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Senior Quiz Finals The Digilogous "Ready?? because We are gonna tickle your brains" -Sergey Brain

Senior quiz finals Digilogous 2014 (Rukmini Devi Public School)

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  • 1. Senior Quiz FinalsThe Digilogous"Ready?? because We are gonna tickle your brains"-Sergey Brain

2. Round OneThis round wins you the quiz-Said No Quizmaster Ever 3. Question One This is a picture of the first headquarters of whichtech company? 4. Quora 5. Question Two Not the most famous video game, certainly, but itcreated history by introducing something that isvery common in video games today. What did itintroduce? 6. First FPS 7. Question Three Which video game is this, which was recently incontroversy? 8. Bomb Gaza(Please dont!) 9. Question FourBook based on whom? 10. Jeff Bezos 11. Question Five This is a wall in the headquarters of a companybased in Palo Alto. What are the plaques about? 12. A Closer Look 13. Patents recently made open-source by TeslaMotors 14. Question Six Where would you find the words 'OSAKEYHITO'and 'AKTIBOLAC'? 15. Original Nokia Logo 16. Question SevenX is a an artificially intelligent (AI) character in the Y. Voiced by Jen Taylor, sheappears in Y and its sequels, she also appears in several of the franchise's novelsand comics.In the story, X is instrumental in preventing the activation of the Y installations,which would have destroyed all sentient life in the galaxy.X's original design was based on the Egyptian queen Nefertiti; the character'srepresentation always takes the form of a woman. Taylor described portraying X aschallenging, due to the character's lack of a physical form. X and Y were firstintroduced through the X Letters, cryptic emails sent during Combat Evolved'sproduction in 1999.Since then, the character has been used extensively toadvertise the series. 17. X Cortana Y Halo 18. Question Eight To create a new standard takes something thatsnot just a little bit different. It takes somethingthats really new and captures peoplesimaginations. Macintosh meets that standard This quote was a part of an advertisement byApple in 1984. Who said it? 19. William Henry Gates III a.k.a Bill gates 20. Question Nine X was a microprocessor developer that was foundedin 1988 in Richardson, Texas as a specialist supplierof high-performance math coprocessors for 286 and386 microprocessors. The company was foundedTom Brightman and Jerry Rogers.Founder, Presidentand CEO Jerry Rogers aggressively recruitedengineers and pushed them, eventually assembling asmall but efficient design team of 30 people. X merged with National Semiconductor on 11November 1997. 21. Cyrix 22. Question Ten ad of? 23. WordStar the first text editor featuringWYSIWYG 24. Question Eleven He was the founder and chairman of Internet UsersClub of India, which was established in 1995. Theworld wide web was introduced in India in the mid-90s, but he was online way before that, through aBritish telecom service connection established withthe help of Steve Jobs. He was known as theYahoo man of India, although he had nothing to dowith the technology company. He had a websitewww.junglee.org.in. Who? 25. Shammi Kapoor 26. Round TwoWhy only pics? A/V too- Sundar Picture Aai 27. ON BUZZER 28. Question One This song by Suzanne Vega was a first, withrespect to a certain technology. What is its claimto fame? 29. First MP3.She is often referred to as Mother of the MP3 30. Question Two The Chuck Norris is obviously person, in this video. This is a TV adfor which game? 31. World of Warcraft. 32. Question Three This is a concept called PaperTab. It is by which techcompany? 33. Intel 34. Question Four C2f of this song? (believe by cher , played) 35. first song to useautotune 36. Round ThreeThe very same as the first round. Added to make you feel that the quiz isbadhalong enough- Hugo Badha 37. Question 1When I grew up I was lucky because I was in Silicon Valley.When I was ten or eleven I saw my first computer. It wasdown at NASA Ames (Research Center). I didn't see thecomputer, I saw a terminal and it was theoretically acomputer on the other end of the wire. I fell in love with it. Isaw my first desktop computer at Hewlett-Packard whichwas called the 9100A. It was the first desktop in the world.It ran BASIC and APL I think. I fell in love with it. And Ithought, looking at these statistics in 1979, I thought if therewas just one computer in every school, some of the kidswould find it. It will change their life.Who? 38. Steve Jobs 39. Question 2 When new employees for a certain company arehired, the CEO has a tradition of taking them on atour through San Francisco as an effort to makethe new hires indulge in honesty andtrustworthiness, and to introduce them to thecompanys vision. The first thing he shows them isa statue of Gandhi. Trustworthiness is especiallyneeded for this particular company, because theyare essentially playing with peoples money.Who is this CEO? Which company? 