Finals of the senior tech quiz conducted at The Digilogous 2015, at Rukmini Devi Public School.

1. S E N I O R Q U I Z F I N A L S

5. R O U N D O N E
“Tech support? I just opened an app and my
system died. It was terminal”

6. Q U E S T I O N O N E
• "Most modern programming languages do not
consider X syntax, ignoring them, as if they weren't
there. We consider this to be a gross injustice to these
perfectly friendly members of the character set.
Should they be ignored, just because they are
invisible? X is a language that seeks to redress the
balance. Any non X characters are ignored; only X are
considered syntax.”
• This is the official description of what?

7. • Whitespace programming language (it’s syntax
consists only of white spaces, newlines, and tabs)

8. Q U E S T I O N T W O
• This is the first prototype of what?

9. • Pebble Smartwatch

10. Q U E S T I O N T H R E E
• When this program was shut down, one of it’s creators
wrote a poem to lament it’s end.
• "It was the first, and being first, was best,
but now we lay it down to ever rest.
Now pause with me a moment, shed some tears.
For auld lang syne, for love, for years and years
of faithful service, duty done, I weep.
Lay down thy packet, now, O friend, and sleep."
• Identify the program and the writer.

11. • Vint Cerf and the ARPANET

12. Q U E S T I O N F O U R
• The “Setun” was a computer developed in 1958 at the
Moscow State University under the leadership of
Soviet computing pioneers Sergei Sobolev and
Nikolay Brusentsov. It was named after the Setun river
which ends near the unversity.
• What was special about this computer?

13. • It’s the only modern ternary computer

14. Q U E S T I O N F I V E
• X has a wingspan of a Boeing 737 but weighs nearly a
hundred times less. It is supposed to fly at an altitude of
60000 to 90000 feet, and uses lasers for communication
with the ground. One X can fly autonomously for 90 days
without having to land. X’s parent company found out
after running simulations that multiple X flying at the
same time in bird-like formation prove to be more
efficient that other techniques, so they decided to built
X.
• What is X

15. • Facebook’s Aquila Aircraft

16. Q U E S T I O N S I X
• Identify this device

17. • Nokia Ozo

18. R O U N D T W O
“My favourite game is breakout.”
-Linus TodWalls

19. Q U E S T I O N O N E
• Harmonix is an American video game development
company based in Cambridge, MA. It was founded in
1995 by Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy. The duo met
at the MIT Media Lab, and built a system that could
generate music algorithmically, and built a control
scheme for that using a joystick.
In 2004, Harmonix entered into a partnership with
RedOctane, a peripheral company, to make a
dedicated controlling device for one of their games.
What did this partnership lead to?

20. • Guitar Hero

21. Q U E S T I O N T W O
• Tardar Sauce (born April 4, 2012), better known by her Internet name
"X", is a cat and Internet celebrity known for her grumpy facial
expression. Her owner, Tabatha Bundesen, says that her
permanently grumpy-looking face is due to an under bite and feline
dwarfism. X's popularity originated from a picture posted to the
social news website Reddit on September 22, 2012. It was made into
an image macro with grumpy captions. As of December 10, 2014,
"The Official X" page on Facebook has over 7 million "likes". X was
featured on the front page of The Wall Street Journal on May 30,
2013, and on the cover of New York magazine on October 7, 2013.
• Identify X.

22. • Grumpy Cat

23. Q U E S T I O N T H R E E
• In March 2014, a 19 year old Italian programmer Gabriele
Cirulli launched a web app inspired from a popular iOS and
Android game on github. Cirulli originally created it to see if
he could program a game from scratch, but his game ended
up becoming viral.
In fact, his version of the game became so popular that it is
now sometimes claimed that the original game was a clone of
the one created by him.
Because of the game, Cirulli’s profile became one of the most
visited profiles on github in 2014.
• Identify the game

24. • 2048

25. Q U E S T I O N F O U R
• Which prominent personality founded the company
whose logo is given below?

26. • Jay-Z.
• The company is Tidal music

27. Q U E S T I O N F I V E
• Hideo Sawada owns Henn-na Hotel which opened in
Nagasaki, Japan on July 17. What is unique about this
hotel?

