alphaquest finals pes university (28 feb 2015)

TEAMS SELECTEDPES University, Bangalore

PES University, Bangalore





GENERAL RULES

A total of six teams will battle it out for the title.

There are a total of 4 rounds. The rules for the same will be explained prior to each round.

The decision of the quiz master is final.

RULES Each team will be given a direct question which carries 15

points. The team will be given 75 secs to answer the direct question.

The team can either answer the same question or choose to flip the question.

The flipped question would carry 5 points and the team would be given 30 secs to answer the same.

Answering a passed question (either direct or flipped) would earn 10 points.

Passing of direct or flipped question is clockwise.

No negative scoring in this round.


X (May 19, 1942 – July 11, 1994) was an American computer

scientist and microcomputer entrepreneur who created the CP/M operating

system and founded Digital Research, Inc. (DRI). Although X’s career in computing

spanned more than two decades, he is mainly remembered in connection

with IBM's unsuccessful attempt in 1980 to license CP/M for the IBM PC. The story

goes that when IBM visited X’s company, X and his colleague had gone flying on

X’s private flight. The unavailability of X during several of their further visits, left

the IBMers frustrated. So, they turned to Bill Gates to provide software to their

PC. X is often referred to as “The Man who could have been Bill Gates”.

Identify X.

FLIP NEXT

Gary Kildall

Identify the event.

NEXT

Steve Jobs

revealing the

world’s thinnest

Laptop – MacBook

Air on January 15,

2008

X, co-founder of Y has been named as the 70th recipient of Z on

October 25th 2012. X was recognized for establishing a foundation

that forges improvements in healthcare, social rehabilitation,

outstanding rural uplift and education. Z is administered by a board

comprising of The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the

American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Institute of

Chemical Engineers, the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical

and Petroleum Engineers and the Institute of Electrical and

Electronics Engineers. Id X, Y, Z

FLIP NEXT

X – Narayan Murthy

Y – Infosys

Z – Hoover Medal

Identify the Google Doodle

NEXT

X-Ray's 115th Anniversary

In a recent interview, X revealed that he was at a science meeting

where physicists discussed a “theory of _____” But the discussion

went on late into the night, and X went to bed early, thus failing to

make a key connection between his work and that of others. x

missed its true significance at the time and his colleagues received

the Nobel prize in 1979 for ideas that lie at the heart of the

_______, and X might have been among them. Others received

credit for formulating a theory in which the X's ________ plays an

important role. On (eventually) receiving recognition for his work,

X said: "I really rather hoped before the

announcement that they would make the number up

to three, and there was certainly an obvious

candidate Tom Kibble."

FLIP NEXT

Professor

Peter Higgs

Apple’s market cap is now more than 2

times its nearest competitor Exxon. The

last time a company was 2 times big as

any other company was nearly 30 years

ago when X was twice the since of Exxon

at that time. Identify X.

NEXT

International

Business Machine

X is a room temperature superconductor for energy, which makes it

very valuable; it is worth $ 40 million per kilogram. X has an

extremely strong magnetic field, reversing prior knowledge that all

superconductors repel magnetic fields. Unlike the fragile crystals

of human-created superconducting compounds, the substance is a

stable quasi-crystal. X has a unique magnetic field and properties

of superconductivity, causing it to levitate in magnetic fields, aptly

called Thundering Rocks by the natives of the place where it is

found. Originally, the term X was slangly used

in the aerospace materials with mythical

industry, to describe hard-to-access properties.

FLIP NEXT

Unobtanium

X is an activity that created a viral stir on

social media. It was started by Corey

Griffinto to promote awareness of a

particular disease and encourage donations

to research. Identify X and the disease(Full

form)

NEXT

X – Ice Bucket Challenge

Disease – Amyotrophic Lateral

Sclerosis(ALS)

It results from emission from photons in the earth’s upper atmosphere,

above 80 km (50 mi), from ionized nitrogen atoms regaining an

electron, and oxygen and nitrogen atoms returning from an excited

state to ground state. They are ionized or excited by the collision of

solar wind and magnetospheric particles being funnelled down and

accelerated along the Earth's magnetic field lines excitation energy is

lost by the emission of a photon, or by collision with another atom or

molecule: What phenomenon is being talked here ?

FLIP NEXT

Aurora Borealis

Aurora Australis

One day, people from the VIA association, part of

the X free-open-source project came back drunk

with a traffic cone. They then began a cone

collection.

So later one day, the X project was done and they

decided to use the cone as their logo.

NEXT

VLC Media Player

First used in Rector’s Restaurant, in Times Square in 1899,

X’s tagline was “Always open, Always closed!” X has today

become a very common feature of several Skyscrapers

including the Burj-Al-Arab, for maintaining a difference in

temperature inside and outside the building. So, in the

absence of X, the temperature of the desert outside would

have to be maintained inside the Burj, which would heat

things up inside. ID X.

