Stuart Hughes' $15 million gold-dipped smartphone is called the Stuart Hughes Million Dollar Phone

Rules
The quiz shall follow the Sino-Kerala format, which
was developed yesterday.(+10 for direct,+8 for a pass)
Unless mentioned otherwise, the quiz shall proceed in
the clockwise direction for the first half and anti clock
for the second.
Depending upon the finalists preference, the quiz may
incorporate pounce, bounce and differential scoring.

Since this quiz is wholeheartedly dedicated to God,we
shall follow what I call the Tendulkar mode in quizzing.
Each team can play 3 questions without an ensuring
negative if the answer is incorrect. The mention of
Tendulkar is neccessary before you invoke this power.
Only Tendulkar would do.
If teams arrive at 200 points, they shall be the
receipent of a bonus question worth 10 points that only
they can answer.

On the 16th of November a particular word being
added to a Wikipedia article resulted in a massive
outpour of emotions on the Internet. Facebook saw
a massive outage on the same with many posting
statuses that paid tribute. Twitter saw the
swansong of a handle that came into prominence in
the past month. What was the word added/what
was the sentence in question ?

Sachin Tendulkar is a “former” Indian cricketer.

Which was the first animated movie to be nominated
for the Academy Award for Best Picture ?

 X was proposed by Valentin Balt and Michael
Cherviakov, employees of Parallel Technologies (a
software company) in 2002. On the 24th of July it
was implemented by their government with an
official constitutional draft with President Dmitri
Medvedev's whole hearted support and backing.
What ?

X is a keen yachtsman and his 72 ft mini maxi Rán II
(Judel/Vrolijk design, 2009) competes in the World's major
offshore races. Rán II was the overall winner of the Rolex
Fastnet Race in 2009 and 2011. She campaigns around the
world and has travelled to Australia to compete in the
Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race on two occasions to date
winning its division both times. In 2010 she won the Mini
Maxi World Championship with follow up wins in 2011 and
2013. X also campaigns a TP52 designed by Judel/Vrolijk,
named Rán IV, to take part in the highly competitive 52
Super Series. They won the 2013 TP52 World
Championships and came 3rd overall in the 52 Super Series
in the same year.

Shut up and Pounce
A Boy and His Atom is a 2013 stop-motion animated short
film released on YouTube by X.
The movie tells the story of a boy and a wayward atom who
meet and become friends. It depicts a boy playing with an
atom that takes various forms.
One minute in length, it was made by moving carbon
monoxide molecules viewed with a scanning tunneling
microscope, a device that magnifies them 100 million times.
These two-atom molecules were literally moved to create
images, which were then saved as individual frames to make
the film.
The movie has been recognized by the Guinness Book of
World Records as the World's Smallest Stop-Motion Film. Id X.

 ________ was proposed to "fundamentally enhance the human
communications process, through the use of XML, with the purpose of
ending human misunderstanding".
It addresses this purpose by standardizing the presentation of details
relevant to communicative acts. Such details may be social, contextual,
gestural, or psychological, and may pertain to an individual in an act of
communication or to the context of that communication.
For example, just as Internet users may use emoticons ("smileys") to
convey emotional information relevant to their essentially textual
communication, _________ codes the emotional importance and intent of
a signal in a series of markup tags.
The standard aims to provide an arbitrarily detailed way to represent
information pertinent to any act of communication.
 FITB.

A mid-sized Korean semiconductor firm named DI Corp that makes
products named “Monitoring Burn-in Tester” and “Wafer Test
Board” had consistently lost money for four quarters in 2011-12. In a
few weeks around October 2012 however, the firm, headed by Park
Won-ho saw its share price shoot up nearly three times its original
value, from 2,000 to 5,700 Korean won. Why?

Tum jaante ho yeh kiska baap hai, Psy ka

Put Fundae.
Hint:Tribute Question to a revolutionary technology.

Dolby. Clockwork used it first,but released an
optical soundtrack.Callan hence was ,technically
the first.

3579NOPQRSTUVWXYZ
2468.ABCDEFGHIJKLM
What is the significance of this
sequence in technological terms ?

The initial design for the QWERTY keyboard.

12/11/13

It is named after the westernized-name of its
Russian inventor, Léon ______, who patented the
device in 1928. The controlling section usually
consists of two metal antennas which sense the
position of the player's hands and control
oscillators for frequency with one hand, and
amplitude (volume) with the other, so it can be
played without being touched. This device was
popularized by artists such as The Beach Boys,
Led Zeppelin and The Rolling Stones. What?

Theremin. Written more stylishly though.

