Colloquium general quiz 2017

4. Y COMBINATOR:
All these start-ups were incubated at the
legendary Y combinator.

5. The cover story of the January 1975 issue
of POPULAR ELECTRONICS featuring
the ALTAIR 8800 inspired the founders of
X to write an interpreter for the device.
Pic follows.

9. In December 2016 , A player “ Magist” from South korea
became active in the online servers of a game Y and
started ratcheting up victories against some of the best
players of the game in the world
X’s playing style has been described as "conservative“
by observers. X strongly favours greater probability of
winning by fewer points over lesser probability of winning
by more points. X’s strategy of maximising its probability
of winning is distinct from what normally players of game
Y tend to do, which is to maximise territorial gains
After a final tally of 60 wins and 0 losses ,Magist was
revealed as a pseudonym of X

11.  Al developed by google, which became the first
computer programme to defeat a professional
human Go player without any handicaps.

12.  Company X which was started by Rahul
Narayan in 2010, moved its base from Delhi
to Bangalore , partly to work more closely
with a Govt.Organisation, a partnership which
has proved highly fruitful in the last year.
 X follows a system of Stars wars based
designation( Fleet commander, Jedi
commander etc) for its 100 odd employees
and counts amongst its advisors Nandan
Nilekani, Ratan Tata, Sachin and Binny
bansal etc.

14. Team INDUS or
Axiom Research
Labs is the only
Indian team
competing In the
google lunar X
prize,

15. On September 9, 1945, U.S. Navy
officer Grace Hopper found a moth
between the relays on the Harvard Mark II
computer she was working on. In those
days , warmth of the internal components
attracted moths, flies and other flying
creatures. Those creatures then shortened
circuits and caused the computer to
malfunction.

19. The moons of Jupiter – Callisto, Europa,
Ganymede.
The discoverer of the moons of Jupiter.
Sun god- Helios.
Indigo – one of the seven colors of the
rainbow – produced by the sun.
Astronomy- Juno, Kepler, Luna, Mars.
Elements – Neon and Oxygen.