FLIP NEXT

Revolving Door

Blu-Ray disks are set to take

over from DVDs. Where does

the name Blu-Ray come from?

NEXT

Blu-Ray uses blue laser

instead of the

conventional red laser

RULES

Each team will be given a chance to pick the questions based on

choosing one of the letter from the word ‘EPSILON’ .

Passing of questions is anti-clockwise.

10 points are awarded to the team if answered correctly on the

direct.

Correct answer on the pass carries 5 points.

No negative scores.


E P S

I L O N

The _____(X)_____ ______(Y)______ of Mathematics is a

mathematics professorship in the University of Cambridge, England;

its holder is known as the _____(X)______ Professor. The post was

founded in 1663 by Henry _____(Z)____ , who was Cambridge

University's Member of Parliament from 1639–1640; and it was

officially established by King Charles II on 18 January 1664. It is

recognised as one of the most prestigious academic posts in the

world and its former holders include Isaac Newton, Joseph

Larmor, Charles Babbage, George Stokes, Paul Dirac and Stephen

Hawking.

ID X, Y and Z.

BACK

X – Lucasian

Y – Chair

Z - Lucas

“Groovejet (If This Is not Love)” a song by Spiller,

featuring vocals by British singer-songwriter

Sophie Ellis-Bextor. The single was released in

August 2000 by Positiva Records. It peaked at # 1

in the UK, New Zealand, Ireland and Australia, as

well as charting at number three on the American

Hot Dance Chart. What historically significant

role did this song play?

BACK

The song tested on the iPod

during its prototyping phase,

making it the first ever song

played on iPod .

X project was to be a version of Mac OS running

as a GUI on Intel-compatible x86 PCs on top of

Novell's next in-development version of the DR

DOS operating system in a similar fashion as

Microsoft Windows 3.x would run on top of DOS.

The project was named after X, the science

fiction franchise with the slogan "To boldly go

where no Mac has gone before."

BACK

Star Trek Project

X (1731-1810) is known for his experiment to determine Y. X

was a shy man who was uncomfortable in society and avoided

it when he could. He conversed little, and developed no

known deep personal attachments outside his family Because

of his asocial and secretive behaviour, X often avoided

publishing his work. J.C. Maxwell looked through X's papers

and found for which others had been discoveries /

considerations given credit, including Richter's law of

reciprocal proportions, Ohm's law, Dalton's law of partial

pressures, principles of electrical conductivity and Charles's

law of gases. What’s X and Y.

X – Henry Cavendish

Y – Gravitational Constant

BACK

Dr. Muckhopadhyay (M) is created as having the world’s

second and India's first __________. He was harassed and

not allowed to share his achievements with the

international scientific community. Dejected, he

committed suicide in 1981. Ek Doctor Ki Maut is an award

winning film based on the life of Dr. M, in which Pankaj

Kapoor played the role of the protaganist. Dr. M

eventually received recognition for his work when TC

Anand Kumar who was given credit for the first official

_______ of India, scrutinised Dr M's work and became

certain that Dr. M was the architect of the first ______ in

India. FITB / funda.

Human Test Tube Baby

BACK

Inventor: Dr. Myron MacLain. In its solid form, it is colorless and

shiny. It is almost impossible to destroy or fracture in this state

and when crafted to a razor edge it can penetrate most lesser

materials with minimal application of strength. It is at least

somewhat magnetic. Has 13 allotropes, all of which are

unstable, and short-lived, but virulently poisonous. It is rarely

used due to extreme cost, poor reliability and inability to be

reshaped Types Proto, Secondary, Beta, Carbonadium.

BACK

Adamantium Metal

Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov, Russian

computer engineer, now in US,

developed the popular game X while

working for the Dorodnitsyn Computing

Centre of the Soviet Academy of

Sciences. Since rights were owned by the

Soviet Govt, he got royalties only later in

1996 when he and Henk Rogers formed

The X Company. What's X?

BACK

Tetris, The Tetris Company

Left-Henk Rogers

Right-Alexey Pajitnov

RULES

The round consists of mixed bag of all kinds of

questions.

This round is on the buzzer.

Correct answer carries +20,wrong answer carries -10.

The Decision of the quiz master is final.

1)The X Awards are honours for top short-form content

creators on the microblogging website Twitter. The

awards have primarily been sponsored by John S and

James L Knight Foundation.

Since the creation in 2008, the awards have expanded

to recognize the content creation on other Social

Networking Sites including Tumblr, FourSquare and

Facebook.

ID X.

Shorty Awards

2)The five fists of science is a graphic novel

showing X ,his (real life) friend Mark Twain and

Bertha von Suttner combine forces to try to

bring about world peace through superior

firepower. They are soon confronted by dark

forces led by the dastardly Y (X’s real life

archrival),John Pierpont Morgan, Andrew

Carnegie and Guglielmo Marconi. The

protagonists are shown in the cover of the

book. Identify X and Y.

