Questions from theQuiz(3); - originally presented in Manchester, UK at @2022NQ on 24 Oct 2012.

1. Welcome to #thequizmcr!
Teams of 4-5
1 answer sheet per team
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every page

2. Picture Round

3. Question 1
“In a year’s time everybody will be
doing this. It’s not loss making, there’s
money in it. I think there’s enough
value that once we’ve proven that it’s
doable a lot of people are going to
jump in.”

4. Question 2
“Program designers have a tendency to think of
the users as idiots who need to be controlled.
They should rather think of their program as a
servant, whose master, the user, should be able to
control it. If designers and programmers think
about the apparent mental qualities that their
programs will have, they’ll create programs that
are easier and pleasanter — more humane — to
deal with.”

5. Question 3
“Many days I don’t write any code at all,
and some days I spend all day writing
code.”

6. Question 4
“I would guess that the decision to
create a small special purpose
language or use an existing general
purpose language is one of the
toughest decisions that anyone facing
the need for a new language must
make.”

7. Question 5
“If you come up with a good software
development tool, that makes life
easier for the developers and they can
get their job done quicker, then the
first thing the manager says is ‘oh
you’ve got free time on your hands. Do
this extra thing.”

8. Question 6
“Flexibility is not free. It’s overrated.
And if you trade that flexibility in for
some constraints, you get a lot of
complexity removed from the equation,
you get a lot of productivity back from
all the stuff you don’t have to do.”

9. Question 7
“[redacted] is about as exciting as your
toothbrush. You use it every day, it
does the job, it is a simple tool, so
what? Who would want to read about
toothbrushes?”

10. Question 8
“If programmers deserve to be
rewarded for creating innovative
programs, by the same token they
deserve to be punished if they restrict
the use of these programs.”

11. Geek Culture

12. Question 1
Matthew Inman, known for his
webcomic The Oatmeal, recently ran a
money raising campaign to build a
museum in the name of a 19th century
inventor.
Who was that inventor?

13. Question 2
Arnold Rimmer, played by Chris Barrie
in science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf, has
the letter H stuck to his forehead.
What does the H stand for?

14. Question 3
American actor Wil Weaton has a
recurring role in hit sitcom The Big
Bang Theory, playing a big-headed
version of himself.
What was the name of the character he
played in Star Trek: The Next
Generation?

15. Question 4
In January of this year, Randall Munroe,
author of webcomic xkcd, posted its 1000th
comic, which contained xkcd-style stick men
in the shape of ‘1000’, with a stick man
making an amusing statement underneath.
What was (the gist of) that comment?
Bonus:
What does ‘xkcd’ stand for, or represent?

16. Question 5
Futurama was originally aired by Fox from
1999 to 2003, then revived in 2008 and
now under the control of Comedy Central.
How many episodes have been written as
intended finales for the series, to date?
Bonus:
Name one of these episodes

17. Question 6
In the Valve game series Portal, the
player controls the character Chell,
who is guided by artificial intelligence
known as GLaDOS.
What does GLaDOS stand for?

18. Question 8
The NASA Mars Rover Curiosity has
lettering in MORSE code in its tyres.
What does the lettering mean?

19. Electronic Music

20. Question 1
The Dr Who theme was composed by
Ron Grainer, but which member of the
BBC Radiophonic Workshop did the
original electronic arrangement?

21. Question 2
Who played at the Manchester
International Festival in 2011 in shows
that included two Tesla coils,
pendulums and a voice-over by David
Attenborough?

22. Question 3
The Model by Kraftwerk reached
number 1 in the UK charts in 1982 as
one side of a double A-side, after
previously being released as a B-side.
Which song was the other side on both
releases?

23. Question 4
Which synthesizer appeared on a
Google doodle on 23rd May 2012, to
celebrate the 78th birthday of its
inventor?

24. Question 5
Which record company gave catalogue
numbers not only to their record releases
but also to: a bar, a nightclub, a law suit, a
dental bill and a cat?
Bonus:
1 bonus point for every correct catalogue
number

25. Question 6
Which electronic musician contributed
songs for the soundtrack to Slumdog
Millionaire, one of which was
nominated for an Oscar for Best
Original song?

26. Question 7
Which instrument, used on the Beach
Boys “Good Vibrations” and on the
soundtrack for “The Day The Earth
Stood Still”, was the product of
Russian research into proximity sensors
in the early 20th century?

27. Question 8
Who composed the start-up music for
the Windows 95 operating system,
using their Apple Mac?

28. Hardware

29. Question 1
What is the name of the architecture
created in 1945 that introduced the
use of a CPU and memory to hold both
instructions and data, allowing
computer programs to be stored in
computer memory?

30. Question 2
Which of the following is NOT a type of
computer hard drive?
a) IDE
b) FDD
c) SCSI
d) EIDE

31. Question 3
What was the name of the type of
decryption device used at Bletchley
Park designed to discover some of the
daily settings of the Enigma machines
on the various German military
networks?

32. Question 4
Now relatively obsolete as a recording
medium, I was widely used throughout the
19th century for controlling textile looms
and in the late 19th and early 20th century
for operating fairground organs and related
instruments. I was also used throughout the
20th century in unit record machines for
input, processing, and data storage.
What am I?

33. Question 5
What was the name of the Manchester
Small-Scale Experimental Machine,
considered the world's first stored-program
computer?
This project was initiated to develop it into a
more usable computer, the Manchester
Mark 1, which quickly became the prototype
for the Ferranti Mark 1.

34. Question 6
Which of these is a not a computer
manufacturer?
a) IBM
b) Apple
c) Sun
d) Microsoft

35. Question 7
What does CPU stand for?

36. Question 8
When was the first microprocessor
introduced:
a) 1961
b) 1971
c) 1981
And what was it called?