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Mind-Buster
Round 1Motley Monotony
Rules:
• Infinite Pounce
• +10/-10 on Pounce
• +10/0 on Direct
Mind-BusterQ1) This is a home automation company headquartered in Palo
Alto, California, that designs and manufactures sensor-driven, Wi-
Fi-enabled, self-learning, programmable thermostats and smoke
detectors. Co-founded by former Apple engineers Tony Fadell and
Matt Rogers in 2010, the start-up company quickly grew to have
more than 130 employees by the end of 2012.. On January 13,
2014, Google announced plans to acquire this for US$3.2 billion
and leaves it to use its own brand. Identify the company being
described ?
Nest Labs
Mind-Buster
Q2) X is an Internet domain name registrar company founded in
1998 by Bhavin Turakhia and Divyank Turakhia.X is the first
ICANN accredited registrar in India. The head office of X is in
Mumbai, India.X has won the PinkSlip Choice Award for the “most
innovative recruitment advertisement" in 2008.Which compant am I
describing ?
Directi
Mind-Buster
Q3) This is a photo messaging application developed
by Evan Spiegel and Robert Murphy, then students.
Beginning under the name Picaboo, in Spiegel's father's living
room, though the application was later renamed and
relaunched under the present name .What famous application
which made news very recently ?
Snap chat
Mind-Buster Q- X is a Hacker Organization, which mainly Targets political oppositions and western websites as It supports the native government. They defaced the Harvard University website- Leaving behind the Image of Bashar-Al-Assad and A quote “The x was here”. It recently Hacked into Microsoft news’s twitter handle and frightened people by posting “Don’t use Microsoft emails (hotmail, outlook). They are monitoring your accounts and selling the data to the governments”. X also hijacked the Associated Press Twitter account and falsely claimed the White House had been bombed and President Barack Obama injured, which led to a US$136.5 billion dip on the S&P 500 index on 23 April 2013.
Syrian Electronic Army(SEA)
Mind-BusterQ5) X was sold in three parts: the X brand, website and
technology were sold to the current owner, Betaworks, for an
estimated $500,000; 15 staff were transferred to the
Washington Post's "SocialCode" for a reported $12 million;
and a suite of patents were sold to LinkedIn for about $4
million Some pages experienced a sudden increase of traffic
shortly after being submitted; some x users refer to this as the
"x effect”. Identify x.
Digg Effect
Mind-Buster
Q6) This was developed in 2006 by a team at in Stockholm,
Sweden. It is a commercial music streaming service
providing digital rights management-restricted content
from record labels including Sony, EMI, Warner Music
Group and Universal. As of December 2013, free music
streaming is now available on all mobile devices from this . It
was founded by Daniel Ek.What am I describing ?
Spotify
Round 2Sneek-Peak
Rules:• Infinite Pounce
• +10/-10 on Pounce
• +10/0 on Direct
Mind-Buster
Q1) Put funda behind
this picture.
The male voice behind Siri (John Briggs)
Mind-BusterQ2) What name in the logo has been blanked out ?
WWF
Mind-Buster
Q3) Identify the logo of this recent project ?
Project tango
Mind-BusterQ4) Facebook’s look back video of John Berlin’s son – something unique. Identify(Look back video for the son was played )
Look back for a dead person on Facebook(Jesse Berlin)
Mind-BusterQ5) Identify the company he heads ?
Lenovo(Yang Yuanquing)
Mind-BusterQ6) What famous application have they given the world ?
Truecaller (Alan Mamedi & Nami Zarringhalam)
Round 3The Linked-List
Rules:
• Infinite Pounce
• +10/-10 on Pounce
• +10/0 on Direct
Mind-Buster
Varun Agarwal
Mind-Buster
Epson
Mind-Buster
Product red
Mind-Buster
Indianrailway.gov.in servers
Mind-Buster
Invented by the U.S. Department of Defense (D.O.D).
President Bill Clinton reaffirms the United States’ commitment to provide it to the international
civilian community of users. 1995
1983President Reagan offers to
make it available for use by civilian aircraft, free of charge,
when the system becomes operational. This marks the
beginning of the spread of this technology from military to
civilian.
GPS
Mind-Buster
(The video was played )
3d hand gun Printer
Round 5Overloaded
Rules:• +15 in first clue
• +10 in second clue
• +5 third clue
• Constant -5 on each clue
1 2 3 4 5 6
Q1) Jeffrey Ng is the company's founder and CEO .
Clue 2
Clue 3
It is a social networking service, popular in India and China. It is
one of the few international social networks with a Chinese
Internet Content Provider license
This is its logo
Clue 1
Zorpia
Q2) She is the author of the well-known series of books The
Internet Kids & Families Yellow Pages.
Clue 2
Clue 3
She has served on the Internet Society Board of Trustees (1993–1996) and on the ICANN At-Large Advisory Council (ALAC) (2004–2006), as well as on the board of ICRA.
She was key in popularizing, but is often credited with coining the phrase "surfing the Internet", being the author of an article called "Surfing the INTERNET", published in then University of Minnesota
Clue 1
Jean Armour Polly
Q3) He is the founder and Chairman Emeritus of
Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab
Clue 2
Clue 3
This is a famous book authored by him
He is also founder of OLPC foundation
Clue 1
Nicholas Negroponte
Birnbaum, then chief technology officer of Hewlett-Packard, said of
him: "It seems impossible to exaggerate the effect he had on the
industry; many of the things that high performance computers now
do routinely were at the farthest edge of credibility when he
envisioned them
Clue 1
Clue 2
He joined Engineering Research Associates (ERA) in Saint Paul,
Minnesota. ERA had formed out of a former United States
Navy laboratory that had built codebreaking machines, a tradition
ERA carried on when such work was available.
He is known as the father of supercomputingClue 3
Seymour Cray
This was launched on April 28, 2009, by Perry Chen, Yancey Strickler, and Charles Adler ,a crowdsourcing platform .Clue 1
Clue 2
The New York Times called this: "the people's NEA". Time named it
one of the "Best Inventions of 2010" and "Best Websites of 2011".
On November 21, 2012, 3D Systems filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Formlabs and this crowdsourcing site for infringing its 3D printer patent US 5,597,520.
Clue 3
Kickstarter
He graduated from Bay Shore High School. He graduated from MIT in 1969 with two B.S. degrees, one in Electrical Engineering and the other in Industrial Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management. He then went to Harvard for graduate school, earning his M.S. in 1970.
Clue 1
Clue 2While pursuing a doctorate in computer science, took a job with MIT's Project MAC after Harvard refused to let him be responsible for connecting the school to the brand-new ARPAnet.
He is an electrical engineer from the United States who co-invented Ethernet, founded 3Com and formulated the law which states that “ that the value of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users of the system (n2).”
Clue 3
Robert Metacalfe