This document summarizes the rules and questions for 6 rounds of a quiz competition between multiple teams. Round 1 involves 6 questions going clockwise with points awarded for correct answers. Round 2 features connect questions with a theme connecting the answers. Round 3 is a visual connect round with photos having a common theme. Round 4 again has 6 questions but going anti-clockwise. The final round involves differential scoring based on the number of incorrect teams. The document provides the questions and potential answers for each round of the competition.

1. Questions compiled by:
Rohit
Vineet Nair

2. FINALS
5 rounds
Rules as we go along
QM’s word is final

3. ROUND 1

4. Infinite Bounce
 Rules:
 6 questions clockwise, +10 for correct
answer
 Pounce - +10, -10

5. Question 1
Which p2p payment system developed
by Satoshi Nakamoto is currently
embroiled in controversy because of
rampant usage by the underworld?

6. SAFETY SLIDE

7. Answer
Bitcoin

8. Question 2
X was an Austrian actress and an
inventor known for her work in spread
spectrum communications and
frequency hopping which paved the
way for today’s wireless
communications. X?

9. SAFETY SLIDE

10. Answer
Hedy Lamarr

11. Question 3
Which German company has been
chosen as the goal line technology
supplier for the FIFA WC 2014 beating 3
other competitors including the British
video tech giant Hawk-Eye?

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13. Answer

14. Question 4
 Much of this country's details were not
available in Google Maps until January 2013.
In an update to its data, Google Maps now
shows details of various landmarks from this
country whose geography may not be a
mystery anymore, but almost everything
else is.
 Which country?

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16. Answer
North Korea

17. Question 5
Description from howstuffworks.com:
A piston fires. The next piston fires at
315° . There is a 415° gap. A piston fires.
The next piston fires at 315°. There is a
415° gap and the cycle continues.
What is being described here?

18. SAFETY SLIDE

19. Answer
The Harley Davidson Engine

20. Question 6
 What is this person’s claim to fame?

21. SAFETY SLIDE

22. Answer
Dong Nguyen, the man who developed Flappy
birds

23. END OF ROUND 1

24. ROUND 2

25. Connect
Rules:
Short connect questions
1 question to each team
+10 for correct answer, direct and pass
Part points at QM’s discretion
No pounce

26. Question 1
Connect: (Exhaustive)
 Sam
 Mike
 Mary
 Michael
 Michelle
 Hazel
 David
 Zira
 Anna
 Lili

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28. Answer
Microsoft text-to-speech voices

29. Question 2

30. SAFETY SLIDE

31. Answer

32. Question 3

33. SAFETY SLIDE

34. Answer
Recursive Acronyms
Wine- Wine Is Not an Emulator
PHP- PHP Hypertext Preprocessor
GNU- GNU’s Not Unix

35. Question 4

36. SAFETY SLIDE

37. Answer
 Accidental inventions/discoveries

38. Question 5
Connect: (Exhaustive)
 Red
 The Blues
 Chuck
 Bomb
 Matilda
 Terence
 Hal (Boomerang)
 Bubbles
 Stella

39. SAFETY SLIDE

40. Answer
 The Original flock in Angry Birds

41. Question 6

42. SAFETY SLIDE

43. Answer
Alessandro Volta, Nikola Tesla, Isaac
Newton
All have SI units named after them
Electric potential-Volt
Magnetic flux density- Tesla
Force- Newton

44. END OF ROUND 2

45. ROUND 3

46. Long Visual Connect (Theme
based)
Rules:
Written round
Set of 6 photos connected by a
common theme
Scoring for each individual question-
+6 to +1

47. Contd.
 Points for theme as follows:
After:
 1st photo- +30,-20
 2nd photo- +25, -15
 3rd photo - +20, -12
 4th photo- +15, -8
 5th photo- +10, -5
 6th photo - +5, -2
 Write down the theme, don’t shout it out.
 Only 1 guess allowed for the theme.

48. +30,-20

49. +25,-15

50. +20,-12

51. +15, -8

52. +10,-5

53. +5,-2

54. SAFETY SLIDE

55. Answers
 John Warnock, Co-founder of Adobe Systems
 Palo Alto Research Center, where John Warnock
worked before founding Adobe
 Macromedia, acquired by Adobe Systems in 2005
 PostScript, developed by Adobe Systems
 Adobe Captivate
 Adobe Photoshop
 Theme: Adobe

56. END OF ROUND 3

57. ROUND 4

58. Infinite Bounce
 Rules:
 6 questions anti-clockwise, +10 for correct
answer
 Pounce - +10, -10

59. Question 1
 X is the practice of photographing oneself at
a particular angle for the sake of obscuring
one’s own facial flaws. Despite the name X,
this phenomenon is not confined solely to
______ and the term can be used to refer to
all vainly obscured photos on the internet.

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61. Answer

62. Question 2
Where will you end up if you type
www.relentless.com in your browser?

63. SAFETY SLIDE

64. Answer

65. Question 3
Recently, Apple inc announced the
name of their long awaited “iOS in the
car”, entering into an agreement with
Volvo Cars to use this technology in
their upcoming cars.
What is the product called?

66. SAFETY SLIDE

67. Answer

68. Question 4
 X is a term in the computer industry that
describes a product, typically computer
hardware or software, that is announced to
the general public but is never actually
released nor officially cancelled.
 What is X?

69. SAFETY SLIDE

70. Answer
Vaporware

71. Question 5
 What comes next in this video?

72. SAFETY SLIDE

73. Answer

74. Question 6
On 18th March, 2014, Sony Corp
announced its latest project,
codenamed ‘Project Morpheus’, a
system that works with its Playstation 4
games console.
What is Project Morpheus?

75. SAFETY SLIDE

76. Answer
Virtual reality headset

77. END OF ROUND 4

78. ROUND 5

79. Differential Scoring
Written round
Points for correct answer = 5*(number
of teams that don’t write the correct
answer)
Please do not shout out the answers

80. Question 1
 X syndrome refers to the phenomenon that many
people will start to fully apply themselves to a task
just at the last possible moment before a deadline.
 The X syndrome is a form of procrastination.
 In the end, X will often end up close to the same
situation they started with: wishing they had more
time as the new delayed deadline approaches.

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82. Answer
Student syndrome

83. Question 2
 Identify these two famous gentlemen who established
a company (synonymous today with Luxury and Class)
in 1906 at Derby, England.

84. SAFETY SLIDE

85. Answer
Charles Rolls
Henry Royce

86. Question 3
Time Person of the Year:
1930- Mahatma Gandhi
1938- Adolf Hitler
1982- ??
2010- Mark Zuckerberg

87. SAFETY SLIDE

88. Answer
The Computer

89. Question 4
 What is unique about this Wikipedia page?

90. SAFETY SLIDE

91. Answer
Clicking on the first link in the main text
of a Wikipedia article, and then
repeating the process for subsequent
articles, usually eventually gets you to
the Philosophy article.

92. Question 5
 What is this?

93. SAFETY SLIDE

94. Answer
Android Wear, a version of the OS
specifically designed for wearable
devices

95. Question 6
 Representation of what?

96. SAFETY SLIDE

97. Answer
PageRank algorithm, used by Google to
rank websites in their search engine
results

98. END OF QUIZ
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