HillHacks Quiz 2015

A short geeky quiz done as part of HillHacks.

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1. HillHacks Quiz
   @captn3m0
   

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2. Rules
   ● Teams size <=2
   ● QuizMaster is root
   ● No peeking answers on your phone
   ● 1 written round, 20 questions, 30 minutes
   

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3. Infinite Bounce
   ● Questions go to teams in order (1,2,3…)
   ● +10 for correct answers
   ● Pounce = Answer when it's not your turn
   ● +10/-10 on “pouncing” on a question
   ● Pounce closes fast. Raise your hand to pounce
   ● Write down the answer if you are pouncing
   

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4. 1. Identify the bust
   Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument 2.0
   Brooklyn, New York
   

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5. 1. Edward Snowden
   Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument 2.0
   Brooklyn, New York
   

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6. 2. Primes?
   Twin Primes are primes separated by 2, for eg 11 and
   13.
   What are “cousin primes”?
   

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7. 2. Cousin = Difference of 4
   (3, 7), (7, 11), (13, 17), (19, 23), (37, 41), (43, 47), (67,
   71), (79, 83), (97, 101), (103, 107), (109, 113), (127,
   131), (163, 167), (193, 197), (223, 227), (229, 233),
   (277, 281), (307, 311), (313, 317), (349, 353), (379,
   383), (397, 401), (439, 443), (457, 461), (463,467),
   (487, 491), (499, 503), (613, 617), (643, 647), (673,
   677), (739, 743), (757, 761), (769, 773), (823, 827),
   (853, 857), (859, 863), (877, 881), (883, 887), (907,
   911), (937, 941), (967, 971)
   

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8. 3. Which book + author?
   We have a huge problem with
   how we portray women. [...]
   You don't have to look any
   further than X. I love X. [But]
   who has read Y? How many
   women are there in Y?
   Who has not realized until this
   moment that there are no
   women in Y? Isn't that fucking
   creepy?
   X was one of the founders,
   and people followed in his
   footsteps (...) And he did not
   do it out of malice, he was
   also following the tradition.
   Patrick Rothfuss
   (Fantasy) Author
   

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9. 3. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkein
   

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10. 4. Smugglers?
    Around 552 AD, 2 monks from India travelled to China
    and smuggled X to the Byzantine Empire. They hid X
    in their bamboo canes. This acquisition broke the
    Chinese and Persian monopoly on Y (made from X).
    The resulting Byzantine monopoly on Y was the
    foundation for the Byzantine economy for the next
    650 years. Give me X & Y.
    

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11. 4. Silk Worm, Silk
    

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12. 5. What is this a map of?
    

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13. 5. What is this a map of?
    

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14. 6. Which company?
    X was started as a card company in late 1889 in
    Kyoto, Japan. It is now a multinational consumer
    electronics company. X roughly translates into
    English as “leave luck to heaven”.
    Over time, it has ran a cab service, a TV network, a
    food company, and sold toys.
    

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15. 6. Nintendo
    

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16. 7. All of them?
    Which timezone is
    followed aboard the
    International Space
    Station?
    

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17. 7. UTC
    

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18. 8. Identify all 3
    

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19. 9. Anything to say?
    Edward Snowden
    Julian Assange
    Chelsea Manning
    You?
    

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20. 9. Which language?
    ('&%:9]!~}|z2Vxwv-,POqponl$Hjig%eB@@>}=jcL(I&%$#"
    `CB]V?TxFhg${z@>
    This program displays "Hello World!", with both words capitalized and exclamation mark
    at the end.
    

