The IT Quiz of Teknovation 2017 organized for classes 6th - 8th. Round 3 is missing due to A/V but hope that rest of the rounds are a fun and an enriching experience.
3. Rules of the quiz
• There will be 4 rounds in this quiz
• No false attempt of capturing points would be
entertained.
• Remember to use the buzzer calmly.
• Quizmaster is a High Functioning Sociopath.
5. Rules
This is a direct round . Each team gets to
answer two questions.
Four questions clockwise and four questions
anticlockwise.
Scoring pattern is +10/0.
No negative marking for giving a wrong
answer
On a pass , Scoring is +5/0
6. Question 1
• King Digital Entertainment submitted a
trademark application for the word X. It
created a stir in the tech world, and IP
lawyers were sure that trademarking such a
ubiquitous word would never stick legally.
King Digital Entertainment later withdrew
the application for this word.
• Identify X
7. Question 2
• X is a term from Norse Mythology which means a
mythological monster who is generally stupid, hairy, and
slow to react
• The term was introduced in English language, meaning -
”A fishing technique of slowly dragging or lure a baited
hook from moving boat.”
• The present connotation refers to the practice of US MiGs
in the Vietnam War – “To perform deliberate actions so as
to provoke reaction.”
• What popular term am I talking about.
8. Question 3
This is a music streaming app owned primarily by which famous
entity?(Think A Popular Singer.)
9. Question 4
• Tally ERP Rel.6,Zoho Books,CBEC
app,Taxmann,ClearTax,OneSolution,hCue
PharmaSmart are all software and applications
launched in India to help with?
(Think 1st July, 2017. A special Parliament
session was also called and was attended by the
then President, Pranab Mukherjee.)
10. Question 5
• X, an online comparison shopping firm
was founded by an Indian origin American
Entrepreneur Kavitark Ram Sriram. This
site was acquired by Amazon in 1998.
Identify this site.
• Hint-It shares its name with Shammi
Kapoor starrer Hindi movie.
11. Question 6
• A famous personality was punched on his face by
Bill Gates, when after giving a speech at a
prestigious university, Bill Gates was approached
by this personality and was told that – “Maybe if
you weren’t so distracted by sick children in Africa,
you could’ve put a little more thought into
Windows Vista.”
• Id this famous personality.(Think Big Bang Theory)
12. Question 7
•This is a Kiva Robot. Identify the company which uses it
in their warehouses.
13. Question 8
• Danger Inc. started by former Apple employees
Andy Rubin, Joe Britt and Matt Hershenson, was a
company specializing in platforms, software,
design and services for mobile computing devices.
Its most notable product was the T-Mobile
sidekick(aka Danger Hiptop). It was acquired by X
in 2008.
• Id X.
15. Rules
This is a theme based round.
There will be 8 questions in all, 4
clockwise and 4 anticlockwise.
No negatives in this round.
Scoring pattern :
o +10/0 on a direct question.
o +5/0 on a pass.
18. Rules
• This is an audio visual round containing 4
questions
• This is a Buzzer round.
• The scoring pattern for this round is +20/-
5. If any team answers incorrectly, the
question becomes open for all, following
the same scoring pattern
24. Rules
• This round contains 8 questions, on the
buzzer.
• The scoring pattern is +20/-5
• If any team answers incorrectly, the
question becomes open for all, following
the same scoring pattern
• Audience please don’t prompt.
25. Question 1
• The game broke seven Guinness World
Records on October 8, 2011 : best selling
video game in 24 hours, highest grossing
video game in 24 hours, fastest
entertainment property to gross $1 billion,
fastest video game to gross $1 billion, highest
revenue generated by an entertainment
product in 24 hours, and most viewed trailer
for an action-adventure video game. Identify
this game.
26. Question 2
This xkcd comic is referring to a “Historic Event” in the
world of computing. What?
31. Question 7
• Y was started as a retailer of books in X’s garage
in 1994 with the name ‘Cadabra’. It failed to gain
profits in the first six years after its inception.
However, it started gaining profits in 2001 and has
boomed ever since.
• X surpassed Bill Gates to become the World’s
Richest Person on July 28, 2017 for a brief period.
• Identify X and Y.
34. Etymology
The name X was derived from the city name
San Francisco, which is why the company’s
engineers insisted on using the lower case X
in its early years. The logo is intended to
depict the two towers of the Golden Gate
Bridge.
ID X.
36. Gaming
Started in the year 2011, “The International is an
annual event conducted by Valve Corporation. With
an overall prize pot of 20 million dollars in the 2016
event, this is the largest event of its kind. Every year
16 teams are given invitation to compete in the
tournament.
Majority of the prize money is raised through
something known as a digital “Compendium”, which
people across the globe can buy and 25% of the cost
price goes to the Prize Pool.
What is “The International” a world championship of?
37. Brand
Name the celebrity who endorses Fast
track, Flying Machine jeans, Herbalife,
Fair and Lovely for men, Sangam suitings,
Manyawar etc. ?
38. Software
“Mammon slept. And the beast reborn spread
over the earth and its numbers grew legion. And
they proclaimed the times and sacrificed crops
unto the fire, with the cunning of foxes. And they
built a new world in their own image as promised
by the sacred words, and spoke of the beast with
their children. Mammon awoke, and lo! It was
naught but a follower.”
On which popular software would you find this
quote?
39. Hardware
• What is the full form of the “CMOS” Chips,
a technology for constructing integrated
circuits?
41. Innovation
The panoramic photos we click using a
camera, encompass a wide screen in a still
photo. The picture is clicked by clicking
multiple frames one after the other and then
combining them.
What was the original name given to
cameras with this technology?
