Quark National Quiz Chennai finals

1
_____graphy originates from the early 1990s, when two students from Vienna in
Austria first got their hands on the ______ Kompakt Automat - a pint-sized Russian
camera. They fell in love with the vibrant colours and deeply saturated finish
produced by the camera and after showing off their cameras to their pals at home,
they wanted in on the act as well. As a result, the duo ended up bartering a deal
with the St Petersburg-based manufacturer for worldwide distribution and the rest
is history. The brand now has stores all over the world along with a huge online
business.

Most _______graphic cameras are designed to produce photographic effects such
as "oversaturated colors, extreme optical distortions, rainbow-colored subjects,
off-kilter exposure, blurring and alternative film processing, all things usually
considered bad in photography. The philosophy behind _____graphy is
summarized in its motto, "Don’t Think, Just Shoot." This motto is accompanied by
The Ten Golden Rules which are supposed to encourage spontaneity, odd angles,
and taking photos anywhere, while minimizing considerations of formal technique.

Lomo
(Any instagram users here?)

2
_________is a variation of stop motion animation, and was co-developed
by Industrial Light & Magic and Phil Tippett.
Stop motion animation can create a disorienting staccato effect, because
the animated object is perfectly sharp in every frame, since each frame of
the animation was actually shot when the object was perfectly still. Real
moving objects in similar scenes of the same movie will have motion blur.
____________ was designed to prevent this, by moving the animated
model slightly during the exposure of each film frame, producing a
realistic motion blur. This frame-by-frame, split-second motion is almost
always created with the help of a computer, often through rods connected
to a puppet or model which the computer manipulates to reproduce
movements programmed in by puppeteers.
__________ was originally planned to be used extensively for the
dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, until Steven Spielberg decided to try out the
swiftly developing techniques of computer-generated imagery instead

(All blanks are the same)

3

X was discovered
photographically on January
17, 1948, by an American, Carl
X.
It was in the news on the 13th
of December 2012, as
fragments of X were expected Photo of X in 2002
to put on quite a show that
day.

• Comet Wirtanen (46P/Wirtanen), the debris
tail of which caused a meteor shower
(expected to be dubbed the “Piscids”) on the
13th of December

4

• V is a company (which is now the generic name
for its product) that produced the first
commercially marketed hook-and-loop system of
its kind
• NASA makes significant use of V. Each space
shuttle has ten thousand inches of a special V
made of loops, hooks, and glass backing. V is used
everywhere, from the astronauts' suits, to
anchoring equipment. It is useful In the near
weightless conditions in orbit

5
The X effect is the tendency of a spell checker to suggest or
autocorrect with inappropriate wrds to replace misspelled words
and words not in its dictionary.
This term refers to the fact that the unhyphenated English word
"cooperation" was often changed to X by older spellcheckers with
dictionaries containing only the hyphenated variant, "co-
operation".
Examples of similar errors, including the common replacement of
"definately" (misspelling of "definitely") with "defiantly," DeMeco
Ryans with "Demerol" (in the New York Times), Voldemort with
"Voltmeter" (Denver Post), and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement
being replaced with "Muttonhead Quail Movement" (in a Reuters
article).

6

• About 99% are the nuclei (stripped of their electron
shells) of well-known atoms, and about 1% are solitary
electrons (similar to beta particles). Of the nuclei,
about 90% are simple protons, i. e. hydrogen nuclei;
9% are helium nuclei or alpha particles, and 1% are the
nuclei of heavier elements. A very small fraction are
stable particles of antimatter, such
as positrons or antiprotons, and the precise nature of
this remaining fraction is an area of active research.
• What?

7
• Ladies and Gentleman, thank you for being with us on this memorable
occasion. There are no celebrities at this function nor any dance routines.
The center of attraction for this morning's event is the new
______________ which we are unveiling.
We're going to take you on a small journey. A journey that symbolizes the
human spirit of change, the will to question the unquestionable, the drive
to stretch the envelope.
Ladies and gentleman, I invite you to join me in this journey of innovation
and evolution. The quest to lead and the quest to conquer. It is this quest
that led to the first manned flight by the Wright brothers. Today,
thousands of aircrafts travel the skies carrying millions of passengers
across the globe in safety and comfort. The same quest for leadership and
conquering new frontiers led to landing man on the moon, an unheard of
and unbelievable achievement at that time.

8

• Many explanations of the origin of the word ______ have proven
difficult to verify. The most widely-held theory it is derived from the
military designation for it, in the same way that the contemporary
HMMWV (for High-Mobility Multi-purpose Wheeled Vehicle) has
become known as the humvee.
• As the only company that continually produced ________ after the
war, in June 1950 Willys-Overland was granted the privilege of
owning the name ______ as a registered trademark.
• Under licence, Mitsubishi built more than 30 different ______
models under license in Japan between 1953 and 1998, and
Mahindra built it in India.
• The ______ brand is currently owned by the Chrysler Group.
(All blanks identical)

9
Quote by Z :
“As Chicago Mayor Harold Washington said of the corrupt former
Mayor Daley, 'I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone'.
Nobody deserves to have to die – not X, not Mr Y, not even people
guilty of bigger evils than theirs. But we all deserve the end of X'
malign influence on people's computing.
Unfortunately, that influence continues despite his absence. We can
only hope his successors, as they attempt to carry on his legacy, will
be less effective.”

