The QUIZ

Finals

S Manoj Karthick

SPORTS

Hopman Cup(2000-01) Hopman Cup(2001-02) December 2014

In 2011, the company X featured a campaign ‘Champions Drink Responsibly’ where the Roboserv 3000(image) controlled by selected fans get to virtually compete against a champion.

Name the company and the champion.

X is a sporting club founded in April 1907, X was named in 2000 by the Confederation of African Football as the "African Club of the Century".

As of 2014, the club has won 130 official trophies (106 domestic, 4 Arabian and 20 international), more than any other senior team in the world. On winning the 2014 CAF Super Cup, X set a record in terms of international titles won.

Name X.

Although one would think the name is an anoxymoron, this sport did feature in the 1984, 1988, and 1992 Olympics and was won by Tracie Ruiz-Conforto, Carolyn Waldo, and Kristen Babb-Sprague respectively. Which sport?

The club X is being sued by DC Comics for allegedly infringing on one of their copyright logos.

The Club plays in La Liga.

X?

AD By ?Put Funda.

______ or kokpar is the Central Asian sport in which horse-mounted players attempt to drag a goat or calf carcass toward a goal. It is the national sport of Afghanistan, although it was banned under the Taliban regime.

Pic on Next Slide.

MINIMALIST POSTERS

Each Question has three posters. Common Connect between the Three Posters.

Find the Theme. Points: After the 1st poster, +25 if correct, -10 if wrong.

After the 2nd poster, +15 if correct, -5 if wrong

After the 3rd poster, +10 if correct, no negatives.

Posters of:

Anbe Sivam

Pammal K Sambandham

Technology & The Internet

X is a video hosting service owned and operated by a joint venture of Universal Music Group (UMG), Google, Sony Music Entertainment (SME) and Abu Dhabi Media. It launched on December 8, 2009. The videos on X are syndicated across the web, with Google and X sharing the advertising revenue.

It offers music videos from two of the "big three" major record labels, UMG and SME. EMI also licensed its library for X shortly before launch; it was subsequently acquired by UMG in 2012.

The founder of X, Salman Khan, was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States to a father from Barisal, Bangladesh, and mother from Calcutta, India. After earning three degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (a BS in mathematics, a M.Sc. in electrical engineering and computer science, and an M.Eng in electrical engineering and computer science) he pursued an MBA from Harvard Business School. X is an educational portal immensely popular among school and college students. ID X.

This was launched in August 2012 by Sean Rad, Justin Mateen, Jonathan Badeen, and Dinesh Moorjani of Hatch Labs. It was initially piloted on college campuses, the first being the University of Southern California. It uses Facebook profiles to gather basic information and analyze users' social graph, which then matches candidates who are most likely to be compatible based on geographical location, number of mutual friends, and common interests. It allows the users to anonymously like or reject potential matches using a simple swiping gesture. If two users are interested in each other, it is a "match" and it introduces the two users and allows them to chat. What are we talking about ?

On 26 March 2014, ______ completed its initial public offering (IPO). Priced at $22.50 a share, the middle of its projected price range, the IPO valued the company at US$7.08 billion. About $500 million was raised through the sale of 22.2 million shares. Of that, 15.3 million shares came from the company and the rest from Apax Ventures and other stakeholders. It was the largest ever IPO for a mobile/social gaming company in the US.

FITB.

Acquistions by which Indian company?

Menu-Mania

Lunchtime.cz

Obedovat.sk

Gastronauci

Cibando

Urbanspoon

Mekanist

Platform ONE:

Jimmy FallonJared LetoAshton KutcherMadonnaTony HawkRio FerdinandArnold SchwarzeneggerShaquille O'NealJulia Louis-DreyfusKasie HuntChase JarvisBrian StelterCory BookerLester HoltTriple HSteve-OJeb BushGlenn BeckRand Paul

Platform TWO:Aaron PaulSophia BushAdam ShapiroMario BataliTyra BanksKevin HartJamie OliverRoger FedererShonda RhimesDavid BlaineEdward NortonJosh CharlesMary J. BligeJimmy FallonRyan Seacrest

Names of Celebrities on two rival platforms. What are they?

Non exhaustive

Google posted a model code of conduct online for software developers and others taking part in an Explorer program providing early access to Google Glass. The company appeared intent on avoiding the kinds of caustic run-ins that have seen some Glass wearers being tossed from eateries, pubs or other establishments due to concerns over camera capabilities built into devices. The code of conduct says:

“Don’t be creepy or rude (aka, a X). Respect others and if they have questions about Glass, don’t get snappy. If you’re asked to turn your phone off, turn Glass off as well. Breaking the rules or being rude will not get businesses excited about Glass and will ruin it for other Explorers.”

ID X.

Computer Science

This Algorithm was developed by three Scientists whose surnames’ first letters contribute to the name of the algorithm. It was developed in 1997 at MIT.

The Abstract of the paper for the Algo is as follows: The system includes a communications channel coupled to at least one

terminal having an encoding device and to at least one terminal having a decoding device. A message-to-be-transferred is enciphered to ciphertextat the encoding terminal by encoding the message as a number M in a predetermined set. That number is then raised to a first predetermined power (associated with the intended receiver) and finally computed. The remainder or residue, C, is... computed when the exponentiated number is divided by the product of two predetermined prime numbers (associated with the intended receiver).

