XLNS ‘11

Quiz – Senior Finals

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• Developed by GeekMentor Studios, it is based on an extremely addictive game created by Rovio Studios in Finland. The Villainous Pigs are replaced by Corrupt politicians. Which game and who replaces the slingshot creature?

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• Annually presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Science. What is the name of this award?

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• According to the parent company producing this browser, the name stands for the idea that a thread of a particular material“ is an invisible yet incredibly strong connection between two different things“. What browser?

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• A young engineer at the Boston firm of Bolt, Beranek and Newman is responsible for its elevation to fame. He described it as the only preposition on the keyboard. What?

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• Which famous phrase arose from a challenge of connecting 9 dots in a square grid with only 4 straight lines without lifting the pen off the paper?

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• A person X, rushed into the Eagle Pub on an uneventful day in February 1953 and remarked, “We have discovered the secret of life”. What was X referring to and identify him (or the duo)?

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• Which famous item in South Indian hotel menus often gets abbreviated on the computerized bill to spell a famous operating system?

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• What did Edwin Land invent because of his daughter’s wish for instant and ‘snappy’ results?

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• Originally named “BackRub” which started off as a research project at Stanford University, X is perhaps the best of the lot today. What is X?

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• Popular legend holds that the composition of X has religious, metaphysical, or astronomical significance: typical numerological elements of the explanation are four seasons, the 13 phases of the lunar cycle, day and night, the number of weeks in a year, and finally, the number of days in a year and even those in a leap year are accurately represented.

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• This word comes from the Civil War prison system where a prisoner would be shot if he crossed a particular boundary. What word?

15.• The satirical newspaper The Onion published an article

entitled I, X as a pun on Asimov's I, Robot, in which an anthropomorphic X gives a speech parodying much of the angst experienced by robots in Asimov's fiction, including a statement of the Three Laws of X:

• 1. A/an X may not immerse a human being or, through lack of flotation, allow a human to come to harm.

• 2. A/an X must obey all commands and steering input given by its human X, except where such input would conflict with the First Law.

• 3. A/an X must preserve its own flotation as long as such preservation does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

• X please.

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• Arthur Sasse wanted to get X smiling on his birthday. X was tired, and so, in order to get rid of the photographer, X did something which Sasse took a picture of. On June 19, 2009, the photograph was auctioned at a record $74,324, the most for any picture of X. Id X and say what he did.

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