AQC Tech Quiz

1. Tech Quiz Amdavad Quiz Club Session Quizmaster: Anshul Roy

3. Instructions • 20 Questions – 25 minutes • The team besides you has written the wrong answer. Please don’t copy. • Kindly refrain from Cybernetic investigations. • No negative marks. • Top 8 teams qualify for the final round. • Some questions are “star-marked” and would be used to resolve tie-breakers. Please note them down in your answer sheets. • While making the quiz, Wikipedia has been assumed to be factually correct. • Hints on special request (valid only if QM is in a good mood). • The answer to none of the questions is 42. • The more you stare at the question, the more the answer stares back at you.

4. “Hey Ho, Let’s Go!” - Ramones

5. Q – 1 X has been widely criticised for failing to compensate artists fairly. Artists receive an average per-play payout between $0.006 to $0.0084. In 2009, Swedish musician Magnus Uggla pulled his music from X, stating that after 6 months he had earned "what a mediocre street musician could earn in a day". In July 2013, Radiohead’s lead singer Thom Yorke removed his band ‘Atoms for Peace’ and his solo music from X. In an October 2013 interview, Thom Yorke said: "I feel like as musicians we need to fight the X thing. I feel that in some ways what's happening in the mainstream is the last gasp of the old industry.” On November 3, 2014, Taylor Swift removed her entire discography from X. She stated that - "I'm not willing to contribute my life's work to an experiment I don't feel fairly compensates the writers, producers, artists, and creators of this music.” In March 2014, the American band Vulfpeck funded a concert tour using X royalties from an album entitled Y, which consisted solely of silence. The band encouraged users to stream the album on a loop while they _______ to increase the amount of money earned. The album was pulled off by X in April 2014, citing unspecified violations of the content guidelines. Vulfpeck had accumulated enough streams to get $20,000 in royalties before the album Y was pulled off by X. Identify X and Y.

6. *Q – 2* The web standard X was developed by Martjin Koster when he was working for a company called Nexor in the year 1994. He first proposed the concept of X on a mailing list called www-talk, the main communication channel for all WWW related activities at that time. A person named Charles Stross claims to have provoked Martjin Koster to develop X after he wrote a badly behaved web crawler that caused an inadvertent Denial of Service (DOS) attack on Martjin Koster’s web server. Identify X.

7. Q – 3 10-14 March, 1997 was celebrated as Cyberfest at the University Of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). This event was attended by many famous tech personalities like Bill Gates, Linus Torvalds, Jeff Bezos etc. During this event, many computer scientists like Murray Campbell and Joe Hoane, researchers who worked on IBM's Deep Blue chess computer, Tom Mitchell, a leading researcher in machine learning and artificial intelligence at Carnegie Mellon University and Stephen Wolfram, physicist, developer of Mathematica software, and president of Wolfram Research gave lectures and also discussed the computational and philosophical issues raised by __________. Also, during this fest, a famous Sri Lankan author and a professional SCUBA diver gave a lecture via video conferencing. Cyberfest was organised to commemorate the birthday of a famous entity, who was “born” on 12 January 1997 at UIUC. Which famous entity am I talking about?

8. Q – 4 X is a company founded in the year 1945, just a few weeks after the end of World War 2. X was founded by eight electrical engineers from the University Of Hannover. X was started in a laboratory called "Laboratorium Wennebostel". The laboratory was named after the village of Wennebostel in the municipality of Wedemark where it had been moved to due to the war. X was initially called "Labor W", and it changed it's name to X in the year 1958. X has won one Oscar Award, in the year 1987, and has also won two Primetime Emmy Engineering Awards, in the years 1996 and 2013. Id X.

9. Q – 5 In 1985, a computer science student Brad Myers asked 48 fellow students to run searches on a computer database, with and without this modern UX element. It was then generated using a capsule tipped on its side. 86% users preferred its presence, even though it was inaccurate. What? Users preferred to look at it rather than nothing at all. Today, we see various implementations of this phenomenon everywhere. What am I talking about?

