DPS Rohini X Quest Finals 2013 Warm Up Round Summary

XINO 2013
X QUEST FINALS
Delhi Public School, Rohini
3 August 2013

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• The quiz consists of 5 rounds. Rounds 1 through 4
contain 12 questions each and Round 5 (A/V)
contains 6 questions.
• Participants will be given 30 seconds to answer a
direct and 5 for a pass.
• The decision of the quizmaster will be final and
binding in all cases.
RULES

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Round 1 : Warm Up

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• This round consists of 12 questions, questions 1
to 6 are orthodox and questions 7 to 12 are
visual questions.
• Each question carries 5 points.
• Questions will not be passed to other teams,
instead they will be passed to the audience.
Round 1 : Warm Up

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Round 1 : Warm Up

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Warm Up
• "Stop the Cyborgs" is a UK based advocacy
group that campaigns against a culture of
surveillance and invasion of privacy. They
recently released a couple of 'ban signs' that
can be used to communicate that a certain
new wearable device is prohibited in that
area. Which device?
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Warm Up
• The indie British comedy "Pulp" became the
first film to use a new medium of distribution.
What medium?
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Warm Up
• The Missionary Church of __________,
founded by philosophy student Isak Gerson at
the age of 19,is a congregation of file sharers
who believe that copying information is a
sacred virtue. Their sacred symbols are Ctrl+C
and Ctrl+V.
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Warm Up
• China : Beidou
Russia : ?
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Warm Up
• _____________ is a mecha first-person
shooter video game set to be released in 2014
developed by Respawn Entertainment, which
was founded by Jason West and Vince
Zampella.
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Warm Up
• Major companies such as Microsoft, Yahoo
and Google have recently been accused of
helping the US government with monitoring
communications all over the world. While this
program was started in 2007, it has only
recently become public thanks to the efforts
of a whistleblower. Name the program and the
Whistleblower.
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Warm Up
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Round 2 : Orthodox I

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• This round consists of 12 orthodox questions.
• The questions are passable and both direct
and passed questions carry 10 points each.

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Orthodox I
• At the "Cork Open" tournament in Ireland in
April 2013, Gabriel Mirza was prevented from
taking further part in the contest after he
manhandled his 16 year old opponent. The
opponent was also disqualified for cheating.
The sport was chess but what was the
cheating incident?
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Orthodox I
• Which octothorpe-laden labelling system, that
originated in early social media systems such
as IRC, was adjudged the American Dialect
Society's "Word of the Year" for 2012?
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Orthodox I
• Israel began "Operation Pillar of Defense" in
November 2012, an offensive against their
opponents in the Gaza Strip in Palestine. How
is this particular conflict notable from the
point of view of social media?
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Orthodox I
• The Dropbox X was a competition between universities
so that the students could earn upto 25 GB of free
space. All they had to do was have the students sign up
and complete the get started guide. A global
leaderboard was setup to show the leading
universities. While Y, an American university was in the
lead early on, as Asian universities with much a higher
student base signed up, it fell behind. So the clever
students at Y decided to hack the system by
automating the creation of new fake student records
and their registration for the X, allowing them to rise to
the top before being caught.
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Orthodox I
• A man is found dead in Belize, then this guy
spends a night hidden in a cardboard box,
then he’s in Guatamela, a photo from there
finds its way to the internet. He apologizes
saying the EXIF data was faked and he
tampered with it; turns out he indeed was in
Guatamela and he apologizes again for
apologizing about tampering with the photo.
Who?
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Orthodox I
• Which state in India is showing its tech
saviness by using Google Picasa, and camera
equipped mobiles to become the first to get a
100% correct electoral roll before the
upcoming Lok Sabha elections?
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Orthodox I
• Pirates Of The World, Unite And Pirate
Everything I’ve Ever Written! was whose
reaction on SOPA?
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Orthodox I
• Discoverer, Innovator, Creator, Explorer,
Inventor and Navigator are the 6 buildings of
what?
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Orthodox I
• After failing to raise venture capital for the
product under their former name inPulse,
which project went on to become the second
highest crowd-sourced funded project ever
with funding of over $10 million?
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Orthodox I
• X, an Esoteric programming language is designed
to be the hardest possible language to program
in. It is designed to emulate a simple trinary
machine. This, in and of itself, isn't difficult to
handle; what makes X truly difficult is that the
compiler takes a character, finds the ASCII value,
applies modulus 92 on it, and then uses that as
its command. It then increments a counter which
it will add to future values. Moreover, due to the
difficulty inherent in implementing a program in
it, definitive proof that it is Turing complete may
never come.
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Orthodox I
• The _______________ is a major unsolved
problem in computer science. Informally, it asks
whether every problem whose solution can be
quickly verified by a computer can also be quickly
solved by a computer. It was introduced in 1971
by Stephen Cook in his seminal paper "The
complexity of theorem proving procedures"and is
considered by many to be the most important
open problem in the field. It is also one of the
seven Millennium Prize Problems to carry a US
$1,000,000 prize for the first correct solution.
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Orthodox I
• After American authorities banned online
gambling services by offshore providers, Antigua
considered it a violation of World Trade
Organization’s ‘General Agreement on Trade in
Services’ treaty, and initiated a WTO dispute
settlement proceeding in 2003. After the WTO
found Antigua justified, it granted Antigua an
“authorization to retaliate” this year by
permitting something that would bring in $21
million annually for the island nation. What did
they permit?
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Round 3 : Visual

