text: Quiz Tournament | NYU-Poly
  Team RPISEC, Rensselear Polytechnic Institute – Andrew Zonenberg and Shawn Denbow
  Team thingys, Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Ben Agre and Cory Li
  Team Hack the Gibson –Shyamnath Gollakota of MIT and Bredan Dolan-Garitt of Georgia Institute of Technology
  Event date: November 10-11
  Challenge captain: Brittany De Bella
  The Quiz Tournament tests your breadth and depth of knowledge in broad range of digital security topics. The covered topics include, but are not limited to, network security, cryptography, malware, application and web security, protocols, the history of digital security, digital forensics, and policy, risk management, and standards.
  $5,000 Master of Science scholarships for all finalists who attend NYU-Poly.
  For new undergraduate and graduate students: scholarships can only be used at NYU-Poly and for tuition purposes only, and when combined with other Poly grants and/or scholarships cannot exceed cost of tuition.
  For current Poly undergraduates: The CSAW scholarship for continuing Poly undergraduates when combined with other Poly grants and/or scholarships cannot exceed $20,000 tuition costs per year.
  There are qualifying rounds and a final round. The top two teams of each qualifying round competes in the final round.
  All questions have short answers
  Quiz Moderator asks 10-12 questions at each round
  Every team tries to answer the questions simultaneously
  For each question, teams have 30 seconds to write down their answer on a sheet of paper
  After 30 seconds, teams show their answers to the Quiz Moderator
  Teams earn 1 point for each of their correct answer
  At the end of each round, teams are ranked according to their points
  The Polytechnic Institute of NYU reserves the right to adapt these rules as needed prior to the contest
  There was a vulnerability where a Firewire device, when plugged in, can overwrite anywhere in memory. What hardware protocol caused this?
  What is the hiding of a secret message within an ordinary message and the extraction of it at its destination called?
  History, Personality & Literature
  What was the name of the 1983 movie where Mathew Broderick played a young hacker who gained access to a government nuclear war simulator?
  In Microsoft Internet Explorer, which file stores information about a user's browsing history such as URLs?
  In practical cryptography, what is the name of the functions that are embodied in a physical structure, that is easy to evaluate but hard to characterize.