3. Instructions
• 20 Questions – 25 minutes
• The team besides you has written the wrong
answer. Please don’t copy.
• Kindly refrain from Cybernetic investigations.
• No negative marks.
• Top 8 teams qualify for the next round.
• Some questions are “star-marked” and would be
used to resolve tie-breakers. Please note them
down in your answer sheets.
• Hints on special request.
• The more you stare at the question, the more
the answer stares back at you.
5. Q – 1
Identify X from the following clues -
• X is a social networking site and a mobile app.
• 16th April is celebrated as the “X Day” in various
cities, all over the world.
• The “X Day” was coined by Nate-Bonilla
Warford, an optometrist from Florida on March
12, 2010. The idea came to him while he was
“thinking about new ways to promote his
business”.
• X’s main competitor was a social networking site
called Gowalla which was acquired and
eventually shut down by Facebook.
6. *Q – 2*
Of the many stories about prototypes, this one
is particularly interesting and unique.
The very first prototype of this device was a
piece of wood, which rested on the pocket of
Jeff Hawkins, who would occasionally take it
out, pretending to take notes. The sole purpose
of this prototype was to decide on the best
“form factor” for this new groundbreaking
device.
What device am I talking about?
7. Q – 3
The Webby Awards is an award given for
excellence in the field of Internet and web
culture. It is presented annually by the
International Academy of Digital Arts and
Sciences. It has also been nicknamed as “The
Oscars of the Internet”.
The acceptance speech of Webby Awards should
be given in 5 or less words.
Which famous entity’s Webby Award acceptance
speech was - “Person Of The Year. Ironic.”?
8. Q – 4
In the Ecole Nationale Institute in Paris, a group of
students created a software X.
While they did so, other members used to go out
to the streets of Paris and collect Y from the
streets.
By the time the software was done, they had
hundreds of Ys. Hence the logo of X became Y.
Identify X & Y.
9. Q – 5
In the 1980′s a group of scientists at CERN started
working on what was to become the WWW. Their aim was
to create a database infrastructure that offered open
access to data in various formats.
In an office on the fourth floor, they placed the WWW’s
central database. Any request for a file was routed to
that office, where 2-3 people would manually locate the
requested files and transfer them, over the network, to
the person who made that request.When the database
started to grow, the number of requests grew and also
the number of requests that could not be fulfilled,
usually because the person who requested a file typed in
the wrong name for that file.
This led to the coining of a phrase, commonly used on
the internet. What phrase?
10. Q – 6
“I Disappear” is a song by the American heavy
metal band Metallica. The song was recorded as
a contribution to the Mission Impossible 2
soundtrack. This song reached the #1 spot on
the “Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks”,
and stayed there for seven consecutive weeks in
the summer of 2000. This song does not appear
on any of Metallica's studio albums, making it
the band's only standalone single. It also won a
2000 Metal Edge Reader’s Choice Award for
"Song of the Year From a Movie Soundtrack”.
However, this song is famous for some other
reason. What reason?
11. Q – 7
What was invented by Steve Wilhite in the year
1985 while he was working at CompuServe?
The company wanted to show coloured weather
maps, but did not want to use too much
bandwidth for dial-up connections.
12. *Q – 8*
I am talking about two specific hardware
devices/products. Put funda and name both of
them.
NO, It’s a
TRIANGLE
It’s a
SQUARE
13. Q – 9
“I've always liked penguins, and when I was
in Canberra a few years ago I went to the
local zoo. There they had a ferocious
penguin that bit me and infected me with a
little known disease called Penguinitis.
Penguinitis makes you stay awake at nights
just thinking about penguins and feeling
great love towards them.”
What resulted due to someone’s Penguinitis?
14. Q – 10
There is a place in London at the
intersection of Basil Street. It is located in
the Knightsbridge district, near Hyde Park.
This place witnesses protests by Internet
activists all year round. There have also been
incidents in which there were minor scuffles
between the protesters and the police force.
Why is this place such a known landmark for
protesters?
