Senior quiz finals Digilogous 2014 (Rukmini Devi Public School)

Senior Quiz Finals
The Digilogous
"Ready?? because We are gonna tickle your brains"
-Sergey Brain

Round One
“This round wins you the quiz”
-Said No Quizmaster Ever

Question One
• This is a picture of the first headquarters of which
tech company?

Question Two
• Not the most famous video game, certainly, but it
created history by introducing something that is
very common in video games today. What did it
introduce?

Question Three
• Which video game is this, which was recently in
controversy?

• “Bomb Gaza”
(Please don’t!)

Question Four
Book based on whom?

Question Five
• This is a wall in the headquarters of a company
based in Palo Alto. What are the plaques about?

• Patents recently made open-source by Tesla
Motors

Question Six
• Where would you find the words 'OSAKEYHITO'
and 'AKTIBOLAC'?

Question Seven
X is a an artificially intelligent (AI) character in the Y. Voiced by Jen Taylor, she
appears in Y and its sequels, she also appears in several of the franchise's novels
and comics.
In the story, X is instrumental in preventing the activation of the Y installations,
which would have destroyed all sentient life in the galaxy.
X's original design was based on the Egyptian queen Nefertiti; the character's
representation always takes the form of a woman. Taylor described portraying X as
challenging, due to the character's lack of a physical form. X and Y were first
introduced through the X Letters, cryptic emails sent during Combat Evolved's
production in 1999.Since then, the character has been used extensively to
advertise the series.

Question Eight
• “To create a new standard takes something that’s
not just a little bit different. It takes something
that’s really new and captures people’s
imaginations. Macintosh meets that standard”
• This quote was a part of an advertisement by
Apple in 1984. Who said it?

• William Henry Gates III a.k.a Bill gates

Question Nine
• X was a microprocessor developer that was founded
in 1988 in Richardson, Texas as a specialist supplier
of high-performance math coprocessors for 286 and
386 microprocessors. The company was founded
Tom Brightman and Jerry Rogers.Founder, President
and CEO Jerry Rogers aggressively recruited
engineers and pushed them, eventually assembling a
small but efficient design team of 30 people.
• X merged with National Semiconductor on 11
November 1997.

WordStar the first text editor featuring
WYSIWYG

Question Eleven
• He was the founder and chairman of ‘Internet Users
Club of India’, which was established in 1995. The
world wide web was introduced in India in the mid-
90s, but he was ‘online’ way before that, through a
British telecom service connection established with
the help of Steve Jobs. He was known as the
‘Yahoo man of India’, although he had nothing to do
with the technology company. He had a website
www.junglee.org.in. Who?

Round Two
“Why only pics? A/V too”
- Sundar Picture Aai

Question One
• This song by Suzanne Vega was a ‘first’, with
respect to a certain technology. What is it’s claim
to fame?

• First MP3.
She is often referred to as “Mother of the MP3”

Question Two
• The Chuck Norris is obviously person, in this video. This is a TV ad
for which game?

Question Three
• This is a concept called PaperTab. It is by which tech
company?

Question Four
• C2f of this song? (believe by cher , played)

Round Three
The very same as the first round. Added to make you feel that the quiz is
badhalong enough…
- Hugo Badha

Question 1
When I grew up I was lucky because I was in Silicon Valley.
When I was ten or eleven I saw my first computer. It was
down at NASA Ames (Research Center). I didn't see the
computer, I saw a terminal and it was theoretically a
computer on the other end of the wire. I fell in love with it. I
saw my first desktop computer at Hewlett-Packard which
was called the 9100A. It was the first desktop in the world.
It ran BASIC and APL I think. I fell in love with it. And I
thought, looking at these statistics in 1979, I thought if there
was just one computer in every school, some of the kids
would find it. It will change their life.
Who?

Question 2
• When new employees for a certain company are
hired, the CEO has a tradition of taking them on a
tour through San Francisco as an effort to make
the new hires indulge in honesty and
trustworthiness, and to introduce them to the
company’s vision. The first thing he shows them is
a statue of Gandhi. Trustworthiness is especially
needed for this particular company, because they
are essentially playing with people’s money.
Who is this CEO? Which company?

