bathcamp #8: quiz of the year

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For the final Bathcamp meetup of 2009, we put together a quiz. We (loosely..) took the topics of the evening meetups from 2009 and then threw in a few more tech questions. Have a go - the answers are in the notes for each slide

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BathCamp 2008 13th/14th September 2008

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Evening 1: Web Design - 4th Feb 2009

- Paul Boag- Ryan Carson

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Evening 2: Arduino and Current Cost - 4th Mar 2009

- Ben Tomlinson- Dale Lane

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Event 3: Mobile - 1st April 2009

- Chris Book,- Giles Turnbull- Dan Zambonini

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Event 4: Quiz night - 6th May 2009

Compered by Darren Beale

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Event 5: Eclectic night - 1st June 2009

- Pete Ferne- Sam Machin- Cameron Neylon

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Event 6: Linked data, adobe AIR, UX - 1st July 2009

- Leigh Dodds- James Whittaker- Joe Leech

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Event 7: Bathcamponified - 21st July 2009

- Amy Mahon- Ryan Carson- Sam Machin- Dan Zambonini- Julian Cheal- Steve Pope- Brian Kelly- Chris Book- Mike Ellis

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Bathcamp - the barcamp - 26th/27th September 2009

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the quiz

40 questions, 4 rounds

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Round 1

Design and hardware hacking

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Round 1 / Q1

What does the site "No!Spec" do?

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Round 1 / Q2

What is the missing word?

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Round 1 / Q3

Ryan Carson talked about an add-on called "Ubiquity". What does it

do?

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Round 1 / Q4

What nationality is Jakob Nielsen?

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Round 1 / Q5

What is the name of the energy-monitoring device that Dale talked

about at BathCamp 2?

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Round 1 / Q6

What is an "Arduino"?

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Round 1 / Q7

Name an alternative platform to Arduino

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Round 1 / Q8

What language is Arduino programming based on?

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Round 1 / Q9

When was Lego invented?(within +/- 5 years)

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Round 1 / Q10

Where does the name "Lego" come from?

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Round 2

Mobile and....eclectic

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Round 2 / Q1

What is the estimated replacement time for mobile devices?

(+/- 3 months)

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Round 2 / Q2

What percentage of iPhones have an application installed that is not

on the phone at purchase?

a) 59%b) 63%c) 78%d) 93%

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Round 2 / Q3

What does XMPP stand for?

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Round 2 / Q4

Which web-based XMPP application was launched during

2009, to much fanfare...? 

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Round 2 / Q5

Which country's constitution did Giles show as being available as

an iPhone app?

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Round 2 / Q6

Which country does "World's Worst War" come from?

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Round 2 / Q7

What percentage of UK people accessed email or internet using their phone in 2009? (within +/-

5%)

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Round 2 / Q8

What is “Open Research”?

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Round 2 / Q9

Which UK city searches for more porn than any other city in the

world?

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Round 2 / Q10

Name the Make and Model of

this phone (1 Point)

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Round 3

Linked Data...AIR....UX....BathCamponified...

...BathCamp08

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Round 3 / Q1

What does RDF stand for?

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Round 3 / Q2

What does the AIR in Adobe AIR stand for?

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Round 3 / Q3

What was Julian Cheal’s tie made of?

(no points for his team..)

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When was the piano invented?

a)1650b)1678c)1698

Round 3 / Q4

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Round 3 / Q5

According to Dan Zambonini’s BathCamponified talk, what is the

most important technology?

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Round 3 / Q6

What is the #1 photo-sharing application in the world?

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Round 3 / Q7

What does “RIA” stand for?

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Round 3 / Q8

What are a, b and c? (1 point each)

a b c

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Round 3 / Q9

Which of the following is not a consituent of an RDF triple?

a)predicateb)syndicate

c)objectd)subject

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Round 3 / Q10

Which company develops FLEX?

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Round 4

General geekery

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Round 4 / Q1

What percentage of UK households have internet access in 2009?

a)50%b)60%c)70%d)80%

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Round 4 / Q2

What percentage of UK households have a games console?

a)10-30%b)31-50%c)51-70%d)70% +

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Round 4 / Q3

What percentage of people in the UK (admitted to) using adult sites

in 2009?

a)0-20%b)21-50%c)51-70%

d)70%

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Round 4 / Q4

Name (in any order) three of the top five most popular websites in

the US

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Round 4 / Q5

Name these logos (1 point each)

a)

b)

c)

d)

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Round 4 / Q6

Name three of the top ten most tweeted people in 2009?

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Round 4 / Q7

When was the first computer mouse introduced?

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Round 4 / Q8

Worldwide, how many songs have been sold on iTunes? *

(to within 10 million)

* January 2009 statistic

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Round 4 / Q9

What is the name of Google’s “Wikipedia-killer”?

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Round 4 / Q10

What does WWGD stand for and name the person who coined the

phrase in 2009 (2 Points)

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