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DynamiX 2017 Quiz Finals Questions and Answers

by Sagar Khatri

Hey, here we are presenting the DynamiX 2017 Quiz Finals Questions and Answers held at Ramjas School, RK Puram, Delhi.

Thanks to Aadtiya Rautela for providing us with the questions. Keep quizzing!

ROUND 1 (DynamiX 2017 Quiz Finals)

1. Mathematics and the Imagination is a book written by Edward Kasner and James R. Newman. The book was published in 1940. It rapidly became a best-seller and received several glowing reviews. The book gave birth to two terms ____ & ______, which are ubiquitous in the tech world.

FITB

Ans:  Googol, Googolplex

2. S21E1 of South Park had Cartman falling in love with X and giving it some NSFW commands. Little did the actual owners of X and Y know that their product would follow the onscreen commands to the tee. The South Park S21E01 “White People Renovating Houses” was telecast on Comedy Central on Wednesday, the homes which had X and Y followed every command that Cartman ordered his onscreen X and the real-life __________ were foul-mouthed and sweary causing some strain among fans.

ID X & Y

Ans: X= Amazon Alexa, Y= Google Home

3. X is an Austin, Texas-based social networking service created as an alternative to social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit. It allows its users to read and write messages of up to 300 characters, called "Xs". The site also offers multimedia functionality. X describes its mission as putting "people and free speech first".

X was created in August 2016 as an alternative to social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Founder and CEO Andrew Torba cited dissatisfaction with "the entirely left-leaning Big Social monopoly" as part of the inspiration for X, which he created "after reading reports that Facebook employees suppress conservative articles".

Recently X was removed from Google Play store for violating its hate speech policy.

ID X

Ans: Gab

4. On August 29th, 2017, YouTuber CharlieSloth released the video “MC Quakez – Fire in the Booth.” The post features a scene in which the character MC Quakez performs on the BBC Radio show 1Xtra for a “Fire In The Booth” session. During the session, the character says the line “_____” and then performs a series of sound effects with his mouth. Within a week, the video (shown below) has received more than 500,000 views.

FITB & complete the line(Brownie points)

Ans: the ting goes skrrrrrrrrrrrrrah pap pap kak kak kak skibidipap pap and a pupubrrrrrrrrrrdoom skya du du kun kun boom boom

5. Identify the category of product from its reviews.

Ans: 

6. ID the parent organisation.

Ans: Apple

7. X was a short-lived mobile phone line from Microsoft designed for users of social networking. Microsoft described the phones' target demographic as men and women between ages 15 and 30. It was manufactured by Sharp Corporation and sold through Verizon Wireless.

Microsoft invested two years and about US$1 billion developing the X platform, beginning with their acquisition of Danger Incorporated. The X was based on Windows CE.

The X ONE and TWO went on the market on May 14, 2010. Within two months, Verizon stopped selling the phones because of poor sales. Microsoft scrapped its planned European release, stopped promoting the devices, ceased production, and reassigned the X development team to other projects.

ID X

Ans: Microsoft Kin

8. 

  • This advertisement cost $4.5k to make.
  • Posted to YouTube in March 2012.
  • 12,000 subscriptions for their product in 48 hours.
  • Raised US$1m investment in the month video posted.
  • In 3 months, 5m views.

ID Product

Ans: Dollar Shave Club

9. Connect: Alarm, Ascending, Bark, Bell Tower, Blues, Boing, Crickets, Digital, Doorbell, Duck, Harp, Marimba, Motorcycle, Old Car Horn, Old Phone, Piano Riff, Pinball, Robot, Sci-Fi, Sonar, Strum, Timba, Time Passing, Trill, and Xylophone

Ans: iPhone ringtones

10. Identify the blacked out.

Ans: Travis Kalanick & Ryan Graves

11. Identify.

Ans: Linux

12. 

Bob: i can i i everything else . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Alice: balls have zero to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to me
Bob: you i everything else . . . . . . . . . . . .
Alice: balls have a ball to me to me to me to me to me to me to me
Bob: i i can i i i everything else . . . . . . . . . . . .
Alice: balls have a ball to me to me to me to me to me to
Bob: i . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Give Funda

Ans: Facebook’s AI bots create their own language (sort of)

13. Connect

  • Beauty Bar
  • North Eleven
  • Lark & To
  • NuPro
  • Single Cow Burger

Ans: Amazon sub brands

14. Which two companies are behind this?

Ans: Vans & Nintendo

15. 

Beautiful is better than ugly.
Explicit is better than implicit.
Simple is better than complex.
Complex is better than complicated.
Flat is better than nested.
Sparse is better than dense.
Readability counts.
Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.
Although practicality beats purity.
Errors should never pass silently.
Unless explicitly silenced.
In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.
There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.
Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch.
Now is better than never.
Although never is often better than *right* now.
If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea.
If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.
Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!

ID

Ans: The Zen of Python

16. Rad Mobile is a video game developed by and published by Y. This game was first released in arcades in 1991, then it was ported to the Y Saturn in 1994 under the name Gale Racer . Y followed up on the success of Rad Mobile by making a sequel, Rad Rally for the arcades in 1991, which included several gameplay changes.

The game featured a X air freshener hanging on the rear mirror. It was X's first appearance in a game.