Question 3
Acquired recently by Google, X is a small product design
firm, named after an animal
You've almost certainly come across one of the products
X has helped design. There's the original Fitbit, for one,
to say nothing of Jawbone's early Bluetooth headsets,
the friendly looking One Laptop Per Child notebook, the
slingbox and a whole host of Dell PCs over the years.
ID X

Question Four
• Ying Hang "Hannah" Zhang, an employee of
Starbucks, in San Francisco, was the victim of one of
the most famous pranks of all time. Someone ordered
a huge volume of lattes over the phone, as a part of a
prank. Who made the call? What was special about it?

• Steve Jobs
• First public iPhone call

Question Five
X is a name given retrospectively to a demonstration of
experimental computing technologies that are now
commonplace on December 6, 1968.
The live demonstration featured the introduction of the
computer mouse, video conferencing, teleconferencing,
hypertext, word processing, hypermedia, object addressing
and dynamic file linking, boot strapping, and a collaborative
real-time editor.
This name coined in 1994 references a name used by
Saddam Hussein to describe the 1991 Gulf War.
Identify X. No points for identifying who demonstrated the
technologies.

Question Six
• He is the author of several Personal Annual
Reports that weave numerous measurements
into a tapestry of graphs, maps and statistics to
reflect the year’s activities. He is also the co-founder
of Daytum.com, and is a former member
of the product design team at Facebook. His
popularity rose in 2005, when he decided to
publish something that documented the previous
year in an interactive manner. Who?

Question Seven
• He is the mastermind behind one of the most
iconic products of the 21st century, something
that changed a lot of industries drastically.
He left that company in 2008, after leading the
development of revolutionary products for a
decade. He got the inspiration for his next startup
on a vacation, where he felt that thermostats
were too cumbersome to use, and went on to
redesign them. Who?

• Tony Fadell (founder of nest)

Question Eight
• In 2013, some Google employees were busy in
making an Android version fragmentation graph
to plan out a future strategy to eliminate it. They
wanted to unify the Android experience for all
devices, yet keeping the device diversity. What
did this graph inspire?

• The Android Kitkat Easter Egg.

Question Nine
• Why does this car have a pink mustache?

Question Ten
• Following the series' cancellation, Rob Thomas wrote a feature film script
continuing the storyline, but Warner Bros. opted not to fund the project at
the time. On March 13, 2013, Thomas and star Kristen Bell launched a
fundraising campaign to produce the X through Kickstarter, offering various
incentives to those who donated $10 or more. Bell, Thomas, Enrico
Colantoni, Ryan Hansen, and Jason Dohring appeared in a video promoting
the campaign,and it attained the $2 million goal in less than ten hours.
• In its first day on Kickstarter, the project broke the record as the fastest
project to reach first $1 million, then $2 million; it also achieved the highest
minimal pledging goal achieved and was the largest successful project of its
kind on Kickstarter.On its final campaign day, the project broke the record
for the most backers on a single Kickstarter project, previously held by the
Double Fine Adventure.Afterwards, X earned a greenlight from Warner
Bros. Digital Distribution. ID X

Question Eleven
• "Slowly and steadily we are getting rid of our earthly form
and ascending into the next stage, the cloud.
The cloud, or Brahman as the hindus call it, is the All,
surrounding everything. It is everywhere; immaterial, yet
very real.
Any attempt to attack us from now on is an attack on
everything and nothing. We exist only in a higher form of
being. A reality to us. A ghost to those who wish to harm
us.
Adapt or be forever forgotten beneath the veils of maya."
What is this about?

• The Pirate Bay's moving to the cloud

Question Twelve
• X knows, X space, X encyclopedia, X Love, X Yi,
X Library... These are some products by a
chinese giant.
• X was founded by Eric Xu along with one another
person.
• ID X

Question Thirteen
• This project by musician Neil Young claims to be
a postmodern iPod, promoting "high-resolution"
music and audio twice as good as extremely
expensive audio equipment in 10^-4 the price. It
was criticised for being an expensive version of
an MP3 player which cannot fit into a pocket,
althoughh the designer claims otherwise. What?

