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CLOCKWISE17 QUESTIONS

Q1. WHICH COMPANY? Recently X has made its first foray into the world of filmmaking, launching its very own 28-part thriller webseries.

The series Shield 5 follows the story of a security driver in London who is arrested for his involvement in a diamond heist and murder and forced to go on the run to clear his name.

The serialised thriller was broadcasted exclusively on X daily via video clips throughout February.

X was in the news for a particular change.

Shield 5 is the first-ever scripted Instagram series, to be broadcast daily in 28 episodes

Q2.WHAT SPECIAL PURPOSE HAD THIS BEEN MADE FOR?

Israeli start-up OTM Technologies will market a stylus with a difference: it's called Phree.

The key to Phree's operation is OTM Technologies' patented optical translation measurement technology: "What we invented," co-CEO Gilad Lederer told ZDNet, "is a way to measure laser Doppler in three dimensions."

The sensor uses the same 850nm laser as optical mice, measuring the interference between the projected beam and reflections from the surface.

This smart pen writes on any surface and automatically sends pen stroke data to any app on any smartphone.

Q3. WHAT IS THIS MATERIAL?

In this photo published in Jan 2015, Bill Gates is seen drinking water made by "Omniprocessor", a machine that recycles it from a very unusual source material.

This is part of his foundation's work to 'reinvent' a part of most households.

HUMAN WASTE!

Q4.BE SPECIFIC. Cashing on the pun, Zomato has launched a new section on its website for the extremely rich.

Zomato has always cashed in on public news and hot viral topics to publicize its work and food options, instead of just classical food delivery and classifieds of menus like it’s expected to.

The page greets you with the category saying “_________”. The category of restaurants states-

"The Most Expensive Restaurants in Town (You Need To Be Super $$$ To Dine At)“.

Perhaps we have finally matured as a society to take a good joke with a pinch of salt!

Q5.PUT FUNDA!! An app for mobile phones was launched which allows users to text in a specific way.

The free app is called ShakeSpeak and can be downloaded onto digital devices. It uses predictive keyboard technology to complete sentences in the manner of works of someone.

The app has been developed by SwiftKey, a technology company founded in 2008, as part of a tourism campaign for London.

TEXT LIKE SHAKESPEARE!

Q6.WHICH FILE FORMAT? This file format was created by Phil Katz of PKWARE.

He created the format after his company had lawsuits filed against him by Systems Enhancement Associates (SEA) claiming that his archiving products were derivatives of SEA's ARC archiving system.

The name meaning "move at high speed“ was suggested by Katz's friend, Robert Mahoney.

They wanted to imply that their product would be faster than ARC and other formats of the same type.

ZIP FORMAT

Q. 7His company Hidden reflex created something which goes by the name of Epic.

What first from India was created thus?

FIRST BROWSER FROM INDIA!!

Q8.WHY IS THIS BEING USED?

Shown above is a Bump Mark. It is something which reacts to the environment around it.

CHECK EXPIRY OF FOOD! The label is checked by touch, so when it's smooth - your food is fresh. If you feel bumps - then it's time for the bin. The label only goes 'bad' when your food does too.

Q9.WHICH COMPANY? This company came up with Echo - a speaker crossed with a Siri-like voice assistant named Alexa who's always listening, waiting for your spoken commands.

Since being released in late 2014, it's gone from an oddball gadget with a niche audience to a surprisingly powerful home control-center that anyone can enjoy.

Q10.HE IS PART OF AN ELITE LIST. WHICH LIST AM I TALKING ABOUT?

Dr. Srinivasan Ramani proposed an Indian Academic Network in 1983, and this contributed to the launch of the ERNET project, involving a number of institutions that created R&D teams in networking.

Q11. WHO GAVE THIS YEAR’S LECTURES? The Reith Lectures is a series of annual radio lectures given by leading figures of the day, commissioned by the BBC and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and the BBC World Service. The lectures were inaugurated in 1948 by the BBC to mark the historic contribution made to public service broadcasting by Sir John Reith, the corporation's first director-general.

In 2016, X gave a lecture on  Do Black Holes Have no Hair?

Q12.WHAT HIS UNWANTED CONTRIBUTION?

On May 3, 1978, the Internet witnessed a glorious and not particularly a welcome birth.  Gary Thuerk, a marketer for the Digital Equipment Corporation, was naturally trying to sell something.

He annoyed a lot of people. And he also had some success, with a few recipients interested in what he was pushing.

THE FIRST SPAM MAIL!!

