* Game 4, Round 7 - Entertainment - Film Adaptations
1. 2008, from "Q&A" by Vikas Swarup.
2. 1986, from "The Body" by Stephen King.
3. 1964, from "Red Alert" by Peter George.
4. 1990, from "Wiseguy" by Nicolas Pileggi.
6. 1979, from "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad.
7. 1968, from "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes.
9. 1982, from "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick.
10. 1990, from "We Can Remember it for You Wholesale" by Philip K. Dick.
* Game 4, Round 8 - Science - Artificial Intelligence
1. This company is the dominant supplier of AI and graphics
processing hardware and software. Based on this dominance,
its stock price has skyrocketed. As of last Friday, it had a
market capitalization of $4.1 trillion Canadian placing it at #3
globally ... just behind Apple and Microsoft. Name the company?
2. In 2015, Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and others founded this
artificial intelligence company as a non-profit. Elon Musk
left the company in 2018. In November 2022, this company
introduced ChatGPT. What is the name of this company?
3. One of the first natural-language programs or chatbots was
developed between 1964 and 1967 by Joseph Weizenbaum of MIT.
What was the name of this early chatbot? *Hint*: The name
was taken from the female protagonist of a classic play that
premiered in 1913 and is still staged today.
4. Please decode the rot13 for the next two questions only after
you have finished with the ones above. BcraNV unf PungTCG.
Anzr rvgure bs gur pungobgf vagebqhprq ol Tbbtyr be Zvpebfbsg.
Lbh qba'g unir gb vqragvsl juvpu pungobg vf nffbpvngrq jvgu
juvpu pbzcnal. Whfg anzr bar bs gur gjb.
6. This mathematician created a test in 1950 to evaluate if
a machine could imitate being a human. In this test, a human
interrogator asks questions of a machine and a human. If the
human interrogator is not able to tell the difference, then
the machine is considered to have passed the test. Who is
this mathematician? *Hint*: His life was dramatized in the
2014 movie "The Imitation Game"
7. In February 2011, this IBM computer defeated
"Jeopardy!" champions Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings in a
competition. What is the name of this computer?
8. In May 1997, this IBM computer beat Garry Kasparov (the reigning
world chess champion at the time) in a 6-game match. What is
the name of *this* computer?
9. This academic is also an author, futurist, and inventor.
He invented the first text to speech machine and is responsible
for a language support program widely used in public schools
(particularly in Special Education departments). In addition,
he created one of the world's best music synthesizers. He is
probably best known for the 2005 book The Singularity is Near:
When Humans Transcend Biology. In this and other texts, he
speaks to the singular event being the point in time where AI
exceeds human intelligence. Name him.
* Game 4, Round 7 - Entertainment - Film Adaptations
* Game 4, Round 8 - Science - Artificial Intelligence
1. This company is the dominant supplier of AI and graphics
processing hardware and software. Based on this dominance,
its stock price has skyrocketed. As of last Friday, it had a
market capitalization of $4.1 trillion Canadian placing it at #3
globally ... just behind Apple and Microsoft. Name the company?
2. In 2015, Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and others founded this
artificial intelligence company as a non-profit. Elon Musk
left the company in 2018. In November 2022, this company
introduced ChatGPT. What is the name of this company?
3. One of the first natural-language programs or chatbots was
developed between 1964 and 1967 by Joseph Weizenbaum of MIT.
What was the name of this early chatbot? *Hint*: The name
was taken from the female protagonist of a classic play that
premiered in 1913 and is still staged today.
4. Please decode the rot13 for the next two questions only after
you have finished with the ones above. BcraNV unf PungTCG.
Anzr rvgure bs gur pungobgf vagebqhprq ol Tbbtyr be Zvpebfbsg.
Lbh qba'g unir gb vqragvsl juvpu pungobg vf nffbpvngrq jvgu
juvpu pbzcnal. Whfg anzr bar bs gur gjb.
