The quiz was organized on 10/11/13 during our Intra-college science and technology fest Nimble.The quizmaster of the quiz was Gaurav Shastri.

3. 1.
X's Company Y needed a powerful and worthy
CEO. X's search for a CEO led him to Pepsi, where
he said this legendary line to get John Sculley
to join Y: "Do you want to sell sugar water all
your life, or come with me and change the
world?"

5. 2.
• This is a brand developed by Unilever
which shares its name with the SI
unit of illuminance and luminous
emittance measuring luminance flux
per unit area.
• Id the brand.

7. 3.
This is a major example of how the
technopreneurship may boost a country's
economy.
This region focused on the personal computer
business and is now having $200-billion total
sales a year.
Name the region and place where it
originated?

8. Silicon Valley is a region found in
San Francisco Bay Area in the
southern part in Northern
California in U.S.A

9. 4.
Homo floresiensis is a possible species of extinct human
found on the island of Flores in Indonesia. The first set of
remains to be found in 2004, LB1, has an estimated height
of 1.06 m, and a brain volume of 23 cu in.
What was the nickname given to Homo floresiensis?

11. 5.
• Keratin reacts with hennotannic acid
(aka Lawsone), via a mechanism
known as Michael addition to create
a stain.
• How do we know this process better
as?

13. 6. Id this famous Alloy
• Inventor: Dr. Myron MacLain
• In its solid form, it is colorless and shiny. It is almost
impossible to destroy or fracture in this state and when
crafted to a razor edge it can penetrate most lesser
materials with minimal application of strength. It is at
least somewhat magnetic. Has 13 allotropes, all of
which are unstable, and short-lived, but virulently
poisonous.
• It Is rarely used due to extreme cost, poor reliability
and inability to be reshaped .
• Types : Proto, Secondary, Beta, Carbonadium.

15. 7.
• Zheng and Pollock demonstrated the existence of
a 100 micron-thick exclusion zone near solid
interfaces with this substance, while a second
critical point has been invoked to explain certain
unusual properties of this substance in the
supercooled state.
• The Mpemba effect implies it can sometimes
freeze faster when hot than cold, and hydrogen
bonding results in an unusually large dielectric
constant which peaks at about 30°C.
• GIVE ME THE NAME OF THIS MOLECULE.

17. 8.
• _______ Day is celebrated on the 256th day of the year (13 September
in normal years and 12 September in leap years). The number 256
(2^8) was chosen because it is the number of distinct values that can
be represented with an eight-bit byte.
• Also, '256' in hexadecimal is '100' ('0x100'), and it's the highest power
of two that is lower than 365 (the number of days in a year).
• Typical celebrations of _______ Day include playing around with old
computers and behaving in a generally inane(stupid and silly) manner.
• It is an official professional holiday in Russia.!
FITB

19. 9.
• e^(i π )+ 1 = 0
• 'The most remarkable formula in Mathematics'
according to Richard P. Feynman for its simple use
of addition, multiplication, exponentiation and
equality and the single use of important
constants like 0, 1, e, i and π.
• In 1988, readers of the Mathematical
Intelligencer voted it 'The most beautiful
Mathematical formula ever'.
• What is the formula known as?

20. EULER'S FORMULA

21. 10.
What the picture shows is a technique used
mainly by Vulcans to render unconsciousness by
pinching a pressure point at the base of the
victim’s neck.
Although usually used on humanoid
beings, in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Spock
successfully performs the pinch on a horse-like
creature.
An everyday used
computer technique has
been named after this.
What?

22. Three finger salute

23. 11. ID X
X is a fictional character. X's secret identity is
____ _____, an American billionaire playboy,
industrialist, and philanthropist. Having
witnessed the murder of his parents as a child,
X swore revenge on criminals, an oath
tempered with the greater ideal of justice.
X trains himself both physically and intellectually
and dons a themed costume in order to fight crime.

