Finals of a quiz that I conducted at Silicon Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar

2.  Silicon Quiz Club
 Adarsh Ku Mohapatra for Guinea Pigging
 Suvam Palo for helping with some questions
 All the participants who came (and those
who didn’t)

3.  6 questions
 Each question carries 5 points
 Bonus of 10 points if you get all 5 correct
 So a total of (6*5) + 10 = 40 points to play for

4.  It was created by Zain al-AbidinTawfiq in the
end of 2016 and reached a sudden worldwide
success by mid-2017.This growth is considered
to be deeply related with the release of a
Snapchat update that allowed people to share
URLs on their snaps.The name of the app is
Arabic for "frankness" or "honesty".

5.  The decline of this form of entertainment can be attributed to many
factors.There was a significant competitor in home entertainment,
ranging from color television toVCRs and video rentals.
 Adding to the woes was the 1970s energy crisis along with the
widespread adoption of daylight saving time. Also shows were only
possible mostly in the summer and the real estate price hike in the
1980's made large land tracts required for the shows massively
expensive.
 Which form of entertainment is this, which saw a decline from the
1970's?

6.  Paul Ekman is anAmerican psychologist
who works at the University of California,
San Francisco and considered a pioneer in
the study of emotions and their relation
to facial expressions.
 After being consulted by the team that
made the movie Inside Out, he was
consulted by an individual to create a
website for him called "The Atlas Of
Emotions". Ekman described the person
as "wanting to reach a new world to help
us attain inner peace".

8.  X was founded in October
2002 by Anthony Wood as a
company which deals with
digital media player devices
and services.
 The word means "six" in the
Japanese language, to
represent the fact that X is
the sixth company Wood
started.

9.  The proposal regarding this law was put forward by
British MP John Leech, generally regarded to be the
architect of this campaign.The informal name of the
law is associated with someone who was only granted
a pardon as late as 2013.
 It serves as an amnesty law to pardon men who were
cautioned or convicted under historical legislation
that outlawed homosexual acts.

10.  Time ForThe Answers..

11.  It was created by Zain al-AbidinTawfiq in the
end of 2016 and reached a sudden worldwide
success by mid-2017.This growth is considered to
be deeply related with the release of a Snapchat
update that allowed people to share URLs on
their snaps.The name of the app is Arabic for
"frankness" or "honesty".

14.  The decline of this form of entertainment can be attributed to many
factors.There was a significant competitor in home entertainment,
ranging from color television toVCRs and video rentals.
 Adding to the woes was the 1970s energy crisis along with the
widespread adoption of daylight saving time. Also shows were only
possible mostly in the summer and the real estate price hike in the
1980's made large land tracts required for the shows massively
expensive.
 Which form of entertainment is this, which saw a decline from the
1970's?

17.  Paul Ekman is anAmerican psychologist
who works at the University of California,
San Francisco and considered a pioneer in
the study of emotions and their relation
to facial expressions.
 After being consulted by the team that
made the movie Inside Out, he was
consulted by an individual to create a
website for him called "The Atlas Of
Emotions". Ekman described the person
as "wanting to reach a new world to help
us attain inner peace".

23.  X was founded in October
2002 by Anthony Wood as a
company which deals with
digital media player devices
and services.
 The word means "six" in the
Japanese language, to
represent the fact that X is
the sixth company Wood
started.

26.  The proposal regarding this law was put forward by
British MP John Leech, generally regarded to be the
architect of this campaign.The informal name of the
law is associated with someone who was only granted
a pardon as late as 2013.
 It serves as an amnesty law to pardon men who were
cautioned or convicted under historical legislation
that outlawed homosexual acts.

29.  15 questions
 +10/0 on direct questions
 +10/-10 on pounce

30.  This innovation was conceived by Bronte EcKermann, an
Australian mechanical industrial designer, and created by
South Australian manufacturer Zing International.
Eckermann was particularly inspired by one of his
daughter’s toys to create this.The equipments used are
powered by hidden low voltage batteries.They each
contain a microprocessor that detects when contact is
broken and that sparks the illumination.
 What innovation are we talking about?

