CSR #6 is on hold as my exams are on, and the modem stopped detecting the Adsl wire. Feel free to comment on any post! I’ll reply via mobile.
Shikhar was kind enough to provide me with the questions of this year’s TCS IT Wiz. Download links below:
TCS IT Wiz Quiz Archive [PDF Format] ~130 KB [Direct Link]
TCS It Wiz Quiz Archive [PDF Format] ~130 KB [MediaFire Download]
[10th November, 2008]
Mridul- “Code Wars ki website khol.”
[There's a calender with a 15 circled on it]
Me- “Nahi ja sakte yaar. 16 ko Mega Event hai.”
——–[Later]——–
[13th November 2008]
Mridul- “Arjun ne bataya ki Code Wars cancel ho gaya. Koi sponsor nahi hai.”
Me- “Sahi hai na. Nahi jaane ka regret toh nahi hoga.”
——-[Later]——-
Mridul- “Code Wars ki website khol. Arjun ne bataya 21st November ko hai. NIIT sponsor hai.”
Go. No go. Go.
That’s how agonizing it was, to go to Code Wars. I was in Manali with friends last time, and missed it. Wanted to go this time. Badly.
So finally, its on. We are going to Code Wars. I’m really looking forward to Ankur’s quiz. Heard about it from Vivek in WarP. Sounds like a really tough quiz. So this time its a really stripped down symposium of only 5 events. WebD and DI are online, and Arjun has made some mind-blowing rules which ensures people didn’t cheat. Like providing the PSDs, and involving any number of participants in the team. Entries are to be submitted online. WebD topic is Anda Beta restaurant [for which Shikhar instantly designed a logo] and DI topic is Eric Cartman for President. God knows when VK will get over 42, Eric Cartman, the Simpsons and “reading between the lines”. Don’t mistake God for Shikhar.
21st arrives, and I’m ready to miss my Computer practical test. I would have got full anyway. So we reach, and it begins [after leaving shoes outside the wooden audi].
Me and Mridul leave for quiz, Shikhar and Mudit for Surprise Event [which could be onion chopping], Arpit and Tapas for encryption, and Aayush and Mayank for programming.
Ankur is there. Looking short. Shorter than me! Blue T-shirt, heavily trimmed hair. Seemed barber-ic. Distributes papers to everyone. We have some 20 minutes.
Tough, but good paper. We topped with 8 from 20. Don’t know about Mridul, but I could have got Pierre Omidiyar (founder of eBay. I bet this question was lifted from Download: The True Story of the Internet). There was a good question which is my personal favourite.
Which was the first OS Microsoft’s Office ran on?
Ans: MacOS X
See? Its not Mac OS X, it only MacOS. I read it in iCon. Mridul made a mistake, but I corrected him.
Last question was the usual nine-by-six.
As I told you, we qualified. And so did DPS Dwarka, St. Xavier’s, Kalka, DPS RKP and another school. New Era didn’t qualify! Yay! Not that I don’t like any healthy competition, but its like one major threat eliminated.
We stay in the room for the crossword, which is HUGE! Some 50+ clues, all brain twisting. There were some which we could have easily got. I kick myself now for many. Look at these for example:
Renders the whole world
I thought Maya, but this was five letters. The answer was Dunia, but we didn’t get this.
Illusion
We didn’t get this, and the answer was Maya. 
Freely flowing MP3 codecs…but not like beer
It was Fluendo, which helps you buy media codecs for a big price – 0.00 EUR. I had a post about this in Google Reader, which I received a day before. Only if I had read it…
Three-pronged Evil engine (Hint: submarine-launched ballistic missile)
C’mon, it was Trident! And I did make a post about IE on my blog, and Jimi Hendrix told me about Trident. I didn’t remember it then
What Lindsay Lohan had in Freaky Friday
GarageBand. It was the whole damn reason I wanted to install Mac OS X.
Lost in translation
I thought AltaVista, but it was BabelFish.
AV.com
We didn’t get this either, and the answer was AltaVista. Lots of !@#$% there!
