DynamiX 2017 Quiz Prelims Questions

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DynamiX 2017 Quiz Prelims Questions and Answers

1. Antonio Guillem is a 45-year-old photographer from Barcelona, Spain, who spends his days on shoots specifically destined for stock image companies. In mid 2015, he and his models took to Gerona, a city in Catalonia, Spain, chose a spot on the street, and started shooting. After multiple shots, it was ___ that set the internet ablaze. FITB.
2. X is a website that translates whole websites into Gangsta, freestyle. It is like the internet for gangsters. Its name is a pun on Google. ID X.
3. In 1980s, a Taiwan based computer company offered a cheap. do-it-yourself hardware modification that seemed to triple the speed of a PC. In fact it merely slowed the system clock down so that benchmarks appeared to run faster. ID the name of the modification.
4. Jaron Zepel Lanier is an American computer philosophy writer, computer scientist, visual artist, and composer of classical music. A pioneer in the field of ___, Lanier and Thomas G. Zimmerman left Atari in 1985 to found VPL Research, Inc., the first company to sell ___ goggles and gloves. FITB.
5. ___ began as a small series of comics drawn by Kris Wilson at the age of sixteen. Wilson was at home with strep throat and had doodled some stick figure comics. On his DeviantArt profile page, he notes that he "created ___ in 2004 because I can't help but draw stupid looking characters to spew out my stupid ideas." He showcased his comics on his Comicaze website, and then on Sticksuicide.com, "a website devoted to animations and games graphically depicting the violent deaths of stick figures", which was founded by Rob DenBleyker in 2004. FITB.
6. ___ was a company based in Miami, Florida, owned by Rudy and Robert Pedraza which sold "Open Computers". These computers, first announced in April 2008, had the option of being pre-installed with Mac OS X Leopard, making them the first commercially distributed "hackintosh" computers. In November 2009, a U.S. Federal District Court ruled ___ violated Apple's copyrights in doing so. FITB
7. ID this logo. 

   

8. One of Hartmut Esslinger’s first design was a green colored television set. This eventually became the inspiration behind the name of a famous industrial design company, known to design many consumer electronics. Name the design firm.
9. “Dontcha Wish Your Cell Phone Was Hot Like Me?” was a parody video about the original iPhone. In this video, the spectacle of geeks attempting to rap and perform dance hip-hop moves perfectly captures the inflated sense of self the iPhone lends. The video features David Prager, Irina Slutsky and X. ID X.
10. Kayode Ewumi portrayed the character of Reece Simpson in BBC’s web series Hood Documentary. How is this relevant in the Internet world?
11. What was the first document to be digitised?
12. Blockade is a black and white arcade maze game developed by Gremlin and released in October . Using four directional buttons, each player moves their character around leaving a solid line behind them, turning at 90 degree angles. To win, a player must last longer than the opponent before hitting something, with the first person to hit something losing. Blockade is the first of what have become known as X games. ID X.
13. “We are wrapping up an excellent quarter and an excellent year for the company, with performance in many teams and products that we can be proud of. As we head into the new fiscal year, it’s appropriate to reassess each of our initiatives. I’m writing to let you know that we will end our investment in Unity8, the phone and convergence shell. We will shift our default X desktop back to GNOME for X 18.04 LTS.” ID X and its author.
14. The X act is a bill introduced into the United States House of Representatives in 2017, during the 115th United States Congress.The bill would amend the Presidential Records Act to preserve Twitter posts and other social media interactions of the president of the United States, and to require the National Archives to store such items. ID X (full form).
15. X is a sandbox physics game created by ___ and developed by his company, Facepunch Studios. X was originally a mod for Valve Corporation's Half-Life 2, but was later made into a standalone release in 2006 for Microsoft Windows, published by Valve Corporation. ID X.
16. Originally premiered in Japan in 1983, the series Fist of the North Star centered around the protagonist Kenshiro, a master of the martial art style Hokuto Shinken. Unlike other martial art styles, Kenshiro’s Hokuto Shinken attacked the opponent’s body through pressure points. Upon unleashing his attack, including his signature move Hokuto Hyakuretsu-ken, his victims would be told that they were “___” before their bodies would erupt from the inside. How is this relevant in the internet world?(No FITB)
17. Supernova is a song by Laszlo, released on monstercat. It is used as the intro music of a very famous tech youtube channel. ID the channel.
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20. What does sot  mean?(Humorous Answers onli)