Tech-heavy, sorry :/

2. Finals

3. 1.
• Joseph A. Kinney, the director of the safe
workplace institute, has calculated Domino's
employee death rate at 50 per 100,000. He
said the rate is as high as in mining and higher
than the 30 deaths per 100,000 workers in the
construction industry.
• What does he blame this hazard on?

5. • Domino’s 30 minutes or it’s free rule.

6. 2.
• The first Paddington
Bear stuffed toy to be
manufactured was
created in 1972 by
Gabrielle Designs, a small
business run by Shirley
and Eddie Clarkson, with
the prototype made as a
Christmas present for
their children. Their
children later went on to
become salesmen for the
toys.

8. • Jeremy Clarkson.

9. 4. Which Indian city is aesthetically modelled after the city of Portofino in
Italy?

11. • Lavasa

12. 5.
• IT'S SHOWTIME
• TALK TO THE HAND "hello world"
• YOU HAVE BEEN TERMINATED
• Funda?

14. • ArnoldC, a programming language based on
Arnold Schwarzenneger quotes.

15. 7.
• This company was nearly
going bankrupt when it
signed a product
placement deal with the
producers of a 90’s
movie.
The product got only 12
seconds of screen time,
but directly resulted in
20% increase in sales.
Name the product.
Name the movie.

17. • Etch and Sketch, Toy
Story

18. 8.
• Sofia Ashraf is a relatively little-known former
creative supervisor for Ogilvy and Mather, but
has also worked with AR Rahman and Santosh
Kumar’s Tamil films.
She recently shot to prominence with a rather
unique way of ‘sticking it to the Man.’
How?

20. Kodaikanal Won’t, a protest against
Unilever in the form of a Nicki Minaj
rap

21. 8. What technology was inspired by
this strip in a Spider-man comic?

23. • Ankle bracelets.

24. 10. Spot the irony

26. • Mexico, Donald Trump.

27. 11.
• Commercial airlines refused to fly a sick 3 year-old child
because he could not travel without an elaborate life-
support system, which includes a portable oxygen tank, a
suction machine, a breathing bag and an adrenaline
syringe.
• “X did not hesitate when we called him up. He said ‘yes, I’ll
send my plane out,’” 29-year-old Harold Ten (father)
recalled shortly after he landed here Tuesday morning
(1988).
• Asked why he thought X made his private jet available, Ten
replied, “Because he is a good man. He has three children
of his own and he knows what being a parent is all about.”

29. • Whaddaya know, Donald Trump!

30. 13. Gamers in Australia shot back at this megastore for removing
GTAV off it’s shelves, citing agressive murderings and sexual
exploitation of women. Which one?
A separate petition called for the ban of Fifty Shades of Grey on
the same lines.

32. • Target

33. 14.
• The Star Wars parody called Spaceballs had a
ship called Spaceball One, which had three
modes of FTL speed: Light Speed, Ridiculous
Speed and X.
• Why was this phrase in prominence on the
17th of July of this year?

35. • Ludicrous speed, in Tesla’s Model S cars

36. 15.
• In 2001, the New Zealand government
appointed Energy Minister Pete Hodgson as
the minister of X responsible for a $600
million asset. His work involved tie-ups with
the New Zealand tourism and trade ministry.

38. • LoTR

39. 17.
• at 1:20 AM Eastern Time on Tuesday,
September 29, Sanmay Ved, an ex-googler,
managed to buy and retain ownership of what
for a full minute for a sum of $12?

41. • Google.com

42. 19.
• A heating problem in Apple III computers caused some of
the system’s integrated chips to move or dislodge as they
expanded, causing the screen to display garbled data or
their disk to come out of the slot "melted". An obvious
solution would be the addition of fans and adequate
ventilation, but Jobs hated the relatively loud fans found on
many computers of the day, and didn’t want to mar the
Apple III’s design with ugly vents. So the Apple III
shipped without any fans or vents, relying instead on a
design that utilized a massive aluminum heat sink that
formed the base of the computer.
• How did Apple 3’s user manual ask users to fix the garbled
data and disk melting problem?