12/11/13

2009: Moldova civil unrest, claiming that the elections,
which saw the governing Party of Communists of the
Republic of Moldova (PCRM) win a majority of seats, were
fraudulent
2009–2010: Iranian election protests, also known as Green
Revolution and Facebook Revolution, following the 2009
Iranian presidential election
2010–2011 Tunisian revolution, in which the regime of
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was ended after 23 years
Egyptian Revolution of 2011, in which the regime of Hosni
Mubarak was ended after 30 years

They are all known as the Twitter revolution.

12/11/13

This global giant has an approximate revenue of
$18.4 billion. It became the ‘largest home appliance
maker in the world’ after a famous acquisition of a
commercial laundry device manufacturer in 2006. It’s
product line includes clothes washers, dryers,
refrigerators, freezers, dishwashers, air conditioners,
microwave ovens amongst other things.
What is the name of this company which also
famously developed an ice cream for NASA which
does not melt at room temperature?

His Twitter Bio: @ReallyVirtual - An IT consultant
taking a break from the rat-race by hiding in the
mountains with his laptops. He became instantly
famous on May 2nd, 2011 when he first broke the
shocking news to the world by live-tweeting!

Live Tweeted the attack on Bin Laden. Wasn’t
featured in Zero Dark Thirty,sadly.

"Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)" a song by Spiller, featuring
vocals by British singer-songwriter Sophie Ellis-Bextor.
The single was released in August 2000 by Positiva
Records. It peaked at #1 in the UK, New Zealand, Ireland
and Australia, as well as charting at number three on the
American Hot Dance Chart.
What historically significant role did this song play?

First song to be tested on an iPod

 In 1967, Damyanti Gupta aimed to become an
Engineer at Ford Motor Company, Detroit • There
were no female engineers there then, but Damyanti
was hired as Ford’s first-ever female engineer. • She
inspired Reshma Saujani to found X, a New Yorkbased initiative to help teach girls to code so that they
pursue careers in technology/engineering. • This has
got the steadfast support of a number of companies,
including Google, GE, eBay and Twitter.

• Girlswhocode. Points given for Girlscancode.
Although I would have preferred the former
because the latter is an obvious statement.

This 2010 Indian anthology film has 4 short films:
Abhimanyu, Omar, Megha and Afia based on child
abuse, gay rights, Kashmiri pandits and sperm donation
respectively.
• It has won the Best Film Award while Z bagged the
Best Actress award for her performance in the film at
the 13th London Asian Film Festival for her character
of Megha. Released in India on April 22, 2011.
 • It’s the 1st mainstream Hindi film that is crowdsourced through Twitter and Facebook and director Y
offered backers co-production credit in the film and a
share in the profits.

Germany’s Samwer Brothers - Alexander, Oliver and
Marc - famous for creating replicas of well-established
sites across the world •
They are the expertise behind 3 recent players in the
Indian e- tailing space, FabFurnish, HeavenandHome
and X. •
 Xerion Retail Private Limited is the parent company of
both X and FabFurnish, which in turn is funded by the
Samwer Brothers Group.
•X is the company’s flagship venture in the Indian etailing space which was started in late 2011-early 2012,
and has already established itself as a player to be
reckoned with. • Id X.

More than 8M people watched LIVE this unbelievable
record-breaking event, in turn setting another record
for the largest number of concurrent live streams in
the YouTube's history. Beating this, about 8.3M
people accessed BBC’s sport website on the first day
of the London Olympic Games.
Who made what record-breaking event?

Felix Baumgartner’s version of Skyfall

X is one of the oldest industrial exhibitions in
Germany. Today it is one of world's leading trade
shows for consumer electronics and home
appliances. The last event was held from 31 August,
to 5 September 2012 in Berlin where Dell launched
its Win8 machines, Sony launched its flagship Xperia
phones, and many more.
What is X?

IFA. Google for more information, please 

British designer Stuart Hughes is a name that is more often than not
associated with the glitzy and expensive lifestyle, as he has come up with
plenty of weird and pricey designs in the past, including an iPad that had
a real T-Rex bone in it. Well, this time around, Stuart Hughes has
churned out what could very well be the most expensive smartphone in
the world, where he calls it the ___________, as it carries a sticker price of
approximately $15 million after conversion. This particular smartphone
was custom-ordered by an anonymous Chinese businessman, where it
comes dipped in 26 karat gold, in addition to an actual black diamond
which will now take over the position of the home key, in addition to
600 “regular” diamonds that have been embedded into the phone’s
chassis. 53 of those diamonds make up the logo, and the display has
ditched Gorilla Glass in lieu of sapphire glass that is a whole lot more
durable, and the entire shebang took Stuart Hughes 9 weeks to make it.

iPhone Black Diamond.
No points for “Total waste of money”, “ biggest loot
since Nadir Shah’s invasion”

Google made a $1mn donation to this
organization which will cover its costs for its

International Mathematics Olympiad

Disturbing images as seen by watchmen up in the air.
Who started it?

