Slide 2 Finals Senior Quiz Slide 3 Rules Infinite Pounce: +20 /
-10 if your team pounces on a question Otherwise, question goes
through Infinite Bounce with +10, no negative marking Quizmasters
decision is final and binding Slide 4 Question 1 Chad Hurley and
Steve Smith, founded a company in 2011, which took over the
internet service Delicious. Name this company. Slide 5 Answer AVOS
Systems Slide 6 Question 2 In Japanese companies, a certain class
of workers are often consigned to oidashibeya, or chase-out rooms,
where theyre given menial tasks or asked to do nothing at all in a
bid to bore them into quitting. What is the reason behind this
custom? Slide 7 Answer Japans labour laws and customs restrict the
firing of workers. Companies that want to trim payrolls offer
packages to flush out volunteers effectively giving the most
skilled (and frustrated) a cash incentive to jump ship, while
others get sent to these chase-out rooms Slide 8 Question 3 The
foldout laptop computer keyboard designed by John Karidis for IBM
as part of the ThinkPad 701 series, released in 1995, allowed the
701 series to be both compact (when closed) and comfortable to use
(when open). The design was considered revolutionary and rocked the
laptop world. What was it called? Slide 9 Answer Butterfly keyboard
Slide 10 Question 4 X began as a research project by Michael Loren
Mauldin of Carnegie Mellon University in 1994. X was sold to Terra
Networks of Spain in May 2000 for $13 billion, forming a new
company, Terra X. On August 16, 2010, Ybrant Digital announced the
signing of a stock purchase agreement to acquire X Inc. What am I
describing? Slide 11 Answer Lycos Slide 12 Question 5 Yes, I have
strong opinions. And CVS users...if you really like using CVS, you
shouldnt be here. You should be in some mental institution
somewhere else. Who said this? Slide 13 Answer Linus Torvalds Slide
14 Question 6 Dalton Maag is a small company based out of London,
UK and counts Nokia, Toyota, BMW, Vodafone, and Virgin Galactic
among its customers. In 2010, they added X as a customer to this
illustrious list. Identify X. (Hint: The answer is in the question
itself.) Slide 15 Answer Ubuntu font (the typeface used in this
quiz) Slide 16 Question 7 X as described by Raymond is a claim
about software development, named in honor of Y and formulated by
Raymond in his essay and book The Cathedral and the Bazaar (1999).
The law states that "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow";
or more formally: "Given a large enough beta-tester and
co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized
quickly and the fix will be obvious to someone." Presenting the
code to multiple developers with the purpose of reaching consensus
about its acceptance is a simple form of software reviewing.
Researchers and practitioners have repeatedly shown the
effectiveness of various types of reviewing process in finding bugs
and security issues, and also that reviews may be more efficient
than testing. Robert Glass refers to the law as a "mantra" of the
open source movement. Slide 17 Answer X - Linuss Rule Y - Linus
Torvalds Slide 18 Question 8 This picture references an event that
took place a couple of years ago. You have all the clues you need
in the picture itself. Identify what this is about. Slide 19 Answer
Jimi Heseldon, the owner of Segway, died when he rode his Segway
off a cliff Slide 20 Question 9 X is the Europe's largest
association of hackers, based in Germany and other German-speaking
countries. X describes itself as "a galactic community of life
forms, independent of age, sex, race or societal orientation, which
strives across borders for freedom of information..." In general,
the X advocates more transparency in government, freedom of
information, and the human right to communication. Slide 21 Answer
Chaos Computer Club Slide 22 Question 10 X was a protest movement
against the practices of the Church of Scientology by members of
Anonymous The project was started in response to the Church of
Scientology's attempts to remove material from a highly publicized
interview with Scientologist Tom Cruise from the Internet in
January 2008. The project was publicly launched in the form of a
video posted to YouTube, "Message to Scientology", on January 21,
2008. Slide 23 Answer Operation Chanology Slide 24 Question 11
There were five primary goals in the creation of X It should be
"simple, object-oriented and familiar" It should be "robust and
secure" It should be "architecture-neutral and portable" It should
execute with "high performance" It should be "interpreted,
threaded, and dynamic" Identify X. Slide 25 Answer Java Slide 26
Question 12 Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg is a Swedish video game
commentator on YouTube. He specializes in Let's Play videos of the
horror and action video game genres. His channel is one of the
fastest growing YouTube channels, and as of October 2013 has over
14 million subscribers.In August 2013 his channel became the most
subscribed channel on YouTube. How is he better known as? Slide 27
Answer PewDiePie (pronounced pew-dee-py) Slide 28 Question 13 The X
Awards are an annual awards event that honors the best short- form
content creators on the micro-blogging website Twitter and on other
social media sites. Since their creation in 2008, the awards have
expanded beyond Twitter to recognize content creation on other
social networking sites, including YouTube, Tumblr, Foursquare, and
Facebook. Past winners include Conan O'Brien, Ricky Gervais, Sesame
Street's Grover, Suze Orman, Ted Leo, Neil Patrick Harris and NASA.
