TechnoBuzz - Tech Quiz

TechnoBuzz’19
Researched and Conducted by Akanksha Singh

Rules:
● Total 20 questions
● Each part carries 1 mark
● Q. 5,10,15 and 20 are star marked(*) and they’ll be used to
break ties if any
● Questions are mostly simple. No negatives. Mast guess karo
● Use of any electronic device will lead to immediate
disqualification
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Q.1
X is Latin for "bond", "fetter", "chain", or "tie", which is suggestive of some of
the uses of the symbol. In anatomy it’s a connecting band of tissue, such as
that attaching a flexor tendon to the bone of a finger or toe.
Some usage are as follows:
What is it called?
5

Q.2
The X, a computer worm was written by a Dutch programmer named Jan de
Wit. It was designed to trick email users into opening a mail message
purportedly containing a picture of a woman, while actually hiding a
malicious program. “Here you have.;0)” was the subject line of the email. In
the Friends episode "The One in Barbados, Part One", Ross Geller's laptop
was infected by the X worm when Chandler Bing checked his email on it.
The version of the worm in the episode was more malicious than the real
thing, as it deleted Ross' entire hard drive, including his speech on
paleontology, when it was opened.
Identify this virus which is named after a very famous sportswoman
7

Q.3
X and Y used to film pop-culture spoofs, which they would then air
internally in the company. These short masterpieces—which include
parodies of “Night at the Roxbury” and “The Matrix” have leaked
online throughout the years. Images in the next slide are from
reenactment of Mike Meyer’s 007 spoof Austin Powers in which X
appeared as Austin Powers and Y appeared as Dr. Evil.
Id both the personalities.
(images in next slide)
9

Bill Gates and Steve
BallmerAnswer:

Q.4
His occupation as mentioned on wikipedia is Records and Information
officer. He started something in 2006 while a senior at the College of
William & Mary and has contributed almost one third in database of that
site. He recently came into limelight on January 26th by an interview on
CBS. Identify him and also tell his claim to fame?
12

Steven Pruitt, most
wikipedia contributionsAnswer:

Q.5
X effect is the result of default setting on Modern TVs that creates and interpolates
additional frames in between the existing ones in order to produce a sharp and crisp
image of the action being taking place on screen.
This can come in handy when it comes to fast-paced sports events, but when applied to
most narrative work this silky motion blur is so noticeable that cinematic work just
disappears. It is called X, in reference to the distinctive appearance of most pre-2000s
works which were shot using 60i video rather than film(24fps). Many directors have
already filed a petition to stop making ‘smooth motion’ a default setting in all HDTVs.
Recently Tom Cruise also posted a video on twitter explaining the same.
Identify this effect which makes cinematic movies look more like cheap Youtube videos.
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Q.6 ‘Threat de Toilette’ is range of perfumes which comes in different scents
like Social Engoir, Mal-wear, Ransom and Phish. The company claims
that the perfume “smells like fear” and serves as a reminder that users
need to protect themselves from online threats.
Which Russian software company is behind this?
16

Q.7
What from the world of
programming has been blanked
out here?
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Q.8
Which famous tech
entrepreneur is this book
based on?
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Q.9 There’s no definitive origin story of X, but one belief is that in 14th-
century, Latin began to abbreviate the term for weight and used a
bar called title to denote the letters were connected. As people
began to write more quickly, the letters and the title became
amalgamated, eventually morphing into the symbol we see today.
In order to complete a square keypad with 10 digits (including 0),
mobile phone companies added X as well.
It was an AT&T employee Don MacPherson who thought the X
needed a more official name, so he chose Y-Portmanteau of two
words, one denoting no. of points in X and another is last name of
his favorite footballer Jim. Id this very common symbol and its not
so common name.
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Q.10
Picasso’s 1934 painting “Two Characters” is said to have inspired
logo of a default software in Mac. Which one?
24

