Finals

1.

• Joseph A. Kinney, the director of the safe workplace institute, has calculated Domino's employee death rate at 50 per 100,000. He said the rate is as high as in mining and higher than the 30 deaths per 100,000 workers in the construction industry.

• What does he blame this hazard on?

• Domino’s 30 minutes or it’s free rule.

2.• The first Paddington

Bear stuffed toy to be manufactured was created in 1972 by Gabrielle Designs, a small business run by Shirley and Eddie Clarkson, with the prototype made as a Christmas present for their children. Their children later went on to become salesmen for the toys.

• Jeremy Clarkson.

4. Which Indian city is aesthetically modelled after the city of Portofino in Italy?

• Lavasa

5.

• IT'S SHOWTIME• TALK TO THE HAND "hello world" • YOU HAVE BEEN TERMINATED

• Funda?

• ArnoldC, a programming language based on Arnold Schwarzenneger quotes.

7.• This company was nearly

going bankrupt when it signed a product placement deal with the producers of a 90’s movie. The product got only 12 seconds of screen time, but directly resulted in 20% increase in sales.Name the product.Name the movie.

• Etch and Sketch, Toy Story

8.

• Sofia Ashraf is a relatively little-known former creative supervisor for Ogilvy and Mather, but has also worked with AR Rahman and Santosh Kumar’s Tamil films.

She recently shot to prominence with a rather unique way of ‘sticking it to the Man.’How?

Kodaikanal Won’t, a protest against Unilever in the form of a Nicki Minaj rap

8. What technology was inspired by this strip in a Spider-man comic?

• Ankle bracelets.

10. Spot the irony

• Mexico, Donald Trump.

11.• Commercial airlines refused to fly a sick 3 year-old child

because he could not travel without an elaborate life-support system, which includes a portable oxygen tank, a suction machine, a breathing bag and an adrenaline syringe.

• “X did not hesitate when we called him up. He said ‘yes, I’ll send my plane out,’” 29-year-old Harold Ten (father) recalled shortly after he landed here Tuesday morning (1988).

• Asked why he thought X made his private jet available, Ten replied, “Because he is a good man. He has three children of his own and he knows what being a parent is all about.”

• Whaddaya know, Donald Trump!

13. Gamers in Australia shot back at this megastore for removing GTAV off it’s shelves, citing agressive murderings and sexual

exploitation of women. Which one?A separate petition called for the ban of Fifty Shades of Grey on

the same lines.

• Target

14.

• The Star Wars parody called Spaceballs had a ship called Spaceball One, which had three modes of FTL speed: Light Speed, Ridiculous Speed and X.

• Why was this phrase in prominence on the 17th of July of this year?

• Ludicrous speed, in Tesla’s Model S cars

15.

• In 2001, the New Zealand government appointed Energy Minister Pete Hodgson as the minister of X responsible for a $600 million asset. His work involved tie-ups with the New Zealand tourism and trade ministry.

• LoTR

17.

• at 1:20 AM Eastern Time on Tuesday, September 29, Sanmay Ved, an ex-googler, managed to buy and retain ownership of what for a full minute for a sum of $12?

• Google.com

19.• A heating problem in Apple III computers caused some of the

system’s integrated chips to move or dislodge as they expanded, causing the screen to display garbled data or their disk to come out of the slot "melted". An obvious solution would be the addition of fans and adequate ventilation, but Jobs hated the relatively loud fans found on many computers of the day, and didn’t want to mar the Apple III’s design with ugly vents. So the Apple III shipped without any fans or vents, relying instead on a design that utilized a massive aluminum heat sink that formed the base of the computer.

• How did Apple 3’s user manual ask users to fix the garbled data and disk melting problem?

• Pick it up, and drop it from a height of 2 inches above the ground.No seriously.

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• Thanks to this IndianAmerican musician, Something everyone ofus does atleast once a year (even if you’re a loner) is not illegal anymore.Funda?

• “Happy Birthday To You” is now in the public domain, and not in the hands of Warner/Chappel

21.

• Nuka-Cola was invented in 2044 by John-Caleb Bradberton. Its unique taste gained widespread popularity, quickly becoming the most popular soft drink in the United States with an extremely dedicated following. The widely known dazzling blue bottle color was adopted as standard in 2052, after market research programs indicated that the blue color was the favorite in 86 people out of 100 polled.

• Put funda on the founders name

• Caleb Bradley and John Pemberton, fouders of Pepsi and Coca Cola respectively

22.

• "Who wants a Y? You have to get 'em, put 'em away, you lose 'em – yech! Nobody wants a Y. So let's not use a Y.“

• “God gave us ten Ys. Let us not invent another.”

• Who’s being quoted? What is Y?

• Stylus, and Steve Jobs

23.

• The term was coined by the Citigroup economist Ebrahim Rahbari and was introduced by Rahbari and Citigroup's Global Chief Economist Willem H. Buiter on 6 February 2012. In their original paper, they put their estimate of the likelihood of the action associated with the term as 50% way back in 2012, and has risen in July of this year.

• Grexit

24.

• Because IBM’s business was failing in the nineties, it’s (then) fifty managers were asked to go around the world and meet face to face with five of their customers, in an emphatic move in order to understand their wishes and needs. This was largely responsible for IBM’s resurgence from that point onwards.

• What was this operation called?

• Operation Bear Hug

25.

• Book of Mozilla, the explorer’s own easter egg

26.

