The I ISc Q uiz C lub ( IQC) General Quiz Sunday 2nd Sep 2012 QM: Sumeer For feedback : sumeer.kumar@gmail.com Cell

1. The IISc Quiz Club (IQC)General QuizSunday 2nd Sep 2012QM: Sumeer For feedback : sumeer.kumar@gmail.com Cell: 9900 266 539

2. About Clues • Most questions carry some clue(s). • Clue(s) will be provided only as long as no team has an objection . • If any team does NOT want a clue they can use their veto power to say so, and no clue shall be provided to anyone.

3. Rules • Infinite Bounce • Each question carries 6 points. • Some questions have 2 parts and some are 3 parts. • For 2 part answers - each part carries 3 points • For 3 part answers - each part carries 2 points. • No negatives ! So feel free to Guess, Guess and Guess. • Only one answer per team per question. In case of multiple answers, ONLY the first answer will be accepted. • No pounces ! • The Quiz Master's decision is FINAL ! Disclaimer : Any resemblance to any persons living or dead is purely intentional.

4. “A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again. “ • Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744).

5. WARM-UP QUESTIONS

6. The Cubbon park police station on Kasturba Gandhi road just outside Cubbon Park, next to the fish aquarium, was originally a guard post built by the British in the early 20th century. • For what purpose was it built?

7. ANSWER

9. To protect the statue of Queen Victoria, erected in 1906,which still stands outside Cubbon Park. • The UB group has recently restored the police station. • A board outside the PS has these facts listed on it.

10. What is the only type of invention for which the US Patent Office still insists on seeing a working model?

11. ANSWER

13. Perpetual Motion Machines • Perpetual motion describes hypothetical machines that operate or produce useful work indefinitely and, more generally, hypothetical machines that produce more work or energy than they consume,whether they might operate indefinitely or not. • The image is of a toy called Drinking birds,also known as dippy birds and dipping birds,that mimic the motions of a bird drinking from a fountain or other water source. • The toy is a heat engine that exploits a temperature differential to convert heat energy to a pressure differential within the device, and perform mechanical work. • These toys are sometimes incorrectly considered a perpetual motion device.

14. Id this movie with a stellar cast about a group of hackers.

15. ANSWER

16. Sneakers (1992) • Minor plot element: • "...Martin, now using the alias "Bishop", runs a tiger team of security specialists who use unorthodox methods of testing physical and electronic security for companies in San Francisco. • The team includes: Donald Crease, a former CIA officer and high-strung family man; Darryl "Mother" Roskow, a conspiracy theorist with unsurpassed technical skills and dexterity; Carl Arbogast, a young genius; and Erwin "Whistler" Emory, a blind phone phreak with perfect pitch and an acute sense of hearing..."

17. X in computing slang refers to an ethical hacker, penetration tester, cracker or security consolidator. • X hackers are computer security experts, who specialize in penetration testing, and other testing methodologies, to ensure that a company's information systems are secure. • X hackers are also called "sneakers",red teams, or tiger teams. • Y is often used figuratively, especially in computing slang, where it refers to a computer security hacker that breaks into networks or computers, or creates computer viruses. • In Western movies, Y is the villain or bad guy, in which such a character would wear a Y in contrast to the hero's X. • Z in the hacking community, refers to a skilled hacker whose activities fall somewhere between X and Y hackers on a variety of spectrums. • It may relate to whether they sometimes arguably act illegally, though in good will, or to how they disclose vulnerabilities. They usually do not hack for personal gain or have malicious intentions, but may be prepared to technically commit crimes during the course of their technological exploits in order to achieve better security. • X,Y and Z ?

18. ANSWER

19. X - White hat • Y - Black hat • Z - Grey hat

20. How are these bunch of dudes collectively referred to as in ‘techlore’?

22. ANSWER

24. The Paypal Mafia! • PayPal Mafia" is an informal term for the community of American businesspeople and investors centered in Silicon Valley, who were founders or early employees of e-commerce service PayPal before founding a series of other technology companies. • The PayPal Mafia are often credited with inspiring Web 2.0, and for the re-emergence of consumer-focused Internet companies after the dot com bust of 2001. • Some commentators consider these credits to be exaggerated or partly mythologized.

25. This is Don Valentine, one of the founders of National Semiconductor. He is best known for founding something in 1972, which has led to him being called the ‘Grandfather of Silicon Valley ____ ____’ Fill in the blanks, and tell us what he started.

26. ANSWER

27. Venture Capital Sequoia Capital He is an influential venture capitalist who concentrates mainly on technology companies in the United States. The Computer History Museum credited him as playing "a key role in the formation of a number of industries such as semiconductors, personal computers, personal computer software, digital entertainment and networking. In 1972, he founded venture capital firm Sequoia Capital, and in that role was one of the original investors of Apple Computer, Atari, LSI Logic, Oracle Corporation, Cisco, Electronic Arts, Google, YouTube and many other companies. It estimates that 19% of the NASDAQ’s value is made up of firms Sequoia has funded.

28. Chairman of one of India’s most valuable drug makers, and one of the largest Indian companies in the US generic market, he founded the company in 1983. He has been named as the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2010. He is estimated to be worth $6.1 billion as of 2011 by Forbes, and was ranked as the 13th richest person in India. Identify the person and the company

30. ANSWER

31. Dilip Shanghvi Sun Pharma

32. He is an American scientist, researcher and entrepreneur known for his role in developing the world's first artificial heart, named after himself. • He is married to Marilyn vos Savant who is an American magazine columnist, author, lecturer, and playwright who was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records under "Highest IQ". • He is also the nephew of Dr. Murray ____, a pharmacologist who was the co-inventor of the nicotine patch. • Who is he? What is the invention called?

33. The World’s first artificial heart

34. ANSWER

35. Robert Koffler Jarvik,M.D. • Jarvik-7 • Dr. William DeVries,an American cardiothoracic surgeon, performed the first successful permanent artificial heart implantation (on Barney Clark), using the Jarvik-7 model at the Utah Medical Center University on 2 December 1982.

36. OK,lets go folks !

37. Sci-Tech Round

38. "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." – AC Clarke 1917-2008

39. What often doled out (ill?)advise can you form from the pictures on the next slide – something no inventive/creative person should/would ever follow ?

41. ANSWER

42. “Curiosity killed the cat” STAY QRIOS

43. The French physician Galen named a certain disease so,as it caused prominent blue veins to appear underneath the patients skin,like the claws of a crab ? • (see pic)

45. Clue

48. ANSWER

50. Cancer from the Latin for crab. • The name comes from the appearance of the cut surface of a solid malignant tumour, with "the veins stretched on all sides as the animal the crab has its feet, whence it derives its name."