This document discusses various technology and pop culture topics, asking the reader to identify terms related to: - Temi and Anthropic, robotic assistants for the home. - Holoride, an Audi spin-off that combines VR and driving. - The 2016 "Viner invasion" on other social media sites. - The tabletop RPG platform Roll20. - Amazon and the Alexa voice assistant Echo. - The FBI and their mysterious Instagram account. - The dot-com bubble of the late 90s. - The online conflict between 4Chan and Shia LaBeouf. - Pac-man and its creator Toru I

1. Quiz ‘20

2. Give Funda

4. Refers to the “Three Finger Salute”
term for the three-key command Control-Alt-Delete

5. X's name is eerily similar to that of a pop artist diva. Aside of that, X is the start of a revolution in
personal robots for home technology. While it costs a decent sum of $1999, X and Y are
unrelated, but X contains some prime features that Y would have developed had it survived it's
financial woes. While Y was shut down in last year and acquired by Digital Dream Labs in
December 2019, X as a product saw a crescendo in its success in 2019. It has an autonomous
face tracking that lets it screen tilt to meet someone's gaze and carries other primary functions
of playing music, calling contacts, playing games and answering questions while it moves
around the house like a little 3ft member. ID X & Y.

7. X - Temi, Y - Anki

8. X company is an Audi spin-off that fuses together VR and driving experiences. The founders say
the feedback reduces motion sickness. For now, X is committed to a theme park image and a
Halloween experience at Universal Studios. X activates these functions for VR through an app
that reads vehicle data like acceleration, making a vehicle a virtual theme park. Identify this
offshoot company.

10. X - Holoride

11. In late 2016, a phenomenon known as X occured on multiple social media sites like Instagram,
YouTube etc. where many new and old creators quickly gained hundreds of thousands of
followers. X is related to a different phenomena which occured on 27th october 2016 where
many content creators from a different website were left jobless. Name this phenomenon X.

13. X - Viner Invasion of 2016

14. X, which has received multiple ENNIE awards, is a website with a focus on RPG games —
specifically, games like Pathfinder and Call of Cthulhu. It is known as a free(mium, since
premade game modules are to be bought) method for easily virtualizing on a screen the
traditional way of playing these games. Originally conceived by three friends as a way to play
their TT-RPGs after moving to different cities, X saw a surge in use during the current pandemic.
ID X.

16. X - Roll20

17. I.D. X and Y

19. The advertisement-turned-meme for Alexa, hence
X - Amazon, Y - Echo

20. X's instagram used to be shrouded in mystery, much like X itself. It had a peculiar number of
posts - 26 and had no followers. Internet's best sleuths put their minds together yet could not
figure out the mystery of those 26 posts that most of the world would never see. Many joked
about how whoever figured out the content of the actual posts would be recruited in this
organisation. Name this organization.

22. X - the FBI

23. In the late 90's, percentage of US households owning computers increased from 15% - 35%.
This along with increased availability of capital due to decline in interest rates pushed many
willing investors to plough money into _________ companies. A stock market bubble was
created due to the combination of rapidly increasing stock prices confidence that the
companies would turn future profits created an environment in which many investors were
willing to overlook such as the price–earnings ratio, and base confidence on technological
advancements. At the height of this boom, it was possible for a ________ company to raise a
substantial amount of money even if it had never made a profit. This excess money flow into
"paper companies" eventually to shut down many companies and almost kill others, But many
entrepreneurs were able to profit of this by selling their shares early on, one of the most
successful being Mark Cuban. What is being talked about here?

25. The dot-com bubble

26. Give Funda.

28. 4Chan vs. Shia LaBeouf

29. When X acquired the struggling japanese division of Atari they commissioned a group of
developers with the task of making new games. A young employee Y from that group created
the first few of those projects which helped the company get back to its feet. He went on to
create a very popular video game Z which is still regarded as one of the best vintage video
games. In an interview Y clarified that the inspiration behind the main character of this game
was based on the japanese character "kuchi". The original title of Z was also in part to the titular
hockey-puck shape. Identify Y and Z.

31. Y - Toru Iwatani, Z - Pac-man

32. Identify what this granite obelisk found on the cliff top near the site of X's Poldhu Wireless
Station in Cornwall commemorates and give X.

