Hidden Picture Round of General Quiz held at Bitotsav '15. Conducted by Q-BIT

1. HIDDEN PICTURE

2.  Hidden picture covered by 9 tiles
 Cryptic question about the
picture is posed at the beginning.
 Standard questions, every
correct answer scores +20/-10 and
removes a corresponding tile.
 All teams can attempt the final
picture question at any time for a
progressively decreasing score (no.
of covered tiles x 10)

3.  This popular app based on
geolocation technology was launched
in August 2012 by Sean Rad, Justin
Mateen, Jonathan Badeen, and
Dinesh Moorjani of Hatch Labs, initially
piloted on college campuses, the first
being USC.
 The company has recently acquired
former high-profile eBay executiuve
Chris Payne as its CEO.

6. X welcomed it with a “Namaste”.
X also congratulated Y for joining it.
To this, Y replied:
“Howdy X? Keep in touch. I’ll be
around.”
After a while Y also said that “I’ll be
back after breakfast. Good ol’
sunlight. It’s good for your battery.”
ID X and Y

9.  X, Y, Z, jerk, jounce, snap, crackle, pop
 Identify X, Y, Z.

11.  X= Displacement
 Y= Velocity
 Z= Acceleration

12.  This product was listed in Time magazine's 25 best
inventions of 2014.
 The 1983 "Minolta Disc-7" laid the base for the
idea. A patent was registered in USA in 1983, and a
Japanese version was featured in a 1995 book of 101
Un-Useless Japanese Inventions. Canadian inventor
Wayne Fromm patented his "Quik Pod" in 2005, and
the product has been available in the United States
since at least 2011.
 In a short span, it is now being banned from sporting
events, museums, galleries, and concerts.
 What?

15. Historically, arrow slits were narrow vertical
windows from which castle defenders
launched arrows from a sheltered
position, and were often referred to as X.
The term X today extends to law,
describing contravention of the intent of
the law without technically breaking it,
much as the small opening in a seemingly
impenetrable defensive measure that lets
the defender gain the unfair advantage.
ID X.

18. Sir Thomas Stamford R. was a British
statesman, best known for his founding of
the city of Singapore in 1819 and the
London Zoo. He was also heavily involved
in the conquest of the Indonesian island
of Java from Dutch and French military
forces during the Napoleonic Wars and
contributed to the expansion of the British
Empire.
In 1818, he led an expedition in an
Indonesian rain forest that led to
discovery of a new species. What?

21.  This third person action-adventure video
game developed by Santa Monica
Studio is the 11th best selling PS2 game of all
time.
 Regarded as one of the best action-
adventure games for the platform, it won
several "Game of the Year" awards.
 With vengeance as its central motif, the
player controls the protagonist on a quest
to find the one object capable of stopping
the evil power: the legendary Pandora's
Box.

24. Which Mumbai-based ad agency is
behind the popular ‘Mauka Mauka’
campaign?

27. Google recently dedicated a doodle to an
English botanist and photographer who was
the first to publish a book illustrated with
photographic images. Who?

29. Some sources
claim that she
was the first
woman to
create a
photograph.

30. - Cushion Questions -

31.  In geometry, X is defined as the
number of non-overlapping
unit spheres that can be arranged such
that they each touch another given
unit sphere.
 In general, the X problem, originated
by Isaac Newton, seeks the maximum
possible X for n-dimensional spheres in
(n + 1)-dimensional Euclidean space.
 This problem was originated by Isaac
Newton.

34.  This well-planned capital city is divided
into several sectors such as Hotels Sector,
Banking Sector and Embassy Sector.
 The Monumental Axis is a major
thoroughfare in the city.
 Identify the city.

37.  This city was planned by Constantinos
Apostolou Doxiadi. Identify.

40. X is a concept used to identify a
demographic and/or geographic area
of the world where people live
measurably longer lives, given by
Gianni Pes and Michel Poulain.
Dan Buettner identifies these longevity
hotspots in Okinawa (Japan); Sardinia
(Italy); Nicoya (Costa Rica); Icaria
(Greece); and among the Seventh-
day Adventists in Loma Linda,
California.