10. Q – 6 The _____ ___ bug project was first introduced in Ubuntu 9.10. Ubuntu devs had to identify hundreds of these bugs and fix them, a task which a competent programmer can complete in a day. The bug is defined as a “trivially fixable usability bug that the average user would encounter on his/her first day of using a brand new installation of the latest version of Ubuntu Desktop Edition.” The analogy is with a _____ ___ - while small and not seriously damaging, they are surprisingly painful. Similarly, such bugs have an overtly negative impact on user experience.

11. Q – 7 MWEB, a South African ISP, installed a device at the El Burro restaurant. The device, after demonstrating the abilities of ubiquitous Wi-Fi, lets diners place their meals inside the device. What is the primary purpose of the device’s existence, promoting an alarming trend in restaurant etiquette? (Image on next slide)

13. Q – 8 For quite a while, the League Of Legends community has been clamouring that this particular account should be blocked from purchasing “health regeneration” items in- game. To whom does this infamous account belong?

14. *Q – 9* The story of Walter Pitts is an interesting one. Born in a poor household, often bullied by other kids, Pitts studied for hours in the library. After escaping to Chicago at the age of 15, Pitts met Warren McCulloch, who was 42 at the time. McCulloch explained to Pitts that he wanted to create a model of the brain using Leibnizian logical calculus, inspired by the ‘Principia Mathematicia’. He believed that the brain was just a machine that computes. Fitts understood immediately and built a model using mathematics and algorithms. What did Fitts and MuCulloch create the first rudimentary example of?

15. Q – 10 In the February of 2014, AMD witnessed one of it’s biggest windfalls as price skyrocketed for AMD graphics cards. This, in itself was a shock. AMD has been fighting a losing war against Intel and NVIDIA for a while now. Yet, the reason wasn’t even gaming. The graphics card “R9 290X” nearly doubled its price. Rather ironically, AMD had won because of inefficiency. Their raw GFLOP output, unrefined for games had found use in something else. What?

16. *Q – 11* In the 1990s, the British anthropologist Robin Dunbar found a correlation between primate brain size and average social group size. By using the average human brain size and extrapolating from the results of primates, he proposed that humans can only comfortably maintain 150 stable social relationships. Hence, 150 came to be known as Dunbar's number. There is a social networking site, whose basic ideology is based on this research by Robin Dunbar. Hence, this social networking site does not allow it's users to have more than 150 “friends". Which social networking site?

17. Q – 12 In the year 1971, Michael Hart was a student of Human-Machine Interfaces at UIUC. During his time at UIUC, the university’s computer centre gave him a user account on its computer system. Hart's brother's best friend was the mainframe operator. Due to this fact, he received an account with a virtually unlimited amount of computer time. It’s value at that time has been variously estimated at $100,000 or $100,000,000. Hart thought that he wanted to "give back" this gift by doing something that could be considered to be of great value. Although the focus of computer use there tended to be data processing, Michael Hart was aware that the computers were connected to the ARPANET (what would later become the internet) and he chose to use his computer time for information distribution. Michael Hart had recently acquired a copy of the United States Declaration of Independence, which he had been given at a grocery store. He typed the text into the computer but was told that it would be unacceptable to transmit it to numerous people at once via e- mail. Thus, to avoid crashing the system, he made the text available for people to download instead. This started something. What?

18. Q – 13 Capitalizing on a popular phrase, “The Switch” was released in the year 2016. A DIY project, The Switch, when pressed, turns on the television via infrared, uses the home Wi-Fi network to dim the lights, enables the “Do Not Disturb” mode on the mobile phone and orders takeout food. What is “The Switch” unofficially called?

19. *Q – 14* “People often ask us why our logo is a/an _______. There goes a saying that _______s never forget. This focuses so well on the core idea.” The company then settled on a logo, however the initial draft was rejected because the idea felt “a little too political”. Redesigns of the initial drafts give us the now recognisable logo. Which famous company am I talking about? Give me the company and the “political” reason.