44. • Pick it up, and drop it from a height of 2
inches above the ground.
No seriously.

45. 20
• Thanks to this Indian
American musician,
Something everyone of
us does atleast once a
year (even if you’re a
loner) is not illegal
anymore.
Funda?

47. • “Happy Birthday To You” is now in the public
domain, and not in the hands of
Warner/Chappel

48. 21.
• Nuka-Cola was invented in 2044 by John-Caleb
Bradberton. Its unique taste gained widespread
popularity, quickly becoming the most popular
soft drink in the United States with an extremely
dedicated following. The widely known dazzling
blue bottle color was adopted as standard
in 2052, after market research programs
indicated that the blue color was the favorite in
86 people out of 100 polled.
• Put funda on the founders name

50. • Caleb Bradley and John Pemberton, fouders of
Pepsi and Coca Cola respectively

51. 22.
• "Who wants a Y? You have to get 'em, put 'em
away, you lose 'em – yech! Nobody wants a Y.
So let's not use a Y.“
• “God gave us ten Ys. Let us not invent
another.”
• Who’s being quoted? What is Y?

53. • Stylus, and Steve Jobs

54. 23.
• The term was coined by the Citigroup
economist Ebrahim Rahbari and was
introduced by Rahbari and Citigroup's Global
Chief Economist Willem H. Buiter on 6
February 2012. In their original paper, they
put their estimate of the likelihood of the
action associated with the term as 50% way
back in 2012, and has risen in July of this year.

56. • Grexit

57. 24.
• Because IBM’s business was failing in the
nineties, it’s (then) fifty managers were asked
to go around the world and meet face to face
with five of their customers, in an emphatic
move in order to understand their wishes and
needs. This was largely responsible for IBM’s
resurgence from that point onwards.
• What was this operation called?

59. • Operation Bear Hug

60. 25.

62. • Book of Mozilla, the explorer’s own easter egg

63. 26.
• Why did the Chandauli village, 150 km from
Delhi, suddenly albeit indirectly resurge into
prominence in recent days?

65. • Internet.org’s free internet service was first
launched here.

66. 27.
• Massive is a software package developed by Stephen Regelous for the
visual effects industry. Its flagship feature is the ability to quickly and
easily create thousands (or up to millions with current advances in
computer processing power) of agents that all act as individuals as
opposed to content creators individually animating or programming the
agents by hand. Through the use of fuzzy logic, the software enables every
agent to respond individually to its surroundings, including other agents.
These reactions affect the agent's behaviour, changing how they act by
controlling pre-recorded animation clips, for example by blending
between such clips, to create characters that move, act, and react
realistically. These pre-recorded animation clips can come from motion-
capture sessions, or can be hand-animated in other 3D animation
software packages.
• Where was it first used?

68. • Orcs in LOTR Battle scenes

69. 28.
• "That coaching will continue to ensure our
partners are well equipped to discuss Surface
when the camera pans to players using the
device during games.“
• Microsoft plans to conduct training for
imparting information to NFL sportscasters
after their marketing strategy of giving the
Surface air-time backfired horribly. Why?

71. • To stop them from calling the Surface “iPads.”

72. 29.
• What is so special
about this taxi of the
Tillingdale Taxi
company, which for
some reason operates
only between Ryanair's headquarters at
Dublin Airport, and Michael O'Leary (founder
of Ryanair)'s home in Mullingan?
What purpose does it serve?

74. • It’s a company with only one(this) cab.
This company was made just so that the CEO
can use bus lanes legally as a taxi while
coming back home from the airport.

75. 30.
• Niantic Labs, created by John
Hanke in 2010, is
an internal startup within
Google. It came into
prominence with it’s
augmented reality mobile
game titled Ingress which pits
people into two factions who
have to physically interact with
people and real-world objects
and locations to collect Exotic
Matter.
Why has this company shot to
sudden prominence in this
year?