X – Tesla

Y – Edison

3)The person on the left (born 1900)won nobel

prize in physics in 1945 and has many famous

theories (principles, equations, effects)in his

name. The person on the right (born 1913) won

nobel prize in 1989.The person on the left

humorously referred to the person on the right

as his “imaginary apart” due to similarity in

their names; though it should have been the

other way round

Identify both the scientists.

ID the person on the left and right.

Left – Wolfgang Pauli

Right – Wolfgang Paul

4.Connect1.

2. 3.

Magdeburg hemispheresThey are a pair of copper hemispheres

with mating rims, used to demonstrate

the power of atmospheric pressure.

When the rims were sealed with grease

and the air was pumped out, the sphere

contained a vacuum and could not be

pulled apart by teams of horses.

Pic 1:The original Magdeburg

hemispheres and Guericke’s vacuum

pump

Pic 2:Logo is inspired by this experiment

Pic 3:Otto Von Guericke

1

2.

3.

5.The X was a proposed “high concept” smartphone announced

by canonical Ltd. On 22 July 2013 which had features like 4GB

RAM,128 GB storage and sapphire crystal display. Canonical was

seeking to crowdfund a production run of around 40000 units

through indiegogo .

It had the highest target of any crowdfund project to

date,$32,000,000 over a one month campaign. It was not

intended to go into mass production after the initial run, but

rather to serve as a demonstration for new technologies for the

industry . It fell short of its funding goal, raising only

$12,809,906 and ultimately scrapped.

Name X.

Ubuntu Edge

6.The website of this tongue-in-cheek award notes: “Of

necessity, the award is usually bestowed posthumously.”

But the candidate is disqualified if innocent bystanders are

killed in the process of this ‘attempt’.

Previous winners of this awards include:

*A man who juggled live hand grenades.

*A man who left a lit cigarette in a warehouse full of

explosives

*Three Palestinian terrorists accidently blown up by their

own bombs

*A man who jumped out of a plane to film skydivers

without wearing a parachute

*A man who crashed through a window and falling to death

in trying to demonstrate that the window was unbreakable

ID the award.

Darwin Awards

Connect7.

Golden Ratio

Connect

12

3

4

8.

1 – Chad Hurley

2 – Jawed Karim

3 – Steve Chen

4 – Founded on Feb 14, 2005.

RULES

This round is on the buzzer.

Each question is divided into three parts, if the team answers without any hint, correct answer carries +30,wrong answer -15.

If the team answers with the first hint, correct answer carries +20, wrong answer -10.

If the team answers with the second hint, correct answer carries +10, wrong answer -5.


Germany’s Samwer Brothers-Alexander, Oliver and Marc famous

for creating replicas of well-established sites across the world

are the expertise behind 3 recent players in the Indian e-

tailing space, FabFurnish, HeavenandHome and X.

Identify X

HINT 1 -Xerion Retail Private Limited is the parent company of

both X and FabFurnish,which in turn is funded by the Samwer

brothers group.

HINT 2 –X is the company’sflagship venture in the Indian e-

tailing space which was started in late 2011 –early 2012,and

has already established itself as a player to be reckoned with.

1.

Jabong.com

X Day is celebrated on the 256th day of the year(13 September

in normal years and 12 September in leap years). The number

256(2^8) was chosen because it is the number of distinct

values that can be represented with an eight-bit byte.

Identify X

HINT 1- Also, ‘256’ is hexadecimal in ‘100’ (‘0x100’), and it’s

the highest power of 2 that is lower that 365(the number of

days in a year). Typical celebrations of X Day include playing

around with old computers and behaving in a generally

insane(stupid and silly) manner.

HINT 2- It is an official profession holiday in Russia.

2.

X is a group of neurological disorders which in Ancient Greek

means ‘to seize, possess or afflict’. X seizures are episodes

that can vary from brief and nearly undetectable to long

periods of vigourous shaking.

Identify X

HINT 1 – People develop X as the result of brain injury, stroke,

brain tumour, and drug and alcohol misuse. Genetic mutations

are linked to a small proportion of the disease.

HINT 2 – Famous Cricketer Jonty Rhodes suffered from X and

gave a famous interview ‘Living With X’.

3.

Epilepsy

Louis Nicolas Vauquelin was the first to isolate X from a

crocoite in 1797. Crocoite was used as a red pigment. It’s a

compound of lead, X and oxygen.

Identify X

HINT 1 – Oxide of X was used by the Chinese in the Qin dynasty

to coat metal weapons found with the Terracotta Army.

HINT 2– The colour of Rubies is because of the presence of X

4.

Chromium(Atomic Number 24)

SCORES

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