From: dtilque@frontier.com   
      
   On 11/4/25 13:31, 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".   
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   Apocalypse Now   
      
   > 7. 1968, from "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes.   
      
   Charly   
      
   > 8. 1988, from "Nothing Lasts Forever" by Roderick Thorp.   
   > 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?   
      
   OpenAI   
      
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   Gemini   
      
   >   
   > 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"   
      
   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?   
   >   
   > 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.   
   >   
   > 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.   
   >   
      
   --   
   Dan Tilque   
      
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