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• This round consists of 12 visual questions,
questions 1 to 6 are identification based and
questions 7 to 12 are connect questions.
and passed questions carry 10 points.
Round 3 : visual

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Connect
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Round 4 : Orthodox II

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• This round consists of 12 orthodox questions.
and passed questions carry 10 points each.

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Orthodox II
• Operation BearLove Good, Cancer Bad was a
charity fundraiser on Indiegogo that managed
to raise over $220,000, 11 times the original
goal of $20,000. The intention of X was to
raise the money for charity take a photo of
himself with the cash, and send the
photograph along with a satirical illustration
to Y, instead of paying the amount to Y for
what has been termed as one of the silliest
lawsuits of all time. Identify X and Y.
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Orthodox II
• What is the name of the Indian domestic card
payment network being set up by National
Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) at the
behest of banks in India? Its objectives include
building environment whereby payment
information of the country remains within the
country and to reducing overall transaction
cost for the banks in India by introducing
competition to international card schemes.
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Orthodox II
• It was mostly unknown who had developed
this game except that Gearbox Software was
incharge until an anonymous SEGA executive
took to blogger to separate fact from fiction.
He claimed that Gearbox outsourced the
development to various studios and
embezzled funds meant for the game to make
Borderlands and Duke Nukem : Forever,
leading to the it being an extremely poor
game.
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Orthodox II
• At the 2012 World Economic Forum in Davos,
Vivek Ranadivé, founder and CEO of TIBCO,
along with WEF's founder and chairman Klaus
Schwab, launched _______, a private social
network for world leaders. Ranadivé's goal is
to "unlock the collective wisdom of the
world's best and brightest" with ________,
which is a highly-secure version of TIBCO's
social networking platform tibbr.
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Orthodox II
• Which day is celebrated as a global social
media holiday called 'Foursquare day'?
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Orthodox II
• With it’s lead creative director as Hideo
Kojima, this game franchisee is known for the
insane amounts of detail put in it that most
players would never even notice. This includes
every desk in the game being individually
designed, handshakes actually showing the
Konami Code and the ability to shoot ice and
watch it melt.
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Orthodox II
• The International Astronomical Union, the
internationally recognized body for astronomy
names conducted a poll last year to select the
names for Pluto’s new moons P4 and P5. The
names that were finally chosen were Kerberos
and Styx, even though they were at the
second and third place in the polls
respectively. Which name, leading by over
150,000 votes actually won the poll?
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Orthodox II
• ______________________ is a title given to
a small number of open-source software
development leaders, typically project
founders who retain the final say in disputes
or arguments within the community. The
phrase originated in 1995 with reference to
Guido van Rossum but now applies to people
including Linus Torvalds, Jimmy Wales and
Mark Shuttleworth.
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Orthodox II
• An image taken by American photographer
Charles O'Rear in 1996 near his home in Napa
Valley, California is touted as one of the
world's most distributed photos of all time.
Estimates put its viewership at close to 1
billion and for a really good reason. What
reason?
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Orthodox II
• Founded in 2008 by “Pagal Patrakar”,
______________ is an Indian news satire
website that publishes satire on politics and
society of India. A few of its stories such
as,"Unable to attract even a single girl,
frustrated man sues Axe" have been mistaken
as genuine stories and published in leading
websites and newspapers.
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Orthodox II
• What happens when you type 241543903 for
an image search?
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Orthodox II
• It is a digital distribution platform used to
distribute games and related media online,
with a primary focus on small independent
developers rather than larger software
houses. It is also the first platform supporting
Windows, Mac OS X and Linux with a client.
What?
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Round 5 : AUDIO/VIDEO

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• This round consists of 6 audio/video
questions.
• Each question carries a total of 15 points, 10
for a primary question, and 5 for a secondary
question.
• All questions are passable.

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