These are the finals of the Lonewolf conducted by me at IITG.

1. Respect The Quizmaster’s AUTHORITAH!!

2. Round 1
•All questions on Infinite Pounce.
• +15/-10 on Infinite Pounce and +10/0 on direct.
• Please pounce only if you know the complete answer.There
won’t be any part marking on the pounce and incomplete
answers will fetch you negative marks.
• Remember, The Quizmaster’s decision is final
and binding.

3. This man took one of the most popular photographs
ever. Almost everyone who has used a computer has
seen it. Who is he? What is blocked out?

4. Charles O’Rear.

5. If you are to believe the NYT, this “art form” is in a
“museum” which has been visited by only 2 humans.
Ever. Where is this museum?
The art piece is
actually small.
About this small.
For a reason.

6. Moon Museum is a small ceramic wafer three-quarters of an inch
by half an inch in size, containing artworks by six prominent
artists from the late 1960s. The artists with works in the
"museum" are Robert Rauschenberg, David Novros, John
Chamberlain, Claes Oldenburg, Forrest Myers, and Andy Warhol.
This wafer was supposedly covertly attached to a leg of the
Intrepid landing module, and subsequently left on the moon
during Apollo 12. The moon museum is considered the first Space
Art object.

7. Daniel Lyons worked as a senior editor at
Forbes magazine and is now a
writer at Newsweek. We, however, know
him better as 'somebody else' who
writes a popular blog. Who am I referring
to?

8. Fake Steve Jobs….
(fakesteve.net)

9. What does 'TMZ' in the gossip blog
TMZ.com stand for?

10. Thirty Mile Zone

11. Something is common to the way all these photos have been
shot. All these were posted online on a Google+ page
between April to June 2012. So what's special to the way
they've been taken?

12. These were all taken using Google's new set of head-
mounted devices that embed computing within
spectacles (the project's called Project Glass). These
glasses will let wearers take photos, overlay maps on
the field of vision etc.

13. Where can you find this camera? People are surprised
that this is just a 2MP camera.

14. Curiosity

15. _________: 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'.

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

17. Ad for what company’s
product?

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

19. In Jan/Feb 2012, Google hosted a conference to
which were invited several leading technologists,
scientists, and other innovators & entrepreneurs
to discuss some of the world's most interesting &
difficult problems. They called this an exercise in
"moonshot thinking" i.e. solutions that are just
beyond what is currently feasible but just enough
within reality. Given the nature of the gathering
(and that many videos were posted), the gathering
drew comparisons with TED.
The name chosen for this (and more are planned)
is something that would often be the last line in an
algebra problem.
What?

20. "Solve for X".

21. What’s so special about E-mart’s Sunny Sale which takes
place during lunchtime i.e from 12 to 1 PM.

23. Captain: What happen ?
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb.
Operator: We get signal.
Captain: What !
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Captain: It’s you !!
CATS: How are you gentlemen !!
CATS: ______________________
CATS: You are on the way to destruction.
The quote is from the introduction sequence of a
game in which the player’s enemy, the leader of
CATS, appears.
Give me the game or fill up the blank in the quote.

24. “All Your Base Belong To Us”
Zero Wing

25. 2.
1.
?
4.
3.

26. Biographies written by Walter
Issacson.

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

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

29. This photo of
Swedish model
Lena Söderberg
was shot for the
November 1972
centrefold of
Playboy. She has
been dubbed
“The First Lady of
the Internet”. This
cropped version
of her photo has
an extremely
important
significance in a
field of computer
science. Why?

30. ‘Lena’ / ‘Lenna’ is the
standard test image for
testing any image processing
algorithm. It was chosen at
the spur‐of‐the‐moment
during an experiment when
the researchers needed a
glossy image to test dynamic
output range and wanted a
human face. Since then, the
convention has stuck.

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

32. Sara Williams (@sara), wife of
Twitter co‐founder Evan
Williams

33. 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?

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

35. Connect….

36. Apple's Siri has a desi
counterpart - Micromax
AISHA
Micromax has launched its
A50 Superfone Ninja
handset, which comes with a
voice assistant - AISHA
(Artificial Intelligence Speech
Handset Assistant).

37. Google Doodle for???

38. 9 April 2012 - Eadweard J.
Muybridge was an English
photographer best known for
his breakthrough work in
using multiple cameras to
capture animal movement

39. What is being ‘íntroduced’/’described’
here???

40. LinkedIn describing the acquisition of
SlideShare in a small SlideShare
presentation.

41. Round 2
• All questions on infinite pounce.
• Progressive clues round.
+15/-10 if you answer on the first clue
+10/-5 if you answer on the second one
+5/0 if you answer on the third one.
• On the pounce:
+20/-10 on the first clue.
+15/-10 on the second one.
+10/-10 on the third one.
• Only one pounce allowed per question.

