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The Tech Quiz
Shrinidhi Kulkarni
SJCE Grey Cells
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Prelims The Tech Quiz | SJCE Grey Cells
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Rules
• Every prime numbered question is star marked. These will be
used in case of a tie.
• There are 20 questions.
• All questions are compulsory. Leaving any blank will lead to
negative points.
• Anyone cheating will be punished by God and sent to hell with
dial-up speed Internet.
3

“The scientists of today think deeply instead of
clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but
one can think deeply and be quite insane.”
4

1
• Whose Twitter account description goes like this?
I used to work for the government. Now I work for the public.
Director at @FreedomofPress.
5

2*
Which company made a parody of Alphabet's web address by
buying the domain name abc.wtf and redirecting it to one of their
websites?
6

3*
X is a question answering (QA) computing system that Y built to
apply advanced natural language processing, information
retrieval, knowledge representation, automated reasoning, and
machine learning technologies to the field of open domain
question answering.
7

5*
A X is a testing environment that isolates untested code changes
and/of software development including Web development and revision
control.
The Google X Effect is a theory used to explain why newly-registered
domains or domains with frequent ownership changes rank poorly in
Google Search Engine Results Pages (SERPS). In other words new
websites are put into a “ X ” or a holding area and have their search
ratings on hold until they can prove worthy of ranking.
You might have encountered it on Wikipedia where every user is given
his/her X for testing purposes.
9

6
In 1968, scientist Spencer Silver at 3M company created a very
weak adhesive that would peel off when removed from any
surface. The funny thing was that he was in fact trying to create a
super strong adhesive. No one thought there was any use for
such a product until another scientist, Art Fry, realized that the
little pieces of paper made great book marks for his church songs
without leaving residue on the page. Which famous invention am I
talking about?
10

7*
X was a shock site which presented uncensored news coverage and
multimedia material based for the most part on war, accidents and executions.
Much of the material depicted was graphic, uncensored, gory videos and
images. The content was depicted as a means to challenge the viewer, with
its catch line being "can you handle life?", but later changed to "uncover
reality" after the site received a major design overhaul with aims of becoming
more open to the general public and become a respected "alternative news
service".
Since the beginning of November 2006, X redirects to Y which was registered
in October 2006, featuring mostly user submitted videos and allowing the
embedding of media on other sites.
11

8
God, grant me the serenity to accept the pages I cannot edit,
The courage to edit the pages I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference.
What is the name of the prayer?
12

9
Connect the following games
• Pac-Man
• Tetris
• Another World
• Myst
• SimCity 2000
• vib-ribbon
• The Sims
• KatamariDamacy
• EVE Online
• Dwarf Fortress
• Portal
• flOw
• Passage
• Canabalt
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10
1.Do not give opinions or advice unless you
are asked.
2. Do not tell your troubles to others unless
you are sure they want to hear them.
3. When in another’s lair, show him respect
or else do not go there.
4. If a guest in your lair annoys you, treat him
cruelly and without mercy.
5. Do not make sexual advances unless you
are given the mating signal.
6. Do not take that which does not belong to
you unless it is a burden to the other person
and he cries out to be relieved.
7. Acknowledge the power of magic if you
have employed it successfully to obtain your
desires. If you deny the power of magic after
having called upon it with success, you will
lose all you have obtained.
8. Do not complain about anything to which
you need not subject yourself.
9. Do not harm little children.
10. Do not kill non-human animals unless
you are attacked or for your food.
11. When walking in open territory, bother no
one. If someone bothers you, ask him to
stop. If he does not stop, destroy him.
14

11*
The Industrial design (Product Design) of this device were done
by Professor A G Rao and Professor Ravi Poovaiah both faculty
members at the Industrial Design Centre, IIT Bombay. The
electronics of the device was done by ECIL, HYDERABAD.
These devices were subject of various controversies yet they are
in use.
Which device?
15

12
• What are these called?
16

13*
This is a product of the IT firm 'Innovazion'. According to the CEO
Gagneja, “By building this software, we wanted to...congratulate
the current government. We also want to pass a message to the
government that the nation has high expectations from them.”
Which software is this?
17