Q.11
What are these?
Black(BSOD)) in Windows 3.x
Red(RSOD) in Windows 98 and Vista
Green(GSOD) in Xbox one
Purple(PSOD) in VMWare ESX/ESXi Server
Gray(GSOD) in Microsoft Surface
White(WSOD) in iphone 5 and other
Yellow(YSOD) in Mozilla firefox
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Q.12
ID him and what is his claim to fame?
28

Harish Natarajan who
won debate against AIAnswer:

Q.13
Connect this thing from the world of
literature to Yahoo’s web
translation service and google’s
pixel earbuds.
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Q.14
Who tweeted this and on whose 13th birthday?
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Wikipedia on Twitter’s
Birthday
Answer:

Q.15 This effect or syndrome occurs when people devote a lot of time and attention to an
activity that it begins to pattern their thoughts, mental images, and dreams. It takes
its name from a very popular video game. The game has been noted to cause the
brain to involuntarily picture combinations even when the player is not playing.
People who play the game for a prolonged amount of time could find themselves
thinking about ways different things in the real world can fit together.
The poem "Boots" by Rudyard Kipling describes the effect, resulting from repetitive
visual experience during a route march:
’Tain’t—so—bad—by—day because o’ company,
But—night—brings—long—strings—o’ forty thousand million
Boots—boots—boots—boots—movin’ up an’ down again.
There’s no discharge in the war!
— Rudyard Kipling, Boots
Which effect am I talking about?
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Q.16
The coordinates 0°N 0°E were initially used to flag
errors in process of geocoding but some geocoding
errors resulted in an imaginary island located at 0°N 0°E
(hence the name) in the South Atlantic Ocean. This point
is where the equator meets the prime meridian. The
name 'X Island' serves as both a joke based around the
suppositional existence of an island there, and also as a
name to which coordinates erroneously set to 0,0 are
assigned in place names databases in order to more
easily find and fix them. The name will also remind you
of something from the world of programming. What?
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Q.17 X syndrome (where full form of "X" makes the phrase "X syndrome"
self-referential) is the use of one or more of the words that make up
an acronym (or other initialism) in conjunction with the abbreviated
form.
ID X
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RAS(Redundant Acronym
Syndrome) syndromeAnswer:

Q.18
Among the oldest known examples of this art are the creations by
computer-art pioneer Kenneth Knowlton from around 1966, who was
working for Bell Labs at the time. Earlier typewriters were used for
creating this kind of visual art. This art can be created with any text
editor, and is often used with free-form languages. What is it called?
40

Q.19
A lot of companies are famous for the clever naming of meeting/conference
rooms in their offices. Two of which are as follows-
WTF, LOL, OMG, WIN, Emojis (❤️ 💩 😉 😍)
And
Birds (Canary, Dove, Raven, Mallard, Falcon, Chick, Ostrich, Thrasher, Penguin,
Peacock, Seagull, Lapwing, Nightingale, Bluebird)
The birds are an homage to their logo and their beginnings as a company
(2 Part ques)
Name both companies.
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Q.20
◇ Cool Site of the Day originally maintained by Glenn Davis, is an early website created
in August 1994. As the name suggests the site used to feature coolest site everyday.
It’s still functional and owned by Mike Corso.
◇ In time of it’s first anniversary Davis inaugurated the Cool Site Of The Year award
which was first produced by Kay Dangaard and presented at the Hollywood
Roosevelt Hotel as a nod to the first site of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences (Oscars) Hollywood, California, in August 1995. An email poll was
conducted to shortlist five websites that had previously been distinguished as a cool
site. The first award was won by The Spot.
How do we know this award today?
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Rules:
Total 3 rounds
Round 1 - Pounce(8 Ques)
Round 2 - Bidding(8 Ques)
Round 3 - Buzzer(10 Ques)
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Round - 1
Number of questions - 8
Direct +10
Pounce +15/-10
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Q.1
This is an earth installation at Bicentennial Park on the
Athens campus of Ohio University which was designed by
Maya Lin known for her design for Vietnam Veterans
Memorial in Washington, D.C. The installation has 21
rectangles, some raised and some sink into the ground.
Titled ‘Input’ it resembles something which was widely
used in the 20th century in data processing industry.
What?
49