77. • Pokémon GO

78. 31.
• In GPS technology, the term "COCOM Limits"
also refers to a limit placed on GPS tracking
devices that disables tracking when the device
calculates that it is moving faster than 1,000
knots (1,900 km/h; 1,200 mph) at an altitude
higher than 18,000 m (59,000 ft)
Why was this implemented?

80. • To prevent it’s use as a guidance system for
missiles.

81. 32.
• In order to test the speed of ADSL broadband link
of South Africa’s Telkom company, another
company called United IT organized a race
between X and Telkom to transfer 4GB of data to
Durban from Howick, 60 miles away.
The former completed it in 1 hour and 8 minutes,
not including 1 hour for uploading the data, while
Telkom had only completed 4%.
X?

83. • Carrier pigeon!

84. 33.
• The Atlantic writes, “Gravestone monuments,
after all, are built of sturdy matter such as
granite, fieldstone, and marble—materials
imagined to last well into the future. Given the
proliferation of memorialization websites and the
use of social networking profiles as mourning
spaces, it may come as no surprise that X now
appear on headstones, linking graveyard visitors
to online tributes to the dead. The frenzy of
connectivity fomented by the Web 2.0 ethos has
apparently led to a market for interactive,
digitally connected graveyards.”

86. • QR codes

87. 34.
• What reason does Rovio give for choosing pigs
as their main antagonists while developing
their extremely famous Angry Birds title way
back in 2009? It was for the same reason that
they painted them green.

89. The surge of Swine Flu cases in 2009-2010

90. 35.
• American designer Rick Owens' Spring/Summer 2016
collection at Paris Fashion Week a few days back effectively
proves one of two things; he has truly lost it or he’s
attempting to break the fashion circlejerk of utterly
outrageous designs.
• "I see [my vision for the collection] being more about
nourishment, sisterhood/motherhood… Women raising
women, women becoming women, and women supporting
women," Owens said in a statement. "Straps can be about
restraint, but here they are all about support and cradling.
Straps here become loving ribbons.“
• While the above does nothing to explain what he designed,
what were the runway models wearing?

91. • For reference, this designer brought forth
these

92. Answer: Each other!

93. 36.
• Now widely recognised as the first real-world transaction with
bitcoin, May 22nd has come to celebrate 'Bitcoin X Day', with
cryptocurrency enthusiasts raising toasts to Laslo Hanyecz’s
purchase that paved the way for early merchant adoption.
• on May 22, 2010, the programmer paid a fellow Bitcoin Talk forum
user 10,000 BTC for two X. Back then – when the technology was
just over a year old – that equated to roughly $25, but is $5.12m by
today’s exchange rate. The Xs are now considered to be on the top
spot of the most expensive X ever sold.
• "It wasn’t like bitcoins had any value back then, so the idea of
trading them for a X was incredibly cool," Hanyecz told Nick Bilton
in a recent interview with The New York Times. "No one knew it was
going to get so big.“
• What is X?

95. • Pizza

96. 37. Google Trends of what that shows
a spike every September?

98. • “Wake me up when September ends”

99. 38.
• The results of this project closely resembles
what would happen to someone under the
influence of LSD and psylocybins, an hence
may be used to understand the working of the
visual cortex of our brains.
It’s name allegedly comes from a meme
derived from a 2008 sci-fi movie.

101. • Google’s Deep Dream project

102. 39.
• When an aboriginal Australian man was
wrongly sentenced to execution for the
murder of a 9-year-old girl, due to the police
fabricating evidence such as letters of criminal
intent even as he was illiterate, Which man of
Donald Trump-level richness and
douchebaggery took it upon himself to
strongly protest for a fair trial, even as he
didn’t believe the man to be all too innocent?

104. • Rupert Murdoch

105. 40.
• Which organization will be the subject of the
newest exhibit in America’s National Museum
of Organized Crime?

107. • FIFA.