15. Q – 11
X is a fictional synthetic intelligence character in the
Halo video game series. X appears in games like
Halo:Combat Evolved, Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo 4 and Halo
5: Guardians. During gameplay, X provides backstory
and tactical information to the player. In the story, X
is instrumental in preventing the activation of the
Halo installations, which would have destroyed all
sentient life in the galaxy. X’s original design was
based on the Egyptian queen Nefertiti. The character's
holographic representation always takes the form of a
woman. The American voice actress Jen Taylor has
given her voice for X. Jen Taylor is a famous voice
actress, and has also given her voice for some other
famous video games like Left 4 Dead 2, DOTA 2 and
Mario series.
Identify X.
18. Q – 13
In the year 1971, Michael Hart was a student of Human-Machine
Interfaces at UIUC. During his time at UIUC, the university’s computer
centre gave him a user account on its computer system. Hart's brother's
best friend was the mainframe operator. Due to this fact, he received
an account with a virtually unlimited amount of computer time. It’s
value at that time has been variously estimated at $100,000 or
$100,000,000. Hart thought that he wanted to "give back" this gift by
doing something that could be considered to be of great
value. Although the focus of computer use there tended to be data
processing, Michael Hart was aware that the computers were connected
to the ARPANET (what would later become the internet) and he chose to
use his computer time for information distribution.
Michael Hart had recently acquired a copy of the United States
Declaration of Independence, which he had been given at a grocery
store. He typed the text into the computer but was told that it would
be unacceptable to transmit it to numerous people at once via e-
mail. Thus, to avoid crashing the system, he made the text available for
people to download instead.
This started something. What?
19. Q – 14
What everyday technology did Ben Stumpe, a
physicist, develop in the year 1973 at CERN as a
replacement for the various control knobs,
buttons and switches present in his laboratory?
20. Q – 15
X is a well known architectural term and denotes a
circular opening in the centre of a dome or in a
wall. In Latin, X means eye. X was widely used in
the Byzantine architecture and was applied to
buildings in Syria in the 5th
century. One of the
finest examples of the use of X is in the dome of
the Pantheon constructed by the Romans. Examples
of X in the Renaissance architecture can be seen in
the Florence Cathedral.
X is also the name of a company founded by Palmer
Luckey, a Y designer at the University Of Southern
California. Palmer Luckey earned the reputation
for having the largest personal collection of Y in
the world, and in 2009 he also founded “ModRetro
Forums”, a website for discussing modifications of
old hardware devices. Identify X.
21. Q – 16
Identify the following technological device from
its schematic diagram -
22. *Q – 17*
Which law predicts that that wired technologies
such as telephones would ultimately become
unwired by using airwaves instead of wires or
fiber optics, and that unwired technologies such
as televisions will become wired?
24. *Q – 19*
X is an app for iOS and Android developed by Kayvon Beykpour and
Joe Bernstein. It was launched in March 2015 for iOS users, and on
May 2015 for Android users. On December 9, 2015, Apple named X
as the "iPhone App of the Year”.
X was acquired on January 2015 by Twitter for $120 million, even
before the product had been publicly launched.
The idea for X came while the founders were traveling abroad in
the year 2013. Kayvon Beykpour was in Istanbul when protests
broke out in Taksim Square. He wanted to see what was happening
there, so he turned to Twitter. While he could read about the
protests, he could not see the protests. Hence, Kayvon Beykpour
and Joe Bernstein started the company in February 2014, under the
name Bounty, and eventually changed the name to X. According to
Kayvon Beykpour, X is a “mobile teleportation service”.
Identify X.
25. Q – 20
These are some tips released by X for users of Y.
DO’s –
• Explore the world around you.
• Take advantage of Y’s voice commands.
• Ask for permission.
• Use screen lock.
• Be an active and vocal member of the Y community.
DON’Ts –
• Y-out
• Wear it and expect to be ignored.
• Be creepy or rude (aka, a “Y-hole”)
Identify X and Y.
26.
27. Q – 1
Identify X from the following clues -
• X is a social networking site and a mobile app.
• 16th April is celebrated as the “X Day” in various
cities, all over the world.
• The “X Day” was coined by Nate-Bonilla
Warford, an optometrist from Florida on March
12, 2010. The idea came to him while he was
“thinking about new ways to promote his
business”.
• X’s main competitor was a social networking site
called Gowalla which was acquired and
eventually shut down by Facebook.
28. *Q – 2*
Of the many stories about prototypes, this one
is particularly interesting and unique.