34. Commemorates the first public transmission of wireless signals.
X - Guglielmo Marcroni.

35. What is being advertised in the following clip?

37. Facebook.

38. Lobsters with Fruit and Nuts.
Ingredients.
72 g hazelnuts
101 eggs
108 g lobsters
111 ml orange juice
44 g cashews
32 g sugar
87 ml water
114 g rice
100 g durian
33 passion fruit
10 ml lemon juice
Method.
Put lemon juice into the mixing bowl.
Put passion fruit into the mixing bowl.
Put durian into the mixing bowl.
Put lobsters into the mixing bowl.
Put rice into the mixing bowl.
Put orange juice into the mixing bowl.
Put water into the mixing bowl.
Put sugar into the mixing bowl.
Put cashews into the mixing bowl.
Put orange juice into the mixing bowl.
Put lobsters into the mixing bowl.
Put lobsters into the mixing bowl.
Put eggs into the mixing bowl.
Put hazelnuts into the mixing bowl.
Liquify contents of the mixing bowl.
Pour contents of the mixing bowl into
the baking dish.
Serves 1.
What is the language displayed, and what is
being printed?

39. Language - Chef
Printing - “Hello World”

41. X is a first person video-game franchise that has been accused of satanism many times, though
it has very anti-demon theme, with the protagonist being a person stranded in hell and trying to
leave it, with killing as many monsters as he can on the way. X has seen many installations, with
a recent reboot that was very well received in the X community. X has also been an inspiration
for games such as the Y series, another first person shooter series with similar styles. Give X

43. X - the DOOM series
(additionally Y - Half-Life)

44. X features segments and interviews around the creation and development of video games in
the early 1980s and 1990s. These are intermixed with animated segments rendered in a pixel art
style similar to video games of this period. X has led to everyone praising it's streamer, Netflix to
seem to be the only streaming service that displays their understanding of how truly important
and influential video games are across generations. Netflix's had also released a gamified movie
experience Y, which also gained a lot of popularity back in 2018 for making the record of most
initial viewing. Within the movie experience, Netflix provided a whole new form of active viewing
in the form of a story like something out of a Goosebumps novel. Now, X has something for
each and every video game nerd to exist, and portrays not only the rivalries and intricate
relations in the gaming industry as it was starting to gain popularity from it's initial boom, but
also the history behind some development and the games which have caught the worlds eyes.
X is interestingly also hosted by the Charles Martinet, the sound behind Z. What's X and Y?

46. X - the High Score documentary
Y - Bandersnatch (CYOA)

47. The video 'me at the zoo' is an 18-second video where X, the publisher of the video talked about
elephants, stating that they had "really, really, really long, um, trunks" and "that's, that's cool, and
that's pretty much all there is to say". Currently, this video has 110 million views, an active
comment section and even a wikipedia article despite X having only 1 million subscribers. Why is
this so? Give Funda.

49. The first video on YouTube, uploaded by its co-founder Jawed Karim

50. X.net is an automated X archive site that is the second most popular X website in the world.
Registration in the site required people to be older than 18, however, once it was changed to 13,
most of the members identified as under 18, with 80% being girls.

52. X - fanfiction (fanfiction.net)

53. X is a systematic approach to copyright protection for digital media. The purpose of X is to
prevent unauthorized redistribution of digital media and restrict the ways consumers can copy
content they've purchased. It is very controversial in nature as there are good arguments both
for and against it. Those supporting X argue that it helps prevent free copying of intellectual
property and is the same as preventing robbers from robbing your house, this can ensure that
the copyright holder can endure continued revenue streams. Whereas those against it say that
it helps big business stifle innovation and competition and that there is no evidence that it
actually prevents copyright infringement and causes inconvenience to legitimate customers.

55. X - Digital Rights Management (DRM)

56. X was started in 1984 in California by Richard Wurman as the "ultimate dinner party". Originally,
it hosted the presenters and people from Silicon Valley and Hollywood. The second ever X, was
held at the Monterey Conference Center in California in 1990. From 1990 onward, a growing
community of "Xsters" gathered annually with Wurman leading the conference in Monterey until
2009, when it was relocated to Long Beach, California due to a substantial increase in
attendees. Initially, the idea was to acquire people who had been drawn from the fields of
expertise behind the letters of X, but during the nineties, the roster of participants broadened to
include scientists, philosophers, musicians, religious leaders, philanthropists, and many others.
After multiple tries of running a conference through the years and failing, the rights were sold
off in 2001. Under the new owners, the audience expanded and X has reached a worldwide
level. Identify X.

