Massive-scale online collaboration

Multiple Choice

1. Distorted:  a) clear  b) broken  c) elegant  d) misshapen
2. Squiggly:  a) irregular curve or twist  b) rectangular-shaped  c) slightly damaged
3. Scalper:  a) headhunter  b) designer  c) person resells items at a higher price
4. Precise:  a) near  b) accurate  c) unbalanced  d) rough
5. Humongous:  a) very small  b) medium-sized  c) very large  d) extremely narrow
6. Authenticate:  a) to establish as genuine  b) to copy  c) to mislead
7. Decipher:  a) make difficult to read  b) make invisible  c) make out the meaning
8. Insulting:  a) offensive  b) complimentary  c) pleasing  d) gracious
9. Meme:  a) small character  b) historic written text  c) something transmitted by repetition
10. Peculiar:  a) type of bird  b) odd  c) an object that swings back and forth
11. Paleontology:  a) study of life in the geologic past  b) study of language formation
12. Weird:  a) common  b) strange  c) clumsy  d) unfocused
13. Partitioned:  a) grouped together  b) divided into parts  c) requested
14. Exploited:  a) taken advantage of  b) enriched  c) harmonized  d) forced out
15. Obstacle:  a) a triangle with an angle greater than 90°  b) something in the way
16. Simultaneously:  a) to be similar  b) separately  c) happening at the same time 
17. Inherently:  a) traditionally  b) from top to bottom  c) intrinsic  d) learned
18. Biased:  a) to be fair  b) to show favoritism  c) to be sociable  d) to be guilty of something
19. Monetize:  a) to make money from  b) to make smaller in size  c) to modify
20. Discriminate:  a) to do carefully  b) to favor  c) to be against some group

Questions

1. What is a CAPTCHA? How does it work and what is it used for?
2. What came after CAPTCHA and who acquired it?
3. By typing a CAPTCHA, what two things are you doing?
4. On the new system, the user types two words.  Explain why.
5. What are the results of the new system?  Give numbers.
6. What funny or insulting things have happened and what meme has risen from it?
7. What is the name of his newest project and what does it aim to do?
8. How can the project achieve its aim without paying translators?