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Quake (series)
Quake is a series of first-person shooter video games by id Software, beginning with the 1996 original that pioneered true 3D worlds and online multiplayer.
Quake (video game)
Quake is a dark-fantasy first-person shooter developed by id Software and released in 1996, the first mainstream shooter with a fully 3D engine, which popularized online multiplayer and modding.
Quake 4
Quake 4 is a first-person shooter, developed by Raven Software and published by Activision. Released in October 2005, it follows Matthew Kane during the invasion of Strogg homeworld.
Quake Champions
Quake Champions: id Software and Saber Interactive's arena FPS, announced 2016, Early Access August 2017, 1.0 in 2022; Champions with abilities atop classic Quake movement; became a $10 paid Steam game in September 2026 with microtransactions removed.
Quake II
Quake II: id Software's December 9, 1997 sci-fi first-person shooter set on Stroggos, unrelated to Quake; refined id Tech 2 engine, Sonic Mayhem soundtrack, Nightdive 2023 enhanced re-release.
Quake III Arena
Quake III Arena (Quake 3, id Tech 3) is id Software's 1999 multiplayer-only arena FPS with 16-player deathmatch, CTF, and Team Arena expansion; GPL source release in 2005, Quake Live remake, and DeepMind human-level CTF AI.
QuakeCon
QuakeCon: annual LAN party and gaming convention in the Dallas, Texas area, begun August 1996; Guinness record largest free LAN party (7,000 in 2007); BYOC hall, id Software sponsorship, Gaylord Texan venue, 30th anniversary 2026.
Quaker Oats Company
The Quaker Oats Company, Chicago-based American food maker of Quaker oatmeal, Life cereal, Cap'n Crunch, and Quaker Chewy bars; trademark registered 1877, incorporated 1901, a wholly owned PepsiCo subsidiary since the 2001 merger.
Quaker State (motor oil)
Quaker State is an American brand of motor oil and automotive lubricants, founded by Pennsylvania crude oil producers, merged with Pennzoil in 1998, and owned by Shell since 2002.
Quaker Tapestry
The Quaker Tapestry is a 77-panel crewel embroidery begun in 1981 in Somerset by Anne Wynn-Wilson, made by 4,000 people in 15 countries, housed in Kendal, England; its museum closed in December 2025.
Quakers
Quakers, formally the Religious Society of Friends, are a Christian movement founded by George Fox in England in 1652, known for silent worship, pacifism, and decisions made without voting.
Quakers in Barbados
The Quakers in Barbados were a Religious Society of Friends community, introduced in 1655 and once the largest in the Americas, that faded by 1780.
Qualcomm
Qualcomm Incorporated is an American semiconductor and telecommunications company headquartered in San Diego, California. Founded in 1985, it develops wireless technologies, sells Snapdragon chipsets, and licenses cellular patents.
Qualcomm AI data-center accelerators
Qualcomm's AI data-center accelerators, the AI200 and AI250, are rack-scale inference systems announced in October 2025, built around unusually large low-power DRAM rather than high-bandwidth memory.
Qualcomm Dragonwing
Qualcomm Dragonwing is a brand of Qualcomm Technologies processors and solutions for industrial and embedded Internet of Things applications, covering on-device AI, computing, and connectivity, introduced in February 2025.
Qualcomm Hexagon
Qualcomm Hexagon is a family of digital signal processors and neural processing units designed by Qualcomm Technologies, first launched in Snapdragon platforms in 2007 after development began in 2004.
Qualcomm Snapdragon
Qualcomm Snapdragon is a family of system-on-a-chip mobile platforms made by Qualcomm since 2007, integrating CPU, GPU, NPU, and modem on one chip to power smartphones, laptops, and vehicles.
Qualia
Qualia (singular quale) are the introspectively accessible, phenomenal aspects of mental life, what it is like to undergo an experience. Term from Peirce 1866 and Lewis 1929; central to knowledge argument, explanatory gap, and illusionism debates.
Qualicum Beach
Qualicum Beach is a town on the east coast of Vancouver Island, BC, north of Parksville in the Regional District of Nanaimo; incorporated 1942 as a village, 1983 as a town; pentl'ach-derived name; population about 9,387.
Qualification and wildcard pathways for small winter programs
Qualification and wildcard pathways are the routes small winter sport nations use to reach the Olympics, including FIS point standards, special quotas, and invitational places.
Qualification types in the United Kingdom
Qualification types in the United Kingdom: named awards (GCSE, A level, T Level, HNC, degrees) within the RQF, SCQF, CQFW, FHEQ and FQHEIS frameworks, levelled entry level to 8 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and to SCQF 12 in Scotland.
Qualified domestic relations order
A qualified domestic relations order (QDRO) is a court order under ERISA section 206(d)(3) and IRC 414(p) that assigns a retirement plan participant's benefits to an alternate payee such as a former spouse, child, or dependent in divorce or support proceedings.
Qualified immunity
Qualified immunity is a US judicial doctrine shielding government officials from civil damages suits unless they violated clearly established constitutional or statutory rights; established by Harlow v. Fitzgerald (1982) after Pierson v. Ray (1967), applied in Section 1983 civil cases only.
Qualitative characteristics of financial information
The qualitative characteristics of financial information are the qualities that make financial reporting useful: relevance and faithful representation, enhanced by comparability, verifiability, timeliness, and understandability.
Qualitative coding
Qualitative coding is a social science analysis method in which researchers assign short labels, called codes, to data segments and group them into categories and themes.
Qualitative comparative analysis
Qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) is a set-theoretic research method introduced by Charles Ragin in 1987 that compares cases to find conditions necessary or sufficient for an outcome.
Qualitative content analysis
Qualitative content analysis is a social science method for interpreting text data through systematic coding and identifying themes, heavily used in healthcare and public health research.
Qualitative document analysis
Qualitative document analysis is a systematic research method for reviewing and interpreting documentary evidence, such as reports, policies, and archival records, to answer specific research questions.
Qualitative meta-analysis
A qualitative meta-analysis, also called qualitative meta-synthesis, is a systematic synthesis that interprets findings from several qualitative studies to produce themes, translated concepts, or lines of argument.
Qualitative platelet defects
Qualitative platelet defects: inherited or acquired disorders of platelet function with normal counts, causing mucocutaneous bleeding. Includes Glanzmann thrombasthenia (αIIbβ3), Bernard-Soulier syndrome (GPIb-IX-V), P2Y12 and GPVI defects.