The very first prototype of this device was a
piece of wood, which rested on the pocket of
Jeff Hawkins, who would occasionally take it
out, pretending to take notes. The sole purpose
of this prototype was to decide on the best
“form factor” for this new groundbreaking
device.
What device am I talking about?
29. Q – 3
The Webby Awards is an award given for
excellence in the field of Internet and web
culture. It is presented annually by the
International Academy of Digital Arts and
Sciences. It has also been nicknamed as “The
Oscars of the Internet”.
The acceptance speech of Webby Awards should
be given in 5 or less words.
Which famous entity’s Webby Award acceptance
speech was - “Person Of The Year. Ironic.”?
30. Q – 4
In the Ecole Nationale Institute in Paris, a group of
students created a software X.
While they did so, other members used to go out
to the streets of Paris and collect Y from the
streets.
By the time the software was done, they had
hundreds of Ys. Hence the logo of X became Y.
Identify X & Y.
31. Q – 5
In the 1980′s a group of scientists at CERN started
working on what was to become the WWW. Their aim was
to create a database infrastructure that offered open
access to data in various formats.
In an office on the fourth floor, they placed the WWW’s
central database. Any request for a file was routed to
that office, where 2-3 people would manually locate the
requested files and transfer them, over the network, to
the person who made that request.When the database
started to grow, the number of requests grew and also
the number of requests that could not be fulfilled,
usually because the person who requested a file typed in
the wrong name for that file.
This led to the coining of a phrase, commonly used on
the internet. What phrase?
32. Q – 6
“I Disappear” is a song by the American heavy
metal band Metallica. The song was recorded as
a contribution to the Mission Impossible 2
soundtrack. This song reached the #1 spot on
the “Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks”,
and stayed there for seven consecutive weeks in
the summer of 2000. This song does not appear
on any of Metallica's studio albums, making it
the band's only standalone single. It also won a
2000 Metal Edge Reader’s Choice Award for
"Song of the Year From a Movie Soundtrack”.
However, this song is famous for some other
reason. What reason?
33. Q – 7
What was invented by Steve Wilhite in the year
1985 while he was working at CompuServe?
The company wanted to show coloured weather
maps, but did not want to use too much
bandwidth for dial-up connections.
34. *Q – 8*
I am talking about two specific hardware
devices/products. Put funda and name both of
them.
NO, It’s a
TRIANGLE
It’s a
SQUARE
35. Q – 9
“I've always liked penguins, and when I was
in Canberra a few years ago I went to the
local zoo. There they had a ferocious
penguin that bit me and infected me with a
little known disease called Penguinitis.
Penguinitis makes you stay awake at nights
just thinking about penguins and feeling
great love towards them.”
What resulted due to someone’s Penguinitis?
36. Q – 10
There is a place in London at the
intersection of Basil Street. It is located in
the Knightsbridge district, near Hyde Park.
This place witnesses protests by Internet
activists all year round. There have also been
incidents in which there were minor scuffles
between the protesters and the police force.
Why is this place such a known landmark for
protesters?
37. Q – 11
X is a fictional synthetic intelligence character in the
Halo video game series. X appears in games like
Halo:Combat Evolved, Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo 4 and Halo
5: Guardians. During gameplay, X provides backstory
and tactical information to the player. In the story, X
is instrumental in preventing the activation of the
Halo installations, which would have destroyed all
sentient life in the galaxy. X’s original design was
based on the Egyptian queen Nefertiti. The character's
holographic representation always takes the form of a
woman. The American voice actress Jen Taylor has
given her voice for X. Jen Taylor is a famous voice
actress, and has also given her voice for some other
famous video games like Left 4 Dead 2, DOTA 2 and
Mario series.
Identify X
40. Q – 13
In the year 1971, Michael Hart was a student of Human-Machine
Interfaces at UIUC. During his time at UIUC, the university’s computer
centre gave him a user account on its computer system. Hart's brother's
best friend was the mainframe operator. Due to this fact, he received
an account with a virtually unlimited amount of computer time. It’s
value at that time has been variously estimated at $100,000 or
$100,000,000. Hart thought that he wanted to "give back" this gift by
doing something that could be considered to be of great
value. Although the focus of computer use there tended to be data
processing, Michael Hart was aware that the computers were connected
to the ARPANET (what would later become the internet) and he chose to
use his computer time for information distribution.
