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All Under the Moon Quiz
What’s this?
A new effort to further the quizzing culture at SASTRA.
What’s the deal?
Stay up late and quiz till you break, a la SAARANG,
FESTEMBER style.
What’s in store?
A looong quiz; approx 70-80 questions. So we hope
it’ll be good food for thought.
Idea copied and re-mixed by SRIDHAR.C with
invaluable inputs and questions from NIRANJAN.M

All Under the Moon QUiz

Food for thought
• If you think you're wrong, you're wrong.
Corollary - If you think you're wrong, you're right.
• If pro is opposite of con, then what is the opposite of
progress?


Question 0


The so called “Satan’s miniature golf hole”
• If Satan plays miniature golf, this is his favorite hole. A ball
struck at A, in any direction, will never find the hole at B —
even if it bounces forever.
• The idea arose in the 1950s, when Ernst Straus wondered
whether a room lined with mirrors would always be
illuminated completely by a single match.
• Straus’ question went unanswered until 1995, when George
Tokarsky found a 26-sided room with a “dark” spot; two years
later D. Castro offered the 24-sided improvement above. If a
candle is placed at A, and you’re standing at B, you won’t see
its reflection anywhere around you — even though you’re
surrounded by mirrors.


What is X?
• The X is like an immense photographic film,
registering all the desires and earth experiences of
our planet. Those who perceive it will see pictured
thereon: The life experiences of every human being
since time began, the reactions to experience of the
entire animal kingdom, the aggregation of the
thought-forms of a karmic nature (based on desire)
of every human unit throughout time. Herein lies the
great deception of the records. Only a trained
occultist can distinguish between actual experience
and those astral pictures created by imagination and
keen desire.

AKASHIK RECORDS


Who is X?
• This happened when MICROSOFT asked X the following question
• Interviewer: Now we come to the part of the interview where we test your creative thinking.
Don't think too hard about it; just apply common sense and explain your reasoning. Here's
the problem.
• You are in a room with three switches that each control a different light fixture in another
room. You cannot see from the switch room into the lamp room. Your task is to determine
which switches control which light fixtures, but you may only go into the room with the lights
once. How do you determine which switch controls which light?
• X: That seems straightforward. I could obtain a number of large mirrors, and, if necessary, a
telescope. I enter the room with the lights once and position the mirror so that it reflects all
three lights out the door of the room. I continue placing mirrors, aligning them as necessary
to reflect the photons emitted by the lights until I am back in the room with the switches.
Now I can see the lights, possibly through the telescope if the distance is large, and I can
toggle the switches on and off so as to determine which light is controlled by which switch.


• Interviewer: Um. Yeah, I suppose that would work. But what if you didn't have big mirrors, or
couldn't align them well enough?
• X: Then I could obtain an inexpensive digital video camera and put it on a dolly with a
sufficiently long rope attached to it. I could put the video camera in the room with the lights,
turn it on, and then take the other end of the rope back to the room with the switches. I'd
then play with the switches for a while and take notes on which switches I flipped at what
time. Then I'd haul the camera on its dolly back into the switch room and review the
recording. By correlating my notes of what switches were flipped at what time with the
recording of the lights, I could correlate lights to switches.
• Interviewer: I forgot to mention that once you enter the room with the lights, you are not
allowed to come back to the room with the switches.
• X: That is an unusual constraint that perhaps you ought to have mentioned earlier, but I'll go
with it. In that case I would take a different approach. But first I'll need more information.
Can I assume that the lights and the switches are correctly wired according to the National
Electric Code of the United States? That is, that the switches interrupt the hots, not the
neutrals, that the switches are standard-duty switches rated to interrupt 15 amps of 120 volt
alternating current, and so on?
• AND THIS CONVERSATION GOES ON…………….


Richard Feynman
• Reacting on a mock software company interview
setup by Microsoft


Real statement of which principle?
• Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily


Occam's Razor


Put funda and FITB and find X
• "In this odd state of matter, X takes on a more
human dimension; you can almost touch it," says
Lene Hau, a Harvard University physicist.
• In the future, __________could have a number of
practical consequences, including the potential to
send data, sound, and pictures in less space and with
less power. Also, the results obtained by Hau's
experiment might be used to create new types of
laser projection systems and night vision cameras
with power requirements a million times less than
what is presently possible.