14
The material used to make X is an alloy of 2 rare Earth elements.
The estimated cost of the most advanced version of X is a few
hundred million dollars.
Some of the many “unbelievable” features of X are the User
Interface and the computer providing offline support to the person
using X, and the manner in which the energy from the power
source is converted to a stabilized electricity supply to allow the
various components of X to function in the less than ideal
situation in which an X may be used. X?
18

15
In 2007, pharmacies across New Zealand began dispensing a
new formulation of Eltroxin - a thyroid hormone replacement.
Initial reports of side effects of the drug, included eye pain,
itching, and nausea. In the 18 months following the release of the
new tablet, the rate of adverse event reporting rose nearly 2,000-
fold.
The strange thing was, the active ingredient in the drug was
exactly the same. Laboratory testing proved that the new
formulation was equivalent to the old one. The only change was
that the drug-maker had altered the tablets’ size, color, and
markings. What is the scientific phenomenon associated with the
reason for why people were getting sick?
19

16
The reason for this is attributed to the perfectionist characteristic
of Jobs. When Steve Jobs orchestrated the launch event of
iPhone during Macworld 2007, it was a presentation on stage
carried out by Jobs for more than an hour. During such keynote
he starts with some introductory slides, company sales- report
and in the middle of keynote, generally launches a new product
with ads on the big screen on stage.
He wanted all the things to be in sync as per his calculations thus
he asked his design team to tweak every minute detail in order to
match his plan, this led to a common practice which can even be
seen in latest product release. What practice ?
20

17*
How has Chandauli, a village situated 150 miles from Delhi
become one of the most talked about place in the recent days ?
21

18
Category
Oxide mineral
Formula
Aluminium oxide, Al2O3
Color
Typically blue, but varies
Crystal habit
As crystals, massive and granular
Mohs scale hardness
9.0
Luster
Vitreous
Specific gravity
3.95–4.03
Optical properties
Abbe number 72.2
Refractive index
nω=1.768–1.772
nε=1.760–1.763,
Melting point
2,030–2,050 °C
Fusibility
Infusible
Solubility
Insoluble
Other characteristics
Coefficient of thermal expansion (5.0–
6.6)×10−6/K
relative permittivity at 20 °C
ε = 8.9–11.1 (anisotropic)
22

19*
X was first created in 1976 by Phil Foglio. Developer Mike O'Brien,
who was working as a bonded locksmith at the time, opened a wall
safe in Foglio's Chicago apartment after a roommate had "split town"
without leaving the combination.
In return, Foglio agreed to create it for O'Brien, who gave him some
Polaroid snaps of a PDP-11 system running UNIX along with some
notions about visual puns having to do with pipes, demons/daemons,
forks, a "bit bucket" named /dev/null and so on. Foglio's creation
showed four happy little red daemon characters carrying tridents and
climbing about on (or falling off of) water pipes in front of a caricature
of a PDP-11 and was used for the first national UNIX meeting in the
US (which was held in Urbana, Illinois)
23

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25

1
• Whose Twitter account description goes like this?
I used to work for the government. Now I work for the public.
Director at @FreedomofPress.
26

2*
Which company made a parody of Alphabet's web address by
buying the domain name abc.wtf and redirecting it to one of their
websites?
28

3*
X is a question answering (QA) computing system that Y built to
apply advanced natural language processing, information
retrieval, knowledge representation, automated reasoning, and
machine learning technologies to the field of open domain
question answering.
30

5*
A X is a testing environment that isolates untested code changes
and/of software development including Web development and revision
control.
The Google X Effect is a theory used to explain why newly-registered
domains or domains with frequent ownership changes rank poorly in
Google Search Engine Results Pages (SERPS). In other words new
websites are put into a “ X ” or a holding area and have their search
ratings on hold until they can prove worthy of ranking.
You might have encountered it on Wikipedia where every user is given
his/her X for testing purposes.
34

6
In 1968, scientist Spencer Silver at 3M company created a very
weak adhesive that would peel off when removed from any
surface. The funny thing was that he was in fact trying to create a
super strong adhesive.
Which famous invention am I talking about?
36