Michael Hart had recently acquired a copy of the United States
Declaration of Independence, which he had been given at a grocery
store. He typed the text into the computer but was told that it would
be unacceptable to transmit it to numerous people at once via e-
mail. Thus, to avoid crashing the system, he made the text available for
people to download instead.
This started something. What?
41. Q – 14
What everyday technology did Ben Stumpe, a
physicist, develop in the year 1973 at CERN as a
replacement for the various control knobs,
buttons and switches present in his laboratory?
42. Q – 15
X is a well known architectural term and denotes a
circular opening in the centre of a dome or in a
wall. In Latin, X means eye. X was widely used in
the Byzantine architecture and was applied to
buildings in Syria in the 5th
century. One of the
finest examples of the use of X is in the dome of
the Pantheon constructed by the Romans. Examples
of X in the Renaissance architecture can be seen in
the Florence Cathedral.
X is also the name of a company founded by Palmer
Luckey, a Y designer at the University Of Southern
California. Palmer Luckey earned the reputation
for having the largest personal collection of Y in
the world, and in 2009 he also founded “ModRetro
Forums”, a website for discussing modifications of
old hardware devices. Identify X.
43. Q – 16
Identify the following technological device from
its schematic diagram -
44. *Q – 17*
Which law predicts that that wired technologies
such as telephones would ultimately become
unwired by using airwaves instead of wires or
fiber optics, and that unwired technologies such
as televisions will become wired?
46. *Q – 19*
X is an app for iOS and Android developed by Kayvon Beykpour and
Joe Bernstein. It was launched in March 2015 for iOS users, and on
May 2015 for Android users. On December 9, 2015, Apple named X
as the "iPhone App of the Year”.
X was acquired on January 2015 by Twitter for $120 million, even
before the product had been publicly launched.
The idea for X came while the founders were traveling abroad in
the year 2013. Kayvon Beykpour was in Istanbul when protests
broke out in Taksim Square. He wanted to see what was happening
there, so he turned to Twitter. While he could read about the
protests, he could not see the protests. Hence, Kayvon Beykpour
and Joe Bernstein started the company in February 2014, under the
name Bounty, and eventually changed the name to X. According to
Kayvon Beykpour, X is a “mobile teleportation service”.
Identify X.
47. Q – 20
These are some tips released by X for users of Y.
DO’s –
• Explore the world around you.
• Take advantage of Y’s voice commands.
• Ask for permission.
• Use screen lock.
• Be an active and vocal member of the Y community.
DON’Ts –
• Y-out
• Wear it and expect to be ignored.
• Be creepy or rude (aka, a “Y-hole”)
Identify X and Y.
50. Q – 1
Identify X from the following clues -
• X is a social networking site and a mobile app.
• 16th April is celebrated as the “X Day” in various
cities, all over the world.
• The “X Day” was coined by Nate-Bonilla
Warford, an optometrist from Florida on March
12, 2010. The idea came to him while he was
“thinking about new ways to promote his
business”.
• X’s main competitor was a social networking site
called Gowalla which was acquired and
eventually shut down by Facebook.
52. *Q – 2*
Of the many stories about prototypes, this one
is particularly interesting and unique.
The very first prototype of this device was a
piece of wood, which rested on the pocket of
Jeff Hawkins, who would occasionally take it
out, pretending to take notes. The sole purpose
of this prototype was to decide on the best
“form factor” for this new groundbreaking
device.
What device am I talking about?
54. Q – 3
The Webby Awards is an award given for
excellence in the field of Internet and web
culture. It is presented annually by the
International Academy of Digital Arts and
Sciences. It has also been nicknamed as “The
Oscars of the Internet”.
The acceptance speech of Webby Awards should
be given in 5 or less words.
Which famous entity’s Webby Award acceptance
speech was - “Person Of The Year. Ironic.”?
56. Q – 4
In the Ecole Nationale Institute in Paris, a group of
students created a software X.
While they did so, other members used to go out
to the streets of Paris and collect Y from the
streets.
By the time the software was done, they had
hundreds of Ys. Hence the logo of X became Y.
Identify X & Y.