40. Jack Dorsey Square 41. Question 3Acquired recently by Google, X is a small product designfirm, named after an animalYou've almost certainly come across one of the productsX has helped design. There's the original Fitbit, for one,to say nothing of Jawbone's early Bluetooth headsets,the friendly looking One Laptop Per Child notebook, theslingbox and a whole host of Dell PCs over the years.ID X 42. AnswerGecko 43. Question Four Ying Hang "Hannah" Zhang, an employee ofStarbucks, in San Francisco, was the victim of one ofthe most famous pranks of all time. Someone ordereda huge volume of lattes over the phone, as a part of aprank. Who made the call? What was special about it? 44. Steve Jobs First public iPhone call 45. Question FiveX is a name given retrospectively to a demonstration ofexperimental computing technologies that are nowcommonplace on December 6, 1968.The live demonstration featured the introduction of thecomputer mouse, video conferencing, teleconferencing,hypertext, word processing, hypermedia, object addressingand dynamic file linking, boot strapping, and a collaborativereal-time editor.This name coined in 1994 references a name used bySaddam Hussein to describe the 1991 Gulf War.Identify X. No points for identifying who demonstrated thetechnologies. 46. Mother of all demos 47. Question Six He is the author of several Personal AnnualReports that weave numerous measurementsinto a tapestry of graphs, maps and statistics toreflect the years activities. He is also the co-founderof Daytum.com, and is a former memberof the product design team at Facebook. Hispopularity rose in 2005, when he decided topublish something that documented the previousyear in an interactive manner. Who? 48. Nick Felton 49. Question Seven He is the mastermind behind one of the mosticonic products of the 21st century, somethingthat changed a lot of industries drastically.He left that company in 2008, after leading thedevelopment of revolutionary products for adecade. He got the inspiration for his next startupon a vacation, where he felt that thermostatswere too cumbersome to use, and went on toredesign them. Who? 50. Tony Fadell (founder of nest) 51. Question Eight In 2013, some Google employees were busy inmaking an Android version fragmentation graphto plan out a future strategy to eliminate it. Theywanted to unify the Android experience for alldevices, yet keeping the device diversity. Whatdid this graph inspire? 52. The Android Kitkat Easter Egg. 53. Question Nine Why does this car have a pink mustache? 54. Car by Lyft 55. Question Ten Following the series' cancellation, Rob Thomas wrote a feature film scriptcontinuing the storyline, but Warner Bros. opted not to fund the project atthe time. On March 13, 2013, Thomas and star Kristen Bell launched afundraising campaign to produce the X through Kickstarter, offering variousincentives to those who donated $10 or more. Bell, Thomas, EnricoColantoni, Ryan Hansen, and Jason Dohring appeared in a video promotingthe campaign,and it attained the $2 million goal in less than ten hours. In its first day on Kickstarter, the project broke the record as the fastestproject to reach first $1 million, then $2 million; it also achieved the highestminimal pledging goal achieved and was the largest successful project of itskind on Kickstarter.On its final campaign day, the project broke the recordfor the most backers on a single Kickstarter project, previously held by theDouble Fine Adventure.Afterwards, X earned a greenlight from WarnerBros. Digital Distribution. ID X 56. Veronica Mars 57. Question Eleven "Slowly and steadily we are getting rid of our earthly formand ascending into the next stage, the cloud.The cloud, or Brahman as the hindus call it, is the All,surrounding everything. It is everywhere; immaterial, yetvery real.Any attempt to attack us from now on is an attack oneverything and nothing. We exist only in a higher form ofbeing. A reality to us. A ghost to those who wish to harmus.Adapt or be forever forgotten beneath the veils of maya."What is this about? 58. The Pirate Bay's moving to the cloud 59. Question Twelve X knows, X space, X encyclopedia, X Love, X Yi,X Library... These are some products by achinese giant. X was founded by Eric Xu along with one anotherperson. ID X 60. Baidu 61. Question Thirteen This project by musician Neil Young claims to bea postmodern iPod, promoting "high-resolution"music and audio twice as good as extremelyexpensive audio equipment in 10^-4 the price. Itwas criticised for being an expensive version ofan MP3 player which cannot fit into a pocket,althoughh the designer claims otherwise. What? 62. Pono 63. Question Fourteen While shooting RoboCop (1987), the directordid not have enough budget to displayeverything they wanted to show. So instead ofbuying all the equipment, they decided thattelephone switching equipment would be agood-enough substitute, since most people didnot have a real idea of how the real equipmentlooked. What did they originally intend to show,which was replaced by telephone switches? 