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1. TechTryst

2. PRELIMS
• 15 questions in the field of Science and
Technology
• Round 2 will begin after these questions.
• They are fairly simple; No need to break your
heads over them.
• Questions 1,4,7 and 12 are starred questions,
which will come into play if there are any tie-
breakers required.

3. 1*
• Till a couple of centuries ago, Aluminium was one of
the most expensive substances on earth, though it
was found abundantly. Bars of aluminium were
displayed alongside French Crown jewels at the
Exposition Universelle in 1855, and Napoleon used to
give his most important guests aluminium cutlery,
and the less worthy ones got to dine with just mere
silver.
We all know aluminium is very cheap now. What
caused this massive and permanent decline in it's
value?

4. • Discovery of electricity

5. 2 • This online game by matchmaker shaadi.com ,
inspired by a more popular game, targets
illegal dowry demanding grooms who are
attacked corresponding to the dowry they
demand. What game?

7. Angry Brides

8. 3 • What is this type of art known as?

9. • Farmville Art

10. • Simple. What is this Tamil movie poster
4* ‘inspired’ (read copied) from?

11. Assassin’s Creed

12. 5
• A X is a supernatural being in Norse
mythology and Scandinavian folklore. In
origin, the term X was a generally negative
synonym for a jötunn (plural jötnar), a being
in Norse mythology. In Old Norse sources,
beings described as X dwell in isolated rocks,
mountains, or caves, live together in small
family units, and are rarely helpful to human
beings.
• Which internet terminology?

13. Troll

14. 6
• The Calcutta High Court has passed an injunction
order to all ISP’s and mobile services providers for
banning website X. Phonographic Performance
Ltd, The Indian Music Industry and Sagarika Music
Pvt Ltd are seeking a restraint on this site.
• As per the ruling, “All ISP’s have been directed to
block access to the website X by DNS name
blocking, IP address blocking via routers and DPI
based URL blocking.”

15. Songs.pk

16. 7*
• Earliest Logo of what? I’ve edited out the full
name for obvious reasons. Their current logo
takes inspiration from this and has some
added elements to it.

17. WINDOWS

18. 8
• X’s launch was accompanied by a television
commercial emphasizing its main feature. In the
commercial a hand unthreads a manila envelope
and slides it out, then opens it to wake it from
sleep. The music playing is "New Soul" by Yael
Naïm.
Connect this with ‘Adamo’, the word which is
Latin for "I fall in love with“.

19. • MacBook Air
• World’s thinnest laptop

20. • Neil deGrasse Tyson (born October 5, 1958) is an
American astrophysicist and science communicator. He is 9
currently the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden
Planetarium , and a Research Associate in the Department
of Astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural
History. He will be hosting a new sequel to Carl
Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage TV series.
• Voted the Sexiest Astrophysicist Alive, People Magazine in
the year 2000, what caused his popularity to dip
drastically in the year 2006? It sort of got revived again
with the spread of this meme.

21. • Demotion of pluto

22. 10
• Logo of?

23. • Copyleft

24. 11
• Raghu Rai’s was in black & white and from the
front; he was facing it.
• Paolo Bartholomew’s was in colour and from
the side.
• The eyes were blue. Sand and gravel all
around. The hand is of the father.
• What?

25. Bhopal Gas Tragedy Iconic Photo

26. 12*
The name of this immensely famous
product, involving Blinky, Pinky, Inky, Clyde and
________, comes from a Japanese onomatopoeia
used for noisy eating.
Upon its release, the product and
subsequently, ________ derivatives became a social
phenomenon that sold a bevy of merchandise and
also inspired, among other things, an animated
television series and a top-ten hit single.
What product are we talking about?

27. PACMAN

28. 13

29. • Pottermore

30. 14
• Wolfgang Pauli imagined its existence and called
it something (let's term this variable 'X'). James
Chadwick was chasing something else; he called
the other as 'X' as well.
• The Italian Enrico Fermi decided to do something
about this confusion. Since what Chadwick found
was bigger than what Pauli thought about, Fermi
added the Italian suffix that means "little one" to
Pauli’s X, thus giving the word 'Y‘ for it.
• So what are 'X' and 'Y'?

