This document provides the details of a quiz competition held on 14th August 2020 between Birla Vidya Niketan. It outlines the global rules of the quiz including no questions being passed, the ability to raise stakes or pounce on questions. It then provides 9 sample questions on various topics ranging from technology to games to assess the participants' knowledge.

1. CodeX 2020
Quiz Finals
Birla Vidya Niketan 14th August 2020
QMs Navan & Vinayak

2. global Rules
● No question will be passed.
● Raise The Stakes: The team whose chance is on the Direct, before being told
the question can ask the stakes to be raised i.e a +10/-0 question becomes
+20/-20 question for them
● Pounce: A team for which the question is not directed can pounce on the
question for +10/-10

3. Around the World in 9
Questions
“Mr. Worldwide”

4. Q1.SecuROM is a/an X developed by Y,
primarily for computer games running on
Microsoft Windows. A class action
lawsuit was filed against Electronic Arts
in 2008 for their use of SecuROM in
their video game Spore.

7. Digital Rights Management for Games
by Sony

8. Q2. X was a game developed in three
years and with a budget of 30 million
pounds lower than most AAA games
but is known as one of the best looking
titles of current gen because of its
extensive use of RTRT.
Identify X and RTRT

11. X=Control
RTRT=Real Time Ray Tracing

12. Q3. X is a technological news site which
released a particular video Y criticised by
computer enthusiasts all over the world (
The community likes calling itself a
“master race” )

15. X = The Verge
Y = How to Build a PC

16. Q4. X is known for his geeky videos on
YouTube. X in 2013 started a company
Y. X is infamous for dropping things

19. X = Linus Sebastian
Y = Linus Media Group

20. Q5. Name the challenge released as the
opposite of the infamous Blue Whale
Challenge

23. Pink Whale Challenge

24. Q6. X is an anime which was hugely
criticised and has been banned in China
due to one of the characters having an
unpleasant resemblance to a Chinese
historical war scientist. This also forced
X to stop its production of Y, its game
developed for Android.

27. X = My Hero Academia
Y = MHA Strongest Hero

28. Q7. Identify the video’s title
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

31. Never Gonna Give You Up - Rick Astley

32. Q8. X is a Belarusian sports programmer
who has won several competitive
programming competitions like IOI.
Currently X is the highest rated
programmer at Codeforces, Codechef,
Topcoder, AtCoder and HackerRank

35. Gennady Korotkevich

36. Q9. What was the first commercial
gaming console based on the x86
microarchitecture

39. The Tandy VIS running on an Intel
80286

40. Score Check

41. Connect the Dots
I am something of a scientist myself

42. Q1.
The Toll of the Sea

45. Technicolor is a
French company.
The Toll of the Sea
was the first
technicolor movie
and Jhansi Ki Raani
was the first Indian
technicolor movie

46. Q2.

49. The GNU Project

50. Q3. ( It is a song )

53. Old Town Road by Lil Nas X

54. Q4.

57. Microsoft Surface / Microsoft PixelSense
/ Samsung SUR40

58. Q5.

61. BBK Electronics

62. Q6.

65. Chris Lattner

66. Q7

69. Andy Rubin

70. Q8.

73. Jony Ive

74. X:Y
Ey, you heard of the Golden Ratio?

75. Q1.
Siri -> Apple
Cortana -> Microsoft
Bixby -> Samsung
Google Assistant -> Google
Hound -> ?

78. SoundHound

79. Q2.
TensorFlow -> Google
PyTorch -> Facebook
Turicreate -> Apple
MXNet -> ?

82. Apache

83. Q3.
CUDA -> Nvidia
ROCm -> ?

86. AMD

87. Q4
Twitter -> Bootstrap
Facebook -> React
Google -> ?

90. Angular

91. Q5
TypeScript -> Microsoft
Go -> Google
Rust -> ?

94. Mozilla

95. Q6
Epic -> Unreal Engine
Rockstar Games -> RAGE
Crytek -> CryEngine
Guerilla Games -> ?

98. Decima Engine

99. Q7
2000 -> A.L.I.C.E
2005 -> George (Jabberwacky)
2010 -> Suzette
2015 -> ?

102. Rose

103. Tech Giants
Jack the Giant Slayer: 6 Things You Didn't Know!

104. Q1 X, an open-source UNIX like
operating system forms the core set of
components upon which all of Apple’s
OS stack are built. Identify X

