Tech It Out (tech quiz) Qm: Kanav Rampal,Paras Chitkara Winner :Akshay Kalia

1. FINALS
Round 1
(Suck my tech)
Quiz Masters :
Kanav Rampal
Paras Chitkara
Winner :
Akshay Kalia

2. RULES
• Pounce
• Bounce
• 2 Questions in each category
• Pounce window 20 seconds
• For direct +10 for correct -0 for incorrect
• For pounce +10 for correct -5 for incorrect
• +10 for passed and correct
• No negative on passed question

4. QUES 1 GAMING
(1)________ is a live streaming video platform owned
by (2)_________, a subsidiary of Amazon.com. The
site primarily focuses on video gaming, including
playthroughs of video games, broadcasts
of esports competitions, and more recently, creative
content. Content on the site can either be viewed
live, or viewed via Video on demand.
On August 25, 2014, it was announced
that Amazon.com Inc. would acquire (2)__________
for US$970 million.

5. Answer
• 1)twitch.tv
• 2)twitch Interactive

6. QUES 2 GAMING
The developers behind Google's popular augmented
reality game Ingress are teaming up with
(1)________ and (2)___________to produce a new
game for iOS and Android devices.
It Utilizing GPS technology on mobile devices, it gets
players to collaborate and search the real world for
something.
The app will be free to download but will offer in-app
purchases to enhance the experience. There will also
be a Bluetooth device that syncs up with the game
and flashes and vibrates to help users.

7. Answer
• Nintendo
• Pokemon Company

8. QUES 1 GADGETS
IDENTIFY THIS DEVICE AND IT’S CLAIM TO FAME.

9. Answer
• Nextbit robin
• First cloud based smartphone

10. QUES 2 GADGETS
NAME IT AND WHY IT IS DIFFERENT FROM OTHER THINGS
IN THIS CATEGORY.

11. Answer
• endless mini
• pc with offline data of educational websites

12. QUES 1 INTERNET
___________ was founded in 2002 by Darren
Morgenstern. It is a Canada-based online dating
service and social networking service marketed to
people who are married or in a
committed relationship. The company received
attention on July 15, 2015, after hackers stole all of its
customer data—including emails, names, home
addresses, sexual fantasies and credit card
information—and threatened to post all the data
online if it and fellow Avid Life Media site
EstablishedMen.com were not permanently closed.

13. Answer
• Ashley Madison

14. QUES 2 INTERNET

15. Answer
• HTC and Samsung

16. QUES 1 STARTUPS
__________ a phenomenon that has changed the way people choose to travel,
happened in November 2014, founded by a handful of IITians.
What started as a small organisation built around an on-demand auto rickshaw
app, which connects passengers wishing to travel from one point to another
within a particular city, less than a year ago, has now snowballed into a
revolution.
Despite the availability of numerous modes of luxurious transport options,
people in India prefer commuting through local means.
With more than a 200 million internet users, most of them using mobile
phones, and the momentum of the country towards a Digital India has made it
imperative to employ App services with a higher accuracy and exposure.

17. Answer
• Jugnoo

18. QUES 2 STARTUPS
______________ is an automotive website based in India. Part
of Times Internet, a subsidiary of the Times of India Group,
____________provides automotive industry news, reviews and advice
to consumers.
____________ was awarded the most popular automotive website of
the year in 2013.[
The website provides consistent, unbiased, in-depth information
about cars and bikes and is the first with news, reviews and
comparisons.
ComScore ratings for ___________as the No.1 website in the
automotive category are proof of its leadership position in the
industry.

19. Answer
• Zigwheels

20. QUES 1: Personalities
• ID

21. Answer
• Kunal Shah

22. QUES 2: Personalities
• X was an American computer scientist. He created
the Y and, with long-time colleague Ken
Thompson, the Unix operating system .X and
Thompson received the Turing Award from
the ACM in 1983, the Hamming Medal from
the IEEE in 1990 and the National Medal of
Technology from President Clinton in 1999. X was
the head of Lucent Technologies System
Software Research Department when he retired in
2007. He was the "R" in K&R C, and commonly
known by his username dmr.

23. Answer
• Dennis Ritchie

24. ROUND 2
LONG TEXT

25. QUES 1
• X was an American manufacturer of programmable logic
devices (PLDs), reconfigurable complex digital circuits. The
company released its first PLD in 1984. X main products are
the Stratix , Arria and Cyclone series FPGAs,the MAX
series CPLDs, Quartus II design software,and Enpirion
PowerSoC DC-DC power solutions.
• X and Y announced on June 1, 2015 that they have agreed
that Y would acquire X in an all-cash transaction valued at
approximately $16.7 billion. As of December 28, 2015, the
acquisition had been completed. Dan McNamara of X is
expected to run it as a new division of Y, the Programmable
Solutions Group, going forward.

26. Answer
• Altera was bought by Intel

27. QUES 2
• X was sold to Y in December 1997 , X quickly gained in
popularity as it was localized for different markets around
the globe.
• X originally ran on a mixture
of FreeBSD and Solaris operating systems.
• In 1999, hackers revealed a security flaw in X that
permitted anybody to log into any account using the
password Z.
• At the time it was called "the most widespread security
incident in the history of the Web". In 2001, the X was
compromised again by computer hackers who discovered
that anyone could log into their account and then pull
messages from any other X account by crafting a URL with
the second account's username and a valid message
number.

28. Answer
• X-Hotmail
• Y-Microsoft
• Z-’eh’

29. QUES 3
• X is a low-level, low-overhead hardware-accelerated
graphics and compute application programming
interface(API) that debuted in iOS 8. It combines
functionality similar to OpenGL and OpenCL under one API.
It is intended to bring to iOS some of the performance
benefits of similar APIs on other platforms, such as Khronos
Group's cross-platform Vulkan and Microsoft's Direct3D 12
for Windows. Since June 8, 2015, X is available for iOS
devices using the Apple A7 or later, as well as Macs (2012
models or later) running OS X El Capitan.
• X also further improves the capabilities
of GPGPU programming by introducing compute shaders.
• X uses a new shading language based on C++11; this is
implemented using Clang and LLVM.

30. Answer
• Metal

31. QUES 4
X has often been criticized by Elon Musk for
running two companies at one time. One is a
major social network and the other, Y, is a
Financial Services startup.
Identify X and Y.
x: Jack Dorsey
y: square

32. QUES 5
X brothers created the largest European social network.
They also created an app Y.
This app Y was used extensively by a pseudo government
organization Z.
After blocking of the links on its app, Z was forced to create a
secret mobile application for messaging.
Identify X,Y,Z.
x:Durov brothers
y:telegram
z:isis

33. ROUND 3
AV

34. Ques 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foywg7zXS9c
( Id the woman in the clip[Name was cropped] )
Ques 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cSFPIwMEq4
( Id the videogame [Name was cropped in the end] )
Ques 3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oINYoy98JJo
(Id the specific product[Name was cropped])
Ques 4:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6oEoBCuDDM
(Name the product and Add. campaign name (Funda))
Ques 5:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QNiZfSsPc0
(Name the project )[names were cropped]

35. ROUND 4
CONNECT

36. QUES 1

37. Answer
• Sequoia Capital

38. QUES 2

39. Answer
• IMDb

40. QUES 3

41. Answer
• Tcs

42. QUES 4

43. Answer
• Ps 3

44. QUES 5

45. Answer
• Android Stage Freights