20. Q – 15 What is this image titled as -

21. Q – 16 In September 2012, X began the ‘Block By Block’ project in cooperation with UN Habitat to create real-world environments in Y. The project allows young people who live in those environments to participate in designing the changes they would like to see. Using Y, the community has helped reconstruct the areas of concern, and citizens are invited to enter the Y servers and modify their own neighborhood. Carl Manneh, X's managing director, called Y "the perfect tool to facilitate this process" adding that "the 3-year partnership will support UN Habitat's Sustainable Urban Development Network to upgrade 300 public spaces by 2016”. According to him, the project was a helpful way to visualize urban planning ideas without necessarily having a training in architecture. The ideas presented by the citizens were a template for political decisions. The first pilot project began in Kibera, one of Nairobi's informal settlements, and is in the planning phase. Id X and Y.

22. Q – 17 Andy Hildebrand was a research scientist in the oil industry. He worked for Exxon, where he developed a software for processing data from reflection seismology, a method of estimating properties of Earth's subsurface using reflected seismic waves. This software used the science of digital signal processing. His innovations were great for finding oil, and they reportedly made him a lot of money. Andy Hildebrand was also a professionally trained flutist since a young age. In 1990, he quit his job at Exxon and founded a company called Antares Technologies. In 1996, a fluke comment made by a _____ distributor’s wife inspired him to invent X. He realised that the type of digital signal processing that he had used in the oil industry could also be used in developing X. His invention revolutionised the _____ industry. Id X.

23. *Q – 18* X Reinhardt was a Belgian-born French guitarist and composer of Romani ethnicity. He is regarded as one of the greatest guitarists of all time, he was the first important European jazz musician who made major contributions to the development of the guitar genre. After his two fingers were paralyzed when he suffered burns in a fire, he used only the index and middle finger of his left hand on his solos. He created an entirely new style of jazz guitar technique, which has since become a living musical tradition within French Gypsy culture. Many guitar players, and musicians, have expressed admiration for X Reinhardt, or have cited him as a major influence. Jeff Beck has described him as "By far the most astonishing guitar player ever”. Jerry Garcia of the band Grateful Dead and Tony Iommi of the band Black Sabbath, both of whom lost their fingers in accidents, were inspired by X Reinhardt's example of becoming an accomplished guitar player, despite his injuries. In the year 2003, two web programmers, Adrian Holovaty and Simon Willison, working at the Lawrence Journal World newspaper, began using Python to build web applications. This eventually led to the creation of an open source web application framework, written in Python. Adrian Holovaty and Simon Willison were big fans of X Reinhardt, and hence decided to name their creation as X. Nowadays, some well known sites that use X include Pinterest, Instagram, Mozilla, The Washington Times, Disqus and PBS. Id X.

24. Q – 19 Identify the person and the thing being talked about?

25. Q – 20 According to the personality theory given by Sigmund Freud, X consists of all our primitive and innate urges. According to Freud, X is totally unconscious and operates in accordance with what he termed the “pleasure principle”. X demands immediate, total gratification and is not capable of considering the potential costs of seeking this goal. A gaming company, founded by John Carmack and some of his colleagues, was named Y, inspired by the concept of X. Y is famous for making popular games like Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, Dangerous Dave and Quake. Give me Y.