What awards am I talking about? Slide 29 Answer Shorty Awards Slide
30 Question 14 Known as Xanadu 2.0, after the title characters
estate in the film Citizen Kane, this is a 66,000 sq. ft. mansion
which features among other things a 60 foot swimming pool with an
underwater music system. Guests wear pins that automatically adjust
temperature, music, and lighting based on guest's preferences upon
entering a room. What place is this? Slide 31 Answer Bill Gates'
house Slide 32 Question 15 What has been the Russian governments
response to news of NSA surveillance on foreign governments? Slide
33 Answer Theyve switched to using typewriters! Slide 34 Question
16 On January 16, 1978, Ward Christensen and Randy Suess began work
on the X. They may not have done so if it were not for the Great
Blizzard of 1978, which forced them to stay indoors and provided
the downtime from work to do so. Slide 35 Answer Computerized
Bulletin Board System, the first bulletin board system Slide 36
Question 17 X is a term referring to the unintended consequences of
a company pre-announcement made either unaware of the risks
involved or when the timing is misjudged, which ends up having a
negative impact on the sales of the current product. This is often
the case when a product is announced too long before its actual
availability. The X effect is an example of a self-defeating
prophecy, as the announcement of the new product is ultimately
responsible for its own abandonment. What is X? Slide 37 Answer
Osborne effect Slide 38 Question 18 Ad for what company? Slide 39
Answer Axe / Lynx Slide 40 Question 19 Identify Slide 41 Answer
XCode - an IDE by Apple Slide 42 Question 20 What is the name
commonly given to the algorithm that Facebook uses to determine
what articles should be displayed in a user's News Feed ? Slide 43
Answer EdgeRank Slide 44 Question 21 Connect: Br, Au, En, Lr, Ae,
Pr Slide 45 Answer Part of Adobes Creative Suite (Bridge, Audition,
Encore, Lightroom, After Effects, Premier) Slide 46 Question 22
This track is the first video game theme ever to win a Grammy
Award. What game is it from? Slide 47 Answer Civilization IV Slide
48 Question 23 Connect Slide 49 Answer All have been acquired by
Flipkart Slide 50 Question 24 Look very closely at this picture and
tell me what person is associated with this. Slide 51 Answer Larry
Ellison. If you look closely, youll find invoices for yacht and
Americas Cup a big passion for Ellison. Slide 52 Question 25 What
is common among Gaius Flavius Antoninus (assassin of Julius
Caesar), Crocodile shears (a torture device), Chen Fang (Harvard
student who is also the mayor of a small town in China), Bicholim
conflict (a war between the Portugese and the Maratha empire)?
Slide 53 Answer They were all Wikipedia hoaxes, i.e., for which
pages existed but it wasnt a real thing. Slide 54 Question 26 What
event is taking place in the picture on the right? Slide 55 Answer
Obama conducting the first ever Twitter Townhall Slide 56 Question
27 Who is this person and what is he describing? Slide 57 Answer
John McAfee (founder of McAfee Software) Slide 58 Question 28 This
started in 1987 when Joe Becker (Xerox) and Mark Davis (Apple)
started a discussion about standardising something. What is this?
Slide 59 Answer Unicode Slide 60 Question 29 Fill in the blank.
Slide 61 Answer Ballmer Peak Slide 62 Question 30 Non-exhaustive
list: Akelarre, Anubis, Blowfish, Camellia, Cobra, Crab, Hasty
Pudding, Iraqi, Lucifer, MacGuffin, Nimbus, Square, Serpent,
Skipjack, Threefish, Twofish, Xenon, Zodiac. What are all of these?