33.  Firefox cofounder Blake Ross created a new original
series called “PRICKS,” based on the antics of a
fictional high profile startup.The startup (named
Dynapy which Ross tells is a combination of the
Diagnosis andTherapy) is embroiled in a scandal led
by an investigative article published in theWall Street
Journal.
 Which company is being parodied by the series?Who
was the hotshot woman founder ?

37.  Sports video game companies such as Electronic Arts which
produce sports games like FIFA and UFC are known for the
realism they bring in their visual representation of the players.
Every minute detail is carefully portrayed including the players'
latest hairstyles and shoes.
 However, in some cases in the US, the tattoos on the players
bodies are shabbily represented or not represented at all.
 Why?

39.  In the US, Tattoos are owned by the tattoo
artists instead of players.
 Companies often do not have licenses on
these tattoos.

40.  Developed by Pune-based firm Kam-Avida, this machine
called the “Hope Machine” will cost Rs 43 lakh per piece.
This machine uses a high pressure injecting mechanism
to operate. It is equipped with steel rods that can bend,
generates high-resolution images through a remote-
controlled inspection camera and uses hydraulics to
operate its systems.The product also comes with a “gas-
detecting device” and protective gear.
 How exactly is this machine a revolution in India's history?

43.  Nokia 8110 is a mobile phone released in 1996. Its distinctive styling
was the first example of a 'slider' form factor. A sliding cover
protected the keypad when being carried in the pocket and extended
downwards in use, bringing the microphone closer to the It was also
the first Nokia phone with monochrome graphic LCD.The prominent
curvature of the case, particularly when open, earned it a nickname
inspired by something that we consume. It became very popular
following the release of a movie approximately three years later.
 What nickname?
 Where did this phone earn its share of limelight ?

47.  In 2017, yourstory.com published an article about the
working of cab services like Uber and Ola. According to
the article, the cab services work in 3parts.
 In the first part, the app show you something ordinary: a
list of different cabs. It asks you to inspect their prices and
driver ratings.The next part is when the app send a cab to
your doorstep. Next is the hardest part; you have to get a
cab to pick them and make them appear at their desired
destinations on the map quickly.

50.  The first X was in NewYork in 1967, as a spinoff of the Chicago
Music Show.The event had 17,500 attenders and over 100
exhibitors; the kickoff speaker was Motorola chairman Bob Galvin.
 Till 1994, there was a summer edition held in Chicago, but with
waning interest a rotating location for the summer edition was
tried for a few years and then abandoned.
 Now only the winter edition is around and is one of the largest of
its kind.
 What?

53.  In the early 90s, Apple began working on the Power Mac 7100, a
product that was internally given the codename "X".
 The impetus behind the codename was a riff on X's catchphrase
"billions and billions", the implication being that the 7100 would go on
to make Apple billions of dollars. X wrote to Apple when he came to
know of Apple's proposed plan.
 Apple had to remove X's name because X had sued Apple for Libel.
 Whom did Apple name the Power Mac 7100 for?

56.  World Emoji Day is an unofficial holiday
celebrated on July 17.The brainchild of London
based Jeremy Burge, the founder of the website
Emojipedia.The day is deemed a "global
celebration of emoji".
 Why was the date July 17 chosen as the date
of celebration by Burge?

59.  UK : Mike Harrison and his father Sir Ernest
Harrison in 1984
 US : Marty Cooper and Joel S Engel in 1973
 India : X andY

61.  First mobile phone calls in respective
countries.
 Jyoti Basu and Sukh Ram

62.  The Great Hack is a Netflix documentary which premiered
at the Sundance Film Festival.
 The film follows its dual protagonists David Carroll, a
Parsons School of Design professor who sued this firm in the
UK with the help of UK based privacy lawyer Ravi Naik and
Brittany Kaiser who was a senior employee of the firm and
played a pivotal role in revealing parts of the company’s
internal workings after leaving.