6. This mathematician created a test in 1950 to evaluate if
a machine could imitate being a human. In this test, a human
interrogator asks questions of a machine and a human. If the
human interrogator is not able to tell the difference, then
the machine is considered to have passed the test. Who is
this mathematician? *Hint*: His life was dramatized in the
2014 movie "The Imitation Game"
7. In February 2011, this IBM computer defeated
"Jeopardy!" champions Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings in a
competition. What is the name of this computer?
8. In May 1997, this IBM computer beat Garry Kasparov (the reigning
world chess champion at the time) in a 6-game match. What is
the name of *this* computer?
9. This academic is also an author, futurist, and inventor.
He invented the first text to speech machine and is responsible
for a language support program widely used in public schools
(particularly in Special Education departments). In addition,
he created one of the world's best music synthesizers. He is
probably best known for the 2005 book The Singularity is Near:
When Humans Transcend Biology. In this and other texts, he
speaks to the singular event being the point in time where AI
exceeds human intelligence. Name him.
* Game 4, Round 7 - Entertainment - Film Adaptations
This is a round on film adaptations where the source work has a
different title. We will tell you the year the movie was released,
and give the title and maybe the author of the source work, and
you must give the movie title. For example, if we said "1989, from
'Shoeless Joe'", you would say "Field of Dreamss".
Note: For some questions it would be fair to characterize them
as faithful adaptations, but for others it's a case of "loosely
inspired by".
1. 2008, from "Q&A" by Vikas Swarup.
2. 1986, from "The Body" by Stephen King.
3. 1964, from "Red Alert" by Peter George.
4. 1990, from "Wiseguy" by Nicolas Pileggi.
5. 2010, from "The Accidental Billionaires".
6. 1979, from "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad.
7. 1968, from "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes.
8. 1988, from "Nothing Lasts Forever" by Roderick Thorp.
9. 1982, from "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick.
10. 1990, from "We Can Remember it for You Wholesale" by Philip K. Dick.
* Game 4, Round 8 - Science - Artificial Intelligence
This is a general round on Artificial Intelligence or AI.
1. This company is the dominant supplier of AI and graphics
processing hardware and software. Based on this dominance,
its stock price has skyrocketed. As of last Friday, it had a
market capitalization of $4.1 trillion Canadian placing it at #3
globally ... just behind Apple and Microsoft. Name the company?
2. In 2015, Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and others founded this
artificial intelligence company as a non-profit. Elon Musk
left the company in 2018. In November 2022, this company
introduced ChatGPT. What is the name of this company?
3. One of the first natural-language programs or chatbots was
developed between 1964 and 1967 by Joseph Weizenbaum of MIT.
What was the name of this early chatbot? *Hint*: The name
was taken from the female protagonist of a classic play that
premiered in 1913 and is still staged today.
4. Please decode the rot13 for the next two questions only after
you have finished with the ones above. BcraNV unf PungTCG.
Anzr rvgure bs gur pungobgf vagebqhprq ol Tbbtyr be Zvpebfbsg.
Lbh qba'g unir gb vqragvsl juvpu pungobg vf nffbpvngrq jvgu
juvpu pbzcnal. Whfg anzr bar bs gur gjb.
5. Guvf Puvarfr NV pbzcnal, sbhaqrq va 2023, erpragyl vagebqhprq
vgf bja pungobg vagb gur znexrg. Guvf pungobg vf haqrefgbbq
gb or zber rssvpvrag naq shapgvbany guna BcraNV'f PungTCG.
Qrfcvgr gur snpg guvf pynvz vf orvat qvfchgrq ol znal, gur
znexrgf unir ernpgrq jvgu n funec fryybss bs grpu fgbpxf.
Anzr gur pbzcnal.