ID X

Ans: X=Sonic the Hedgehog, Y=Sega

17. What is this xkcd comic parodying?

Ans: Windows File Copy Dialog

18. Celeste Holm was an American stage, film and television actress. Holm won an Academy Award for her performance in Gentleman's Agreement (1947), and was Oscar nominated for her roles in Come to the Stable (1949) and All About Eve (1950). She originated the role of Ado Annie in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma! (1943).

Her son X was an internet pioneer.

ID X

Ans: Ted Nelson

19. Identify [Image]

Ans: Fujitsu iPAD

20. Connect: touch grep unzip mount fsck fsck umount sleep

Ans: *nix dirty joke

21. 

Lord of dankness my old friend

Normies oppressing us again

Watching commies flee on live-streaming

Farming keks with all this dank meme-ing

Fight the brainwashing that was planted while in Yale

"Fuckin' white male"

Fighting for "Social Justice"

21. 

Lord of dankness my old friend

Normies oppressing us again

Watching commies flee on live-streaming

Farming keks with all this dank meme-ing

Fight the brainwashing that was planted while in Yale

"Fuckin' white male"

Fighting for "Social Justice"

ID the song

Ans: Sound of social justice

22. Which name is leading for San Diego’s MLS expansion team?

Ans: Footy McFootface

23. A Reddit user beaston02 was determined to find the true ceiling of X’s cloud storage plan, which was killed off in June, 2017. He decided to push its limits with a petabyte of porn. (Some people credit beaston02 for X’s decision to cancel the unlimited storage offering, but he denies that rumor.) For reference, a petabyte is one million gigabytes.

ID X

Ans: Amazon

24. Name the Challenge. [Image]

Ans: Putin Shirtless Challenge

25. 

It's Been a Gréat Ride

With much sadness, but keeping all our fond memories, we must announce that ___ is ending its development. We have had a great time making this mod and creating such a wonderful community but after a request from the Pokémon company we will be shutting our doors. I'm sorry for the disappointment this will cause but let's remember all the great times we had playing ___, discussing Pokémon, making awesome things inside this mod and everything else that we've done.

All good things come to an end eventually and now is our time. However there are always more things to do, to be a part of and to enjoy. Keep going out there to find fun projects to be a part of and other great things to invest your time and enthusiasm into.

Farewell,

The ___ Team

FITB

Ans: Pixelmon

26. The X is a PDA combining features of a telephone and a handheld game system from Nokia, announced on 4 November 2002 and released on 7 October 2003. It runs the original platform on Symbian OS v6.1. Its original development codename was Starship.

X attempted to lure gamers away from the Game Boy Advance by including mobile phone functionality. This was unsuccessful, partly because the buttons, designed for a phone, were not well-suited for gaming and when used as a phone the original X was described as resembling a taco, which led to its mocking nickname "Taco phone".

ID X

Ans: N-Gage

27. X is a lesbian dating app founded by London club promoters Nicola Chubb and Rebecca Paisis. Paisis has said ‘It will have all the same elements as Grindr in terms of dating. But we’ve also included categories like accommodation, bars, clubs, sports, community, well-being, eating drinking.’

ID X

Ans: FindHrr

28. Bittorrent's ___ provides a preview of a world where your ability to get reliable access to parts of the Internet you love is a function of those sites' willingness to bribe your ISP for "premium" carriage. This is an act of protest against “Fast Lanes”

FITB

Ans: Join the Fastlane

29.  ----- 

30. Gumshoos is a Normal-type Pokémon introduced in Generation VII. It evolves from Yungoos when leveled up in the day starting at level 20.

It has an uncanny resemblance to someone.

ID

Ans: -----

ROUND 2 (DynamiX 2017 Quiz Finals)

1. “The number of qubits in a scalable quantum computer architecture should double every year”

ID the Law

Ans: Rose's Law

2. Somewhere in 2012, Taylor Swift did a concert giveaway for the school with most number of votes on Facebook. However, some members of ___ and ___ communities banded together, raided the poll and made Horace Mann School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing win the Free concert.

FITB

Ans: 4Chan, Reddit

3. The MOS world championship, presented by Certiport, is a global competition that tests students’ skills on ___. Top students are invited to represent their respective countries at the World Championship.

John Dumoulin, 17-year-old from northern Virginia was crowned as the champion of it, which essentially made him the king of that bane of office workers everywhere.

FITB

Ans: Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)

4. ID [Image]

Ans: The Noun Project

5. ___ is a full-block Art Deco multi-use building located between Eighth and Ninth Avenues, and 15th and 16th Streets in the Chelsea neighborhood of the Manhattan borough of New York City. At 2.9 million square feet (270,000 m2), it is currently the city's fourth largest building in terms of floor area as of 2014. This building, which has been owned by Google since 2010, is one of the largest technology-owned office buildings in the world. It is also larger than Apple's new circular "spaceship" (2.8 million square feet (260,000 m2)) headquarters in Cupertino, California.

Which building?

Ans: 111, Eighth Avenue

6. According to Stack Overflow’s 2017 Developer Survey, developers having a peculiar coding habit earn roughly £13,000, more than the developers not having that habit.

Which habit?

Ans: Using Spaces over Tabs