We got about 11, which could have been 18; way above Jimi Hendrix, who got 14. We were third here, and we could have been first. Of course, we came third because of me. He he. Mridul couldn’t have done it without me at all. Actually, I could have got all those by myself, but I brought him along for company. You see, others will feel bad if this ninth class kid walks away with all the prizes.
While walking back to the audi, we encounter Lord Vader
“Crossword mein kitne aaye?”
“11″
“Sahi hai, yaar. Hume sirf 7 aaye.”
“Abbe aur aa sakte the…”
And the list goes to him too.
During refreshments, Tapas and Arpit tell us about the N-Crypton, which was fabulous. This was my personal favourite:
Time. Ctrl+S Ctrl+S Ctrl+S Ctrl+S Ctrl+S Ctrl+S Ctrl+S Ctrl+S Ctrl+S
Get it? “A stitch in time saves nine” Ruddy brilliant, I say. Our team didn’t get this.
98 blue screens paved the way for the new ___________ of green bars.
Vista.
Now, its back to the audi. We go on for the quiz on the stage. And Ankur. Is. Running. Windows. Vista. And. The. Quiz. Is. In. PowerPoint. 2007. Unbelievable. Whatever happened to Linux (“My preciousssss”)?
And no OO.org? I am told later, that OO.org crashed, and GQ had to shift to Uncle Bill’s OS. Aww
The quiz not so good in the beginning. Montfort is not leading at 15, and both answers were given by me.
Who is Sean Miller?
It struck me suddenly.
“Isn’t he the guy who comes in Microsoft’s I Am A PC Ads, that fat guy?”
It was right. Smart thinking, eh?
“How does Firefox’s AwesomeBar work?”
“It actually indexes the titles of web pages from Google, and relates them…”
I started off, with some inputs from Mridul. We formed a crude answer to win half of Ankur’s heart. 5 points.
And then the dry run started. No points in sight. At all.
And then, Mridul Kapoor begins the show of the night.
“What is Unix time?”
“Its epoch. Seconds elapsed since 1st Jan 1970.”
“Charles Geschke … PostScript … Identify the company.”
“Adobe”
“… Harry Potter…”
“Richard Stallman”
Bang bang bang. 30 points. And Mridul didn’t even read the entire last question. Just read the first line and “Richard Stallman”. How he got these so well? Must be my presence. I know i train well 
Then a weird question about a temple where lappies are blessed.
Then the AV round. I see a picture I’ve remembered for months…
I get all jumpy and excited. I’ve been waiting for this question for a year! My on-stage excitement is evident. It comes to me.
“Jade Raymond”
“Okay… So?”
“She er… was the developer for Assassin’s Creed, at Ubisoft. People at newsgroups discussed that she was, er… hot”
“Well, I’ll give it to you; she tried to sell the game on her looks.”
Well, so we get this one. Now the thing is, St. Xavier’s offered an awesome fight. They were actually second before this, but we overtook them and were second with 5 points. Then there’s the last question of the quiz. There’s a video of a person doing a jig against a purple background. It St. Xavier’s chance
“Er… Yahoo?”
“Well, it is. Yahoo! wear purple campaign.”
“Groan…”
We lost, 3rd But they were awesome. Too good, I say.
We came first in N-Crypton, and second in WebD for Anda Beta. Nothing in surprise event.
Surprise event was not about chopping onions. It was typing the entire Lorem Ipsum with the fewest mistakes (tracked by a clever program). It was tough, eh? Nice brains, whoever made it.
We also won the overall trophy. Yay! VK won G@teway, and Montfort won CodeWars. Tit for tat.
While receiving the trophy, the principal said
“Ye trophy football wali se chhoti hai na?”
Awww But I’m not so materialistic (which is also the reason why I don’t own a graphics card), and so its the sentiments I carried with that huge trophy.
On the way back, Shikhar snapped open the crown of the trophy and said in a Vivek Nair style
“It gives you an empty feeeeling to win the overall, and not any individual.”
Just three days after the Mega Event, crops up another symposium. WarP 2008. I thought it’ll be great. DPS events usually are, you know. Not that there is none better than them. Read to find out how it was.