Slide 63 Answer Block cipher algorithms (for encryption) Slide 64
Question 31 Jaguar, or Family 16h, is the codename for a low- power
SoC microarchitecture. It forms the basis for four product
families: Kabini aimed at notebooks and mini PCs; Temash aimed at
tablets; Kyoto aimed at micro-servers; and the G-Series aimed at
embedded applications. However, it is better known for a completely
different application. What? Slide 65 Answer Forms the CPU for both
PlayStation 4 and Xbox One Slide 66 Question 32 What product is
shown in this video? Slide 67 Answer Microsoft Courier, a concept
tablet that Micrsoft came up with in 2008 but which never got
built. Ultimately, the project was cancelled in 2010. Slide 68
Question 33 What film is this? Slide 69 Answer Revolution OS, a
documentary about history of the free / open source software
movement Slide 70 Question 34 Founded by Ben Rattray, its motto is
What will you ________? What am I talking about? Slide 71 Answer
Change.org, a petition tool that is widely used for online
campaigns Slide 72 Question 35 What is Wirths law? Slide 73 Answer
It states that "software is getting slower more rapidly than
hardware becomes faster" Slide 74 Question 36 X is an independent
biotech company established in 2013 by Google with the stated goal
of focusing on the challenge of aging and associated diseases. The
new company will be led by Arthur D. Levinson, who is the current
chairman of both Apple Inc. and Genentech. Identify X. Slide 75
Answer Calico (California Life Company) Slide 76 Question 37
Connect these two people Slide 77 Answer The person on the right is
Rachel Leigh Cook, often mistaken online as Bill Gates daughter
Jennifer Gates. On the left is Bill Gates actual daughter, Jennifer
Gates. Slide 78 Question 38 Non-exhaustive list: Dot (a
shape-shifting and colour-shifting smiley-faced red ball), Hoverbot
(a robot), Genius (a caricature of Albert Einstein), Mother Nature
(a globe), Scribble (an origami-esque cat), Power Pup (a superhero
dog), Will (a caricature of William Shakespeare) What connects
these? Slide 79 Answer All these are Microsoft Office Assistants
(similar to Clippy) Slide 80 Question 39 Identify what this is
(very specific answer needed) Slide 81 Answer Nokia Tune Dubstep
Edition, which is the new avatar of the Nokia Tune preloaded on all
Nokia mobile phones Slide 82 Question 40 What is so special about
an upcoming space trading and combat simulator video game Star
Citizen? Slide 83 Answer Its the highest-raised crowdfunded project
till date Slide 84 Question 41 __________ have launched more
successful companies in a shorter period of time than almost any
other company in history. They are sometimes credited with
inspiring the re-emergence of consumer-focused Internet companies
after the dot com bust of 2001. Slide 85 Answer The PayPal Mafia,
consisting of members such as Peter Thiel, Max Levchin, Reid
Hoffman, Elon Musk et al. Slide 86 Question 42 Who is this? (Hint:
Think about resemblance of facial features) Slide 87 Answer Polly
Adams, Douglas Adams daughter. Of course, this was question #42.
(Shes @pollyjradams on Twitter, in case you want to stalk her.)
Slide 88 Question 43 Explain what this is. Bonus points for giving
specific names. Slide 89 Answer Wii Us multi-chip module. The CPU
from IBM is called Espresso and the GPU from AMD is called Latte
Slide 90 Question 44 Logo for Slide 91 Answer Google Fiber Slide 92
Question 45 The ____________ is a Nokia Belle powered smartphone,
first unveiled on 27 February 2012 at the Mobile World Congress. On
24 January 24 2013, Nokia officially confirmed __________ to be the
last "flagship" Symbian smartphone. Fill in the blanks. Slide 93
Answer Nokia 808 PureView Slide 94 Question 46 Monolithic and micro
are the two main kinds of ________. They perform a vital role in
all modern computers, facilitating communication between the
applications and the hardware, i.e., a bridge between applications
and the actual data processing done at the hardware level. What am
I talking about? Slide 95 Answer Kernel Slide 96 So long, and
thanks for all the fish
