1. Senior Quiz
Finals

2. Rules Infinite Pounce: +20 / -10 if your team “pounces” on a question
Otherwise, question goes through Infinite Bounce with +10, no negative marking
Quizmaster’s decision is final and binding

3. Question 1
Chad Hurley and Steve Smith, founded a company in 2011, which took over the internet service Delicious. Name this company.

4. Answer
AVOS Systems

5. Question 2
In Japanese companies, a certain class of workers are often consigned to oidashibeya, or “chase-out rooms”, where they’re given menial tasks or asked to do nothing at all in a bid to bore them into quitting. What is the reason behind this custom?

6. Answer
Japan’s labour laws and customs restrict the firing of workers. Companies that want to trim payrolls offer packages to flush out volunteers – effectively giving the most skilled (and frustrated) a cash incentive to jump ship, while others get sent to these “chase-out rooms”

7. Question 3
The foldout laptop computer keyboard designed by John Karidis for IBM as part of the ThinkPad 701 series, released in 1995, allowed the 701 series to be both compact (when closed) and comfortable to use (when open). The design was considered revolutionary and rocked the laptop world. What was it called?

8. Answer
Butterfly keyboard

9. Question 4
X began as a research project by Michael Loren Mauldin of Carnegie Mellon University in X was sold to Terra Networks of Spain in May 2000 for $13 billion, forming a new company, Terra X. On August 16, 2010, Ybrant Digital announced the signing of a stock purchase agreement to acquire X Inc. What am I describing?

10. Answer
Lycos

11. Question 5
“Yes, I have strong opinions. And CVS users...if you really like using CVS, you shouldn’t be here. You should be in some mental institution somewhere else”.
Who said this?

12. Answer
Linus Torvalds

13. Question 6
Dalton Maag is a small company based out of London, UK and counts Nokia, Toyota, BMW, Vodafone, and Virgin Galactic among its customers. In 2010, they added X as a customer to this illustrious list. Identify X.
(Hint: The answer is in the question itself.)

14. Answer
Ubuntu font (the typeface used in this quiz)

15. Question 7
X as described by Raymond is a claim about software development, named in honor of Y and formulated by Raymond in his essay and book The Cathedral and the Bazaar (1999). The law states that "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow"; or more formally: "Given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix will be obvious to someone." Presenting the code to multiple developers with the purpose of reaching consensus about its acceptance is a simple form of software reviewing. Researchers and practitioners have repeatedly shown the effectiveness of various types of reviewing process in finding bugs and security issues, and also that reviews may be more efficient than testing.
Robert Glass refers to the law as a "mantra" of the open source movement.

16. Answer
X - Linus’s Rule
Y - Linus Torvalds

17. Question 8
This picture references an event that took place a couple of years ago. You have all the clues you need in the picture itself. Identify what this is about.

18. Answer
Jimi Heseldon, the owner of Segway, died when he rode his Segway off a cliff

19. Question 9
X is the Europe's largest association of hackers, based in Germany and other German-speaking countries. X describes itself as "a galactic community of life forms, independent of age, sex, race or societal orientation, which strives across borders for freedom of information..." In general, the X advocates more transparency in government, freedom of information, and the human right to communication.

20. Answer
Chaos Computer Club

21. Question 10
X was a protest movement against the practices of the Church of Scientology by members of Anonymous The project was started in response to the Church of Scientology's attempts to remove material from a highly publicized interview with Scientologist Tom Cruise from the Internet in January The project was publicly launched in the form of a video posted to YouTube, "Message to Scientology", on January 21, 2008.

22. Answer
Operation Chanology

23. Question 11 There were five primary goals in the creation of X
It should be "simple, object-oriented and familiar"
It should be "robust and secure"
It should be "architecture-neutral and portable"
It should execute with "high performance"
It should be "interpreted, threaded, and dynamic"
Identify X.