Id X, Y and Z

• X – Steve Jobs
• Y – Bill Gates
• Z – Richard Stallman

Richard Stallman

10
The X problem occurs when a spam filter or search engine blocks e-
mails or search results because their text contains a string of letters
that are shared with an obscene word. While computers can easily
identify strings of text within a document, broad blocking rules may
result in false positives, causing innocent phrases to be blocked.
The name of the problem originates from an incident in 1996 in
which AOL's dirty-word filter prevented residents of the town of X,
North Lincolnshire, England from creating accounts with AOL,
because the town's name contains the substring cunt. Years later,
Google's filters apparently made the same mistake, preventing
residents from searching for local businesses that included X in their
names

11

X Corporation is an American company involved in the research of
low-power computer display technology. It was founded by Mary
Lou Jepsen, who was previously the chief technical officer of the
One Laptop per Child project.
The company designs liquid crystal displays (LCDs) that can be
largely manufactured using the existing manufacturing
infrastructure for conventional LCDs. The advantage of these
displays is that they can be set to operate under transflective mode
and reflective mode, improving eye-comfort, power usage, and
visibility under bright light.
The first commercial device to use a X display, was the ARM-based
Adam tablet by Notion Ink, released January 2011.

12
The X Active Suspension system is a revolutionary new suspension system,
designed by X Corporation.

The system uses a linear electromagnetic motor at each wheel in lieu of a
conventional shock-and-spring setup. Amplifiers provide electricity to the
motors in such a way that their power is regenerated with each
compression of the system.
The system uses the motors to raise or lower the wheels of an automobile
in response to uneven bumps or potholes on the road. The unevenness of
the road is sensed, and a canceling wave is generated, which is applied to
the wheels through the linear motors. The wheels are raised when
approaching a bump, or extended into a pothole, within milliseconds, thus
keeping the vehicle level.
This technology uses similar principles to those used in an entirely
different field, that X is originally know internationally for.

1

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German
writer, artist, and politician. His body of work
includes epic and lyric, poetry, prose, memoirs,
an autobiography, literary and aesthetic
criticism, treatises on botany, anatomy,
and colour and four novels
• Karl Friedrich Burdach and Goethe
independently developed a field of biology
which comes from the greek word for ‘form’
• Which field?

2

Economics students at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania have calculated
that it would require one quadrillion tons of steel to build a X.
It would cost 13,000 times the world's gross domestic product (GDP), or
£541,261 trillion, to supply the steel for such a structure while labour and
other construction costs would send the price even higher.
They also worked out it would take more than 833,315 years at current
production levels to supply enough steel.
On 13th December 2012, their petition passed the 25,000 signatures
needed to be eligible for an official reply from the White House, yesterday,
but the reply is realistically expected to be in the negative.
ID X

3

James Heselden was a British entrepreneur. A former coal miner,
Heselden made his fortune manufacturing military and flood
barrier systems.
At 11:40 a.m. on 26 September 2010, West Yorkshire Police
received reports of a man falling 213 feet (65 m) into the River
Wharfe, near Boston Spa, apparently having fallen from the cliffs
above.
Investigators said, "At this time we do not believe the death to be
suspicious" and were investigating as to "whether there was a
fault with his particular machine or it was driver error".
What was Heselden driving?

The Segway
Heselden bought Segway in 2010

4
He is an Indian entrepreneur and policymaker. Currently Advisor to
the Prime Minister of India on Public Information Infrastructure &
Innovations, he is considered one among many to be responsible
for the telecommunication revolution in India and specifically, the
ubiquitous, yellow-signed Public Call Offices (PCO) that quickly
brought cheap and easy domestic and international public
telephones all over the country.

He is also the founder & Chairman of C-SAM,
a multinational company focusing on mobile payment solutions.
He is a recipient of the Padma Bhushan, and the World
Telecommunication and Information Society Award (conferred by
the International Telecommunication Union).

5
American actress Heddy Lamarr, celebrated for her
great beauty, was known to be mathematically
talented. She co-invented—with composer George
Antheil—an early technique for X, necessary for
wireless communication.
Her early patented version used a piano roll to
accomplish X, and was intended to make radio-guided
torpedoes harder for enemies to detect or jam.
Although a presentation of the technique was soon
made to the U.S. Navy, it met with opposition and was
not adopted. The idea was not implemented in the
USA until 1962, when it was used by U.S. military ships
during a blockade of Cuba after the patent had expired
Modern variations of X are integral parts of CDMA,
GSM, Wifi and Bluetooth standards.