58. Q – 5
In the 1980′s a group of scientists at CERN started
working on what was to become the WWW. Their aim was
to create a database infrastructure that offered open
access to data in various formats.
In an office on the fourth floor, they placed the WWW’s
central database. Any request for a file was routed to
that office, where 2-3 people would manually locate the
requested files and transfer them, over the network, to
the person who made that request.When the database
started to grow, the number of requests grew and also
the number of requests that could not be fulfilled,
usually because the person who requested a file typed in
the wrong name for that file.
This led to the coining of a phrase, commonly used on
the internet. What phrase?
60. Q – 6
“I Disappear” is a song by the American heavy
metal band Metallica. The song was recorded as
a contribution to the Mission Impossible 2
soundtrack. This song reached the #1 spot on
the “Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks”,
and stayed there for seven consecutive weeks in
the summer of 2000. This song does not appear
on any of Metallica's studio albums, making it
the band's only standalone single. It also won a
2000 Metal Edge Reader’s Choice Award for
"Song of the Year From a Movie Soundtrack”.
However, this song is famous for some other
reason. What reason?
61. Answer
This song was leaked on Napster before it’s
official release. Hence, Metallica sued Napster
which eventually led to Napster’s closure.
62. Q – 7
What was invented by Steve Wilhite in the year
1985 while he was working at CompuServe?
The company wanted to show coloured weather
maps, but did not want to use too much
bandwidth for dial-up connections.
66. Q – 9
“I've always liked penguins, and when I was
in Canberra a few years ago I went to the
local zoo. There they had a ferocious
penguin that bit me and infected me with a
little known disease called Penguinitis.
Penguinitis makes you stay awake at nights
just thinking about penguins and feeling
great love towards them.”
What resulted due to someone’s Penguinitis?
68. Q – 10
There is a place in London at the
intersection of Basil Street. It is located in
the Knightsbridge district, near Hyde Park.
This place witnesses protests by Internet
activists all year round. There have also been
incidents in which there were minor scuffles
between the protesters and the police force.
Why is this place such a known landmark for
protesters?
69. Answer
Location of the embassy of Ecuador, where
Julian Assange has been living since 2012
70. Q – 11
X is a fictional synthetic intelligence character in the
Halo video game series. X appears in games like
Halo:Combat Evolved, Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo 4 and Halo
5: Guardians. During gameplay, X provides backstory
and tactical information to the player. In the story, X
is instrumental in preventing the activation of the
Halo installations, which would have destroyed all
sentient life in the galaxy. X’s original design was
based on the Egyptian queen Nefertiti. The character's
holographic representation always takes the form of a
woman. The American voice actress Jen Taylor has
given her voice for X. Jen Taylor is a famous voice
actress, and has also given her voice for some other
famous video games like Left 4 Dead 2, DOTA 2 and
Mario series.
Identify X
75. Q – 13
In the year 1971, Michael Hart was a student of Human-Machine
Interfaces at UIUC. During his time at UIUC, the university’s computer
centre gave him a user account on its computer system. Hart's brother's
best friend was the mainframe operator. Due to this fact, he received
an account with a virtually unlimited amount of computer time. It’s
value at that time has been variously estimated at $100,000 or
$100,000,000. Hart thought that he wanted to "give back" this gift by
doing something that could be considered to be of great
value. Although the focus of computer use there tended to be data
processing, Michael Hart was aware that the computers were connected
to the ARPANET (what would later become the internet) and he chose to
use his computer time for information distribution.
Michael Hart had recently acquired a copy of the United States
Declaration of Independence, which he had been given at a grocery
store. He typed the text into the computer but was told that it would
be unacceptable to transmit it to numerous people at once via e-
mail. Thus, to avoid crashing the system, he made the text available for
people to download instead.
This started something. What?
77. Q – 14
What everyday technology did Ben Stumpe, a
physicist, develop in the year 1973 at CERN as a
replacement for the various control knobs,
buttons and switches present in his laboratory?
79. Q – 15
X is a well known architectural term and denotes a
circular opening in the centre of a dome or in a
wall. In Latin, X means eye. X was widely used in
the Byzantine architecture and was applied to
buildings in Syria in the 5th
century. One of the
finest examples of the use of X is in the dome of
the Pantheon constructed by the Romans. Examples
of X in the Renaissance architecture can be seen in
the Florence Cathedral.