28. • The hotel staff members are robots

29. Q U E S T I O N S I X
• In the 1970s, implementing number crunching programs
in the popular programming languages was a difficult
task, and often led to limited accuracy solutions. The US
government realised this problem, and commissioned
numerical analysts to tackle this problem, which
culminated into the netlib project.
• One of the engineers working on netlib, Cleve Moler,
was dissatisfied with the functioning of the linear
algebra library he had created, and wanted to do more.
What did this result in?

31. R O U N D T H R E E
“I wear glasses because I can’t C#”
-James Gosling

32. Q U E S T I O N O N E
• Larry Ewing, a programmer, was inspired by this to
create what?

34. Q U E S T I O N T W O
• X is a Chinese electronics manufacturer founded by
Jack Wong based in Zhuhai, Guangdong. It began
production in 2003 with it's line of cheap high quality
MP3 and MP4 players.
In 2008, after the launch of the iPhone, it shifted it's
focus to Android based phones, and is now one of the
highest selling mobile phone manufacturers in China.
It calls it's custom distribution of Android "Flyme OS".
• What is X?

35. • Meizu

36. Q U E S T I O N T H R E E
• Roberto Busa was an Italian Jesuit priest and a pioneer
in using computers for a specific purpose. He was the
author of Index Thomisticus, a lemmatization of the
works of Saint Thomas Aquinas, which he compiled in
1949.
• Busa met Thomas Watson for help in compiling a
linked index of the works. What was special about the
Index Thomisticus?

37. • The first e-book.

38. Q U E S T I O N F O U R
• On January 12, 2010, X's DNS records in the United States were altered such
that browsers to X were redirected to a website purporting to be the Iranian
Cyber Army, thought to be behind the attack on Twitter during the 2009 Iranian
election protests, making the proper site unusable for four hours.
• Internet users were met with a page saying "This site has been attacked by
Iranian Cyber Army". Chinese hackers later responded by attacking Iranian
websites and leaving messages. X later launched legal action against
Register.com for gross negligence after it was revealed that Register.com's
technical support staff changed the email address for X on the request of an
unnamed individual, despite failing security verification procedures. Once the
address had been changed, the individual was able to use the forgotten
password feature to have its domain passwords sent directly to them, allowing
them to accomplish the domain hijacking.
• Identify X.

39. • Baidu.com

40. Q U E S T I O N F I V E
• Name the application.

41. • Google Fit

42. Q U E S T I O N S I X
• X is a family of high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming
languages, originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix
scripting language to make report processing easier.
• X languages borrow features from other programming languages including C, shell
scripting, AWK, and sed. They provide powerful text processing facilities without the
arbitrary data-length limits of many contemporary Unix command line tools,
facilitating easy manipulation of text files.
• X has been referred to as "line noise" by some programmers who claim its syntax
makes it a write-only language. The earliest such mention was in the first edition of
the book Learning X written by Randal L. Schwartz, in the first chapter of which he
states: "Yes, sometimes X looks like line noise to the uninitiated, but to the seasoned
X programmer, it looks like check summed line noise with a mission in life."
• Identify X.

43. • Perl

44. Q U E S T I O N S E V E N
• It is a 1999 original TNT film directed by Martyn Burke. It
stars Noah Wyle as Steve Jobs and Anthony Michael Hall
as Bill Gates.
• Spanning the years 1971–1997, the film is based on Paul
Freiberger and Michael Swaine's book Fire in the Valley:
The Making of The Personal Computer.
• It explores the impact of the rivalry between Jobs (Apple
Computer) and Gates (Microsoft) on the development of
the personal computer.
• Name the movie.

