gateway 2010 quiz finals
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Which Google slogan did employees PaulBuchheit and Amit Patel suggest?
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Identify the band.
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This XML application developed for the WorldWide Web aims at describing mathematicalnotations, capturing both its structure and
content and integrating mathematical formulaeinto World Wide Web pages and otherdocuments. What application?
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What is his most popular creation?
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A coffee pot was located in the so-called TrojanRoom within the old Computer Laboratory of theUniversity of Cambridge in Cambridge, England.To help people working in other parts of the
building avoid pointless trips to the coffee room,the people in the Computer Laboratory came upwith a solution. This was implemented as what?
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In Greek mythology, this is a winged horse.In this quiz, it finds a mention because the name of afamous company is inspired from this. What company isthat?
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All these companies came together toannounce an exciting new service lastyear
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An excerpt from a NY Times article in May 2005:In an image-obsessed fit of pique, AppleComputer banished books published by JohnWiley & Sons from the shelves of Apple's 105
retail stores recently because of
What was the reason?
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Connect
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The phone is well known for being used by Gordon Gekko
in Wall Street, and Tommy Vercetti in Grand Theft Auto:Vice City. The phones have been given the nickname
"Zack Morris Phones" because of their heavy use by the
central character in the early 1990s sitcom Saved by the
Bell.
In the 1993 Hanna-Barbara cartoon, SWAT Kats, it was
seen once being used by Commander Feral.
In 2010, the phone was seen in a ad for New Zealand
insurance company, Pinnacle Life. The ad depicted a
fictional character, Molly, who was happy with her oldinsurance plan, but was so expensive that she still had to
use her _______
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Identify.A 1989 side-scrolling action game developed by Toaplan andpublished by Taito. Some error in the game was aninspiration for a popular internet meme.
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Identify.
The port, in this picture, to the right of the3.5mm audio jack is present in every laptop.What is its purpose/ What do we call it?
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Identify
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Who famously stated that the number oftransistors that the industry would be
able to place on a computer chip woulddouble every year?
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Identify
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X was a 1980 business-oriented computerinternally codenamed Sara. X was regarded asa huge failure, as it had no fan or air vents, and
to decapitate heat, the base of X was made ofaluminum to act as a heat sink. The immenseamount of heat caused chips to expand andactually dislodge from their sockets. Even floppydisks would melt. Customers were advised bytech support to (I kid you not) lift the case 3inches above the ground and drop it to reseat
the chips.X was a massive failure, and the companydecided to continue with production of itspredecessor.
Identify X.
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Where would you find this?
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This is an electronic payment service as well as the
name of a device designed for this purpose. It allows
users to accept payment cards through their mobile
phones, either by swiping the card on the device or bymanually entering the details on the phone. Introduced in
early 2010 application is currently available for the
iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and Android-based mobile
phones, and is expected to be available for laptops soon.
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What is Gray Powells claimto fame?
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The ITU-T is a body that sets standards in aparticular field. One of its standards is the
E.161. What is the E.161? You use iteveryday.
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This foldout laptop computer keyboard designed by JohnKaridis for IBM as part of the ThinkPad 701 series,released in 1995. It allowed the 701 series to be both
compact (when closed) and comfortable to use (whenopen)
The design was considered revolutionary and rocked thelaptop world.
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In Greek mythology, the Argo was the ship onwhich Jason and the Argonauts sailed fromIolcus to retrieve the Golden Fleece. It was
named the after its builder,Argus.Which Microsoft product wascodenamedArgo?
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The name ____ was proposed by VinnieChieco, a freelance copywriter.
After seeing the prototype, he thoughtof a phrase from the movie 2001: ASpace Odyssey. It referred to thefictional spacecraft used for extra-
vehicular activity seen in the movie2001: A Space Odyssey. The Jupiterspacecraft Discovery One carries threeof these small, one-man maintenancevehicles.
What popular product name is this?
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Blue Origin
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Excerpt from the About Section atCalifornia Grazings website:
Mike and Jan Canaday have 30 yearsexperience in ranching and trainingBorder Collies to work livestock. We
know of no other company that canmatch this experience in using dogs andportable electric fence to control goats,cattle and sheep.
This company came into news for whatevent?
This was the first of Nokia's high-end
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This was the first of Nokia s high-end,8xxx series of phones released in 1996.Its distinctive styling was the first
example of a 'slider' form factor. Asliding cover protected the keypad whenbeing carried in the pocket andextended downwards in use, bringing
the microphone nearer to the mouth.The action of opening the cover alsoanswered an incoming call. The Phonealso featured in The Matrix with an
addition of a spring-loaded slider, toopen itself for heightened dramaticeffect.The prominent curvature of thecase earned it the name ________
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This is a 1975 patent drawing. Quite a revolutionary
product. But the inventor was initially unable to
properly monetise his idea. But later, giants like
Toshiba had to pay him a substantial amount forpatent infringement.
