The Quiz was compiled by Shuvam Manna, Sumit Chakrabarti and Prof. Reshma Roy Chowdhuri(Mitra) for the Tech Quiz of Heritage Institute of Technology on the occassion of the Fresher's Orientation.

1. Compass
Tech Quiz
2018

2. Round 1
//Who Am I?
1. 4 Questions, all questions for all
teams.
2. There will be 4 hints for each
question.
3. After every hint, write your team’s
answer on a paper and show it to
the quizmaster.

3. .1.
He was born in Queensland, Australia in 1971.
After turning 16 he began hacking under the name Mendax. He and two other
hackers joined to form a group which they named as International Subversives.
He published a patent granted to the National Security Agency in August 1999,
for voice-data harvesting technology and highlighted the systematic abuse of
technology by governments against fundamental freedoms of world citizens.
He came to international attention in 2010, when WikiLeaks, the company he
founded, published a series of leaks provided by Chelsea Manning.

4. //Safety Slide

5. Julian Paul Assange
//Founder, WikiLeaks

6. .2.
X was expelled from University of Colorado Boulder in his first year for sending
prank messages on the university's computer system. During this time, as a
self-taught project, he designed and built a "Cream Soda" computer with his friend
Bill Fernandez.
His Father was an Engineer at Lockheed martin.
In an interview with ABC News X had said - "We first met in 1971 during my
college years, while he was in high school. A friend said, 'you should meet Y
because he likes electronics, and he also plays pranks.” So he introduced us.
In 1976, X developed the computer that eventually made him famous. He and Y
decided on the name “Z" shortly after Y returned from a orchard in Oregon.

7. //Safety Slide

8. Steve Wozniak
//Co-Founder, Apple

9. .3.
This person travelled to the States in December 1942, to advise US Intelligence in
the use of ______ and to share his knowledge of decrypting the ______.
He was a prominent Long Distance Runner of his time.
Whilst there, he also saw the latest American progress on a top secret speech
enciphering system. He returned to UK and continued his work in cryptanalysis.
Later in the war, he developed a speech scrambling device which he named
‘Delilah’.
He was later awarded the OBE.

10. //Safety Slide

11. Alan Turing
//Cryptographer

12. .4.
She made her first public appearance at South by Southwest Festival (SXSW) in
mid-March 2016 in Austin, Texas, United States. Since then she has been covered
by media around the globe and has participated in many high-profile interviews.
On November 21, 2017 She was named the United Nations Development
Programme’s first ever Innovation Champion for Asia and the Pacific.
She is able to display more than 50 facial expressions and is conceptually similar
to the computer program ELIZA.
On October 25, she was granted citizenship of Saudi Arabia.

13. //Safety Slide

14. Sophia
//Humanoid

15. Recently, in order to promote it’s new website building product
called “GoCentral”, GoDaddy partnered with The Onion’s in-
house ad agency Onion Labs, to produce an ad campaign
starring “X”.
The video depicts X as a bearded, tattooed man. “X” goes on a
talk show to promote his (fake) memoir “My Life As X”.
The trailer of this video says - “You won’t see an interview with
an abstract concept personified for marketing purposes like
this anywhere else!”.
Identify” X”.
(Hint: X has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010
and 2011).
//Audience Question 1

16. //Safety Slide

17. The Internet
//Well...

18. Round 2
//Unscramble
1. Infinite Pounce and Bounce.
2. +10/-10 on Pounce.
3. +10/0 on Direct.

19. .1.
X - is "an idea, behavior or style that spreads from person to person
within a culture."
X acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols or practices, which
can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech,
gestures, rituals or other imitable phenomena. Supporters of the concept
regard X as cultural analogues to genes in that they self-replicate, mutate
and respond to selective pressures.
Identify X.

20. //Safety Slide

21. Meme
//Need I say more?

22. .2.
Most scholars believe the word was invented by workers at Bell
Telephone Laboratories by 1968.
The Merriam-Webster New Book of Word Histories, 1991, has a long article that is
consistent with Doug Kerr's essay which says "Octotherp" was the original
spelling, and that the word arose in the 1960s among telephone engineers as a
joke. Other hypotheses for the origin of the word include the last name of James
Oglethorpe or using the Old English word for village, thorp, because the symbol
looks like a village surrounded by eight fields.

