OlpcMAP/Trivia Contest
OLPC/SUGAR DEPLOYMENT TRIVIA CONTEST!
Responses must then be received at <contest@olpcMAP.net> by Wedn 7:00 PM Boston Time to win our Grand Prize! (Several Awards for strongest in-person and remote answers then, Dec 29th 2010!)
- What clever lobbying technique succeeded in greatly expanding the OLPC project in Paraguay?
- What village near Haiti's earthquake epicenter has the highest concentration of XO laptops?
- What unexpected language do XOs use right by the source of the Nile, and what is the name of the country? Hint: the "world's youngest King" lives nearby :)
- Which deployment piloted a device relevant to children's health as they use the XO, that might even address children's health needs in the United States -- and what is that green device?
- What town in Austria has a deployment supported by the national government?
- What language do Mongolia's XOs use?
- What state in Mexico is home to a new OLPC deployment that began in 2010?
- CA (Canada) has 9 of 13 provinces/territories larger than that other overpopulated CA (California). How many of these 9 have OLPC Canada deployments on tap?
- What country worldwide has the highest number of OLPC/Sugar volunteers per capita?
- How many color combinations do the children on the back of XO laptops come in?
- What is the name of the Sea in which the VVV Vietnam XO pilot is located, on Vietnamese maps and on international maps, and why is it different?
- Roughly what percentage of Haitian primary schools are public? (in contrast to private/community/parochial schools)
- What OLPC volunteer takes the ICT4D globe-trotting game so seriously she was once kidnapped?!
- Who said "Eight Mongolian schools with 1600+ laptops were added to olpcMAP.net! Now I just wish I understood Mongolian!"
- Which Olympic city has the world's most northerly grown tea (not including greenhouse tea), as well as palm trees, and is the home town of olpc's most book-obsessed volunteer?
- How many small deployments are currently active in Thailand?
- What Activity was recently used by a child in Thailand to make a Sushi game, in the Ban Kayeng Hill Tribe in Chiang Ria?
- How was the deployment leader at Kenya Ntugi's School thoughtfully compensated?
- About how many countries are represented on OLPC's Support Gang?
- Which island worldwide has the largest number of XOs?