Thankfully, we reached on time. Or should I say, just in time. Mrittunjoy Shakespeare had to wait for GD, while I, as usual, was going for quiz, with you-know-who.
Shikhar God was going for Design A Tatoo [in Ps] with nobody. That guy is best when alone. He also went for Surprise Event. With either Arpit or Mudit. I think it was the latter.
So the quiz prelims started, and we get this huge question paper consisting of 30 questions! Some were easy…
[Google's Doodle on Laser]
… and some were not so easy.
Hoarders may get piles of money,
That is true, hackers, that is true.
But they cannot help their neighbors;
That’s not good, hackers, that’s not good.
I had seen this before, but couldn’t identify the singer/song. It was the Free Software Song by Richard Stallman.
There were many other songs. What crap.
Then we though we should qualify. Meanwhile in the Surprise Event, we were own3d. Shikhar had a brilliant idea in the first round. There was an apple with a knife. You had to do something “creative.”
So using his scale, he cut the apple into half, and carved four “windows” on one half, using his compass. He wrote below : BootCamp.
Amazing na? Windows in an Apple. XP in Mac OS X. Boot camp. Great creativity! But in the next round, they had to solve Minesweeper, on expert mode. Even Lord Vader was there. He won the event. How? He used a cheat! xyzzy + Shift. This brings up a white pixel on the top left corner [0,0 position] of the screen. When your mouse is over a mine, the pixel turns black! Very bad.
Shikhar now wanted a partner for DI. He took me. I set it up with Mridul to call me when the quiz finals started.
I go with Shikhar to the room. Its designing a tattoo. Vector. So Shikhar thought of taking the pen tool and drawing up the tattoo, and later save it as .eps. Nobody did that, and that vector part was not considered. They had good PCs though. What was I doing? Nothing. I’m exactly a n00b in Photoshop, but I did feel like in front of Shikhar. The mouse pointer was a blur. I was always two steps behind. Fifteen minutes into the event, and Mridul calls me for the quiz.
Quiz finals begin. DPS RKP, DPS Noida, DPS VK, New Era, and another school makes it besides us. Prateek Vijayavargia is there, and so is Vivek Nair and VS Karthick.
First round – dry round. I think we scored.
Next round – Tunes. Again, songs. All tech songs. Rubbish round. I hated it. Then dry rounds followed. I was shocked at the craziness of the participants. I was the youngest quizzer there, and nobody got this simple one:
Identify the game which is being referred to here: “I feel like being in paradise while taking revenge and domination on my PlayStation.
Sitter. Burnout is the game. My excitement was evident on the stage. I thought everyone would knew this. I mean, it is the best racing game ever made.
Unfortunately for Vivek Nair, there was a question about his favourite game Portal. But before it could reach him, it got scrapped. *sob*sob*
So the last round is called Grand Finale. Adhish Sharma jumps onto the stage and announces.
“Surprise! Only the top four teams remain, bottom two get eliminated.”
We are leading with 25, and we remain. So does RKP, Noida and New Era. The Grand Finale is asking the teams a set of 10 questions, with a format of plus 10 minus 10, and 20 seconds per question.
Starts with RKP. They get one right and one wrong. Zero.
Then us. We are on thirty, and this question comes:
XMPP is used by which popular chat client?
For all quizzer [or Pidgin users] we know that GoogleTalk is most popular. We say that, and its wrong. We argue after out round of questions is over. Adhish Sharma says its Jabber.
As New Era and DPS Noida are questioned, I whip out my phone, turn on Opera Mini, search for XMPP on Wikipedia, and get it. It clearly mentions Google Talk. By that time, DPS Noida has won, and are celebrating. They were on 30, and we on 20. If we got that one right, we would be on 40. So we requested at least to have a tie-breaker with DPS Noida.
Adhish- “No”
Mridul- “But our answer is right! I’ll show it on Wikipedia”
Adhish- “Aise toh koi bhi internet khol kar dikha sakta hai.”
Me- “Dikhaya toh nahi na? XMPP is correct.”