• The idea of this new kind of matter was first
proposed in 1924 by Albert Einstein and Satyendra
Nath Bose, an Indian physicist. According to their
theory, atoms crowded close enough in ultra-low
temperatures would lock together to form what Hau
calls "a single glob of solid matter which can produce
waves that behave like radio waves.“
• _________this way doesn't violate any principle of
physics. Einstein's theory of relativity places an
upper, but not lower, limit on the __________.


Light has been slowed to the speed of a
minivan in rush-hour traffic -- 38 miles
• An entirely new state of hour. first observed four
an matter,
years ago, has made this possible. When atoms
become packed super-closely together at super-low
temperatures and super-high vacuum, they lose their
identity as individual particles and act like a single
super- atom with characteristics similar to a laser.


X?
• In Scholastic philosophy, the X is the mode of
existence experienced by angels and by
the saints in heaven. In some ways, it is a state that
logically lies between the eternity (timelessness)
of God and the temporal experience of material
beings. It is sometimes referred to as “improper
eternity”. The word X is Latin, originally signifying
“age”, or “everlasting time”


AEVUM


X?
• X means the number One in Sanskrit
• X is a supercomputer built by the Computational
Research Laboratories with technical assistance and
hardware provided by Hewlett-Packard.
• X uses 14,352 cores based on the Intel QuadCore
Xeon processors. The primary interconnect
is Infiband 4x DDR. X occupies about 4000 sq. feet
area. It was built using offshelf components
from Hewlett-Packard, Mellanox and Voltaire Ltd.. It
was built within a short period of 6 weeks.


EKA
• The supercomputer built by Computational Research
Laboratories (Subsidiary of TATA sons)


Put funda
Primarily, WASD is used to account for the fact that the X(s) are not
ergonomic to use in conjunction with a right-handed mouse. This also
allows the user to use the left hand thumb to press the space bar (often
the jump command) and the left hand little finger to press the CTRL or
SHIFT keys (often the crouch and/or sprint commands).
Some gamers prefer the WASD to the X(s) for other various reasons, including
the fact that more keys (and therefore, game commands) are easily
accessible with the left hand when placed near WASD. Left-handed mouse
users may prefer using the numpad or IJKL with their right hands instead
for similar reasons.
Clue: The original Apple Macs had no X(s)


X-Arrow keys
• WASD positioning


Put funda(easy)


Microsoft boss Bill Gates was photographed
by the Albuquerque, New Mexico police in 1977
after a traffic violation


unX X
• Forrest Mars Sr. was inspired to create the now famous X
chocolate candies when he saw soldiers fighting during the
Spanish Civil War. The soldiers were eating chocolate pellets
with a hard shell of tempered chocolate. This prevented the
chocolate inside from melting and them getting sticky
fingers.

• Xs started production in 1941, and their popularity and their
shell were so popular that they, in turn, were used by US
soldiers during World War 2


M&M s


Why?


This was how the Taj Mahal was protected from
bomber jets in 1942 during world war.
It was covered with huge scaffold, to make it look
like a stockpile of bamboo and misguide
bombers.


FITB and ID X(both the dashes are not the
same)
• During an audience interview X said: "Does anyone
know where _____________ came from? It is an
ancient spell in Aramaic, and it is the original
of ___________, which means 'let the thing be
destroyed.' Originally, it was used to cure illness and
the 'thing' was the illness…blah
blah..blah………………………………………. I take a lot of
liberties with things like that. I twist them round and
make them mine." X's use of this name may have
been influenced by Latin cadaver = "corpse".