65.  X as a rental service has increased tourism by leaps and bounds. But X’s
immense popularity and benefits have also come with a heap of problems.
Many cities cite it as one of the major factors for increased rent, housing
shortages, gentrification, and other disruptive effects of tourism.
 SitoVeracruz, anAmsterdam based entrepreneur and his partners have
come up with a better alternative, which according to them gives equal
importance to community based projects and developing townships as a
whole.
 What is X?
 What have they named their venture, which showcases their honesty and is
a wordplay on X?

68.  The operating system X was developed by Andrew S.Tanenbaum, also
known for the MINIX Programming Language and his team at theVrije
Universiteit Amsterdam.The aim of the project was to build a
timesharing system that makes an entire network of computers appear
to the user as a single machine. It was named for an eukaryotic
organism, which has the ability to alter its shape.
 What makes it special was that the Z Programming Language was
originally developed for this platform. Z was designed by GuidoVan
Rossum and named after a British Surrealist comedy group.
 What are X and Z ?

71.  A theory as to why the device X has this anomalous design exists in a
device is explained as such.
 This device was based on the cash register design. According to this
theory, the currencies used in that time meant the number 0 was
often the most pressed key. So, it would make sense to keep that
number at the very bottom to ensure it was within hand’s reach. While
there is some truth to the explanation, it’s still riddled with factual
errors.This is especially so since early cash registers (until 1893) had no
separate 0 key and no workers behind the table.
 Which anomalous design is being talked about?

73.  Why calculators use a
(9-1) input layout
instead of the
conventional (1-9)
arrangement in
phones.

74.  4 questions
 Each question carries 8 points
 Bonus of 10 points if you get all 4 correct
 So a total of (8*4) + 10 = 42 points to play for

75.  “We wanted something simple to remember, which is why
we went with icons or symbols.I gave each symbol a
meaning and a color:The first refers to viewpoint; I had it
represent one's head or direction and made it green.The
second refers to a piece of paper; I had it represent
menus or documents and made it pink.The last two
represent 'yes' or 'no' decision-making and I made them
red and blue respectively. People thought those colors
were mixed up, and I had to reinforce to management that
that's what I wanted.”

76.  The humble and benign MS Excel has had many
enthusiastic users. But in 2016, people were in for a
surprise.
 According to a book, a power couple used the
Microsoft tool to maintain a list of people who had
betrayed them in the past.The offences were ranked
on a scale of one to seven, one whichThe Guardian
described as, "like a kind of Divine Comedy rewritten
for Microsoft Excel".

77.  Chengdu is a city inWestern China.With a population of more than 10
million, it counts as one of the more populous of Chinese cities.
 The city was however in news for an ambitious energy plan to provide
for a cheaper alternative to street lights.Wu Chunfeng, head of the
Chengdu Aerospace Science explained that the technology has been in
the testing phase for years but is finally near completion.
 However, social media skeptics and environmental experts cited that the
project could adversely affect wildlife and disrupt the night cycle of
nature. Skeptics also doubt the accuracy of the new medium because if it
misses its mark by one hundredth of a degree, the mechanism won’t
serve its purpose.

78.  Danny Cohen introduced these terms for byte
ordering in an article from 1980.
 In this technical and political examination of byte
ordering issues, the names were drawn from Jonathan
Swift's 1726 satire, Gulliver'sTravels, in which civil
war erupts over which side of a boiled egg is proper
to crack open, which is analogous to counting from
one side that contains the most significant bit or the
least significant bit.

79.  Time ForThe Answers..

80.  “We wanted something simple to remember, which is why
we went with icons or symbols.I gave each symbol a
meaning and a color:The first refers to viewpoint; I had it
represent one's head or direction and made it green.The
second refers to a piece of paper; I had it represent
menus or documents and made it pink.The last two
represent 'yes' or 'no' decision-making and I made them
red and blue respectively. People thought those colors
were mixed up, and I had to reinforce to management that
that's what I wanted.”

82.  The humble and benign MS Excel has had many
enthusiastic users. But in 2016, people were in for a
surprise.
 According to a book, a power couple used the
Microsoft tool to maintain a list of people who had
betrayed them in the past.The offences were ranked
on a scale of one to seven, one whichThe Guardian
described as, "like a kind of Divine Comedy rewritten
for Microsoft Excel".

