Grand Quizzing Week 2021 | Sci-Tech Quiz | Finals

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There’s only one universal rule in this
quiz:
The QM is God
The rules & scoring for individual rounds is
mentioned before the start of every round.

This quiz is dedicated to:
The batch of 2k17 & Ronit Sir

Round 1
 8 Questions
 Clock-Wise Pounce/Bounce
 Direct +20/0
 Pounce +20/-10
 Bounce +10/0

Question #1
 X is the collective name for the movement, revolving around a
group of inter-related projects, including Wikipedia, Wiktionary,
Wikiquote and others, which aim to use the collaborative power of
the Internet, and the wiki concept, to create and share free
knowledge of all kinds.
 Y is a particular wiki engine developed for and used by Wikipedia
and the other projects. It is freely available for others to use (and
improve), and it is in use by all sorts of projects and organizations
around the world.
 Give me X and Y which have very similar names. <vis ahead>

Answer:
X-Wikimedia
Y-Mediawiki

Question #2
 Referring to the diminutive market share of the rivals of IBM
during the 1950's and early 60's, what phrase was commonly
used to refer to the following companies:
 Control Data Corporation (CDC), Univac, Burroughs, RCA,
National Cash Register, Honeywell and General Electric?
 <vis ahead>

Answer:
IBM and the Seven
Dwarfs

Question #3
 Jailbreaking is the process by which Apple's operating systems
are modified to remove restrictions and give greater user control
over the device. These modifications typically allow running
unsigned code, as well as reading and writing to the root
filesystem, both of which are normally prevented by Apple.
 Cydia is an app for iOS that enables users of jailbroken Apple
devices to find and install software not authorized by Apple. Why
the name Cydia?

Answer:
Cydia is the most
common worm in Apples

Question #4
 Few months ago in United Kingdom, a certain company came up with a
pre-released stunt to mark the launch of their new product. The
company replaced various iconic London Underground 'roundels' with
the shapes seen on their product.
 What was the inspiration behind these roundels? <vis ahead>

Question #5
 According to Steven Sinofsky, the former president of the Windows
division at Microsoft, developers at Microsoft weren't too fond of this
much hated feature of Office either.
 It was called TFC during its development period where the C meant
Clown and the full form of TF according to him can be left up to your
imagination.
 What is being talked about? <vis ahead>

Question #6
 American engineer Percy Spencer is
generally credited with inventing the
modern X
after WW2 from radar technology
developed during the war. Named the
"Radarange", it was first sold in 1946
by Raytheon.
 He was inpired to create X after he
noticed a chocolate bar melt in his
pocket while working on a radar set.
 What's X?

Question #7
 X was first developed at the beginning of the 20th century, although it
was not originally intended as a treatment. During World War II, it was
discovered that people exposed to nitrogen mustard developed
significantly reduced white blood cell counts.
 This finding led researchers to investigate whether mustard agents
could be used to halt the growth of rapidly dividing cells. In the 1940’s,
two prominent Yale pharmacologists Alfred Gilman and Louis Goodman
examined the therapeutic effects of mustard agents in treating
lymphoma.
 What’s X?

Question #8
 In 1938, before the start of the second World War, the Fascist Italian
regime did not allow Enrico Fermi to leave the country. Fermi and his
wife were not very supportive of the racist laws followed there but
Mussolini would, at some point prevent Fermi from leaving the country.
However, an opportunity presented itself in 1938 and Mussolini had no
choice but to oblige this time. Fermi would go to a certain European
capital, associated with an interesting medical condition and never
return again. He would directly go from there to USA and go on to live
the rest of his life there.
 What was that European capital and why did he have to go there?

Answer:
Fermi had to travel to
Stockholm to collect the
Nobel Prize

Round 2
 6 Questions
 Pounce Only
 Scoring:
 +(8-n)*10 / -10
 Where n = no. of teams answering correctly

Question #9
 When Sony released this movie in 2014, it was received well all
across the globe except for one country, which was so furious after
just the trailer, that they hacked into Sony’s servers, leaking info
about the family members of Sony staff, and millions of emails
exchanged between the studio bosses, and threatened terrorist
attacks on theatres across US if the movie was released.
 Name the movie and the country.

Question #10
 There is a pedestrian bridge linking Marina Centre with Marina
South in the Marina Bay area in Singapore.
 The bridge has four viewing platforms sited at strategic locations which
provide stunning views of the Singapore skyline and events taking
place within Marina Bay. At night, the bridge will be illuminated by a
series of lights that highlight “something”, thereby creating a special
visual experience for the visitors.
 Pairs of coloured letters C and G, as well as A and T on the bridge
which are lit up at night in red and green representing the four bases of
this “something” in the question.
 What structure am I talking about?