Resembles Punch Cards
when seen from airAnswer:

Q.2
X was initially designed to represent a “software agent” that performed tasks for the
user and was first used in personal digital assistant (PDA) device named Star7.
X looks pretty weird with pointy black head, no eyes and a big round red nose. He
has a very wide bottom and black hands. It’s mostly seen in a waving pose.
The credit for creation of this mascot goes to Joe Palrang who later went on to work
for DreamWorks on animated films like Shrek, Antz and Flushed Away. A comic ‘The
Amazing Adventures of X‘ was released in 1996, where he was dubbed “the Net’s
Smoothest Code Man”.
A new X personality is created every year.
Which famous mascot am I talking about?
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Q.3
◇ Abba "Abbatar" tour will take place either in 2019 0r
2020.
◇ Simon Fuller, creator of American Idol and So You Think
You Can Dance, has been working with the group for
this unique tour.
◇ “We’re inspired by the limitless possibilities of what the
future holds and are loving being a part of creating
something new and dramatic here,” Andersson
previously said of the project. And technology will play
an important role in taking the members back in time
when they were young.
◇ What’s unique about this “ABBAtar” tour or what
technology will play an important role in this tour?
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Q.4 ◇ Sunspring is a 2016 experimental short film created by BAFTA
nominated director Oscar Sharp. It narrates the story of three
people - H (Thomas Middleditch), H2 (Grey), and C (Ker). The
script was written by Benjamin who is first of its kind in this
industry.
◇ Oscar originally created this film for the 48hr Film Challenge
contest of Sci-Fi-London, a film festival which focuses on
science fiction. For the challenge, contestants are given a set
of prompts (mostly props and lines) that have to appear in a
movie they make over the next two days. It eventually
contested in the festival and was nominated among the final
top ten films.
What made this sci-fi film unique?
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First movie entirely
written by A.I(Benjamin)Answer:

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Audience Question
64
What has been blanked out
in this image?

Q.5
Shaan Sahota, a young girl, appeared in a music video “Sweet Lullaby”
which was directed by her uncle “Tarsem Singh”. A small part from this
music video where Shaan is seen opening her closed eyes, as if making a
wish was used in something iconic created in 1980s. She by this clip
became part of something iconic which featured 17 very famous
personalities of 20th Century. Where did she appear?
(Video clip of Shaan)
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Apple’s ‘Think Different’
CampaignAnswer:

Q.6
According to one answer on quora by one of the
creator of this iconic tool
“We chose it because it's a tree drawn the way that
computer scientists draw trees. We were hoping to
find a Calder mobile with both red plates and black
plates, but we couldn't find one. We found one with
red, black, and yellow, but that wouldn't do. You might
wonder why we couldn't just recolor some of the red
plates to make them black. We're not allowed to; the
permission granted by the Calder estate requires us
to not alter the image.”
Hence “Big Red” by Alexander Calder was chosen.
Where have you seen this famous work?
71

Introduction to Algorithms
by
CLRS Book
Answer:

Q.7
In filmography X were used to help the lab technician calibrate their
equipment while processing the film and get the colors right. The term X has
nothing to do with the race and it is actually a reference to the mannequins
made of porcelain, filmmakers used in this function, and eventually came to
refer to the live models who posed for these test shots as well. It’s
photography equivalent is Y which is named after the original model, who
was an employee of Kodak. Y was used by photo labs to calibrate skin tones,
shadows and light during the printing process.
Identify X and Y.
74

China Girls, Shirley
CardsAnswer:

