Qu33k

NOR AGAIN IS THERE ANYONE WHO LOVES OR PURSUES
OR DESIRES TO OBTAIN PAIN OF ITSELF, BECAUSE IT IS
PAIN, BUT OCCASIONALLY CIRCUMSTANCES OCCUR IN
WHICH TOIL AND PAIN CAN PROCURE HIM SOME GREAT
PLEASURE.
The Quiz will be in infinite bounce format, unless
   specified otherwise

   Do not pay much attention to the text on the
   previous slide-unlike most of the other quizzes it
   is only relevant as a placeholder text*-and not as
   any hint to an answer




*IT IS ACTUALLY THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF LOREM IPSUM – THE DEFAULT
PLACEHOLDER TEXT
Round


FOR(;;);
IDENTIFY
NETSCAPE’S MARC ADREESSEN
This is a social news website, and calls itself
the voice of the internet.
Users can vote on links that they like or dislike
and help decide what’s popular, or submit their
own.
REDDIT
The company’s mascot(Y),a mushroom is quite a
   celebrity in Japan. He is even the hero of a
  Nintendo DS game As one type of advertising
   method, there are many types of Y such as
mother and father, which symbolize the plans that
              X(the company) offers.
X- NTT Docomo
Y- Docomodake
Due to the effects of the US embargo on
   ___ the country has difficulty getting
access to Microsoft products so it launched
          its own OS called Nova
Cuba
This company was founded as
  Jomax Technologies in 1997. It’s
in-house produced ads, are termed
        “fun, edgy and a bit
inappropriate” by Bob Parsons, the
               CEO.
GoDaddy
In June 1984, Alexey Pajitnov created X while
working for the Soviet Academy of Sciences at
 their Computer Center in Moscow. X’s name
 was derived from the combination of Greek
 numerical prefix for 4 and tennis, Pajitnov’s
               favourite sport.
Tetris
Since 2000, this company’s logotype is an
  arrow leading from A to Z, representing
customer satisfaction (as it forms a smile); a
   goal was to have every product in the
                  alphabet
Amazon
iPad : Fujitsu :: iPhone : _____
iPad : Fujitsu :: iPhone : Cisco


iPad was previously registered by Fujitsu and
              iPhone by Cisco
Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh
   and steel, I come from ______, the new home of Mind. On
  behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone.
You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where
                            we gather.
   We have no elected government, nor are we likely to have
 one, so I address you with no greater authority than that with
  which liberty itself always speaks. I declare the global social
    space we are building to be naturally independent of the
tyrannies you seek to impose on us. You have no moral right to
  rule us nor do you possess any methods of enforcement we
                     have true reason to fear.
That was the first paragraph of The Declaration of
          Independence of Cyberspace
Googlewhack refers to a certain contest.
    The term Googlewhack first appeared on the web at
    UnBlinking on 8 January 2002. The Whack Stack, at
              googlewhack.com was created.
Out of the 6,36,000 successfully submitted entries, few are :
                  counterprogramed oscar
                     narrowcaster redos
                     logocentrist birdies
                   werewolfs combustibly
It is the process of using two dictionary words such that the
   search returns only one result. Such a search is called a
                            ‘whack’
The Golden Shield Project is a surveillance project operated by
 the Ministry of Public Security division of the government of
  ___. The project started in 1998 and began operations in
    November 2003. How do we know it better/What is its
                         significance ?
The Great Firewall of China
Identify the event
Microsoft recently hosted a mock funeral of
Blackberry and iPhone when Windows Phone 7 was
                    launched
Originally the project A started as an academic project, in
 1996. It was intended to consist of a client and server to
          stream videos across a campus network.
Now widely used, the icon of this software changes to one
      wearing a Santa hat over the Christmas period.
VLC Player
They came in low with $160 million, so I came in at $700
 million! And when they said: 'That's ridiculous! Are you out of
             your mind,' I knew it was just a ploy."
… and A's representatives kept walking out. Or rather storming.
And shouting and swearing and hurling insults. But the B team
   had been warned of A's tactics. "It was like a record being
 played, which we thought was pretty funny. It gave us a real
sense of strength." At $350 million, B's investors agreed: Sell. I
  returned to the table, alone, and once more said: "No." The
  contract was inked on Dec. 30, 1997, my 29th birthday. The
 price: some three million A shares - worth $400 million at the
                             time.
A- Microsoft
                       B – Hotmail
This is Sabeer Bhatia’s account of how hotmail was sold
David Bradley : I may have invented it, but I think Bill (Gates)
                       made it famous

