XCentricity Quiz researched and conducted by Apratim Chandra Singh as part of St.Stephen's College CompSoc Annual Tech Fest Cybercept 2017.

1. XCentricity 2017 Quiz
Prelims
By Apratim Chandra Singh

2. Rules
• 16 Questions in the prelims
• Star Mark Questions will be announced
• Top 6 teams in the finals
• Pay attention to text in italics. If they weren’t important they
wouldn’t have been there.

3. Q1
In October of 2015, 22-year-old actor Kayode Ewumi uploaded a
video to YouTube called "Hood Documentary". The short film
follows deluded, hopeless – but strangely loveable – aspiring grime
MC _______ ______ as he guides the viewer through "the hood", AKA a
small area of south London.
However he came into limelight last month when a user posted his
image on Twitter with a caption.
Who is he or how do we know him ?

5. Roll Safe

6. Q2
With the release of iOS 10, Apple has started this feature in iPhone
where each word typed by user is predicted as an emoticon.
Eg.- If a user types USA then a flag of USA will be predicted.
What emoticon does iOS predict when a user types “Lucky” ?

8. Four Leaf Clover

9. Q3
These are inspiration for what ?

12. Maps of Counter Strike

13. Q4
Which person and which
Company ?

15. Reed Hastings,Netflix

16. Q5
A certain biggie in tech industry has asked its app developers to
change their names. The updated brand guidelines also require that
the XY logo cannot be modified in any way, or fully used to represent
another app. The biggest losers in this bid will be apps like Xcanvas
and WebstaY – which have been using these words right from the
beginning. Which biggie has announced these set of guidelines ?
XY is same as name of the company.

18. Instagram

19. Q6
The definition of the word according to sources is ‘a short burst of
inconsequential information’.
What good word is this, which might remind you of a certain
character from a detective grandmother cartoon ?

21. Twitter

22. Q7
Here’s an excerpt from Business Insider
“Kimbal is trying to change the way we eat by creating what he calls a
"real food revolution."
For over a decade, he has run two restaurant chains, The Kitchen and
Next Door, which serve dishes made strictly with locally-sourced
meat and veggies. In 2011, he started a nonprofit program that has
installed "Learning Gardens" in over 300 schools, with the intention
of teaching kids about agriculture.
His latest food venture delves into the world of local urban farming. ”
Who is his more famous brother who is known to us for a completely
different reason and is a rockstar in his own domain ?

24. Elon Musk

25. Q8
The X Syndrome was a peak in suicides and illness of children
between the ages of 7-12 shortly after the release of Pokémon Red and
Green in Japan, back in February 27th, 1996.
Rumors say that these suicides and illness only occurred after the
children playing the game reached X, whose theme music had
extremely high frequencies, that studies showed that only children and
young teens can hear, since their ears are more sensitive.
Due to the tone, at least two-hundred children supposedly committed
suicide, and many more developed illnesses and afflictions.
What syndrome is this which despite causing horrific effects evokes a
sweet and pleasant fragrance. ?

27. Lavendar Town Syndrome

28. Q9
Malwarebytes has recently discovered what they’re calling “the first
Mac malware of 2017. X malware has been using antiquated code to
help it run undetected for quite some time on macOS systems. It
has reportedly been used in targeted attacks at biomedical research
institutions.
Interestingly, what very appropriate and fruitarian name has been
given by Apple to this malware.

30. FruitFly

31. Q10
Some of the things about the mystery man “Reggie Brown” :-
1. Brown’s full name is Frank Reginald – “Reggie” – Brown IV
2. Brown, who hails from South Carolina and sports a full mop of blond
hair and a toothy grin, met X cofounders while the three were at
Stanford.
3. Brown and _______ lived on the same floor of the freshman dorm
Donner during the 2008-09 school year and soon became good buds.
Brown filed a lawsuit against the company’s two founder accusing
them of pushing him out of the board and depriving him of due credit.
Which company ? Which feature did he suggest which has now become
sort of a trademark of the company ?

33. Snapchat. Disappearing photos

34. Q11 - Connect

36. Lyf Mobiles Model –
Wind,Flame,Water,Earth

37. Q12
What is the name of the
pizza ?
(Look at the image
carefully)

39. Trump Pizza

40. Q13
What is the name of Huawei’s Android Mobile Phone UI ?
Perfect UI for Tin-Man

42. Emotion UI

43. Q14
Which popular company had its humble beginning from this house
in Bellevue, Washington ? Wonder Woman could very well have been
its brand ambassador.

44. Q15
According to Variety.com, the membership for this organization
increased from 30 million in late 2007 to over 200 million in July
2013 with users in the age group of 6 to 14 owning large amounts of
online property.
Where were these online property located?

46. Club Penguin

47. Q16
According to creator of the language, "designed to make physical
calculations simple, to help ensure that answers come out right, and
to make a tool that's really useful in the real world. It tracks units of
measure (feet, meters, kilograms, watts, etc.) through all
calculations, allowing you to mix units of measure transparently,
and helps you easily verify that your answers make sense”.
After which famous nerdy scientist and professor, a graduate of
_______ Heights Institute of Technology is this programming language
named after ?

49. Professor Frink

50. XCentricity 2017
Finals
By Apratim Chandra Singh

51. Rules
• Differential Pounce
• +20/18/16/14/12/10 if 1/2/3/4/5/6 teams get it right and -10 if
incorrect
• Total 19 Questions in the finals
• QM is always right.

