The Prelims of the 2015 Techknowiz Quiz held at CODE 2015, Apeejay School, Noida.

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TECH-KNOW-WIZ
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3. *Question 1.
Name-’X’
Type-Private
Founder-Don Valentine
Headquarters-3000 Sand Hill Road
Menlo Park, California, USA
Key People-Michael Moritz , Don Valentine , Douglas Leone
Website-www.’X’cap.com
ID X

4. Question 1
SEQUOIA CAPITAL

5. Question 2
Breakout is a 2013 Brendan Fraser Movie having an amazing rating of
4.2/10 on IMDb. In the movie a pair of criminals try to track down the
kids who witnessed them commit a murder in the woods. The father
(Brendan Fraser) of the children turns the tables on the killers who are
hunting them.
The above information is not really important, what happens when you
go to Google Images and type ‘Atari Breakout’ in the search box?

6. Question 2
ATARI BREAKOUT

7. Question 3*
• ‘X’ is a Latin word meaning "to go before". According to ‘Y’,
the name was chosen because the ‘X’ was launched before
environmental awareness became a mainstream social issue.
In 1995, ‘Y’ debuted ‘X’ in Tokyo, with testing following a
year later. The first ‘X’, model NHW10, went on sale on
December 10, 1997.It was available only in Japan, though it
has been imported privately to at least the United Kingdom,
Australia, and New Zealand. X is very famously known as
something belonging to the responsible citizen.ID X and Y

8. Question 3
•X-PRIUS , Y-TOYOTA

9. Question 4
• One of the most influential members of computing science’s
founding generation, X helped shape the new discipline from
both an engineering and a theoretical perspective. In March
1952, X became Holland’s first ever programmer. X is also a
recipient of the Turing Award and has the X prize named
after him.
• Despite his numerous contributions , he is generally famous
only for a method he suggested to programmers to find the
shortest path between points in a graph. Who is X/What is
he famous for?

10. Question 4
•Edsger Dijkstra

11. Question 5
X’ is the Chairman of the Board of Governors of IIM Calcutta.
‘X’ founded the company “Re-diffusion” when he was 22.‘X’
has also written a book titled the Waverider. ‘X’ however is
more famous for starting ‘Y’ which is one of the top 20 Indian
Webportals recognised by Alexa. ID ‘X’ and ‘Y’.

12. QUESTION 5
AJIT BALAKRISHNAN

13. Question 6
B 2200 University Ave. E Waterloo, Ontario, Canada is the
headquarters of the company ‘X’. ‘X’ ‘s products were
famously used by Barack Obama during the 2008 and2012
presidential campaigns. Currently on the decline X’s major
power lies in the patents it possesses valued at around 5
billion dollars. ID ‘X’.

14. QUESTION 10
BLACKBERRY

15. Question 7
Laura Poitras received anonymous encrypted emails from an
address that turned out to be from X. Following this, she and
Glen Greenwald interviewed X in Hong Kong. This led to the
creation of the Oscar winner Y. Name X and Y.

16. Question 7
X-Edward Snowden
Y-Citizenfour

17. Question 8
This is an excerpt from a piece of writing by British Prime Minister
Gordon Brown:
“Thousands of people have come together to demand justice for X and
recognition of the appalling way he was treated. While X was dealt with
under the law of the time, and we can't put the clock back, his
treatment was of course utterly unfair, and I am pleased to have the
chance to say how deeply sorry I and we all are for what happened to
him……………………………………. So on behalf of the British government,
and all those who live freely thanks to X's work, I am very proud to say:
we're sorry. You deserved so much better. “ IDX

18. QUESTION 8
ALAN TURING

19. Question 9
X was created by David Jones and Mike Daily. X is generally based in
Los Angeles, Miami ,Las Vegas and the State of California. Famous
people who have worked in the development of X include Ray Liotta,
Burt Reynolds, Dennis Hopper, Samuel L. Jackson, Phil Collins, Axl Rose,
and Peter Fonda. X has been critically acclaimed and commercially
successful with many considering it to be the best of it’s genre. IDX

20. Question 9
GTA(GRAND THEFT AUTO)

21. Question 10
Simon Oxley is a British freelance graphic designer who
was a prolific contributor to the iStockphoto site, which
he had joined because of a free promotional offer for
purchasers of the Adobe Creative Suite. However he is
more famous for creating X. What did he create?

22. Question 10
The Twitter Logo

23. Question 11
CONNECT:(THINK HARDWARE)
BLACKBERRY NOKIA XIAOMI
APPLE
NINTENDO
AMAZON
CISCO
HUAWEI
SONY

24. Question 11
FOXCONN

25. Question 12
• The X hack was a release of confidential data belonging to X on
November 24, 2014. The data included personal information about X
employees and their families, e-mails between employees,
information about executive salaries at the company, copies of
unreleased X films, and other information. The hackers called
themselves the Y or GOP and demanded the cancellation of the
planned release of the film Z. United States intelligence officials,
evaluating the software, techniques, and network sources used in the
hack, allege that the attack was sponsored by North Korea . North
Korea has denied all responsibility, and some cybersecurity experts
have cast doubt on the evidence, alternatively proposing that current
or former X employees may have been involved in the hack.

