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 slideTRANSCRIPT
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
the quiz
40 questions, 4 rounds
Round 1
Design and hardware hacking
Round 1 / Q1
What does the site "No!Spec" do?
Round 1 / Q2
What is the missing word?
Round 1 / Q3
Ryan Carson talked about an add-on called "Ubiquity". What does it
do?
Round 1 / Q4
What nationality is Jakob Nielsen?
Round 1 / Q5
What is the name of the energy-monitoring device that Dale talked
about at BathCamp 2?
Round 1 / Q6
What is an "Arduino"?
Round 1 / Q7
Name an alternative platform to Arduino
Round 1 / Q8
What language is Arduino programming based on?
Round 1 / Q9
When was Lego invented?(within +/- 5 years)
Round 1 / Q10
Where does the name "Lego" come from?
Round 2
Mobile and....eclectic
Round 2 / Q1
What is the estimated replacement time for mobile devices?
(+/- 3 months)
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%
Round 2 / Q3
What does XMPP stand for?
Round 2 / Q4
Which web-based XMPP application was launched during
2009, to much fanfare...?
Round 2 / Q5
Which country's constitution did Giles show as being available as
an iPhone app?
Round 2 / Q6
Which country does "World's Worst War" come from?
Round 2 / Q7
What percentage of UK people accessed email or internet using their phone in 2009? (within +/-
5%)
Round 2 / Q8
What is “Open Research”?
Round 2 / Q9
Which UK city searches for more porn than any other city in the
world?
25
Round 2 / Q10
Name the Make and Model of
this phone (1 Point)
Round 3
Linked Data...AIR....UX....BathCamponified...
...BathCamp08
Round 3 / Q1
What does RDF stand for?
Round 3 / Q2
What does the AIR in Adobe AIR stand for?
Round 3 / Q3
What was Julian Cheal’s tie made of?
(no points for his team..)
When was the piano invented?
a)1650b)1678c)1698
Round 3 / Q4
Round 3 / Q5
According to Dan Zambonini’s BathCamponified talk, what is the
most important technology?
Round 3 / Q6
What is the #1 photo-sharing application in the world?
Round 3 / Q7
What does “RIA” stand for?
Round 3 / Q8
What are a, b and c? (1 point each)
a b c
Round 3 / Q9
Which of the following is not a consituent of an RDF triple?
a)predicateb)syndicate
c)objectd)subject
Round 3 / Q10
Which company develops FLEX?
Round 4
General geekery
Round 4 / Q1
What percentage of UK households have internet access in 2009?
a)50%b)60%c)70%d)80%
Round 4 / Q2
What percentage of UK households have a games console?
a)10-30%b)31-50%c)51-70%d)70% +
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%
Round 4 / Q4
Name (in any order) three of the top five most popular websites in
the US
Round 4 / Q5
Name these logos (1 point each)
a)
b)
c)
d)
Round 4 / Q6
Name three of the top ten most tweeted people in 2009?
Round 4 / Q7
When was the first computer mouse introduced?
Round 4 / Q8
Worldwide, how many songs have been sold on iTunes? *
(to within 10 million)
* January 2009 statistic
Round 4 / Q9
What is the name of Google’s “Wikipedia-killer”?
Round 4 / Q10
What does WWGD stand for and name the person who coined the
phrase in 2009 (2 Points)
fin