The document discusses the details of an IT quiz, including the format, topics covered, and sample questions and answers. It provides 24 questions across two rounds related to topics in computer science, technology trends, startups, social media, and future technologies. Sample questions cover companies like Samsung, Oracle, Foxconn, technologies like Android and NFC, entrepreneurs like Elon Musk and Sundar Pichai, and incidents like the Stanford commencement speech by Steve Jobs.

1. eRz eRDeN 15
IT QUIZ

2. • Basic Computer
Science(CS)
• Tech trends
• Startups
• Web/Mobile
• Social tech
• Future technologies
Percentage
CS
Tech
trends
Startups
Web/Mobil
e
Social tech
Future
Tech

3. Part I

4. Rules
• 4 Rounds with 24 questions.
• 10 points for each question and no negative
mark unless you pounce.
• Infinite bounce will be followed.
• 5 seconds will be allowed to pounce. You can
write the answer with a risk of +10 or -5.

5. • Which leading Electronics company’s initiative
is ‘Make for India’?

6. • Samsung

7. • Which US technology company owns
electronic commerce application iStore?

8. • Oracle

9. • Name the Taiwanese multinational electronics
contract manufacturing company, the official
manufactures of iPhone?

10. • Foxconn (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co)

11. • Expand the online education related
terminology MOOC?

12. • Massive Open Online Course

13. • What is the typeface(font) of Google’s new
logo?

14. • Sans-serif

15. • What is the popularly known name of
Hypertext Preprocessor, a server side
scripting language?

17. • “Never be satisfied, Be ready to learn new
things. Dare to make unconventional
decisions and stupid risks”
• In June 12, 2005; Which 14 minutes long
incident in the tech world concludes with a
phrase carrying the meaning as mentioned
above?

18. Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement
Speech.

19. • Zip2 Corporation(Online content publishing
software), X.com(Financial services and Email
Payment company). Which technology
entrepreneur's early ventures are this?

20. Elon Musk

21. Which CEO’s alma mater?
• IIT Kharagpur (Metallurgical Engineering)
• Stanford University (M.S)
• Wharton School of the University of
Pennsylvania(M.B.A)

22. Sundar Pichai

23. Who is this?

24. • John McAfee

25. Identify the Logo

27. Dave Goldberg(October 2, 1967 – May 1, 2015). He
was the founder of LAUNCH Media and the CEO of
SurveyMonkey. How you know his wife in the tech
world?

28. Sheryl Sandberg
(Chief Operating Officer of Facebook)

29. • The first known instance of the usage of these terms
together in computer literature occurred in
Kernighan's 1972 Tutorial Introduction to the
Language B[1], with the following code. What usage?

30. • Hello World!

31. Jeremiah Jacks
• IN 2002 Jeremiah Jacks discovered that
Guess.com was vulnerable to a type of
attack, permitting anyone able to
construct a properly-crafted URL to pull
down 200,000+ names, credit card
numbers and expiration dates in the
site's customer database.
• Which popular hacking technique
(Targeting data driven applications) was
proved for the first time by this action?

32. • SQL Injection

33. • "I wanted a scripting language
that was more powerful than
Perl, and more object-oriented
than Python. That's why I
decided to design my own
language”.
- Yukihiro Matsumoto
Which programming language
was created?

34. • Ruby

35. 26
• A spambot is an automated computer program
designed to assist in the sending of spam. It
harvest e-mail addresses from material found on
the Internet in order to build mailing lists for
sending unsolicited e-mail. And usually surf the
web, looking for guestbook, wikis, blogs, forums,
and other types of web forms that it can then use
to submit bogus content.
• These kind of bots often use OCR(Optical
character recognition) technology. Why?

36. To bypass CAPTCHA

37. • Persian mathematician Al-Khwarizmi wrote a
book titled On the Calculation with Hindu
Numerals in about 825 AD, and was principally
responsible for spreading the Indian system of
numeration throughout the Middle East and
Europe.
• A term in the Latin translation of the title of
the book led to the formation a popular
computer science terminology. What?

38. • Algorithm

39. • “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”
-Prime Minister,Gordon Brown
Identify X?

40. Alan Turing (1912 - 1954)

41. Whose Facebook timeline?
• Continue next slide

42. Rahul Yadav
• Housing.com founder

43. Identify the woman?

44. Shradha Sharma
• YourStory.com founder

45. Connect and Identify the North Kerala based start-up:
Leading School Management system provider in the
world?

47. • Wharton graduate Kunal Bahl and his IIT Delhi
alumni Rohit Bansal originally launched X as a
daily online deals site. X received its 7th round
of funding in Aug-2015 from Alibaba Group,
Foxconn and SoftBank with investments worth
$500 million. Identify X?

49. Well known personalities in the digital
marketing space! How you know them?

50. • Digital marketing and Online promotion of
Premam, Neram , Oru Vadakkan Selfie ,
Neena, OSO etc.

51. • In 2014, this E-commerce company launched
their online Wallet and became India's largest
mobile payment service platform with over 40
million wallets. Which Noida based startup?

