reached X, whose theme music had extremely high frequencies, that studies showed that only children and young teens can hear, since their ears are more sensitive.Due to the tone, at least two-hundred children supposedly committed suicide, and many more developed illnesses and afflictions. What syndrome is this which despite causing horrific effects evokes a sweet and pleasant fragrance. ?

Lavendar Town Syndrome

Q9

Malwarebytes has recently discovered what they’re calling “the first Mac malware of 2017. X malware has been using antiquated code to help it run undetected for quite some time on macOS systems. It has reportedly been used in targeted attacks at biomedical research institutions.Interestingly, what very appropriate and fruitarian name has been given by Apple to this malware.

FruitFly

Q10Some of the things about the mystery man “Reggie Brown” :-1. Brown’s full name is Frank Reginald – “Reggie” – Brown IV2. Brown, who hails from South Carolina and  sports a full mop of blond hair and a toothy grin, met X cofounders while the three were at Stanford.3. Brown and _______ lived on the same floor of the freshman dorm Donner during the 2008-09 school year and soon became good buds.

Brown filed a lawsuit against the company’s two founder accusing them of pushing him out of the board and depriving him of due credit. Which company ? Which feature did he suggest which has now become sort of a trademark of the company ?

Snapchat. Disappearing photos

Q11 - Connect

Lyf Mobiles Model – Wind,Flame,Water,Earth

Q12

What is the name of the pizza ?

(Look at the image carefully)

Trump Pizza

Q13

What is the name of Huawei’s Android Mobile Phone UI ?

Perfect UI for Tin-Man

Emotion UI

Q14

Which popular company had its humble beginning from this house in Bellevue, Washington ? Wonder Woman could very well have been its brand ambassador.

Q15

According to Variety.com, the membership for this organization increased from 30 million in late 2007 to over 200 million in July 2013 with users in the age group of 6 to 14 owning large amounts of online property.

Where were these online property located?

Club Penguin

Q16

According to creator of the language, "designed to make physical calculations simple, to help ensure that answers come out right, and to make a tool that's really useful in the real world. It tracks units of measure (feet, meters, kilograms, watts, etc.) through all calculations, allowing you to mix units of measure transparently, and helps you easily verify that your answers make sense”.

After which famous nerdy scientist and professor, a graduate of _______ Heights Institute of Technology is this programming language named after ?

Professor Frink

XCentricity 2017Finals

By Apratim Chandra Singh

Rules

• Differential Pounce• +20/18/16/14/12/10 if 1/2/3/4/5/6 teams get it right and -10 if

incorrect• Total 19 Questions in the finals• QM is always right.

Q1

Philip Gale was an American pioneering Internet software developer, computer prodigy, and sophomore student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was notable for having written Total Access while at MIT, and was hired by EarthLink at the age of 16 to work on its development. After complaints of being bored and depressed, on March 13, 1998, about 7:30 p.m., Gale broke a window and jumped to his death from a classroom on the fifteenth floor of a building on the MIT campus.

Coincidentally, what was the last thing Philip Gale wrote on the blackboard of his classroom before jumping to his death ?

Newton’s Equation for Acceleration of Falling Object

Q2

Located in Longhua Town. This place has 4 swimming pools, a fire brigade, its own television network and a city centre with a grocery store, bank, restaurants, bookstore, and hospital.

Despite having such great amenities, it is one of the worst places to work for.

Which company owns this township OR By what name is this place popularly known ? <images on next slide>

Foxconn/Foxconn City

Q3 – What is this graph for ?

Top500 Supercomputers

Q4

$70 million home on 1108 North Hillcrest Drive in Beverly Hills. This 23,000-square-foot, Contemporary-style home, with a wall of glass that provides a 280-degree view of the City of Angels and the Pacific Ocean below <image of house on next slide>.

Which person who is a recent entrant to the billionaire club bought this house brick by brick ?

Markus Persson

Q5

What are these GPS Bluetooth devices used for ?