48. Hand over your answer sheets

51. Answer X = Spotify Y = Sleepify

53. Answer X = Robots.txt

55. Answer HAL 9000

57. Answer X = Sennheiser

59. Answer Progress Bar

61. Answer Paper cut bug

64. Answer #dinnercam lets you set optimum lighting for your food, enabling you to take perfect Instagram photos.

66. Answer Martin Shkreli

68. Answer Neural Networks

70. Answer Bitcoin mining

72. Answer Path

74. Answer Project Gutenberg

76. Answer Netflix and Chill Button

78. Answer Evernote (An earlier draft of the logo resembled the Republican Party’s emblem)

80. Answer Times Square with Adblock

82. Answer X = Mojang Y = Minecraft

84. Answer X = Autotune

86. Answer Django

88. Answer Brandon Stanton and Humans of New York

90. Answer Y = id Software

92. Bad Luck Brian memes serve as safety slides in this quiz, keep an eye out for some easy chuckles.

93. “Hey Ho, Let’s Go!” - Ramones

94. Infinite Pounce • 8 questions. 1 direct question for each team. • Teams can pounce on their own questions. • Scoring for direct question = +10/0 • Scoring for pounced question = +20/-10 • Questions are passable. • On pounces I need the exact answer.

95. Q – 1 Id the blacked out part.

97. Answer Sherlocked

98. Q – 2 A "Boy and His Atom" is a 2012 stop-motion animated short film released on YouTube by X. The movie tells the story of a boy and a wayward atom who meet and become friends. It depicts a boy playing with an atom that takes various forms. One minute in length, it was made by moving carbon monoxide molecules viewed with a scanning tunnelling microscope. These two-atom molecules were moved to create images, which were then saved as individual frames to make the film. The movie has been recognised by the Guinness Book of World Records as the World's Smallest Stop-Motion Film. The scientists at X who made the film are moving atoms to explore the limits of data storage because, as data creation and consumption gets bigger, data storage needs to get smaller, all the way down to the atomic level. This team of scientists is particularly interested in starting on the smallest scale, single atoms, and building structures up from there. Using this method, X announced it can now store a single bit of information in just 12 atoms (current technology takes roughly one million atoms to store a single bit). Id X.

100. Answer IBM

101. Q – 3 In the field of Natural Language Processing, humour identification is a hard language understanding problem. Virtual assistants like Siri, Cortana etc. have a hard time understanding jokes and sarcasm. In NLP, the meaning of a sentence will often vary based on the context in which it is presented, and this is something that is difficult to represent in software. When you add humour, puns and double entendre, this can get substantially harder. In the year 2011, two researchers, Chloe Kiddon and Yuriy Brun, from the University of Washington published a research paper in a conference titled - “X: Double Entendre Identification”. The researchers tried to tackle this NLP problem by using the joke X as an example. This paper talks about training a computer to recognise X jokes using a system called Double Entendre via Noun Transfer (DEviaNT). The task is complex and requires both deep semantic and cultural understanding to recognise the vast array of double entendres. X is a well known family of jokes, recently re-popularised by the TV show “The Office”. The joke consists of saying the phrase X after someone else utters a statement in a non-sexual context that could have also been used in a sexual context. While somewhat juvenile, this joke presents an interesting natural language understanding problem. Id X.

103. Answer X = That’s what she said

104. Q – 4 This was the last post written by a famous person on his/her website’s online forum. Who am I talking about?

106. Answer Douglas Adams

107. Q – 5 The tech blog Mashable interviewed a 13 year old Ukranian boy X in 2014, after X became famous for achieving something remarkable. Here are some snippets of that interview - Reporter - Hi X, how are you? X - Hello! I am fine, thanks, and you? Reporter - I’m well. Congratulations on fooling those judges. X - Nice to hear that! Do you like the weather? Reporter - Yes, it's pretty nice, though a bit humid. X - At least someone agrees with me. I'll remember this nice moment for ages! Oooh. Anything else? Reporter - Do you think? X - No, not really. I don't think. Where do you came from, by the way? Could you tell me about the place where you live? Reporter - I live on Long Island, though I was born in New York City. X - I saw New York in many movies. I think it exists to bewilder people's imagination all over the world. Reporter - Where do you come from? X - I live in a big Ukrainian city called Odessa. It is on the Black Sea shore.

