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This document summarizes details from an IT quiz event called Brain Sparks 2015. It lists the 6 finalist schools and provides rules for the different rounds, including a dry questions round with 20 questions worth 20 points each. One question asks contestants to list 10 elements related to various TV show or movie series titles. The document also outlines the differential scoring round and outsourcing rounds involving questions selected by other teams.
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3. Quiz Master of the day
• Do not mess with the sleep deprived QUIZ
MASTER or else he will run away scared
4. Finalists
• Pragati Public School
• Modern Convent School
• N.K. Bagrodia Public School
• Venkateshwar International School
• DAV Public School
• Shri Venkateshwar International School
8. • Written Round
• One Common List Head
• You Need To Write Down Any 10 Elements
• Marking Scheme:
• 1 For Every correct entry
• 150 Seconds To #List_Up
Rules
14. • 20 Questions On The Go
• 20 Points each
• Infinite Bounce Rule Will Be Followed
Rules
15.
16. The X was the world's first commercial home
video game console. It was first demonstrated
in April,1972 and released in August of that
year, predating the Atari Pong Home Consoles
by three years. It is a digital video game
console, though is often mistakenly believed to
be analog, due to misunderstanding of its
hardware design.
Question 1Dry Questions Round
19. This is a product of the IT firm ‘Innovazion’.
According to the CEO. Gagneja, “by building
this software, we wanted to... Congratulate the
current government. We also want to pass a
message to the government that the nation
has high expectations from them.”
Which software is this?
Question 2Dry Questions Round
23. X is the act of inserting oneself into the field of
view, often in order to play a practical joke on
the subjects. X has received significant
coverage since 2009. X has been known to get
global exposure mainly due to the band width
and ease of dissemination afforded by the
internet, and the abundance of smartphone
cameras and other handheld devices. A
number of websites include sections on them,
or are entirely devoted to X.
Question 3Dry Questions Round
35. YouTube earlier was a 32-bit system
The maximum value of a number in this system is
2,147,483,647.
But as ‘Gangnam Style’ was gaining enormous popularity the
view counter was increasing day-by-day and reaching close to
this number. But before this video can reach the top mark
YouTube changed itself to A 64-bit system where the
maximum value is 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 which will take
perhaps 4 billion years to reach this point!
What would have had happened if Gangnam Style had
reached 2,147,483,647 and another view was recorded?
Question 6Dry Questions Round
36.
37. Dry Questions Round
Any other view after
2,147,483,647 would have
rolled the counter down to
-2,147,483,648.
The lowest 32-bit integer.
Answer 6
38.
39. The landing page of the game shows an eight-armed
woman, clad in red and resembling the powerful
Hindu goddess Durga. Underneath her is a caption “A
woman will give you strength, care and all the love
you need, NOT dowry!”
In the game, players strike target grooms who
demand a large dowry. Each hit lowers the amount
demanded. If the player manages to bring the dowry
to zero they can proceed to the next level.
What is the name of this game? Also name the
creator.
Question 7Dry Questions Round
43. This movie’s website didn’t give any details on the
storyline of the film. The site refreshes itself after
fifteen minutes and irrespective of whichever section
of the website you are on, it comes back to the home
page after fifteen minutes.
Which movie’s website is it?
Question 8Dry Questions Round
47. Red is a chaser, alternatively called shadow or blinky.
Pink is an ambusher, also known as speedy or pinky.
Cyan is fickle, nicknamed bashful or inky.
Orange is stupid, a trait noticeable by his slow movement, and
also referred as pokey or Clyde.
They aren’t really very helpful when you meet them, nor are
they useful in any way, except four times for about ten
seconds.
Collectively they are also called ‘ghosts’, ‘goblins’ or ‘octopi’.
You have probably packed in at least a few hours with these
guys.
Where?
Question 9Dry Questions Round
55. In June 2011, Shiv Nagar, named after
the Hindu God Shiva, became X , after Y - an Indian
e-commerce company had installed 15 hand pumps,
so villagers no longer have to walk for miles to fetch
drinking water. There was no source of potable water
in the village before. The villagers voted to name
their hamlet after Y to express their gratitude.
Identify X and Y .
Question 11Dry Questions Round
59. X originally had A .Org domain, but that was
abandoned for good back in 2012.
The site hopped from one domain to the next,
covering .Sx (Sint Maarten), .Gy (Guyana), .Pe (Peru),
and .Ac (Ascension Island) among others.
Each time it felt threatened, the site would move
again.
It eventually came to rest at x.Se in April 2013.
X please.
Question 12Dry Questions Round
67. Hardware Technicians All Over The World Use A
‘Special’ Technique Termed As ‘Percussive
Maintenance’.
It is criticized by many, but has miraculously
produced positive results in several documented
cases.
