HackIM 2013 - Trivia WriteUps | APU CSFC

Posted: 2013-03-03 20:24 | More posts about CTF nullcon HackIM WriteUps

Trivia 1-5 - 100-500 points

Trivia questions are something that we look forward to in almost all Jeopardy style CTFs that we participate, although some CTFs do not actually give questions like how HackIM did.

Trivia 1 - 100 points

Challenge Question

What feature, introduced in DirectX 11, makes in-game textures appear rounder and better defined?

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Tesellation

Ref: http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/directx_11_deconstructed

Trivia 2 - 200 points

Challenge Question

What socket was used in the first Sandy Bridge chips?

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LGA1155

Trivia 3 - 300 points

Challenge Question

Which computer program was written in February 1991 by 3 authors?

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polyglot

Trivia 4 - 400 points

Challenge Question

What is an emergent micro-cooling solution that operates similarly to conventional heat pipe technology known as?

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nanowick

Ref: http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/research/2010/100722GarimellaNanowick.html

Trivia 5 - 500 points

Challenge Question

What is the first 4 bytes in a neXT fat binary?

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cafe babe

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexspeak