2. Rules And Regulations
o The quiz consists of 5 rounds.
o The decision of the quizmaster will be final and binding.
o Any team found using unfair means will be immediately
disqualified without any review.
o Hecklers will not be entertained.
4. Rules
o Every correct answer will fetch you +15.
o The questions are not passable.
o 45 seconds for direct questions.
o There is no negative marking.
o The decision of the quiz master will be final and binding.
5. Question 1
On the possibility of a thinking machine in 1943, X said : âNo, I'm not
interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a
mediocre brain, something like the president of American Telephone
and Telegraph Companyâ. ID X.
8. Question 2
X has partnered with app developers Motim and SoftFacade, along with ad
agency Wieden+Kennedy, to develop a new technology that detects when
the phone is submerged in water, and turns that would-be moment of terror
into a game. Like a submarineâs sonar, the innovative water-detection
technology is based on sound. The Y emits an inaudible ultrasonic tone and
then listens. Because sound travels differently in air than in water, the
phone knows when it is submerged. Identify X and Y.
11. Question 3
Oaf Tobar and Berkeley Blue founded which company? Also
provide their real names.
12.
13. Oaf Tobar â Steve Jobs
Berkeley Blue â Steve Wozniak
They both founded Apple Inc. together
14. Question 4
Harvey Ball, co-owner of an advertising and public relations firm
designed the _______ in 1964 to help ease the acrimonious aftermath
following the merger of two insurance companies: State Mutual Life
Assurance Company. State Mutual planned up a âfriendship
campaignâ to get employees to smile whenever they answered the
phone, paid a claim, or typed a report. What is it that he designed?
17. Question 5
X began as a research project by Michael Loren Mauldin of Carnegie
Mellon University in 1994. X was sold to Terra Networks of Spain in
May 2000 for $13 billion, forming a new company, Terra X. On August
16, 2010, Ybrant Digital announced the signing of a stock purchase
agreement to acquire X Inc. What am I describing?
23. Question 7
On August 14th, 2014, hackers broke into the Twitter account
of the PM of X, tweeting his resignation and criticizing the
President of X. "I am resigning. I am ashamed of the
government's actions. Forgive me.", said the Twitter account.
Identify Country X.
26. Question 8
X is bringing its hugely successful startup mentorship
programme to India, and has already identified over ten
startups to be a part of it. Y, as it is called, will be a 5-day
programme between November 3 and 7 in Bangalore, and
will see a number of senior members of X to mentor the
startups in technology, user interfaces, user experiences
and marketing. Identify X and Y.
29. Question 9
For a generation that chooses Snapchat over sleep, thereâs a cool
Twilight-inspired term called X to describe nighttime natter. A quick
search on #X throws up images of teenagers looking bored, lying on
bed, looking at the moon and saying #iamsleepless, #whoallareup,
#iusedtosleep, etc. Identify the term X.
32. Question 10
Satya Nadella, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Larry
Page, Sergey Brin, Jeff Bezos. All of them have
something common in the past few weeks. What am I
talking about?
35. Question 11
In 1930, AT&T's Western Electric established a division for the specific
purpose of installing and servicing their loudspeakers and electronic
products for motion picture use. Named Electrical Research Products,
Inc. and commonly referred to by the acronym ERPI, it was the target of
an anti-trust suit brought by Stanley K. Oldden. ERPI was purchased as
part of a consent decree in 1937 by a group of ERPI executives, including
George Carrington, Sr., Leon Whitney Mike Conrow, Bert Sanford, Jr.,
and Alvis A. Ward, with funding from three Wall Street investors. They
reincorporated as "All Technical Service Company". Give its present
name.
42. Rules
o Every correct answer will fetch you +20.
o The questions are passable.
o Passed questions will fetch you +10.
o 60 seconds for direct questions, passed questions to be immediately
answered.
o There is no negative marking.
o The decision of the quiz master will be final and binding.
43. Question 1
âTo me, the most critical thing in the hobby market right now is the lack of good software
courses, books and software itself. Without good software and an owner who understands
programming, a hobby computer is wasted. Will quality software be written for the hobby
market?â
âAlmost a year ago, Y and myself, expecting the hobby market to expand, hiredMonte Davidoff
and developed Z. Though the initial work took only two months, the three of us have spent
most of the last year documenting, improving and adding features to Z. Now we have 4K, 8K,
EXTENDED, ROM and DISK Z. The value of the computer time we have used exceeds
$40,000â.
- X
Identify X, Y and Z.
46. Question 2
X, a technology giant recently banned two chemicals from being used
in the final stages of manufacturing its devices following pressure
from activist groups and an investigation at its 22 factories. The two
chemicals in question are Y and n-hexane, which manufacturers use
as a cleaning and solvent agent respectively, but have been linked to
health problems.
Identify X and Y.
49. Question 3
In 1966, after Xâs fatherâs death, X returned home from Stanford University
and took over Y as its chairman at the age of 21.He was instrumental in
transforming Y into a highly profitable, diversified corporation that
eventually included such products as the Y SuperGenius personal computers,
that in 1999 were the one Indian PC range to obtain the US-based National
Software Testing Laboratory (NSTL) certification for the Year 2000 (Y2K)
compliance in hardware for all models. X is a major shareholder in Y. During
the 1970s and 1980s, the company shifted its focus to new business
opportunities in the IT and computing industry, which was at a nascent stage
in India at the time.
ID X and Y.