25. 12. On What Occasion?

26. Srinivasa Ramanujan's 125th
Birthday

27. 13.
• A particular theory specific Application was
instrumental to NAZI’s defeat in the World war -2.
• Widely used by industries to develop and employ
ingenious strategies, to beat the heat of
competition.
• The Picture below Speaks a Million Words. Identify
this theory.

29. 14.
• Which automobile company’s logo features a
circle with an arrow, which is a symbol for iron
used by ancient alchemists?
• The logo, representing a strong and powerful
metal, combined with the company name
signifies the company’s brands that are known
for their `rolling power’.

31. 15. CONNECT!!

32. The very first items sold on…
Flipkart.com
Amazon.com
Ebay.com

33. 16.
• It is called a ‘solidus’ if written
as a diagonal line ( / ) or a
‘viniculum’ if written as a
horizontal line ( __ ).
• What is it ?

34. The line between the numerator and the
denominator in a fraction.

35. 17.
Where would you land
if you type
www.466453.com in
the URL bar of a
internet browser ??
• 17

37. 18.
• This IT company is headquartered in Palo Alto,
California and was founded in a car garage.
• The founders tossed a coin to decide the order
of the surnames and then named the
company.
Identify the company.

39. 19.
• X was a British mathematician and cryptanalyst.
• He developed a number of techniques for
breaking ciphers.
• X’s father worked for the Indian Civil Service and
mother was a Chief Engineer of Madras Railways.
• X played a pivotal role in the development of
computer science.
Identify X

41. 20.
It results from emissions of photons in the Earth's
upper atmosphere, above 80 km (50 mi),
from ionized nitrogen atoms regaining an electron,
and oxygen and nitrogen atoms returning from
an excited state to ground state. They are ionized
or excited by the collision of solar
wind and magnetospheric particles being funnelled
down and accelerated along the Earth's magnetic
field lines; excitation energy is lost by the emission of
a photon, or by collision with another atom or
molecule:
What phenomenon is being talked here??

43. 21.
In the medieval ages, this term (deriving from the Greek
word meaning “indivisible”) used to denote a unit of time,
specifically “a twinkling of the eye” – the smallest amount
of time imaginable.
This was sometimes defined in a precise way equivalent to
exactly 1/376 minute or about 160 milliseconds.
Though the term has retained much of the original
meaning, it is now mostly applied in a different context.
What is this word?

45. 22. This is the first what?

47. 23.
This European company was busy manufacturing forest
products like paper in the initial 130 years of existence . They
expanded to manufacturing of television in the 1980’s , but
lost a lot of money. It then ventured into the computer field
which lead to a total burn out forcing the CEO to take away
his life.
During Russian recession of early 90’s, it underwent a big
slump and was on the verge of termination when the new
CEO decided to concentrate on just one sector they are now
synonymous with.
The company is named after a finnish river.
Which company am I talking about?

49. 24.
Known as Number Place in the U.S., was published in
New York in the late 1970s by the puzzle publisher
Dell in its magazine Math Problems and Logic Puzzles.
It became immensely popular in the U.K in 2005,
stimulating international interest.
What is its popular name which is also the Japanese
for ‘single number’ ?

51. 25.
Which software developed by
Google is named after a famous
Spanish Painter?

53. 26.
How do we better know
“Completely Automated Public
Turing Test to tell Computers and
Humans
Apart”
which
is
sometimes described as a reverse
Turing test ?

54. CAPTCHA

55. 27. FUNDA!!
What is the comic trying to convey ?
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56. Pauli’s Exclusion Principle

57. 28.
The origin of this word is from the Latin
word meaning pebble or stone used for
counting.
Id the word which is very much known to
us.

59. 29.
This is a piece of mineral rock that’s called
Armalcolite. It is a titanium-rich mineral with
the chemical formula (Mg,Fe2+)Ti2O5.
• How did it get its name?

60. Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins

61. 30.
• Name this Computational Knowledge Engine
• Stephen _____ , a British mathematician
created what is known as an “answer engine”
which uses sophisticated algorithms to
understand user’s questions as input. It
displays information using artificial
intelligence and then offers relevant
Information.

63. 31.
David Warren, an Australian scientist came up with a
workable prototype, with civilian aircraft in mind, after a
series of crashes in 1953 and 1954.
The idea was slow to catch on and it took 10 years before
it was made mandatory in Australian aircraft for
Investigation purposes.
What?

65. 32.
This poem by John Updike appeared in a 1960 issue of New Yorker magazine.
“ X they are very small.
They have no charge and have no mass
And do not interact at all.
The earth is just a silly ball
To them, through which they simply pass,
Like dust maids down a drafty hall
Or photons through a sheet of glass.
They snub the most exquisite gas,
Ignore the most substantial wall,
Cold-shoulder steel and sounding brass,
Insult the stallion in his stall ”
The second line turned out to be factually wrong as
X were later found to have mass.
When the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1995 was awarded for work related to X,
the above poem was part of the poster.
What is X?

67. 33.
• In engineering, fiction, and thought experiments,
it is any extremely rare, costly, or impossible
material, or (less commonly) device needed to
fulfill a given design for a given application.
• It’s properties depend on the intended use. For
example, a pulley made of it might be massless
and frictionless;
• However, if used in a nuclear rocket, it would be
light, strong at high temperatures, and resistant
to radiation damage. The concept of it is often
applied humorously. What am I talking about?

69. 34.
X is a process of convenience which was invented by
Larry Tesler at XEROX PARC for the Smalltalk-76
programming environment, in 1973-76.
In Smalltalk, you had a large number of commands you
could apply to the text inputted into the system. ‘again',
'doit', 'compile',, 'cancel', 'align' are some of them. But it
was later modified for convenience to include only 3
ID this most famous process which all of us has used at
least once.

71. 35.
A long-time executive for Google Inc.,
X is an alumni of Stanford University. Her
career in Google spanned Google Search,
Google Images, Google News, Google Maps,
Google Toolbar, iGoogle and Gmail.
She is the president and CEO of a Fortune 500
company-Y.
Identify X and Y .

72. Marissa Mayer
and Yahoo!!

73. 36.
.
Who said this in a funny way“A Computer is like Air Conditioning- it
becomes useless when you open
Windows”.
(Hint: Think of Open-Source!)

75. 37.
Jack Smith, a hardware engineer left Apple
computers along with his colleague(who is
a BITS Pilani Graduate) X to form a free email portal which created e-mail revolution.
Name X and the email service.
(Hint: Now it is a part of Microsoft)

76. Sabeer Bhatia and HotMail

77. 38.
The exact definition of this word is
“edible part of a nut”. This is the
layer which connects the
application software and hardware.
Name this?

78. Kernel

79. 39.
Individuals with ____ phenotype blood group can
only be transfused with blood from other ____
phenotype individuals. Given that this condition
is very rare, any person with this blood group
who needs an urgent blood transfusion will
probably be unable to get it, as no blood bank
would have any in stock. The blood phenotype
was first discovered in an Indian city and is
named after it.

81. 40.
• Motorola recently announced "Project Ara,"
an effort to create a hardware platform that
consumers can use to make customizable
smartphones with upgradable parts.
• Name the concept/idea they are using?

82. PhoneBloks

83. 41.
• _____ is a Palo-Alto-based website created, edited
and organized by its community of users.
• It was co-founded by two former Facebook
employees; One of them is Charlie Cheever.
• In January 2013, it launched a blogging platform
Identify it and name the other co-founder.

85. A number has received considerable attention
in popular culture as a result of its central
appearance in fiction X as the "Answer to The
Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and
Everything".
The programmers must be familiar with the above
line and number.
ID X and its author.

87. GAURAV SHASTRI