64. Personal computer 65. Question fifteenIt is a term that originated with Kodak film cameras,which involved a process of making colour footagewhich was less expensive than other prevalentmethods, but led to a degradation in the colours andmade certain colours like blue appear vivid, whiledownplaying the reds. This term has come to meansomething completely different in India, referring to theuncanniness of ones attire, taking a cue fromBollywood films of yore, which used this technology.Which term? 66. Eastman Color 67. Question SixteenEthan Zuckerman was a designer and programmer forthe early web-hosting service Tripod.com when a carcompany freaked out. The unspecified manufacturerhad bought a banner ad on a page and was not toopleased with it because of certain reasons. Zuckermanthen wrote the code to solve the problem. What did hecode? 68. First Pop-up ad 69. Round FourJoin em up!- Peter Siel 70. Question One 71. Reliance EntertainmentLincoln and real steel producedby themacquired codemasters and jumpgamesreleased pacific rim underreliance game studiobigadda their own company 72. Question Two 73. Amazon (acquired/owns all the companies) Stolen child , first movie produced by them 74. Question ThreeConnect 75. Ubuntu codenames 76. Question Four 77. HP (trip Hawkins palm CEO , steve worked at HP, pic of 9100A , their first product an audiooscillator was used in that movie fantasia) 78. Question Five 79. All are indiegogo projects 80. Question Six 81. Intel 82. "Lets break some ground doors now'-Daya"Iska Matlab Samjhe daya? In Questions me matlab hai! Matlab ye questionsmatlab wale hain. Matlab ye workable hain'-ACP PradyumanRound Five 83. Question One In 2007, Steve Jobs's mind was blown. A youngsoftware engineer from MIT had reverseengineered Apple's file system to show hisstartup's logo elegantly displayed in Finder,something which not even Apple's SWAT teamcould do. Who was that software engineer? 84. Drew Houston Dropbox 85. Question Two This IITian, who earlier used to work with RediffIndia, founded a startup called TenTenTen, whichmakes apps for connecting brands withcustomers. He became a social media celebrity,and shot to fame in little time. He is famous forhis puns, and calls himself an armchair thinkerand excessive drinker. Who? 86. Ramesh Srivats 87. Question Three This new Indian social media fad was inspiredfrom something that went viral recently. It wasoriginally started by Hyderabad based ManjuLatha Kalanidhi. She defines it as "My own local,practical and tangible version/response to ___.",for which she received instant appreciation. Whatis it called? 88. #RiceBucketChallenge 89. Question FourThis company intended this as a harmless joke on a daymeant for jokes, but the joke instead turned on them. Inspiredby Google and a few other technology companies, this Indiancompany decided to follow suit and made an April fools jokeabout offering its services at an unheard-of price. Manypeople, instead of realising it was a joke, took it seriously, andrepeatedly flogged the companys website for availing theservices, as promised in joke. This led to the website crashingdue to the huge number of simultaneous visitors, and led tothe company suffering huge losses for the day. Whichcompany, and what joke was it? 90. Answer : Spicejet...Theyjoked that the price of theirticket reduced to 1 Rupee 91. Question Five Paula Scher, a designer in the firm Pentagram,asked a crucial question which defined it's futureprogress. She asked Sam Moreau, "Why are youa flag?"Keeping this in mind, Pentagram designed it'snew form. What am I talking about? 92. The Windows 8 Logo 93. Question Six The first amongst this kind of systems wasinstalled by Siemens in Germany, for Adolf Hitlerto observe the V2 rocket launch. Robert Goddard,the head of the project, had invited Hitler to thegrounds, but he wanted to have a closer look atthe rocket being launched. An engineer, WalterBruch, suggested the use of this system totransmit the signal to Berlin, which was also beingused to map the trajectory of the rocket. Whichtechnology? 94. CCTV Camera 95. Question Seven "Let us join this mass movement towardsSurajaya, and realise the hopes and aspirationsof the people and take india to greater heights!" This was a part of Narendra Modi's speech whenhe launched a government programme to bridgethe gap between the people the government.What was this about? 