7*
X was a shock site which presented uncensored news coverage and
multimedia material based for the most part on war, accidents and executions.
Much of the material depicted was graphic, uncensored, gory videos and
images. The content was depicted as a means to challenge the viewer, with
its catch line being "can you handle life?", but later changed to "uncover
reality" after the site received a major design overhaul with aims of becoming
more open to the general public and become a respected "alternative news
service".
Since the beginning of November 2006, X redirects to Y which was registered
in October 2006, featuring mostly user submitted videos and allowing the
embedding of media on other sites.
38

8
God, grant me the serenity to accept the pages I cannot edit,
The courage to edit the pages I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference.
What is the name of the prayer?
40

9
Connect the following games
• Pac-Man
• Tetris
• Another World
• Myst
• SimCity 2000
• vib-ribbon
• The Sims
• KatamariDamacy
• EVE Online
• Dwarf Fortress
• Portal
• flOw
• Passage
• Canabalt
42

The only 14 games in the Museum of
Modern Art
43

10
1.Do not give opinions or advice unless you
are asked.
2. Do not tell your troubles to others unless
you are sure they want to hear them.
3. When in another’s lair, show him respect
or else do not go there.
4. If a guest in your lair annoys you, treat him
cruelly and without mercy.
5. Do not make sexual advances unless you
are given the mating signal.
6. Do not take that which does not belong to
you unless it is a burden to the other person
and he cries out to be relieved.
7. Acknowledge the power of magic if you
have employed it successfully to obtain your
desires. If you deny the power of magic after
having called upon it with success, you will
lose all you have obtained.
8. Do not complain about anything to which
you need not subject yourself.
9. Do not harm little children.
10. Do not kill non-human animals unless
you are attacked or for your food.
11. When walking in open territory, bother no
one. If someone bothers you, ask him to
stop. If he does not stop, destroy him.
44

11*
The Industrial design (Product Design) of this device were done
by Professor A G Rao and Professor Ravi Poovaiah both faculty
members at the Industrial Design Centre, IIT Bombay. The
electronics of the device was done by ECIL, HYDERABAD.
These devices were subject of various controversies yet they are
in use.
Which device?
46

12
• What are these called?
48

13*
This is a product of the IT firm 'Innovazion'. According to the CEO
Gagneja, “By building this software, we wanted to...congratulate
the current government. We also want to pass a message to the
government that the nation has high expectations from them.”
Which software is this?
50

14
The material used to make X is an alloy of 2 rare Earth elements.
The estimated cost of the most advanced version of X is a few
hundred million dollars.
Some of the many “unbelievable” features of X are the User
Interface and the computer providing offline support to the person
using X, and the manner in which the energy from the power
source is converted to a stabilized electricity supply to allow the
various components of X to function in the less than ideal
situation in which an X may be used. X?
52

15
In 2007, pharmacies across New Zealand began dispensing a
new formulation of Eltroxin - a thyroid hormone replacement.
Initial reports of side effects of the drug, included eye pain,
itching, and nausea. In the 18 months following the release of the
new tablet, the rate of adverse event reporting rose nearly 2,000-
fold.
The strange thing was, the active ingredient in the drug was
exactly the same. Laboratory testing proved that the new
formulation was equivalent to the old one. The only change was
that the drug-maker had altered the tablets’ size, color, and
markings. What is the scientific phenomenon associated with the
reason for why people were getting sick?
54

16
The reason for this is attributed to the perfectionist characteristic
of Jobs. When Steve Jobs orchestrated the launch event of
iPhone during Macworld 2007, it was a presentation on stage
carried out by Jobs for more than an hour. During such keynote
he starts with some introductory slides, company sales- report
and in the middle of keynote, generally launches a new product
with ads on the big screen on stage.
He wanted all the things to be in sync as per his calculations thus
he asked his design team to tweak every minute detail in order to
match his plan, this led to a common practice which can even be
seen in latest product release. What practice ?
56

17*
How has Chandauli, a village situated 150 miles from Delhi
become one of the most talked about place in the recent days ?
58