43. Spam….
Hormel Foods logo (They own the
trademark for the term 'Spam' - it's a
product by their company)
Monty Python figures (The usage of 'spam'
do denote junk mail was inspired by a
Monty Python sketch)
US coverage map

45. LG
Lucky Goldstar (That's what LG
stands for)
Chocolate (LG has a cellphone
named Chocolate)

47. Motorola
Galvin brothers (Founders of Motorola)
DynaTAC8000X (First cellphone)
Abhishek Bachchan (Brand
embassador for Motorola in India)

49. Spore
xkcd comic on spore
Spores
Sims (The people who made
Sims made Spore)

50. Round 3
•All questions on Infinite Pounce.
• +15/-10 on Infinite Pounce and +10/0 on direct.
• Please pounce only if you know the complete answer.There
won’t be any part marking on the pounce and incomplete
answers will fetch you negative marks.
• Remember, The Quizmaster’s decision is final
and binding.

51. This professor accidentally (re)named a company
after getting their spelling wrong. Who is he, which
company and where did he get the spelling wrong.

52. David Cheriton, who wrote a
$100,000 check for “Google”
instead of “Googol”

53. Who is she??

54. Alison Carroll, the official
Lara Croft model as of
2008 for the latest
game Tomb Raider:
Underworld.

55. Identify the ad campaign and the
company.

56. The Future Is Open / The
Open Child (accept both) by
IBM

57. The funding for this particular project
was done through Bomis.com,
which billed itself as 'the best babe
search engine on the Web'. Which
project?

58. Wikipedia

59. “X” is an acronym for the phrase “Y”, which is often used as a hashtag on
Twitter to bring attention to exciting events or excuse irresponsible
behaviors. The acronym was popularized in 2011 after being featured in
the hip hop single “The Motto” by Drake.
UrbanDictionary defines X as:
“The dumbass's excuse for something stupid that they did
Also one of the most annoying abbreviations ever....”
Guy 1: "Hey i heard that you broke ur leg falling off the balcony at that
party"
Dumbass 1: "Ya but hey X“
Identify X and Y.
Hint-X as a meme is all over Facebook these days.

61. On January 20, 2012, the New
Zealand Police placed this person in
custody under the charges of criminal
copyright infringement in relation to
his Megaupload Web site.
Who am I talking about???

62. Kim Dotcom

63. This is a photo of Liu Yang with her husband in
tranquil, domestic settings. With which divine
vessel (nothing to do with her kitchen) was she
associated with for thirteen days in June 2012?

64. She was China's first female 'taikonaut'
(or astronaut) and was part of the
Shenzhou 9 space docking mission.
"Shenzhou" can be translated into
'divine vessel'

65. The following is an excerpt from a company's "About Us"
webpage. Just fill in the two blanks OR give me the
company’s name.
When we were kids we loved playing around
with cameras –
we loved how all the old Polaroid cameras
marketed themselves as '_____' (something
we take for granted today).
We also felt that the snapshots people were
taking were kind of like _____ in that they got
sent over the wire to others – so we figured
why not combine the two?

66. The missing words are
"instant" and "telegrams"
respectively. This is from
Instagram's website, and
explains how the popular
iPhone app (acquired for a
billion dollars by Facebook in
April 2012) gets its name.

67. One from the world of google:
Just give me the first three search queries(Partial marking only if u
get 2 out of 3 correct)

69. The name of this website is a
play on the word ‘video’ and is
also an anagram of the word
‘movie’.
Which website???

71. “Being generally of a cheerfulnature, I thought we’d avoid the
Predatory Panther and Primeval Possum. Neither sounds like
great company for a seven year journey, really. Same goes for the
Peccable Peccary, Pawky Python and Perfidious Puku. So many
bullets to dodge round here!”
“Balancing all of those options, I think we have just the right mix
in our designated mascot for ____ LTS. Ladies and gentlemen, I
give you the_____________.”
Complete both the blanks…..

73. What happens when you type
"make love" in some UNIX
operating systems?

74. ‘not war’.
NOTE: On some other systems,
this returns ‘Don’t know how to
make love’.

75. Who is she and what is her claim to
fame???

76. Jade Raymond,The producer of
Assassin’s Creed

77. What does this map represent?
(Hint: The Economist : Big Mac Index :: Commonwealth
Securities : ___________ )

79. Connect/what’s
the fourth in the
list?

80. Old Wikipedia Logos.

81. The Department of Motor Vehicles in Nevada recently
granted a license to a Toyota Prius car. Ordinarily, this would
have been a routine affair, but not in this case. This car was
given the license plate number of "001". The license plate
will be in red and sport the lemniscate symbol used to
indicate "infinity".
If you see this car whizzing past you, who would be driving
it?

82. No one. This is the first ever driver-less car granted a
license. Built by Google, this is an experimental car with a
mounted camera and lots of artificial intelligence
software.