6. This mathematician created a test in 1950 to evaluate if
a machine could imitate being a human. In this test, a human
interrogator asks questions of a machine and a human. If the
human interrogator is not able to tell the difference, then
the machine is considered to have passed the test. Who is
this mathematician? *Hint*: His life was dramatized in the
2014 movie "The Imitation Game"
7. In February 2011, this IBM computer defeated
"Jeopardy!" champions Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings in a
competition. What is the name of this computer?
8. In May 1997, this IBM computer beat Garry Kasparov (the reigning
world chess champion at the time) in a 6-game match. What is
the name of *this* computer?
9. This academic is also an author, futurist, and inventor.
He invented the first text to speech machine and is responsible
for a language support program widely used in public schools
(particularly in Special Education departments). In addition,
he created one of the world's best music synthesizers. He is
probably best known for the 2005 book The Singularity is Near:
When Humans Transcend Biology. In this and other texts, he
speaks to the singular event being the point in time where AI
exceeds human intelligence. Name him.
10. This academic is considered to be the godfather of AI. He is a
professor emeritus of Computer Science at the University
of Toronto. In 2024, he won the Nobel prize in Physics for
foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine
learning with artificial neural networks. Name him.
* Game 4, Round 7 - Entertainment - Film Adaptations
This is a round on film adaptations where the source work has a
different title. We will tell you the year the movie was released,
and give the title and maybe the author of the source work, and
you must give the movie title. For example, if we said "1989, from 'Shoeless Joe'", you would say "Field of Dreamss".
1. 2008, from "Q&A" by Vikas Swarup.
2. 1986, from "The Body" by Stephen King.
3. 1964, from "Red Alert" by Peter George.
4. 1990, from "Wiseguy" by Nicolas Pileggi.
5. 2010, from "The Accidental Billionaires".
6. 1979, from "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad.
7. 1968, from "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes.
8. 1988, from "Nothing Lasts Forever" by Roderick Thorp.
9. 1982, from "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K.
Dick.
10. 1990, from "We Can Remember it for You Wholesale" by Philip K.
Dick.
* Game 4, Round 8 - Science - Artificial Intelligence
This is a general round on Artificial Intelligence or AI.
1. This company is the dominant supplier of AI and graphics
processing hardware and software. Based on this dominance,
its stock price has skyrocketed. As of last Friday, it had a
market capitalization of $4.1 trillion Canadian placing it at #3
globally ... just behind Apple and Microsoft. Name the company?
2. In 2015, Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and others founded this
artificial intelligence company as a non-profit. Elon Musk
left the company in 2018. In November 2022, this company
introduced ChatGPT. What is the name of this company?
3. One of the first natural-language programs or chatbots was
developed between 1964 and 1967 by Joseph Weizenbaum of MIT.
What was the name of this early chatbot? *Hint*: The name
was taken from the female protagonist of a classic play that
premiered in 1913 and is still staged today.
4. Please decode the rot13 for the next two questions only after
you have finished with the ones above. BcraNV unf PungTCG.
Anzr rvgure bs gur pungobgf vagebqhprq ol Tbbtyr be Zvpebfbsg.
Lbh qba'g unir gb vqragvsl juvpu pungobg vf nffbpvngrq jvgu
juvpu pbzcnal. Whfg anzr bar bs gur gjb.
6. This mathematician created a test in 1950 to evaluate if
a machine could imitate being a human. In this test, a human
interrogator asks questions of a machine and a human. If the
human interrogator is not able to tell the difference, then
the machine is considered to have passed the test. Who is
this mathematician? *Hint*: His life was dramatized in the
2014 movie "The Imitation Game"
7. In February 2011, this IBM computer defeated
"Jeopardy!" champions Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings in a
competition. What is the name of this computer?
8. In May 1997, this IBM computer beat Garry Kasparov (the reigning
world chess champion at the time) in a 6-game match. What is
the name of *this* computer?