Q13. WHAT’S SPECIAL ABOUT THE CONTEST?  First prize in a particular contest went to Ricardo Matiello with his photo 'Above the Mist' taken above Maringa Cathedral, Parana, Brazil. Besides winning the overall prize the image came first in the 'Places' category.

DRONE PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST! Organised by Dronestagram, a social network for drone photography, with the help of National Geographic, the contest saw more than 5,000 pictures submitted across three categories: Places, Nature and Dronies (selfies taken with a drone).

Q14.PUT FUNDA!!!  At Manhattan’s American Museum of Natural History, CEO of Vapor Communications, David Edwards, will hit the send button on his iPhone, and an email photograph tagged with the quintessential ______of New York. The message will be delivered to a colleague in Paris, completing the first ever Transatlantic transmission of a ______ message.

The message, called an oNote, will be composed via an iPhone application called oSnap, soon to be available for free download in the Apple App store.

A contemporary art and design center in central Paris, Christophe Laudamiel, a perfumer and fragrance chemist, will download Edwards’s message via an oPhone, a device designed to decode tagged oNotes and render them into ______. “______ is the world’s natural tweet, because it takes just a few seconds to get a ______," he says. "The notion of people saying, "I miss you in New York," by sending a _____ is really interesting and powerful. Or imagine taking a _____ selfie and posting it on Facebook.

THE WORLD’S FIRST SCENT/SMELL MESSAGE!!

Q15.WHAT IS BEING TALKED ABOUT?

An idea for this was the basis of the "soporific sponge” introduced by the Salerno school of medicine in the late twelfth century and by Ugo Borgognoni. In this method, a sponge was soaked in a dissolved solution of opium, mandragora, hemlock juice, and other substances. The sponge was then dried and stored; just before _______ the sponge was moistened and then held under the patient's nose.  On October 16, 1846, Boston dentist William Thomas Green Morton conducted the first public demonstration of the inhalational _________.  This led to painless ________.

ANESTHESIA

Q16.WHAT IS THIS?

BATTERY!!

Q17. WHAT WAS THE SOBRIQUET? During the 1960s, IBM and these five computer manufacturers, along with RCA and General Electric, had been known as X. The description of IBM's competitors changed after GE's 1970 sale of its computer business to Honeywell and RCA's 1971 sale of its computer business to Sperry.

The BUNCH was the nickname for the group of mainframe computer competitors to IBM in the 1970s. The name is derived from the names of the five companies: Burroughs ,UNIVAC, NCR, Control Data Corporation, and Honeywell. These companies were grouped together because the market share of IBM was much higher than all of its competitors put together.

 

IBM AND SEVEN DWARFS!!

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ANTI-CLOCKWISE17 QUESTIONS

Q1.ALL THE FEATURES OF A PARTICULAR APP HAVE BEEN DESCRIBED BELOW. WHICH APP?

Q2.CONNECT THE FIRST 3 WITH THE LAST AND ADD ANOTHER PERSON’S NAME TO MAKE THE LIST EXHAUSTIVE.

Dorothy Hodgkin Ada Yonath Maria Goeppert MayerThere a reason for not giving a name.

ONLY FEMALE NOBEL LAUREATES IN PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY/MARIE CURIE COMPLETES THE LIST!

Q3.WHO/WHAT DOES THIS DOODLE COMMEMORATE?

Q4.WHAT’S THE LAST NAME OF THIS FELLOW/GIVE HIS MOST IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTION?

Henry Gwyn Jeffreys X (23 November 1887 – 10 August 1915) was an English physicist, whose contribution to the science of physics was the justification of something which all of us.

This stemmed from his development of a law in X-ray spectra.

Experts have speculated that Moseley could have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1916, had he not been killed.[

MOSELEY!!/GAVE THE ATOMIC NUMBER CONCEPT.

Q5.WHAT IS BEING TALKED ABOUT? It's nice to know, that if you're ever in a car accident, a particular is not going to happen

This is due to something , accidentally discovered by French chemist Edouard Benedictus in the early 20th century.

He dropped a glass flask, coated with plastic cellulose. After Édouard Bénédictus, accidentally knocked a flask off of his desk it fell to the ground something he didn’t expected happened.

Upon closer inspection he realized that it had recently contained plastic cellulose nitrate which had coated the inside of it and kept it from coming apart.

SHATTERING AND NOT BREAKING OF CAR GLASS!

Q6.IMPORTANT INVENTION, WAS IT? In 1938, Roy Plunkett, a scientist with DuPont, was working on ways to make refrigerators more home-friendly by searching for ways to replace the current refrigerant, which was primarily ammonia, sulphur dioxide, and propane.