Frequency-hopping / Frequency-hopping
spread spectrum

6

Originally this company started out selling the product ““_____’s Scouring
Soup””. As incentives to customers they started giving baking powder for free.
Soon their customers were more interested in the baking powder so they
switched to selling that. They gave away ______’s along with baking powder
and once again, their customers bought their products for their freebies. This
lead to founder start manufacturing his product X which comes in three
varieties and has remained relevant for over a 100 years.
Id the product X.

7

X is a parallel computing platform architecture and programming model created
by NVIDIA that enables dramatic increases in computing performance by
harnessing the power of the graphics processing unit (GPU).

Although GPUs cannot fully replace traditional CPUs and each GPU core runs at
just a few hundred Mhz, they have usually have hundreds of cores and are highly
efficient at performing repetitive tasks.

X provides an architecture and a set of programming libraries that allow the use of
GPU cores for tasks other than graphics processing.
Thus X compatible GPUs have become quite popular in scientific computing.

(continued)

The CRAY Titan, which became the fastest
supercomputer in the world in November 2012 ,
uses 46 Million Nvidia X Cores at 732 Mhz , and
300,000 AMD x86 Cores.

8

In science, X is used as a heuristic (rule of thumb) to guide scientists in the
development of theoretical models rather than as an arbiter between
published models. It states that among competing hypothesis, the one with
the least assumptions must be selected. It is often the nettizen’s muse and
also featured in one of the first few episodes of the medical sitcom, ‘House
MD’.
ID X.

9

This is from the memoirs of someone's wife. When he went to meet his
would-be-wife's father, he was wearing a bright red shirt. He told him that he
wanted to become a politician with Communist party and wanted to open an
orphanage (though his salary was not enough to support his family). He
proposed to his wife saying "I am only 5'4" tall. I come from a lower middle
class family. I can never become rich in my life & I can never give you any
riches." Nonetheless, she married him and rest is history. Who is this person?

10

Yet another example of
product failures, this
shampoo which came to
markets in the 1979 crashed
spectacularly due to
customers being too grossed
out to apply something such
as yoghurt to their hair.
Some reports attributed its
failure to yet another
reason.
What could have possible
been the reason?

The largest thing on the bottle was Yoghurt, so people actually consumed it with
disastrous consequences.

11
• X’s contribution to biology is little known. Yet, his
thoughts on the subject in a little green book in
1944 laid the foundation of molecular biology,
DNA and RNA. Both Francis Crick and James D
Watson claim the book was their inspiration.
• X also proposed the X paradox- that the second
law of thermodynamics is violated by life in
isolated systems
• Who is X?

1
Connect
Breguet Blancpain
Jaquet Droz Glashütte Original
Léon Hatot Omega
Tiffany & Co. Rado
Longines Union Glashütte
Tissot Calvin Klein
Certina Mido
Pierre Balmain Hamilton
Flik Flak Endura

2
The picture below shows a 2m statue of the dancing Shiva, unveiled at X. The
statue, symbolizing Shiva's cosmic dance of creation and destruction, was
given to X by the Indian government to celebrate the research centre's long
association with India. Identify X.

4 Funda behind the list (non-
• Analog Clock
exhaustive)?
• Coca Cola Classic
• Plain M&M’s
• iPod Classic
• Regular Cofee
• Acoustic Guitar
• Whole Milk
• Star Trek : The Original Series
• Star Wars Episode IV : A New Hope
• Live music

• Retronym - A retronym is a type
of neologism that provides a new name for an
object or concept to differentiate its original
form or version from a more recent form or
version.

5
• X was the original English name of the first open-
circuit, self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (or
"SCUBA") to reach worldwide popularity and commercial
success. This class of equipment is now commonly referred
to as a diving regulator or demand valve.
• A Spirotechnique (later X Spirotechnique) is a large and
well-known French firm which makes scuba gear, scuba
sets and other breathing apparati. It started making the so
called X regulators, like the CG45 (1945) and the Mistral
(1955), among others.
• X is also the name of a highly successful music album
released in 1971.

6
The X Rule was a tax plan proposed by President Barack Obama in
2011. The tax plan would apply a minimum tax rate of 30 percent
on individuals making more than a million dollars a year. According
to a White House official, the new tax rate would directly affect 0.3
percent of taxpayers. The X Rule is named after American investor
______ X, who publicly stated in early 2011 (and has said similar
things earlier too) that he disagreed with rich people, like himself,
paying less in federal taxes, as a portion of income, than the middle
class, and voiced support for increased income taxes on the
wealthy. In 2012, American magazine Time named X one of the
most influential people in the world

“It's class warfare, my class is winning, but they shouldn't be.” – X in
2005

The ad round
• Written
• +10 for every correct answer
• +30 for getting all correct

Something has been blanked out.
What?

LVC
- 9 elements, in three sets of 3
- Connect all the elements to a common
theme. Higher points for an earlier guess.
Points: I: +40/-20
II: +20/-10
III: +10/-0

Initially named Cadabra by Jeff Bezos

Founded by ex Amazon employees

Douglas Hofstadter’s Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies
Was the first book to be sold on Amazon

- Leonard

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