Avada Kedavra (Killing Curse)


What is all this about??
• Cascio: “I don’t understand this. I must have made a wrong turn. This should be
Grand Turk, but there’s nothing down there, no airport, no houses.”
Passenger: “Right,”
• Cascio: “It’s the right place on the map, and the shape is right and all, but this
island looks uninhabited. Look, no buildings, no roads, nothing. It has to be Grand
Turk, but it’s not there. It looks like Grand Turk but it just can’t be.”
• At the same time that she claimed to be circling the island, people in many places
on Grand Turk Island claimed to see a small airplane circle the island for
approximately 30 minutes.
• JAGs Airport, having seen her with the naked eye and on radar, tried desperately
to contact her, but was never able to do so. It was assumed that most attempts to
do so would fail due to her open-mic position, but several times while she circled,
her conversation with her passenger was interrupted by static for 1 to 3 seconds.
Airport control took these to be moments at which she was attempting to radio
the Airport. At this point, JAGs Airport control knew that something was seriously
wrong. Cascio was flying directly above the airport in clear conditions but
apparently could not see it. All attempts to contact her over the radio failed.


• After half an hour of circling, the airport picked up Cascio’s
last words: “Is there no way out of this?” She then apparently
made a decision to fly to another island. In bewilderment, the
entire airport staff watched as she banked sharply to the left
and flew out across the sea. The airplane flew into a low-lying
cloudbank, but was not seen exiting the other side. On her
return trip, she was able to radio Nassau Airport that she was
convinced that she must not be over Grand Turk Island,
although her charts indicated that the island below was the
exact shape of Grand Turk Island, and where Grand Turk
Island should have been. But because she could find no
airport at which to land, she was forced to depart.


THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE
• Conspiracy theorists generally believe that Cascio flew through a rip in
space-time, and arrived over Grand Turk Island at some point in the
distant past, before the island had undergone urban development of any
kind, or become inhabited by humans. This theory requires that her radio
transmissions were able to pass through the rip in space-time and back to
Nassau Airport at the present day. This theory also requires that the
present-day inhabitants of Grand Turk Island were able to see her plane
circle the island for 30 minutes, though it had already passed through the
rip in space-time, or was still inside the rip.
• Because no sign of her, her passenger, or her airplane was ever found, this
theory continues that during her return for Nassau, she flew through the
same rip in space-time and was not able to return to the present day, thus
landing at some point in the past. If this were true, it would still be
possible to find the remains of her airplane, but as yet, no wreckage has
been found, neither on land nor in the ocean.


Who said?
• “I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong
life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I
will do it elegantly.”


Albert Einstein
• Upon refusing surgery at the age of 76
• And he told this too
• “The splitting of the atom has changed everything
except for how we think.”


X??
• X, as defined by URBANDICTIONARY.COM , is a term
used to (more often sarcastically) refer to a person
as a big shot. More often, this is used in a response
statement to someone bragging about himself
• It has shot up in popularity and usage in several tamil
conversations and also lot of tam-eng mixed
dialogues.


appatakkar


Die with dignity
• The title of the website says
• _________ Suicide Machine - Meet your Real
Neighbours again! - ____________forever!:
• There is screenshot of the website in the next slide


What is X
• The X is a measurement of Twitter followers relative
to celebrity___________. The measurement was
standardized when _________ achieved half a
million Twitter followers, with the effect that
__________ now has 3.4 Xs himself. As few Twitter
users have millions of followers, the milliX (500
followers) is more commonly used.


Wheaton unit of measuring twitter followers


FITB
• _________________ is one of the largest men's secret
general fraternities in North America, having initiated more than 280,000
members and held chapters at more than 300 universities. It is a member
of the North-American Interfraternity Conference (NIC) and was founded
by Warren A. Cole, while he was a student at Boston University, on
November 2, 1909. The youngest of the fifteen largest social fraternities,
_________________ has initiated the third highest number of men ever,
based on NIC statistics._______________'s National Headquarters is
located in Indianapolis, Indiana.
• _________________ seeks to promote higher education by providing
opportunities for academic achievement and leadership. Its
open mottos are Vir Quisque Vir (Latin) Every Man a Man; Per Crucem
Crescens (Latin) translated variously as Crescent in the Cross or Growth
through the Cross; and Χαλεπα Τα Καλα (Greek) Naught Without Labor.


Lambda Chi Alpha


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