24. Answer
Java

25. Question 12
Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg is a Swedish video game commentator on YouTube. He specializes in Let's Play videos of the horror and action video game genres. His channel is one of the fastest growing YouTube channels, and as of October 2013 has over 14 million subscribers.In August 2013 his channel became the most subscribed channel on YouTube.
How is he better known as?

26. Answer
PewDiePie (pronounced “pew-dee-py”)

27. Question 13
The X Awards are an annual awards event that honors the best short-form content creators on the micro-blogging website Twitter and on other social media sites. Since their creation in 2008, the awards have expanded beyond Twitter to recognize content creation on other social networking sites, including YouTube, Tumblr, Foursquare, and Facebook. Past winners include Conan O'Brien, Ricky Gervais, Sesame Street's Grover, Suze Orman, Ted Leo, Neil Patrick Harris and NASA.
What awards am I talking about?

28. Answer
Shorty Awards

29. Question 14
Known as “Xanadu 2.0”, after the title character’s estate in the film Citizen Kane, this is a 66,000 sq. ft. mansion which features – among other things – a 60 foot swimming pool with an underwater music system. Guests wear pins that automatically adjust temperature, music, and lighting based on guest's preferences upon entering a room.
What place is this?

30. Answer
Bill Gates' house

31. Question 15
What has been the Russian government’s response to news of NSA surveillance on foreign governments?

32. Answer
They’ve switched to using typewriters!

33. Question 16
On January 16, 1978, Ward Christensen and Randy Suess began work on the X. They may not have done so if it were not for the Great Blizzard of 1978, which forced them to stay indoors and provided the downtime from work to do so.

34. Answer
Computerized Bulletin Board System, the first bulletin board system

35. Question 17
X is a term referring to the unintended consequences of a company pre-announcement made either unaware of the risks involved or when the timing is misjudged, which ends up having a negative impact on the sales of the current product. This is often the case when a product is announced too long before its actual availability.
The X effect is an example of a self-defeating prophecy, as the announcement of the new product is ultimately responsible for its own abandonment.
What is X?

36. Answer
Osborne effect

37. Question 18
Ad for what company?

38. Answer
Axe / Lynx

39. Question 19
Identify

40. Answer
XCode - an IDE by Apple

41. Question 20
What is the name commonly given to the algorithm that Facebook uses to determine what articles should be displayed in a user's News Feed ?

42. Answer
EdgeRank

43. Question 21
Connect: Br, Au, En, Lr, Ae, Pr

44. Answer
Part of Adobe’s Creative Suite (Bridge, Audition, Encore, Lightroom, After Effects, Premier)

45. Question 22
This track is the first video game theme ever to win a Grammy Award. What game is it from?

46. Answer
Civilization IV

47. Question 23
Connect

48. Answer
All have been acquired by Flipkart

49. Question 24
Look very closely at this picture and tell me what person is associated with this.

50. Answer
Larry Ellison. If you look closely, you’ll find invoices for “yacht” and “America’s Cup” – a big passion for Ellison.

51. Question 25
What is common among Gaius Flavius Antoninus (assassin of Julius Caesar), Crocodile shears (a torture device) , Chen Fang (Harvard student who is also the mayor of a small town in China), Bicholim conflict (a war between the Portugese and the Maratha empire)?

52. Answer
They were all Wikipedia hoaxes, i.e., for which pages existed but it wasn’t a real thing.

53. Question 26
What
event is taking
place in the
picture on the
right?

54. Answer
Obama conducting the first ever Twitter Townhall

55. Question 27
Who is this person and what is he describing?

56. Answer
John McAfee (founder of McAfee Software)

57. Question 28
This started in when Joe Becker (Xerox) and Mark Davis (Apple) started a discussion about standardising something. What is this?