X is also the name of a company founded by Palmer
Luckey, a Y designer at the University Of Southern
California. Palmer Luckey earned the reputation
for having the largest personal collection of Y in
the world, and in 2009 he also founded “ModRetro
Forums”, a website for discussing modifications of
old hardware devices. Identify X.
83. *Q – 17*
Which law predicts that that wired technologies
such as telephones would ultimately become
unwired by using airwaves instead of wires or
fiber optics, and that unwired technologies such
as televisions will become wired?
87. *Q – 19*
X is an app for iOS and Android developed by Kayvon Beykpour and
Joe Bernstein. It was launched in March 2015 for iOS users, and on
May 2015 for Android users. On December 9, 2015, Apple named X
as the "iPhone App of the Year”.
X was acquired on January 2015 by Twitter for $120 million, even
before the product had been publicly launched.
The idea for X came while the founders were traveling abroad in
the year 2013. Kayvon Beykpour was in Istanbul when protests
broke out in Taksim Square. He wanted to see what was happening
there, so he turned to Twitter. While he could read about the
protests, he could not see the protests. Hence, Kayvon Beykpour
and Joe Bernstein started the company in February 2014, under the
name Bounty, and eventually changed the name to X. According to
Kayvon Beykpour, X is a “mobile teleportation service”.
Identify X.
89. Q – 20
These are some tips released by X for users of Y.
DO’s –
• Explore the world around you.
• Take advantage of Y’s voice commands.
• Ask for permission.
• Use screen lock.
• Be an active and vocal member of the Y community.
DON’Ts –
• Y-out
• Wear it and expect to be ignored.
• Be creepy or rude (aka, a “Y-hole”)
Identify X and Y.
94. Infinite Bounce
• 8 questions. 1 direct question for each team.
• Teams can pounce on their own questions.
• Scoring for direct question = +10/0
• Scoring for pounced question = +20/-10
• Questions are passable.
95. Q – 1
The current configuration of this computer is -
“Lenovo ThinkPad X220, Intel Core i7-2620M
CPU @ 2.7 GHz and Intel 150 GB Solid State
Drive S20 Series with Windows 7”.
The main interface is EZ Keys Program written
by Word Plus Inc.
Since 1997, this computer is being sponsored by
Intel.
Which famous computer am I talking about?
98. Q – 2
This name was first coined by George Smith,
owner of a business called the Bradley Smith
Company. He trademarked this product name in
the year 1931, after his favourite race horse.
But since then, this name has fallen into public
domain.
What word, very important to mobile
technology today is this?
101. Q – 3
The very first example of this was a Coke
machine modified by students at the Carnegie
Mellon University in 1982. The story goes that
graduate students, Mike Kazar, David Nichols,
John Zsarnay and Ivor Durham could check from
their desks if the machine was loaded with cold
Coke before they made their walk.
What futuristic technology am I talking about?
104. Q – 4
The X syndrome or the X effect occurs when people
devote so much time and attention to an activity that
it begins to pattern their thoughts, mental images and
dreams. It takes it’s name from the video game X.
It is speculated that people who play X for a
prolonged amount of time may then find themselves
thinking about ways in which different shapes in the
real world can fit together, such as boxes on a
supermarket shelf, the buildings on a street, or
hallucinating pieces being generated and falling into
place on an invisible layout. People might also have
dreams related to X.
Identify X.
107. Q – 5
This is X saying about something -
“One day, I was in San Francisco in a coffee shop,
and I was thinking Y is a good name. And then a
waitress came, and I said - “What do you know
about Y”, and she said, _______. And I said, “Yes,
this is the name”. Then I went onto the street and
found 30 people and asked them, “Do you know Y”.
People from India, people from Germany, people
from Tokyo and China, they all knew about Y. Y is
a kind, smart business person, and he helped the
village. So easy to spell, and globally known. Y
_______ for small and medium-sized companies.”
Identify X and Y.
110. Q – 6
Recently X announced something which drew some
flak from Internet users. In an article published in the
satirical online newspaper “The Onion”, some people
commented the following about this announcement -
1.“Huh. I really thought written language had a few
years left in it.”
2.“This does a lot to challenge my notion of what the X
staff does all day long.”
