Geek Quiz March 2014 Finals

The finals for the Geek Quiz. Videos and audio questions are available at http://ge.tt/8O1nGbN1/. Answers are within the same pdf after each question.

Congratulations to Vikram Rathore, Rushil Nagda, and Akshay Agarwal for winning the quiz.

Prelims for the quiz are at https://speakerdeck.com/captn3m0/geek-quiz-march-2014-prelims

Transcript

1. Geek Quiz Giri & Nemo
2. Quiz Masters are root You accept the permissions we give you. You don’t get to request for more. 4 rounds 6 teams
3. Round 1. 12 Questions Infinite Pounce (+10/-10)
4. 1. Which company put up the following banners?
5. 1. BitTorrent Inc.
6. 2. Connect (in no order) - Block - Beehive - Loaf - Boat - Blinker - Toad - Beacon - Pulsar - Glider - Lightweight spaceship - Tub - Aircraft Carrier - Python - Long boat - Ship
7. 2. Conway’s Game of Life
8. 3. Name the author(s)
9. 3.Stephen & Lucy Hawking
10. 4. What is so special about this sweater? 1/2
11. 2/2
12. 4. Prime Factorization
13. 5. Who? - When X’s code fails to compile, the compiler apologises. - X is the traveling salesman. Only he knows the shortest route - X does not use revision control software. None of his code has ever needed revision - X programs in binary, then compiles it into human-readable code - X can recite π. Backwards - X's code doesn't follow a coding convention. It is the coding convention. - There are two types of programmers: good programmers, and those that are not X - X does not sleep.. He waits - X can throw an exception further than anyone else - X can stop an infinite loop just by thinking about it - X only solves NP-awesome problems
14. 5. Jon Skeet
15. 6. Which Game? In late 1995, X was estimated to be installed on more computers worldwide than Microsoft's new operating system Windows 95, despite million-dollar advertising campaigns for the latter. Its popularity prompted Bill Gates to briefly consider buying the company behind X and led Microsoft to develop a Windows 95 port of X to promote the operating system as a gaming platform.
16. 6.
17. 7. Connect - WINE - GNU - LAME - PHP - RPM - XBMC - PIP - YAML - XNA
18. 7. Recursive Acronyms - WINE (WINE is not an Emulator) - GNU (GNU’s not Unix) - LAME (LAME ain’t an MP3 Encoder) - PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) - RPM (RPM Package Manager) - XBMC (XBMC Media Center) - PIP (PIP Installs Packages) - YAML (YAML Ain’t Markup Language) - XNA (XNA’s Not Acronymed)
19. 8. J. J. Abrams on X : I know I get a lot of grief for that, but I'll tell you, there are times when I'm working on a shot, I think, 'Oh this would be really cool… with X.' But I know it's too much, and I apologize. I'm so aware of it now. This is how stupid it was. But I think admitting you're an addict is the first step towards recovery. I actually had to use ILM [Industrial Light & Magic] to remove X in a couple of shots, which is, I know, moronic. J. J. Abrams on directing Star Trek Into Darkness
20. 8. Lens Flares
21. 9. Identify the figurine
22. 9. Marvin the Martian
23. 10. Funda “Yes, [we will not find a solution to political problems in cryptography] but we can win a major battle in the arms race and gain a new territory of freedom for several years. Governments are good at cutting off the heads of a centrally controlled networks like Napster, but pure P2P networks like Gnutella and Tor seem to be holding their own.” “X is very attractive to the libertarian viewpoint if we can explain it properly. I'm better with code than with words though.” Both quotes by Satoshi Nakamoto
24. 10. Bitcoin
25. 11. “Right. The bowlers have done their job, now it's up to the batsmen.” Who? When ? Why ?
26. 11. AUS vs SA at Johannesburg (Mar ‘06) It seems far-fetched but so did 434 and not only did Australia get it but South Africa chased it down. One of my favourite quotes comes from that match, where Jacques Kallis is alleged to have said (in the innings break, when the team was sitting in the dressing room, wondering what had just happened): "Come on, guys: it's a 450-wicket. They're 15 short!
27. 12. Which company?
28. 12. GitHub
29. Round 2 Written Round (+10 for each) 2 Question : 5 images each Identify each image + Connect (10) (Max +60/ question)
30. 1. 2. 3.
31. 4. 5.
32. 2.1
33. 2.2
34. 2.3
35. 2.4
36. 2.5
37. Answers 1. Rock and Gravel Slag | The Boulder Mobile 2. Peter Perfect | The Turbo Terrific 3. Prof. Pat Pending | Convert a Car 4. Penelope Pitstop | The Compact Pussycat 5. Dick Dastardly & Muttley | The Mean Machine 1. Rapunzel 2. The Ugly Duckling 3. The Three Little Pigs 4. Pied Piper of Hamelin 5. Pinnochio
38. Round 3 12 Questions Infinite Pounce (+10/-10)
39. 1. Connect
40. 1. Tracer Bullet
41. 2. They should have just accepted him.
42. 2. Adolf Hitler
43. 3. Name this storytelling style Made famous by Aaron Sorkin, These sequences consist of single tracking shots of long duration involving multiple characters engaging in conversation as they move through the set; characters enter and exit the conversation as the shot continues without any cuts.
45. 3. Walk & Talk
46. 4. Name the instrument
47. 4. Floppy Disk Drives
48. 5. Douglas Engelbert gave a demonstration of multiple technologies on Dec 9 1968. The various tech demonstrated on stage that day were precursors to various later computer inventions including: • The Computer Mouse • Multiple Windows • HyperText • Graphics • Video Conferencing • Word Processing • Version Control • Real-Time Collaboration It went on to influence work at Xerox PARC, and various design elements of the Macintosh and Windows interface as a result. What is the demonstration popularly known as?
49. 5. The Mother of All Demos
50. 6. Who ?
51. 6.Brian Acton ( Whatsapp co-founder )
52. 7. What is this?
53. 7. Geek Code
54. 8. Funda?
55. 8. Flappy Bird
56. 9. Connect - RSS - Creative Commons - Markdown - JSTOR - Infogami - Reddit - SOPA
57. 9. Aaron Swartz
58. 10. Identify the sport (video)
59. 10. Speedcabling
60. Round 4 Long Connect. Points mentioned on slide. Topic mentioned for each question separately. 3 Questions
61. Connect 4 slides Not Exhaustive, Not in any particular order
62. ¼ +40/-20
63. 2/4 +30/-15
64. ¾ +20/-10
65. 4/4 +10/-5
66. snapdragon
67. Connect 5 slides Not Exhaustive, Not in any particular order
68. 1/5. Eiffel +50/-40
69. 2/5. Oracle of Delphi +40/-30
70. 3/5. Ada Lovelace +30/-20
71. 4/5. Blaise Pascal +20/-10
72. 5/5. Java +10/-5
73. Programming Languages
74. Connect these companies 6 slides Not Exhaustive, Not in any particular order
75. 1/6 +50/-40
76. 2/6 +40/-30
77. 3/6 +30/-20
78. 4/6 +20/-10
79. 5/6 +10/0
80. 6/6 +5/0
81. answer
82. That’s all folks nemo@sdslabs.co.in giridar123@gmail.com