Q.8
X is a rock band made up of four British Members of Parliament. The band was
founded as Y in 2004 by Pete Wishart (Scottish National Party) on keyboards, Ian
Cawsey (The former Labour MP) on bass guitar and vocals, and Sir Greg Knight
(Conservative) on drums. They were later joined by Kevin Brennan (Labour Party)
on guitar, and changed their name to reflect this. X and Y will remind you of very
popular filename extensions/formats. Id X and Y.
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“
Audience Question
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#DirectFromTheTextbook
Reactive risk strategies in software programming have been laughingly
called the ‘X school of risk management’. In the 1980s-era movies that
carried his name, X when faced with overwhelming difficulty, would
invariably say, “Don’t worry. I’ll think of something”. Similarly, software
project teams are ready with resources but do nothing about risk until
something goes wrong. Id X with whom this risk management strategy
has been compared to.

Rules
◇ Number of questions - 8
◇ All teams will get a chance to choose a category and
points they want to play for
◇ Teams can choose a category and bid for +10/-
5,+20/-10 points before seeing the question of that
category
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Movies
Surprise
Entrepreneur
Fiction
Software
Video Games
Connect
News

Q.1 Apart from appearing in Movies like Machete Kills, Why him? And
many others. This person has produced following movies and
documentaries.
◇ The Rider and The Storm (Documentary short) (executive
producer)
◇ Baseball in the Time of Cholera (Documentary short)
(executive producer)
◇ Dumbstruck (Documentary) (executive producer)
◇ Thank You for Smoking (executive producer)
◇ Puzzled (executive producer)
Identify him
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Elon MuskAnswer:
Click here to go back

Q.2
X is one of Y’s oldest features. It existed at a time when the Y was called
TheY, and there wasn’t as much to do on the site as there is today. The
meaning of the X was never defined, as Y decided to leave it up to
interpretation.
“When we created the X, we thought it would be cool to have a feature
without any specific purpose,” Y had explained in the past. “People
interpret X in many different ways, and we encourage you to come up
with your own meanings.” Many people saw X to be a form of virtual
flirting while others saw it as more of a joke. Which not so useful
feature on Y’s platform am I talking about?
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Poke feature on
FacebookAnswer:

Q.3
Identify this famous entrepreneur
and her company which recently
entered in India.
91

Whitney Wolfe of
BumbleAnswer:

Q.4
The first use of the word X was a play Rossum's Universal written
in 1920 and first performed in Czechoslovakia in 1921.
In an article in the Czech Lidové noviny in 1933 the writer also explains
that he originally wanted to call the creatures from the Latin word
for labor but he found the word too bookish and sought advice from his
brother Josef who suggested to call them "X". The word, which is always
capitalized in his play, derives from a word which means "drudgery" in
Czech and means "work" in Slovak.)
Which term originated from this?
94

RobotAnswer:

Q.5
cola is any cola soft drink produced according to a published
and shareable recipe. Unlike the secretive Coca-Cola formula, the recipes
are openly published and their re-use is encouraged. X is this type of cola
which was launched in 2001 by a software company to promote their
software concept.
“Our Beer” is a danish brand which is also first such brand whose recipe is
available for free. It was also launched to promote a software movement.
Which movement/What is the name of this cola?
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Open Source Cola,
Open Source MovementAnswer:

Q.6 This gene was discovered at Harvard in 1978 in fruit flies, and was named
accordingly just before the game was released in the US.
SHH is one of the three genes in the gene family. These three genes
have a spiky appearance, almost resembling the gaming character’s spikes.
The name was conceived by Dr Robert Riddle. He found the name in a
comic book that his daughter recently brought home.
Identify the character after whom this gene is named.
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Sonic the hedgehogAnswer:

Q.7
Connect :
The Underthinkers
Mojave Aerospace Ventures
103

Paul AllenAnswer:

Q.8
With whom will you connect Bad Blood: Secrets
and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup book and a
recent documentary The Inventor: Out for Blood in
Silicon Valley,?
106

Elizabeth Holmes of
TheranosAnswer:

