St. Stephen's Annual Quizzing Championship

Hi guys!
SAQC is back and we're excited to host all of you this 4th and 5th October for what promises to be a thrilling championship.
Following is the schedule for the same.
Day 1- 4th Oct
1. On the spot registrations - 12.30 pm (Main portico)
2. School prelims - 1.30 pm (College Hall)
3. College prelims - 3.00 pm (College Hall)
4. Quarter finals - 4.30 pm

Day 2 - 5th Oct
1. Semi-finals - 2.30 pm
2. Finals - 5 pm (College Hall)
The finals will be hosted by St. Stephen's alumnus and eminent QM, Mr. Aryapriya Ganguly.
Hoping to see you all at 12.30 pm on 4th Oct!

*Cross College teams not allowed
*Reg fee of Rs.20 per person will be charged. (College students only)

It's that time of the year again!

A big shoutout to our partners, KindleOnCampus, an initiative by Amazon.
We encourage all our visitors to download the Kindle app. You'll get to download E-Books worth 200 rupees. What greater joy is there than gathering knowledge?

The IInd edition of the St. Stephen's Annual Quizzing Championship, held over the 5th and 6th of October, drew to a close with a brilliant final, hosted by Aryapriya Ganguly. Congratulations to all the finalists!
The winners are(it came down to the last question):
Ist - Amity - Shresth Shah, Harsh Vikram, Abhimanyu Bhadauria
IInd - IIT Delhi - Abhishek Kapoor, Ashutosh, Shankha Nag
IIIrd - NSIT - Shashwat Deepali Nagar, Vinayak Mishra, Kritin Gupta
Special Mention - Gokul, for lone-wolfing it to the finals!

Best School Team - DPS RK Puram walked away with the trophy for the 2nd time! Congrats Aditya Sengupta, Aryaman Dubey and Shubham Sarkar!

We'd like to express our gratitude to Dr. Tharoor for his constant support and encouragement. We could not have pulled this off without our Staff Advisor, Mr. Kashif Ahmed. A big shout out to our wonderful First Year Quizlings. We'd also like to thank our sponsors, Offbeat T-shirts and KindleOnCampus (Amazon India).

We hope that the 300 people who participated in SAQC enjoyed themselves as much as we did. Pictures will be uploaded soon!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl7fflHKd-I

The 2nd Stephen's Annual Quizzing Championship 2015 Dr. Shashi Tharoor's address on the eve of the 2nd edition of SAQC.

Oschter Haws is depicted as a leporid, (Much like a certain looney tune) originating among German Lutherans, he originally played the role of a judge .The custom that he followed was first mentioned in Georg Franck von Franckenau's De ovis paschalibus in 1682. In ancient times, it was widely believed (as by Pliny, Plutarch, Philostratus, and Aelian) that leporids were hermaphrodites. The idea that X could reproduce without loss of virginity led to an association with the Virgin Mary, with X sometimes occurring in illuminated manuscripts and Northern European paintings of the Virgin and Christ Child. This lead to the phenomenon Haws is now known globally for. What am I talking about?

QOTD
Dominic Wilcox has created the world’s first fully functional pair of GPS shoes, called "No Place Like Home" shoes, that will guide the wearer to any destination, no matter where they are in the world. The design of the shoes take the best of traditional craftsmanship and enhance it with a subtle addition of modern technology in the form of embedded GPS in the heel and mini LED lights within the traditional brogue shoe hole perforations.
Interestingly, how does one activate them?

QOTD:
An X worm is an extremely rapidly propagating computer worm that spreads as fast as physically possible, infecting all vulnerable machines on the entire Internet in 15 minutes or less.
The SQL Slammer worm was the first observed example of an X worm. The mechanism of SQL Slammer's spread used a pseudo-random number generator seeded from a system variable to determine which IP addresses to attack next. In spite of deficiencies in its implementation, the randomized attack was highly effective. 90% of all vulnerable machines
were infected within 10 minutes, showing that the original estimate for infection speed was roughly correct. Give X.

There was an edit made to the registration form. The earlier version of the form said that only students from class 10 to class 12 could participate. This has been changed. There are no age restrictions for school teams. All students are welcome to participate.

Question of the Day
According to the developers, the negative portrayal as well as appearance of the Xs is due to a real world epidemic prevalent in 2009, when the games made their debut.
Funda, please.

Promising 2 whole days of quality quizzing!
Be there.