23. //Safety Slide

24. The Hash Symbol
#itsme

25. .3.
Brian Kernighan wrote the first ________program as part of the documentation for
the BCPL programming language. (BCPL was used while C was being developed
at Bell Labs).
The code was used for early testing of the C compiler and made its way into
Kernighan and Ritchie's book
Later, it was one of the first programs used to test Bjarne Stroustrup's C++
compiler.
Over time it became the standard first program for new programmers. What is
being referred to here?

26. //Safety Slide

27. Hello World
//for noobs

28. .4.
Though its origin is unknown, it was popularised by Dennis Fong, the first
recognized professional gamer. Fong has claimed how the configuration of use
were random, depended on the participant, but it supposedly greatly enhanced
efficiency.
Experimenting, he claims “I am not going to take credit for the creation of this, I
stumbled across it, and felt comfortable with it, and I will popularise it among
my community”. Soon so popular, this actually became a standard configuration
to the future of this community, and has actually become, not only a standard for
this community but for every computer user in order to increase their efficiency.
What?

29. //Safety Slide

30. W-A-S-D
//Key Combo

31. .5.
Against the backdrop of the growing concern around the spread of the
sinister game ‘The Blue Whale Challenge’, a new initiative dubbed as the
__________ or ‘Baleia Rosa’ game aims to spread ‘love’ and ‘happiness’ to
counter the effects of the online suicide game.
Created in Brazil in April 2017, the game gained huge Popularity on Social
Media, with more than 5,00,000 followers on Facebook and Instagram.
Fill in the blank.

32. //Safety Slide

33. The Pink Whale
Challenge
//Spread Love

34. .6.
● R.U.R. is a 1920 science fiction play by the Czech writer Karel Čapek.
● R.U.R. quickly became famous and was influential early in the history of
its publication.By 1923, it had been translated into thirty languages.
● R.U.R. is dark but not without hope, and was successful in its day in
both Europe and North America.
Other than being a science fiction classic why is it immortalised in the
world of science?

35. //Safety Slide

36. R.U.R is
Rossum’s Universal
Robots
//The term “Robots” was
coined

37. //Audience Question
2.
In Superman Returns, Lex Luthor
says that: "To the primitive mind,
any sufficiently advanced
technology would be
indistinguishable from magic."
The above is a paraphrase of
whose quote?

38. //Safety Slide

39. Arthur C. Clarke
//Author

40. Round 3
//Identify the Company
1. Infinite Pounce and Bounce.
2. +10/-10 on Pounce.
3. +10/0 on Direct.

41. .1.
X and Y were recently engaged in a Legal Battle over a certain piece of
Technology. It was alleged that X stole classified information from Y.
Company Z however, has already brought this technology (that uses LiDARs) to
market as a Level II Product. Y’s research will push this to Level III when it hits
the market.
The CEO of X is Dara Khosrowshahi.
Identify X,Y,Z.

42. //Safety Slide

43. X - Uber
Y - Waymo
Z - Tesla
//Self-Driving Cars

44. .2.
“_____________ will always Love you. Farewell.”
This message was posted on the Homepage of a very popular entity on August,
2016. The day the entity shuttered its service after being on the web for Thirteen
years.
Fill in the Blank.

45. //Safety Slide

46. Torrentz
//Torrent Search Engine

47. .3.
X is a well known architectural term and denotes a circular opening in the centre
of a dome or in a wall.
In Latin, X means eye. X was widely used in the Byzantine architecture. One of the
finest examples of the use of X is in the dome of the Pantheon constructed by the
Romans.
The X of Tech Industry was acquired by Facebook.
Identify X.

48. //Safety Slide

49. Oculus
//VR Headset Maker

50. .4.
“One day I was in San Francisco in a coffee shop, and I was thinking “X” is a good
name. And then a waitress came, and I said, "Do you know about X?" And she said yes. I
said, "What do you know about?", and she said, "Y". And I said, "Yes, this is the name!"
Then I went on to the street and found 30 people and asked them, "Do you know X?"
People from India, people from Germany, people from Tokyo and China … they all knew
about “X”. “X” is a kind, smart business person, and he helped the village. So … easy to
spell, and globally known. “X” is “Y” for small- to medium-sized companies.”
A certain person said this when asked about the origin of the name of his company.
Identify X and Y.