26. Question 12
X- Sony Pictures , Y- Guardians of Peace ,
Z- The Interview

27. Question 13
OLPV or One Library Per Village is a place where students can avail free
Internet through tablets or PC for their educational purpose. Its a
knowledge sharing centre with the support of 30,000 plus tutors of
who teach almost all subjects. In 2014 going on the lines of internet
phenomenon X which saw people from all walks of life participating
,OLPV launched Y on social networking sites to do something similar to
X but contributing to the field of education. ID X and Y.

28. Question 13
X- Ice Bucket Challenge
Y- Book Bucket Challenge

29. Question 14
Connect:
Peter Thiel , Elon Musk , Jawed Karim , Scott Banister
Max Levchin
(Not Exhaustive)

30. Question 14
Paypal Mafia

31. Question 15 FITB

32. Question 15
I HAVE A DREAMCAST

33. Question 16
Wingdings are a series of dingbat fonts which render letters as a
variety of symbols. They were originally developed in 1990 by
Microsoft by combining glyphs from Lucida Icons, Arrows, and Stars
licensed from Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes. In 1992, only days
after the release of Windows 3.1, it was discovered that the character
sequence "NYC" in Wingdings was rendered as a skull and crossbones
symbol, Star of David, and thumbs up gesture. This was often
interpreted as an antisemitic message. Microsoft strongly denied that
this was intentional, and insisted that the final arrangement of the
glyphs in the font was largely random. What was the most famous
controversy they caused?

34. Question 16

35. Question 17
• X is a term having origins in the Sanskrit phrase “Antha Prerna”
meaning self-motivation. Jean Baptiste Say, a French economist, is
often believed to have coined the term X because he had provided a
definitive explanation of the X role as an intermediatory between
capital and labour. James Watt , Samuel Crompton ,Thomas
Newcomen and Claus Spreckels could be considered the world’s first
X’s. What is this term synonymous to the world of Tech.

36. Question 17

37. Question 18
• The X documents comprise a series of confidential Microsoft
memoranda on potential strategies relating to free software, open-
source software, and to Linux in particular, and a series of media
responses to these memoranda. Both the leaked documents and the
responses were published by Eric S. Raymond in 1998.The documents
are associated with X because many of them were originally leaked
close to the 31st of October in different years. ID X.

38. Question 18

39. Question 19
X was born on December 6, 1959, and raised in Sapporo, Japan,
where his father served as a prefectural official. Most famous as the
head of the company Y , at Y’s E3 2015 presentation last month, he
appeared as a Muppet designed by The Jim Henson Company. Sadly, a
very famous joke on social networks reads “ What was the sound of
the ambulance that carried away X?” ID X ,Y and the Sound. (Points
only for X and Y)

40. Question 19
X-Saturo Iwata
Y-Nintendo

41. Question 20
The handheld gaming device , X was launched
on December 17,2011 in Japan and parts of
Asia and on February 22, 2012 in Europe, North
and South America. X is powered by a four-core
ARM Cortex A9 MP Core Processor. X has
Livearea interface which has succeeded the
‘X’ rossMediaBar. The word X means “life” in
Latin. Identify X.

42. Question 20

43. Question 21
X (born August 20, 1970) is an American game
programmer and the co-founder of Id Software. X
was the lead programmer of the Id video games
Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake,
Rage and their sequels. X is best known for his
innovations in 3D graphics, such as his famous X's
Reverse algorithm for shadow volumes, and is also a
rocketry enthusiast and the founder and lead
engineer of Armadillo Aerospace. In August 2013, X
took the position of CTO at Oculus VR.IDX

44. Question 21
John Carmack

45. Question 22
“Just setting up my twttr”

46. Question 22
First Tweet.

47. Question 23
X is a Bengali-American teacher who became
famous in 2010.X was born in Metairie,
Louisiana and attended the public school Grace
King High School where, as he recalls, "a few
classmates were fresh out of jail and others were
bound for top universities.“ ID X

48. Question 23
NOT THIS GUY!!!

49. Question 24
Established in 1996 through Nelson Gonzalez
and Alex Aguila, X assembles desktops,
notebooks, and workstations. According to
employees, X got its name because of the
founders fondness for the hit television series
The X-Files, hence the theme to their products,
with names such as Area-51, Hangar18 and
Aurora. Id X

50. Question 24

51. Question 25 Id the game.

52. Question 25
Batman: Arkham City