Adhish- “How can you be sure?”
Me- “Pidgin clearly mentions it.”
Adhish- “What’s that?”
Upon asking who made the paper, it was Ramit Singhal who was unavailable on that day. He said not to accept any other answer.
Even Prateek supports us. Thanks dude! We are tied with them, and he doesn’t mind coming third. Finally we have a tie-breaker. New Era and Montfort. We agree to their demands, after a private discussion.
Question 1: Who said “Never buy a computer you cannot throw out of the window?”
I read this in iCon, but kinda forgot that it was Steve Jobs, and not Wozniak. Both of us wrote wrote Jobs. I felt it was Woz, but Mridul asserted on Jobs.
Question 2: Who said “The Internet: We are not interested in it”
Sitter. Bill Gates. We got this, and settled for a second position. I was really grateful to Prateek [and his team mate] for supporting us during this problem. I gave him a quick handshake on stage. Felt professional that time
Now the agonizing wait for results begins. Arpit and Mudit tell about the WebD event. Its on any topic. Taking a cue from CodeWars, they made it on Al-Qaeda. They got a prize. Second, maybe. I’ve forgotten! Poor memory.
After the quiz I went for refreshments to FastTrax, to which the school canteen is outsourced to. Frankly speaking, food was great. Sat in a proper room with tables and chair and had it. When I came back, Shikhar told me we won nothing in DI. For the first time in two years have I seen Shikhar not winning anything.
While waiting for the prize distribution, Vivek Nair has a chat with us, about CodeWars, which is day after tomorrow.
Vivek- “Is bar ka Surprise Event itna mushkil hai, you’ll cry.”
Me- “You’ll make us chop onions?”
<Mridul and Shikhar guffaw>
Vivek- “Ankur ne itna tough [quiz] paper banaya hai. Bahut tough hai. Poore saal to vela baitha tha, koi kaam dhandha to tha nahi, quiz banane me nikal diya. Crossword bhi mushkil hai.
Mridul- “Chal dekhte hain.”
Vivek- “Aaj ka quiz itna bekar tha. Pehle toh kuch aata nahi tha, phir eliminate bhi ho gaye.”
During the prize distribution cermony:
The third prize for Design A Tattoo goes to Montfort School!
Whoa! We replaced DPS VK (much to their outrage). I was applauding Shikhar, when I realised that I too participated. I ran to collect my award.
Then came quiz. I collected the second prize reluctantly.
DPS VK were the overall winners. Everyone won something, I guess. After they collected their overall trophy, Vivek Nair comes up to me and says:
“It gives me an empty feeeeeeling to win the overall and not win any individual trophy.”
So the atmosphere on the way back was quite good. WarP was quite fun.
Refer to the official Converge Clan blog for more.
Comment, please!
Isn’t it strange, that whenever you type “jokes” on your mobile using T9 or Dictionary mode, you encounter “lol” midway?
Another one comin’ up! And once again, its here just before the exams are. A week before. Maybe two.
Shikhar God ruled Matrix-Ecomm Sloganomics for two consecutive years. Even Arjun Lord Vader was astonished and bowed to Shikhar’s God’s might.
But this time. Shikhar God refused to grace the occasion this time. Had to “study”. God (?) knows why needs to do that.
Anyway. We set out for this two day event. Along with an acting troop of four, besides the Converge Clan.
And oh! Converge Clan is Montfort School’s official computer club. Hope you knew.
We reach register, and unfortunately, I can’t go for the quiz. Not because of any rule, but because of the fact that it is a Tech (read Mridul) and Economics (read Tushar) quiz. No guesses for who went.
I went for Crossword and Matrix Challenge instead. With Mridul of course. I was on a very tight schedule. Had to finish Matrix Challenge and run for Crossword.
Went to Matrix Challenge. Extremely innovative event. Superbly done. Beautifully executed. Its like there are a series of .doc files hidden throughout the hard drive. You start with the one on the desktop, which contains a clue about the location of the next file, and a clue to crack the password. Yes. All were password protected.
If you got stuck, you could use a cheat – ask the supervisor to enter the password.