85.  Chengdu is a city inWestern China.With a population of more than 10
million, it counts as one of the more populous of Chinese cities.
 The city was however in news for an ambitious energy plan to provide
for a cheaper alternative to street lights.Wu Chunfeng, head of the
Chengdu Aerospace Science explained that the technology has been in
the testing phase for years but is finally near completion.
 However, social media skeptics and environmental experts cited that the
project could adversely affect wildlife and disrupt the night cycle of
nature. Skeptics also doubt the accuracy of the new medium because if it
misses its mark by one hundredth of a degree, the mechanism won’t
serve its purpose.

88.  Danny Cohen introduced these terms for byte
ordering in an article from 1980.
 In this technical and political examination of byte
ordering issues, the names were drawn from Jonathan
Swift's 1726 satire, Gulliver'sTravels, in which civil
war erupts over which side of a boiled egg is proper
to crack open, which is analogous to counting from
one side that contains the most significant bit or the
least significant bit.

91.  15 questions
 +10/0 on direct questions
 +10/-10 on pounce

92.  In early days, due to the low resolution of raster CRT
displays the lines generated at 0°, 45° and 90° were
smooth enough and pixels were tough to spot.
 When lines were drawn in any angles apart from this,
the lines produced would be jagged. As a result, this
was the orientation used in early PCs and the
convention has since remained the same.

95.  X routing is a technique for anonymous communication over a
computer network. It was developed in the mid-1990's in the US
Naval Research Laboratory. In this type of network, messages are
encapsulated in layers of encryption, analogous to layers of X.The
encrypted data is transmitted through a series of network nodes,
each of which "peels" away a single layer, uncovering the data's
next destination.When the final layer is decrypted, the message
arrives at its destination.
 An extension of X routing is theY routing, which encrypts multiple
messages together to make it more difficult for attackers to
perform traffic analysis and to increase the speed of data transfer.

98.  In October 2018, social media was abuzz in the US with the CEOs of two of the
biggestTech companies taking potshots at each other with respect to the
question of who was helping the homeless more in San Fransisco. All this was
due to a proposed tax on high-earning San Francisco businesses which would
redirect millions of dollars to help thousands of people who live on the streets.
 X, the CEO of a software-as-a-service company(SAAS) company wrote that
he was in favor of the tax while Y, the CEO of a social media giant who earlier
worked as a vintage clothing model proclaiming that he was not – prompting
a displeased response from the former. X had credited Hindu spiritual leader
MataAmritanandamayi for his philanthropic business models.

101.  Yusaku Maezawa is a Japanese billionaire entrepreneur and art
collector. He founded StartToday in 1998 and launched the online
fashion retail website Zozotown, now Japan's largest, in 2004.
Apart from all this, Mr Maezawa in news in September 2018 to be
a certain specific first passenger to go somewhere.
 He also achieved a record-breaking feat by beating Carter
Wilkerson, a chicken-nugget-loving US teen who had achieved
his feat in 2017.
 What are the two achievements?

104.  First commercial passenger on the moon by
SpaceX
 Most Re-tweeted tweet ever

105.  VoIP(Voice over Internet Protocol) is seen as a major boon because it
allow users of services like Skype to call someone halfway around the
world for nearly nothing.
 While making calls has become dirt cheap, it also has its share of
disadvantages including the rise in the number of robocalls. Developers
have come with a solution, a new set of standards known as (Secure
Telephone Identity Revisited /Signature-based Handling of Asserted
information using toKen )which make every phone have a certificate of
authenticity attached to it — a kind of digital signature — that allows you
to once again trust your caller ID.
 What is the more popular name of the protocol, highlighting a special
James Bond preference?

108.  A new streaming video service X was launched in 2016 by
Victor Gutierrez deTena, a Spanish individual. It aims at
lulling viewers to sleep through “monotony and
repetition”.
 They offer a selection of the least thrilling videos on the
internet, and are thus favorable to those who quickly want to
fall asleep. “The idea is to make entertainment boring,” de
Tena, 31, said.
 What is the name of this service, which is a wordplay on a
popular streaming service?

