From: gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
   On 11/4/2025 3:31 PM, Mark Brader wrote:   
      
    > * 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.   
      
   "Slumdog Millionaire"   
      
    > 2. 1986, from "The Body" by Stephen King.   
      
   "Stand by Me"   
      
    > 3. 1964, from "Red Alert" by Peter George.   
      
   "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb"   
      
    > 4. 1990, from "Wiseguy" by Nicolas Pileggi.   
      
   "Goodfellas"   
      
    > 5. 2010, from "The Accidental Billionaires".   
      
   "The Social Network"   
      
    > 6. 1979, from "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad.   
      
   "Apocalypse Now"   
      
    > 7. 1968, from "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes.   
      
   "Charly"   
      
    > 8. 1988, from "Nothing Lasts Forever" by Roderick Thorp.   
      
   "Die Hard"   
      
    > 9. 1982, from "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K.   
    > Dick.   
      
   "Blade Runner"   
      
    > 10. 1990, from "We Can Remember it for You Wholesale" by Philip K.   
    > Dick.   
      
   "Total Recall"   
      
    > * 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?   
      
   Nvidia   
      
    > 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?   
      
   xAI   
      
    > 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.   
      
   ELIZA   
      
    > 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.   
      
   Siri   
      
    > 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"   
      
   Turing   
      
    > 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?   
      
   Watson   
      
    > 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?   
      
   Deep Blue   
      
    > 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.   
      
   Kurzweil   
      
   --   
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