The document contains a series of questions and answers related to people, places, inventions and other topics. The theme that connects all the clues is computer viruses, specifically DOS file viruses. In total there are 75 points available across the questions. The document tests knowledge of names, facts and connections across a wide range of subjects.
24. 12 .”What” was inspired by his father ? This dude is the one of the only 2 guys to achieve a unqiuefeat.What ? (2 pts) (PIC IN NEXT SLIDE )
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26. ANSWER Auguste Piccard , served as an inspiration for Professor Calculus in Tintin . His son Jacques Piccard is one of only two people, along with Lt. Don Walsh of the United States Navy, to have explored the deepest part of the world's ocean, and the deepest location on the surface of the Earth's crust, the Challenger Deep
38. ANSWER Beta Centauri / Hadar The name Hadar comes from the Arabic word for "ground" In Chinese, (MǎFù), meaning Horse's Abdomen, refers to an asterism consisting of β Centauri and the stars in Centaurus which were unrecognized yet.
41. 20.A served as an inspiration for X created by B. Solve A , B and X .(3 points) A B
42. ANSWER Doctor Gideon Fell (X) created by John Dickson Carr . is supposedly based upon G. K. Chesterton, (author of the Father Brown stories), whose physical appearance and personality were apparently similar to those of Doctor Fell.
50. ANSWER Connect - Chuck Hoberman Hoberman sphere Chrysler Headquarters in Auburn Hills, Michigan . He won Chrysler Design Award for Innovation and Design in 1997 Hoberman Arch, Salt Lake 2002 Olympic Cauldron Park
62. ANSWER Spaceship Earth,a part of Walt Disney World Resort. Built with the help of a science fiction by Ray Bradbury. "Spaceship Earth" was coined by Buckminster Fuller.
64. ANSWER ELIZA effect A trivial example of the specific form of the Eliza effect, given by Douglas Hofstadter, involves an automated teller machine which displays the words "THANK YOU" at the end of a transaction. The effect is named for the 1966 chatterbot ELIZA, developed by MIT computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum.
76. ANSWER Haudenosaunee flag created in the 1980s. It is based on the "Hiawatha WampumBelt... created from purple and white wampum beads centuries ago to symbolize the union forged when the former enemies buried their weapons under the Great Tree of Peace."It represents the original five nations that were united by the Peacemaker and Hiawatha. The tree symbol in the center represents an Eastern White Pine, the needles of which are clustered in groups of five.
81. 42. The company X is named after this person A , And Y has created the project B while working at this company.And the project itself took its name from the child of the dude in C . Solve for X , Y , A , B and C ( 0.5 * 5 + 0.5 for getting all right ) Pics in next slide
86. ANSWER Cervantes de Leon The inspiration for a pirate as the game's antagonist was derived from two other fictional pirates, Captain Hook and Long John Silver.
94. ANSWER Neal Stephenson makes use of historical figures as characters in The Baroque Cycle, such as (counterclockwise from upper left) Isaac Newton, Gottfried Leibniz, Sophia of Hanover and William of Orange
101. 51.THE THEME LINKERS Solano Ontatrio Westwood Eliza Acid Ada Hare Natas Whale Bomber (Havilland Mosquito is a bomber) Alabama Beta Centauri also known as Agena Scotts Valley (headquarters of Seagate Technology by Alan Shuggart)