58. X - TED/TED Talks

59. X, originally considered as the first web search engine tool, as it operated as a method for
indexing FTP archives, allowing people to find specific files.
X's name was derived from the word Y which described how the entire system operated, just
missing a crucial consonant. This led to the creator having to announce that contrary to popular
belief, there was no association between X and the classic and beloved written work involving
many quipsters, a group of ragtag friends and their daily lives. and that he despised the written
work to begin with. It originally began as a project for students and volunteer staff at McGill
University School of Computer Science in 1987, and was also hosted at X.mcgill.ca. A legacy X
server is still maintained active for historic purposes in Poland at University of Warsaw's
Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling. Give X.

61. X - Archie (derived from archive)

62. The term was X coined by Sean Carton in 1995 and first appeared in print in Wired. According to
a study by 47% of American adult Internet users have X'd. While originally, it used to be only for
purely for entertainment, such as finding _________, a lot did it as a means of online reputation
management. Xing can be used to find data spills or released information that is undesirable to
have in the public eye.
Nowadays, it takes a more defensive aspect, where Xing has to be necessary before entering
any scenario in which your online reputation will be the subject of scrutiny. ID X

64. X - Egosurfing (searching yourself up on Google)

65. X is a french translating website made in 1998 with the aim to provide online translation and
linguistic tools to corporate and mass markets. In 2018, it revealed a mobile version which was
found to return antisemitic results on a few translations, such as "Much nicer" returning "Dachau
was much nicer than Auschwitz", that caused the International League against Racism and Anti-
Semitism to threaten X of legal actions.

67. X - reverso

68. X, unusually accused of nazism, racism and even sexism many times, gained popularity for
allowing generations to come, to delve into an entirely brand new world of Ys (many would
argue it can even be considered the face of the genre). X caused it's creators to work for many
unpaid hours on designs to make their dreams come true for the game. It nearly drove partners
bankrupt, and several employees quit due to financial conditions but now is recognised
internationally and is a multi-billion dollar industry. Nowadays, it is associated with making the
same game with a rebrand and new designs over and over again, even though though they
follow around the same format, they have different plots every time.
Identify X.

70. X - Pokémon

71. "After months of aching, George took a break. Now he only uses his X to send short messages
— typing with the tip of a pencil eraser whenever his thumbs get sore.
"It affects business because I can't whack away on my X like I used to," he said. "It's just too
painful."
Repetitive motion injuries, which have long afflicted desktop and laptop computer users, are
invading the mobile handheld world.
There's even an informal name for the malady — "X thumb"— a catch-all phrase that describes a
repetitive stress injury of the thumb as a result of overusing small gadget keypads.
The medical name for the condition is De Quervain syndrome and is associated with the
tendons connected to the thumb through the wrist. Causes for the condition extend beyond
smartphones and gaming consoles to include activities like golf, racket sports, and lifting. The
name of the this condition comes from a brand of smartphone released back in 1999.

73. Blackberry Thumb (X - Blackberry)

74. X is a subscription based box service, aimed to create a "comic-con in a box" To keep the
content refreshing, the themes of the boxes received change monthly, due to the company
having teamed up with companies such as DC, Marvel, and Nintendo to create a large array of
merchandise. All boxes fit in 4 of either category like Pop Culture, Gaming, Film and TV, and Sci-
Fi and Fantasy. The company also sponsored various famous Youtubers many times, and
PewDiePie even had a seperate series dedicated to it, which has however stopped now.

76. X - LootCrate

77. Tie-Breaker
Y is a blockbuster 1968 sci-fi film directed by Stanley Kubrick and is critically considered to be
one of the G.O.A.T. Z is an iconic fictional character first seen in Y as a camera lens containing a
red or yellow dot. In one of the first of its kind it was made famous by its voice actor. Now
recently X which is very famous in the tech world and outside teamed up with Master Replicas
to make a life size replica of Z using X's product T. Identify X, T, Z. Bonus for Y.

78. Thank you