Infinite Bounce

_____graphy originates from the early 1990s, when two students from Vienna in Austria first got their hands on the ______ Kompakt Automat - a pint-sized Russian camera. They fell in love with the vibrant colours and deeply saturated finish produced by the camera and after showing off their cameras to their pals at home, they wanted in on the act as well. As a result, the duo ended up bartering a deal with the St Petersburg-based manufacturer for worldwide distribution and the rest is history. The brand now has stores all over the world along with a huge online business.

Most _______graphic cameras are designed to produce photographic effects such as "oversaturated colors, extreme optical distortions, rainbow-colored subjects, off-kilter exposure, blurring and alternative film processing, all things usually considered bad in photography. The philosophy behind _____graphy is summarized in its motto, "Don’t Think, Just Shoot." This motto is accompanied by The Ten Golden Rules which are supposed to encourage spontaneity, odd angles, and taking photos anywhere, while minimizing considerations of formal technique.

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Lomo (Any instagram users here?)

_________is a variation of stop motion animation, and was co-developed by Industrial Light & Magic and Phil Tippett.Stop motion animation can create a disorienting staccato effect, because the animated object is perfectly sharp in every frame, since each frame of the animation was actually shot when the object was perfectly still. Real moving objects in similar scenes of the same movie will have motion blur.____________ was designed to prevent this, by moving the animated model slightly during the exposure of each film frame, producing a realistic motion blur. This frame-by-frame, split-second motion is almost always created with the help of a computer, often through rods connected to a puppet or model which the computer manipulates to reproduce movements programmed in by puppeteers.__________ was originally planned to be used extensively for the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, until Steven Spielberg decided to try out the swiftly developing techniques of computer-generated imagery instead

(All blanks are the same)

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Go motion

X was discovered photographically on January 17, 1948, by an American, Carl X .

It was in the news on the 13th of December 2012, as fragments of X were expected to put on quite a show that day.

Photo of X in 2002

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• Comet Wirtanen (46P/Wirtanen), the debris tail of which caused a meteor shower (expected to be dubbed the “Piscids”) on the 13th of December

• V is a company (which is now the generic name for its product) that produced the first commercially marketed hook-and-loop system of its kind

• NASA makes significant use of V. Each space shuttle has ten thousand inches of a special V made of loops, hooks, and glass backing. V is used everywhere, from the astronauts' suits, to anchoring equipment. It is useful In the near weightless conditions in orbit

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• Velcro

The X effect is the tendency of a spell checker to suggest or autocorrect with inappropriate wrds to replace misspelled words and words not in its dictionary.This term refers to the fact that the unhyphenated English word "cooperation" was often changed to X by older spellcheckers with dictionaries containing only the hyphenated variant, "co-operation". Examples of similar errors, including the common replacement of "definately" (misspelling of "definitely") with "defiantly," DeMeco Ryans with "Demerol" (in the New York Times), Voldemort with "Voltmeter" (Denver Post), and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement being replaced with "Muttonhead Quail Movement" (in a Reuters article).

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• The Cupertino Effect

• About 99% are the nuclei (stripped of their electron shells) of well-known atoms, and about 1% are solitary electrons (similar to beta particles). Of the nuclei, about 90% are simple protons, i. e. hydrogen nuclei; 9% are helium nuclei or alpha particles, and 1% are the nuclei of heavier elements. A very small fraction are stable particles of antimatter, such as positrons or antiprotons, and the precise nature of this remaining fraction is an area of active research.

• What?

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• Cosmic rays

• Ladies and Gentleman, thank you for being with us on this memorable occasion. There are no celebrities at this function nor any dance routines. The center of attraction for this morning's event is the new ______________ which we are unveiling.

We're going to take you on a small journey. A journey that symbolizes the human spirit of change, the will to question the unquestionable, the drive to stretch the envelope.

Ladies and gentleman, I invite you to join me in this journey of innovation and evolution. The quest to lead and the quest to conquer. It is this quest that led to the first manned flight by the Wright brothers. Today, thousands of aircrafts travel the skies carrying millions of passengers across the globe in safety and comfort. The same quest for leadership and conquering new frontiers led to landing man on the moon, an unheard of and unbelievable achievement at that time.

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• TATA Nano

• Many explanations of the origin of the word ______ have proven difficult to verify. The most widely-held theory it is derived from the military designation for it, in the same way that the contemporary HMMWV (for High-Mobility Multi-purpose Wheeled Vehicle) has become known as the humvee.

• As the only company that continually produced ________ after the war, in June 1950 Willys-Overland was granted the privilege of owning the name ______ as a registered trademark.

• Under licence, Mitsubishi built more than 30 different ______ models under license in Japan between 1953 and 1998, and Mahindra built it in India.