Let me give you an example.
The next file is in c: drive in a folder related to Microsoft.
In the C: drive, there were many folders. One was live. Rings a bell? Windows Live. Like this there were many. We got stuck on one which said
Most downloaded woman on the internet.
Who knew? None of us do something like that…
We used a cheat.
“Who’s that”
“Most downloaded woman”
“How did you know this?”
“I didn’t make it. He did”
“Come hurry up. Type the cheat. Lets continue.”
“Arre chill guys. Tum vaise hi sabse aage ho.”
That inspired confidence in me.
We reached what felt like the last question.
“Lets hurry up. Crossword starts soon.”
“Why dont we use a cheat?”
“We’ll get more points cut”
To the supervisor: “How many have completed?”
I knew the answer would be none.
Supervisor: “RKP have finished.”
Damn.
Funnily enough during the event, Vivek Nair shouted out
“Hey. The cheat don’t work!”
Few minutes after we finished the Matrix Challenge, we could decipher other passwords for extra points. Each document actually led you to two different documents, which had different passwords. So if we finished a set, we could crack others.
Suddenly the power went.
Both of us, Mridul and me, jumped over the supervisor and the chair we were sitting on, and ran towards the Crossword room. We didn’t want to miss this one.
We reached in time. Got about nine. Everyone else got seven. Or eight.
Mridul get Prateek (New Era) and he said that they had got eight correct.
The worst part about the crossword was that we got a clue that nobody got
First ISP, now owned by AOL.
CompuServe. Even Mridul did not know! I knew. I’ve been with Windows 98 even when Vista RC 1 was released. How could I not know?
Taligent. A mixture of TALent and intelliGENT. Mridul knew this. Whoa!
And the one we didn’t get was
Viruses, worms, trojans, backdoors.
Malware. !@#$%!!!
Everyone got it. Nearly everyone.
Next day, there was the next round for Matrix Challenge. We qualified. Had to. We knew we were good. But Mridul has his quiz, so he goes for the prelims, and I wait outside another room for some Matrix Challenge action. I’m bored. I see the robotics guys battling out their robots. See, MSM had this event of building a remote controlled car, and operating it (remotely) to drive it around obstacles, climb ramps and stuff. Mayank and somebody else went. Later on they told me that all frequencies clashed and all cars went haywire. Sad.
So Mridul still doesn’t turn up; others are already here. I can’t even see Vivek Nair and VS Karthik. Door opens. I go in, and find Mridul and five others chilling in the AC.
Bad. I suffer in the heat, and these guys chill? Why the heck was I not allowed in the room?
So the event starts. We are given virused computers, and have to perform certain tasks. Switching the computer on itself is a task. It boots from floppy, and no idea how to access BIOS.
Reset. Mridul bangs F1 to F12, I bang all keys on the right of the alphabets. The BIOS comes on! We boot via first HDD, and start. Windows ME.
Screen is upside down. Rotated it 180 degrees. Now for some questions.
Make the taskbar visible, but unusable.
Geniuses think alike, and so both had the same idea. Lord Vader had done a similar thing at all computers at Montfort. Print screen desktop. Paste Paint. Set as wallpaper. Hide taskbar. Simple.
Hide a file using DOS.
Ahem! I knew this! Used attrib -h -s.
Change name of taskbar.
No ResHack. Supervisor had no clue about it anyway. Left this.
Write any three unusable file names.
The mostest famousest one: con. I had done a research on this. LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4…. LPT9, AUX are all unusable, as they are port names which may conflict with Windows.
And some more.
Next round. Some logical reasoning stuff. No computers involved. Mridul is expert at such stuff. Fitjee.
Next round. A huge list of connecters asking for number of pins. Didn’t have a clue about any. Wrote 42 for almost all.
Next round. One participant assembles a keyboard, another plays Solitaire. Mridul went for the keyboard assembly, and finished in 10 minutes flat,before you could say “asterisk”. He had to arrange all keys in order. Pangebaaz had done it at home before.