After opening the container on one particular sample he'd been developing, Plunkett found his experimental gas was gone. All that was left was a strange, slippery resin that was resistant to extreme heat and chemicals. In the 1940s the material was used by the Manhattan project. A decade later it found its way into the automotive industry.

It wasn't until the '60s that X would be used for its most noted application.

Q7.WHAT AM I TALKING ABOUT? Sometimes all you really need to make the next leap in science is a snack.

Percy Spencer was an American engineer who, while working for Raytheon, walked in front of a magnetron, a vacuum tube used to generate ________, and noticed that the chocolate bar in his pocket melted.

In 1945 after a few more experiments (one involving an exploding egg), Spencer successfully invented the first _________. The first models were a lot like the early computers: bulky and unrealistic.

Snacking, then, is good for science.

MICROWAVE OVEN!

Q8. WHAT TERM WAS INRODUCED BY THIS BOOK?

Mathematics and the Imagination is a book published in New York by Simon & Schuster in 1940.

The authors are Edward Kasner and James R. Newman.

It rapidly became a best-seller and received several glowing reviews.

GOOGOL!!

Q9.WHERE HAVE YOU SEEN THEM? AT LEAST 10 TIMES A DAY! Used by Bell Labs engineers from 1968. Lauren Asplund says that he and a colleague were the source of octothorp at AT&T engineering in New York in 1964. The Merriam-Webster New Book of Word Histories, 1991, has a long article that is consistent with Doug Kerr's essay, in that it says "octotherp" was the original spelling, and that the word arose in the 1960s among _________ engineers as a joke.

The first appearance of "octothorp" in a US patent is in a 1973 filing. This patent also refers to the six-pointed ________as a "sextile”.

THE ASTERISK(*) BUTTON WAS CALEED THE SEXTILE.

Q10.IN INDIA, WHAT WILL YOU MOST PROBABLY SEE?  China - Compulsory Certificate mark

Voluntary Council for Control of Interference mark - Japan

 Korea Communications Commission - South Korea

 BSMI mark - Taiwan

FCC Declaration of Conformity- USA

CONFORMITÉ EUROPÉENNE, MEANING EUROPEAN CONFORMITY.

Q11. WHICH TWO COMPANIES ARE INVOLVED IN THIS PROJECT?

Project Jacquard makes it possible to weave touch and gesture interactivity into any textile using standard, industrial looms.

Everyday objects such as clothes and furniture can be transformed into interactive surfaces.

Using conductive yarns, bespoke touch and gesture-sensitive areas can be woven at precise locations, anywhere on the textile.

Alternatively, sensor grids can be woven throughout the textile, creating large, interactive surfaces.

Q12. WHICH COMPANY?(TWO SETS OF HINTS) As for the X mascot itself, that was quite literally born from a doodle:

“I was bored in marketing class my senior year of college at UVA and doodled the alien in the margins of my notebook,” Ohanian wrote.

X’s co-founder Alexis Ohanian revealed the origins of the site’s logo for the first time today, showing that, at one point, the site’s name had twice the “Ts” half the “Ds”, and a whole lot of a colour.

Q13.BOOKS BY WHICH PERSON?

Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina

Q14. CONVERSATION BETWEEN WHAT TWO THINGS?

Q15. WHY WAS HE IN NEWS?

Rahul C. Thakkar is an Indian-American software inventor.

Thakkar was also a key member of the animation software development team for Shrek.

He became the first Indian origin to win a award in specific field?

Thakkar won the 2016 Academy Award for scientific and technical achievement for his "ground breaking design“ of DreamWorks Animation Media Review System.

Q16.WHAT IS THIS MADE UP OF?

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This fabric is very unique, providing an elegant lighting all over its surface, with a distinctive starry sky texture.

OPTICAL FIBRE FABRIC Optical fibres are specially processed in order to allow the light to be emitted along the full length of the fibres (side emitting fibres). The optical fibres are then connected at the edge of the fabric to ultra-bright LEDs which inject light into the fabric. The light is distributed evenly across the entire surface of the fabric, resulting in a self illuminating textile.

Q17.WHAT’S IT CALLED NOW?“The Information Mine” was one of the proposed names due to a reason.

“Mine of Information” was turned down because it abbreviates to MOI which is “Me” in French. Both were presumably far too possessive.

“The Information Mesh” was rejected because, in the founder's own words, ” it sounded too much like “Mess.”

The name by which it is known today was coined in 1980’s and it would be difficult to think of anything else that suits it better!

WORLD WIDE WEB

THANK YOU A QUIZ BY –SAQIB JAVED