Tech Quiz- Boscotsav'18
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This document contains details about an event called Boscotsav'18 organized by the SPACE BYTE CLUB including questions related to technology, cryptocurrencies, AI startups, virtual assistants and more. It discusses concepts like proof-of-work, Bitcoin mining, Anthropic's Bonsai AI acquisition by Microsoft, Facebook's virtual assistant M, Red Hat's origins and other technology trivia.
Tech Quiz- Boscotsav'18
- 2. ANSWERS
- 3. 1. In the year 2633, the evil Red Falcon Organization have set a base on the Galuga archipelago near New Zealand in a plot to conquer the world.Two commandos, Pfc. Bill Rizer and Pfc. Lance Bean of the C unit (an elite group of soldiers specializing in guerrilla warfare), are sent to the island to destroy the enemy forces and uncover the true nature of Red Falcon, the alien entity controlling them Much of the game's popularity came from its two-player simultaneous gameplay, which was an uncommon feature in video games at the time of C’s release. Very popular in the 90’s and early 2000, give me C.
- 5. 2. A proof-of-work (PoW) system is an economic measure to deter denial of service attacks and other service abuses such as spam on a network by requiring some work from the service requester, usually meaning processing time by a computer. A key feature of these schemes is their asymmetry: the work must be moderately hard (but feasible) on the requester side but easy to check for the service provider. What is this colloquially known as in the world of Cryptocurrencies ?
- 6. mining
- 7. 3. B is an AI platform that empowers developers to build, teach and use intelligent systems. Founded in 2014 by former Microsoft engineers. It is a small start-up headquartered in Berkeley, CA and backed by NEA. B gets its name from the Japanese art form of producing small trees in containers that mimic the shape and scale of full size trees. Recently in new for its acquisition by Microsoft. Identify.
- 9. bonsai ai
- 10. 4. M was a virtual assistant by X, first announced in August 2015, that can automatically complete tasks for users, such as purchase items, arrange gift deliveries, reserve restaurant tables, and arrange travel. As of April 2017, it is available to about 10,000 users. When a user made request for M, it used algorithms to determine what the user wanted.When M didn’t understand, a human took over the conversation, unbeknownst to the user. Allowing M to learn. Id X.
- 12. facebook
- 13. 5. Whose first tweet is this ? (Bonus point for decoding it)
- 15. 6. This game was in news last week after a weapon and mask pack was released as part of a new update patch. The pack includes a pilot mask that appears to have rising sun imagery. While the off-center Rising Sun still might be the Japanese Navy’s official ensign, the imagery is offensive in many parts of Asia where it represents Japanese military aggression. Many Korean and Chinese players had found it offensive due to the fact that it was once a symbol of the Imperial Japanese military. Since then the developers have removed the item and have refunded players who bought it.
- 17. pubg
- 18. 7. Co-founder of X Marc Ewing owned a baseball cap that he inherited from his grandfather . When in university he used to name his software projects “ X 1”, “X 2” and so on, just to differentiate his projects from his friend’s projects. Later when he started his major project he abruptly named it as X. BobYoung, the other co-founder elaborates this in his interview by saying that “in the first version of _____ that was the Halloween version Marc made a little request that anyone who happens to visit Philadelphia area and come across his grandfather’s cap he would be grateful if you returned it to him because it is the only bug to this very day that X has failed to track down! Give me X
- 19. redhat
- 20. FIB 8. A ___________ VM is a virtual machine that is created, often for a particular purpose, and is forgotten when it is no longer needed for that purpose.As a result, theVM continues to consume resources while performing no useful work.
- 21. zombie vm
- 22. 9. Robert Williams was an American factory worker, at the Ford Motor Company Flat Rock Casting Plant who died in 1979 while gathering parts in the storage facility. His death was a first in a rather infamous way for the world of technology making him the first known human to be killed by a ________ .
- 23. robot
- 24. 10. The Hieroglyphics Initiative, a machine learning research project to help in the deciphering and translation of hieroglyphics. It was Launched in September 2017 by X in collaboration with Google. whilst working on the Ancient Egyptian setting of ________ , the team 'realised how challenging it still is to unlock the secrets of the past and wondered how modern technology could help.'
- 26. ubisoft
- 27. 11. X is a discontinued line of mobile devices that was originally designed and marketed by two tech Giants as the result of a long-term partnership between the two companies Introduced in November 2011 & discontinued in October 2017. The name is derived from the partitive plural form of the Finnish word meaning "snow”.
- 28. lumia
- 29. 12. In marketing terminology, a killer application is any computer program that is so necessary or desirable that it proves the core value of some larger technology. One of the first recognized examples of a killer application is generally agreed to be the X spreadsheet for the Apple II series. Because it was not available on other computers for 12 months, people spent $100 for the software first, then $2,000 to $10,000 on the Apple computer they needed to run it. What is X ?