Who is the inventor? He is famous in India for various
other reasons as well.
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This business was set up in 1986 by S SGoenka, who founded a small companycalled Peutronics Pvt. Ltd. with the aimof using computers to simplify thetedious job of keeping accounts. His son
Bharat was responsible for thedevelopment of the commercial softwareproduct which led to Peutronics Pvt.Ltd., becoming ________
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is a Web 2 0 based social network
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____ is a Web 2.0 based social networkgame developer located in San Francisco.
In December 2009, Russia's Digital Sky
Technologies bought a $180 million shareof ______.
In 2010 Softbank, a Japanesetelecommunications and media
corporation and Google, invested acombined $300 million in ____.
The company in question is named after
the founders late American Bulldog.Loyal and spirited, his name is a nod to alegendary African warrior queen.
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Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Corporation is an Americanmanufacturer and supplier of metal machine tubes and pipes,founded in 1985. The company specializes in buying and sellingtube mills, pipe mills and rollforming machines.
In 2006, it filed a lawsuit against a website(X). Their original
domain name sounded very similar to that of X. This resulted inthem receiving 68 million hits in Aug 2006 and their serverscrashed.
The lawsuit was later settled by the parties.
Identify X.
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Seen here is the chip structure of a Module. The first of thesewas made in 1991, with Munich smart card maker Giesecke &Devrient selling the first 300 to Finnish wireless network
operator Radiolinja.The most popular miniature version has a length of 25 mm anda width of 15 mm, and has one of its corners truncated(chamfered) to prevent misinsertion.
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This is the Kill Screen of Pac-Man.
What actually is a Kill Screen / How is itcaused ?
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This company (A) is a joint venture between ____ and BT Group
Plc, the largest provider of fixed telephony in the UK, and oneof the oldest and largest communication companies in theworld.
Headquartered in Pune, (A) has grown rapidly to become the 5thlargest software exporter in India (NASSCOM, 2009) and 1stlargest Telecom Software Provider in India (Voice & Data, 2009).
It has more than 33,524 employees as in Mar 10.Identify (A).
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_______ Day, an official professional holiday inRussia. It is celebrated on the 256th day of the
year (13 September in normal years and 12September in leap years).
The number 256 (2^8) was chosen because it isthe number of distinct values that can be
represented with an eight-bit byte.Also, '256' in hexadecimal is '100' ('0x100'), andit's the highest power of two that is lower than365 (the number of days in a year).
Typical celebrations of _______ Day includeplaying around with old computers and behavingin a generally inane manner.
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The cover of Coldplays albumX&Y.
The artwork for X&Y was designed by graphic design duoTappin Gofton, formed by Mark Tappin and Simon Gofton. Theimage, which is visualized through a combination of coloursand blocks, is a graphical representation of an early form oftelegraph communication using a series of ones and zeros tocommunicate. The code was developed by in the 1870s, andwas a widely used method of terrestrial and telegraphcommunication.
What code?
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This game has often been treated as the yardstick bywhich subsequent space trading games have been
measured. This was one of the first computer games touse wireframe 3D graphics.
It is considered as one of the best Retro Games ever byvarious gaming websites.
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Where would you find the names Axel, BoseJefferson, Cydney Bass, Milwaukee Jon, PearlMcKurdy, Rhonda the Rash, Slim Jim and Teflon
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BDFL is a term coined in 1995 to first refer to Guido vanRossum.
What does BDFL stand for / What does it imply ?
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The design of ____ is based partly on similar ground-based
radio navigation systems, such as LORAN and the DeccaNavigator developed in the early 1940s, and used during WorldWar II. In 1956 Friedwardt Winterberg proposed a test ofgeneral relativity using accurate atomic clocks placed in orbitin artificial satellites .
This was created and realized by the U.S. Department of
Defence (DOD) and was originally run with 24 satellites. It wasestablished in 1973 to overcome the limitations of previousnavigation systems.
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On April 30, 2008 a team at HP Labs announced the
development of a _____ . Based on a thin film of titaniumdioxide, it has a regime of operation with an approximatelylinear charge-resistance relationship. These devices are beingdeveloped for application in nanoelectronic memories,computer logic, and neuromorphic computer architectures
Its theory was formulated and named by Leon Chua in a 1971
paper. He extrapolated the conceptual symmetry between theresistor, inductor, and capacitor, and inferred that the ______is a similarly fundamental device.
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Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues
or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it ispain, but because occasionally circumstancesoccur in which toil and pain can procure himsome great pleasure. To take a trivial example,
which of us ever undertakes laborious physicalexercise, except to obtain some advantage fromit? But who has any right to find fault with aman who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has
no annoying consequences, or one who avoids apain that produces no resultant pleasure?