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Code Wars 2010

present. Code Wars 2010. Senior Quiz. Rules. Infinite Bounce , so no rounds. Total number of questions is <guess…nudge nudge wink wink> and a special final round . Flat scoring with 10 points – unless specified otherwise. Quizmaster’s decision is final and binding.

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Code Wars 2010

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  1. present Code Wars 2010 Senior Quiz

  2. Rules • Infinite Bounce, so no rounds. • Total number of questions is <guess…nudge nudge wink wink>and a special final round. • Flat scoring with 10 points – unless specified otherwise. • Quizmaster’s decision is final and binding.

  3. There are two commonly-accepted definitions of this term – one, by Ronald Azuma in 1997; the other by Paul Milgram and Fumio Kishino in 1994. The term itself was coined by Tom Caudell at Boeing. In recent years, there has been renewed interest in this field, especially on mobile platforms. What term?

  4. Augmented Reality

  5. Named by Dan Bornstein after a small fishing village in in Eyjafjörður (Iceland), this software is in the eye of a controversy. What is it?

  6. Android operating system's Dalvik virtual machine, for which Oracle is suing Google for infringing on its intellectual property.

  7. Hewlett-Packard: Mark Hurd(the CEO who had to resign due to sexual harrassment allegations), Jodie Fisher (complainant), Steve Wozniak (who initially worked at HP)

  8. This book is published by a company called BreadPig (founded by Alexis Ohanian in 2007), that aims to use donate all its profits from sales of 'geeky things' to charity. The author of the book has a hobby of kite photography. Which book?

  9. xkcd: volume 0 by Randall Munroe

  10. _________: The program with a personality It will get on all your disks It will infiltrate your chips Yes, it's _______! It will stick to you like glue It will modify RAM too Send in the _______! Fill in the blanks and name the author of this 'poem'.

  11. Elk Cloner, the first ever virus. The author, of course, is the creator of the virus Richard Skrenta.

  12. What office productivity suite is bundled by default in Ubuntu releases?

  13. Go-oo (NOT OpenOffice.org, even though the branding of OO.org is retained)

  14. Why are Shanghai Jiaotong University and Lanxiang Vocational School in China infamous?

  15. They were reportedly involved in the attack on Google's infrastructure.

  16. What is 'toothing'?

  17. Toothing was originally a hoax claim that Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones or PDAs were being used to arrange random sexual encounters, perpetrated as a prank on the media who reported it.

  18. Identify the person.

  19. Toru Itawani, creator of Pac-Man

  20. What is the "1% rule"?

  21. On any online platform, 1% of the users create content, 9% modify or comment, 90% simply consume content.

  22. ___________ and Vince Pace developed the Fusion Camera System (aka ‘Reality Camera System 1’), that has been / is being used to shoot, among others, Hollywood movies such as Spy Kids: Game Over, The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Resident Evil: Afterlife, Transformers 3, and Tron Legacy. (There are other movies on this list, but they've been left out to make this question harder.) Fill in the blank.

  23. James Cameron. The most successful movie shot with the Fusion 3D camera system being Avatar.

  24. Intel calls it ‘XD bit’; AMD uses the name ‘Enhanced Virus Protection’; ARM refers to it as ‘XN’; most quiz archives (and Vivek Nair) mention this as ‘NX bit’. What on earth is this question talking about?

  25. It is the ‘No eXecutebit’, used to segregate executable code from data in the memory, to prevent viruses piggybacking onto the data.

  26. Why is the PS/2 mouse controller called so?

  27. It was introduced with the IBM Personal Systems/2 in 1987. Since then, the name has stuck.

  28. “1 package chocolate cake mix, 1 can prepared coconut frosting, 3/4 cups vegetable oil, 4 large eggs, 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips, 3/4 cup butter or margarine (softened), 2/3 cups granulated sugar, 3 large eggs, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, 2 cups all purpose flour, 2/3 cups cocoa, 1/4 teaspoon baking soda, 1 teaspoon salt, 1/4 teaspoon baking powder, 1/3 cups water, 1 to 2 vanilla frosting. Don't forget garnishes, such as: fish shaped crackers, fish shaped candies, fish shaped dirt, fish shaped solid waste, fish shaped ethyl benzene, pull and peel licorice, fish shaped volatile organic compounds, sediment shaped sediment, a 20-foot thick impermeable clay layer.” Long recipe. For what?

  29. The Portal Cake (recipe is given in an in-game Easter Egg)

  30. Who or what is 'Titan Rain'?

  31. Titan Rain is the codename given by the US government for a series of coordinated attacks in 2003 originating from China on various government agencies and private companies across the world such as NASA, Whitehall, Lockheed Martin, etc.

  32. Ad for what company’s product? (Chocolates to be given* if you can name specific product and rationale behind the ad.) * Conditions apply

  33. Nikon S60 (advertising its face detection software which can apparently detect up to 12 faces)

  34. What are Bobcat and Bulldozer?

  35. Upcoming AMD processor codenames. Bobcat is meant for ultraportables, Bulldozer is mainstream x86 computing; both aimed at reducing energy usage

  36. Who tweeted this while she was delivering her baby?

  37. Sara Williams (@sara), wife of Twitter co-founder Evan Williams

  38. Monolithic and micro are the two main kinds of ________. They perform a vital role in all modern computers, facilitating communication between the applications and the hardware, i.e., a bridge between applications and the actual data processing done at the hardware level What am I talking about?

  39. Kernel

  40. Identify the instrument.

  41. Accelerometer

  42. Razer (gaming mice/keyboards): Diamondback, Lycosa, Lachesis, Tarantula

  43. What is ‘flash burning’?

  44. A technique some viruses use – repeatedly writing to the flash chip of the BIOS, rendering it unusable, because even EEPROM chips can be written to only a limited number of times.

  45. Name the company – or at least what field the company was in – started by the person in the middle.

  46. PropertyFinder LLC, a international real-estate website. (The person is Anna Chapman, the Russian spy involved in the FBI-busted Illegals Program.)

  47. Originally developed by ETH Zurich, now owned by nVidia. There was another company which owned the patent briefly, and released an expansion card based on it. Now it comes bundled with all recent nVidia drivers. It is known to speed up certain games to incredible levels, by offloading some processes. Switchball was the first game to ever utilise it. What am I talking about?

  48. PhysX

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