This is a view of Porthcurno, a sleepy little town 5
km from the western most point of the English
mainland.
This resort town became famous in 1870. In the
inter-war years, the office operated as many as 14
simultaneously. The office lasted exactly a century
after the first ‘landing’ before it was closed, but the
town continues its link even today

In Feb 2013, why did this tweet and this Instagram
photo by Jean H Lee, an Associated Press reporter
create history?

First tweet and Instagram pic from the glorious and
freedom loving nation of North Korea

In 2006, early concepts of this were based on the
Atmel ATmega644 microcontroller. A trustee
named Eben Upton assembled a group of teachers,
academics and computer enthusiasts to devise a
computer to inspire children.
Inspired by the Acorn’s BBC Micro of 1981, its logo
is unmistakable. Name the device

In 2001, when the Baltimore Ravens and the New
York Giants faced off for SuperBowl XXXV in
Tampa, a new video technology that had nothing to
do with instant replay or game technology made its
debut.
The technology created huge controversy with one
magazine calling it “Snooper Bowl” while another
magazine published an article saying “Don’t Tampa
with My Privacy”.
What was the purpose of the technology that
drew such extreme opinions?

Since 1995, this research firm has used a
technique called hype cycle to characterize the
over-enthusiasm or hype and subsequent
disappointment that typically happens with the
introduction of new technologies. These also show
how and when technologies move beyond the
hype, offer practical benefits and become widely
accepted.
Which research firm?

Google Doodle celebrating what ?

Roswell UFO. Roswellian UFO syndrome. Partial
points for UFO sightings.

A recent blog tried to establish a distinction
between these
two interchangeably used terms for certain people.
The first (A) stands for fans of a subject while the
latter (B) stands for practitioners of the same. The
former category is collection oriented, gathering
facts and mementos, while the latter is
achievement oriented and focuses on knowledge
and skill acquisition.
In a final effort, the blog went ahead and provided
two pictorial distinctions of the use of these terms
– one from the Simpsons TV series and another via

 In a 2011 interview, Mary McDowell, the Executive VP of this
 technology firm had this to say :
 “Choosing a name for a global sub-brand is incredibly challenging
 because of the legal process and the “connotation check”, where
 specific names are translated into myriad languages to see if they
 mean anything they shouldn’t and cause unnecessary confusion.
 The name chosen symbolises hope and represents the aspirations of
 consumers in growth economies, especially India, where a billion
 people are waiting to get connected. What’s more, the name
 passed both tests with flying colors, enabling it to be chosen as the
 new name. “
 What company (A) and product name (B) was she talking
 about?

Pounce !
Anya Major was a discus thrower with some
experience in hammer throwing. Apart from her
claim-to-fame, she has portrayed Nikita in Elton
John’s 1986 music video of the same name. Her
claim-to fame appearance had little to do with her
athletic skills. Which appearance?

Mac Ad Girl
This question is so old it’s first birthday party had a
Dinosaur theme. Literally

This is a term coined by Rohit Bhargava, a senior
vice president at Ogilvy, for the practice of brands
using social media to create an affinity with
customers who share the same sentiments with
friends.
Which term?

What name was given to the man-portable antitank rocket launcher which saw widespread use
during WWII?

Bazooka. Full points for Panzer Shrek.
Naman, you’re a great guy.

The list of places covered by this technology include the
Antarctic, the inside of the White House and the Great Barrier
Reef. However, this particular city has posed difficulties
because of the numerous bridges that it has.
The tech firm in question used a very simple method to solve
this problem and additionally used a device called the
Trekker, which has been used in the past to cover the Grand
Canyon hiking paths, the Burj Khalifa and inside the Alhambra
palace.
There is also an alliteratively named service that the tech
company is launching specially for this city. Name that as
well in addition to the technology/service in question.

Google Street View. Venice is to have it’s own service
called Google Gondolas

The term hasn’t come to common usage yet but
remains prominent in Tech Quizzing Circles.
A typical example would be
A:Yaar woh itni velli hai. Kitni baar profile pic
change karti hai.
B(nerd):It’s called __________. Aur waise bhi sundar
hai toh kya fark padhta hai.

This is a conversation between Calvin and X in a
Calvin and Hobbes spinoff comic strip
Calvin- Hey what's with the same T shirt X, you can
afford some nice clothes, you know!
X- I just like the way it looks Calvin. Nice clothes
don’t interest me. See despite my success I'm still a
normal everyday guy.
X- Also marketing department says I’m branded this
way and can’t change.
Give me the name of the spinoff

This is a screenshot of the website ‘canyoufindit.co.uk’.
This website was set up in September with an open
challenge to all British citizens to crack the code. A
similar challenge last year has had only 170 successful
solutions out of 2.3 million.

