Technical quiz conducted as part of CS Association events 2012.. :)

1. CS Association
GECH
TeQuiz Prelims

2. 1.
Who is regarded as the father of Computer Science?

3. Alan Turing

4. 2.
Id the logo-

5. VLC(VideoLan Client) Media Player

6. 3.
Which software developed by Google is named after a
famous Spanish Painter?

7. “Picasa” named after Pablo Picasso

8. 4.
Expand pdf as in .pdf files.

9. Portable document format

10. 5.
Id this co-founder of a famous IT company of India.
(Hint: He’s also the chairman of UIDAI)

11. Nandan Nilekeni of Infosys

12. 6.
This term suggests that the software secretly monitors
the user's behavior. What term?

13. Spyware
Spywares install on users system from the internet and collect user logins and
passwords from the pc without his knowledge..!

14. 7.
Id the tablet in her hand.

15. Aakash Tablet
World’s cheapest $35 tablet released by MHRD, India running Android 2.2(Froyo)

16. 8.
What does USB stands for?

17. Universal Serial Bus

18. 9.
ID the technology.

19. Bluetooth
Ericsson’s Jim Kardman named this technology after the Viking king Harold
Blatand who united Denmark and Sweden. This king liked to eat
blueberries which gave blue color to his teeth that lead to the nickname
“Bluetooth”..!!

20. 10.
Who coined the term “Software”?

21. John Tukey
He also introduced the word "bit" as a contraction of "binary digit“.

22. 11.
Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Safari and Explorer are types of
what?

23. Web Browsers

24. 12.
Which is Intel’s first microprocessor?

25. Intel 4004
It was released way back in 1970.

26. 13.
Id this famous Linux distro.

27. RedHat

28. 14.
Which OOP Language was designed by Bjarne
Stroustrap in 1983 at Bell Labs as an enhancement to C?

29. C with classes(C++)

30. 15.
What is the name given to a region of memory that is
used to temporarily hold data while it is being moved
from one place to another?

31. Buffer

32. 16.
Connect-

33. They’re all part of Openoffice suite

34. 17.
The Internet Movie Database(IMDb) is the most revered
online database of information related to movies. It was
acquired by X in 1998. Even today, IMDb is a wholly
owned subsidiary of X.
Id X.

35. Amazon

36. 18.
Who said this in a funny way-
“A Computer is like Air Conditioning- it becomes useless
when you open Windows”.
(Hint: Think Linux.!)

37. Linus Torvalds

38. 19.
Id this local place from a Google-map snap.

39. Hassan Old Bus stand!!

40. 20.
Where did Narayan Murthy work before forming
Infosys?

41. Patni Computer Systems, Pune
Now it’s called iGATE Patni after iGATE acquired it in 2011.

42. *21.
ID the person and the device-

43. Apple Lisa and Steve Jobs
Lisa was the first personal computer to offer a GUI in an inexpensive
machine with the mouse during the early 1980s.

44. *22.
The name COMPAQ is derived from which 2 words?

45. COMPatibility And Quality

46. *23.
Expand-
a)BSD
b)GREP

47. ● Berkeley Software Distribution
● Global Regular Expression and Print

48. *24.
Jack Smith, a hardware engineer left Apple computers
along with his colleague(who is a BITS Pilani Graduate)
to form a free e-mail portal which created e-mail
revolution.
Name the person and the email service.
(Hint: Now it is a part of Microsoft)

49. Sabeer Bhatia and HoTMaiL

50. *25.
Id these famous persons who co-founded one of the
earliest Silicon valley company.

51. William hewlett and David packard

52. This is just the end of beginning.!
Coming Up finals in few mins....

53. TeQuiz Finals

54. • Every question is addressed to the team succeeding
the team that answered the previous question.
• If the question is left unanswered then subsequent
team will get next direct question.
• 10pts for every question answered, either direct or
passed.
• No NEGATIVE points for wrong answers.

55. How do we better know “Completely
Automated Public Turing Test to tell
Computers and Humans Apart”?

57. CAPTCHA

58. The exact definition of this word is “edible
part of a nut”. This is the layer which connects
the application software and hardware. Name
this?

59. Kernel

60. Where do you find these?
Indicative, Non Exhaustive.

62. Wikipedia logo

63. X is a recently launched digital content
service from Google which includes an
online store for
music, movies, books, and Android apps
and games.
Id the X.

66. Which is this very famous ad campaign of 1997 that
marked the return of tech legend to his co-founded
company.?

69. Id this logo.

71. Sony Ericsson

72. How do we popularly know "Jerry and David's
Guide to the World Wide Web"?

74. Yahoo!

75. (Anticlockwise)
• Every question is addressed to the team succeeding
the team that answered the previous question.
• If the question is left unanswered then subsequent
team will get next direct question.
• 10pts for every question answered, either direct or
passed.
• No NEGATIVE points for wrong answers.

76. Which was the first mobile smart
phone to run the Android mobile
Operating system?

78. HTC Dream
Released Oct 2008

79. The creator of X was paid a mere $45 for creating
this. It later became a part of daily writing used
mainly in SMS, E-mail, etc.,. Scott Fahlman was the
person who developed this later. What?