107. Darwin

108. Q2. In the latest release of macOS, the
default shell was changed. Identify the
original shell, the now default shell and
the reason

111. Bash -> ZSH; GPLv2 -> GPLv3

112. Q3. Netflix is famous for following X, a discipline of
experimenting on their product systems in order to build
confidence in the system's capability to withstand turbulent
and unexpected conditions. “Imagine a monkey entering
into your data farm and ripping cables. The challenge is
that the system should be able to withstand this behaviour”

115. Chaos Monkey

116. Q4. In 2019, Netflix open sourced X,
touted as the “Jupyter Notebook killer”.
Identify X

119. Polynote

120. Q5. On 15 August 2016, Google
released a new operating system based
on their in-house developed Zircon
kernel (formerly called Magenta).
"Pink + Purple == X (a new Operating
System)"

123. Fuchsia

124. Q6. X is a R&D lab owned by Amazon. It
is responsible for the company’s
products like Kindle e-readers, tablets
and Alexa. Its name is derived from the
company’s logo. Name X

127. Amazon Lab126

128. Games and More Games
i5 go brrrrrrrr

129. Q1. Identify the game

132. Grand Theft Auto V

133. Q2. What service does GOG games
provide that makes it very famous
among gamers for sharing games

136. DRM Free Games

137. Q3. Identify this game by using the
pictures

139. Apex Legends

140. “Hey you,you’re finally awake”
Q4. Only Real Gamers Can tell what game this
is

143. Skyrim

144. Q5. This game released in 2019 and was
review bombed heavily because it signed
an exclusivity deal with an online gaming
storefront and wasn't available on any
other stores such as Steam but now it is
available on platforms after the heavy
review bombing

147. Borderlands 3

148. Fundamentals
Look at this dry quizzer

149. Q1. What is the full form of VIRUS?

152. Vital Information Resources Under Siege

153. Q2. What is the full form of USB?

156. Universal Serial Bus

157. Q3. Who is credited to be the inventor of
the USB?

160. Ajay Bhatt

161. Q4. Who is often called the “Father of
Fiber Optics”?

164. Narinder Singh Kapany

165. Mobile Gaming
When 3 gigs of RAM isn’t enough

166. Q1. X is a tower defense and strategy
video game developed by PopCap
Games.In X the player takes a role of
homeowner during a zombie apocalypse.
Identify X

169. Plants Vs Zombies

170. Q2. Identify this game

173. Pokemon Go

174. Q3. This is the first game developed by a
Playstation Studios team to be released
on PC

177. Horizon Zero Dawn

178. Dual Core

179. Q1. X is Intel's proprietary simultaneous
multithreading implementation. X
enables the use of multiple threads on
the same physical core i.e an Intel CPU
with four physical cores uses multi
threading to provide eight threads ( 8
virtual cores )

182. Hyper-Threading

183. Q2. X is a programming language that entirely
consists of quotes from Indian Prime Minister
Narendra Modi's speeches. The language follows
many of his ideologies such as the "No import rule",
in which importation of code is not allowed,
consistent with his "Make in India" campaign. The
following code prints "Mandir Wahin Banayenge".
Languages like these are called Y, identify X and Y

187. X = ModiScript; Y = Esoteric / esolang

188. Final Question
How much attention were you paying?

189. Minecraft is famous for displaying
______ _____ on the game’s
homescreen much like the subtitles
being displayed in each round’s starting,
FITB.

192. Splash Texts

193. Final Score Check