Pets

Q6

Lumen, formerly X, is a collaborative archive created by Wendy Seltzer and founded along with several law school clinics and the Electronic Frontier Foundation to protect lawful online activity from legal threats. Its website, X Clearinghouse, allows recipients of cease-and-desist notices to submit them to the site and receive information about their legal rights and responsibilities. The archive was founded in 2001 by Internet activists who were concerned that the unregulated private practice of sending cease-and-desist letters seemed to be increasing and was having an unstudied, but potentially significant, X on free speech. What’s X ?

Chilling Effect

Q7

X, then known as Peutronics, was co-founded in 1986 by Shyam Sunder Goenka and his son Bharat. Shyam Sunder Goenka was running a company that supplied raw materials and machine parts to plants and textile mills in southern and eastern India. Unable to find a software that can manage _______ __ _______, he asked his son, Bharat Goenka, 23, a math graduate to create a software that would handle financial accounts for his business. What did his son create ?

Tally

Q8

Online ticketing portal BookMyShow has acquired which Hyderabad-based online ticketing platform ?

Masti Tickets

Q9

Fallout 3 is a post-apocalyptic computer and console open-ended, action role-playing game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. It is the third major installment in the Fallout series (5th overall) and a sequel to Interplay's Fallout and Fallout 2. However due to refused classification by OFLC in Australia they decided no longer to include real world drug references. Which opiate was referenced in the game as Med-X ?

Morphine

Q10

Which company produces these pressure rice cookers ? The company is popular for a different reason altogether.

Xiaomi

Q11

“Hi From the Other Side” is an app Started by 29-year-old Henry Tsai, a student at Harvard Business School. The goal of the app isn't to convince but to get them to listen.

The app was widely appreciated by several media dailies and was one of the most popular apps in the past few months.

What does the app do ?

Connects you with a citizen who voted for the opposite party as you (Republicans and Democrats)

Q12

Tidal (stylize as TIDAL) is a subscription-based music streaming service that combines lossless audio and high definition music videos with curated editorial. The service has over 25 million tracks and 85,000 music videos. Tidal claims to pay the highest percentage of royalties to music artists and songwriters within the music streaming market. Tidal offers two digital music streaming services: Tidal Premium (lossy quality) and Tidal HiFi.

Which person owns TIDAL ?

Jay-Z

Q13

IRCTC

Q14

WhichCompany ?

ATARI

Q15 Ad by whom ?

Q16

The listing attracted 132 bids before closing at 3:45 a.m. on Feb. 7. The item was sold from Burbank, California, and even came with free standard shipping, according to the eBay listing.In a phone call, eBay confirmed to CNBC the item was valid and available for purchase, but has not yet returned a request for comment on the specific listing. Wired noted in 2015 that trolls tend to inflate the bids on "rare" and collectible items, making large offers that inevitably fall through. Oftentimes, the only consequence for not fulfilling a bid is a strike against the seller's account.What was so special about the Cheetos ? <image on next slide>

Resembled Harambe

Q17

What is the name of the unique personalisation service offered by Aston Martin ?

Q

Q18

Intel’s recent innovation is a tiny system-on a-chip (SoC) based on the Intel Quark SE. It is the size of a shirt button but includes everything required to provide compute power for wearable devices. It has raised concern from experts due to the potential radiation exposure from such devices.

After whom is this device named after ?

Curie

Q19

“Shinder is the brilliant work of entrepreneur, author, product designer, motivational speaker, and all-around-jokester Shed Shimove. He’s also behind such stunts as a book called What Every Man Thinks About Apart From Sex—the kicker: the book contains 200 blank pages—and another called Fifty Shades Of Gray, which also contains 200 blank pages, except they go from light to dark grey (four pages for every shade) as the book goes on. We haven’t explored all of Shimove’s many, many ideas, but it’s reasonable to assume that at least four more involve printing books with 200 blank pages. As for the Shinder app—tagline: “quality, not quantity”—it’s very real.” – According to an article by Menshealth.What is so special about the app “Shinder” ?

He is the only man on Shinder.

fin