Scrap Quiz - The inter-school quiz competition held by the Quiz Club of SBOA School & Junior College, Chennai. Genre : Science and Technology.

1. SCRAP QUIZ 2015
SBOA SCHOOL & JUNIOR COLLEGE

2. Finals

3. StructureandGeneralRules
1. Don’t be evil. Don’t google.
2. 3 Rounds
3. Infinite Bounce
4. Quiz Master’s decision is final

4. You need to take control of the life you’re given,
They call me Ubermensch, cause I’m so driven.
Round 1 -
Ubermensch

5. Direct/Pass : +10
Pounce : +10/-10

6. Question 1
Steve Jobs said this would be the greatest invention of them all,
Microsoft wanted to buy manufacturing rights to this invention,
before they even knew what the invention actually did or was. Yet at
the end of the day the invention turned out to be nothing more than
a very expensive dud. What invention am I referring to? A teamsport
also originated out of this invention. The world championship for this
sport is called the Woz Challenge Cup.

7. Answer

8. Segway

9. Question 2
Identify the film.

10. Answer

11. The Imitation Game.

12. Question 3
In 1983, the subscribers of PC World received a free demo
floppy with the magazine. This was probably the first time in
history that a magazine featured a floppy bind in. Now days
this practice is pretty common with magazines giving away
CDs instead of floppies. What product was introduced to the
subscribers via that floppy?

13. Answer

14. Word for MS DOS 1.0

15. Question 4
X is a Pixar movie. Dreamworks studios copied the concept of X
and created the movie Y. This made Steve Jobs angry and he
confronted John Lasseter (he was in charge of the Dreamworks
Movie). Y was released before X and it did decently. X was a huge
hit but the originality was gone as Dreamworks had copied it and
released Y before X. Jobs always felt resentful for that. Identify
X and Y.

16. Answer

17. X - A Bug’s Life Y - Antz

18. Question 5
Put funda.

19. Answer

20. Valentine’s Day doodle. February 14, 2014.

21. Question 6
According to game designer Warren Robinett, this traditional term
was coined into the context of media by Atari personnel who were
alerted to the presence of a X which had been hidden by Robinett in
his already widely distributed game, Adventure. Released in 1979,
Atari's Adventure contains the first video game X, to have been
discovered by its players; Robinett inserted X late in the game's
development in an attempt to gain some recognition for his work, as
Atari then kept its programmers' names secret.
Identify X. You see X everywhere nowadays, from videogames to
movies to even functional software.

22. Answer

23. Easter eggs

24. Question 7
Identify the product

25. Answer

26. Google Web Designer

27. Question 8
Put funda.

28. Answer

29. Jack Ma, CEO of Alibaba Group on eBay.

30. Question 9
What is the song, which is a parody of Backstreet Boy's "I
Want It That Way", about?
Lyrics in next slide.

31. Question 9
What is the song about?
It is a parody of The Backstreet Boys’ "I Want It That
Way".

32. Answer

33. eBay! by “Weird al” Yankovic

34. Question 10
The visual appearance of X was based on the G.I. Joe action
figures. For X’s “bad” look, its hair was spiked and brown
coloured lenses were used for its eyes, whereas for its "good"
look, green coloured lenses were used. The wig used for X's
"bad" look had a silver streak in the middle, made out of Yak
hair, while its leather jacket was designed by Vogt. Suits made
of copper were used for X's costumes.

35. Answer

36. Enthiran / Chitti.

37. The Game Changer
Round 2

38. Direct/Pass : +10
Pounce : +10/-10

39. Question 1
Put funda.
(video)

40. Answer

41. Ajay Bhat

42. Question 2
What’s going on?

43. Answer

44. Freecharge acquired by Snapdeal

45. Question 3
The pseudonym of this is Baldur Friggjar Óðinsson, which is
based on Norse mythology, referencing
Baldur, his mother Frigg, and his father Odin.
Today, it is one of the most talked about
topics in technology. What is it?

46. Answer

47. Auroracoin

48. Question 4
1. Shocking Moves
2. Balloon Parade
3. Revenge
4. Larry
5. Flight of the Barbarian
6. Magic
7. You and this Army
8. Hype Man
9. Ride of the Hog Riders
10. Hair
List of?

49. Answer

50. Official Clash of Clans TV Commercials

51. Question 5
“Let us join this mass movement towards ‘Surajya’, realize the
hopes and aspirants of the people and take India to greater
heights,” Modi was quoted as saying on it. What technological
entity is he talking about?