• Why did the Chandauli village, 150 km from Delhi, suddenly albeit indirectly resurge into prominence in recent days?

• Internet.org’s free internet service was first launched here.

27.• Massive is a software package developed by Stephen Regelous for the visual

effects industry. Its flagship feature is the ability to quickly and easily create thousands (or up to millions with current advances in computer processing power) of agents that all act as individuals as opposed to content creators individually animating or programming the agents by hand. Through the use of fuzzy logic, the software enables every agent to respond individually to its surroundings, including other agents. These reactions affect the agent's behaviour, changing how they act by controlling pre-recorded animation clips, for example by blending between such clips, to create characters that move, act, and react realistically. These pre-recorded animation clips can come from motion-capture sessions, or can be hand-animated in other 3D animation software packages.

• Where was it first used?

• Orcs in LOTR Battle scenes

28.

• "That coaching will continue to ensure our partners are well equipped to discuss Surface when the camera pans to players using the device during games.“

• Microsoft plans to conduct training for imparting information to NFL sportscasters after their marketing strategy of giving the Surface air-time backfired horribly. Why?

• To stop them from calling the Surface “iPads.”

29.

• What is so special about this taxi of theTillingdale Taxi company, which forsome reason operatesonly between Ryanair's headquarters at Dublin Airport, and Michael O'Leary (founder of Ryanair)'s home in Mullingan?What purpose does it serve?

• It’s a company with only one(this) cab. This company was made just so that the CEO can use bus lanes legally as a taxi while coming back home from the airport.

30.• Niantic Labs, created by John

Hanke in 2010, isan internal startup within Google. It came into prominence with it’s augmented reality mobile game titled Ingress which pits people into two factions who have to physically interact with people and real-world objects and locations to collect Exotic Matter.

Why has this company shot to sudden prominence in this year?

• Pokémon GO

31.

• In GPS technology, the term "COCOM Limits" also refers to a limit placed on GPS tracking devices that disables tracking when the device calculates that it is moving faster than 1,000 knots (1,900 km/h; 1,200 mph) at an altitude higher than 18,000 m (59,000 ft)

Why was this implemented?

• To prevent it’s use as a guidance system for missiles.

32.

• In order to test the speed of ADSL broadband link of South Africa’s Telkom company, another company called United IT organized a race between X and Telkom to transfer 4GB of data to Durban from Howick, 60 miles away.The former completed it in 1 hour and 8 minutes, not including 1 hour for uploading the data, while Telkom had only completed 4%.

X?

• Carrier pigeon!

33.

• The Atlantic writes, “Gravestone monuments, after all, are built of sturdy matter such as granite, fieldstone, and marble—materials imagined to last well into the future. Given the proliferation of memorialization websites and the use of social networking profiles as mourning spaces, it may come as no surprise that X now appear on headstones, linking graveyard visitors to online tributes to the dead. The frenzy of connectivity fomented by the Web 2.0 ethos has apparently led to a market for interactive, digitally connected graveyards.”

• QR codes

34.

• What reason does Rovio give for choosing pigs as their main antagonists while developing their extremely famous Angry Birds title way back in 2009? It was for the same reason that they painted them green.

The surge of Swine Flu cases in 2009-2010

35.• American designer Rick Owens' Spring/Summer 2016

collection at Paris Fashion Week a few days back effectively proves one of two things; he has truly lost it or he’s attempting to break the fashion circlejerk of utterly outrageous designs.

• "I see [my vision for the collection] being more about nourishment, sisterhood/motherhood… Women raising women, women becoming women, and women supporting women," Owens said in a statement. "Straps can be about restraint, but here they are all about support and cradling. Straps here become loving ribbons.“

• While the above does nothing to explain what he designed, what were the runway models wearing?

• For reference, this designer brought forth these

Answer: Each other!

36.• Now widely recognised as the first real-world transaction with bitcoin, May

22nd has come to celebrate 'Bitcoin X Day', with cryptocurrency enthusiasts raising toasts to Laslo Hanyecz’s purchase that paved the way for early merchant adoption.

• on May 22, 2010, the programmer paid a fellow Bitcoin Talk forum user 10,000 BTC for two X. Back then – when the technology was just over a year old – that equated to roughly $25, but is $5.12m by today’s exchange rate. The Xs are now considered to be on the top spot of the most expensive X ever sold.

• "It wasn’t like bitcoins had any value back then, so the idea of trading them for a X was incredibly cool," Hanyecz told Nick Bilton in a recent interview with The New York Times. "No one knew it was going to get so big.“

• What is X?

• Pizza

37. Google Trends of what that shows a spike every September?

• “Wake me up when September ends”

38.

• The results of this project closely resembles what would happen to someone under the influence of LSD and psylocybins, an hence may be used to understand the working of the visual cortex of our brains.It’s name allegedly comes from a meme derived from a 2008 sci-fi movie.

• Google’s Deep Dream project

39.

• When an aboriginal Australian man was wrongly sentenced to execution for the murder of a 9-year-old girl, due to the police fabricating evidence such as letters of criminal intent even as he was illiterate, Which man of Donald Trump-level richness and douchebaggery took it upon himself to strongly protest for a fair trial, even as he didn’t believe the man to be all too innocent?

• Rupert Murdoch

40.

• Which organization will be the subject of the newest exhibit in America’s National Museum of Organized Crime?

• FIFA.