POPQuiz #5 – AI Spy: the AI Scene In Romania

If you were checking out the AI scene in Romania, what inventors or companies would you visit?

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POPQuiz #4 Results - Picks of the Paparazzi

Celebrities. They’re everywhere. Even in patents.

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POPQuiz #2 Results: The Vladdest of the Vlad

Our top 3 high VI (Vlad Index, aka Vampire Index) submissions. Thanks for your patience, POPQuizzers!

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POPQuiz #3 Results: Decrypted. Or…Knowledge is Power.

And now the reveal. Our riddle, decrypted. The answers to our POPQuiz 3 enigma.

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POPQuiz #4 - Be A Patent Paparazzi

Today’s assignment: become a patent paparazzi. How many celebrities in one patent can you find?

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POPQuiz #3 Addendum: Clues!

Was our poem too enigmatic?

Just in case you’d like some clues, today we begin a gallery of clues for POPQuiz #3.

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POPQuiz #3: Riddles and Poetry, Intrigue and Innovation. And Patents. This One Has it All.

On a shore that gave birth to a field

The love of a William revealed

A crack team of two

A cloak red + blue

And ideas: more breaking than making.

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POPQuiz #2 Interim Results: The First, The Brave, The Really Really Weird.

We’ve extended the deadline for POPQuiz 2, but we’d like to celebrate the participants who wandered into the darkness first. Here are some highlights.

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POPQuiz #2: Powers of V – Vlad the Impaler, The Vampire Index, and Vivid Imaginations

Even patents aren’t immune to the power of Dracula’s bite.

For this week’s POPQuiz, we are looking for Dracula-inspired patents that maximize a highly arbitrary score we’ll call the VI, also known as the Vlad Index. Or Vampire Index.

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POPQuiz #1: Two Romanian Inventors, An Illegal Invention, And The French Connection

At least two Romanian inventors, one past, one present, have both developed a type of device that would be illegal in one small town in France. Video records of one such device exist.

Can you answer this week’s POPQuiz?

UPDATE: We will release our answers on August 9, 2019 at 23:59:59 AoE Time (UTC -12 h).

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