52. Question 4
X began as an IBM Canada project. Object Technology International (OTI), which
had previously marketed the Smalltalk-based VisualAge family of Y products,
developed the new product as a Java-based replacement. In November 2001, a
consortium was formed with a board of stewards to further the development of X
as open-source software. It is estimated that IBM had already invested close to
$40 million by that time. The original members were Borland, IBM, Merant, QNX
Software Systems, Rational Software, Red Hat, SuSE, TogetherSoft and WebGain.
ID X and Y.
53.
54. Eclipse [ X ] and Integrated Development Environment [ Y ]
55. Question 5
X is written in 15 million lines of Y code and runs on more than 10,000 CPUs. The
database currently includes hundreds of datasets, such as "All Current and
Historical Weather". The datasets have been accumulated over several
years. The curated (as distinct from auto-generated) datasets are checked for
quality either by a scientist or other expert in a relevant field, or someone acting
in a clerical capacity who simply verifies that the datasets are "acceptableâ. ID X
and Y.
Hint: X was also the information provider for a prominent piece of software by a
tech giant.
58. Question 6
X is an international programming competition hosted and
administered by Y. In 2011, over 11,000 people from around the world
competed to solve some of the most difficult algorithmic coding
challenges in three online elimination rounds. The winner was Petr
Mitrichev from Russia followed by Anh Tuan Khuc (Vietnam) and
Tiancheng Lou (China).
ID X and Y.
62. Rules
o Every correct answer will fetch you +30.
o The questions are not passable.
o 60 seconds for direct questions.
o There is no negative marking.
o The decision of the quiz master will be final and binding.
63. Question 1
Connect the video to a web browser. Name the company
that makes the browser.
108. Rules
o Gambling round.
o All questions will be open to all the teams.
o All teams may bet an amount ranging from 15 to 60 points on a question.
o Teams must write down the answers and have one person raise one hand to answer.
o Teams giving the correct answer get the points they bet.
o Teams giving incorrect answers lose the number of points betted by them.
109. Question 1
X is a fictional native of Seattle who exhibited an early interest in theoretical
physics, especially quantum mechanics and the theory of general relativity. Xâs
childhood heroes were Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, and Richard Feynman.
After observing a series of teleportation experiments conducted by the Institute
for Experimental Physics in Innsbruck, Austria, the transmission of matter became
Xâs obsession. He graduated from MIT with a Ph.D. degree in Theoretical Physics.
His doctoral thesis on the teleportation of matter through extremely dense
elements was titled Observation of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Entanglement on
Supraquantum Structures by Induction Through Nonlinear Transuranic Crystal of
Extremely Long Wavelength Pulse from Mode-Locked Source Array. Identify X.
112. Question 2
A California real estate developer, Mircea Voskerician, who sold X rights
to buy his home, recently sued the Y founder to get the property back.
Voskerician said he gave X a 40% discount on the $4.3 million property
in 2012 because he was promised introductions and referrals to boost
his business that never materialized. X's lawyers argued Voskerician's
claim had no basis in law.
Identify X and Y.
118. Question 4
X is a formerly popular website which is credited for having displayed
the first instance of Y which was created using MS Paint in 2008 on its
â/b/â board. Y has since then generated great popularity and is now
visible on almost every social networking website. X has been
instrumental in hijacking Internet destinations for pranks, so that, for
example, images of Rick Astley appeared instead of the page that was
searched for; the coordination of attacks against other websites and
Internet users; and reactions to threats of violence that have been
posted on the site. X also has an Alexa rank of 994.
ID X and Y.
121. Question 5
X is a team that emerged in early 2014 during the Chinese reshuffle that
happened prior to the fourth International tournament. Originally dubbed
"Dream Team 2", the rumors started after captain Xiao8 made a post on his QQ
micro-blogging page after LGD Gaming's win in the Dota 2 League Season 4 in
Las Vegas, saying "New start in 2014 after 3 years in LGD", forever Dream 5.".
The rumors later placed TongFu and Invictus Gaming members Mu, Faith, Hao
and ChuaN in the team together with Xiao8. A few weeks later, the team was
announced to be competing in the third season of the Sina Cup, but the roster
was not yet revealed. X recently won $5 million in The International, the event
conducted by Valve.
ID X.
128. These are the results when X is entered on vogue.co.uk and digg.com. These are only two of
the many websites that respond to X. X, used for the first time in the 1986 release of Gradius
is very popular in the world of gaming. Identify X.
131. Question 8
Google recently announced a new line of phones in partnership with
companies like Karbonn and Micromax. Name this series of mobile
devices.
134. Question 9
On 13 June 2012, Kogan Electronics, an Australian reseller of consumer electronics
introduced a X 'tax', which charged any user shopping at the site from X an extra 6.8% â
0.1% for every month X had been on the market. Ruslan Kogan explained that he had
decided to charge the 'tax' because: "The amount of work and effort involved in making our
website look normal on X equalled the combined time of designing for Chrome, Safari and
Firefox."
Kogan accepted that it was unlikely that anyone would actually pay the charges, stating that
the goal of the campaign was to encourage users to download a more up-to-date version of
X. The 'tax' was the most talked about topic on social media service Twitter on the day
following its launch. Identify X.
143. Question 12
X was founded in 1951. It emerged after a reorganization of Y. This
company manufactured equipment for use in the seismic industry as
well as defense electronics. X began research in transistors in the
early 1950s and produced the world's first commercial silicon
transistor. In 1954, X designed and manufactured the first transistor
radio and Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit in 1958 while
working at X's Central Research Labs. The company produced the
first integrated circuit-based computer for the U.S. Air Force in 1961.
X researched infrared technology in the late 1950s and later made
radar systems as well as guidance and control systems for both
missiles and bombs. Identify X and Y.