The first town powered by
internet.org
59

18
Category
Oxide mineral
Formula
Aluminium oxide, Al2O3
Color
Typically blue, but varies
Crystal habit
As crystals, massive and granular
Mohs scale hardness
9.0
Luster
Vitreous
Specific gravity
3.95–4.03
Optical properties
Abbe number 72.2
Refractive index
nω=1.768–1.772
nε=1.760–1.763,
Melting point
2,030–2,050 °C
Fusibility
Infusible
Solubility
Insoluble
Other characteristics
Coefficient of thermal expansion (5.0–
6.6)×10−6/K
relative permittivity at 20 °C
ε = 8.9–11.1 (anisotropic)
60

19*
X was first created in 1976 by Phil Foglio. Developer Mike O'Brien,
who was working as a bonded locksmith at the time, opened a wall
safe in Foglio's Chicago apartment after a roommate had "split town"
without leaving the combination.
In return, Foglio agreed to create it for O'Brien, who gave him some
Polaroid snaps of a PDP-11 system running UNIX along with some
notions about visual puns having to do with pipes, demons/daemons,
forks, a "bit bucket" named /dev/null and so on. Foglio's creation
showed four happy little red daemon characters carrying tridents and
climbing about on (or falling off of) water pipes in front of a caricature
of a PDP-11 and was used for the first national UNIX meeting in the
US (which was held in Urbana, Illinois)
62

Finals The Tech Quiz | SJCE Grey Cells
67

Bazinga
Dry Round
Bounce and Pounce
+10/-5
68

“Our virtues and our failings are inseparable,
like force and matter. When they separate,
man is no more.”
69

1
This product announced on April 1 did not sound plausible as at that
time its competitors offered less than 1/250th as much. That led many
reasonably savvy folks to assume it was a hoax, especially since the
announcement had an odd, jokey feel to it, and the service was
allegedly rolling out to a “a handful” of people.
It however was real and the roll out to select people only was a result
of the inadequate resources the company had and were forced to use
300 old Pentium computers that nobody wanted in the company.
Which product that revolutionized its industry codenamed Caribou are
we talking about?
70

2
Room 40 was an organisation formed in October 1914 which
consisted of a linguist, an expert on Persia, a British classical
archaeologist ,a Professor of Ancient History, a papyrologist, a
scholar of German literature among others. For what specific
purpose was it established?
72

Breaking the Enigma machine
73

3
X was originally designed as a submission for a Linux logo
contest. Three such competitions took place; X won none of
them.X was created by Larry Ewing using the first publicly
released version (0.54) of GIMP, a free software graphics
package. It was released by him under the following condition:
Permission to use and/or modify this image is granted provided
you acknowledge me lewing@isc.tamu.edu and The GIMP if
someone asks.
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4
The company was founded by Nick Woodman in 2002.
Woodman started the company following a 2002 surf trip to
Australia in which he was hoping to capture quality action photos
of his surfing, but could not because amateur photographers
could not get close enough, or obtain quality equipment at
reasonable prices.
His desire for a camera system that could capture the
professional angles inspired its name.
76

5
With which tech company would you associate the musical notes
D flat, D flat, G flat, D flat, A flat ?
78

weIrDos
Written Round
Id all the gadgets / Put funda
Differential Scoring
88

“The present is theirs; the future, for which I
really worked, is mine.”
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2 - Metal Detectors slippers
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5 - Skin monitor for tan content etc.
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Also called Esoteric Programming
Languages
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Connect
8 slides
Starts at +40/-20
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“The feeling is constantly growing on me that I
had been the first to hear the greeting of one
planet to another.”
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1
The name "X" is derived from a French rendering of the Native
American word shikaakwa, translated by some sources as "wild
leek" or "wild onion" or "wild garlic", from the Miami-Illinois
language. Henri Joutel, in his journal of 1688, noted that the wild
garlic, called "Xua", grew abundantly in the area.Other sources
say place of the skunk.
During the mid-18th century, the area was inhabited by a Native
American tribe known as the Potawatomi, who had taken the
place of the Miami and Sauk and Fox peoples.
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Windows Codenames
• Chicago - Windows 95
• Memphis - Windows 98
• Whistler - Windows XP
• Longhorn - Windows Vista
• Vienna - Windows 7
• Apollo - Windows Phone 8
• Blue - Windows Phone 8.1
• Redstone - Windows 10
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