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Mobilized Minds
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 12 questions
 10 points per question for direct & pass
 No negatives
It was at the forefront of
internet technology for nearly
three decades, but has now
lost some of its sheen.
One of the original garage
start-ups the company was
founded in Illinois in 1976 and
named after the "greatest
company in the known galaxy"
in an Isaac Asimov science
fiction novel.
Name the company.
Answer

US Robotics
Who is this gentleman?
Answer

Jonathan Ive, Head of Industrial

Design at Apple
One day in mid 2001, King Abdullah
was beside himself with what he had
witnessed. He called folks at Image
Sensing Systems, a Minnesota based
company. They had a working
prototype in two weeks.
One high-profile owner of an early
model, was actor Christopher Reeve
of "Superman" fame.
Explain.
Answer

King Abdullah was pissed by

mobiles ringing at the mosque
during prayers and he got ISS to
design the first mobile signal
jammer.
The animal lent its name to a manor,
which was part of an important 13th
century trading centre. The locality
later took the name of the manor. Its
modern saga began with an enterprise
that started in the late 1800s.
Answer

Nokia takes its name from a

marten, an animal of the weasel
family
Snippet of Delphi source code for
what?
function item_is_food : Boolean;
var jf : Longint; // if location is near where
begin // _____ starts then jump
Result := False; // out and continue search
if in_excluded_area( 4, 0 ) then // for another location
Exit;
if game_grid[ gjy, gjx ] >= nada then begin
if nrg_food_count > 0 then begin
case nrg_food_count mod 3 of
0: jf := nrg1;
1: jf := nrg2; // add 3 types of energy food
else jf := nrg3;
end;
dec( nrg_food_count );
end
else
jf := food; // add regular food
game_grid[ gjy, gjx ] := jf;
inc( food_count );
Result := True;
end;
end; // end --> item_is_food
Answer
In 1000 A.D. this intrepid adventurer
planted a settlement in what is now
Newfoundland, and named it
Vinland. So, he discovered America
long before Columbus, although it
did not lead to a permanent
European presence.
Nearly 876 years later a fellow
countryman bearing the same name
opened a repair shop for telegraph
equipment, envisioned the great
potential of phones, and also saw
the need to improve the technical
quality. What did this lead to?
Answer

Lief Ericsson discovered America

Lars Magnus Ericsson started the
telecom company
 Feb 1998 - Frank Nuovo sketches
ideas
 Oct 2000 - Use of sapphire crystals
 Aug 2001 - Ruby bearings
 Mar 2003 - Laser drilled keypad
 Jun 2004 - Plasma ceramic pillow
 Apr 2007 - Forged out of titanium
Timelines for what?
Answer
Vertu phones
Dr Martin Cooper grew up in
Chicago and earned a degree in
electrical engineering at the
Illinois Institute of Technology,
and served in the navy on
destroyers and a submarine.
On April 3, 1973, before going
to a press conference at the
Manhattan Hilton, what did Dr
Cooper do standing outside on
the sidewalk, that completely
bewildered passers-by?
Answer

Dr Cooper, a GM at Motorola,
made the first cellular call to his
rival, Joel Engel, head of research
at Bell Labs.
Connect
Answer

Project Red, an initiative by Bono

to help AIDS patients in Africa;
Telecom partner was Motorola
which came out with red colored
phones
 The Radio Act of 1912 is a United
States federal law that required all
seafaring vessels to maintain 24-hour
radio watch and keep in contact with
nearby ships and coastal radio stations.
Factors that led to this included an
ongoing conflict between amateur radio
operators and the U.S. Navy and private
corporations, that included the
amateurs forging naval messages and
issuing fake distress calls.

What was the main impetus for this act?

Answer

The Titanic disaster

 • In 2001, Nokia researchers determined that there
were various scenarios that contemporary wireless
technologies did not address. To address the problem,
Nokia Research Center started the development of a
wireless technology adapted from the ______ standard
which would provide lower power usage and price
while minimizing difference between _____ and the
new technology. The technology was released to
public in October 2006 with brand name Wibree.

Which technology does Wibree complement?

Answer

Bluetooth
 This company traces its roots to 1930 when Dr. J. Clarence
Karcher and Eugene McDermott founded Geophysical Service
Inc, a provider of seismic exploration services to the
petroleum industry.
 In 1939 the company reorganized as Coronado Corp., an oil
company with GSI, now as a subsidiary.
 On December 6, 1941, McDermott along with three other GSI
employees purchased GSI. During World War II, GSI built
electronics for the U.S. Army Signal Corps and the U.S. Navy.
 After the war GSI continued to produce electronics. In 1951
the company changed its name to the current one; GSI
becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of the new company.
They sold GSI to Halliburton in 1988 after which GSI ceased
to exist.
 Identify X
Answer

Texas Instruments
Anti-Clockwise
 12 questions
 10 points per question for direct & pass
 No negatives
A new
VOIP/Skype
phone
launched in
April..
Name pls
Answer

“Beam me up, Scotty”… the Star

Trek Communicator
During the the middle of the 1990's
the competition between Nokia and
Ericsson resulted in Narrow Band
Sockets (NBS), Tagged Text Markup
Language (TTML), Intelligent Terminal
Transfer Protocol (ITTP). Unwired
Planet in turn came up with HDML.
What industry standard did these lead
to?
Answer
WAP - Wireless Application Protocol
In 1832 in his book Economy of Machinery
and Manufactures he proposed a "simple
contrivance of tin tubes for speaking
through". According to his calculations it
would take 17 minutes for words spoken in
London to reach Liverpool. He also
envisaged messages "enclosed in small
cylinders", to be sent along wires
suspended from high pillars and church
steeples.
In 1834 he invented something that will
have more far ranging impact – the parts
of which he called the store, the mill, the
control, the input and the output.
Who?
Answer