• The ______ brand is currently owned by the Chrysler Group. (All blanks identical)

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Quote by Z :“As Chicago Mayor Harold Washington said of the corrupt former Mayor Daley, 'I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone'. Nobody deserves to have to die – not X, not Mr Y, not even people guilty of bigger evils than theirs. But we all deserve the end of X' malign influence on people's computing.Unfortunately, that influence continues despite his absence. We can only hope his successors, as they attempt to carry on his legacy, will be less effective.”

Id X, Y and Z

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• X – Steve Jobs• Y – Bill Gates• Z – Richard Stallman

Richard Stallman

The X problem occurs when a spam filter or search engine blocks e-mails or search results because their text contains a string of letters that are shared with an obscene word. While computers can easily identify strings of text within a document, broad blocking rules may result in false positives, causing innocent phrases to be blocked.The name of the problem originates from an incident in 1996 in which AOL's dirty-word filter prevented residents of the town of X, North Lincolnshire, England from creating accounts with AOL, because the town's name contains the substring cunt. Years later, Google's filters apparently made the same mistake, preventing residents from searching for local businesses that included X in their names

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The Scunthorpe problem

X Corporation is an American company involved in the research of low-power computer display technology. It was founded by Mary Lou Jepsen, who was previously the chief technical officer of the One Laptop per Child project.The company designs liquid crystal displays (LCDs) that can be largely manufactured using the existing manufacturing infrastructure for conventional LCDs. The advantage of these displays is that they can be set to operate under transflective mode and reflective mode, improving eye-comfort, power usage, and visibility under bright light.The first commercial device to use a X display, was the ARM-based Adam tablet by Notion Ink, released January 2011.

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The X Active Suspension system is a revolutionary new suspension system, designed by X Corporation.

The system uses a linear electromagnetic motor at each wheel in lieu of a conventional shock-and-spring setup. Amplifiers provide electricity to the motors in such a way that their power is regenerated with each compression of the system.The system uses the motors to raise or lower the wheels of an automobile in response to uneven bumps or potholes on the road. The unevenness of the road is sensed, and a canceling wave is generated, which is applied to the wheels through the linear motors. The wheels are raised when approaching a bump, or extended into a pothole, within milliseconds, thus keeping the vehicle level. This technology uses similar principles to those used in an entirely different field, that X is originally know internationally for.

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Reverse Infinite Bounce

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer, artist, and politician. His body of work includes epic and lyric, poetry, prose, memoirs, an autobiography, literary and aesthetic criticism, treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour and four novels

• Karl Friedrich Burdach and Goethe independently developed a field of biology which comes from the greek word for ‘form’

• Which field?

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• Morphology

Economics students at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania have calculated that it would require one quadrillion tons of steel to build a X.It would cost 13,000 times the world's gross domestic product (GDP), or £541,261 trillion, to supply the steel for such a structure while labour and other construction costs would send the price even higher. They also worked out it would take more than 833,315 years at current production levels to supply enough steel. On 13th December 2012, their petition passed the 25,000 signatures needed to be eligible for an official reply from the White House, yesterday, but the reply is realistically expected to be in the negative.ID X

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The Death Star

James Heselden was a British entrepreneur. A former coal miner, Heselden made his fortune manufacturing military and flood barrier systems. At 11:40 a.m. on 26 September 2010, West Yorkshire Police received reports of a man falling 213 feet (65 m) into the River Wharfe, near Boston Spa, apparently having fallen from the cliffs above. Investigators said, "At this time we do not believe the death to be suspicious" and were investigating as to "whether there was a fault with his particular machine or it was driver error".What was Heselden driving?

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The SegwayHeselden bought Segway in 2010

He is an Indian entrepreneur and policymaker. Currently Advisor to the Prime Minister of India on Public Information Infrastructure & Innovations, he is considered one among many to be responsible for the telecommunication revolution in India and specifically, the ubiquitous, yellow-signed Public Call Offices (PCO) that quickly brought cheap and easy domestic and international public telephones all over the country.

He is also the founder & Chairman of C-SAM, a multinational company focusing on mobile payment solutions.He is a recipient of the Padma Bhushan, and the World Telecommunication and Information Society Award (conferred by the International Telecommunication Union).

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Sam Pitroda

American actress Heddy Lamarr, celebrated for her great beauty, was known to be mathematically talented. She co-invented—with composer George Antheil—an early technique for X, necessary for wireless communication. Her early patented version used a piano roll to accomplish X, and was intended to make radio-guided torpedoes harder for enemies to detect or jam. Although a presentation of the technique was soon made to the U.S. Navy, it met with opposition and was not adopted. The idea was not implemented in the USA until 1962, when it was used by U.S. military ships during a blockade of Cuba after the patent had expiredModern variations of X are integral parts of CDMA, GSM, Wifi and Bluetooth standards.

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Frequency-hopping / Frequency-hopping spread spectrum

Originally this company started out selling the product ““_____’s Scouring Soup””. As incentives to customers they started giving baking powder for free. Soon their customers were more interested in the baking powder so they switched to selling that. They gave away ______’s along with baking powder and once again, their customers bought their products for their freebies. This lead to founder start manufacturing his product X which comes in three varieties and has remained relevant for over a 100 years. Id the product X.

