1. During the Dutch tulip mania of the 1630s, futures contracts were developed as a method to complete tulip bulb sales faster, as described in Charles Mackay's 1841 book "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds". 2. In the new gTLD bidding process run by ICANN, the company that applied for the most new domains (101), including .web and .tech, was the Charleston Road Registry, better known as Donuts. 3. The 1985 advertisement was for Apple computers.

1. *1. Where would you find this sign ?

2. 2.
● During the Dutch tulip craze of 1636-37, due to
an exorbitant increase in the price of tulip
bulbs, what was developed as a method to
complete tulip sales faster ? This was
described in the 1841 book on the tulipmania:
“Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of
Crowds”.

3. 3.
● In the new gTLD bidding process initialised by
the internet regulator ICANN, one company
stood out by applying for 101 new top level
domains including .web, .tech, and .cloud.
This company was the “Charleston Road
Registry”, how do we better know this
company ?

4. 4. 1985 Advertisement for which
company ?
Video

5. 5.
● ____: Intel's $300 million plan to beat Apple at
its own game.
● ____ are ultralight PCs, no more than 0.8"
thick, with Intel processors, metal cases for
superior heat dissipation, SSD storage, long
battery life and even longer standby time, and
affordable. They should boot in 7 seconds or
less

6. 6. Connect
● Sense
● TouchWiz
● Rachael
● Waveshare
● Liquid Metal
● MotoBLUR
● Optimus

7. 7. Identify this smartphone OS

8. 8.
● The best known photograph of X is titled “X
playing the flute to a butterfly”
● He has marginally contributed to the cat,
comm, dir, ls, rm, split, tee, uniq, and vdir
utilities.

9. 9.
● ______ is a newspaper and web comic strip
written and drawn by Jorge Cham that follows
the lives of several grad students. First published
in the fall of 1997 when Cham was a grad
student himself at Stanford University, the strip
deals with issues of life in graduate school,
including the difficulties of scientific research, the
perils of procrastination, the complex student–
supervisor relationship and the endless search
for free food.

10. 10. ID X.
● X jokingly says that he is named for 2 different
people: one a noble prize winning chemist and
another a blanket-carrying cartoon character.
● X met his future wife when he was running
introductory computer laboratory exercises for
students in 1993 and instructed the course
attendants to send him an e-mail as a test, to
which she responded with an e-mail asking for
a date.

11. 11. What is being illustrated here ?

12. 12. Coined by research and advisory firm
Gartner, Inc., the _____ cycle is illustrated below.
Identify.

13. 13. Specific Connect
● Arrandale
● Clarksfield
● Penryn
● Merom
● Yonah

14. 14. This is Ed Fries Who headed Microsoft's XboX
divison until 2004.
But most of us will know him better for another reason.
What is that ?

15. 15. Which company does this TIME
magazine cover from 1982 reference ?

16. 16. She described the present day context
of the word 'bug'. Identify her.

17. 17. Name the company
● His personal story of
bouncing back after being
presumed dead and being
administered the last rites,
after a fight in Chicago,
uncannily resembles his
company in many ways
which over more than a
quarter of a century has
played David to ____'s
Goliath.

18. 18.Connect
● diapers.com
● imdb.com
● audible.com
● boxofficemojo.com
● joyo.com

19. 19. Connect

20. 20. What comes next ?
● The Burning Crusade
● Wrath of the Lich King
● Cataclysm
● _________

21. 21. Name the company
● Its logo is composed of waves and stars.
● Stars represent the ether through which the
waves were thought to be transmitted back in
the 19th century.