Sci-tech Quiz by Aayush Patni conducted during QuizWeek 2018. AV round videos can be found here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1VlVeu35kGziPQnibW5FV1mICuR8DGE9e Surprise Round can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lYLpwW6ZDfvHJEg__-IEluqRARELmQEk/view

1. FINALS

2. Rules
■ 16 questions + 1 written round + 1 AV round.
■ On pounce +20/-10.
■ On bounce +10/0.
■ 8 questions clockwise and then 8 questions anticlockwise.

3. Q.1 Id X
■ Long before there were supercomputers (or even electric computers at all), there
were human computers. People, almost entirely women, performed calculations in a
sort of organic matrix much like an enormous living and breathing model of the
machines that would later replace them.
■ These office buildings full of young women performed calculations on everything
from astronomical positions to artillery tables. Decades before we’d be talking about
kilohertz processors, the companies and researchers that employed the legions of
women were talking about X; data processing was measured in terms of how many
thousand-hour blocks of collective computing time would be required of any given
pool of women.

5. Kilogirl

6. Q.2
NASA recently started
distributing these tickets to
select people to get a once in a
lifetime chance of something.
What is this and how is NASA
going to fulfill it ?

8. Parker Solar Probe

9. Q.3 Id X
■ Launched in 2015, X bills itself as an ad-free "social network that lets you be
yourself." The app is the brainchild of billionaire businessman Ayman Hariri, son of
former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Hariri, who has a net worth of $1.33
billion, according to Forbes, told CNBC he started the app because he was frustrated
with the privacy policies of ad-based social networks.

11. Vero

12. Q.4 Id blank ?
____ Meme Monument, also known as #FunLegacy, is a 24-ton
slab of stone engraved with various internet memes created
by ___ in honor of the internet humor site’s ninth anniversary.
The monument has been widely mocked online, leading to
the creation of operation “#SmashTheStone” to organize the
slab’s destruction.

14. 9GAG

15. Q.5 Id X
■ X is a website with over 64.5 million academic papers and articles available for direct
download. It bypasses publisher paywalls by allowing access through educational
institution proxies. X stores papers in its own repository, and additionally the papers
downloaded by X are also stored in Library Genesis (LibGen).
■ X was founded by Kazakhstani graduate student Alexandra Elbakyan in 2011, as a
reaction to the high cost of research papers behind paywalls, typically US$30 each
when bought on a per-paper basis

17. Scihub

18. Q.6 FITB
■ ________ is a human male fossil found in Gough's Cave in Cheddar Gorge, Somerset,
England. The skeletal remains date to the Mesolithic (ca. 9100 BP) and it appears that
he died a violent death. A large crater-like lesion just above the skull's right orbit
suggests that the man may have also been suffering from a bone infection.
■ Excavated in 1903, ______ is Britain’s oldest complete human skeleton. The remains
are kept by the Natural History Museum in London in the new Human Evolution
gallery.

21. Cheddar Man
■ His DNA analysis proved that the first modern Britishers were black

22. Q.7 Id X and funda
Recently Google and another famous
company partnered to promote X day
on March 10th. As a result you will be
able to navigate Google Maps in the
form of a famous game series. Why is
March 10 celebrated as X day.

24. ■ X- Mario
■ Mar10 = Mario

25. Q.8
■ Expand the periodic table.
■ Advise 10 presidents.
■ Have an element named after you in your lifetime.
■ Win a Nobel Prize.
■ Turn a tiny bit of lead into gold.
■ Marry a brilliant lady and have six kids.
If this were a to-do list, whose completely checked to-do list would it be

27. Glenn Seaborg

28. WRITTEN ROUND

29. Rules
■ Identify name of scientist from their poster.
■ 6 questions.
■ +10/0 for each question.
■ On stake +15/-5.
■ For full house +10 extra.