Charles Babbage
It was a simple
but highly
effective
instrument for
instantaneous
optical
communication
over 50 km or
more in the late
19th and early
20th century.
Answer

Heliograph
An ad from a California newspaper in
1860: "Wanted. Young, skinny, wiry
fellows. Not over 18. Must be expert
riders. Willing to risk death daily.
Orphans preferred."
The route was a 2000 mile trail from
St. Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento,
California, through the present day
states of Kansas, Nebraska,
northeast corner of Colorado,
Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, and
California.
What was this short-lived but famous
Answer

Pony Express
Surely there is no enchantment
against Jacob, neither is there any
divination against Israel: according
to this time it shall be said of Jacob
and of Israel, ____ ____ ___ _______!
-- Numbers 23: 23 (KJV)

Fill in the blanks. What significance

does this have in today’s quiz?
Answer

What hath God Wrought

On May 24, 1844, Samuel F. B. Morse

dispatched the first telegraphic message
over an experimental line from Washington,
D.C., to Baltimore. The message, taken from
the Bible, Numbers 23:23 and recorded on a
paper tape, had been suggested to Morse
by Annie Ellsworth, the young daughter of a
friend.
Best known for developing the disc
record gramophone; Who is he and
what telephone innovation did he
bring about?
Answer

Erwin Berliner – he invented the

telephone transmitter, one of the
first type of microphones.
He has a spare multimillion-dollar
home he previously maintained for
parties, ironically called “Blackberry
Hill” and he has recently moved into
the alternate home because his
Silicon Valley mansion sits in a GSM
black spot.
Who is this gentleman?
Answer

Steve Wozniak, co founder of

Apple
The “talarius” – a symbol of
swiftness, and the “petasus” – a
symbol of inspiration were first used
by Goodyear, and later by a couple
of other wireless technology
companies as part of their logos.
With which mythological character
would we associate these?
Answer

Mercury’s winged foot

Investigations by the IEE group show that both
X and Marconi were in London in 1896-97. The
Italian was conducting wireless experiments for
the British post office and X was on a lecture
tour. Marconi, was then under attack from
established British scientists who doubted his
credentials. X was not interested in commercial
telegraphy and said that others could use his
research work.
The first transatlantic wireless signal in
Marconi's world famous experiment was
received by using the iron-mercury-iron coherer
with a telephone detector invented by X in
1898.
ID X – an Indian who we all now know for his
other more famous innovations.
Answer

Sir J C Bose
It is the science of measuring a
quantity, then transmitting the
measured quantity/value to a distant
station where these data transmitted
by means of radio waves are
intercepted recorded and/or
analyzed for utility. Name it.
Answer

Telemetry
X fall in the range of 3 to 30 MHz
and are reflected from the
ionosphere just as light rays are
reflected from the surface of a
mirror. Communication specialists
use this layer like the edge of a
billiard table: if the ball does not go
straight into the pocket, it can be
directed on the rebound.
Y ranges from 300 kHz to 3000 kHz.
There is very little daytime reflection
of Y from the ionosphere resulting in
a coverage of about 100 kms only.
Answer

X – Short Wave
Y – Medium Wave
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 10 points for each correct answer
 All answers connect to a theme

 Points for theme:

+30/-10 +25/-10 +20/-10
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 For the theme write down your answer
In Euro 2008 they were drawn +30 /
in the “Group of Death” with -10
Netherlands, Italy, and France.
They drew with France 0-0,
drew with Italy 1-1 and were
beaten 2-0 by Netherlands.
Which team?
Answer
Romania
If this is the first, what is the second? +25 /
-10
Answer
HTC Magic, The first two Google
Android enabled phones
Where will you find the following +20 /
eateries and watering holes - -10
Harris Garden Brasserie, Full
Toss Bar, Outfield Bar, Father
Time Bar, Warner Mezzanine
Restaurant?
Answer
Lord’s Cricket Ground
Connect. +15 /
-5
 1968 London, England - Matt Busby
 1979 Munich, Germany - Brian Clough
 1988 Stuttgart, Germany - Guus
Hiddink
 1990 Vienna, Austria - Arrigo Sacchi
 2004 Gelsenkirchen, Germany - José
Mourinho
Answer
Winning managers, UEFA Champions
League
When he was nine he +10 /
contracted Perthe's disease -5
which affects the hip. He spent
three years in a home for
crippled children, his legs in
plaster casts, lying in traction,
immobile for months on end.
It was an amazing
transformation that saw him
enter racing when he was
older. In 1959 aged 22, driving
alongside the legendary Jack
Brabham, he became the
youngest (then) winner of a
Grand Prix.
Answer
Bruce McLaren
This is available in the +5 / -5
following forms - right single,
left single, single baseline,
single high reversed, double
left and double right.
The French and Germans have
their own version called
Guillemets, that they also call
Duck's Feet.
What?
Answer
Quotation Marks
And the theme is…
Theme
Vodafone sponsors the
Romanian football team, the
UEFA Champions League,
the England Cricket team
and McLaren F1 among
others.
Vodafone is the second
operator to launch a Google
Android enabled phone
after T-Mobile
Vodafone’s logo, the
“speechmark”, is a
quotation inside a circle