1. The game is Angry Birds and the slingshot creature is replaced by corrupt politicians. 2. The name of the award is the Academy Awards (or Oscars). 3. The browser is Silk and it was created by Amazon as a reference to a silky strong spiderweb thread. [DOCUMENT]: XLNS ‘11 Quiz – Senior Finals  1. - Developed by GeekMentor Studios, it is based on an extremely addictive game created by Rovio Studios in Finland. The Villainous Pigs are replaced by Corrupt politicians. Which game and who replaces the slingshot creature? 

1. XLNS ‘11
Quiz – Senior Finals

2. 1.
• Developed by GeekMentor Studios, it is based
on an extremely addictive game created by
Rovio Studios in Finland. The Villainous Pigs
are replaced by Corrupt politicians. Which
game and who replaces the slingshot
creature?

3. 2.
• Annually presented by the International
Academy of Digital Arts and Science. What is
the name of this award?

4. 3.
• According to the parent company producing
this browser, the name stands for the idea
that a thread of a particular material“ is an
invisible yet incredibly strong connection
between two different things“. What browser?

6. 4.
• A young engineer at the Boston firm of
Bolt, Beranek and Newman is responsible for
its elevation to fame. He described it as the
only preposition on the keyboard. What?

7. 5.

8. 6.
• Which famous phrase arose from a challenge
of connecting 9 dots in a square grid with
only 4 straight lines without lifting the pen off
the paper?

9. 7.

10. 8.
• A person X, rushed into the Eagle Pub on an
uneventful day in February 1953 and
remarked, “We have discovered the secret of
life”. What was X referring to and identify him
(or the duo)?

11. 9.
• Which famous item in South Indian hotel
menus often gets abbreviated on the
computerized bill to spell a famous operating
system?

12. 10.
• What did Edwin Land invent because of his
daughter’s wish for instant and ‘snappy’
results?

13. 11.

14. 12.
• Originally named “BackRub” which started off
as a research project at Stanford University, X
is perhaps the best of the lot today. What is X?

15. 13.
• Popular legend holds that the composition of
X has religious, metaphysical, or astronomical
significance: typical numerological elements
of the explanation are four seasons, the 13
phases of the lunar cycle, day and night, the
number of weeks in a year, and finally, the
number of days in a year and even those in a
leap year are accurately represented.

16. 14.
• This word comes from the Civil War prison
system where a prisoner would be shot if he
crossed a particular boundary. What word?

17. 15.
• The satirical newspaper The Onion published an article
entitled I, X as a pun on Asimov's I, Robot, in which an
anthropomorphic X gives a speech parodying much of
the angst experienced by robots in Asimov's
fiction, including a statement of the Three Laws of X:
• 1. A/an X may not immerse a human being or, through
lack of flotation, allow a human to come to harm.
• 2. A/an X must obey all commands and steering input
given by its human X, except where such input would
conflict with the First Law.
• 3. A/an X must preserve its own flotation as long as
such preservation does not conflict with the First or
Second Law.
• X please.

18. 16.
• Arthur Sasse wanted to get X smiling on his
birthday. X was tired, and so, in order to get
rid of the photographer, X did something
which Sasse took a picture of. On June
19, 2009, the photograph was auctioned at a
record $74,324, the most for any picture of X.
Id X and say what he did.

19. 17.

20. 18.