Geek-A-Q (comp sci and tech quiz) finals, NIT JAMSHEDPUR

RULES
• 8 QUESTIONS TO FOLLOW
• INFINITE BOUNCE (CLOCKWISE) + POUNCE
• +10/0 ON BOUNCE
• +20/-10 ON POUNCE
• POUNCE REMAINS OPEN TILL QMs DISCRETION
• NO LIMIT ON NUMBER OF POUNCES

1. What is the answer ?
In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams,
the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe,
and Everything was calculated by an enormous
supercomputer named Deep Thought over a period of 7.5
million years. Unfortunately, no one knows what the
question is. Thus, to calculate the Ultimate Question, a
special computer the size of a small planet was built from
organic components and named "Earth”.

2.
In July 2016, Artem Vaulin was arrested in Poland by local police.
The federal government tried to have him extradited to the United
States for his trial. Four charges were filed against him: two counts
of criminal copyright infringement, one count of conspiracy to
commit money laundering and one count of conspiracy to commit
copyright infringement.
What thus resulted and became a concern for us ?

3.
This day is recognized in many technology companies and is celebrated on
the 256th day of each year. It was proposed by Valentin Balt and Michael
Cherviakov, employees of Parallel Technologies. As early as 2002, they tried
to gather signatures for a petition to the government of Russia to recognize
the day as the official __________.
On July 24, 2009, the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media
(Russia) issued a draft of an executive order on a new professional holiday,
____________.
On September 11, 2009, President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev signed the
decree.

In February 2017, the Japanese government called on the Japanese
public to donate old smartphones and other old electronic devices.
The government is aiming to collect eight tonnes of scrap metal at
recycling bins across Japan from April. E-waste such as digital
cameras, laptops and games units can also be donated at collection
boxes in more than 2,000 stores of mobile phone giant NTT Docomo.
What is this all about ?
5. Put FUNDA

TO MANUFACTURE MEDALS FOR TOKYO
2020 OLYMPICS FROM SCRAP METAL

7. To X, Love Y
I write this to explain why I’ll be holding back from the new streaming
service. I feel this deserves an explanation because X has been one of my best
partners in connecting with my fans. I respect the truly ingenious minds of X
that have created a legacy based on innovation and pushing the right
boundaries.
This is not about me. This is about the new artist or band that has just released
their first single and will not be paid for its success. This is about the producer
who works tirelessly to innovate, just like the innovators and creators at X. I
say to X with all due respect, it’s not too late to change this policy and change
the minds of those who will be deeply and gravely affected by this. We don’t
ask you for free ________. Please don’t ask us to provide free _________.

8. FITB
In publishing and graphic design, ________ is a filler text commonly
used to demonstrate the graphic elements of a document or visual
presentation. Replacing meaningful content with placeholder text
allows designers to design the form of the content before the content
itself has been produced.
The _______ text is typically a scrambled section of De finibus
bonorum et malorum, a 1st-century BC Latin text by Cicero, with
words altered, added, and removed to make it nonsensical, improper
Latin.

RULES
• 6 GOOGLE DOODLES TO FOLLOW
• WRITE DOWN THE OCCASION/PERSONALITY
ASSOCIATED
• +5/0 FOR EACH CORRECT ANS
• +10 BONUS IF YOU GET ALL 6 CORRECT

RULES
• MAXIMUM OF 2 ATTEMPTS PER QUESTION
• +20/-20 ON FIRST ATTEMPT
• +10/-10 ON SECOND ATTEMPT

1. CONNECT
• Hodge conjecture
• Riemann hypothesis
• Yang–Mills existence and mass gap
• Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness
• Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture
• P versus NP

5. CLAIM TO FAME ?
Alan Jay Perlis was an American computer
scientist and professor at Carnegie Mellon
University and Yale University. He is best
known for his influence in the area of
advanced computer programming
techniques and compiler construction.
What is his claim to fame?

RULES
• INFINITE BOUNCE (ANTI CLOCKWISE) + POUNCE
• +10/0 ON BOUNCE
• +20/-10 ON POUNCE
• POUNCE REMAINS OPEN TILL QMs DISCRETION
• NO LIMIT ON NUMBER OF POUNCES

1. ID X
CIH, also known as X or Spacefiller, is a Microsoft Windows computer
virus which first emerged in 1998. The virus was created by Chen Ing-hau
who was a student in Taiwan. 60 million computers were believed to be
infected by the virus internationally, resulting in an estimated $1 billion US
dollars in commercial damages. The virus made a comeback in 2001 when
a variant of the LoveLetter Worm that contained the CIH virus was
circulated around the internet, under the guise of a nude picture
of Jennifer Lopez.