81.  Smileys/Emoticons 

82. Id the notebook.

84. Apple MacBook Air
The Thinnest Notebook in the world, its thickest part is
thinner than the thinnest part of a normal thin laptop.

85. Name the command in Unix/Linux that is
used to record a session.

87. script

88. This collection of essays is
named after a Hungarian
who according to urban
legend invented the
modern English keyboard.
Who?

90. Qwert Yuiop

91. _______ Day is celebrated on the 256th day of the
year (13 September in normal years and 12 September
in leap years). The number 256 (2^8) was chosen
because it is the number of distinct values that can be
represented with an eight-bit byte.
Also, '256' in hexadecimal is '100' ('0x100'), and it's the
highest power of two that is lower than 365 (the
number of days in a year).
Typical celebrations of _______ Day include playing
around with old computers and behaving in a
generally inane(stupid and silly) manner.
It is an official professional holiday in Russia.!

93. Programmer’s Day

94. X was first announced on 16 August 1993 by Ian
Murdock. The name X was formed as a combination
of the first name of his then-girlfriend Debra Lynn
and his own first name.
What is X?

96. Debian..!!

97. • Each team will have its direct question.
• No passes. Other teams can write their answers
in the sheet of paper they have.
• Each question will have two answers.
• Each right answer for direct question will fetch
10+10=20pts.
• Other teams can get 5+5=10pts for every right
answer they write.
• No NEGATIVE points for wrong answers.

98. “We Love X, We Love the Web, We Love Flash and
We Love Y”.
These lines have been quoted from a very famous ad
campaign in 2010. What are X and Y?

100. X is Apple
and
Y is HTML5

101. This product is similar to and was preceded by a
system known as Telepointer developed by Media Lab
student Steve Mann in the 1990s. Designed by a
student who is a graduate of Nirma Institute of
Technology, Gujarat, the product prototype costs
around $350 and it’s source code will be released in
open source. Which product and also name this
Indian?

103. Sixth Sense and Pranav Mistry

104. Id these very famous entrepreneurs.

106. Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page.
Larry Page is the current CEO of Google.

107. Id this popular game and its developer.

109. Angry Birds and Rovio
By March 2012, the game had reached 700 million downloads
on various platforms.!!

110. X is a computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at
Stanford University who created a computer
typesetting system that became a precursor for the
most widely used format of typesetting called Y.
X is also the author of famous multi-volume book
“The Art of Programming” and has been called the
“Father of the Analysis of Algorithms”.
Id X and Y.

112. Donald E Knuth and LaTeX

113. The tradition of using the phrase “X” as a test
message was influenced by an example program
in the seminal book “Y” in 1970s. Since then “X”
has become the traditional first program that
many people learn in most programming
languages.
What are X and Y?

115. X is “Hello World” and Y is “The C Programming Language”
main()
{
printf("hello, worldn");
}

116. • Connect the visuals in the question and crack the
answer.
• All teams will get their direct question and DO NOT
answer until the pounce is closed.
• When the question is on pounce, other teams can
write their answers in the paper.
• Right answers will fetch 10pts and no passing.
• Wrong answers on the pounce will attract the
penalty of NEGATIVE 5pts and no penalty for
unanswered questions.

119. • That dog with kareena was called “Facebook” in
golmaal3.!
• Facebook was first launched in Harvard.
• Eduardo saverin is the co-founder of facebook.
• Timeline is the new feature for profiles in facebook.

122. They’re all the major manufacturers of Smart
phones running on Android mobile OS.

125. Steve chen, Chad hurley and Javed karim are the
founders of Youtube.
All 3 were ex-employees of Paypal Inc.,
Youtube is a part of Google services.
Kolavari di went viral on internet and became the
most watched Indian Youtube video last year.

128. • Received B.Tech degree in Electrical
Engg from IIT-D.
• Alumnus of Stanford School of Business.
• Co-founder of SUN microsystems.
• Its been acquired by Oracle recently.

131. • Gameboy is the Nintendo’s first handheld gaming
device.
• Mario is Nintendo’s one of the famous game.
• Logo of Nintendo64.
• The song “love the way you lie” contains a reference
to nintendo (Eminem says “Life’s no nintendo game”)!!

134. • All those animals are the codenames of
Ubuntu-
• Koala(Karmic koala 9.10)
• Lynx(Lucid Lynx 10.04)
• Meerkat(Maverick Meerkat 10.10)
• Mark Shuttleworth of Canonical Inc., is the
sponsor of Ubuntu

135. • Each question will have 4 clues and points associated with
them are shown with each of those clue.
• Each team will have its direct question and DO NOT answer
until pounce is closed.
• Questions will be on pounce only for the first 3clues and other
teams can write their answers in the sheet.
• First 3clues will have NEGATIVE points and at last clue only the
team to which the question was addressed can answer.
• No passing and unanswered questions do not have any penalty.
• All questions are based on single theme and +10pts for cracking
the correct theme. No –ve pts here and all the teams can write
their answer in sheet at the end of the round.