Question Fourteen
• While shooting RoboCop (1987), the director
did not have enough budget to display
everything they wanted to show. So instead of
buying all the equipment, they decided that
telephone switching equipment would be a
good-enough substitute, since most people did
not have a real idea of how the real equipment
looked. What did they originally intend to show,
which was replaced by telephone switches?

Question fifteen
It is a term that originated with Kodak film cameras,
which involved a process of making colour footage
which was less expensive than other prevalent
methods, but led to a degradation in the colours and
made certain colours like blue appear vivid, while
downplaying the reds. This term has come to mean
something completely different in India, referring to the
uncanniness of one’s attire, taking a cue from
Bollywood films of yore, which used this technology.
Which term?

Question Sixteen
Ethan Zuckerman was a designer and programmer for
the early web-hosting service Tripod.com when a car
company freaked out. The unspecified manufacturer
had bought a banner ad on a page and was not too
pleased with it because of certain reasons. Zuckerman
then wrote the code to solve the problem. What did he
code?

Round Four
Join ‘em up!
- Peter Siel

Reliance Entertainment
Lincoln and real steel produced
by them
acquired codemasters and jump
games
released pacific rim under
reliance game studio
bigadda their own company

• Amazon (acquired/owns all the companies)
• Stolen child , first movie produced by them

• HP (trip Hawkins palm CEO , steve worked at HP
, pic of 9100A , their first product an audio
oscillator was used in that movie fantasia)

• All are indiegogo projects

"Lets break some ground doors now'
-Daya
"Iska Matlab Samjhe daya? In Questions me matlab hai! Matlab ye questions
matlab wale hain. Matlab ye workable hain'
-ACP Pradyuman
Round Five

Question One
• In 2007, Steve Jobs's mind was blown. A young
software engineer from MIT had reverse
engineered Apple's file system to show his
startup's logo elegantly displayed in Finder,
something which not even Apple's SWAT team
could do. Who was that software engineer?

Question Two
• This IITian, who earlier used to work with Rediff
India, founded a startup called TenTenTen, which
makes apps for connecting brands with
customers. He became a social media celebrity,
and shot to fame in little time. He is famous for
his puns, and calls himself an armchair thinker
and excessive drinker. Who?

Question Three
• This new Indian social media fad was inspired
from something that went viral recently. It was
originally started by Hyderabad based Manju
Latha Kalanidhi. She defines it as "My own local,
practical and tangible version/response to ___.",
for which she received instant appreciation. What
is it called?

Question Four
This company intended this as a harmless joke on a day
meant for jokes, but the joke instead turned on them. Inspired
by Google and a few other technology companies, this Indian
company decided to follow suit and made an April fools joke
about offering it’s services at an unheard-of price. Many
people, instead of realising it was a joke, took it seriously, and
repeatedly flogged the company’s website for availing the
services, as promised in joke. This led to the website crashing
due to the huge number of simultaneous visitors, and led to
the company suffering huge losses for the day. Which
company, and what joke was it?

Answer : Spicejet...They
joked that the price of their
ticket reduced to 1 Rupee

Question Five
• Paula Scher, a designer in the firm Pentagram,
asked a crucial question which defined it's future
progress. She asked Sam Moreau, "Why are you
a flag?"
Keeping this in mind, Pentagram designed it's
new form. What am I talking about?

Question Six
• The first amongst this kind of systems was
installed by Siemens in Germany, for Adolf Hitler
to observe the V2 rocket launch. Robert Goddard,
the head of the project, had invited Hitler to the
grounds, but he wanted to have a closer look at
the rocket being launched. An engineer, Walter
Bruch, suggested the use of this system to
transmit the signal to Berlin, which was also being
used to map the trajectory of the rocket. Which
technology?

Question Seven
• "Let us join this mass movement towards
Surajaya, and realise the hopes and aspirations
of the people and take india to greater heights!"
• This was a part of Narendra Modi's speech when
he launched a government programme to bridge
the gap between the people the government.
What was this about?

"This Round is a Game Changer"
-Says Every Quizmaster Now
Round Six
"Last Round"
-Jhulewala

Question One
• X was a huge fan of a game by Y. In fact, such a huge fan, that X
named one of his family member after the lead character in Z.
• A petition to include a memorial dedicated to X in a future outing
for video game character Z has reached over 100,000
signatures.
• The online petition reads, "X was an avid player of video games,
with a love for all things Y, and a particular love of all things Z.
• A similar Change.org petition, which ran last week, has
successfuly ensured X will appear as an NPC (Non-Playing
Character) in World of Warcraft.