X is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, to
"encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks". It was founded in
1971 by Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library. Most of the
items in its collection are the full texts of public domain books. X tries to
make these as free as possible, in long-lasting, open formats that can be
used on almost any computer. As of 3 October 2015, X reached 50,000
items in its collection.
3.

4. FEATURES OF WHICH LANGUAGE?
* All numbers must be strictly greater than 1 million. The small stuff is inconsequential to us.
* There are no import statements allowed. All code has to be home-grown.
* Instead of True and False, we have fact and lie.
* Only the most popular English words, X's favorite words can be used as variable names.
* Error messages are mostly quotes directly taken from X himself.
* All programs must end with “____________"
* Our language will automatically correct Forbes' $4.5B to $10B.
* In its raw form, this language is not compatible with Windows, because X doesn't believe in PC.
* The language is completely case insensitive.

5. GIVE CONTEXT
Date: 20th March, 2017
To,
Hon'ble Home Minister
We would like to express our concern and draw your attention towards the manner in
which X, Founder and CEO of Y, was arrested and the alleged influence including
harassment by the concerned officials.
Although we do not wish to prejudge to the matter, the Y case and it's locked up founder
underscore the hardships of being an entrepreneur in India. If ever there's a right to be
an entrepreneur, that's clearly been violated. Period. X started getting pressurized to
confess to "a crime" he never committed. His refusal to confess to a crime he never
committed only made the things worse for him. We are standing up together as a
community and believers in the vision of Honble Prime Minister, Shri. Narendra Modi for
"Startup India. Stand-up India" to call for a free and fair investigation into the dispute
and strongly oppose any abuse of power to subvert the law of land.

Over 400 Indian Start up founders protesting the
arrest of Stayzilla founder, Yogendra Vasupal

6.
X (formerly known as Firstouch) is a
multi-lingual mobile operating system
based on Android. In India, the operating
system has gained popularity, ranking
above iOS & Windows and only
behind Android. This is credited as
world’s first regional Operating System
made especially for the regional language
users. The operating system has its own
app market place called App Bazaar.

Cheque awarded by Donald Knuth for
pointing out errors in his books.

8.
In game theory, X is a type of non-zero-sum game in which two
players attempt to maximize their own payoff, without any
concern for the other player's payoff. The game was formulated in
1994 by Kaushik Basu and goes as follows: (on next slide)

An airline manager is tasked to settle the claims of two travellers who have lost their
suitcases, which looked identical. The airline is liable for a maximum compensation of $100
per suitcase.
The manager separates both travellers so they can't confer, and asks them to write down the
value of their suitcase at no less than $2 and no larger than $100. He tells them that if both
write down the same number, he will treat that number as the true value of both suitcases
and reimburse both travelers that amount. However, if one writes down a smaller number
than the other, this smaller number will be taken as the true dollar value, and both travelers
will receive that amount along with : $2 extra will be paid to the traveler who wrote down
the lower value and a $2 deduction will be taken from the person who wrote down the
higher amount. The challenge is: what strategy should both travelers follow to maximize his
value?

RULES
• EACH TEAM GETS TO CHOOSE A CATEGORY FOR
DIRECT QUESTION
• QUESTION REMAINS OPEN FOR REST OF THE 7 TEAMS
ON BUZZER
• ONLY 1 ATTEMPT ON BUZZER
• +20/0 ON DIRECT QUESTION
• +20/-20 ON BUZZER

INTERNET
SOCIAL
NETWORKING
SCI FI
TERMINOLOGY
COMPUTER
SCIENCE &
TECHNOLOGY
SOFTWARE &
APPLICATIONS
GAMES &
GIZMOS
PROGRAMMING
LANGUAGE
INTERNET
SOCIAL
NETWORKING
GAMES & GIZMOS
PROGRAMMING
LANGUAGE

Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf are fondly known as the Fathers of the
Internet. They are credited with the creation of a communication
protocol which is fundamental to how the internet works.
This protocol follows two layer methodology. The higher layer
manages the assembling of a message or file into smaller packets that
are transmitted over the internet. The lower layer handles
the address part of each packet so that it gets to the right destination.
ID this protocol.
INTERNET

SOCIAL
NETWORKING
Created by Andrew Weinreich, X was a social network service that lasted from
1997 to 2001 and was based on the Web of Contacts model of social networking.
It allowed users to list friends, family members and acquaintances both on the site
and externally. Users could send messages and post bulletin board items to people
in their first, second, and third degrees, and see their connection to any other user
on the site.
It was one of the first social networking websites in the format now seen today. X
was followed by more successful social networking sites based on the "social-
circles network model" such as Friendster, MySpace, LinkedIn, and Facebook.

GAMES &
GIZMOS
He is a Japanese video game
designer, screenwriter, director,
and producer. Regarded as
an auteur of video games, he is
the director of X Productions,
which he founded in 2005, and a
former vice president of Konami
Digital Entertainment.