30. Q.1

31. Q.2

32. Q.3

33. Q.4

34. Q.5

35. Q.6

36. ANSWERS

37. Q.1

38. Q.2

39. Q.3

40. Q.4

41. Q.5

42. Q.6

43. End of Written Round

44. Q.9 What is this a schematic of?

46. IBM Watson at Grammy’s

47. Q.10
■ X sometimes referred to as the winter vomiting bug, is the most common cause of
gastroenteritis. Infection is characterized by diarrhea, vomiting, and stomach pain.
■ X results in about 685 million cases of disease and 200,000 deaths globally a year. It is
common both in the developed and developing world. Those under the age of five
are most often affected and in this group it results in about 50,000 deaths in the
developing world. Disease more commonly occurs in winter months. It often occurs
in outbreaks, especially among those living in close quarters. In the United States it is
the cause of about half of food-borne disease outbreaks. The disease is named after
Norwalk, Ohio, where an outbreak occurred in 1972.
■ A X outbreak among the security staff recently gave a scare to the organisers of the
Winter Olympics 2018 with 158 case being registered.

49. Norovirus

50. Q.11

52. Right to be forgotten

53. Q.12 Are we flawed?
On the left is the Unicode emoji for X. When it
was initially released it caused an uproar in
the scientific community due to a big error.
What is the error and X ?

55. ■ X- DNA
■ Twisted the wrong way

56. Q.13
What is this an early
blueprint or design of?
It recently got
completed and was
opened in April 2017.

58. Apple Park

59. Q.14
■ The first X, like many inventions, was built to save time. Back in the 1990s the Computer
Laboratory at the University of Cambridge had a rather inconveniently located break room,
known to faculty and students as the Trojan Room. In 1991 Quentin Stafford-Fraser and Paul
Jardetzky collaborated to put an end to the frustration of trudging across the entire building
to the Trojan Room only to find out that the coffee pot was empty. Using the X-Window
system they wrote a client/server model that broadcast a simple low-resolution video feed
of the coffee pot over the local network.
■ Two years later in 1993 when early web browsers adopted in-line image display X setup
received an upgrade. Daniel Gordon and Martyn Johnson connected the X via streaming
server to the Internet; it began serving up live shots of the coffee pot at the rate of one frame
per second. Although checking to see if a pot of coffee was full or not might seem like a
trivial thing to modern media-saturated Internet users, the Cambridge coffee pot was one of
the most visited web sites on the early Internet.

61. Webcam

62. Q.15
Project X is an upcoming project by Y.
It is the company’s take on AR Glasses.
At its core, X is simply a system for
displaying a small heads-up style
display in your peripheral vision. It can
show you simple messages like
directions or notifications. It works
over Bluetooth with either an Android
phone or an iPhone much in the same
way your smartwatch does, taking
commands from an app that runs in
the background to control it.

64. X- Vaunt , Y- Intel

65. Q.16 Who and what feat?
■ ________ is a Russian nuclear physicist of Armenian descent, who is considered the
world's leading researcher in superheavy chemical elements. He led the discovery of
these elements in the periodic table. He succeeded Georgy Flerov as director of the
Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in
1989 and is now its scientific leader.
■ He also shares a certain feat with Glenn Seaborg.

68. Yuri Oganessian
■ Only people to have elements named after them in their lifetime

69. AV ROUND

70. Q.1 Which company?
Play till 1:18

72. Alibaba

73. Q.2 Id the company
■ This ad was launched by X to mark the Chinese New Year.
■ It’s part of their Be the Gift campaign.
Play till 0:36

75. Nokia

76. Q.3 Id company and product?
Play till 0:46

78. Microsoft
Paint 3D

79. Q.4
■ This is a trailer for film ‘Unsane’ directed by Steven Sodenberg.
■ What is unique about this film??
Play till 0:40

81. Shot entirely on an iphone

82. Q.5
■ This song is known as Daddy’s Car.
■ French composer Benoît Carré arranged and produced this song, and wrote the
lyrics.
■ What is the claim to fame of this song.
■ Play till 1:00

84. First song to be composed by an AI

85. Q.6
Identify the company behind this ad.
Play till 0:28

87. Volkswagen

88. SURPRISE ROUND

89. Rules
■ 8 clues.
■ +20/-10 on pounce
■ +10/0 on bounce

91. Answers
■ Across Down
3. Panasonic 1. 4chan
5. xkcd 2. Flipkart
6. Logitech 3. PUBG
7. Steam 4. Alienware

92. Tiebreaker

93. Identify the person whom this poster is
dedicated to ?

95. Hedy Lamarr