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Technologically Curious??

CODE 2012
Quiz - Fact and Furious!
The total number of questions is 20. Q. 42 is a bonus question and has 5 times the points of any other question. Remember no questions answer is 42! Questions marked with [CODE] are tiebreakers. So answer as many of them as you can. In case a tie persists, the team with the maximum number of Apple devices will go through to the final round. Quizmasters decision will be final and binding.

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Q.1. Name the font used in 1.) Googles logo. 2.) Twitters logo Q.2.What was the codename of Android 1.0? Q.3.

He walks with a Barcode on his Head Name this character. [CODE]Q.4. What was the first name of the first calculator made by Blaise Pascal? Q.5. Which was the first home video gaming console released by SEGA? Q.6. Name the first TROJAN released in the wild in 1974/1975? [CODE]Q. 7. "When I was a young man, I had liberty, but I did not see it. I had time, but I did not know it. And I had love, but I did not feel it. Many decades would pass before I understood the meaning of all three. Now, in the twilight of my life, misunderstanding has passed into contentment. Love, liberty, and time, once so disposable, are the fuels that drive me forward." Who said this?

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Q.8. Identify the logo.

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Q.10. Identify X.
19-Sep-82 11:44 X From: X <X at Cmu-20c> I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers: :-) Read it sideways. Actually, it is probably more economical to mark things that are NOT jokes, given current trends. For this, use :-( :-)

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Q.11. Kratos appeared in which game excluding God of War Series? Q.12. When was Lady Ada Lovelace Day celebrated in 2012? Q.13.Which game did husband-and-wife team Keith Shepherd and Natalia Luckyanova create, along with artist Kiril Tchangov? Q.14. Expand a) ICANN b) SATA Q.15. Connect To a famous Company and Put funda. (2 marks)

Q.16. On October 19th, millions went purple online especially on Facebook. The twitter hashtag #SpiritDay was trending that day. What was the occasion and why purple?

Q.17. X is a singing synthesizer application with a female persona, developed by Crypton Future Media. Her voice is sampled from Japanese voice actress, Saki Fujita. Identify X.

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Q.18 X is a website powered by Google Custom Search and created by Heap Media, which aims to save energy by displaying a black background and using grayish-white font color for search results. X claims having saved 3.12 MWh (megawatt hours) of electrical energy up to now (May 28th 2012), a claim currently under dispute. For comparison, the average USA household consumes 11 MWh of electrical energy per year. Identify X. Q.19. In Internet slang, a X is someone who posts inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as a forum, chat room, or blog, with the primary intent of provoking readers into an emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion. The noun X may refer to the provocative message itself, as in: "You Just Got Xed." Q.20. Universal tube and Rollform Equipment Corporation is an American manufacturer and supplier of metal machine tubes and pipes, founded in 1985. The company specializes in buying and selling tube mills, pipe mills and rollforming machines. In 2006 it filed a lawsuit against X. The original domain name sounded very similar to that of X. This resulted in them getting 68 million hits and their servers crashed. The lawsuit was later settled by the parties. Identify X.

Bonus Question
Q.42. Name all Call of Duty games in chronological order along with the year of launch.