I screwed up. Got about 55, then auto reset. Told you, there was a virus in all computers. Vivek Nair was at his philosophical best:
“Me and my aunt used to play solitaire on monochrome monitors…“
So is there Solitaire on the iPhone?
My phone rings, and there is an urgent call for Mridul. Quiz begins. He runs. I walk. See the quiz. Some good questions.
Mridul couldn’t get the toughest ones:
How tragic. I got both (of course, MS tells you to install Silverlight almost everytime you visit the site). How come Mridul didn’t get it? He knew PostScript and Epoch Time, not Zune and Silverlight? nOOb!
Came fourth third, he did. Behind Swapan Dev Tiwari Mini Ankit Sud , who was great.
We came first in Matrix Challenge, and second first in Crossword. We fought for Crossword. Saw Prateek Vijayavargia’s paper, and Spyware was ticked, when the answer was Malware. Yay! We came first!
That’s it! Another one, gone. Two more in the booty.
Thats true. I was beginning to install Mac OS X Leopard, when I get a Windows XP update alert, which requires me to restart. I do so, and I see this
Error! No Operating System Found
To my horror, when I booted via Gparted, I saw that my hard drive had been wiped clean, and there was 80 GB of unpartitioned space. I was screwed.
I tried installing Mac OS X now, thinking that what could possibly go wrong. I managed to install it, but can not boot it. I tried installing Darwin using bash terminal, but I failed in that too.
Aha! I re-installed XP, and downloaded a copy of Windows Se7en 32-bit, and decided to install it.
It was a nightmare.
First burn it to the DVD, and boot from it.
Two options:
Upgrade
Custom
Naturally, I clicked upgrade! Then this:
For an upgrade, you need to have an earlier Windows operating system running in the background.
So I reset. Go back to Windows XP, and put in the DVD. Same steps. Clicked Upgrade.
Sorry. For an upgrade, you have to have at least Windows Vista Service Pack 1 installed.
Damn. So I click on the Back icon (that blue arrow which you see in Internet Explorer 7) and click Custom Install. I see C: Drive, and click Next.
Setup cannot continue as the following drivers are missing: Primary IDE Channel
Did I say damn?
I am so frustrated, I feel like blowing the DVD to smithereens. But I keep my cool, and boot once again from the DVD. After selecting Custom Install, I realised that I could not install Windows 7 on C: drive, as XP was installed on it. So, I reset and boot via Gparted, do some easy partitioning (yay! Linux!), and return to Windows 7. I have a 20GB D: drive now, and I select that for installation.
Nothing.
I study Acute Diseases. Five minutes later: Nothing
I study Means of Spread. Ten minutes later: Nothing
I study Organ-Specific and Tissue-Specific Manifestation. Fifteen Minutes later: Something!
There’s that dialog box asking me to set the time zone and the country.
It
Has
India!!
Hooray!!!
So I continue. After about half-an-hour or so, I am able to run Windows 7. Its great. Will post about it later.
But I should have been able to run Mac OS X. My luck.
But I am able to dual boot XP and Se7en.
I’m actually installing Mac OS X Leopard on my PC. If all goes well and I’m able to dual boot XP and OS X, I’ll post within 3 days.
I might not reply to your comments.
Sorry!
I’m kinda biased towards Cyberfest as I have been going to MJKPS since Class V, and have won every single time in Class V,VI and VIII. I didn’t go on seventh. Like always Cyberfest was great. It is always the quality of the symposium that impresses me. It’s conducted in a great manner, although there were two speeches, a prayer song and a dance to start it off. The were off-schedule, but that’s OK. As usual, Mridul and me were going for the quiz, but Shikhar couldn’t go for Digital Imaging (its only till Class VIII, you see).
“Arre Mridul! Yaar Shikhar jaa raha hai ki nahi?”
“Haan haan. Video editing mein.”
“Chalo usme to first he honge. Prakhar ke saath hai na?”
“Haan. Prakhar DI mein bhi to hai.”
“Hain? Phir toh usme bhi kuch mil he jayega. Un dono me pharak kya hai? Prakhar lamba hi toh hai.”
“Par woh basketball be khelta hai.”
