Theme Quiz conducted at Alcheringa 2014 , IIT Guwahati . Comic Questions made by Ranu Vikram

1. ALCHERINGA 2014
INTERNET AND COMICS

2. 1
• Give me the funda.

3. 2.
• Name of this search engine emerges from a children’s game.
• Its search results are a compilation of "about 50" sources,[30] including
Yahoo! Search BOSS, Wikipedia, Wolfram Alpha, Bing, its own Web
crawler.
• In June 2013 it reported significant traffic , Some relate this claim to
the exposure of PRISM and intrusion of online privacy by programs
operated by the NSA were leaked by Edward Snowden.

4. 3.
• Despite all the ridicule this topped the list of most searched on google
from India , in 2013 google zeitgeist.
• Some other Awards won by this :
• Awarded the National Tourism Award of Excellence
• Awarded the National Award for E-Governance, 2007-08
• Awarded the Genius of the Web Award 2007 by CNBC.

5. 5.
• Give me the funda behind this xkcd comic.

6. 6.
• Time Person of the year has been awarded many times to groups
, some section of society or classes of people like
• The American fighting-man
• The Apollo 8 astronauts
• The Peacemakers
• The Whistle-blowers
• On these lines Time Person of the year for 2006 was awarded.

7. 7.
• This term was coined by the British evolutionary biologist Richard
Dawkins in The Selfish Gene as a concept for discussion of
evolutionary principles in explaining the spread of ideas and cultural
phenomena.
•
Examples given in the book included melodies, catchphrases, fashion, and the technology of building arches. Though now
its uses are much more than that.

8. 8.
• Previously, she was a long-time executive and key spokesperson for
Google but later moved on its competitor company in 2012.

9. 9. ID. THE CHARACTER ...
In the debut comics the creator colored the character
gray, he wanted a color that did not suggest any
particular ethnic group.
The colorist however, had problems with the gray
coloring, resulting in different shades of gray. After seeing
the first published issue, it was decided to change the
skin color to what it currently is. The #302 reintroduced
the gray character in flashbacks set close to the origin
story.

10. 10. WHAT TERM ?
The alteration of previously established facts in a fictional
work.
Done for many reasons, like including the accommodation
of sequels, wherein newer authors want to revise the instory history to allow a course of events that would not
have been possible in the story's original continuity. Other
reasons might be the reintroduction of popular
characters, resolution of errors in chronology, the
updating of a familiar series for modern audiences, or
simplification of an excessively complex continuity
structure.

11. 11. WHO ?
A man named Galan lived in another Universe on the
planet of Taa. When his Universe neared it's end, entropy
caused the general decay and death of his race. Being a
scientist he piloted a ship to the center of the Universe
and saw the Universe collapsing in upon itself, but
instead of being destroyed, Galan was saved by the
sentient incarnation of that Universe.
When the current cosmos was born, Galan's ship had been
transformed into some sort of incubator, and he emerged
as a Ravager of Worlds.

12. 12. WHO ?
Deeply affected by his past and the cruelty
on his life, circumstances forced orphan
Suraj to fight against evil or lose everyone
he ever loved. To destroy the evil he
suffered since childhood and save his
loved ones Suraj concealed his identity
behind a dog mask, and set out to
eliminate all the evil against humanity.

13. 13. ID ?
The first French satellite, was launched on
November 26, 1965 by a rocket of type
Diamant A from Hammaguir in Algeria. It
was originally designated A-1, as the
French Army's first satellite, but later
renamed after a comic character.

14. 14. BASED ON ?

15. 15. ID. (NAME+COMICS)

16. 16. WHAT ?

17. WAIT FOR ANSWERS