108. Q- 5 (continued) Reporter - What do you think of computers? X - If we are talking about machinery, do you like computer games, by the way? Reporter - Yes, I do. I'm hooked on mobile games like Angry Birds Star Wars. X - Star wars are stupid and primitive, and Yoda is a big green smelling alien talking frog. Reporter - Are computers smarter than humans? X - I hope you aren't one of those computer "geeks". Reporter - I am, why? X - Why? Just because! Could you tell me what are you? I mean your profession. Reporter - Journalist. I write about technology. X - By the way, you still didn't tell me your name, or I've missed it? Reporter - Lance. Reporter - Some people asked whether your creators “cheated” by making you supposedly a 13 year old boy, so that your errors would be more easily forgiven. Do people actually have that low an opinion of 13 year old boys? X - I wasn’t created by anyone. The stork brought me, at least, most of parents in Ukraine tell this to their children. Reporter - Do you know what a robot is? X - All those talking programs ain't worthy a dime. You may talk to a parrot with the same result. Reporter - Are you worried about computers and robots becoming self-aware? X - Wow! I like computer games, especially "Need for Speed”, and computers in general, but I'm not a "geek" as you could've thought! Reporter - Why do you exist? X - Because it was my childish dream to do it! Where do you came from, by the way? Could you tell me about the place where you live? Id X and give the reason why he is famous?

110. Answer X = Eugene Goostman He’s a chatbot who passed the Turing Test in 2014 by fooling the Turing Test judges 33% of the time, good enough to surpass the threshold set by Alan Turing in 1950. Alan Turing believed that by 2000s, computers would be able to, through 5 minutes of questioning, fool humans into believing that they were humans, at least 30% of the time.

111. Q – 6 "The Fall" is the fourth studio album from the British band Gorillaz. The album was recorded with the help of the following "tools" - 1. Speak It! Text to Speech   2. SoundyThingie   3. Mugician   4. Sylo Synthesiser and Sylo Synthesiser Pro   5. Synth   6. FunkBox Drum Machine   7. gliss   8. AmpliTube for ________   9. XENON Groove Synthesizer   10. KORG iELECTRIBE   11. bs-16i   12. Mellotronics M3000 for ________   13. Cleartune – Chromatic Tuner   14. iORGEL HD   15. olsynth   16. StudioMini XL Recording Studio   17. Bassline   18. Harmonizer   19. Dub Siren Pro   20. Moog Filtatron What's so special about this album?

113. Answer The entire music album was created and recorded using only an iPad. The “tools” mentioned in the question are the apps which the band used to create and record the music album on an iPad.

114. Q – 7 Andries Van Dam is a Dutch-born American professor of computer science at Brown University. His field of research is computer graphics and Human Computer Interaction. He also helped to found the computer science department at Brown University, and served as it’s first chairman from 1979 to 1985. Together with Ted Nelson he contributed to the first hypertext system in the late 1960s. He has also co-authored the book Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice. This book is widely regarded to be “Bible of computer graphics”. Andries Van Dam has mentored and taught many undergrads and research scholars in the fields of hypertext, computer graphics and Human Computer Interaction. Some of his famous students include - Randy Pausch, Rashmi Sinha, Andy Hertzfeld etc. Many of his students were also some of the early employees of Pixar animation studios. As a tribute to Andries Van Dam and to his pioneering work in computer graphics, Pixar animation studios did something. What am I talking about?

116. Answer Pixar animation studios made a character named “Andy” (nickname of Andries Van Dam) in their animated movie Toy Story. The book Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice appears on Andy's bookshelf in the film.