3.“Better luck next year, Zipper Mouth.”
What announcement am I talking about?
111.
112. Answer
X = Oxford Dictionary
They announced the “Face with tears of joy”
emoji as the Oxford Dictionary’s Word of the
Year 2015
113. Q – 7
A famous personality X said the following about Y in an
interview published in The New York Times -
“Taking Y was a profound experience, one of the most
important things in my life. Y shows you that there’s another
side to the coin, and you can’t remember it when it wears off,
but you know it. It reinforced my sense of what was important
- creating great things instead of making money, putting back
things into the stream of history and of human consciousness
as much as I could.”
In their 1991 profile of X, the FBI noted - “X may have
experimented with Y, having come from that generation.”
In the year 2011, The Times published a very popular article
titled “X had Y. So we have ________.”
Identify X and Y.
116. Q – 8
What am I referring to by the following
(non-exhaustive) list –
• Amaro
• Lo-Fi
• Hefe
• 1977
• Mayfair
• Rise
• Hudson
• Valencia
• Sierra
• Willow
• Kevin
119. Short Connect Round
• 3 pictures will be shown for each question. All
connect to some particular thing.
• There are 4 different questions in this round.
• No direct question. Only pounces allowed.
• Marking scheme would be written in each slide.
140. Internet and Web
Culture Round
• 8 questions. 1 direct question for each team.
• Teams can pounce on their own questions.
• Scoring for direct question = +10/0
• Scoring for pounced question = +20/-10
• Questions are passable.
141. Q – 1
The X theory of digital activism is a theory concerning
Internet activism, Web censorship and X (a term used to
denote any low value, but popular online activity). It was
developed by Ethan Zuckerman in 2008. This theory states
that most people are not interested in activism, instead,
they want to use the web for mundane activities which
include surfing for pornography and X. The tools that they
develop for that (Eg.- Facebook, Twitter, Flickr etc.) are very
useful to social movement activists, who may lack resources
to develop dedicated tools themselves. This, in turn, makes
the activists more immune to reprisals by governments than
if they were using a dedicated activism platform. Because
shutting down a popular public platform provokes a larger
public outcry than shutting down an obscure one.
Ethan Zuckerman states - “Web 1.0 was invented to allow
physicists to share research papers. Web 2.0 was created to
allow people to share X. If a tool passes X purposes, and is
widely used for low-value purposes, it can also be used for
online activism too.”
Identify X.
142.
143. Answer
X = Cute Cat
The theory is called the “Cute Cat theory of
Digital Activism”
144. Q – 2
X originated in the 1980s within the Bulletin Board
Systems (BBS), where having an elite status allowed
users to access some special file folders, games and
chat rooms. X was first used by hackers to prevent
their websites and newsgroups from being found out
by simple keyword searches. X was also developed to
defeat text filters created by BBS and IRC system
operators for message boards to discourage the
discussion of forbidden topics like hacking. Nowadays,
X is used to mock newbies on websites and in online
gaming communities.
Identify X.
147. Q – 3
X is a meme which originated from a 2003
webcomic, which was drawn by Peter Morley-
Souter to depict his shock after seeing a
particular Calvin & Hobbes parody _____ on the
internet. It was captioned - “The Internet.
Raping your childhood since 1996”. This comic
was first posted on the UK website Zoom-Out in
2004, and it has been widely reproduced.
X’s popularity started to grow when in 2008,
users of the imageboard website 4chan posted
numerous parodies and cartoons illustrating X.
Identify X.
150. Q – 4
Howard Davies Carr, the father of the boys, said that the video
was “simply an attempt to capture the boys growing up”.
While watching the scene on his camera after recording it, it
“didn’t particularly stand out”. It was not until he transferred
the video onto his computer a few weeks later and played it
again that he realised that it was funny. The Davies Carr family
lived in England. Howard uploaded the video onto _______ so
that it could be watched by the boy’s grandfather, who was
living in USA. He chose _______ because the size of the video
file was so big that it could not be sent by email.
Howard Davies Carr also said the following about this video -
“Even had I thought of trying to get my boys to do this I
probably couldn’t have, neither were coerced into any of this
and neither were hurt”
What am I talking about?