9. This academic is also an author, futurist, and inventor.
He invented the first text to speech machine and is responsible
for a language support program widely used in public schools
(particularly in Special Education departments). In addition,
he created one of the world's best music synthesizers. He is
probably best known for the 2005 book The Singularity is Near:
When Humans Transcend Biology. In this and other texts, he
speaks to the singular event being the point in time where AI
exceeds human intelligence. Name him.
These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2025-02-03,
and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information
please see my 2024-08-30 companion posting on "Questions from the
Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
* Game 4, Round 7 - Entertainment - Film Adaptations
This is a round on film adaptations where the source work has a
different title. We will tell you the year the movie was released,
and give the title and maybe the author of the source work, and
you must give the movie title. For example, if we said "1989, from
'Shoeless Joe'", you would say "Field of Dreamss".
Note: For some questions it would be fair to characterize them
as faithful adaptations, but for others it's a case of "loosely
inspired by".
1. 2008, from "Q&A" by Vikas Swarup.
2. 1986, from "The Body" by Stephen King.
3. 1964, from "Red Alert" by Peter George.
4. 1990, from "Wiseguy" by Nicolas Pileggi.
5. 2010, from "The Accidental Billionaires".
6. 1979, from "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad.
7. 1968, from "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes.
8. 1988, from "Nothing Lasts Forever" by Roderick Thorp.
9. 1982, from "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick.
10. 1990, from "We Can Remember it for You Wholesale" by Philip K. Dick.
* Game 4, Round 8 - Science - Artificial Intelligence
This is a general round on Artificial Intelligence or AI.
1. This company is the dominant supplier of AI and graphics
processing hardware and software. Based on this dominance,
its stock price has skyrocketed. As of last Friday, it had a
market capitalization of $4.1 trillion Canadian placing it at #3
globally... just behind Apple and Microsoft. Name the company.
2. In 2015, Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and others founded this
artificial intelligence company as a non-profit. Elon Musk
left the company in 2018. In November 2022, this company
introduced ChatGPT. What is the name of this company?
3. One of the first natural-language programs or chatbots was
developed between 1964 and 1967 by Joseph Weizenbaum of MIT.
What was the name of this early chatbot? *Hint*: The name
was taken from the female protagonist of a classic play that
premiered in 1913 and is still staged today.
4. Please decode the rot13 for the next two questions only after
you have finished with the ones above. OpenAI has ChatGPT.
Name either of the chatbots introduced by Google or Microsoft.
You don't have to identify which chatbot is associated with
which company. Just name one of the two.
5. This Chinese AI company, founded in 2023, recently introduced
its own chatbot into the market. This chatbot is understood
to be more efficient and functional than OpenAI's ChatGPT.
Despite the fact this claim is being disputed by many, the
markets have reacted with a sharp selloff of tech stocks.
Name the company.
6. This mathematician created a test in 1950 to evaluate if
a machine could imitate being a human. In this test, a human
interrogator asks questions of a machine and a human. If the
human interrogator is not able to tell the difference, then
the machine is considered to have passed the test. Who is
this mathematician? *Hint*: His life was dramatized in the
2014 movie "The Imitation Game"
7. In February 2011, this IBM computer defeated
"Jeopardy!" champions Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings in a
competition. What is the name of this computer?
8. In May 1997, this IBM computer beat Garry Kasparov (the reigning
world chess champion at the time) in a 6-game match. What is
the name of *this* computer?
9. This academic is also an author, futurist, and inventor.
He invented the first text to speech machine and is responsible
for a language support program widely used in public schools
(particularly in Special Education departments). In addition,
he created one of the world's best music synthesizers. He is
probably best known for the 2005 book The Singularity is Near:
When Humans Transcend Biology. In this and other texts, he
speaks to the singular event being the point in time where AI
exceeds human intelligence. Name him.
10. This academic is considered to be the godfather of AI. He is a
professor emeritus of Computer Science at the University
of Toronto. In 2024, he won the Nobel prize in Physics for
foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine
learning with artificial neural networks. Name him.
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