Quiz Prelims MINET X 2020

1. Prelims

2. X, is a San Francisco Police act, that makes it unlawful to fabricate or
make false emergency reports that are racially biased. Interestingly, its
abbreviation is based on an internet term used to describe the people
who do exactly this.

3. X - CAREN Act (term - Karen)Finals

4. Microsoft refused to sell X technology to Y, until congress passed regulations
on the use of Y and human rights. Its president stated, "We will not sell X
technology to Y in the United States until we have a national law in place,
grounded in human rights, that will govern this technology." Give X.

5. X - Facial Recognition

6. This application X became the world's fastest growing mobile app
shortly after being released to the public by Y. Amidst growing
security and data concerns along with the clause
"agrees and acknowledges that Y will not be liable for … any
unauthorized access to your information or modification thereof"
mentioned in the TOS of the application forced it to become open
source due to public request. Name the application X and Y.

7. X - Aarogya Setu, Y - Govt. of India

8. X was an entrepreneur who helped to create the predecessor to
modern film shooting. He is the only person to be represented by two
stars in the Hollywood Walk of Fame. On March 14, 1932, after suffering
from intense intestinal pain, he shot himself in the heart, leaving a note
which read, "To my friends: my work is done. Why wait?"

9. X - George Eastman

10. X is a Y program, created by Robert Gaskins and Dennis Austin. It was
released on 20 April, 1987, however was swiftly acquired by Z only 3 months
later. First intended only to be used in designing visuals for group Ys within
business organizations, but has come to be very widely used in many other
communication situations, both in business and beyond. The impact of this
much wider use of X has been experienced as a powerful change throughout
society, with strong reactions including advice that it should be used less,
should be used differently, or should be used better. Now its official name is
Z X but most people simply use the term X. Find X and Z.

11. X - Powerpoint, Y - Microsoft

12. A term known as X, recently came into use as a social attitude that
facilitates the agreement amongst multiple people that somebody is
worthy of hate and slander - due to controversial behaviors they have
engaged in. In some instances, X is effective in uniting people to take
down a bad person who is in a position of power, but in most cases it
leads to immediate outrage, mob mentality, irrational thinking and the
spread of misinformation by people who want to capitalize on the
controversy.

13. X - Cancel Culture

14. X is a digital service, which was launched in 2019, giving a tough competition to
similar, but more popular apps. It recently became available in India, but through
another digital platform Y, that was only available in India, but failed to get as
much traction as the others. Y is now rebranded as XY, with the names forming a
clever pun upon combining them. ID X and Y.

15. X - Disney+ , Y - Hotstar
XY - Disney+Hotstar

16. Named after canned meat, described as horrible and inescapable and
ubiquitous. This has been a great help for each and every one of us. It might
be of nuisance sometimes when it hides what may be deemed of some
importance but overall it protects us from the wrath of the Nigerian Prince.

17. X - Spam

18. Y launched X in 2010. The day X reached RTM status was marred by a, now-
infamous, funeral procession which seeked to mark the ‘passing’ of the rivals
it seeked to dethrone. Y’s employees also indulged in a dance from Michael
Jackson’s Thriller. Needless to say, X bombed, and consecutive failures like
it have cast a shadow on Y’s prowess, or lack thereof, in X’s segment. ID X.

19. X - Windows Phone 7

20. 'X' was developed in 1973. It was co-founded by a Bay Shore High School
graduate. 'X' uses an electric cable consisting of an inner conductor surrounded by
a concentric conducting shield, with the 2 separated by a dielectric as a shared
medium. It has gotten 13,691.7241 times faster over the course of its history.

21. X - Ethernet

22. X is a technology used for convenience of people, though it may have a
negative affect where people do not learn to do the thing that this technology
allows them to not do. Y company will integrate this technology into their
products to make X Z in 2020. X was earlier tested by Y in 2017, but led to the
death of a pedestrian in California which led to it being scrapped. Name X and Z.

23. X- Automatic Driving, Y - Robotaxis

24. REPEAT QUESTION:
X is a digital service, which was launched in 2019, giving a tough competition
to similar, but more popular apps. It recently became available in India, but
through another digital platform Y that was only available in india but still
didn't have as much traction as the others. Y is now rebranded as XY, with
the names forming a clever pun upon combining them. ID X and Y.

25. X - Disney+ , Y - Hotstar
XY - Disney+Hotstar

26. X is an app named after a circuit had a short lived time of glory between
2017-2018 because of its strong anti-hate policies. It was hailed as an
alternative twitter app for black people but was taken down in 2018 as it
was believed to condone racism, sexism, harassment, bots, and hate
speech. What is X?

27. X - Blitter

28. X has been developed by the community of Y and was launched in 2009. The
plethora of visual entertainment that one would be able to find on Y, comes from
X itself. X infact has a history of playing April Fools' Day pranks on its users, the
first ever being a Catification feature which allowed users to automatically add
cats to any image. ID X.

29. X- Imgur ; Y - Reddit

30. Connect:

31. They all are/use the Sans font family.

32. Sans Family

33. r/place / The Million Dollar Homepage

34. r/place or Million Dollar Website

35. Refers to the 2000’s controversy regarding
the Xbox 360’s infamous ‘Red Ring Of Death’

36. Released worldwide in 1997, X was a handheld digital _____. X became a huge
sensation worldwide and was one of the most popular toys of late 1990s and
early 2000s. X housed in a small egg-shaped computer with an interface,
consisting of three buttons.

37. X - Tamagotchi

38. Originally under a different alias and founded by Lisa Donovan, Shay Carl and
Philip DeFranco, they came to be known as the Disney Digital Network in 2017
after being sold to Disney in 2014. Back in 2012 they announced that they had
over 1,000 channels signed under the network, and subsequently by the end of
2012, they had surpassed Machinima to become the number one independent
YouTube network. They had signed various famous Youtubers under them,
even involving one of the most subscribed channels, but towards 2017, dropped
them due to arising controversies. Identify this very famous network.

39. X - Maker Studios

40. Dominating the lower end computer markets, X was an 8 bit home computer.
X’s popular success was largely due to its sale in local retail stores rather than
exclusive electronic stores. It came with support for multicolour sprites and a
custom chip for waveform generation and could create superior visuals and
audio compared to systems without such hardware. X could be credited to
popularize video games, encourage personal computing and pioneer
computer-created music. What is X?

41. X - Commodore 64