Ron Rivest

Adi Shamir

Leonard Adleman

X is a search heuristic that mimics the process of natural selection. This heuristic (also sometimes called a metaheuristic) is routinely used to generate useful solutions to optimization and search problems.

They belong to the larger class of evolutionary algorithms (EA), which generate solutions to optimization problems using techniques inspired by natural evolution, such as inheritance, mutation, selection, and crossover.

They find applications in bioinformatics, phylogenetics, computationalscience, engineering, mathematics, physics and other fields.

Dries Buytaert Drupal

Rasmus Lerdorf PHP

Guido van Rossum Python

Linus Torvalds Linux

Patrick Volkerding Slackware

Larry Wall Perl

Benevolent dictator for life (BDFL) is a title given to a small number of open-source software development leaders, typically project founders who retain the final say in disputes or arguments within the community

X is a multi-paradigm, compiled programming language created by Apple for iOS and OS X development. Introduced at Apple's 2014 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), X is designed to work with Apple's Cocoa and Cocoa Touch frameworks and the large body of existing Objective-C code written for Apple products. Swift is intended to be more resilient to erroneous code ("safer") than Objective-C, and also more concise.

A _____ is an n-ary tree with a variable but often large number of children per node. It consists of a root, internal nodes and leaves. The root may be either a leaf or a node with two or more children.

The primary value of a _____ is in storing data for efficient retrieval in a block-oriented storage context — in particular, filesystems. This is primarily because unlike binary search trees, _____ have very high fanout(number of pointers to child nodes in a node, typically on the order of 100 or more), which reduces the number of I/O operations required to find an element in the tree.

Twitter

Hulu

GitHub

Scribd

BaseCamp

Yammer

Non Exhaustive.

This type of simulation belongs to a broad class of algorithms that rely on repeated random number sampling. This simulation is named after a famous place in Europe.

It modern version was invented in the late 1940s by Stanislaw Ulam, while he was working on nuclear weapons projects at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Immediately after Ulam'sbreakthrough, John von Neumann understood its importance and programmed the ENIAC computer to carry out calculations.

X is a data storage virtualization technology that combines multiple disk drive components into a logical unit for the purposes of data redundancy or performance improvement.

Data is distributed across the drives in one of several ways, referred to as levels, depending on the specific level of redundancy and performance required.

Each scheme provides a different balance between the key goals: reliability,availability, performance, and capacity.

BiZ

X are sedimentary rocks consisting of individual rounded fragments or chasts within a finer-grained matrix that have become cemented together.

A village in UP was facing problems as they lacked basic infrastructure. An Indian company decided to pay for installation of hand pumps. The village then renamed itself after the company. This happened in 2011. Which company is this?

The 108 th mayor of New York city was a business magnate, politician and philanthropist. He started his career at the securities brokerage Salomon Brothers before becoming the CEO of his company in 1981.He captured 16th position in the Forbes’ top 500 billionaire list in 2014.

X is a fast-food restaurant chain that specializes in fried

chicken operating across the southwestern United States at

14 locations.

The name is ungrammatical Spanish for ‘The Chicken

Brothers’. Founded by Gustavo Fring and Max Arciniega.

It is a subsidiary of Madrigal Electromotive, a German

conglomerate with an ownership stake in the company.

From Breaking Bad

A meth cook was recently busted wearing a

Los Pollos Hermanos shirt from the TV series

The winner of Sholavaram Grand Prix 1980/81 and Calcutta Grand Prix 1979 is now a business man –Chairman of an Indian conglomerate and politician.

He is a lover of jewellery and on his ears are eye-popping solitaires that belonged to his grandmother.

Noted for his successful bidding in auction of items that are considered of great historical value to India.

Identify the personality?

The Winklevii (The Winklevoss Twins), recently announced that they have signed up to travel to suborbital space on Virgin Galactic, the space tourism company founded by Richard Branson, each ticket costing $250,000

What was unique about their mode ofpayment?

The just keep livin Foundation was started by X and his wife, Camilla and is dedicated to empowering high schoolstudents to lead active lives and make healthy choices to become great men and women.

While filming Dazed and Confused, X was struggling with the passing of his father. It was during this time that he wasovertaken by a saying that would soon change his life: “just keep livin” or “j.k. livin” as it’s called.

Jason Duval was picked up on a warrant because he failed to pay court fees resulting from a drug possession case in 2012. Framingham Police went to Duval’s apartment with a warrant from Natick District Court. He had been charged previously with possession of a Class C substance, two counts of possession of a Class B substance and driving to endanger. Duval explained to the that he is in the middle of a divorce and had no means to pay the $450 that he failed pay previously. His original charges were dismissed but Duval still needed to handle the fine he received when arrested in 2012. The judge offered the man a few days in jail in order to erase his debt but he pleaded not to be locked up any further. The judge told the 39-year-old he did not trust him enough to release without any bail because he doubted Duval would pay. The judge decided to offer the broke man a challenge to come up with an alternative. He said:

“I will give you a chance to be creative. If you can come up with a creative idea to convince me that you will come back, I will work with you.”

What creative idea did Jason Duval come up with? What did he offer the judge?

His Nike Shoes