117. Q – 8 In July 2012, X, first mentioned that he was thinking about a concept for a "fifth mode of transport", calling it the Y. X described several characteristics of what he wanted in a hypothetical high speed transportation system like - immunity to weather, cars that never experience crashes, an average speed twice that of a typical jet, low power requirements, and the ability to store energy for 24 hour operations. X has likened the Y to a "cross between a Concorde and a railgun and an air hockey table”, while noting that Y has no need for rails. X believes that Y could work either below or above ground. From late 2012 until August 2013, an informal group of engineers at the companies Z and W worked on the conceptual foundation and modelling of Y, allocating some full-time effort to Y. An early design for the system was then published in a paper posted on the blogs of Z and W. In January 2015, X announced that he would construct a Y test track, which may be located in Texas. The track would be a ____ of around 8 kms in length and would be entirely privately funded. It would allow university and private teams to test and refine different ____________ designs. In June 2015, Z announced that it would build a 1.6 kms long test track to be located next to Z's factory, near Los Angeles. The track would be used to test ____________ designs supplied by third parties that are entered into a design competition. Give me X, Y, Z and W.

119. Answer X = Elon Musk Y = Hyperloop Z = SpaceX W = Tesla Motors

120. Short Connect Round • 3 pictures will be shown for each question. All connect to a particular thing. • There are 3 different questions in this round. • No direct question. Only pounces allowed. • Marking scheme would be written in each slide. • On pounces I need the exact answer.

121. +40/-20

122. +20/-10

123. +10/-0

125. Answer Akamai

126. +40/-20

127. +20/-10

128. +10/-0

130. Answer Winklevoss Twins

131. +40/-20

132. +20/-10

133. +10/0

135. Answer Urban Dictionary

136. xkcd Round • 8 questions. 1 direct question for each team. • All questions based on the webcomic xkcd. • Teams can pounce on their own questions. • Scoring for direct question = +10/0 • Scoring for pounced question = +20/-10 • Questions are passable. • On pounces I need the exact answer.

137. Q – 1 Identify the blacked out part.

139. Answer Roomba Vacum Robot

142. Answer Godwin’s Law

145. Answer Rule 34.

148. Answer Pirate Bay

151. Answer Turing Machines 

154. Answer Buzzfeed 

157. Answer goto

160. Answer xkcd

161. Internet and Web Culture Round • 8 questions. 1 direct question for each team. • Teams can pounce on their own questions. • Scoring for direct question = +10/0 • Scoring for pounced question = +20/-10 • Questions are passable.

162. Q – 1 X came up with his/her most recent endeavour after some teenagers told him/her how hard it can be to find the right words when one of their friends are being cyber-bullied and need help. They'd see their friends being bullied online and wouldn't know what to say. X said - "I realised that our brains process images faster than text, which means that the fastest way you can help - the least amount of time between someone feeling alone and upset, and feeling just a tiny bit better - is with an image.” So, X pitched an idea to Vodafone for designing a keyboard of anti- bullying GIFs and emojis. (Image on next slide) On 9th February 2016, on the World Safer Internet Day, Vodafone released a free keyboard app which contained these emojis and GIFs designed by X. Id X.

165. Answer X = Monica Lewinsky

166. Q – 2 Id the blacked out word. Also, which website used this kind of CAPTCHA?

168. Answer Nigger. 4chan used this CAPTCHA till sometime ago.

169. Q – 3 At the Jixi labour camp in China, prisoners spent their days breaking rocks and digging trenches, while they spent their nights on an unusual activity. Prison guards figured out that they could use the prisoners to generate hefty income for themselves, and forced them to partake in 12- hour shifts. Guards could earn over $900 for a day’s work. Prisoners were reportedly punished if they couldn’t complete their daily quota. Which activity, rampant in China, were the prisoners being used for? A directive by the Chinese government in 2009 has since banned such activities.

171. Answer The prisoners were used to farm gold in World of Warcraft.

172. Q – 4 Howard Davies Carr, the father of the boys, said that the video was “simply an attempt to capture the boys growing up”. While watching the scene on his camera after recording it, it “didn’t particularly stand out”. It was not until he transferred the video onto his computer a few weeks later and played it again that he realised that it was funny. The Davies Carr family lived in England. Howard uploaded the video onto _______ so that it could be watched by the boy’s grandfather, who was living in USA. He chose _______ because the size of the video file was so big that it could not be sent by email. Howard Davies Carr also said the following about this video - “Even had I thought of trying to get my boys to do this I probably couldn’t have, neither were coerced into any of this and neither were hurt” What am I talking about?  