Rules
◇ Number of questions - 10
Scoring +10/-10
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Q.1
Given in image is logo of a
programming language named
after the first programmer. What is
it called?
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Ada named after Lady
Ada LovelaceAnswer:

Q.2
X Cola is a soft drink certified by The Fairtrade
Foundation. It is named after the African philosophy
of X, which means humanity or fellow feeling;
kindness.
What is it’s name?
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Q.3
Where have you seen these 72 names together at one
place?
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Q.4
Which company some years back got patent for “White background
photography”?
120

Q.5
◇ Wildebeest is an antelope found in
Africa.
◇ The black wildebeest is depicted on
the coat of arms of the Province of
Natal in South Africa.
◇ Michael Flanders wrote a humorous
song called "The X", which was very
popular when he performed it, with
Donald Swann, in a revue called At the
Drop of a Hat, which opened in London
on 31 December 1956.
◇ This song inspired someone to name
something after this animal. What?
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“
Audience Question
126
Shown in the image is
poster of a movie called
The Fifth Estate. Which
famous personality did
Benedict Cumberbatch
portray in this movie?

Q.6
On whose birth anniversary did this doodle appear and
what first is this?
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Johann Christian Bach
First A.I DoodleAnswer:

Q.7
Connect
● Miles Davis
● Charles Mingus
● Billy Strayhorn
● Duke Ellington
● Ella Fitzgerald
● Stan Getz
● Michael Brecker
● McCoy Tyner
131

Wordpress version
codenamesAnswer:

Q.8
Founded by Russell Noftsker in 1980, Symbolics was a computer
manufacturer. They designed and manufactured a line of Lisp machines,
single-user computers optimized to run the Lisp programming language.
It’s research and development staff (first at MIT, and then later at the
company) produced a number of major innovations in software technology
but company didn’t last long and got defunct in 1996.
In the world of Internet it made a mark by being first at something. What?
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First domain name
registered on InternetAnswer:

X’s logo is a hollow "puzzle potato" which is a parody of a famous website Y. A
typical caption in all of it’s articles reads, "For those without comedic tastes,
the so-called experts at Y have an article about [subject in question]."
X was created in 2005 by Chronarion and Stillwaters (not their real names)
and it was later acquired by Y’s parent company.
Id X
Q.9
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“
Audience Question
140
Identify the book and author

Ans.
Hit Refresh by Satya
Nadella
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Q.10
This geometric sans-serif type was developed between 1924 and 1926 by
German designer Paul Renner. It was inspired by the modernist Bauhaus
school of design, which believed in dispensing with unnecessary clutter and
ornamentation.
This font was chosen for the commemorative plaque left on the moon in
1969 by the astronauts of Apollo 11.
◇ It is also very popular with filmmakers and was used extensively by
Stanley Kubrick in the credits and artwork for his films 2001: A Space
Odyssey and Eyes Wide Shut, and also in Wes Anderson films such as
The Royal Tenenbaums.
◇ Today it can be seen on Absolut Vodka bottles, in a modified form on the
Domino Pizza’s logo, and on Red Bull energy drinks.
Which font?
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Q.1
X is a chrome extension that helps you to be more productive. Fewer Ys =
happy X . More Ys = angry X.
Name X is a pun on Z, which is a handheld digital pet, created in Japan by
Akihiro Yokoi of WiZ and Aki Maita of Bandai. ID X and tell how this chrome
extension helps in increasing your productivity.
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Tabogatchi, Closing tabs
on browserAnswer:

Q.2
This device created by Minnesota
based manufacturer Ideal Conceal,
According to The Times, Ideal
Conceal has already received
12,000 pre-orders for the device,
which costs $395 (£325, €375) and
is due to begin shipping during the
first quarter of 2017. What is so
special about the device?
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Q.3 This is August,1981 full page ad run
by Apple in Wall Street Journal
welcoming which company to
personal computer marketplace.
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