it is also sometimes referred to as The Three Finger Salute.
                            What?
Ctrl + Alt + Del
Identify the company
  In 1969, Neil Armstrong spoke the famous words "one small
step for a man, one giant leap for mankind" from the moon on
                  one of this company’s product
   In 1974, its TV business was sold to the parent company of
                            Panasonic
  In 1983, the firm made history when the its DynaTAC 8000X
was approved to become the world’s first commercial cellular
                               device
Motorola
Nuance Communications is a multinational computer software
 tech corporation providing speech and imaging applications.
    In 2007, it acquired Tegic – from AOL. Tegic developed
           something that many of us use everyday.
T9 for sms
This first person shooter game series is set in World War II. The
       series was created by filmmaker Steven Spielberg
Call of Duty
Companies across the world experienced slight drops in
 productivity due to A, though the reported $120 million total
   loss "spread out across the entire world isn't a huge loss,
comparatively speaking". Some organizations even temporarily
blocked B's website from workplace computers on the Friday it
   was uploaded, particularly where it violated regulations
                  against recreational games
                        Identify A and B
Pacman on Google
Connect
Companies founded by Bill Gates
  Traf –O- Data – what actually turned into Microsoft
               Corbis – A media repository
and BgC3 = Bill Gates Catalyst, 3 = third location beyond
       MS and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Identify
Pinball, as an easter egg in Word 97
Where would you find this?
The Walk of Game, to honour the icons and
pioneers of the video game industry like :
Mario, Link, Sonic the Hedgehog, Nolan
Bushnell, John Carmack
• What is Gray     Powell’s
  claim to fame?
Misplacing the iPod which made its way to
Gizmodo
Identify. Hint : Everyone has heard about him
The real Ajay Bhatt, co-inventor of the USB
        The Intel ad used an actor
Identify the logo
The UIDAI Project
1978 poster to explain something

   If it’s there and you can see it—it’s
                    real
If it’s not there and you can see it—it’s
                   virtual
  If it’s there and you can’t see it—it’s
                transparent
 If it’s not there and you can’t see it—
               you erased it!
Memory/RAM
This is a 1975 patent drawing. Quite a revolutionary
  product. But the inventor was initially unable to
  properly monetise his idea. But later, giants like
 Toshiba had to pay him a substantial amount for
                patent infringement.
Who is the inventor? He is famous in India for various
                other reasons as well.
Sam Pitroda. He is widely considered to have been
 responsible for India’s tech and communications
                    revolutions
This term in the IT sector refers to
people who have been laid off from a
 multinational because their job has
        been moved to India?
Bangalored
The cover of Coldplay’s album X&Y.
The artwork for X&Y was designed by graphic design duo
Tappin Gofton, formed by Mark Tappin and Simon Gofton. The
image, which is visualized through a combination of colours
and blocks, is a graphical representation of an early form of
telegraph communication using a series of ones and zeros to
communicate. The code was developed by in the 1870s, and
was a widely used method of terrestrial and telegraph
communication.
What code?
Baudot, a character set predating ASCII. The
symbol rate measurement, known as Baud is
derived from the same name
This is the ‘Kill Screen’ of Pac-Man.
What actually is a Kill Screen / How is it
caused ?
The internal level counter is stored in a
single byte. When it reaches 255, the
value rolls over to zero. The screen is
obscured, making the level unwinnable
Originally launched in 1993 as as IRC
   bot, this website’s extraordinary
    growth in the 1990s made it an
  attractive site. Satyam took a 25%
stake in the company. It was bought
over by a huge sports tv network. It
 receives over 7 million hits daily on
average and records in excess of 250
     million pageviews per month
Cricinfo
X is a documentary about three computer addicts
 who redefined the world of media distribution
 with their hobby homepage Y. How did Tiamo, a
    beer crazy hardware fanatic, Brokep a tree
  hugging eco activist and Anakata – a paranoid
    hacker libertarian – get the White House to
   threaten the Swedish government with trade
   sanctions? X explores what Hollywood’s most
   hated pirates go through on a personal level.
                     Id X and Y
X- Away from the Keyboard
     Y – The Pirate Bay
What is this a play on ?
iPhone’s reception problems and Steve Jobs
 solution to just hold the device differently
Round




CONNECT
Default test 2d image
(the first lady of the internet)
                                   Default 3d rendered test object




                                   Default/most used test text
Companies collectively referred to as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
(1)Bill Gates
(2)Guilty Spark
(3)Ranbir Kapoor
Connect: Halo.
(1)is the owner of the publishers of Halo.
(2)is a Halo character.
 (3) Ranbir Kapoor stars as a Halo game
developer in Bachna ae Haseeno
Deepak Parekh, Kiran Karnik, Mahindra