136. This venture capitalist and entrepreneur was
born in Hubli, Karnataka and his father was
a labor commissioner with the Indian Govt.
He graduated with the B.Tech degree in
Electrical Engineering from the Indian
Institute of Technology, Madras.

137. He went on to complete his Ph.D. in Data
Communications from Faculty of Engineering &
Applied Science at Queen's University in
Ontario, Canada. Presently, he is the Chairman of
A123Systems, Sycamore Networks, Tejas
Networks, HiveFire, Sandstone Capital, Sparta
Group, and sits on the Board of Airvana.

138. He is also a Life Member of the MIT Corporation, the
Board of Trustees of MIT.
In July 2010, he was appointed by President Barack
Obama to the Co-Chairmanship of the National
Advisory Council on Innovation and
Entrepreneurship, a group established to support
the US President's innovation strategy.

142. He was born on Feb 9, 1943 in Malavalli, Mandya and
attended National Institute Engineering, Mysore and
gained two degrees, one in Physics and another in
Engineering.

143. He worked in HP for nearly two decades before
summoning up the courage to hit the digital trail on
his own. He was Chairman of the ANSI INCITS T11
Technical Committee in 1994 and in 1995, he co-
founded Brocade Communications Systems, the
leader in storage area switching. He is also the
chairman and co-founder of Orchesys, Inc.

144. He is the co-author and considered one of the
originators and the driving force behind Fibre
Channel, an evolutionary technology that
enabled the development of storage area
networks (SAN's), which lead to a multi-billion
dollar industry.

148. He is from Bangalore, Karnataka and did his
under graduation in UVCE, Bangalore University.
He went to the US to do graduate work at the
University of California, Davis and Stanford
University.

149. He has co-founded companies like Alantec and
other two companies in California. He was a
programmer in microsoft and his latest
venture, an IP security provider called Allegro
Systems, was acquired by Cisco Systems. But we
all know him better in other field.

150. He is a rare combination of a gifted musician, a
programmer and an entrepreneur. He had
nurtured deep interest in music since a young
age and used to play drums when he was in
UVCE.

151. He is considered on of the best music directors in
Sandalwood and has composed music for
movies like “ ” , “ ”
etc., which has won him a lot of awards including
the Filmfare awards.

155. He was a graduate student at IISc
Bangalore, Karnataka and is the founder of
Mahabharata Research Foundation (MRF)
and India Innovation Labs, Bangalore. His
software together with a 3-D console can
enable users to experience the past in
present, virtually.

156. With interest in cognitive science, augmented
reality, humanoid robotics as well as history and
heritage of India, he is a solution architect and
researcher at Wipro Technologies, Bangalore. Along
with a team of 10, he has developed a software
application that computes human gestures into
virtual reality.

157. He is very famous for his talks in TED conferences
about his new project called “Digital Hampi” - a
project in which his application has been put in use
to not only bring the ruins of Hampi to glory, but
also to allow users to virtually experience the era
and see the monuments that were present then but
are broken now.

160. He was born in Mysore, Karnataka on 20 August
1946 and is famous Indian Industrialist and
Software Engineer. His first job position was at
IIM, Ahmedabad where he worked as the chief
systems programmer.

161. He graduated with a degree in electrical
engineering from the National Institute of
Engineering, University of Mysore in 1967. He
received his master's degree from IIT Kanpur
in 1969. After working at IIM Ahmedabad, he
started a company named Softronics in 1976.

162. When that company failed, he joined
Patni Computer Systems in Pune. After
settling down in Pune, he co-founded
another company with his 6 colleagues
of PCS in 1981 with an initial capital
injection of Rs 10,000, which was
invested by his wife.

163. This company later shifted to Bangalore, which
became its Global Headquarters and set-up Asia’s
largest training center at Mysore. His wife’s
sister, Jayashree Deshpande is wife of serial-
enterpreneur and founder of US-based Sycamore
Networks, Gururaj Deshpande.

166. He was born on Nov 4 1986 in
Bangalore, Karnataka. He launched a web
site at the age of 14, and incorporated his
Globals Inc., an IT multinational company in
the same year, becoming the world's
youngest CEO.

167. He taught himself how to build websites
and sold portals to bricks-and-mortar
firms in the US. In 2005, he was the
youngest among the 175 recipients of
Karnataka’s Rajyotsava Award. He holds a
diploma on global leadership and public
policy from the Harvard Kennedy School
at Harvard University.

168. On December 2, 2007, The European
Parliament and International Association for
Human Values conferred "Young Achiever
Award" on him at the European
Parliament, Brussels.
In November 2008, he was invited to represent
the World Bank's ICT Leadership Roundtable
for adopting ICT in Africa to increase
employability and fostering ICT skills in
students from these countries.

172. • Gururaj Deshpande
• Kumar Malavalli
• Mano Murthy
• Ramachandra Budihal
• N. R. Narayan Murthy
• Suhas Gopinath
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