52. Q1
Philip Gale was an American pioneering Internet software developer,
computer prodigy, and sophomore student at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT). He was notable for having written Total
Access while at MIT, and was hired by EarthLink at the age of 16 to
work on its development. After complaints of being bored and
depressed, on March 13, 1998, about 7:30 p.m., Gale broke a window
and jumped to his death from a classroom on the fifteenth floor of a
building on the MIT campus.
Coincidentally, what was the last thing Philip Gale wrote on the
blackboard of his classroom before jumping to his death ?

54. Newton’s Equation for Acceleration of
Falling Object

55. Q2
Located in Longhua Town. This place has 4 swimming pools, a fire
brigade, its own television network and a city centre with a grocery
store, bank, restaurants, bookstore, and hospital.
Despite having such great amenities, it is one of the worst places to
work for.
Which company owns this township OR By what name is this place
popularly known ? <images on next slide>

58. Foxconn/Foxconn City

59. Q3 – What is this graph for ?

61. Top500 Supercomputers

62. Q4
$70 million home on 1108 North Hillcrest Drive in Beverly Hills.
This 23,000-square-foot, Contemporary-style home, with a wall of
glass that provides a 280-degree view of the City of Angels and the
Pacific Ocean below <image of house on next slide>.
Which person who is a recent entrant to the billionaire club bought
this house brick by brick ?

65. Markus Persson

66. Q5
What are these GPS
Bluetooth devices
used for ?

68. Pets

69. Q6
Lumen, formerly X, is a collaborative archive created by Wendy
Seltzer and founded along with several law school clinics and the
Electronic Frontier Foundation to protect lawful online activity from
legal threats. Its website, X Clearinghouse, allows recipients of
cease-and-desist notices to submit them to the site and receive
information about their legal rights and responsibilities. The archive
was founded in 2001 by Internet activists who were concerned that
the unregulated private practice of sending cease-and-desist letters
seemed to be increasing and was having an unstudied, but
potentially significant, X on free speech. What’s X ?

71. Chilling Effect

72. Q7
X, then known as Peutronics, was co-founded in 1986 by Shyam
Sunder Goenka and his son Bharat. Shyam Sunder Goenka was
running a company that supplied raw materials and machine parts
to plants and textile mills in southern and eastern India. Unable to
find a software that can manage _______ __ _______, he asked his son,
Bharat Goenka, 23, a math graduate to create a software that would
handle financial accounts for his business. What did his son create ?

74. Tally

75. Q8
Online ticketing portal BookMyShow has acquired which
Hyderabad-based online ticketing platform ?

77. Masti Tickets

78. Q9
Fallout 3 is a post-apocalyptic computer and console open-ended,
action role-playing game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and
published by Bethesda Softworks. It is the third major installment in
the Fallout series (5th overall) and a sequel to Interplay's Fallout
and Fallout 2. However due to refused classification by OFLC in
Australia they decided no longer to include real world drug
references.
Which opiate was referenced in the game as Med-X ?

80. Morphine

81. Q10
Which company produces these pressure rice cookers ?
The company is popular for a different reason altogether.

83. Xiaomi

84. Q11
“Hi From the Other Side” is an app Started by 29-year-old Henry
Tsai, a student at Harvard Business School. The goal of the app isn't
to convince but to get them to listen.
The app was widely appreciated by several media dailies and was
one of the most popular apps in the past few months.
What does the app do ?

86. Connects you with a citizen who voted for the
opposite party as you (Republicans and
Democrats)

87. Q12
Tidal (stylize as TIDAL) is a subscription-based music streaming
service that combines lossless audio and high definition music
videos with curated editorial. The service has over 25 million tracks
and 85,000 music videos. Tidal claims to pay the highest percentage
of royalties to music artists and songwriters within the music
streaming market. Tidal offers two digital music streaming services:
Tidal Premium (lossy quality) and Tidal HiFi.
Which person owns TIDAL ?

89. Jay-Z

90. Q13

92. IRCTC

93. Q14
Which
Company ?

95. ATARI

96. Q15 Ad by whom ?

99. Q16
The listing attracted 132 bids before closing at 3:45 a.m. on Feb. 7.
The item was sold from Burbank, California, and even came with
free standard shipping, according to the eBay listing.
In a phone call, eBay confirmed to CNBC the item was valid and
available for purchase, but has not yet returned a request for
comment on the specific listing. Wired noted in 2015 that trolls tend
to inflate the bids on "rare" and collectible items, making large
offers that inevitably fall through. Oftentimes, the only consequence
for not fulfilling a bid is a strike against the seller's account.
What was so special about the Cheetos ? <image on next slide>

102. Resembled Harambe

103. Q17
What is the name of the unique personalisation service offered by
Aston Martin ?

105. Q

106. Q18
Intel’s recent innovation is a tiny system-on a-chip (SoC) based on
the Intel Quark SE. It is the size of a shirt button but includes
everything required to provide compute power for wearable
devices. It has raised concern from experts due to the potential
radiation exposure from such devices.
After whom is this device named after ?

108. Curie

109. Q19
“Shinder is the brilliant work of entrepreneur, author, product
designer, motivational speaker, and all-around-jokester Shed
Shimove. He’s also behind such stunts as a book called What Every
Man Thinks About Apart From Sex—the kicker: the book contains
200 blank pages—and another called Fifty Shades Of Gray, which
also contains 200 blank pages, except they go from light to dark grey
(four pages for every shade) as the book goes on. We haven’t
explored all of Shimove’s many, many ideas, but it’s reasonable to
assume that at least four more involve printing books with 200
blank pages. As for the Shinder app—tagline: “quality, not
quantity”—it’s very real.” – According to an article by Menshealth.
What is so special about the app “Shinder” ?

111. He is the only man on Shinder.

112. fin