153. Q – 5
This website was started by Rob Malda and was
initially called “Chips and Dips”. It was
launched in July 1997, and featured a single
rant each day about something that interested
Rob, usually related to technology. The site got
it’s current name X in September 1997.
The name X came from a somewhat obnoxious
parody of a URL. When Rob Malda registered the
domain name, he wanted to make a name that
was “silly and unpronounceable”. Hence he
chose the name X.
Name the website.
156. Q – 6
DI Corporation is a South Korean company involved in
the trade and supply of semiconductors and computer
chips. The company was established in the year 1955,
and it’s current executive chairman is Park Wan-Ho.
In October 2012, the stock prices of the company rose
by 800%.
Why?
157.
158. Answer
The company is owned by the Korean popstar
Psy’s father. The stock prices rose due to the
sudden popularity of the song “Gangnam Style”.
162. Q – 8
What is the significance of this dress worn by Jennifer
Lopez in the 2000 Grammy Awards?
163.
164. Answer
Google Image search was created due to this
dress. In the year 2000, Google search results
were limited to simple pages of text with links,
but the developers worked on developing this
further, realising that an image search was
required to answer the “most popular search
query” they had seen to date - “Jennifer
Lopez’s green dress”.
165. Long Connect Round
• 8 questions. All connecting to a particular
overall answer.
• You have to write the answer for each
individual question slide in your answer sheets.
+ 5 for each correct answer, no negative marks
for incorrect answer.
• Teams can also try for the overall connect at
any time. Marks allotted for the overall
connect would be written at the top of each
slide.
166. +160/-80
The X effect occurs when a smaller website
has a high influx of traffic after being linked
to on X. It is also called the “X Hug of Death"
among the website's users. Because X is such a
large site, the traffic is immense and can
easily crash smaller sites. In order for users to
see crashed websites, several X bots have
been created that take a snapshot of the
website before large amounts of traffic flood
the affected website.
Identify X.
167. +140/-70
X.tv was a website founded by X Kan and Emmett
Shear in the year 2007. The website allowed anyone
to broadcast videos online. The original X.tv was a
single channel featuring X Kan. Wearing a webcam
attached to a baseball cap and streamed online via
a laptop-backpack. Kan decided he would wear the
camera 24/7, and he began streaming continuous
live video and audio at midnight March 19, 2007.
The gaming section of X.tv became very popular,
and was launched as a separate website called Y.tv
Y.tv was acquired by Amazon in the year 2014 for
$970 million.
Identify X.
168. +120/-60
X is a company founded by an ex-Amazon
employee Apoorva Mehta in the year 2012. X
has an iOS and an Android app which lets
people order groceries from their mobile
phones. Currently, X is valued at $2 Billion.
Identify X.
169. +100/-50
X is a company based in the United States that
offers cloud-based software as a service to
companies for managing their human resources,
with a particular focus on helping them with
health insurance coverage. X was named the
fastest growing company in Silicon Valley in 2015.
X was started with the aim to help startups and
small businesses find insurance quotes and
manage employee benefits in one place.
In December 2014, David Sacks, founder of
collaboration service Yammer that had been sold
to Microsoft, joined X as the COO.
Identify X.
170. +80/-40
X is a company founded by these two ex-
Facebook employees in the year 2010.
171. +60/-30
X is a company founded by Zach Sims and Ryan Bubinski
in the year 2011.
The idea behind X emerged out of the founding duo’s
frustrations with the status quo of learning how to
program. Co-founder Ryan Bubinski was already an
experienced programmer who spent his weekends and
free time during college teaching other students how to
build web applications. But Zach Sims was not nearly as
familiar with coding.
Zach Sims, in an interview said - “I was watching videos
and tutorials and reading books, but I found I learn best
by building things and breaking things, not by just
reading something. I wanted something interactive
where I could learn in bite-sized pieces, and actually
practice what I learned along the way.”
Identify X.
173. +20/-0
X is a company founded by Drew Houston and
Arash Ferdowsi. The idea of X came to Drew
Houston after repeatedly forgetting his USB
flash drive while he was a student at MIT.
Drew Houston, once in an interview said that
existing services at that time "suffered
problems with Internet latency, large files,
bugs, or just made me think too much”. He
began making something for his personal use,
but then realized that it could benefit others
with the same problems.
Identify X.