“Sahi hai, yaar.”
Now it has been a norm for Shikhar to go and win nearly every event, since 2007. Nearly. So after a long inaguration, we set off. The quiz prelims were tough. Pretty tough. But somehow, we managed to qualify.
While on the way to MJKPS
“Aditya, last time quiz mein ek second round bhi tha. Hume questions bana ke doosro ko dene the.”
“Oh. Phir?”
“Is bar bhi ho sakta hai. Pichlee bar Mudit bimar ho gaya. Akele karna pada.”
“Koi baat nahi. Abhi prepare kar lete hai.”
“Questions kaha likhe?”
“Meri ghadi kab kaam aayegi?”
Now, my watch comes with this cool Memo feature, which can store anything. I stored hints to answers. One of them was ATI Crossfire. Its a Timex Ironman Triathlon if you’re curious. Back to the present. We qualified and the inevitable happens – Mridul is right. We have to give some questions. I glance stealthily at my watch, and give all the questions.
Reshuffling. We get a Jaspal Kaur paper. It was too ridiculous for me to remember the details.
Question: Computer by IBM, convertible or not.
Heck, what do I know what he’s trying to say? Mridul calls the supervisor and asks to clarify. The supervisor hasn’t got a clue, and asks the author. Some confusion happens, and we end up writing IBM Convertible. I hope you know that’s the first portable computer.
Question: Expand ABC.
Obviously, Atansoff-Berry Computer. I forgot though. Mridul still remembered. Has he got another brain in his stomach or something? I mean, it’s too much info to remember at one time.
We qualified for the finals. After answering nearly all questions, we knew we would. The quiz was damn good. As usual, stuff happened.
During the crossword round:
We answer, and before we finish celebrating, the next question is show, RKP hits the buzzer and answers.
Mridul- “Please wait! We didn’t see the question.
“So what? It was already shown”
After a lot of scuffle, RKP prevailed, and the question wasn’t scrapped. Before anyone knew what was happening, the next question was showed.
He is credited with the invention of Ethernet.
Mridul- “[Bangs the buzzer] Robert Metcalfe”
RKP- “But…”
Mridul- “Ab phir?”
Never seen Mridul with such a vengeance. Then comes the Visual Round (yay!), but with negative marking (aww…). We are at a good position, with a 50 point lead, I guess.
“Aditya, aaram se boliyo. Buzzer galti se bhi mat daba. We should not lose the advantage.”
“You can trust me yaar.”
There’s some ad about a sound system booming with gunshots, and the police comes to investigate.
“What do you think?”
“I think its Bose.”
Quizmaster: “Anyone?”
Nobody answers. So he asks everyone what they would have answered. Somebody said Sony.
“Montfort, what was your guess?”
“I would have answered Bose.”
“Its Bose.”
!@#$%!!!
Next ad. About some game. Pretty dark. People shooting around. FPS.
“I’ve seen this somewhere!”
“Yaad kar, Aditya!”
“I think Tapas told me.”
“Are you sure of the answer?”
“No”
“Lets not risk it.”
“I have a feeling its F.E.A.R”
“Nah.”
Comes to us. We pass. Goes to RKP.
“I think its F.E.A.R”
“Thats right!”
!@#$%!!!!
Next ad. Some mouse shouting Hello. Many people shouting Hello. Mridul presses buzzer. Too late.
“Kya hai!”
“Shit yaar! iPhone”
!@#$%!!!!!
Like that we lost another one. We knew four out of five questions, and didn’t answer a single one. 80 points down the drain. RKP is only 5 points away from us. We’re still leading. We come second in the rapid fire, but manage to come first.
Shikhar and Prakhar come first in Video Editing, and Prakhar comes third in Digital Imaging. What a surprise.
We won the runners up trophy. Not bad! Considering that we all gave an exam on that day.
Sorry for not posting for a lotta time. Got lots on my hands lately”
1] Studying for exams
2] Studying for class tests
3] Doing Art homework (Yes! I do it)
4] Playing World of Goo (Super game. A post about it comin’ up)
5] Dammit. Counted fifth an hour ago
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