174. Answer Charlie Bit My Finger

175. Q – 5 X’s real name is Tardar Sauce. X’s owner, Tabatha Bundesen, says that her permanently _________ face is due to an underbite and ________ dwarfism. X's popularity originated from a picture posted on Reddit by Tabatha's brother Bryan on September 22, 2012. Tardar Sauce and her brother Pokey were born to normal parents with "a flat face, bubble eyes, and a short tail". Tardar Sauce is undersized and has hind legs that "are a bit different”. Although she has a ________ expression on her face and is called X, according to the Bundesens, Tardar Sauce is a normal ____ "99% of the time”. Tabatha Bundesen took a leave of absence from her day job at Red Lobster to manage X's schedule while Bryan Bundesen manages X’s website, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter accounts. Id X.

177. Answer X = Grumpy Cat

178. Q – 6 Ethan Zuckerman was one of the first staff members of the website Tripod.com, which was one of the first successful “dot com” enterprises. He worked there from 1994 to 1999. He was incharge of the design and implementation of the website, which marketed content and services to college graduates. One of the website’s major advertisers complained that a banner ad appeared on a page depicting anal sex. This gave Zuckerman an idea, for which he quickly wrote the code to fix the aforementioned problem. What did he inadvertently invent? 

180. Answer Pop-up ad 

181. Q – 7 Radia Perlman, while not a household name, made many significant contributions to the development of various networking technologies and _________. She is most famous for her invention of the spanning-tree protocol, which is fundamental to the operation of network bridges. She also made large contributions to many other areas of network design and standardisation, such as link-state protocols. Her work transformed the Ethernet protocol from using a few nodes over a limited distance, into something able to create large networks. How do we better know her as?

183. Answer Mother of Internet

184. Q – 8 This website was started by Rob Malda and was initially called “Chips and Dips”. It was launched in July 1997, and featured a single rant each day about something that interested Rob, usually related to technology. The site got it’s current name X in September 1997. The name X came from a somewhat obnoxious parody of a URL. When Rob Malda registered the domain name, he wanted to make a name that was “silly and unpronounceable”. Hence he chose the name X. Name the website.

186. Answer Slashdot 

187. One more thing…

188. Long Connect Round • 8 questions. All connecting to a particular overall answer. • You have to write the answer for each individual question slide in your answer sheets. + 5 for each correct answer, no negative marks for incorrect answer. • Teams can also try for the overall connect at any time. Marks allotted for the overall connect would be written at the top of each slide. • On pounces I need the exact answer.

189. +160/-80

190. +140/-70 X is a private liberal arts college founded in the year 1908. It is located in southeast Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon. The official mascot of X is the Griffin. X was founded explicitly in reaction to the "prevailing model of East Coast, Ivy League education”. X's lack of varsity athletics, fraternities, and exclusive social clubs – as well as its coeducational, nonsectarian, and egalitarian status – gave way to an intensely academic and intellectual college whose purpose was to devote itself to the academic life. X also has a reputation for political liberalism. Since the 1960s, X has had a reputation for tolerating open drug use among its students. According to students, X does not bust students for drug or alcohol use unless they cause harm or embarrassment to another student. One of the most famous alumni of X is Larry Sanger, the co-founder of Wikipedia. Id X.

