The IT Quiz held at SHS in 2016. It was part of the annual techfest, "Teknovation 2016".

2. Rules of the quiz
• There would be 4 rounds in this quiz
• No false attempt of capturing points would be
entertained.
• Remember to use the buzzer calmly.
• Quizmaster is daddy.

3. Round 1 :- Opening Ceremony
 This is a buzzer round.
 There will be 8 questions on the buzzer.
 Any team which presses the buzzer is bound to answer
the question within 4 seconds.
 Scoring pattern is +10/-5
 If any team presses the buzzer and fails to answer
correctly, the question becomes open for all.

4. Question 1
If Rohan is the first child and Akshata is the
third, who was the second child?

5. Question 2
The concept for X was conceived in 2014 by Satoru
Iwata and Tsunekazu Ishihara of as an April Fools'
Day collaboration with Google, called X. Ishihara was
a fan of developer Y's previous transreality game,
“Ingress”, and saw the game's concept as a perfect
match for the X series. Y used the crowdsourced data
from Ingress to populate the locations X.
ID X and Y.
(Half points for part answer)

6. Question 3

7. Question 4
 The X is the network of physical devices, vehicles, buildings and
other items—embedded with electronics, software, sensors,
actuators, and network connectivity that enable these objects to
collect and exchange data.
 Kevin Ashton, a British Entrepreneur coined the term X in 1999
while working at Auto-ID Labs.
 Things, in the X sense, can refer to a wide variety of devices such
as heart monitoring implants, biochip transponders on farm
animals, electric clams in coastal waters, automobiles with built-in
sensors, DNA analysis devices for environmental/food/pathogen
monitoring or field operation devices that assist firefighters in
search and rescue operations

8. Question 5
• He was an English poet and a leading figure
in the Romantic movement. Among his best-
known works are the lengthy narrative
poems Don Juan, Childe Harold's
Pilgrimage, the short lyric She Walks in
Beauty and his erudite daughter!
• Name of his daughter?

9. Question 6

10. Question 7
Dong Nguyen grew up in Vạn Phúc, a village near Hanoi. He
discovered video games by playing Super Mario Bros. as a
child, and began coding his own at age 16. At 19, while
studying programming at a local university, he won an
internship at Punch Entertainment, one of the few video
game companies in Vietnam. While using the iPhone, he
found that its most popular games such as Angry Birds were
too complicated, and wanted to make a simpler game for
people who are "always on the move"
• What did he create

11. Question 8
• This phenomenon came to the surface in
2011 when XKCD founder Randall Munroe
saw that on clicking the first link on any
Wikipedia article and continuing the process
will eventually lead to X.
• What famous natural science is X?

12. Round 2: Mid Game Crisis
 This is a theme based round.
 There will be 8 questions in all, 4
clockwise and 4 anticlockwise.
 No negatives in this round.
 Scoring pattern : +10/0

13. Themes
Etymology Personality Gaming
Brand Software Hardware
Internet Innovation

14. Round 3: Penultimate Frontier
• This round contains 4 questions, on buzzer.
• All will be spoken by the Quizmaster, and
none will appear on the screen.
• The scoring pattern is +20/-10
• If any team answers incorrectly, the question
becomes open for all.
• Audience please don’t prompt.

16. Round 4: Life at Stake
• This round contains 6 individual questions on
buzzer, which collectively point to a mega connect.
• After every question, teams will be allowed to
answer the mega connect, if they wish to do so.
• Scoring pattern: +20/-10 for individual questions
• +60/-60 for mega connect after first question.
• +50/-50 for mega connect after first question. And
so on…0

17. Question 1
• The name of the company, X, comes from X
Creek in Los Altos, California, which ran behind the
houses of both of the company's founders.
• X's first products after PostScript were digital fonts,
which they released in a proprietary format called Type
1. Apple subsequently developed a competing
standard, TrueType, which provided full scalability and
precise control of the pixel pattern created by the
font's outlines, and licensed it to Microsoft.

18. Question 2
Moore Noyce
NM Electronics
?

19. Question 3

20. Question 4

21. Question 5

22. Question 6

23. Etymology
• The word X in its modern sense first appeared in a 1958
article published in the Harvard Business Review; by the
authors Harold J. Leavitt and Thomas L. Whisler, who
commented that "the new technology does not yet have a
single established name. We shall call it X" Their definition
consists of three categories: techniques for processing, the
application of statistical and mathematical methods to
decision-making, and the simulation of higher-order thinking
through computer programs.
• ID X?

24. Personality

25. Gaming
Originally developed for the Apple II
computer, this video game franchisee was
created by Jordan Mechner. It went on to
become a movie which was released in
2010. Which game franchise?

26. Brand
X Internet was founded in April 1996 by American web entrepreneurs
Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat. The company's name was
chosen in homage to a Library of of Ptolemaic Egypt, drawing a
parallel between the largest repository of knowledge in the ancient
world and the potential of the Internet to become a similar store of
knowledge.
X initially offered a toolbar that gave Internet users suggestions on
where to go next, based on the traffic patterns of its user
community. The company also offered context for each site visited:
to whom it was registered, how many pages it had, how many other
sites pointed to it, and how frequently it was updated.
Identify X.

27. Software

28. Hardware

29. Internet
• Could it be –
• That you were trying to find those secret files that everybody claims
exist on the Internet, but nobody has ever been able to find?
• That the men in dark glasses forcibly removed it?
• Was it just a figment of someone else's imagination?
• That we just goofed?
• Very unlikely, that the server took it upon itself to eliminate all traces
of it?
• That you just didn't have control over your fingers today? Maybe you
were possibly looking over your shoulder as you typed? Maybe
someone is watching you even now.
What is being conveyed here?

30. Innovation
In 2008, Google considered contracting with or
acquiring Space Data Corp., a company that
sends balloons carrying small base stations
about 20 miles (32 km) up in the air for
providing connectivity to truckers and oil
companies in the southern United States, but
didn't do so. What was the purpose of Google
contacting a balloon company?