96. Mygov.in 97. "This Round is a Game Changer"-Says Every Quizmaster NowRound Six"Last Round"-Jhulewala 98. Question One X was a huge fan of a game by Y. In fact, such a huge fan, that Xnamed one of his family member after the lead character in Z. A petition to include a memorial dedicated to X in a future outingfor video game character Z has reached over 100,000signatures. The online petition reads, "X was an avid player of video games,with a love for all things Y, and a particular love of all things Z. A similar Change.org petition, which ran last week, hassuccessfuly ensured X will appear as an NPC (Non-PlayingCharacter) in World of Warcraft. 99. X -> Robin Williams Y -> Nintendo Z -> Legend of Zelda 100. Question Two X is a new technology review website founded byY, a reputed technology journalist who worked forThe Wall Street Journal for over 40 years. He isfamous for his weekly technology columns, andtelevision interviews.He hosted one of the most famous interviews inthe tech world at a conference organized by AllThings Digital in 2005, with Steve Jobs and Z. 101. X Re/code Y Walt Mossberg Z Bill Gates 102. Question Three Z, a company founded by X and Krispian Lawrence with theaim of taking wearable technology to the people recentlyunveiled a new product Y (world's first interactive footwear),named after the Hindi word for "take me there". Y wasstarted in 2010 with a simple sketch and an Arduinoprototype. The unobtrusive design of Y is its mostsignificant feature. The system comprises of a mechanismthat condenses complex geographical navigationalinformation and lets the user feel the directional andproximity information through vibrations which even acts asa navigation aid for the blind. Y sync over Bluetooth to anapp that pulls your path from Google Maps 103. answer X --> Anirudh Sharma Y --> Lechal Z --> Ducere Technologies 104. Question four X appeared at the kickoff event for the 2011 FIRST Robotics Competition,Logo Motion held at Southern New Hampshire University. He stated that heis "a big fan", and that the newly unveiled game was "dope". In January 2011, Y named X as director of creative innovation, with input indeveloping smartphones, tablets and laptops.In January 2012, he appearedon the BBC TV series Top Gear, as the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car,where he revealed he will be starting his own car company called Z. Expanding his forays into iPhone accessory development, X has announcedplans to release a camera enhancer that will "dramatically enhance theclarity and definition of iPhone photographs,". X also revealed his ownsmartwatch during the final episode of The Voice on Saturday. X alsopromised that he will create robot dogs that sing and dance in time forChristmas 105. answer X --> will.i.am Y --> intel Z --> IAMAUTO 106. Question 5 In 2008, X was named to the MIT Technology Review TR35 as oneof the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35.For 2012,The Wall Street Journal gave him the "Innovator of the Year Award"for technology. Some of the open source software he created when he was 13 is stillused by many taxi cab companies. X also started his company todispatch couriers, taxis, and emergency services from the Web. When he first saw implementations of a technology, X wonderedwhether the software's user status output could be shared. He approached Y, which at the time happened to be interested in thesame thing. The idea attracted many users at Y and investment from Z who hadleft Google after selling it Pyra Labs and Blogger. The current CEO of this company is the founder of Feedburner 107. X Jack dorsey Y Odeo Z Evan Williams 108. End of quizSir Jo na tha Ive 109. Extra Questions 110. Question Four Ad taken outby customersof a companyfor whom? 111. Question 6 The X video game burial was a mass burial of unsold video gamecartridges, consoles, and computers in a New Mexico landfill site,undertaken by X in 1983 whose founder is Y and Ted Dabney The goods disposed of through the burial are generally believed tohave been unsold copies of Z, a game which had become one ofthe biggest commercial failures in video gaming and is often citedas one of the worst video games ever released; and a port of Pac-Man, which had been commercially successful but criticallymaligned. A documentary was filmed and the site was excavated by FuelIndustries and Microsoft which plans to air the documentary. 112. Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson were two engineers who had beenworking at MIT Lincoln Laboratory on the lab's various computerprojects.These had started in 1944 with the famed Whirlwind whichwas originally developed to make a flight simulator for the US Navy,although this was never completed. When the Air Force project wounddown, the Lab turned their attention to an effort to build a version of theWhirlwind using transistors in place of vacuum tubes. In order to testtheir new circuitry, they first built a small 18-bit machine known as TX-0which first ran in 1956. At MIT, Olsen and Anderson noticed somethingodd: students would line up for hours to get a turn to use the stripped-downTX-0, while largely ignoring a faster IBM machine that was alsoavailable. One of their most famous products is this :