52. Answer

53. MyGov

54. Question 6
Connect. This is an exhaustive list. Be specific

55. Answer

56. Persons referred to as "Benevolent dictators for life". It is
a title given to a small number of open-source software
development leaders, typically project founders who
retain the final say in disputes or arguments within the
community.

57. Question 7
The meaning of this gesture online is the same as the physical
gesture's meaning in real life, it expresses frustration,
disappointment, embarrassment, shock, surprise or sarcasm. Its
online use is to portray emotions and feelings that otherwise may
not be easily expressed through text alone. This gesture is
understood online because of its common usage in the real world.
The gesture is a popular internet meme to show a user's frustration
or disappointment in an article, comment, or post from another user.
What gesture?

58. Answer

59. Facepalm

60. Question 8
1. Stockfish
2. Komodo
3. Houdini
What are these? (They are arranged in a specific order
based on their performance on a global scale. Incomplete
list.)

61. Answer

62. UCI (Universal Chess Interface) Chess Engines

63. Question 9
Why would one use “www.google.com/ncr”
instead of just “www.google.com”? What does
“ncr” stand for?

64. Answer

65. ncr = “No Country Redirect”
It makes sure that the user is not redirected to the local
google website

66. Question 10
In 2010, NASA revealed a temperature map of Mimas, using images
obtained by Cassini. The warmest regions, which are along one edge
of Mimas, create a shape similar to a video game character. Which
character?

67. Answer

68. Pac-man eating the dot

69. They built a monument to my sins
You're the soldier they need you to be
Ain't no way that you can beat me
Even my initials spell M.C
Round 3 - Master Chief

70. The Decider
Direct/Pass : +20
Pounce : +20/-20

71. Question 1
Put funda.

72. Answer

73. With the reasoning that they’re linked to copyright
crimes, the Stockholm District Court ordered that the
Pirate Bay’s two main domains, thepiratebay.se and
piratebay.se, were to be seized. Laughing in the face of
the court order, the torrent site had already instituted
redirects from the Swedish domains that lead to six other
domains around the world. In Greek Mythology, Hydra is a
creature that grows two more heads after one is cut off.
The logo shows that Pirate bay is like Hydra.

74. Question 2
1. X is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral.
2. Invention is the mother of necessity.
3. X comes in packages, big and small.
4. Although X might be a prime element in many public issues,
nontechnical factors take precedence in X-policy decisions.
5. All history is relevant, but the history of X is the most relevant.
6. X is a very human activity - and so is the history of X.
What is X?
What are these 6 statements collectively called?

75. Answer

76. X - Technology
Melvin Kranzberg's six laws of technology.

77. Question 3
Connect. Be specific.
continued in next slide

78. Question 3

79. Answer

80. Startups backed by Y Combinator

81. Question 4
Put funda.

82. Answer

83. Konami Code
↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A

84. Question 5
Connect.
(continued in next slide)

85. Question 5

86. Answer

87. Ubuntu Codenames
1) Warty Warthog
2) Hoary Hedgehog
3) Vivid Vervet
4) Wily Werewolf

88. Question 6
What’s going on?

89. Answer

90. Gmail Motion - Google’s April Fools Joke
You could trigger actions by just moving your body like
the people in the above pic do.

91. Question 7
Put funda.

92. Answer

93. Google’s first tweet. It says “I’m feeling Lucky” in binary
in Google’s usual nerdy style.

94. Question 8
connect -

95. Answer

96. Google Advertisements
1) The nexus ad was made by this artist - Sondre Lerche
2) The ad is about a google product - Jam with Chrome
featuring a cartoon version of Keyboard cat
3) Name of the ad called Fearless
4) It is an ad about Google TV made by Epipheo Studios

97. Question 9
Put Funda.

98. Answer

99. It is the logo of Mister Splashy Pants which is the name of a
humpback whale in the South Pacific Ocean. It is currently being
tracked with a satellite tag by Greenpeace as a part of its Great
Whale Trail Expedition, which was working to raise awareness about
whales threatened by the Japanese Fisheries Agency's plan to hunt
50 humpback whales. The whale's name was chosen in an online poll
that garnered attention from several websites, including Boing Boing
and Reddit, quickly becoming an internet meme.

100. Question 10
X factor is a scale to measure the ease of use of a device.
Devices that are especially obtrusive, such as large, older model cell
phones, "Pocket" PC devices and walkie talkies are said to have a high
X factor. Sleeker devices such as a later-model Palm or StarTac phone
are prized for their low X factor and lessened obtrusiveness and
weight.
What factor is it?

101. Answer

102. Batman Factor

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