58. Answer
Unicode

59. Question 29
Fill in the blank.

60. Answer
Ballmer Peak

61. Question 30
Non-exhaustive list: Akelarre, Anubis, Blowfish, Camellia, Cobra, Crab, Hasty Pudding, Iraqi, Lucifer, MacGuffin, Nimbus, Square, Serpent, Skipjack, Threefish, Twofish, Xenon, Zodiac.
What are all of these?

62. Answer
Block cipher algorithms (for encryption)

63. Question 31
Jaguar, or Family 16h, is the codename for a low- power SoC microarchitecture. It forms the basis for four product families: Kabini aimed at notebooks and mini PCs; Temash aimed at tablets; Kyoto aimed at micro-servers; and the G-Series aimed at embedded applications.
However, it is better known for a completely different application. What?

64. Answer
Forms the CPU for both PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

65. Question 32
What product is shown in this video?

66. Answer
Microsoft Courier, a concept tablet that Micrsoft came up with in 2008 but which never got built. Ultimately, the project was cancelled in 2010.

67. Question 33
What film is this?

68. Answer
Revolution OS, a documentary about history of the free / open source software movement

69. Question 34
Founded by Ben Rattray, its motto is “What will you ________?” What am I talking about?

70. Answer
Change.org, a petition tool that is widely used for online campaigns

71. Question 35
What is Wirth’s law?

72. Answer
It states that "software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster"

73. Question 36
X is an independent biotech company established in 2013 by Google with the stated goal of focusing on the challenge of aging and associated diseases. The new company will be led by Arthur D. Levinson, who is the current chairman of both Apple Inc. and Genentech. Identify X.

74. Answer
Calico (California Life Company)

75. Question 37
Connect these two people

76. Answer
The person on the right is Rachel Leigh Cook, often mistaken online as Bill Gates’ daughter Jennifer Gates. On the left is Bill Gates’ actual daughter, Jennifer Gates.

77. Question 38
Non-exhaustive list: Dot (a shape-shifting and colour-shifting smiley-faced red ball), Hoverbot (a robot), Genius (a caricature of Albert Einstein), Mother Nature (a globe), Scribble (an origami-esque cat), Power Pup (a superhero dog), Will (a caricature of William Shakespeare)
What connects these?

78. Answer
All these are Microsoft Office Assistants (similar to Clippy)

79. Question 39
Identify what this is (very specific answer needed)

80. Answer
Nokia Tune Dubstep Edition, which is the new avatar of the Nokia Tune preloaded on all Nokia mobile phones

81. Question 40
What is so special about an upcoming space trading and combat simulator video game Star Citizen?

82. Answer
It’s the highest-raised crowdfunded project till date

83. Question 41
__________ have launched more successful companies in a shorter period of time than almost any other company in history. They are sometimes credited with inspiring the re-emergence of consumer-focused Internet companies after the dot com bust of 2001.

84. Answer
The PayPal Mafia, consisting of members such as Peter Thiel, Max Levchin, Reid Hoffman, Elon Musk et al.

85. Question 42
Who is this?
(Hint: Think about resemblance of facial features)

86. Answer
Polly Adams, Douglas Adams’ daughter. Of course, this was question #42. (She’s @pollyjradams on Twitter, in case you want to stalk her.)

87. Question 43
Explain what this is. Bonus points for giving specific names.

88. Answer
Wii U’s multi-chip module. The CPU from IBM is called “Espresso” and the GPU from AMD is called “Latte”

89. Question 44
Logo for…

90. Answer
Google Fiber

91. Question 45
The ____________ is a Nokia Belle powered smartphone, first unveiled on 27 February at the Mobile World Congress. On 24 January , Nokia officially confirmed __________ to be the last "flagship" Symbian smartphone. Fill in the blanks.

92. Answer
Nokia 808 PureView

93. Question 46
Monolithic and micro are the two main kinds of ________. They perform a vital role in all modern computers, facilitating communication between the applications and the hardware, i.e., a bridge between applications and the actual data processing done at the hardware level. What am I talking about?

94. Answer
Kernel

95. So long, and thanks for all the fish