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Amity School of
Engineering and Technology
Annual Cultural and Technical Fest 2011
The Software Engineering Club
presents
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It’s time to throw yourselves out there in the open and pit your gray cells against the best minds
out there.
Send in your answers along with your name, contact number, email id,
college, batch and branch of study to: [email protected]
Rules:
• Two sets will be put up. The deadline for each set will be 24 hours from the time it is put up on
the website.
• Individual Participation: One participant per one entry. Also, only one entry per one participant
(the first entry will be considered in case of multiple entries).
• Theparticipants need to be college students.
• Deadlines will haveto be strictly adhered to.
• Theteams shall be awarded points based on the followinggradingscheme:
i) Questions shall carrydifferent points based on the difficulty level.
ii) Points foreach question will be indicated in the question files.iii) Partially correctanswers would notfetch any points.
iv) The teams shall be rewarded withbonus points in just1 case:
a. If a team gets all theanswers correct, they will be awarded 50 bonuspoints.
• Ties will be untied by the quality of answers and the time of submission.
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Each question carries 10 points, except for
the star (*) marked questions, which carry
20 points.
Winners will be announced soon..
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Q1. Find the common link.
Ans:
Steve Jobs
- He worked with theHewlett-Packard Company
as a summer employee.
-He traveled to India in
search of spiritual
enlightenment and came
back a Buddhist.
- Jobs also served as chief executive of Pixar
Animation Studios.
-He was credited in the
1995 movie Toy Story as
an executive producer
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Q2. Find the common link. *Ans: AccentureAccenture originated as the business and technology consulting division of accounting
firm Arthur Andersen. The picture is of Arthur Andersen. GE asked Arthur Andersen to
automate payroll processing and manufacturing at GE's Appliance Park facility near
Louisville, Kentucky. Arthur Andersen recommended installation of a UNIVAC I computer
and printer. The logos belong to the companies- Coritel BPM, and Avanade, which are
all subsidiaries of Accenture.On July 19, 2001, Accenture offered initial public offering (IPO) in New York Stock
Exchange (NYSE); Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley served as its lead underwriters
The last picture depicts the Rotis Semi Sans font, which is the typeface used in the
Accenture word mark.
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This programming language was
developed way back in late 1970’s. it
is known for its minimalistic use of
the reserved words (only six of them)
being used as keywords. It was
developed in Palo Alto at one of the
prime centers of its major contributor
company. It is highly simple to learn
and implement. It implements one
feature of java language even moreefficiently than the java language.
[Hint: See the picture attached]
Q3.
Ans: Language is Smalltalk. Picture is of Alan Kay. He designed
most of the early Smalltalk versions.
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Q4. Connect the following images. *
Ans: Cheat codes for Age of Empire II:
Polo, Robin Hood, Lumberjack, torpedo,
rock on, Natural Wonders
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This is a highly controversial ad
of which technology company?Q5.
Ans: Intel
Explanation -
Controversial due to
Afro-American
athletes bowing to a
white male
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Connect the following images.Q6.Ans: Google Doodles, images that have been used in place of
the Google Logo on the webpage.
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A company X started in Sep 2008 with Rs.1 lakh
which went on to buy stakes in company Y worth
380 crore within three months . It has been in newsrecently for its alleged connections with a
renowned Indian politician Z.
Name X, Y, and Z.
Q7.
Answer:
X: Genex Exim Ventures
Y: Swan Telecom
Z: M Karunaniidhi
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What is the significance of this book?Q8.
Ans:
First book sold on amazon.com
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Identify the missing 2 links to this image.Q9.
Answer - leopard,
snow leopard
Explanation -Mac OS
names
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What is this? Where would you see it?Q10.
The Dream Device (PASIV) from the movie Inception
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A worldwide technology company, which provides
visualization solutions for various sectors like defence,
education, infrastructure etc. One of the service partners
of London 2012 Olympics. One of its significant productsis LED made walls for rear end projection.
Name the company.
Ans: Barco
Q11.
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Find the common link. *Q12.
Answer –
Seqouia capital
Explanation -all
companies funded by
Seqouia capital, tree
denotes funding/
money tree
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Which company should replace the
question mark. [Hint: think sports] *Q13.
Answer - mahindra satyam
There is a Map of Africa and a
picture of C. Ronaldo, which
implies it’s related to the Fifa
World Cup 2010.
Marfrig was an official
Sponsor of the World Cup.
Mahindra Satyam was the
official IT sponsor.
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To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of a
Software, this game (see picture) launched in 2009.
Identify both the software and the game.
Q14.
Answer:
Software- Corel Draw
Game- Balloon Racer
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Connect the following images. *Q15.
Answer- SAP
SAP was founded in June 1972 by
five former IBM engineers
in Mannheim, Baden-
Württemberg, Germany.
SAP's products focus on Enterprise
Resource Planning (ERP).TechniData is a 100% subsidiary of
SAP AG
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He was born in Finland. He has the rank
of second lieutenant in the army. He is
one of the top contributors in the
Software industry in the field of open
source. A whole series of software have
been named and given a generic name
after him. He was offered shares by a few
software companies before they went
public. Now he is very rich (but don’t
check the Forbes list, he won’t be there).
Who is he? [Hint: See picture attached]
Q16.
Answer: Linus Tarvolds
The picture is that of the Git Logo. Git (distributed revision control
system) was initially designed and developed by Linus Torvalds for Linux
kernel development.
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Connect the following images. *Q17.
Answer- Mobile Number Portability
Explanation -Kapil Sibbal Launched the MNP program in India,
Telcordia is the company in charge of MNP, UK was the first to
implement MNP.
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What do the following images represent?Q18.
Answer- wiki projects / sites [other options have also been accepted]
logos of wikiquote, wikispecies, wikiradio, wikibooks, wiki commons, wiki
news and wiki source
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What are we talking about? Connect.Q19.
Answer - Operation Payback
Explanation - Operation Payback is a coordinated, decentralized group
of attacks on opponents of internet piracy by internet activists.
- Operation Avenge Assange
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123456, THX1138, arsenal,
NCC1701, CHELSEA, trustno1 ..
What are they??
Q20.
Answer- Passwords banned by Twitter
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The company whose name
originated from a river’s name is
facing a tough time in the market.
The CEO of the company was
formerly the COO of Juniper
networks and has also worked withMicrosoft. Name the company and
the CEO? [Hint: See the picture
attached]
Q21.
Answer- Nokia; Stephen Elop
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Connect the following images. *Q22.
Answer- NandanNilekani
Explanation-UID Project is being led by him (pic 1)
The second picture was a part of the Wharton Infosys Award.
He has been extensively quoted in Thomas Friedman's book The World is Flat (Pic 3)