31. • X – Neutron
• Y - Neutrino

32. 15
• Who’s he talking to?

33. • Siri

34. FINALS

35. WRITTEN ROUND
• Four questions
• 1 point each
• All are Google products

36. 1

37. 2

38. 3

39. 4

40. Exchange sheets

41. Answers
1. Google Patents
2. Google StreetView
3. Google Internet Bus
4. Google Gulp

42. INFINITE BOUNCE
• 34 Questions in Sci-Tech and Biz
• +2 for each question

43. • The website of this tongue-in-cheek award notes : "Of necessity, the
award is usually bestowed posthumously." But the candidate is
disqualified if innocent bystanders are killed in the process of his
1
'attempt'.
• Previous winners of this award include :
i. A man who Juggled live hand grenades
ii. A man who left a lit cigarette in a warehouse full of explosives
iii. Three Palestinian terrorists accidentally blown up by their own
bombs set on Palestinian daylight saving time, one hour ahead of
the local time
iv. A man who jumped out of a plane to film skydivers without wearing
a parachute
v. A woman who tried to play Russian roulette with a semi-automatic
pistol that automatically loads the next round into the chamber
vi. A man who crashed through a window and falling to death in trying
to demonstrate that the window was unbreakable

45. • Darwin Awards

46. 2• Who’s desk?

48. • Mark Zuckerberg’s, when Facebook’s IPO was
out.

49. • “X” is a criticism of slide-based presentations referring to a
state of boredom and fatigue induced by information
overload during conferences and seminars such as those
created by the application ___________. The phrase was 3
first coined by Angela R. Garber. Further criticisms of the
cognitive effects of ___________ have been expounded by
others, for example, Edward Tufte (2006)and Kalyuga et al.
(1991). Wright (2009) suggests _______________ is a
convenient prop for poor speakers, it can reduce
complicated messages to simple bullet points and it
elevates style over substance; and that these three things
contribute to its popularity.
The Anti ____________ Party (founded in May 2011) is a
Swiss political party dedicated to decrease professional use
of __________ and other such software, which the party
claims "causes national-economic damage amounting to
2.1 billion CHF" and lowers the quality of a talk in "95 % of
the cases". The party advocates flip charts as an alternative
to ______________.
• (Hint next slide)

52. • Death By Powerpoint

53. 4
• When Margaret Thatcher was elected Britain's
first female Prime Minister on May 4, 1979,
her party placed an advertisement in The
London Evening News that said:
"_____________________________, Maggie.
Congratulations.“, in reference to a famous
entertainment phenom X. This was quite a
surprising revelation to fans of X, that it led to
them starting an annual tradition on May 4th,
and is celebrated every year hence. FITB.

55. • May The Fourth Be With You

56. 5
• X is an informal term for the community of
American businesspeople and investors
centered in Silicon Valley, who were founders
or early employees of e-commerce service
PayPal before founding a series of other
technology companies. They are often
credited with inspiring Web 2.0, and for the
re-emergence of consumer-focused Internet
companies after the dot com bust of 2001.

58. • PayPal Mafia

59. 6
• Bowser, even sometimes called King Koopa is
the boss. Bowser’s iconic features include
spikes, horns, and a shock of red hair. Bowser
is physically powerful, can breathe fire, and is
said to have skills in black magic.
• Who are King Koopa's Troopers?

62. 7
• X is a multinational computer hardware and
electronics company headquartered in
Taipei, Taiwan. It is named after a mythical
creature Y. X was originally named after Y but
later on it dropped the first three letters of Y
to get a high position in alphabetical listings.
In 2008 a company ____atron containing
those three letters was spun off by X.
X and Y.

