This document provides the details of a quiz competition held on 14th August 2020 between Birla Vidya Niketan. It outlines the global rules of the quiz including no questions being passed, the ability to raise stakes or pounce on questions. It then provides 9 sample questions on various topics ranging from technology to games to assess the participants' knowledge.
2. global Rules
● No question will be passed.
● Raise The Stakes: The team whose chance is on the Direct, before being told
the question can ask the stakes to be raised i.e a +10/-0 question becomes
+20/-20 question for them
● Pounce: A team for which the question is not directed can pounce on the
question for +10/-10
4. Q1.SecuROM is a/an X developed by Y,
primarily for computer games running on
Microsoft Windows. A class action
lawsuit was filed against Electronic Arts
in 2008 for their use of SecuROM in
their video game Spore.
8. Q2. X was a game developed in three
years and with a budget of 30 million
pounds lower than most AAA games
but is known as one of the best looking
titles of current gen because of its
extensive use of RTRT.
Identify X and RTRT
12. Q3. X is a technological news site which
released a particular video Y criticised by
computer enthusiasts all over the world (
The community likes calling itself a
“master race” )
24. Q6. X is an anime which was hugely
criticised and has been banned in China
due to one of the characters having an
unpleasant resemblance to a Chinese
historical war scientist. This also forced
X to stop its production of Y, its game
developed for Android.
32. Q8. X is a Belarusian sports programmer
who has won several competitive
programming competitions like IOI.
Currently X is the highest rated
programmer at Codeforces, Codechef,
Topcoder, AtCoder and HackerRank
112. Q3. Netflix is famous for following X, a discipline of
experimenting on their product systems in order to build
confidence in the system's capability to withstand turbulent
and unexpected conditions. “Imagine a monkey entering
into your data farm and ripping cables. The challenge is
that the system should be able to withstand this behaviour”
120. Q5. On 15 August 2016, Google
released a new operating system based
on their in-house developed Zircon
kernel (formerly called Magenta).
"Pink + Purple == X (a new Operating
System)"
124. Q6. X is a R&D lab owned by Amazon. It
is responsible for the company’s
products like Kindle e-readers, tablets
and Alexa. Its name is derived from the
company’s logo. Name X
144. Q5. This game released in 2019 and was
review bombed heavily because it signed
an exclusivity deal with an online gaming
storefront and wasn't available on any
other stores such as Steam but now it is
available on platforms after the heavy
review bombing
166. Q1. X is a tower defense and strategy
video game developed by PopCap
Games.In X the player takes a role of
homeowner during a zombie apocalypse.
Identify X
179. Q1. X is Intel's proprietary simultaneous
multithreading implementation. X
enables the use of multiple threads on
the same physical core i.e an Intel CPU
with four physical cores uses multi
threading to provide eight threads ( 8
virtual cores )
183. Q2. X is a programming language that entirely
consists of quotes from Indian Prime Minister
Narendra Modi's speeches. The language follows
many of his ideologies such as the "No import rule",
in which importation of code is not allowed,
consistent with his "Make in India" campaign. The
following code prints "Mandir Wahin Banayenge".
Languages like these are called Y, identify X and Y