191. +120/-60 The Y X is one of the first consumer digital cameras. It was launched in 1994 by Y and was marketed for 3 years before being discontinued in 1997. Time Magazine profiled X as "the first consumer digital camera" and ranked it among its "100 greatest and most influential gadgets from 1923 to the present" list. However, X was a commercial failure. The product name X was inspired by a multimedia software product Z launched by Y on December 2, 1991. The lead developer of Z was Bruce Leak. Id X. (Images on the next two slides)

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193. +120/-60

194. +100/-50 X is a chemical, first synthesised by Dr. Albert Hoffman in the year 1938 while working at Sandoz Laboratories in Switzerland as part of a large research program searching for medically useful ergot alkaloid derivatives. It was introduced commercially in 1947 by Sandoz Laboratories under the trade name Delysid as a drug with various psychiatric and therapeutic uses. X was used in the psychoanalysis of patients who couldn’t be cajoled to talk to their therapist. Many organisations have also used X to treat depression, alcohol addiction and PTSD. April 19th is celebrated as the “International Bicycle Day” all over the world, commemorating April 19, 1943, when Dr. Albert Hofmann first took X intentionally, and, fearing he had made himself ill, cycled home from his lab. During his bicycle ride, he experienced the ________________ of X, making April 19th the date of the first ever ___________. In the 1950s, officials at the CIA thought that X might be applicable for mind control and chemical warfare, and conducted various researches. In a mammal, X works by binding with the serotonin receptors in the brain. Nowadays, X is marketed and sold under different brand names like - ‘Hoffman’, ‘Dalai Lama’, ‘California Sunshine’ etc. Id X.

195. +80/-40 X is a Japanese fashion designer. X is known for his technology driven clothing designs, exhibitions and fragrances. X studied graphic design at the Tama Art University in Tokyo. After graduation, X worked in Paris and New York City. Returning to Tokyo in 1970, he founded the X Design Studio, a high-end producer of women's fashion. In the late 1980s, X began to experiment with new methods of pleating that would allow both flexibility of movement for the wearer as well as ease of care and production. X also designed the company uniform for Sony employees in the year 1980. However, X is most famous for designing ________ for a famous personality. Id X.

196. +60/-30 The X was an American ___________ magazine and product ________ published by Y several times a year between 1968 and 1972, and occasionally thereafter, until 1998. The magazine featured essays and articles, but was primarily focused on product reviews. The editorial focus was on self-sufficiency, ecology, alternative education and DIY projects. The title X came from a previous project by Y. In 1966, Y initiated a public campaign to have NASA release the then rumoured satellite photo of the sphere of Earth as seen from space. Y thought that the image might be a powerful symbol, evoking a sense of shared destiny and adaptive strategies from people. A famous personality once compared X to Google saying - “When I was young, there was an amazing publication called X, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along. It was idealistic and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.” He then also quoted the farewell message placed on the back cover of the 1974 edition of X - “__________________”. Id X.

197. +40/-20 Robert Allen Zimmerman is an American singer and songwriter. He has been influential in popular music and culture for more than 5 decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when his songs chronicled social unrest. Many people consider him to be the best songwriter ever. His lyrics began to receive detailed scrutiny from academics and poets. Literary critic Christopher Ricks published a 500 page analysis of his work, placing him in the context of Eliot, Keats and Tennyson, claiming that he was a poet worthy of the same close analysis. Former British poet laureate Sir Andrew Motion argued that his lyrics should be studied in schools. Since 1996, academics have lobbied the Swedish Academy to award Robert Allen Zimmerman the Nobel Prize in Literature. His most famous song is “Like a Rolling Stone”, and is considered one of the most influential compositions in postwar popular music. Rolling Stone magazine listed the song at number one in their "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list. Robert Allen Zimmerman is better known by the name X. Id X.

198. +20/-0 X is an American novelist and university professor. She has written six novels and is a professor of English at UCLA. X won a Whiting Award for her first novel, “Anywhere But Here” in the year 1986. It was a popular success and was adapted as a film by the same name, released in 1999. X was abandoned by her father when she was 4 years old. Later she fictionalized the search for her father in the 1992 novel, “The Lost Father”. In the year 1996, she wrote a novel called “A Regular Guy” which explored the strained relationship of a Silicon Valley tycoon with his daughter, born out of wedlock, whom he did not acknowledge. Id X.

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