64. • Asus and Pegasus

65. 8

67. • Yakshi and Yakshini – consorts and guardians
of Kuber

68. 9

70. • Schrodinger’s Cat and Pavlov’s Dog

71. 10
• This law inspired Wetriffs.com, an xkcd spinoff in which
people play guitar naked in the shower.
• The law started with somethingawful.com user Electric
Eggs, whose drawing illustrating this phenomenon was
subtitled "the internet - raping your childhood since
1996"
and features a lewd illustration invoving Calvin and
Hobbes.
• Biblical figures, Tetris, Redwall, Final Fantasy, Imperial
Walkers and an extensive collection of Star Wars,
Pokemon, Digimon validate this internet law.

74. 11

76. • George de Hevesy dissolving von Laue’s Nobel
Prize in Aqua Regia to save it from Nazis

77. 12
• X is the practice of purchasing enough shares in a
firm to threaten a takeover and thereby forcing
the target firm to buy those shares back at a
premium in order to suspend the takeover.
• The term is a neologism derived from a word for
threat and a slang word for money; as this
practice of corporate raiders were attempts by
well-financed individuals to blackmail a company
into handing over money by using the threat of a
takeover.

79. • Greenmail or Greenmailing

80. • X is first encountered by humans in the year 13
2131, when it enters the solar system at a speed
and heading that will take it on a 'slingshot' course
around the sun and back out into deep space.
• It is initially mistaken for a giant asteroid when first
detected by SPACEGUARD, an automated radar net
designed to warn Earth of potential impact threats.
Its first designation is therefore a database code:
"31/439".
• Still believing it to be an asteroid, astronomers give
31/439 a proper name due to its size. Following
the tradition of naming celestial objects after
mythological figures, 31/439 becomes "X“, because
by this time, all the names of Greek and Roman
mythological figures have been used up.

83. 14
• Inspiration for what?

86. 15
• Video. What happens next?

89. 17
• Who’s gravesite?

91. • Erwin Schrodinger

92. 18. Connect

94. • Edsger Dijsktra

95. 19
• The Magdeburg hemispheres are a pair of large
copper hemispheres with mating rims, used to
demonstrate the power of atmospheric pressure.
When the rims were sealed with grease and the
air was pumped out, the sphere contained
a vacuum and could not be pulled apart by teams
of horses.
• The Magdeburg hemisphere experiment was
designed by a German scientist and mayor
of Magdeburg <PIC IN NEXT SLIDE>
• Which TWO brands logos are inspired by this
experiment?

99. 20
• This is a photo taken in the Polish Parliament
recently. What was the cause?

101. • Protest against ACTA - The Anti-Counterfeiting
Trade Agreement

102. 21
• This film was first introduced to the internet in a
2005 post in Josh Friedman's blog, nearly a year
before it came out.
• Nicknamed Soap, it's inane title and plot
summary led to the creation of numerous
fansites and videos nearly a yr before its release.
Viral trailer spoofs made this movie into an
internet meme that became so influential that it
actually prompted changes to the movie.
• Sharing it's name with a song by Cobra Starship,
what film starring Samuel L Jackson, who’s had it
with these motherfucking questions.

105. 22
• A few days back HCL Infosystems, beat TCS in
a bidding war to win a 0.5 billion $ contract to
run the IT infrastructure of X.

107. • Aadhar

108. 23
• X is a web application that uses an artificial intelligence
algorithm to hold conversations with humans. It was
created in 1988 by AI scientist Rollo Carpenter, who also
created Jabberwacky, a similar web application.
• In the first decade of its existence, X held several thousand
conversations with Carpenter and his associates. Since
being launched on the web in 1997, the number of
conversations has exceeded 65 million.
• X took part alongside humans in a formal Turing Test at the
2011 Techniche festival IIT Guwahati on September 3, 2011.
Out of the 1,334 votes cast, X was judged to be 59.3%
human, compared to the rating of 63.3% human achieved
by the actual humans. A score of 50% or higher is often
considered to be a pass of the Turing Test.

110. • Bonus Point?

111. 24
• Because of its top level domain name, this
country has earned the notoriety for being
associated with the most no of phishing sites
on the internet. Which?