PROGRAMMING
LANGUAGE
X, a Romani language nickname means I awake. It is a
free and open-source web framework, written in Python,
which follows the model-view-template architectural
pattern. It was named after Belgian-born French jazz
guitarist and composer Jean X Reinhardt.

SCI FI
Written in October 1941 and first
published in the March 1942 issue
of Astounding Science Fiction, this is a
short sci-fi. It appears in the
collections I, Robot (1950), The
Complete Robot (1982) and Robot
Visions (1990).
The story is notable for featuring the
first explicit appearance of the Three
Laws of Robotics.

TERMINOLOGY
This term first appeared in fiction in the 1980s in the work of
science fiction author William Gibson, first in his 1982 short
story "Burning Chrome" and later in his 1984 novel
Neuromancer. It refers to "the notional environment in which
communication over computer networks occurs.“ The word
became popular in the 1990s when the use of the Internet,
networking, and digital communication were all growing
dramatically and the term X was able to represent the many new
ideas and phenomena that were emerging.

SOFTWARE &
APPLICATIONS
X is a multi-platform software suite for computer-aided
design, computer-aided manufacturing and computer-aided
engineering. It started as an in-house development in 1977 by
French aircraft manufacturer Avions Marcel Dassault to develop
Dassault's Mirage fighter jet. It was later adopted in the
aerospace, automotive, shipbuilding, and other industries.

COMPUTER
SCIENCE &
TECHNOLOGY
Expand CAPTCHA.
(part points on QMs discretion, need complete answer if
you hit the buzzer)

Completely Automated Public Turing test
to tell Computers and Humans Apart

RULES
• ONE LONG CONNECT
• WRITE BRO
• +10/0 FOR EACH CORRECT ANSWER
• ATTEMPT ON LONG CONNECT AFTER EVERY 2
QUESTIONS

1.
Initially developed by Donald Chamberlin and Raymond Ray in the
early 1970s, X is a domain-specific language used in programming
and designed for managing data held in a database management
systems. X became a standard of the American National Standards
Institute (ANSI) in 1986, and of the International Organization for
Standardization (ISO) in 1987. Since then, the standard has been
revised to include a larger set of features.
ID X.

2.
X is a storage device that uses magnetic storage to store and
retrieve digital information using one or more rigid rapidly rotating
disks coated with magnetic material. The platters are paired
with magnetic heads, usually arranged on a moving actuator arm,
which read and write data to the platter surfaces. Data is accessed in
a random-access manner, meaning that individual blocks of data can
be stored or retrieved in any order and not only sequentially.
ID X.

3.
This is a 2013 stop-motion animated short film released on YouTube.
One minute in length, it was made by moving carbon
monoxide molecules viewed with a scanning tunneling microscope, a
device that magnifies them 100 million times. These two-atom
molecules were moved to create images, which were then saved as
individual frames to make the film. The movie has been recognized by
the Guinness Book of World Records as the World's Smallest Stop-
Motion Film.
(Video on next slide)

4.
In late 1953, John W. Backus submitted a proposal to
develop a more practical alternative to assembly
language. What followed was the development of the
language X. Derived from formula translation, this is a
general-purpose programming language that is
especially suited to numeric computation and scientific
computing.

5.
X project is aimed at designing supercomputers that can reach
operating speeds in the PFLOPS (petaFLOPS) range, with low power
consumption. X systems have often led the TOP 500 and Green
500 rankings of the most powerful and most power efficient
supercomputers, respectively. The project was awarded the
2009 National Medal of Technology and Innovation, United States. As
of 2015, the development of the X family seemed to have ended
though no public announcement has been made. The name X comes
from what it was originally designed to do - help biologists
understand the processes of protein folding and gene development.

6.
A minimalistic, beautifully designed visual puzzle
game with over 360 puzzles spread over 30 chapters.
In the beginning, human beings communicated only
using symbols. Language complicated things.
Suddenly, there were many words to describe the
same idea. X attempts to slowly teach the player to
think visually and uses these learnings to construct
more complicated ideas further into the game. Can
you take a look at a bunch of images and figure out
what ideas we are trying to communicate?

8.
X is a question answering computer system capable of answering
questions posed in natural language, developed by a research team led
by David Ferrucci. The computer system was specifically developed to
answer questions on American television game show Jeopardy!
In 2011, X competed Jeopardy! against former winners Brad
Rutter and Ken Jennings and it received the first prize of $1 million.
The name X is also a popular fictional character who likes to
accompany his mate in his missions.

LONG CONNECT FOR +10 / -5
AND THE CONNECT IS….

printf(“That’s all Folks. Thank you.”);

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