    Connect : The Satyam fiasco
Connect
Connect : UNIX

Bourne Trilogy-Reference to the Bsh and Bash

Fish – The Fairly Interactive Shell

And the XKCD cartoon referencing to the UNIX Epoch
Round




MEGACONNECT
All Google April Fools Hoaxes

Queek Finals Ans

  • 1.
    Qu33k NOR AGAIN ISTHERE ANYONE WHO LOVES OR PURSUES OR DESIRES TO OBTAIN PAIN OF ITSELF, BECAUSE IT IS PAIN, BUT OCCASIONALLY CIRCUMSTANCES OCCUR IN WHICH TOIL AND PAIN CAN PROCURE HIM SOME GREAT PLEASURE.
  • 2.
    The Quiz willbe in infinite bounce format, unless specified otherwise Do not pay much attention to the text on the previous slide-unlike most of the other quizzes it is only relevant as a placeholder text*-and not as any hint to an answer *IT IS ACTUALLY THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF LOREM IPSUM – THE DEFAULT PLACEHOLDER TEXT
  • 3.
  • 4.
  • 5.
  • 6.
    This is asocial news website, and calls itself the voice of the internet. Users can vote on links that they like or dislike and help decide what’s popular, or submit their own.
  • 7.
  • 8.
    The company’s mascot(Y),amushroom is quite a celebrity in Japan. He is even the hero of a Nintendo DS game As one type of advertising method, there are many types of Y such as mother and father, which symbolize the plans that X(the company) offers.
  • 9.
    X- NTT Docomo Y-Docomodake
  • 10.
    Due to theeffects of the US embargo on ___ the country has difficulty getting access to Microsoft products so it launched its own OS called Nova
  • 11.
  • 12.
    This company wasfounded as Jomax Technologies in 1997. It’s in-house produced ads, are termed “fun, edgy and a bit inappropriate” by Bob Parsons, the CEO.
  • 13.
  • 14.
    In June 1984,Alexey Pajitnov created X while working for the Soviet Academy of Sciences at their Computer Center in Moscow. X’s name was derived from the combination of Greek numerical prefix for 4 and tennis, Pajitnov’s favourite sport.
  • 15.
  • 16.
    Since 2000, thiscompany’s logotype is an arrow leading from A to Z, representing customer satisfaction (as it forms a smile); a goal was to have every product in the alphabet
  • 17.
  • 18.
    iPad : Fujitsu:: iPhone : _____
  • 19.
    iPad : Fujitsu:: iPhone : Cisco iPad was previously registered by Fujitsu and iPhone by Cisco
  • 20.
    Governments of theIndustrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from ______, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather. We have no elected government, nor are we likely to have one, so I address you with no greater authority than that with which liberty itself always speaks. I declare the global social space we are building to be naturally independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose on us. You have no moral right to rule us nor do you possess any methods of enforcement we have true reason to fear.
  • 21.
    That was thefirst paragraph of The Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace
  • 22.
    Googlewhack refers toa certain contest. The term Googlewhack first appeared on the web at UnBlinking on 8 January 2002. The Whack Stack, at googlewhack.com was created. Out of the 6,36,000 successfully submitted entries, few are : counterprogramed oscar narrowcaster redos logocentrist birdies werewolfs combustibly
  • 23.
    It is theprocess of using two dictionary words such that the search returns only one result. Such a search is called a ‘whack’
  • 24.
    The Golden ShieldProject is a surveillance project operated by the Ministry of Public Security division of the government of ___. The project started in 1998 and began operations in November 2003. How do we know it better/What is its significance ?
  • 25.
  • 26.
  • 27.
    Microsoft recently hosteda mock funeral of Blackberry and iPhone when Windows Phone 7 was launched
  • 28.
    Originally the projectA started as an academic project, in 1996. It was intended to consist of a client and server to stream videos across a campus network. Now widely used, the icon of this software changes to one wearing a Santa hat over the Christmas period.
  • 29.
  • 30.
    They came inlow with $160 million, so I came in at $700 million! And when they said: 'That's ridiculous! Are you out of your mind,' I knew it was just a ploy." … and A's representatives kept walking out. Or rather storming. And shouting and swearing and hurling insults. But the B team had been warned of A's tactics. "It was like a record being played, which we thought was pretty funny. It gave us a real sense of strength." At $350 million, B's investors agreed: Sell. I returned to the table, alone, and once more said: "No." The contract was inked on Dec. 30, 1997, my 29th birthday. The price: some three million A shares - worth $400 million at the time.
  • 31.
    A- Microsoft B – Hotmail This is Sabeer Bhatia’s account of how hotmail was sold
  • 32.
    David Bradley :I may have invented it, but I think Bill (Gates) made it famous it is also sometimes referred to as The Three Finger Salute. What?
  • 33.
  • 34.