113. • Cameroon.
• .cm, very close to .com

114. 25
• Corning experimented with chemically strengthened
glass in 1960, as part of an initiative called "Project
Muscle". Within a few years it had developed what it
named "Chemcor”. However it was never put into mass
production, excepting its use in approximately hundred
Dodge Dart 1968 and Plymouth Barracuda race-cars,
where the reduced weight was key.
• Circa 2006. Y ended up contacting the CEO of Corning,
Wendell Weeks and told him that he needed a light yet
strong enough ____ for use in their new product Z.
Weeks told him of the X that the company had
developed in the 1960s but had since been stalled. Y
convinced Weeks to immediately put it into production
for use in the upcoming product.
• Blank is the predecessor of X.

116. • Y – Steve Jobs
• Z – Apple iPhone
• X – Gorilla Glass

117. 26
• Who is this?

119. • Andrew Wiles
• Proved the Fermat’s Last Theorem

120. 27
• What is blanked out?
<NEXT SLIDE>

123. • Sid Meier

124. 28

126. • V = I*R
• 

127. 29
• Their father ran a photographic firm and both worked
for him; X as a physicist and Y as a manager.
• X had made some improvements to the still-
photograph process, the most notable being the dry-
plate process, which was a major step towards moving
images.
• It was not until their father retired in 1892 that they
began to create moving pictures. They patented a
number of significant processes leading up to their film
camera, most notably film perforations.
• They were the first proponents of ‘moving pictures for
the masses’ and screened their movies in public. There
is an asteroid named after them, and they were even
referred to in the multi-Oscar winning movie Hugo.
Who are they?

129. • Lumiere Brothers

130. 30
• This is a time-lapse image showing what?

132. • Roomba automatic vaccum cleaner

133. 31
• In the late eighteenth century, Johann Jacob
X (1740–1821), a German-born naturalised
Swiss watchmaker and amateur scientist
developed a process to manufacture
carbonated mineral water, based on a process
discovered by Joseph Priestley in 1770, founding
the X Company in Geneva in 1783.
• Its drip marketing campaign made heavy use of
an onomatopoeia in their commercials: “_____....
X," after the sound of the gas escaping as one
opens the bottle.

135. • Schweppes

136. 32
• One of the most controversial FB pages by far, it led to Facebook
being banned temporarily in Pakistan. Dozens of pages and groups
popped up demanding that ths page be taken down, and even one
page calling for the boycott of Facebook itself
Bigger pic next slide

139. • Everybody Draw Mohammed Day

140. 33
• 2011 Bollywood movie
written and directed by
Prawaal Raman,
starring Imaad Shah (son of
Naseeruddin Shah), Nishikant
Kamat, Rajvir Arora, Tisca
Chopra in lead roles, it was a
psychological thriller.
• Though it wasn’t a
commercial hit, it was
critically acclaimed by many
reputed critics including Taran
Adarsh and Sudish Kamat

142. • Room 404

143. 34
• Since the year 2007, FinnAir is official airline
of a person who’s lives in the town of
Rovaniemi in Finland. Ads featuring this
person are used by FinnAir for it’s marketing
campaign annually in 62 countries.
• Who?

145. • Santa Claus

146. TIE BREAKER 1
Connect (inexhaustive) :-
-Theory proving that string-like molecules like DNA,
can become tangled and knotty spontaneously.
- Traps baited with cheese used in strategic
locations in Africa to combat malaria.
- Kellogg's UK creating a new version of Cornflakes
with a guarantee for longer crunchiness.
- Discovery of Graphene.

147. Tie Breaker 2
• This game is named for a pool cue in the "The
Color of Money." When a version of this game
was released on an FTP hosted at University of
Wisconsin, it brought down the school's network.
This game introduced WAD files, making it the
first to allow modders to easily adjust the
content. John Carmack was the lead programmer
for this game, which was developed by John
Romero. Take on the role of an unnamed marine
and fight your way through Phobos, Demos, and
Hell in, what 1993 ID Soft game later made into a
movie starring 'The Rock'?

148. Tie Breaker 3

149. That’s all folks