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Instructions
20 Questions 25 minutes
The team besides you has written the wrong
answer. Please dont 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.
Hey Ho, Lets Go!
- Ramones
Q1
Identify X from the following clues -
Identify X & Y.
Q5
In the 1980s 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.
NO, Its a
TRIANGLE
Its a
SQUARE
Q9
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.
Identify X.
*Q 12*
Identify this famous personality.
Q 13
In the year 1971, Michael Hart was a student of Human-Machine
Interfaces at UIUC.During his time at UIUC, the universitys 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. Its
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 bedata
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.
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 Bernsteinstarted the company in February 2014, under the
name Bounty, and eventually changed the name to X. According to
Kayvon Beykpour, X is amobile teleportation service.
Identify X.
Q 20
These are some tips released by X for users of Y.
DOs
Explore the world around you.
Take advantage of Ys voice commands.
Ask for permission.
Use screen lock.
Be an active and vocal member of the Y community.
DONTs
Y-out
Wear it and expect to be ignored.
Be creepy or rude (aka, a Y-hole)
Identify X and Y.
Q1
Identify X from the following clues -
Identify X & Y.
Q5
In the 1980s 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.
NO, Its a
TRIANGLE
Its a
SQUARE
Q9
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.
Identify X
*Q 12*
Identify this famous personality.
Q 13
In the year 1971, Michael Hart was a student of Human-Machine
Interfaces at UIUC.During his time at UIUC, the universitys 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. Its
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 bedata
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.
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 Bernsteinstarted the company in February 2014, under the
name Bounty, and eventually changed the name to X. According to
Kayvon Beykpour, X is amobile teleportation service.
Identify X.
Q 20
These are some tips released by X for users of Y.
DOs
Explore the world around you.
Take advantage of Ys voice commands.
Ask for permission.
Use screen lock.
Be an active and vocal member of the Y community.
DONTs
Y-out
Wear it and expect to be ignored.
Be creepy or rude (aka, a Y-hole)
Identify X and Y.
Hand over your answer sheets
Q1
Identify X from the following clues -
Identify X & Y.
Answer
X - VLC Media Player
Y - Traffic cones
Q5
In the 1980s 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.
NO, Its a
TRIANGLE
Its a
SQUARE
Answer
Square Card Reader and Paypal Here
Q9
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.
Identify X
Answer
X - Cortana
*Q 12*
Identify this famous personality.
Answer
Bill Gates (This is the generic user icon in MS
Outlook 2010)
Q 13
In the year 1971, Michael Hart was a student of Human-Machine
Interfaces at UIUC.During his time at UIUC, the universitys 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. Its
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 bedata
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.
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 Bernsteinstarted the company in February 2014, under the
name Bounty, and eventually changed the name to X. According to
Kayvon Beykpour, X is amobile teleportation service.
Identify X.
Answer
Periscope
Q 20
These are some tips released by X for users of Y.
DOs
Explore the world around you.
Take advantage of Ys voice commands.
Ask for permission.
Use screen lock.
Be an active and vocal member of the Y community.
DONTs
Y-out
Wear it and expect to be ignored.
Be creepy or rude (aka, a Y-hole)
Identify X and Y.
Answer
X - Google
Y - Glass
Bad Luck Brian memes have been used
as slide fillers throughout the quiz.
Hey Ho, Lets Go!
- Ramones
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.
Q1
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.
Identify X.
Answer
X = Tetris
Q5
This is X saying about something -
Identify X and Y.
Answer
X = Jack Ma
Y = Alibaba
Q6
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 -
Identify X and Y.
Answer
X = Steve Jobs
Y = LSD
Q8
What am I referring to by the following
(non-exhaustive) list
Amaro
Lo-Fi
Hefe
1977
Mayfair
Rise
Hudson
Valencia
Sierra
Willow
Kevin
Answer
Instagram filters
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.
+40/-20
+20/-10
+10/0
Answer
Larry Ellison
+40/-20
+20/-10
+10/0
Answer
Technologies used in Cricket (Hawkeye,
Snickometer, Hot Spot)
+40/-20
+20/-10
+10/0
Answer
Lenovo ThinkPad
+40/-20
+20/-10
+10/0
Answer
Tech Blogs
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.
Q1
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.
Identify X.
Answer
X = Cute Cat
Identify X.
Answer
Leet or Leetspeak
Q3
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.
Identify X.
Answer
X = Rule 34.
Q4
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
didnt 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 boys 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 couldnt have, neither were coerced into any of this
and neither were hurt
Why?
Answer
The company is owned by the Korean popstar
Psys father. The stock prices rose due to the
sudden popularity of the song Gangnam Style.
Q7
Identify the person.
Answer
moot aka Christopher Poole (Founder of 4chan)
Q8
What is the significance of this dress worn by Jennifer
Lopez in the 2000 Grammy Awards?
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
Lopezs green dress.
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.
+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.
+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.
Identify X.
+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.
+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.
Identify X.
+80/-40
X is a company founded by these two ex-
Facebook employees in the year 2010.
+60/-30
X is a company founded by Zach Sims and Ryan Bubinski
in the year 2011.
Identify X.
+40/-20
+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.
Answers
1 = Reddit
2 = Justin.tv
3 = Instacart
4 = Zenefits
5 = Quora
6 = Codecademy
7 = Airbnb
8 = Dropbox
Overall Connect
Companies funded by Y Combinator
Bouquets or Brickbats?
1. www.facebook.com/sugrabheeta
2. www.twitter.com/sugrabheeta
3. sugrabheeta@gmaill.com