    Identify the company In 1969, Neil Armstrong spoke the famous words "one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind" from the moon on one of this company’s product In 1974, its TV business was sold to the parent company of Panasonic In 1983, the firm made history when the its DynaTAC 8000X was approved to become the world’s first commercial cellular device
  • 35.
  • 36.
    Nuance Communications isa multinational computer software tech corporation providing speech and imaging applications. In 2007, it acquired Tegic – from AOL. Tegic developed something that many of us use everyday.
  • 37.
  • 38.
    This first personshooter game series is set in World War II. The series was created by filmmaker Steven Spielberg
  • 39.
  • 40.
    Companies across theworld experienced slight drops in productivity due to A, though the reported $120 million total loss "spread out across the entire world isn't a huge loss, comparatively speaking". Some organizations even temporarily blocked B's website from workplace computers on the Friday it was uploaded, particularly where it violated regulations against recreational games Identify A and B
  • 41.
  • 42.
  • 43.
    Companies founded byBill Gates Traf –O- Data – what actually turned into Microsoft Corbis – A media repository and BgC3 = Bill Gates Catalyst, 3 = third location beyond MS and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
  • 44.
  • 45.
    Pinball, as aneaster egg in Word 97
  • 46.
    Where would youfind this?
  • 47.
    The Walk ofGame, to honour the icons and pioneers of the video game industry like : Mario, Link, Sonic the Hedgehog, Nolan Bushnell, John Carmack
  • 48.
    • What isGray Powell’s claim to fame?
  • 49.
    Misplacing the iPodwhich made its way to Gizmodo
  • 50.
    Identify. Hint :Everyone has heard about him
  • 51.
    The real AjayBhatt, co-inventor of the USB The Intel ad used an actor
  • 52.
  • 53.
  • 54.
    1978 poster toexplain something If it’s there and you can see it—it’s real If it’s not there and you can see it—it’s virtual If it’s there and you can’t see it—it’s transparent If it’s not there and you can’t see it— you erased it!
  • 55.
  • 56.
    This is a1975 patent drawing. Quite a revolutionary product. But the inventor was initially unable to properly monetise his idea. But later, giants like Toshiba had to pay him a substantial amount for patent infringement. Who is the inventor? He is famous in India for various other reasons as well.
  • 57.
    Sam Pitroda. Heis widely considered to have been responsible for India’s tech and communications revolutions
  • 58.
    This term inthe IT sector refers to people who have been laid off from a multinational because their job has been moved to India?
  • 59.
  • 60.
    The cover ofColdplay’s album X&Y. The artwork for X&Y was designed by graphic design duo Tappin Gofton, formed by Mark Tappin and Simon Gofton. The image, which is visualized through a combination of colours and blocks, is a graphical representation of an early form of telegraph communication using a series of ones and zeros to communicate. The code was developed by in the 1870s, and was a widely used method of terrestrial and telegraph communication. What code?
  • 61.
    Baudot, a characterset predating ASCII. The symbol rate measurement, known as Baud is derived from the same name
  • 62.
    This is the‘Kill Screen’ of Pac-Man. What actually is a Kill Screen / How is it caused ?
  • 63.
    The internal levelcounter is stored in a single byte. When it reaches 255, the value rolls over to zero. The screen is obscured, making the level unwinnable
  • 64.
    Originally launched in1993 as as IRC bot, this website’s extraordinary growth in the 1990s made it an attractive site. Satyam took a 25% stake in the company. It was bought over by a huge sports tv network. It receives over 7 million hits daily on average and records in excess of 250 million pageviews per month
  • 65.
  • 66.
    X is adocumentary about three computer addicts who redefined the world of media distribution with their hobby homepage Y. How did Tiamo, a beer crazy hardware fanatic, Brokep a tree hugging eco activist and Anakata – a paranoid hacker libertarian – get the White House to threaten the Swedish government with trade sanctions? X explores what Hollywood’s most hated pirates go through on a personal level. Id X and Y
  • 67.
    X- Away fromthe Keyboard Y – The Pirate Bay
  • 68.
    What is thisa play on ?
  • 69.
    iPhone’s reception problemsand Steve Jobs solution to just hold the device differently
  • 70.
  • 72.
    Default test 2dimage (the first lady of the internet) Default 3d rendered test object Default/most used test text
  • 74.
    Companies collectively referredto as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
  • 76.
    (1)Bill Gates (2)Guilty Spark (3)RanbirKapoor Connect: Halo. (1)is the owner of the publishers of Halo. (2)is a Halo character. (3) Ranbir Kapoor stars as a Halo game developer in Bachna ae Haseeno
  • 78.
    Deepak Parekh, KiranKarnik, Mahindra Connect : The Satyam fiasco
  • 79.
  • 80.
    Connect : UNIX BourneTrilogy-Reference to the Bsh and Bash Fish – The Fairly Interactive Shell And the XKCD cartoon referencing to the UNIX Epoch
  • 81.
  • 90.
    All Google AprilFools Hoaxes