- 30. visicalc
- 31. 13. The real origin of the term comes from a 1970 Monty Python’s Flying Circus skit. television comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus.The sketch is set in a cafe where nearly every item on the menu includes _________ canned luncheon meat. As the waitress recites the _________ filled menu, a chorus ofViking patrons drowns out all conversations with a song repeating the word ________! Wonderful __________!", hence _________ -ing the dialogue.The excessive amount of _____________ mentioned references the preponderance of it and other imported canned meat products in the United Kingdom after WorldWar II, as the country struggled to rebuild its agricultural base A single word with great relevance in the world ofTech fills up these blanks. FIB
- 32. spam
- 33. 14. GitHub Inc. is a web-based hosting service for version control using Git , acquired by Microsoft on June 4 2018.The Image below is of its mascot. Give me its name.
- 34. octo-cat
- 35. 15. Co-founder of X Jonathan Badeen spoke about how he got the idea for featureY: “After a hot water showerWhen I stepped out, the room was especially foggy. I wiped the mirror clean, but within a minute it was fogging up again. I wiped it clean a second time, only this time, I wiped in the opposite direction & I had an epiphany” X’s featureY was the first to accomplish two things at once: navigating and decision-making. Id: X
- 36. swipe feature
- 37. 16.The Macintosh was introduced by a US$1.5 million Ridley Scott television commercial, "1984". It most notably aired during the third quarter of Super Bowl XVIII on January 22, 1984, and is now considered a "watershed event” and a "masterpiece. "1984" used an unnamed heroine to represent the coming of the Macintosh as a means of saving humanity from the "conformity" of X’s attempts to dominate the computer industry.The ad alludes to George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four which described a dystopian future ruled by a televised "Big Brother Id. X
- 39. 17. J is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) for publishing web content, developed by Open Source Matters, Inc. J is the anglicised spelling of the Swahili word, meaning all together or as a whole that also has a similar meaning in at least Amharic, Arabic and Urdu.
- 40. joomla!
- 41. 18. US Patent 9624034 is a rather weird on, it talks about an underwater warehouse. Issued in 2017, who was this patent issued to ?
- 44. 19.TheW was an American counterculture magazine and product catalog published by Stewart Brand 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. Popularized in the recent decade by Steve Jobs who described it as `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 quoted a line from the he back cover of their final issue in his famous speech at Stanford.
- 46. 20. Signal is an encrypted communications app developed by OpenWhisper Systems forAndroid and iOS. A desktop version is also available for Linux,Windows, and macOS. It uses the Internet to send one-to-one and group messages, which can include files, voice notes, images and videos, and make one-to-one voice and video calls. It gained popularity because it has been continuously endorsed by a relevant public figure. Give me his name.
- 47. edward snowden
- 48. 21. ________ _________are games that mimic X’ gameplay. In other words, most early first-person shooters — due to X’s popularity, a huge number of such games appeared soon after its release.The term was in fact the common term for first- person shooters until the late 1990s. The first part of the blank is filled by X, give me the complete term.
- 49. doom clones
- 50. 22.The word comes from an Italian variant (seventeenth- centuryVenetian) of 'quaranta giorni', meaning forty days, the period that all ships were required to be isolated before passengers and crew could go ashore during the Black Death plague epidemic. What word, that is significant to security technology is being talked about here ?
- 51. quarantine
- 52. 23.This product was unveiled at CES 2001,The Rock joined Bill Gates on stage where the former compared his "know your role" and "shut your mouth" catchphrases with the latter's "writing hardcore C to create slick, tight code." Thankfully, this exchange did not end with Dwayne Johnson crushing the billionaire's body with a Rock Bottom followed by a People's Elbow Some of the names suggested for the product were ELEVEN, FACE, MARZ, M-PAC, and MIND, until ________ was proposed and it stuck.
- 53. x-box
- 54. 24. H is an American entertainment company that provides over- the-top media services owned by a joint venture that includesThe Walt Disney Company, 21st Century Fox and AT &T. The company’s blog explains the significance of its name : In Mandarin, H has two interesting meanings, each highly relevant to our mission.The primary meaning interested us because it is used in an ancient Chinese proverb that describes it as the holder of precious things. It literally translates to "gourd", and in ancient times, the H was hollowed out and used to hold precious things. The secondary meaning is "interactive recording". We saw both definitions as appropriate bookends and highly relevant to the mission of H.
- 55. hulu
- 56. I25. Id. From the logo , this company that provides seed funding for startups.
- 57. y-combinator
- 58. 26. X is a computer program that is the core of a computer's operating system, with complete control over everything in the system. On most systems, it is one of the first programs loaded on start-up (after the bootloader). In botany, the same word is used to apply to the seed inside the nut of most plants, especially Corn, Wheat etc.
- 59. KERNEL
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