111.  Bryan Peter X was a British physicist.
From an early age he enjoyed repairing
electrical and mechanical devices. In
1970, with G. J. Hunt, he measured the
gyromagnetic ratio of the proton.
 He is considered as the inventor and
developer of X, which changed a
fundamental scientific definition in
early December.

115.  Tweetie was a client for the social networking websiteTwitter.When
Loren Brichter, the creator ofTweetie was initially developing the app,
he wanted to add a ----- function to the application. Regarding other
mobile applications of that time, he said “They all had to find a spot and
just cram a ------- button somewhere, usually in one of the corners in a
toolbar bordering a scrollable list.That was the most valuable real estate
for navigation and action UI, so using it up for something as mundane as
a ------ button just seemed wasteful.” Brichter thus decided to create a
novel method of the action so that a button wasn’t necessary such that
the valuable corner space could be utilized for something else.
 What did Brichter come up with?

119.  The invention of X is credited to prolific inventor Abbot Augustus
Low, whose patent was filed in 1909. Adolf Ehinger, a German,
based his model on a hand-crank pasta maker which was
manufactured in 1935. Supposedly he needed to destroy his anti-
Nazi propaganda to avoid the inquiries of the authorities.The
product being discussed here was subject to attention from the art
world after a high profile incident in October 2018.
 What product is this?
 Which high-profile incident involving Sotheby's ?

122.  Experience ------- is an interactive web application developed by NASA's Jet
Propulsion Laboratory to celebrate the third anniversary of an event.This 3D
analytical game makes it possible to operate the device in the game, control its
cameras and the robotic arm and reproduces some of the prominent events of an
iconic mission on Mars.
 It won theWebby Award as the best "Government & Civil Innovation" website of
2016.The 5-word speech at the award ceremony was Rockin' and -----' on Mars,
voiced by NASA's representative Brian Kumanchik, the blanked out word is a
pun.
 What is the name of the game?What word fits the second blank?

126.  The machine consists of two units, a control unit, and the X unit.The two
units are joined by a five-meter cable.The X unit helps the user via
labeled buttons while the control unit controls the X units and stores data
and displays the results on 7 segment LED displays.The controller has
its operating program etched permanently in silicon at the time of
manufacturing by the manufacturer. No one can change the program
once the controller is manufactured.
 The machines are powered by an ordinary 6 volt alkaline battery, which
enables their use without interruptions due to erratic power supply.
 The machine can store a maximum of 3840 counts and can provide a
maximum of 64 different options for a particular user.
 What machines are these?

129.  --- InterActive! is a computer program which combines the
functionality of graphing calculators with extra features into a text
editor which allows you to save equations,graphs, tables, spreadsheets,
and text onto a document.
 It also includes a web browser, but it is just an embedded version
of Internet Explorer. It also works with --- Connect to share data with
other Graphing Calculators.
 It is one of the few software programs of an American company who
are more renowned for their hardware prowess.
 Who owns the product?

136.  In 2015, when Buzzfeed was planning to file an IPO,
SamThielman wrote an article describing how it was
the perfect time for Buzzfeed to go public considering
their massive popularity then and the company was
valued at nearly 850 million dollars then.
 What appropriate portmanteau word didThielman
use for the title, given the enticing nature of the deal
and using the word "stock"?

139.  Google Ideas was created in 2010 and is the brainchild of Jared Cohen
and Eric Schmidt. According to Google, it would help in understanding
global challenges and applying technological solutions, from
"countering extremism", online censorship and cyber-attacks.
 In February 2016, Eric Schmidt announced in a Medium post the
expansion of Google Ideas to a technology incubator named X.The new
name is an ode to the belief that complex interlocking problems often
require a tiny bit to reach the solution. According to Schmidt, the new
name "reflects our belief that collaborative problem-solving yields the
best solutions".
 How is Google Ideas currently known as?