What Is It?
Question 14Dry Questions Round
71. After the first round of reviews are out, it’s clear X got the
right idea with the Y, a full-blown PC on a $150 HDMI stick
that plugs into any monitor or HDTV with A free port. There’s
plenty of demand for it, and lots of interest around the web in
various forums and comment sections. It’s not so clear it’s a
shoo-in purchase, though.
The X’s Y will be available by maybe the first week of May or
so.
The $150 version has a quad-core X atom z3735f soc,
2GB RAM, and 32GB EMMC flash storage with Windows 8.1
preloaded. It measures just 0.5 by 4 by 1.5 inches (HWD) and
weighs 1.9 ounces.
X and Y please.
Question 15Dry Questions Round
75. How has Chandauli, a village situated 150 miles from
Delhi become the most talked about place in recent
days?
Question 16Dry Questions Round
76.
77. Dry Questions Round
It is the first destination to be
powered by Internet.Org in India
Answer 16
78.
79. Xianren Bridge, also known as Fairy Bridge, is the world’s
largest natural arch with a span of 400 feet or 120 meters.
The bridge was unknown to the world for a long time, before it
got discovered accidently.
Who/what discovered it?
Question 17Dry Questions Round
83. How has Vishal Malhotra, a model from Delhi has
become an over-night sensation and one of the most
recognizable face in the past few days?
Question 18Dry Questions Round
87. This gesture has been used by many a sportspersons,
especially footballers, as a means to celebrate goals.
But as a matter of fact, Google had patented this
gesture. The patent was filed back in 2011
If you make this gesture in front of an object it would
trigger Glass to identify the content in front of it and
post it up to a social network of your choice with ‘an
indication that the image is liked’.
Which gesture am I talking about?
Question 19Dry Questions Round
91. What technology did Ben Stumpe develop in 1973 at
CERN as a replacement for the various control knobs,
buttons and switches present in his laboratory?
Question 20Dry Questions Round
134. • 12 Questions (2 Per Team)
• Marking Scheme : 20/-10
• Questions For One Would Be Selected By
Another Team.
• Selections Starting From The Lowest Scoring
Team At The Moment.
Rules
136. This website was started in August, 2010 by Kunal
Shah. After getting seed funding of an undisclosed
amount from Tandon Group, members of the Mumbai
and Sequoia Capital in 2010, the company secured a
funding of Rs.20 Crores from Sequoia Capital.
In November 2012, the company claimed to be doing
business of Rs. 60 lakhs per day, translating to Rs.219
Crores in an year.
The company currently has a patent pending status for
its business model.
Which website?
Outsourcing Question 1
139. Kavin Mittal, son of Sunil Bharti Mittal of Airtel, with
his father’s financial backing, led a team that came up
with a certain alternative product, which has proved to
be quite popular among the tech savvy current
generation India.
What is the product he is behind?
Outsourcing Question 2
142. Morse code is a method of transmitting text
information as dots and dashes, each character
is represented by a unique sequence.
.--.-. (dot-dash-dash-dot-dash-dot)
This sequence was added to the Morse code list
in the Internet Era, and it was the first addition
since World War I.
What does it represent?
Outsourcing Question 3
145. The Idea For X Is Attributed To Manju Latha Kalanidhi, A 38-
year-old Journalist Based In Hyderabad, India. She
Considered Y Artificial And Wasteful Of Water, And Came
Up With X As A Less Wasteful Alternative That Would Help
Local Communities.
It Started Off As A Facebook Page On August 23, 2014, And
Within A Day, The Page Had 7000 Likes. On August 24, 2014,
The Twitter Hash Tag #X Was First Used, And Within A
Month, The Hash Tag Had Been Tweeted 11,000 Times.
On August 25, The X Was Covered In Buzz Feed And Quartz,
And Within A Few Days, It Had Received Coverage In
The Huffington Post, Chicago Tribune, CNN, CNBC, Npr,
Ndtv, Time, And Many Other News Websites.
X Please.
Outsourcing Question 4
148. When Steve Jobs Accused Bill Gates Of Stealing The GUI
Concept From Apple, Gates Said
“Well, Steve, I Think There’s More Than One Way Of
Looking At It. I Think It’s More Like We Both Had This
Rich Neighbor Named X And I Broke Into His House To
Steal The T.V Set And Found Out That You Had Already
Stolen It.”
Who Was This Rich Neighbor X?
Outsourcing Question 5
169. The X effect occurs when a very popular website links
to A smaller site, causing A massive increase in the
traffic. This overloads the smaller site, causing it to slow
down or even temporarily become unavailable. The
name stems from the huge influx of web traffic that
would result from the technology news site X linking to
other websites.
Identify x.
Outsourcing Question 12