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Wrigley’s chewing gum

X is a parallel computing platform architecture and programming model created by NVIDIA that enables dramatic increases in computing performance by harnessing the power of the graphics processing unit (GPU).

Although GPUs cannot fully replace traditional CPUs and each GPU core runs at just a few hundred Mhz, they have usually have hundreds of cores and are highly efficient at performing repetitive tasks.

X provides an architecture and a set of programming libraries that allow the use of GPU cores for tasks other than graphics processing. Thus X compatible GPUs have become quite popular in scientific computing.

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The CRAY Titan, which became the fastest supercomputer in the world in November 2012 , uses 46 Million Nvidia X Cores at 732 Mhz , and 300,000 AMD x86 Cores.

In science, X is used as a heuristic (rule of thumb) to guide scientists in the development of theoretical models rather than as an arbiter between published models. It states that among competing hypothesis, the one with the least assumptions must be selected. It is often the nettizen’s muse and also featured in one of the first few episodes of the medical sitcom, ‘House MD’. ID X.

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Occam’s razor.

This is from the memoirs of someone's wife. When he went to meet his would-be-wife's father, he was wearing a bright red shirt. He told him that he wanted to become a politician with Communist party and wanted to open an orphanage (though his salary was not enough to support his family). He proposed to his wife saying "I am only 5'4" tall. I come from a lower middle class family. I can never become rich in my life & I can never give you any riches." Nonetheless, she married him and rest is history. Who is this person?

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Narayana Murthy

Yet another example of product failures, this shampoo which came to markets in the 1979 crashed spectacularly due to customers being too grossed out to apply something such as yoghurt to their hair.Some reports attributed its failure to yet another reason. What could have possible been the reason?

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The largest thing on the bottle was Yoghurt, so people actually consumed it with disastrous consequences.

• X’s contribution to biology is little known. Yet, his thoughts on the subject in a little green book in 1944 laid the foundation of molecular biology, DNA and RNA. Both Francis Crick and James D Watson claim the book was their inspiration.

• X also proposed the X paradox- that the second law of thermodynamics is violated by life in isolated systems

• Who is X?

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• Schrodinger

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Pounce

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• Brands owned by Swatch

The picture below shows a 2m statue of the dancing Shiva, unveiled at X. The statue, symbolizing Shiva's cosmic dance of creation and destruction, was

given to X by the Indian government to celebrate the research centre's long association with India. Identify X.

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Answer

Connect.3

Funda behind the list (non-exhaustive)?• Analog Clock• Coca Cola Classic• Plain M&M’s• iPod Classic• Regular Cofee• Acoustic Guitar• Whole Milk• Star Trek : The Original Series• Star Wars Episode IV : A New Hope• Live music

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• Retronym - A retronym is a type of neologism that provides a new name for an object or concept to differentiate its original form or version from a more recent form or version.

• X was the original English name of the first open-circuit, self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (or "SCUBA") to reach worldwide popularity and commercial success. This class of equipment is now commonly referred to as a diving regulator or demand valve.

• A Spirotechnique (later X Spirotechnique) is a large and well-known French firm which makes scuba gear, scuba sets and other breathing apparati. It started making the so called X regulators, like the CG45 (1945) and the Mistral (1955), among others.

• X is also the name of a highly successful music album released in 1971.

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The X Rule was a tax plan proposed by President Barack Obama in 2011. The tax plan would apply a minimum tax rate of 30 percent on individuals making more than a million dollars a year. According to a White House official, the new tax rate would directly affect 0.3 percent of taxpayers. The X Rule is named after American investor ______ X, who publicly stated in early 2011 (and has said similar things earlier too) that he disagreed with rich people, like himself, paying less in federal taxes, as a portion of income, than the middle class, and voiced support for increased income taxes on the wealthy. In 2012, American magazine Time named X one of the most influential people in the world

“It's class warfare, my class is winning, but they shouldn't be.” – X in 2005

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Buffet Rule

The ad round• Written• +10 for every correct answer• +30 for getting all correct

ID brand

Print Ad for?

Something has been blanked out. What?

• Answers

ID brand

Answer

Print Ad for?

Answer

Something has been blanked out. What?

KitKat

LVC

- 9 elements, in three sets of 3- Connect all the elements to a common

theme. Higher points for an earlier guess.Points: I: +40/-20

II: +20/-10III: +10/-0

+40/-20

• Guesses?

Leonard-

+20/-10

• Guesses?

A to Z

Answer

Initially named Cadabra by Jeff Bezos

An Amazonian

Kindle Fire :P

Founded by ex Amazon employees

Taken over by Amazon

Leonard-

Douglas Hofstadter’s Fluid Concepts and Creative AnalogiesWas the first book to be sold on Amazon

Owned by Amazon

Part of the logoA to Z

A distribution centre

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