• X -> Robin Williams
• Y -> Nintendo
• Z -> Legend of Zelda

Question Two
• X is a new technology review website founded by
Y, a reputed technology journalist who worked for
The Wall Street Journal for over 40 years. He is
famous for his weekly technology columns, and
television interviews.
He hosted one of the most famous interviews in
the tech world at a conference organized by All
Things Digital in 2005, with Steve Jobs and Z.

• X Re/code
• Y Walt Mossberg
• Z Bill Gates

Question Three
• Z, a company founded by X and Krispian Lawrence with the
aim of taking wearable technology to the people recently
unveiled a new product Y (world's first interactive footwear),
named after the Hindi word for "take me there". Y was
started in 2010 with a simple sketch and an Arduino
prototype. The unobtrusive design of Y is its most
significant feature. The system comprises of a mechanism
that condenses complex geographical navigational
information and lets the user feel the directional and
proximity information through vibrations which even acts as
a navigation aid for the blind. Y sync over Bluetooth to an
app that pulls your path from Google Maps

answer
• X --> Anirudh Sharma
• Y --> Lechal
• Z --> Ducere Technologies

Question four
• X appeared at the kickoff event for the 2011 FIRST Robotics Competition,
Logo Motion held at Southern New Hampshire University. He stated that he
is "a big fan", and that the newly unveiled game was "dope".
• In January 2011, Y named X as director of creative innovation, with input in
developing smartphones, tablets and laptops.In January 2012, he appeared
on the BBC TV series Top Gear, as the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car,
where he revealed he will be starting his own car company called Z.
• Expanding his forays into iPhone accessory development, X has announced
plans to release a camera enhancer that will "dramatically enhance the
clarity and definition of iPhone photographs,". X also revealed his own
smartwatch during the final episode of The Voice on Saturday. X also
promised that he will create robot dogs that sing and dance in time for
Christmas

answer
• X --> will.i.am
• Y --> intel
• Z --> IAMAUTO

Question 5
• In 2008, X was named to the MIT Technology Review TR35 as one
of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35.For 2012,
The Wall Street Journal gave him the "Innovator of the Year Award"
for technology.
• Some of the open source software he created when he was 13 is still
used by many taxi cab companies. X also started his company to
dispatch couriers, taxis, and emergency services from the Web.
• When he first saw implementations of a technology, X wondered
whether the software's user status output could be shared.
• He approached Y, which at the time happened to be interested in the
same thing.
• The idea attracted many users at Y and investment from Z who had
left Google after selling it Pyra Labs and Blogger.
• The current CEO of this company is the founder of Feedburner

• X Jack dorsey
• Y Odeo
• Z Evan Williams

“End of quiz”
–Sir Jo na tha Ive

Question Four
• Ad taken out
by customers
of a company
for whom?

Question 6
• The X video game burial was a mass burial of unsold video game
cartridges, consoles, and computers in a New Mexico landfill site,
undertaken by X in 1983 whose founder is Y and Ted Dabney
• The goods disposed of through the burial are generally believed to
have been unsold copies of Z, a game which had become one of
the biggest commercial failures in video gaming and is often cited
as one of the worst video games ever released; and a port of Pac-
Man, which had been commercially successful but critically
maligned.
• A documentary was filmed and the site was excavated by Fuel
Industries and Microsoft which plans to air the documentary.

• Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson were two engineers who had been
working at MIT Lincoln Laboratory on the lab's various computer
projects.These had started in 1944 with the famed Whirlwind which
was originally developed to make a flight simulator for the US Navy,
although this was never completed. When the Air Force project wound
down, the Lab turned their attention to an effort to build a version of the
Whirlwind using transistors in place of vacuum tubes. In order to test
their new circuitry, they first built a small 18-bit machine known as TX-0
which first ran in 1956. At MIT, Olsen and Anderson noticed something
odd: students would line up for hours to get a turn to use the stripped-down
TX-0, while largely ignoring a faster IBM machine that was also
available. One of their most famous products is this :

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