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21. 10. Malbolge
    

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22. 10. Quantum Entanglement
    X is a popular phrase that refers to instant
    communication between 2 entangled particles.
    The phrase was coined by Einstein who was
    dissatisfied with Quantum Mechanics at the time,
    because it predicted faster-than-light communication
    between entangled particles.
    Give me X. (½)
    

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23. In the standard explanation, two entangled particles
    are sent to the labs of physicists named Alice and
    Bob. When Alice performs a measurement on her
    entangled particle, the fate of Bob’s particle is
    sealed. So if Alice tells Bob the result of her
    measurement, he instantly knows what the result
    would be of measuring his particle. He doesn’t need
    to bother doing the actual measurement.
    (2/2)
    

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24. 10. Spooky action at distance
    

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25. 11. What?
    

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26. 11. Caffeine
    

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27. 12. Which RFC?
    [X] carriers can provide high delay, low throughput, and low altitude service. The
    connection topology is limited to a single point-to-point path for each carrier, used with
    standard carriers, but many carriers can be used without significant interference with
    each other, outside of early spring. This is because of the 3D ether space available to the
    carriers, in contrast to the 1D ether used by IEEE802.3. The carriers have an intrinsic
    collision avoidance system, which increases availability. Unlike some network
    technologies, such as packet radio, communication is not limited to line-of-sight
    distance. Connection oriented service is available in some cities, usually based upon a
    central hub topology.
    

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28. 12. RFC 1149
    

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29. 13. RMS on languages:
    The most powerful programming language is X. If you don't know X (or its variant, Y), you
    don't know what it means for a programming language to be powerful and elegant. Once
    you learn X, you will understand what is lacking in most other languages.
    When you start a X system, it enters a read-eval-print loop. Most other languages have
    nothing comparable to `read', nothing comparable to `eval', and nothing comparable to
    `print'. What gaping deficiencies!
    I skimmed documentation of Z after people told me it was fundamentally similar to X. My
    conclusion is that that is not so. `read', `eval', and `print' are all missing in Z.
    Give me X,Y,Z.
    

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30. 13. RMS:
    X = Lisp
    Y = Scheme
    Z = Python
    

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31. 14. What is the peak called?
    

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32. 15. Ballmer Peak
    

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33. 15. Map of what?
    

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34. 15. Map of what?
    

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35. 16. Which film?
    

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36. 16. Back to the Future
    

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37. 17. WoZ?
    Wheels of Zeus (or WoZ) was a company founded in
    2002 by X.
    WoZ made wireless hardware for keeping track of the
    physical location of enabled objects.
    It shut down in March 2006.
    X = ?
    

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38. 17. Steve Wozniak
    

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39. 18. Identify X
    - “A lot of people were pretty negative,” he recalls. “They would say,
    “this is stupid. Why are you adding all of this extra junk in your
    tweets? Twitter is ugly already and you’re not helping the problem”.
    - X are for nerds. That stuff is never going to catch on,” Messina
    recalls six years later. “We’re going to build algorithms, we’re going
    to figure it out, and you won’t have to use X at all. We got it
    covered.”
    - It began with Twitter but eventually, I started to use X in my texts,
    emails, and even my Google Doc titles
    

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40. 18. #Hashtags
    

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41. 19. Connect
    - BabaJob
    - Bing Search
    - Facebook Messenger
    - Wikipedia
    - OLX
    - ESPN CricInfo
    - BBC News
    - Dictionary.com
    List not complete.
    

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42. 19. List of Free Services on
    Internet.org
    no fake
    

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43. 20. Written Round
    +5 for every correct answer
    +5 bonus if you get every one correct
    

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44. 20. Who owns the following TLDs?
    ➔ .io
    ➔ .aq
    ➔ .ch
    ➔ .foo
    ➔ .app
    +5 for each correct. +5 extra if all 5 are correct.
    Exchange sheets
    

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45. 20. Who owns the following TLDs?
    ➔ .io - Indian Ocean
    ➔ .aq - Antarctica
    ➔ .ch - Switzerland
    ➔ .foo - Google
    ➔ .app - Google
    +5 for each correct. +5 extra if all 5 are correct
    

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46. Tally Scores!
    Quiz will be up on speakerdeck.com/captn3m0
    

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