Question #11
 It’s not an acronym. It’s just a word with no phonetic pronunciation – a
treasured and carefully guarded point in space of four character
strings.
 The preferred form is all lowercase. However, in formal contexts where
a lowercase word shouldn’t start a sentence, all capitals is an okay
alternatice. An unofficial explanation as to the origin of the name goes
like this:
 24 + 11 + 3 + 4 = 42

Question #12
 In dead bodies, decomposition of gastrointestinal tract results in a
dark, foul smelling liquid called "purge fluid" that is forced out of nose
and mouth due to gas pressure of the intestine. During this stage of
decomposition corpses also appear to be bloated.
 During the Black Death, as graveyards were running out of space, old
graves were being dug up to make space for new bodies. Therefore,
graveyard workers came across a lot of buried corpses, that were
bloated, as if they ate recently, and had purge fluid oozing out of their
orifices.
 Thus the legend of ____ was born.

Question #13
 The root of this word means moon. That's because X originally
referred to someone who went crazy with every phase of the
moon, kind of like a werewolf.
 Most people these days don't believe in moon-caused insanity,
but we still talk about X, sometimes meaning clinically insane
people.
 Give X.

Question #14
 Callisto was the daughter of Lykaon. As a follower of the Artemis, she had
sworn to remain a virgin for all her life. However, Zeus saw her and after
many attempts, he seduced her.
 When the Lady Artemis found that she had violated her vow, she cursed
her into a bear to be killed by hunters one day. Callisto delivered a son,
whose name, Arcas meant “born by a bear”. Arcas became the king of
Arcadia. One day, Arcas saw a bear and threw a javelin to hunt it down.
Zeus saw this happening and to prevent it, turned them both into
constellations.
 This legend is also responsible for the explanation that the constellations
never sets below the horizon. According to the Ancient Greeks, what
constellations are these?

Answer:
Ursa Major and Ursa
Minor

Round 3
 8 Questions
 Anticlock-Wise Pounce/Bounce
 Direct +20/0
 Pounce +20/-10
 Bounce +10/0

Question #15
 The reason that the set of _______ skips directly from E to K is
that the _______ corresponding to letters F–J were either
reclassified over time, discarded as false leads, or renamed.
 There appears to be no consensus on any _______ Q, R, T, V,
W, X, Y or Z, nor are there substances officially designated as
_______ N or I.
 What am I talking about? All the blanks are the same.

Question #16
 In 1983, Korean Airlines Flight 007 was travelling from NYC to Seoul
via Anchorage, Alaska. However due to a navigational mistake made
by the crew, the flight deviated from its original route and flew into
Soviet restricted airspace.
 Soviet Air Forces treated it as a spy plane and destroyed it with
missiles killing all 269 people on board.
 This was one of the most tense moments of the Cold War and
prompted the Reagan administration to allow free civilian access to a
certain military technology.
 What is this military technology that is now used everyday globally?

Question #17
 Pierre Salinger was an American journalist, author and politician. He
had served as the seventh White House Press Secretary for United
States Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.
 After leaving politics, Salinger became known for his work as an ABC
News correspondent
 He retrieved information from the internet and, without verifying his
sources, falsely reported that the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800
occurred as a result of missile fire from the U.S. Navy. As a result
Pierre Salinger Syndrome is a derogatory term for what behavior?

Answer:
The tendency to believe
everything one reads on
the internet

Question #18
 Joseph Dombey was a French botanist, who was born in 1742. He is
most notable for his expedition to South America in the year 1777,
during which he gathered a large number of Peruvian Plants, and
discovered at least 60 new species. His collection which was put in
display at British Museum, after the brits seized his ship, is considered
to be the largest collection of South American flora in Europe.
 In 1793, he was sent on a mission to assist USA, but he never made it,
as he was captured and imprisoned by privateers. He died while
imprisoned in 1794, with his mission remaining incomplete, and it's
repercussions of its non-completion being felt in USA even to this day.
 What was the important task he was supposed to assist USA in?

Answer:
Introduce metric system
to the USA.

Question #19
 Orignally this device used to have doors that could only be opened
from outside, because of this it was common for kids to get
accidentally trapped in this device while playing hide and seek.
Because this device is airtight, accidental entrapment always led to
death due to suffocation.
 Due to this it was mandatory to remove doors of the device before
dumping it. The continued occurence of deaths led to a law that
required a change in the way the doors were locked. This is the
primary cause behind the adoption of magnetic locks we are all
familiar with today.
 Name the device.

Question #20
 At birth, the defining feature is only a small “prebutton”, firmly
attached to the tip of the tail. With time, a new section is added to this
button, and as it develops, this feature becomes more prominent,
and is actually composed of a series of hollow interlocked keratin
segments.
 As to why it evolved in this species only, it is theorized merely to be a
warning system of the danger it possesses.
 What is being described here?

Answer:
The rattle of rattlesnakes

Question #21
 Google Doode on the birth anniversary of which scientist

Question #22
 CTF of this tweet.

Answer:
Tweet in which Chris
Messina proposed
hashtag

Round 4
 All connect questions
 Infinite Pounce & Bounce
 Scoring:
P - +20/-10
B - +10/0

Question #23
 Connect to a phenomenon

Question #24
 Connect to a fictional work

Question #25
 Connect to a pioneer

Question #26
 Connect to a company

Question #27
 Connect to a invention

Question #28
 Connect to an event

Answer:
GameStop short squeeze
controversy

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