Tech Quiz conducted by Quizzing Infinite on 15/10/2016. QM - Vijeth Revankar

1. TECHFIESTA 1.0 Quizzing Infinite

2. QUESTION 1
Name the device by its Inventor’s Name (Not the Common Name)

3. ANSWER
Van De Graaff Generator

4. QUESTION 2
Identify this Logo

5. ANSWER
Bluestacks

6. QUESTION 3
X was originally a unit of United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) tasked with
designing chipsets for home entertainment products. Headquartered in Hsinchu,
Taiwan, the company has 25 offices worldwide and was the 4th largest
fabless IC designer worldwide in 2013. Since its founding in 1997, this company has
been creating chipset solutions for the global market. X became the first system-on-
chip (SoC) supplier to announce the development of an octa-core mobile device.
Identify X

7. ANSWER

8. QUESTION 4
Founded in November 2004, this group is claimed to be building an ecosystem
i.e., an online platform with content, devices and applications spanning from Internet
TV, video production and distribution, smart gadgets and large-screen applications
to e-commerce, eco-agriculture etc., It has launched six smartphones under its brand,
out of which four dual-SIM smartphones are claimed to be the first in the world to
come with USB Type-C ports.
Identify

9. ANSWER
Leshi Internet Information and Technology, also known as LeEco (formerly Letv).

10. QUESTION 5
BSOD
#windows

11. ANSWER
Blue Screen of Death

12. QUESTION 6
Identify the Invention & the Inventor

13. ANSWER
Invention : Instrument for transmitting & receiving Vocal sounds telegraphically
Inventor : Elisha Gray

14. QUESTION 7
This urn was the favourite geometrical
object of the person whose ashes are
contained it. Who am I talking about?

15. ANSWER
Nikola Tesla

16. QUESTION 8
This is a Norwegian software company, primarily known for its family of web
browsers. This was a part of Telenor, until 1995 after which it branched out as a
Separate company. It used to develop a renowned web-browser X which was sold to
Qihoo in July 2016. Some of its known acquisitions are : Admarvel , Fastmail.FM,
Handster, Skyfire etc.
Name the Company & Give X

17. ANSWER
Opera Software. X – Opera Browser

18. QUESTION 9
X was a website created in March 2010 as the result of the decision in the European
Union Microsoft competition case. The case involved legal proceedings by the EU
against Microsoft and found that, by including Internet Explorer (IE) with their market-
dominant Windows operating system, Microsoft had used their dominance of the
operating system market to also create a dominant market position in the web
browser market. The X website was created by Microsoft to allow users that had not
made, or were unaware of, a choice to try other browsers, and thus comply with
the European Commission's ruling.
Give X

19. ANSWER
BrowserChoice.eu

20. QUESTION 10
Connect
III – New York City
SA – Los Angeles, San Fransisco, Las Vegas
IV – New York City
V – Los Angeles ( ft. Hollywood, Beverly hills)
#gaming

21. ANSWER
Grand Theft Auto
GTA III – Liberty City ( based on NY )
GTA San Andreas – Los Santos, San Fierros and Las Venturas (based on Los Angeles,
San Fransisco, Las Vegas)
GTA IV – Liberty City ( based on NY )
GTA V – Los Santos (based on Los Angeles)

22. QUESTION 11
X was co-founded by two former Facebook employees, Adam D'Angelo and Charlie
Cheever. According to Robert Scoble, X succeeded in combining attributes
of Twitter and Facebook. Later, in 2011, Scoble criticized X for being a "horrid
service for blogging," and not substantially better than competitors.
Give X

23. ANSWER
Quora

24. QUESTION 12
X is an official derivative of the Y operating system designed for use
in classrooms inside schools, homes and communities. It is Open Source. X's
default GUI is Unity while GNOME is still available. The primary goal of X is to
enable an educator with limited technical knowledge and skills to set up a computer
lab or an on-line learning environment in an hour or less and then effectively
administer that environment. According to a statement of goals on the official X
Website: "Our aim is to put together a system that contains all the best free software
available in education and make it easy to install and maintain.“
Give X and Y

25. ANSWER
X – Edubuntu
Y – Ubuntu

26. QUESTION 13
X (previously known as Y) was a social networking website launched on May 21,
2004, that was founded by students Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and
Divya Narendra in December 2002. In 2004, X filed a lawsuit against Z alleging
that creator M had breached an oral contract to develop X and used their source
code and idea to create W. The suit alleged that M had copied their idea and
illegally used source code intended for the website he was hired to create.
Give X, Y, M and W
** be very precise with W

27. ANSWER
X – ConnectU
Y – Harward Connect
M – Mark Zuckerberg
W – www.thefacebook.com (to be very precise)

28. QUESTION 14
“It really whips the llama's ass!”
i) the first thing you hear when you install X
ii) tagline of X
#OneAnswer Give X

29. ANSWER

30. QUESTION 15
Designed and developed by Bharat Electronics Limited, Bangalore and Electronics
Corporation of India Limited, Hyderabad. Theses devices are being used in India
since 1998 and costed Rs. 5,500 in those days.
Nepal, Bhutan, Namibia Fiji, Namibia and Kenya have acquired thousands of these
devices from BEL with several other countries showing interest.
Which device ?

31. ANSWER
Electronic Voting Machine (EVM)

32. QUESTION 16
In 1980, John B Goodenough invented the cobalt oxide cathode, the single most
important component in the modern design of a common device. A few years later,
Sony made the first commercial version of X : it became a blockbuster, and also
solved a problem plaguing their handheld cameras.
Give X

33. ANSWER
Lithium-ion Batteries ( Li-ion batteries )

34. QUESTION 17
The creator took down his popular game from Apple's App Store and Google Play in
2014 with this Twitter message : "I am sorry _____ users, 22 hours from now, I will
take ______ down. I cannot take this anymore.“ However, he came back with a new
game later in the year called Swing Copters.
Identify the Game

35. ANSWER
Flappy Bird

36. QUESTION 18
The best known process was to use ammonium ferric citrate & potassium ferricyanide
coated on paper/cloth, to reproduce images. The result is a copy of the original
image with the clear background area rendered dark and the image itself
reproduced as a white line. An advantage is that the reproduced document will have
the same scale as the original. Another quality is that the dark blue background
makes it difficult to add new information to the image.
Which commonly used word is derived from this now-obsolete technology?

37. ANSWER
BluePrint

38. QUESTION 19
Identify this Operating
System

39. ANSWER
Redstar OS

40. QUESTION 20
Identify

41. ANSWER
DuckDuckGo

42. BONUS QUESTION
Give the Fullform of

43. ANSWER
The Onion Router a.k.a TOR