Quiz Time 9

Theme : Tech  Source : Kevu Kaivan

#1 `X` is used to power some searches in the Microsoft Bing and DuckDuckGo search engines. For factual question answering, it is also queried by Apple's Siri, Samsung's S Voice, as well as Dexetra's speech recognition software for the Android platform, Iris, and the voice control software on BlackBerry 10. ID X

#2 The logo of `X`, contains an hourglass with one globe leaking to the second. It's founder described himself in a private conversation as "the heart and soul of this organisation, its founder, philosopher, spokesperson, original coder, organizer, financier, and all the rest" ID X

#3 Connect him to a Company!

#4 The name `X` is Norwegian, meaning "beautiful woman who leads you to victory", and comes from the intended name for the original developer's first child. ID X

#5 "All one needs to be able to do is to take questions people ask in natural language, and represent them in a precise form that fits into the computations one can do" what am I takling about?

#6 Johann Philipp installed an `X` in histelephonein 1861; it's driver are named as tweeters(high frequencies); and sometimes supertweeters. ID X

#7 It's logo is a bind runemerging the Younger Futhark runes. `X` is a packet-based protocol with a master-slave structure. One master may communicate with up to seven slaves in a piconet; all devices share the master's clock. ID X

#8 ID

#9 Popularized by advertisements for Letraset transfer sheets in the 1950-60s, it was introduced to the Digital Age by Aldus Corporation in the mid-1980s, which employed it in graphics and word processing templates for its breakthrough desktop publishing program, PageMaker for the Apple Macintosh. It is typically a mangled section of ”De finibus bonorum et malorum”, a 1st-century BC Latin text by Cicero, with words altered, added, and removed that make it nonsensical, improper Latin. What is being talked about ? Funda.

#10 The earliest known appearance of the phrase is from The Michigan School Moderator, a journal that provided teachers with education-related news and suggestions for lessons. The first message sent on the Moscow–Washington hotline was the test phrase “___ _____ _____ ___ _____ ____ ___ ____ ___ 1234567890". Later, during testing, the Russian translators sent a message asking their American counterparts "What does it mean when your people say ' “___ _____ _____ ___ _____ ____ ___ ____ ___?‘ “ In order to get the phrase in MS Word, just type =rand.old(). What phrase ?