51. //Safety Slide

52. X - Alibaba
// Y - Open Sesame

53. //Audience Question 3
X is the Creator of something we all use everyday, and is also one of the biggest
Open-Source Projects.
X has also founded a Start-Up which created a device codenamed ‘PH-1’.
PH-1 was the first of its kind device to implement the now famous “Notch”.
The Start-Up’s name literally means - “Necessary”.
Identify the Start-Up or X.

54. //Safety Slide

55. Andy Rubin
//The Father of Android
//Founder, Essential.

56. Round 4
//The Walls have Eyes
1. Infinite Pounce and Bounce.
2. +10/-10 on Pounce.
3. +10/0 on Direct.

57. 1.
This was Created by Vitalik
Buterin as a Nineteen year old in
2014.
Identify this Cryptocurrency.

58. //Safety Slide

59. Ethereum
Current Value : $469.41

60. 2.
This is the Design of an
extremely successful
Consumer Product.
Identify the Gadget or the
Company.

61. //Safety Slide

62. Nintendo Switch.
The Design was the
Drawing Board Sketch of
the Joycons.

63. .3.
X - located in Nevada, USA and currently under construction.
This facility has a floor plan area of more than four square kilometres. Upon
completion, it will become the world's largest lithium-ion battery manufacturing
factory - producing more than 35 GWH in cells, per year.
It is believed that the size of this structure will make it visible from space, without
a telescope.
Identify this industrial behemoth.

64. This
Is
The
Place

65. //Safety Slide

66. Tesla Gigafactory
Manufactures Batteries

67. //Audience Question 4
X is touted as a handheld,
bring-anywhere gadget that can
eliminate anxiety and even help focus.
Dr. Mark Stein, director of ADHD at
the Seattle Children's Hospital and a
Professor at the University of
Washington, however, says , “My
worry is that they’re very much a
distraction, not only to the child, but it
distracts people from doing
something that we know works.”
What is X?

68. //Safety Slide

69. Fidget Spinner
Spin this, not lies

70. 4.
In April 2017, McDonald’s Australia teamed up
with X to launch a recruitment drive.
Jobseekers were invited to try on the
McDonald’s uniform and send a 10-second
video application.
Shaun Ruming, COO of McDonald’s Australia
said - “I’ve learnt a lot about X recently from
my 14-year-old daughter. We’re the largest
employer of youth in the country, so we’re
trying to look for new and innovative ways to
recruit crew people. Based on what my
daughter sends to her friends, you do get a bit
of a glimpse from X.”
Identify X.

71. //Safety Slide

72. Snapchat
McDonald’s Australia had
signed up on the platform
for the first time.

73. 5.
This Company was in News
recently and the events triggered
a whole new set of Privacy
reforms.
Identify this Company.

74. //Safety Slide

75. Cambridge Analytica
On news due to the
facebook data Scandal.

76. 6.
This is book about a Dystopian
future ruled by forces reminiscent
of WWII.
It changed the way Science
Fiction Novels were perceived.
Identify this Book or the Author.

77. Identify the Book or the Author
6

78. //Safety Slide

79. Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury

80. //Audience Question
5.
The Principality of Sealand is an
unrecognised micronation that
claims Roughs Tower, an offshore
platform located in the North Sea
approximately 12 kilometres off the
coast of Suffolk, England, as its
territory. Roughs Tower is a disused
Maunsell Sea Fort, originally called
HM Fort Roughs, built as an
anti-aircraft defensive gun platform
by the British during World War II...

81. ...A few years ago this island was the subject of a
takeover bid, which didn't go through because of its
controversial nature.
The owners wanted to make it a Nation without
____________.
Who was going to take over Sealand?
//Continued...

82. //Safety Slide

83. The Pirate Bay
They wanted to create a
Nation with no Copyright
Laws.

84. The End