45. • Pirates of the Silicon Valley

46. Q U E S T I O N E I G H T
• X is an effect associated with the blocking of e-mails, forum posts or
search results by a spam filter or search engine 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 problem was named after an incident in 1996 in which AOL's
profanity filter prevented residents of a town X in Lincolnshire,
England, from creating accounts with AOL, because the X contained
a profanity in the substring.
• Identify X.

47. • Scunthrope Problem

48. Q U E S T I O N N I N E
• It is a video hosting service owned and operated by a joint venture of
Universal Music Group (UMG), Google, Sony Music Entertainment
(SME) and Abu Dhabi Media. It was launched on December 8, 2009.
Its videos are syndicated across the web, with Google sharing the
advertising revenue.
• It offers music videos from two of the "big three" major record labels,
UMG and SME. EMI also licensed its library shortly before launch; it
was subsequently acquired by UMG in 2012.
• Warner Music Group was initially reported to be considering hosting
its content on the service, but formed an alliance with rival MTV
Networks later.
• Name the service.

49. • VEVO

50. Q U E S T I O N T E N
• X1 tests many features on one page against a reference image. All major browsers
pass the test.
• It was developed by Todd Fahrner, who was frustrated with the lack of stringent
tests to improve browser interoperability. After looking at tests developed by
Braden McDaniel that used reference renderings to clarify the intended result,
Fahrner developed a comprehensive test that resulted in a quirky-looking graphic.
• In 1999, the test was incorporated into the CSS1 test suite. The text used in X1 is an
allusion to T. S. Eliot's poem The Hollow Men. X1 is included as an offline Easter
egg in Internet Explorer 5 for Mac OS, accessible by typing 'about:tasman', with
the text replaced by the names of the developers.
• X1 has served as inspiration for X2 and X3.
• Identify X.

51. • Acid

52. Q U E S T I O N E L E V E N
• Identify the company.

53. • Macromedia

54. Q U E S T I O N T W E LV E
• It is the open alliance established in 2011 by Jolla Company to
develop an OS, a Linux operating system combining Mer with
proprietary components written by Jolla and other sides, for
various devices in the mobile industry and continue to develop
the Linux MeeGo ecosystem, as also the OS is a part of it.
• The aim of the alliance is to offer unique differentiation
opportunities and sustainable competitive advantage for OEM
and ODM manufacturers, chipset providers, operators,
application developers, retailers and other interested in sides.
• Name the Alliance.

55. • Sailfish Alliance

56. R O U N D F O U R
“Our software never has bugs. It just develops
random features.”
-Satya NaBola

57. Q U E S T I O N O N E
• X is an annual event launched by Ted Kekatos. The first
X was celebrated on July 28, 2000, when Kekatos was
inspired by a special event at Hewlett-Packard in which
people holding specific positions were honoured with
flowers and fruit baskets.
• Now, X is held on 31st of July every year. What is X?

58. • Sysadmin day

59. Q U E S T I O N T W O
• X was founded in May 2010 by Brad Damphousse and
Andrew Ballester. Damphousse and Ballester originally
created the website under the name "CreateAFund"
in 2008 but later changed the name to X after making
numerous upgrades to the features of the website. As
of 2015, the site had over 22.3 million visits per month.
• Identify X

60. • Gofundme

61. Q U E S T I O N T H R E E
• This is the mascot of which company?

62. • Panasonic

63. Q U E S T I O N F O U R
• X was cofounded by Javier Soltero, the former CTO of
VMWare, J. Zhuang, and Kevin Henrikson aimed to
professionals to do more and defer less from mobile
email. To distinguish itself from other mobile email
startups like Mailbox and Sparrow, they decided to
concentrate on the enterprise segment by touting it's
Exchange compatibility.
• It was acquired prematurely to enhance the buying
company's mobile email apps. What is X?