M16. The British government put this out.
Unfortunately neither Saif Ali Khan nor Salman
were available for any comment on whether Agent
Vinod or Tiger could solve this.

In 1985, Rick Macintosh, the GM of Microsoft
Canada was summoned to the Canadian
Department of Agriculture since they had
quarantined the first units of Microsoft’s version of
a product. Not knowing better, the Dept of
Agriculture officials thought that the product posed
a health risk to Canada. Which Microsoft product
was this?

Microsoft Mouse . The officials actually feared
bubonic plague.

Punisher: War Zone is a 2008 American comic
book action film directed by Lexi Alexander; based
on the fictional Marvel Comics vigilante/anti-hero
The Punisher. This is the lowest grossing film
based on a Marvel Comics property right along
with Elektra and Howard the Duck. The soundtrack
had songs by metal bands like Slayer and Slipknot.
However this fail film is considered to be a
swansong for another person who is extremely
well known in internet subculture. Who am I
talking about? Put it the funda.

Last upload by Axxo. RIP man 

Both TMZ and the Los Angeles Times suffered
outages. Google initially believed that the input
from millions of people searching for “__________”
meant that the search engine was under DDoS
attack, and blocked searches related to _______for 30
minutes. Twitter reported a crash, as did
Wikipedia. The Wikimedia Foundation reported
nearly a million visitors to __________ within one
hour, probably the most visitors in a one-hour
period to any article in Wikipedia's history. AOL
Instant Messenger collapsed for 40 minutes. AOL
called it a "seminal moment in Internet history",
adding, "We've never seen anything like it in terms
of scope or depth"
Which event are we talking about?

 Kevin Gilbertson, a web developer, launched the
service in January 2002 so that he would be able to
link directly to newsgroup postings which
frequently had long and cumbersome addresses .
The X homepage includes a form that's used to
submit a long URL for shortening. For each URL
entered, the server adds a new alias in its hashed
database and returns a short URL in the following
page. If the URL has already been requested, X will
return the existing alias rather than create a
duplicate entry

The roots of this word are X-, which according to
Webster's means "going beyond or higher,
transcending," and -Y, which is "the outer layer
(boundary) of gray matter surrounding the brain."
Thus, XY is "transcending the boundaries of the
brain,“. The most famous employee at XY is
Thomas A Anderson. Which company ?

Metacortex from the Matrix series.

RIP 
“Back in 2009 when I was on a gap year, I had a
conversation with two friends from the quizzing
circuit. We all felt that, at the time, while there
were many resources in the form of quizzing blogs
run by university quiz clubs, there wasn’t much in
the form of discussion going on. This was back
when Orkut, and not Facebook, was popular in
India so there wasn’t even a pervasive social forum
where these discussions could be held. Through
this brainstorming,, the idea of starting a quizzing
forum came about and we decided to call it “X “. I
registered the domain name on 26th January
2009.”

Question scrapped because everyone knew this.
Goodbye, gyaan.in 

___________ is a dance-punk band that formed in
Sacramento
The band's name was inspired by the subtitles of the
movie The Gods Must Be Crazy, in which the clicking
sounds of the Bushmen‘s Khoisan language were
represented as X. The unique band name gives rise to
a technological bane that has made them famous.
What is this band’s claim to fame ?

!!!(pronounced Chk chk Chk ) happens to be the least googled band on
Earth to have brought out a record.

First image to be uploaded on Flickr.

Slideshare servers.Don’t know how
many answered these as I was not
paying attention.

Prithvi
Param Yuva
Virgo
Eka
Saga
Indian supercomputers.

While it has been described as the world's smallest nation, or
a micronation, Sealand is not currently officially recognised
by any established sovereign state, although Sealand's
government claims it has been de facto recognised by the
United Kingdom (after an English court ruled it did not have
jurisdiction over Sealand as territorial water limitations were
defined at the time) and Germany. If all goes well, Sealand
would soon be home to what?

Olympia and Godrej. The only surviving
manufacturers of typewriters in the world

Audio Round
Audio 1. Song Cham Cham from the movie _________. __________ was the first
Indian movie to be released on Youtube.
2.Cher’s Believe was the first song to be recorded on _____________.
3. Metallica’s I disappear. Company in question: ____________.
4. U2’s stuck in a moment was the largest selling track on __________ during the
first day of it’s release.
5 The instrument that was used to play the iPhone default ringtone
_____________
6. Tarrega’s Lagrima was played. What’s the better known composition of
this gentleman.
7.Beatles Fool on the Hill

That’s all folks !!
For comparative purposes.The winning score was
159.Runner’s Up finished 25 points behind.

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