52. • Paytm

53. II Round

54. Rules
• Total 24 questions & all questions on buzzer
• Each question carry a Risk value ranging from
(5-20) on buzzer and Base value 5.
• If you press the buzzer and got it correct you
will get +Risk value & if you are wrong it will
cost you –Risk value.
• If no one attempts on buzzer, question will be
directed to each team with base value point
and no negative mark.

55. In 2014, Social@Ogilvy, a division of the advertising agency
Ogilvy & Mather, published a widely cited white paper titled
‘Facebook Zero: Considering Life after the Demise of Organic
Reach’. What issue does it concern about? (20)

56. • Sharp decline in the facebook post reach
regardless the number of likes you have for a
facebook page.
• In 2012 it was 16% and now it is just 2% for
non paid business page.

57. Identify the website from the
screenshot!(5)

58. DigiLocker

59. • In 2004, Nokia along with Philips and Sony
established a Forum to promote a wireless
communication standard. In the wireless
world, it's closest relative is RFID (radio
frequency identification). Which
technology?(10)

60. • NFC

61. Identify the personality?(15)

62. • NASSCOM Chairman B.V.R.Mohan Reddy

63. • He was not related with any technology
company till 1983. But later in May 1987, he
was named Silicon Valley's top-paid executive,
with an annual salary of US$2.2M. Recently he
launched two new Android phones with brand
name Obi Worldphone SF1 & SJ15?(20)

64. John Sculley

65. Reddit post releasing Ashley Madison
data. Which hacking group?(20)

66. Impact team

67. • HDP Bill, a proposed legislation in India, was
expected to presented in the parliament in the
monsoon session of 2015. This bill will allow
the government to establish a national level
database. What database?(15)

68. • Human DNA Profiling

69. This term- a recent controversial topic, was coined
by Columbia University media law professor Tim Wu in
2003. Identify the term blanked out?(5)

71. Recent Google Doodle. Which date?(5)

72. • September 5 (Teacher’s day Doodle)

73. 24 year old photograph. Identify the
team?(20)

74. Technopark founding team

75. • X was originally developed by its makers as a
platform for digital cameras, to weave apps
into them.
• The very first phone to be released using X
was the HTC Dream.
• X, Inc. was founded in Palo Alto, California in
October 2003 by Andy Rubin, Rich Miner, Nick
Sears and Chris White. Identify X?(20)

76. • Android

77. • The Senior Research Associateship (Scientist’s
Pool Scheme) introduced by late Prime Minister
Jawaharlal Nehru, is a scheme primarily meant to
provide temporary placement to highly qualified
Indian scientists, engineers, technologists, and
medical personnel returning from abroad, who
are not holding any employment in India. Which
famous technocrat return back to India from USA
in 1963 through this scheme and taught modern
semiconductor electronics in the Electrical
Engineering Department of the Indian Institute of
Technology, New Delhi?(5)

78. • KPP Nambair

79. • The Android pattern is one style of graphical passwords
where a user traverses an onscreen 3x3 grid of contacts
points. There are a three restrictions on acceptable
patterns in an android password pattern
1. …………………………………………………...
2. The dots in the pattern must all be distinct.
3. If the line segment connecting any two consecutive
dots in the pattern passes through any other dots, the
other dots must have previously been in the pattern.
What is the first restriction?(10)

80. • It must contact a minimum of four points (A
single stroke is unacceptable)

81. • This technological acquisition is expected to be
completed in early 2016 in which X officially
announced that it had agreed to purchase Y for
€15.6 billion in an all-stock deal
• At completion, famous research and scientific
development company Bell Labs will be
maintained by Y, but the Y brand will be replaced
by X.
• Y is a French telecommunications equipment
company.
• Identify X and Y?(10)

82. • NOKIA ALCATEL LUCENT DEAL

83. Identify(5)

84. • Paul Allen

85. Project Fi is a program to deliver a fast,
easy wireless experience in USA.
Whose project?(10)

86. • Google

87. Identify the companies they are
representing?(15)

88. • HP Enterprise and HP Inc
• MEG Whitman and Dion Weisler

89. • Rocket Internet SE is a German internet
company headquartered in Berlin. The
company builds online startups and owns
shareholdings in various internet companies.
• They have large ownership stakes in more
than 60 e-commerce firms across Africa, Asia
and Latin America. Name their Indian fashion
and lifestyle e-commerce wing?(5)

90. • Jabong

91. Identify what?(10)

92. LG’s new rollable Bluetooth keyboard

93. 27
• Its an artificial intelligence-based personal
assistant integrated within the Facebook
Messenger app that completes tasks and finds
information for users, such as ordering tickets
or finding restaurants
• Name Facebook’s new virtual personal
assistant?(10)

94. M

95. Identify the logo(5)

96. • CyanogenMod
• An open-source operating system for
smartphones

97. • Why Indian telecom operators like airtel,
vodafone, reliance etc were fined 10.80 Crore
recently?(15)

98. • For violating mobile radiation limit

99. • What was the codename of Windows 10?(15)

100. • Threshold

101. • Name the programming language released by
Apple on April 2015 to replace Objective C for
modern Cocoa development on iOS and
OSX?(15)

102. • Swift

103. • Thank You!