64. • X -> Accompli, now the Outlook client on Android and
iOS

65. Q U E S T I O N F I V E
• This is made possible by one of the fundamental
principles of a Turing machine which makes it possible
to build another Turing machine using it without making
any changes to the basic functionality. It was first
implemented in 1960s in a research system by IBM, the
M44/44X.
• This technique is primarily used in two ways, the
hardware simulation way, or the software way, by
carrying over the native hardware to the guest system.
Which technique?

66. • Virtual Machines / Virtualisation

67. Q U E S T I O N S I X
• X is an independent news, information, and
entertainment venture. The site claims to focus on 'the
most important political and cultural stories that are
shaping contemporary India’. It was started by ACK
Media Founder Samir Patil with two other partners.
• X is named after a new web ‘phenomenon’ in which
websites take inspiration from a technique often used
in popular videogames to keep people interested.
Identify X.

68. • scroll.in

69. Q U E S T I O N S E V E N
• Matthew Joseph Martin, an Indonesian developer
launched a service called “Blossom” in July 2015
which allows microfinance based on Bitcoins. Martin
realised that Bitcoin does not incur interest, and was
therefore an appropriate medium of microfinancing,
based on a profit-sharing model.
• What is special about the service?

70. • It is the first “Halal” financing app, since interest-
based loans are prohibited in Islam.

71. Q U E S T I O N E I G H T
• Back in 2003, a software engineer Don Ho wasn’t
satisfied with the code editor his company provided,
JEXT. He felt that code editing could be made much
more programmer-friendly, and managed to prove
that with his own editor. What did he create?

72. • Notepad++

73. Q U E S T I O N N I N E
• This game was developed by a group of programmers
based in Buenos Aires, Argentina who started a
company “Etermax”. It’s original Spanish name was
“Preguntados”.
• It became viral in December 2014, and became the
most downloaded game on the App Store as well as
the Google Play Store.
• Which game?

74. • Trivia Crack

75. Q U E S T I O N T E N
• X is a free and open source content management system
for publishing web content. It is a fork of Mambo,
another (now obsolete) CMS, and is written in PHP.
The current form of X is a result of the project leader,
Andrew Eddie’s website OpenSourceMatters.org, on
which he wrote an open letter asking developers to
contribute to the software, which received the Slashdot
effect. X is the Swahili word for “all together or as a
whole”
What is X?

76. • Joomla

77. Q U E S T I O N E L E V E N
• X is a joke language with four instructions:
• H: Print "hello, world"
• Q: Print the program's source code
• 9: Print the lyrics to "99 Bottles of Beer"
• +: Increment the accumulator
Identify X.

78. • HQ9+ (The answer was right in front of you!)

79. Q U E S T I O N T W E LV E
• X is a commonly used windowing system for bitmap
displays on *NIX like operating systems. It provides
the basic framework for a GUI environment, drawing
and moving windows on the display device and
interacting with a mouse and keyboard.
X originated at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT) in 1984
• Identify X

80. R O U N D F I V E
“Banana!”
-Kevin

81. Q U E S T I O N O N E
Connect

82. • Directi

83. Q U E S T I O N T W O
Everland Amusement Park
Leeum Museum

84. • All of these are by Samsung.
Top right: Samsung Medical Center, Seoul
Bottom right: Shilla Hotel, Seoul

85. Q U E S T I O N T H R E E

86. • All are subsidiares of Yahoo!

87. Q U E S T I O N F O U R

88. • Mobli

89. Q U E S T I O N F I V E

90. • All are Debian codenames

91. R O U N D S I X
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92. Q U E S T I O N O N E
• This song, by Gary Jules, was used for the promotion
of the Xbox game "Gears of War".
• What is it's claim to fame?

93. • First song to top the charts because of being used in a
videogame promotion

94. Q U E S T I O N T W O
• This is an advertisement for what?

95. • Blackberry Playbook

96. Q U E S T I O N T H R E E
• What does this video depict?

97. • Intel’s nano-scale microprocessor fabrication process

98. Q U E S T I O N F O U R
• Identify the speaker

99. • Elon Musk